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PUBLICATIONS BOARD OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2015–16 CONTENTS 2 PUBLICATIONS 2015–16 2 PRESENTATIONS, TALKS, LECTURES 3 PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 10 POPULAR PUBLICATIONS 11 CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS, POSTERS & REPORTS 2 BOARD OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2015–16 PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS 2015–16 PRESENTATIONS, TALKS, LECTURES Collections and Research staff delivered more than 350 talks, Dr Brit Asmussen presented at the Annual Australian seminars and lectures to nearly 69,000 people in 2015-16. Archaeological Conference, Perth (Dec 2015). Talks were targeted at both public and specialist audiences Imelda Miller, Assistant Curator, Torres Strait Islander and and saw a 253% increase from 2014-15 [138 in 2014-15]. Pacific Indigenous Studies was invited and funded to present Dr Geraldine Mate, Rob Shiels and David Mewes presented a keynote lecture, A Complex State – An exploration of at the 2015 Railway Heritage Conference (The Workshops Australian South Sea Islander identity, at the Pacific Arts Rail Museum, July 2015) Association 12th International Symposium in Auckland New Zealand (March 2016). Dr Brit Asmussen was invited to present the Tom Austen Brown Lecture in Australasian Archaeology at the University Kerry Cody, Head of IMIT, presented the ‘Building a Digital of Sydney (Aug 2015). Archive’. In Building Relationships in a Digital World paper at the Proceedings of the National Conference of the Dr Geraldine Mate presented at the Annual Australasian Australian Society – Archives on the Edge, Tasmania Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Geelong (Aug 2015). (Sept 2015). Ric Manalac presented ‘Building interactive digital David Mewes, Curator, presented at two international experiences with IntuiFace: a hands-on workshop’. conferences in the United States. He presented at San Jacinto, The workshop was presented at the Museums and the and at the 35th National Narrow Gauge Convention, Houston, Web in Asia Conference, Melbourne, Victoria (Oct 2015) Texas he presented two papers (Sept 2015). and again at the Museums and the Web Conference, Suzanne Miller delivered the 2015 Science Graduation Los Angeles, California (April 2016). Address Conference for Griffith University (Oct 2015). Suzanne Miller presented at the 2015 STEAD-X- bringing science to the people Conference (Nov 2015) BOARD OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2015–16 PUBLICATIONS 3 PEER REVIEWED Bartholomai, A. 2015 Bruce, N.L., Martin, M.B., Hadfield, PUBLICATIONS Predation of the Early Cretaceous K.A. & Nowak, B.F.. 2016 (Late Albian) pachycormiform, Redescription of the fish parasitic Adjeroud, M., Wallace, C.C., Bosserelle, Australopachycormus hurleyi Kear, in “tongue biter” Cymothoa rhina P., Payri, C., Menou, J-L. & Pichon, M. Queensland’s Eromanga Basin Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Crustacea: 2016 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Reefs at the edge: Coral community – Nature Singapore. structure at Rapa, southernmost 59, 245-255, http://dx.doi.org/10.17082 Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, supplement French Polynesia /j.2204-1478.59.2015.2014-04 33: 250–261. Marine Ecology http://dx.doi.org/10.111/maec.12308 Beard, J.J., Otley, J., Seeman, O.D. 2016 Burrow, C., den Blaauwen, J., A review of Ultratenuipalpus Newman, M. & Davidson, R. 2016 Ashton, L.A., Odell, E.H., Burwell, C.J., (Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae) and The diplacanthid fishes (Acanthodii, Maunsell, S.C., Nakamura, A., W. J. F. related genera, with a new species Diplacanthiformes, Diplacanthidae) McDonald, W.J.F. & Kitching, R.L. 2015 from forest oak Allocasuarina torulosa from the Middle Devonian of Scotland Altitudinal patterns of moth diversity (Aiton) (Casuarinaceae). Palaeontologia Electronica in tropical and subtropical Australian International Journal of Acarology 19.1.10A, 1-83 rainforests. 42: 285-302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/ Austral Ecology 01647954.2016.1183708 Burwell, C.J. & Nakamura, A. 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12309 Can changes in ant diversity along Bishop, P.J. 2016 elevational gradients in tropical and Ashton, L.A., , Basset, Nakamura, A. A critical re-evaluation of the subtropical Australian rainforests be Y., Burwell, C.J., Cao, M., Eastwood, R., hindlimb myology of moa (Aves: used to detect a signal of past lowland Odell, E., de Oliveira, E.G., Hurley, K., Dinornithiformes) biotic attrition? Katabuchi, M.,Maunsell, S., McBroom, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Austral Ecology J., Schmidl, J., Sun, Z., Tang, Y., Whitake, – Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12322 T., Laidlaw, M.J., McDonald, W.J.F. & Kitching, R.L. 2015 59, 187–246, http://dx.doi.org/10.17082 Vertical stratification of moths across /j.2204-1478.59.2015.2015-02 Castro, P., Davie, P.J.F., Guinot, D., elevation and latitude Schram, F.R. & Von Vaupel Klein, J.C. Journal of Biogeography Bridge, T., Luiz, O., Coleman, R., Kane, (Eds) 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12616 C. & Kosaki R. 2016 Decapoda: Brachyura (Parts 1 & 2). Ecological and morphological traits Treatise on Zoology — anatomy, Ashton, L.A., Nakamura, A., Burwell, predict depth-generalist fishes on taxonomy, biology. C.J., Tang, Y., Cao, M., Whitaker, T., Sun, coral reefs. The Crustacea Z., Huang, H. & Kitching, R.L. 2016 Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Vol. 9C-I, 1-638, Vol. 9C-II, 1-584 (Brill, Elevational sensitivity in an Asian Biological Sciences Leiden & Boston). ‘hotspot’: moth diversity across 283, 20152332 elevational gradients in tropical, sub- Clifford, H.T. & Cook, A.G. 2015 tropical and sub-alpine China Bridge, T.C.L. 2016 A presumed Leichhardt geological Scientific Reports In: Baker, E.K., Puglise, K.A. & specimen in the Queensland Museum. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep26513 Harris, P.T. (Eds) Mesophotic coral Memoirs of the Queensland Museum ecosystems — A lifeboat for coral – Nature Bartholomai, A. 2015 reefs? 59, 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.17082 An Early Cretaceous (late Albian) The United Nations Environment /j.2204-1478.59.2015.2015-05 halecomorph (? Ionoscopiformes) fish Programme and GRID-Arendal, from the Toolebuc Formation of the Nairobi and Arendal, 98 p. Clifford, H.T., Dettmann, M.E., Eromanga Basin, Queensland. http://www.grida.no/publications/ Hocknull, S. 2015 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum mesophotic-coral-ecosystems/ Numerical Analysis of the inter- – Nature relationships of some extinct and 59, 61-74, http://dx.doi.org/10.17082 Bruce, N.L. & Wong, H. P.S. 2015 extant taxa of Araucariaceae. /j.2204-1478.59.2015.2014-05 An overview of the marine Isopoda Memoirs of the Queensland Museum (Crustacea) of Singapore. – Nature Bartholomai, A. 2015 Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59, 27-38, http://dx.doi.org/10.17082 Additional chimaeroid specimens from Supplement /j.2204-1478.59.2015.2013-04 the Early Cretaceous (Late Albian) 31: 152–168. Toolebuc Formation, Queensland, Couper, P.J. & McKay, J. 2016 Australia. Vale Jeanette Adelaide Covacevich, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum AM, PSM (1945-2015) – Nature Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 59, 177-185, http://dx.doi.org/10.17082 – Nature /j.2204-1478.59.2015.2015-03 59, 255-275 4 BOARD OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2015–16 PUBLICATIONS Couper, P.J., Peck, S.R., Emery J-P. & J. David, B., Jones-Amin, H., Richards,T., El-Demerdash, A., Moriou, C., Martin, Keogh, S. 2016 Mialanes J., Asmussen, B., Petchey, M-T., Rodrigues-Stien, A. de S., Petek, Two snakes from eastern Australia F., Aplin, K., Leavesley, M., McNiven, S., Demoy-Schneider, M., Hall, K., (Serpentes: Elapidae); a revised I.J., Zetzmann, C., Rowe, C., Skelly, R., Hooper, J.N.A., Debitus, C., Al- concept of Antaioserpens warro (De Jenkins, R., Faulkner, P. & Ulm, S. 2016. Mourabit, A. 2016 Vis) and a redescription of A. albiceps Ruisasi 1 and the earliest evidence of Cytotoxic Guanidine Alkaloids from a (Boulenger) mass-produced ceramics in Caution French Polynesian Monanchora n. sp. Zootaxa Bay (Port Moresby Region), Papua Sponge. 4097 (3), 396–408, http://dx.doi. New Guinea. Journal of Natural Products org/10.11646/zootaxa.4097.3.7 Journal of Pacific Archaeology http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod 7(1):41-60. /2016-00168v Couper, P.J. & Oliver, P.M. 2016 A new species of gecko from arid Disspain, M.F., Ulm, S., & Gillanders, Ewart, A., Popple, L. & Marshall, D.C. inland regions of eastern Australia B.M. 2016. Otoliths in archaeology: 2015 (Diplodactylus; Diplodactylidae) Methods, applications and future New species of Simona Moulds, 2012 Zootaxa prospects. Journal of Archaeological and Chelapsalta Moulds, 2012 cicadas 4093 (4), 525–538, http://dx.doi. Science: Reports (Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Cicadettini) org/10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.4 6: 623-632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. from Australia: comparative jasrep.2015.05.012. morphology, songs, behaviour and Daniels, G. 2016 distributions A new genus and two new species Dohrmann, M., Kelley, C., Kelly, M., Zootaxa of soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae: Pisera, A., Hooper, J.N.A. & Reiswig, 4001 (1), 1-65 Chiromyzinae) from Australia, one H.M. 2016 found infesting sugarcane in central An integrative framework for glass Ewart, A., Moulds, M.S. & Marshall, Queensland sponge systematics (Porifera, D.C. 2015 Zootaxa Hexactinellida): revised classification Arenopsaltria nubivena (Cicadidae: 4092 (2), 572–582 and insights into skeletal evolution. Cicadinae: Cryptotympanini) from the Frontiers in Zoology Arid Regions of Central Australia and Davie, P.J.F., Guinot, D. & Ng, P.K.L., http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983- Southwestern Australia 2015 FINZ-D-16-00061 Records of the Australian Museum Anatomy and functional morphology 67 (6), 163-183. of Brachyura. Dudaneic, R.Y., Worthington Wilmer, J., Chapter 71-2, 11-163. In: Castro, P., Hanson, J., Warren, M. Bell, S. & Fletcher, M.J. & Monteith, G.B. 2016 Davie, P.J.F., Guinot, D., Schram, Rhodes, J.R. 2016 History of the Australian F.R. & Von Vaupel Klein, J.C. (Eds), Dealing with uncertainty in landscape entomological society Decapoda: Brachyura (Part 1) genetic resistance models: a case of Austral Entomology Treatise on Zoology — anatomy, three co-occurring marsupials 55, 121–131 taxonomy, biology.
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    Zootaxa 1846: 1–20 (2008) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2008 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Two new cicada species from Costa Rica (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae) with a key to the species of Fidicinoides in Costa Rica ALLEN F. SANBORN1,4, THOMAS E. MOORE2 & ALLEN M. YOUNG3 1Barry University, School of Natural and Health Sciences, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, Florida 33161-6695 USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology – Insect Division, 1109 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079 USA. E-mail: [email protected] 3Milwaukee Public Museum, Invertebrate Zoology Department, 800 W. Wells Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233-1478. E-mail: [email protected] 4Corresponding author Abstract The Neotropical cicadas Fidicinoides coffea Sanborn, Moore and Young and Fidicinoides guayabana Sanborn, Moore and Young are described as new species. This work validates the names previously assigned to these species which had been considered nomina nuda. Comparisons are made to other members of the genus found in Costa Rica. A summary of the biology of each new species is provided. The following new combinations, all for species formerly included in Fidic- ina, are proposed: Fidicinoides brisa (Walker 1850), F. cachla Distant 1899, F. flavibasalis Distant 1905, F. fumea Dis- tant 1883, F. glauca Goding 1925, F. opalina (Germar 1821), F. passerculus (Walker 1850), F. sericans Stål 1854, F. spinicosta (Walker 1850), F. steindachneri Kuhlgatz & Melichar 1902, F. variegata Sanborn 2005, and F. viridifemur (Walker 1850). A key to the Costa Rican species of Fidicinoides is provided.
  • Antixenosis in Glycine Max (L.) Merr Against Acyrthosiphon Pisum

    Antixenosis in Glycine Max (L.) Merr Against Acyrthosiphon Pisum

    www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN Antixenosis in Glycine max (L.) Merr against Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) Katarzyna Stec1*, Bożena Kordan2, Iwona Sergiel3, Magdalena Biesaga4, Joanna Mroczek4, Jan Bocianowski5 & Beata Gabryś1 To reveal the antixenosis potential against the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) we analyzed the pea aphid survival and probing behavior, and the quantitative and qualitative variation of favonoids in the leaves of selected soybean Glycine max (L.) Merr (Fabaceae) cultivars ‘Aldana’, ‘Annushka’, ‘Augusta’, ‘Madlen’, ‘Mavka’, ‘Simona’, ‘Violetta’, and ‘Viorica’. Aphid survival was drastically impeded on all cultivars. The electronic monitoring of aphid probing using the Electrical Penetration Graph (EPG) technique revealed that on all soybean cultivars, A. pisum readily probed into leaf tissues but the probes were usually terminated before reaching vascular tissues, which demonstrates the activity of antixenosis mechanisms in peripheral tissues epidermis and/or mesophyll in soybean leaves. The potency of antixenosis factors difered among soybean cultivars, which was refected in diferences in aphid survival and frequency and duration of phloem sap ingestion. Seven favonoids were found: apigenin, daidzein, genistein, glycitein, isorhamnetin, kaempferol, and rutin, which occurred in diferent amount and proportion in individual cultivars. The content of apigenin and genistein in all soybean cultivars studied probably made them relatively unacceptable to A. pisum. Kaempferol in ‘Aldana’ might be responsible for the observed strong antixenosis resistance of this cultivar to A. pisum. The results of our survey provide the frst detailed data that can be used for future studies. Soybean Glycine max (L.) Merr. (Fabaceae) is one of the most important world crops in both the temperate and tropical regions1.