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Gomphidia confluens and imitans (new 1997 records in Northeastern China).] Address: Ou, Y.j., Hei- 9968. Anders, U.; Rüppell, G. (1997): Zeitanalyse der longjiang Nongken Normal College, China Balzflüge europäischer Prachtlibellen-Arten zur Betrach- tung ihrer Verwandschaftsbeziehungen (, Calo- pterygidae). Entomologica Generalis 21(4): 253-264. (in 1999 German, with English summary) ["The courtship flights of males of Calopteryx virgo, C. splendens, C. xantho- 9971. Arnaud, L. (1999): La compétition spermatique stoma and C. haemorrhoidalis where filmed with a slow chez les insectes: les stratégies d‘assurance de la pa- motion camera in N' Germany and S' France. The shots ternité et la préséance du sperme. Biotechnol. Agron. where taken under unmanipulated conditions as well as Soc. Environ. 3(2): 86-103. (in French, with English in a provoked situation, with a fixed female. The para- summary) ["Sperm competition in : paternity as- meters wingbeat frequency and phase relationship from surance and sperm precedence. The prediction that in- hind- and forewings where studied. The most important sects, as a result of polyandry, extreme sperm longevity differences are: In C. splendens and C. xanthostoma within the female and high efficiency of sperm utilisation the fore- and hindwings move nearly absolutly counter- at fertilisation, are preadapted to sustain a very high wise. That means, while the forewings are at the start of level of sperm competition is demonstrated across nu- the upstroke, the hind-wings are at the start of the down- merous studies. In many insects, males have evolved stroke. So here the phase relationship is 180°. Phase re- strategies to decrease sperm competition risk. Paternity lationship in C. virgo is 100°. Here the forewings reach assurance mechanisms such as mating plugs or mate the changing points before the hindwings. C. haemorrhoi- guarding do not necessarily influence the number of dalis move the hindwings nearly synchronously to the eggs laid by the female but are taken by male to reduce forewings but with a very small amplitude. In reference the probability of his sperm to be preceded by the to the wingbeat frequency and the continuity of the sperm of another male. Each of these mechanisms in- phase relationship, the Calopteryx-males court more in- fluencing mating has an adaptative significance in pro- tensively in the unmanipulated situation, than in the moting male reproductive success. However, female in- provoked one. With respect to the studied parameter, sects are polyandrous and they play an active role in there is no difference between C. splendens and C. mate choice and in discrimination between the ejacu- xanthostoma, in contrast to C. haemorrhoidalis and C. lates of different males. Also, they have co-evolved virgo, which are different to each other and to the first strategy to increase their own reproductive success and two." (Authors) Address: Rüppell, G., An der Wasserfur- to counteract the costs resulting from paternity assur- che 32, 38162 Cremlingen, Germany ance mechanisms. They can control paternity before copulation (pre-copulation, pre-insemination), during 9969. Groot, T. de (1997): Gevlekte witsnuitlibel (Leu- copulation, and because fertilisation takes place within corrhinia pectoralis) in De Wieden. Brachytron 1(1): 27- their bodies after insemination, and after fertilisation 28. (in Dutch) [5-VI-1996, De Wieden, Nationaal Park through selective abortion. A male‘s reproductive suc- Weerribben-Wieden, The Netherlands] Address: not cess can be determined as the product of his mating stated. success (mate per lifetime) and his fertilisation success (average number of progeny sired per mate). Male ferti- lisation success is generally studied in terms of sperm 1998 precedence where the proportion of the female progeny fathered by a given male is examined. Sperm prece- 9970. Ou, Y.-j.; Chen, Q.-j.; Chen. F.-h. (1998): A pre- dence can be studied using different methods, each liminary research report of Odonata insects in Heilong- having advantages and disadvantages. Although female jian Province. Natural Science Journal of Harbin Normal insects behave polyandrously, most sperm competition University 14(6): 89-93. (in Chinese, with English sum- studies investigate sperm precedence when only two mary) [China; 46 regional Odonata are docu- males are mated with a female. To determine if the re- mented. The list of species includes nigroflava sults obtained in double-mating experiments fit well with and Macromia daimoji (new records in China), and reality, it is thus important to examine last-male mating

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 1 success in experiments where females are mated with ciency. Finally, because they are large, colourful, diurnal more than two males. Moreover, within a species, high creatures with fascinating behaviour, are fertilisation success variations are observed between excellent subjects for nature interpretation programs males of different populations or even of the same pop- and public education about aquatic ecosystems in gen- ulation. These variations result from interaction bet- eral. The Living Landscapes Project is designed to take ween factors such as sperm number, sperm lenght, pre- the museum's resources to the diverse regions of the and/or post-copulatory female choice, paternity assur- province, stimulating local residents and organizations ance mechanism efficiency, female sperm storage or- to conceive their own research projects and participate gan morphology, etc." (Author) The paper includes in the Museum's research, collections and public pro- many references to Odonata.] Address: Arnaud, L., Uni- gramming activities. In the Columbia Basin we wanted té de Zoologie générale et appliquée. Faculté universi- to improve our scientific knowledge about British Co- taire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux. Pas- lumbia dragonflies, and we were keen to gather infor- sage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux Belgium. E-mail: mation for use in wetland management and conserva- [email protected] tion planning -- issues of great concern in the region. But we also wanted to create simple educational mate- 9972. Huber, A. (1999): Odonatological survey on the rials that would promote the understanding of dragon- River Somes/Szamos Romania. In: Sárkány-Kiss, A. & flies and their relationship to diverse and healthy wet- Hamar, J. (eds.): The Somes/Szamos River Valley: a land habitats. In addition to the main report on the inter- study of the geography, hydrobiology and ecology of net, complete with photographs and distribution maps the river system and its environment. Tiscia monograph of every species, we decided to produce slide shows series: 207-213. (in English) [26 odonate species were and videos for distribution to parks, naturalist groups recorded at 25 sampling points along the or nearby the and schools. Finally, we had a long-term goal -- to in- river Somes. The list includes the legally protected spe- volve a few residents of the region al community in the cies Stylurus flavipes and cecilia.] Ad- detailed study of dragonflies and the long-term monitor- dress: Huber, A., Department of Ecology, Kossuth L. ing of selected species and localities. The region, with University, H-4010 Debrecen, P.O. Box 71, Hungary its maze of deep valleys and high mountains, is rich in 9973. Cannings, R. (2000): Dragons and Damsels in dragonfly habitats. Mountain fens and bogs, trickling the Columbia/Kootenay Region. Boreus 20(2): 9-10. (in springs, warm lake beaches, grassland alkali ponds English) [Verbatim: "Fire-breathing dragons and dam- and rich cattail marshes all beckoned. We added nine sels in distress at Cranbrook? Knights in shining armour dragonflies to the fifty-seven species that were listed riding to the rescue from Fort Steele? Not likely. Just a from the Columbia Basin before the start of the project. handful of keen biologists and volunteers searching for The additions were: Calopteryx aequabilis, for- dragonflies and (the Order Odonata) cipatus, Coenagrion interrogatum, Stylurus olivaceus, for the Royal British Columbia Museum‘s Living Land- cingulata, S. forcipata, S. minor, S. wal- scapes project in the Columbia Basin. As part of the shii and Leucorrhinia glacialis. The inventory also im- project, the Museum, the B.C. Conservation Data Cen- proved our understanding of the status of other species tre (CDC) (Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks) rarely recorded in the Columbia Basin. Thirteen are and Parks Canada joined forces to study the dragon- considered rare and of management concern, based on flies of southeastern British Columbia. Parks Canada collections in museums. However, with increased study, enthusiastically provided logistic and financial support species such as Aeshna tuberculifera and S. cingulata for the inventory in the four national parks in the region. proved to be more widespread than initial records sug- The area we explored is the Columbia River Basin ex- gested. Dean Nicholson, a Cranbrook volunteer, found clusive of the Okanagan River drainage. In British Co- Gomphus graslinellus at Wasa Lake in the Rocky lumbia this area is commonly called "The Kootenays" Mountain Trench, far to the east of the only other re- after the Kootenay River -- the largest of the Canadian gional record at Christina Lake. Argia vivida is a Koote- tributaries of the Columbia River. Through 1998 and nay specialty, because its Canadian range is centred in 1999 we criss-crossed the region to document occur- the region and because it is restricted there to the out- rence and habitat requirements of the dragonflies of the lets of hot springs that are such a feature of the area's Kootenays (in the rest of the article I use the term mountain ridges. Although we found a few new popula- "dragonflies" to include the closely related damselflies). tions of Argia, it's still considered vulnerable -- it has Although the Museum had dragonfly specimens and a been eliminated from some springs and most of the species list for the region that represented our others are threat ened by development. C. aequabilis, knowledge up to 1997, no comprehensive survey for L. forcipatus and S. forcipatus are species new to Brit- dragonflies had ever been made; some of the recorded ish Columbia. Calopteryx represents a new family of populations were known only from collections made al- Odonata for British Columbia: the Calopterygidae. This most a century ago. Dragonflies are invertebrates that spectacular , with its metallic green body and seldom receive the attention they deserve from biolo- brown-banded wings, had been recorded as close to gists and resource managers. But they are of great eco- British Columbia as Stevens County, Washington; for logical importance. They are major predators in aquatic several decades we had suspected that it lived in the habitats, often dominating the large invertebrates, es- streams of the Boundary district. However, we had not pecially in fish-free systems. Both the underwater lar- managed to find it there until July 1999, when Leah vae and the flying adults live mainly along the edges of Ramsay (wide-eyed with amazement!) discovered it water bodies, thriving in the rich and sensitive interface dancing along Christina Creek, the outlet of Christina between land and water. Many species are habitat- Lake. In 1998, in a wetland near Donald in the Rocky specific and their presence can be used to characterize Mountain Trench, Leah also found Lestes forcipatus, healthy wetlands of all sorts. Furthermore, unlike most not confirmed elsewhere in Canada west of Manitoba. invertebrates, dragonflies are identifiable in the field by Here is a good example of an uncommon species that experts, and surveys can proceed with speed and effi- had been overlooked simply because it was not ex- pected and because it closely resembles the wide-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 2 spread and abundant L. disjunctus. Since the discovery, confirming that Lestes forcipatus indeed occurred on more localities were found, and some of our old speci- the BC coast – it had been overlooked all these years in mens of L. disjunctus have been re-identified as L. for- the hordes of the widespread L. disjunctus. The next cipatus. Inventories do not simply gather new records; day at this site others found two more species, one of they force curators to re-evaluate old collections! Find- them A. tuberculifera. Saturday 29 July dawned with ing S. forcipata was a goal that had eluded us for years. much better weather. The group headed north to Hamil- In the 1920s Edmund Walker of the Royal Ontario Mu- ton Marsh near Coombs. Collectors and photographers seum had collected this elusive dragonfly about three spread out over this large, rich fen and managed to see kilometres from the British Columbia/ boundary 25 species – A. canadensis, A. interrupta, A. palmata, A. in . This ancient collection had re- multicolor, Pachydiplax longipennis, S. obtrusum and S. mained the only record west of Manitoba. Surely it also occidentale were abundant. The specialty of the site, A. had to live in "small spring runs following devious tuberculifera, was finally caught. Later, at Bowser Bog, courses" (as Walker had described the habitat) west of a peatland species, Aeshna sitchensis, excited the the Continental Divide. After much searching, we finally southerners. Evening meetings took care of business. came across it in , Yoho National In addition, various members showed photographs of Park). Gord Hutchings, a long-time RBCM volunteer, foreign faunas. Explaining the local fauna, Rob Can- netted a dragonfly hovering over a small trickling seep nings gave an overview of the dragonflies of British Co- near Ross Lake. "This looks different!" he yelled, slog- lumbia. He showed slides of species from representa- ging back to the rest of us examining a boggy pond. tive families found in the province and his biogeograph- Sure enough -- S. forcipata! Two years and much ical maps indicated how diverse this part of North Amer- searching later, we now have mapped the species at ica truly is. The field trip to the Okanagan Valley the three peatland sites in Yoho and Kootenay National next day showed us some of this diversity. On Sunday parks. This emerald is clearly a sparsely distributed (30 July) morning the crowd dispersed, some heading member of the Rocky Mountain dragonfly community, home via Vancouver or Victoria, others continuing on and an inhabitant of an apparently rare habitat as well. the field trip to the Okanagan Valley. The weather was The 66 species now known from the Columbia Basin sunny and hot for the rest of the meeting. Half the represent 76% of the 87 species recorded from British group drove up to Cypress Provincial Park to see a Columbia, and 33% of the 201 recorded in Canada. At Tanypteryx hageni colony, the only one known in Cana- least six more species are thought to occur in the re- da. A few burrows, complete with larvae, were found in gion, and several more than that will probably be added the mud and moss of a road cut; adults were yet to to the list. With more study of Columbia Basin dragon- emerge. Part of the group, led by Syd Cannings, drove flies, especially by the enthusiastic residents who con- east via Rolley Creek in the Fraser River Valley to look tinue to monitor some special habitats, our understand- for Octogomphus specularis. A second bunch under the ing of these important and lovely insects will surely watchful eye of Rob Cannings, headed up the Coqui- grow. The full report of this project, complete with pho- halla Highway from Hope, eager to find high altitude tographs and distribution maps of the species, is found species near the summit of Highway 97C on the plat- at http://www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/cbasin/wwwdragon eau east of Okanagan Lake. The highlight here among /pdf/dragonflies4.pdf." (Author)] Address: Cannings, R.A., the fens and ponds (some of the latter man-made dug- Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street outs for watering cattle) was Somatochlora hudsonica; Victoria, British Columbia V8W 9W2. Canada. E-mail: this is the most so utherly record of the species in Brit- [email protected] ish Columbia. S. albicincta and S. minor were also col- lected, along with Coenagrion resolutum, A. sitchensis, 9974. Cannings, R. (2000): Dragonfly Society of the and other species. S. semicircularis, a common Cordil- Americas Annual Field Meeting. 27 July-1 August 2000, leran species, literally swarmed in the Beaked Sedge Nanaimo and points East. Boreus 20(2) (http://www. fens. The night was spent to the south at Oliver. On sfu.ca/biology/esbc/boreus/Bor202.html): ?-?. (in Eng- Monday (31 July), a small group keen to see S. hud- lish) [Verbatim: "The 2000 annual field meeting of the sonica returned to the area at the summit of Highway Dragonfly Society of the Americas was held in Nanai- 97C; they were not disappointed – Somatochlora and mo. Every year, the Society organizes a field meeting Aeshna abounded. The main crew visited the bottom- somewhere in North America; this one was a first for lands of the Okanagan River north of Osoyoos. Along Western Canada. Thirty-two participants came from as the oxbows and main river channel cruised Macromia far away as Florida, Texas, Vermont, North Carolina magnifica and O. occidentis. collocata, a rari- and even England to observe, collect and talk about the ty here at the extreme northern limit of its range, dragonfly fauna of British Columbia and the world. On swarmed over its favourite pond and a lone Pachydi- 28 July, unfortunately, the sky was overcast and a light plax longipennis, a common species to the south but a rain was falling – not a good omen for entomologists new species to the Interior of British Columbia, ap- who pray for sun. Once the rain stopped and the tem- peared here, too. Libellula forensis and L. pulchella perature rose, dragonflying would be good, but in the were abundant. In the afternoon, collectors split up and meantime, one group who were keen see something went off in various directions into the pine and fir-clad moving went to Nanoose Bay to look for birds. Between hills surrounding the valley. Many species, including A. watching Merlins and Peregrine Falcons they managed eremita, A. interrupta, A. multicolor, and S. costiferum, to record Aeshna multicolor, Anax junius and Sympe- were recorded. At a dry sedge marsh a lucky group trum pallipes, species that the second group, which recorded S. madidum, L. dryas and a population of A. headed right to dragonfly habitat, failed to record. The constricta, the latter another common species to the larger group went off to the Nanaimo Lakes watershed. south that is scarce here at its northern outposts. The They were rewarded with improving weather and man- last day (1 August) again dawned clear and warm; at aged to find 15 species including Cordulegaster dorsa- 05:00 it was already about 80 degrees F and by 06:30 lis Ophiogomphus occidentis, Somatochlora semicircu- A. multicolor, was flying around the motel parking lot laris and S. walshii. For the locals, the highlight was (the afternoon temperature in the valley reached about

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 3 100 degrees). But we were heading high in the hills to two localities in a remote area of central Quebec, it has the northeast to escape the heat and find more northern been recently located in a handful of peatlands in New- species. Dick Cannings and his 13 year-old son Rus- foundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Maine. sell, Okanagan residents, led the day‘s jaunt to several Despite these recent discoveries, to find it in British Co- lakes and fens over dusty gravel logging roads. John lumbia was unexpected, to say the least—and we‘ve Abbott of Texas provided a memorable quote as he an- now challenged our colleagues from Alberta to Ontario ticipated the dragonflies to come -- "There‘d better be to fill in the huge gap in central Canada! We continued plenty of ‗em and they‘d better be easy to catch!" At searching, but after another day of trembling fen- Solco Lake, a sunny and quiet oasis in the Engelmann treading we still had found only a handful of specimens. Spruce/ Lodgepole Pine woods at 5500 feet, the high- The day after that we returned to the Parsnip River, but lights were Somatochlora cingulata (common, and for arrived there shortly after a tremendous cloudburst had once, flying along the shore and easy to catch) and C. just cleared, and very few dragonflies were flying. We interrogatum. We stopped at two fens dominated by did, however, find a couple more Quebec Emeralds pa- Beaked Sedge, A. juncea and S. semicircularis. One of trolling the rich fens there! And to top things off, during them had a sluggish stream and lots of S. minor. Both the following week my brother Rob Cannings and An- had adjacent mossy, rather dry areas thick with A. sit- drew Harcombe found them at two more sites in the chensis. At each place a single S. whitehousei showed Rocky Mountains north and east of McBride. Nowhere up, the most southerly records in British Columbia – are these dragonflies common, and we certainly did not even more surprising because appropriate habitat find them in most of the ‗appropriate‘-looking fens we couldn‘t be found anywhere." (Author) (http://www. sampled. Their full distribution and habitat requirements sfu.ca/biology/esbc/boreus/Bor202.html)] Address: Can- remain a mystery, both within British Columbia and nings, R.A., Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 across the boreal and sub-boreal regions of North Belleville Street Victoria, British Columbia V8W 9W2. America. We‘ll be out again this summer, searching and Canada. E-mail: [email protected] hoping!" (Author)] Address: Cannings, S.G., Canadian Wildlife Service, 91780 Alaska Highway, Whitehorse, 9975. Cannings, S.G. (2000): The Quebec Emerald YT, Y1A 5B7, Canada out West. Boreus 20(2): 11. (in English) [Verbatim. "In the summer of 2000, staff from the B.C. Conservation 9976. Geraeds, R.P.C. (2000): Observations of Ophio- Data Centre (Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks) gomphus cecilia, Fourcroy, 1785) along the river Roer. and the Royal B.C. Museum organized a dragonfly sur- Brachytron 4(2): 3-7. (in Dutch, with English summary) vey of east-central British Columbia. This was the first ["O. cecilia has always been a rare dragonfly in the year of a larger northern B.C. inventory, part of the Netherlands. It has been extinct since 1936. In 1995 Royal B.C. Museum‘s Living Landscapes project, and and 1996 several were found along the Ge- partly funded by a grant from the Habitat Conservation leenbeek. Between August 24 and September 9, 2000, Trust Fund. See the article by Rob Cannings in this is- the species was seen in low numbers along the river sue that discusses a similar dragonfly inventory in the Roer near Melick. Besides, the species was found near Columbia/Kootenay region in 1998-99. Dragonflies are the German border south of Vlodrop once. Two females one of our best-known insect groups, but this vast study were observed ovipositing. The river Roer appears to area of snowy mountains, boggy and marshy valleys, be a suitable habitat for this species. Further investiga- and plateaus awash with warm lakes was literally a big tion must make clear if O. cecilia can establish itself in blank spot on our dragonfly distribution maps for the the Roer." (Author)] Address: Geraeds, R.P.G., Berg- province. We knew that we might find that some of the straat 70, NL-6131 AW Sittard, The Netherlands ‗rare‘ dragonflies on our provincial list are more com- mon than we previously thought (and we did, but that‘s another story), but we weren‘t prepared for the discov- 2001 ery of the year! It all began with the capture of an odd- looking female emerald (a medium-sized, dark-metallic 9977. Meads, M.J.; Fitzgerald, B.M. (2001): List of in- dragonfly with brilliant green eyes) in the huge fens vertebrates on Mokoia Island, Lake Rotorua. Conserva- near the headwaters of the Parsnip River north of Arctic tion Advisory Science Notes No. 343: 9 pp. (in English) Lake. That one was put back in the collection box with [A survey of invertebrates was undertaken on Mokoia the plan of checking on it further when time allowed, but Island, Lake Rotorua, for three days in February 2000, then forgotten for the moment. Two days later, I teamed with the emphasis on larger ground-dwelling taxa. The up with Sid Dunkle, a dragonfly expert from Texas, and species list (124 taxa) includes Hemicordulia australi- we drove to a fabulous set of terraced fens near timber- ae.] Address: Meads, M.J., Ecological Research Asso- line at McBride. The common dragonflies there were, ciates of New Zealand Inc., PO Box 48-147, Silver- Somatochlora whitehousei, a rarely-collected beast of stream, Upper Hutt, New Zealand shallow fen pools. Sid was ecstatic with these northern specialties, and we even added the very rare Leucor- rhinia patricia, to our list as well! But then Sid caught a 2002 female emerald that was unfamiliar to him and I real- 9978. Bossart, J.L.; Carlton, C.E. (2002): Insect con- ized that it was the same as the one I had caught a servation in America: status and perspectives. Ameri- couple of days earlier. We scratched our heads for a can Entomologist • Summer 2002: 82-92. (in English) while, then resumed searching for more. Soon I caught ["The conservation attention allotted to odonates is es- a male, which was certainly different than any other pecially noteworthy considering that only a tiny fraction emerald I had ever seen! We eliminated candidate spe- (<1%) of insect species occurring in America are drag- cies one after another and were soon faced with the onflies or damselflies. Indeed, nearly 75% of all named amazing conclusion that this was a Quebec Emerald! Odonata species are state-listed species-of-concern." Somatochlora brevicincta, is one of the Holy Grails of (Authors)] Address: Bossart, Janice L., Dept of Biology, northern dragonflies—known for many years from only

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 4 The College of New Jersey, P.O. Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 9982. Lemoine, G. (2002): Sur les traces des insectes 08628, USA. E-mail: [email protected] dans les dunes flamandes. Week-end à Zuydcoote. In- sects 126: 25-27. (in French) [Lestes barbarus, Croco- 9979. Curry, J. (2002): Rare Odonata of Indiana. themis erythraea, and Sympetrum flaveolum were rec- Newsletter of the Michigan Entomological Society orded from the North Sea coast near Zuydcoote, Fran- V47(3-4): 10. (in English) ["Rare species of dragonflies ce.] Address: not stated in Indiana fall into one of three categories: (1) southern species at the northern fringe of their ranges in south- 9983. Wykle, J. (2002): The Year of the Dragonfly. WV ern Indiana; (2) northern species at the southern fringe Wildlife Diversity News 19(3): 1, 8. (in English) [Report of their ranges in northern Indiana; (3) and species on the meeting of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas once more common to the state which have apparently in Lewisburg, West Verginia, USA on June 20-22, 2002. become rare due to habitat changes. Most of the spe- "Throughout the week, a total of 99 species were ob- cies in categories 1 and 2 are common within their served or collected. Eight of these had never been doc- ranges and need not be of concern to Indiana conser- umented in West Virginia! Also, 171 county records vationists. Those in category 3 apparently need protec- were gathered." (Author)] Address: [email protected]. tion if they are to survive. The only way to protect them wv.us is through habitat preservation. Representative south- ern species (category 1) include Macromia pacifica, Ari- gomphus submedianus, Gomphus hybridus, and Neuro- 2003 cordulia molesta. Representative northern species in- clude , A. tuberculífera, Gomphus 9984. Heidenreich, U.; Hering, J. (2003): Mönchs- ventricosus, Epitheca canis, Libellula julia, and Nanno- grasmücke Sylvia atricapilla erbeutet Großlibelle. Orni- themis bella. Species that were once more widespread thologische Mitteilungen 55(2): 49. (in German) [garden in Indiana but now have become rare due to habitat in Limbach-Oberfrohna, Saxony, Germany; a blackcap change include Tachopteryx thoryi, Anax longipes, Cor- is reported to have taken as food a freshly emerged dulegaster obliqua, and perhaps, Somatochlora hine- Aeshna cyanea; 22-VI-2002.] Address: Heidenreich, U., ana." (Author)] Address: Curry, J., Dept of Biology, Am Hohen Hain 23 d, 09212 Limbach-Oberfrohna, Ger- Franklin College, 501 E. Monroe Street, Franklin, IN many 46131, USA. Email: [email protected] 9985. Hellmund, W. (2003): Endlich aufgespürt - die 9980. Horecký, J.; Stuchlík, E.; Chvojka, P.; Bituńík; Späte Adonislibelle. Unsere Libellen - Versuch einer P.; Lińka, M.; Pńenaková, P.; Ńpaček, J. (2002): Effects Bestandsaufnahme Teil VII. Troisdorfer Jahreshefte: 11- of acid atmospheric deposition on chemistry and ben- 13. (in German) [Wahner Heide near Köln resp. Trois- thic macroinvertebrates of forest streams in the Brdy dorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, 28-VIII-2001.] Ad- Mts (Czech Republic). Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 66: 189- dress: Hellmund, W., Von-Loe-Str.e 11, 53840 Troisdorf, 203. (in English) ["Water chemistry and macroinverte- Germany brates of 8 streams in the Brdy Mts (Central Bohemia) 9986. Kalkman, V.J.; Wasscher, M.T. (2003): Rare differing in pH value were studied during a synoptic sur- dragonfly species in the Netherlands in 1998. Brachy- vey in December 1997. Together 73 macroinvertebrate tron 7(1): 15-23. (in Dutch, with English summary) ["The taxa (including Cordulegaster boltonii) were identified, submitted Dutch records of a selected number of rare varying in number from 9-25 at sites of critical pH (3.8- dragonfly species are reviewed annually. Acceptability 4.3), contrary to 25.28 taxa at non-acidified sites (pH is judged independently by each of the committee around 6.7). The fauna of streams was dominated by members, based on the documentation available (e.g. Chironomidae (Diptera) and Plecoptera, Trichoptera descriptions, drawings and pictures). In this report the were less abundant. In three strongly acidified streams records of 1998 are presented. Of each accepted rec- the predominance of Plecoptera exceeded 50% of all ord the province, nearby city, date(s), number, sex and macroinvertebrates. The absence of some aquatic in- observers are given. In addition, not (yet) accepted rec- sects (like e.g. Ephemeroptera, some Trichoptera, most ords and records received without documentation are Diptera, and some Plecoptera) at sites with pH < 4.8 is listed. Highlights of the odonatological year 1998 were discussed." (Authors)] Address: Horecký, J., Dept of undoubtedly the records of the first adult specimens of Hydrobiology, Charles Univ., Vinicná 7, CZ.128 44 Pra- Gomphus flavipes since 1902. These records made ha 2, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected] clear that the larva found in 1996, which constituted the 9981. Kitowski, I. (2002): Behaviour of Montagu's Har- first record since 1902, was the forerunner of the return rier juveniles during the post-fledging dependency peri- of this species in The Netherlands. Remarkable was the od in southeast Poland. Ethologia 11(2): 202-207. [The discovery of two populations of Somatochlora arctica on dependency period of 51 fledglings Montagu's Harrier one single day bringing the known number of popula- (Circus pygargus) was studied on calcareous peat-bogs tions to three. In the dune-area a population of Leucor- near Chelm (SE Poland). The juveniles fledged on av- rhinia pectoralis was found after absence as breeding erage 33.6 days after hatching, and continued to de- species for several decades. Also the first records ever pend on their parents for 17-31 days. A progression was for Sympecma fusca for the dune-area were made. In observed in the flight behaviour ability of the fledglings. 1998 the third and fourth Dutch records of Anax par- With progressing dependency period the rate of suc- thenope were made. One of which constituted the high- cessfully aerial prey transfers increased. Juveniles tried light of the day for an excursion of 25 members of the to catch dragonflies in the air. However, no attempt was Dutch Society for the Study of Dragonflies (NVL)." (Au- successful.] Address: Kitowski, I., Dept of Nature Con- thors)] Address: Kalkman, V.J., European Invertebrate servation, Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univ., Akademicka Survey - Nederland, p/a Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Mu- 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland. E-mail: kitowign@biotop. seum - naturalis, Postbus 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The umcs.lublin.pl Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 5 9987. Schlüter, T. (2003): Fossil insects in Gondwana three or four optic cartridges. These fibers end as bea- – localities and palaeodiversity trends. Acta zoologica ded tufts at the level of the incoming receptor axons cracoviensia, 46(suppl. – Fossil Insects): 345-371. (in (Fig. 4E)." (Authors)] Address: Strausfeld, N.J., ARL, English) ["The faunal history of insects in the various Division of Neurobiology, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, fragments of Gondwana is presented. The first part of 85721, USA. E-mail: [email protected] the paper summarizes the current knowledge of its in- sect-bearing localities, particularly their stratigraphy and 9989. Smith, S.G.F. (2003): Ionocytes in the dragonfly fossil content, emphasizing the record of the higher sys- nymph Erythemis simplicicollis (Say). Procceding of the tematic groups. The second part discusses some trends nineth symposium on the natural history of the Baha- of their palaeobiodiversity as evidenced from the above mas: 135-138. (in English) ["Nymphs of E. simplicicollis mentioned sites. Generally, the knowledge of the fossil are known to inhabit brackish water environments as Gondwanan insect faunae is still much lower than that well. Presence and location of ionocytes, or ion of the Laurasian ones, but has considerably increased transport cells, were compared in nymphs of two differ- over the last decade. Altogether about 85 localities are ent species, Anax junius (a freshwater species) and E. known from Gondwana, with a maximum of sites in simplicicollis. The nymphs were held in tanks of three Permian and a minimum in Jurassic times. Best repre- different salinities for a total of thirteen days, and then sented is South America. Fossil insects of Gondwana subjected to a silver nitrate staining technique to allow are probably less known than those of Laurasia due to us to identify ionocytes on the gill tissues. Patches of inadequate exploration rather than unfavourable condi- ionocytes were found at the base of the rectal gill leaf- tions for the formation of deposits." (Author) Many ref- lets in E. simplicicollis. No similar patches were ob- erences to Odonata are made.] Address: Schlüter, T., served in A. junius nymphs, regardless of salinity. Patch UNESCO Nairobi Office; P. O. Box 30592 Nairobi, Ken- density of ionocytes in E. simplicicollis increased as the ya. E-mail: [email protected] salinity increased, which suggests that this species is able to respond to changes in salinity." (Author)] Ad- 9988. Sinakevitch, I.; Douglass, J.K.; Scholtz, G.; dress: Smith, Sherilyn, Dept of Biology, Le Moyne Col- Loesel, R.; Strausfeld, N.J. (2003): Conserved and con- lege, Syracuse, NY 13214, USA vergent organization in the optic lobes of insects and isopods, with reference to other Crustacean taxa. J. Comp. Neurol. 467: 150-172. (in English) ["The shared 2004 organization of three optic lobe neuropils—the lamina, medulla, and lobula—linked by chiasmata has been 9990. Benard, M.F. (2004): Predator-induced pheno- used to support arguments that insects and malacos- typic plasticity in organisms with complex life histories. tracans are sister groups. However, in certain insects, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 35: 651-673. (in English) the lobula is accompanied by a tectum-like fourth neu- ["Predator-induced phenotypic plasticity is widespread ropil, the lobula plate, characterized by wide-field tan- in nature and includes variation in life history, morphol- gential neurons and linked to the medulla by uncrossed ogy, and behaviour. In organisms with complex life his- axons. The identification of a lobula plate in an isopod tories, predator-induced phenotypic plasticity in the lar- crustacean raises the question of whether the lobula val period has been widely documented. Several mod- plate of insects and isopods evolved convergently or els predict how organisms should alter their size at and are derived from a common ancestor. This question is time to metamorphosis in response to an increased risk here investigated by comparisons of insect and crusta- of predation. A survey of empirical studies finds that cean optic lobes. The basal branchiopod crustacean these theoretical predictions are frequently met. How- Triops has only two visual neuropils and no optic chi- ever, no one model performs the best. Additionally, the- asma. This finding contrasts with the phyllocarid Ne- re are several results not predicted by any model. Pre- balia pugettensis, a basal malacostracan whose lamina dator-induced plasticity in metamorphic traits may be is linked by a chiasma to a medulla that is linked by a related to predator-induced changes in larval morphol- second chiasma to a retinotopic outswelling of the lat- ogy and behaviour. Predictions of predator effects on eral protocerebrum, called the protolobula. In Nebalia, larval traits are generally met, except for direct costs of uncrossed axons from the medulla supply a minute predator-induced morphological phenotypes. Future fourth optic neuropil. Eumalacostracan crustaceans al- work should incorporate more detailed studies of so possess two deep neuropils, one receiving crossed growth rate, morphology, and behaviour during the lar- axons, the other uncrossed axons. However, in primi- val period, as well as studies of size-specific mortality tive insects, there is no separate fourth optic neuropil. rates in the presence and absence of predators." (Au- Malacostracans and insects also differ in that the insect thor) This review includes references to Odonata.] Ad- medulla comprises two nested neuropils separated by a dress: Benard, M.F., Section of Evolution and Ecology, layer of axons, called the Cuccati bundle. Comparisons Center for Population Biology, Univ. of California, Davis, suggest that neuroarchitectures of the lamina and me- California 95616, USA. E-mail: [email protected] dulla distal to the Cuccati bundle are equivalent to the 9991. Godunko, R.; Klymyshyn, O. (2004): Scientific eumalacostracan lamina and entire medulla. The occur- heritage of Józef Dziędzielewicz. Proc. State Nat. hist. rence of a second optic chiasma and protolobula are Mus., Lviv 19: 187-190. (in Ukrainian, with English suggested to be synapomorphic for a malacostracan / summary) [The entomological work of J. Dziedzielewicz insect clade. [...] Columnar and stratified arrangements (1844-1918) is honoured. Dziedzielewicz published in of centrifugal terminals are seen in dragonflies, such as 1902 a classic work on the Odonata of Galicia, a region Aeshna Canadensis, the lamina of which comprises with shifting adminational responsibilty between Poland discrete rows of optic cartridges each supplying a sheet and Ukraine: 'Ważki Galicyi i przyleglych Krajów Pol- of axons into the first optic chiasma (see, Meinertzha- skich (Odonata Halicae) (reliquarumque provinciarum gen, 1976). In Aeshna (Fig. 4E), each centrifugal GA- Poloniae). Muzeum Imienia Dzieduszyckich we Lwowie BAergic ending bifurcates to provide a system of tan- V. 176 pp.'] Address: not stated gential processes and systems of climbing fibers to

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 6 9992. Prokofiev, I.V. (2004): Role of dragonflies (Odo- wing venation is shown." (Author)] Address: Borisov, nata) in bird diet. Russian ornithological journal 13 S.N., Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of System- (257): 299-303. (in Russian) [In a total of 5855 food atics and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sci- samples in bird species of the Leningrad region (Rus- ences, Siberian Branch, Frunze str. 11, Novosibirsk sia) between 1955 and 2000, 181 Odonata species 630091 Russia. E-mail: [email protected] could be detected. 116 items were caught by Muscica- pa striata (n=44), Ficedula hypoleuca (n=10), Lanius 9996. Elliott, N.B.; Smith, D.L.; Smith, S.G.F.; Carey, collurio (n=27), Motacilla flava (n=24) and M. alba E. (2005): Establishment of the National Bahamian En- (n=11). The rest was preyed by 24 additional bird spe- tomological collection. Proceedings of the 10th Sympo- cies. Odonata species recorded include Libellula quad- sium on Natural History of the Bahamas: 34-36. (in rimaculata, Sympetrum sp., indet., Lestes English) [437 specimens are included into the collection sp., Sympecma sp. indet., Cordulia aenea, So- and based on material in 2003; no details other than matochlora flavomaculata, Coenagrion sp., C. pulchel- geographic are dealt with. The specimens are listed ac- lum, C. hastulatum, Coenagrionidae indet., Cordule- cording the 13 islands of the Bahamas: New Provi- gaster boltonii, Aeshna sp., indet. Lestidae dence, Cat Island, Acklins, Great Inagua, Mayaguana, or Coenagrionidae, Libellulidae or Aeschnidae and North Andres, South Andres, Grand Bahama, Eleuthe- Odonata indet.] Address: not stated. ra, Long Island, Great Exuma, Great Abaco, San Sal- vador] Address: Smith, D.L., Department of Biology Le Moyne College Syracuse, NY 13214, USA 2005 9997. Geraeds, R.P.G.; Schaik, V.A. van (2005): Eco- logical aspects of the dragonfly Ophiogomphus cecilia 9993. Ajay, J.C.; Balakrishnan, M. (2005): Abundance along the river Roer: monitoring exuviae in 2002 and and richness of insects in Kazhakuttom. Bulletin of the 2003 and a comparison of survey methods. Natuurhis- National Institute of Ecology 16: 19-27. (in English) ["A- torisch Maandblad 94(1): 1-6. (in Dutch, with English bundance, density and richness of insects in Kazha- summary) ["In the year 2000, a population of O. cecilia kuttom Grama Panchayat of Kerala was studied using was discovered along the river Roer. Since monitoring transect and quadrate methods. During the present in- exuviae of this species along the banks of the Roer is vestigation, 94 species of insects belonging to 42 fami- hampered by the limited accessibility of the terrain, we lies of 9 orders were located." Odonata were treated at used a boat (provided by the local water board) to hold the family level and represented by five taxa (5.31%).] surveys in 2002 and 2003. Four of such boat surveys in Address: Balakrishnan, M., Department of Biology, Ad- each of these years, during June, July and August, dis Ababa University, Post Box No. 1176, Addis Ababa, yielded 86 exuviae of Ophiogomphus cecilia. By con- Ethiopia; E-mail: [email protected] trast, 47 land surveys during the same period only yield- 9994. Alonso, A.; Camargo, J.A. (2005): Estado actual ed another 19 exuviae. This indicates that boat surveys y perspectivas en el empleo de la comunidad de ma- are the most suitable method, allowing more locations to croinvertebrados bentónicos como indicadora del es- be accessed and monitored. Most larvae emerge verti- tado ecológico de los ecosistemas fluviales españoles. cally (59%) and close to the banks (0–0.25 m). They Ecosistemas 14(3): 87-99. (in Spanish, with English preferably seem to emerge amid the vegetation. The summary) ["Fluvial ecosystems are nowadays affected average length of the exuviae was 29.5 mm.] Address: by several anthropogenic activities. Impounded and Schaik, V.A. van, Hoosveld 56, 6075 DB Herkenbosch channalized rivers, organic matter pollution, eutrophica- 9998. Jacobi, B. (2005): Neue und selten nachgewie- tion, and mining activities, among others, cause chang- sene Insekten in Oberhausen. Elektronische Aufsätze es in the structure and function of biological communi- der Biologischen Station Westliches Ruhrgebiet 1.8: 1- ties inhabiting rivers and streams. Benthic macroinver- 6. (in German) [Sympecma fusca; Germany, Oberhau- tebrate communities are sensitive to those environmen- sen, Zentrum, roofgarden of the Elsa-Brändström-Gym- tal impacts. These communities enclose invertebrates nasium, 18-VII-2003.] Address: Jacobi, B., Dieckerstr. that dwell the bottom substrate and that can be detect- 26, 46047 Oberhausen, Germany. E-mail: h.b.jacobi@ ed with the naked eye. The study of those communities gmx.de permits to assess the health of fluvial ecosystem. In this article we review the main traits of macroinvertebrate 9999. Jourde, P. (2005): Une nouvelle espèce de libel- communities that are used as environmental indicators, lule pour la Charente-Maritime: la Cordulie splendide and we show several cases of Spanish fluvial bioas- Macromia splendens (Pictet, 1843) (Odonata, Anisopte- sessments. Besides the future necessities in fluvial ma- ra, Macromiidae). Annales de la société des sciences croinvertebrate bioassessment are discussed." (Au- naturelles de la Charente-Maritime 9(5): 529-534. (in thors) Cordulegaster boltonii] Address: Alonso, A., Dpto. French, with English summary) [In 2004, M. splendens Interuniversitario de Ecología. Sección de Alcalá. Edifi- was recorded for the first time in Charente-Maritime, cio de Ciencias. Universidad de Alcalá. E-28871, Alcalá along the rivers La Dronne, Lary, Né and Charente. It is de Henares, Spain the 61st Odonata species found in Charente-Maritime, France.] Address: Jourde, P., LPO, La Corderie Royale, 9995. Borisov, S.N. (2005): Aperiodic changes in BP 90263, F-17305 Rochefort, France. E-mail: Philip- number of Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836) [email protected] (Odonata, Lestidae) in forest-steppe of West Siberia. Euroasian entomological journal 4(1): 30-32. (in Rus- 10000. Kawakami, Y.; Ichisawa, K.; Watanabe, K. sian, with English summary) ["An increase in the num- (2005): A list of the insect collection of Mt Daisen Mu- ber of L. macrostigma in the lower reaches of the seum of Nature and History, Tottori, Japan. Bulletin of Karasuk river (forest-steppe of Novosibirsk Ob-last') the Tottori Prefectural Museum 42: 21-27. (in Japanese, during 2000-2001 is recorded. Formerly, only a single with English title) [19 odonate species: Calopteryx cor- record in 1973 had been recorded. Possible reasons for nelia, Mnais pruinosa nawai, M. pruinosa pruinosa, number fluctuations are discussed. Extreme variation in Tanypteryx pryeri, Anisogomphus maacki, Davidius

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 7 nanus, Stylogomphus suzukii, Sinogomphus flavolimba- a biweekly adult dragonfly survey started in February tus, Anotogaster sieboldii, Anax nigrofasciatus nigrofas- 2005, more than one third of the total Odonate species ciatus, A. parthenope julius, Epophthalmia elegans, in Hong Kong were recorded, including the globally-en- Nannophya pygmaea, Crocothemis servilia mariannae, dangered Mortonagrion hirosei, and six locally-uncom- Sympetrum pedemontanum elatum, S. risi risi, S. spe- mon species (Wilson, 2004): Cercion calamorum, C. ciosum speciosum, S. croceolum, and Rhyothemis fu- melanotum, Pseudagrion microcephalum, Gomphidia liginosa are listed.] Address: Kawakami, Y., Tottori Pre- kelloggi, Macrodiplax cora and Nannophyopsis clara." fectural Mus., Higashi-machi 2-124, Tottori, 680-0011, (Author)] Address: not stated Japan 10008. Craves, J.A. (2006): Archilestes grandis (Ram- 10001. Keppner, E.J.; Keppner, L.A. (2005): Some bur) (Odonata: Lestidae): new for Michigan. Great dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) from Lakes Entomologist 39(1/2): 88-90. (in English) [27-IX- Bay County, Florida. For: The St. Andrew Bay Environ- 2005, retention pool in Livonia, Wayne County, Michi- mental Study Team, Inc.: 33 pp. (in English) [USA; rec- gan, T1S R9E, sec 7, USA.] Address: Craves, J.A., ords of 43 Odonata species are recorded. Most are new 15911 Andover Dr., Dearborn, Ml 48120, USA. E-mail: records for the County.] Address: Keppner, E.J., c/o The [email protected] St. Andrew Bay Environmental Study Team, PO Box 2465, Panama City, Florida 32402, USA 10009. Eda, S. (2006): Two cases of triple-connection in the Odonata. Tombo 48: 32. (in Japanese) [Lestes 10002. Lagunov, A.V. (2005): Insects from the Red temporalis, Sympetrum frequens] Address: Eda, S., 3- Book of Russian Federation in the fauna of the Chelya- 4-25 Sawamura, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-0877, Japan. binsk region. Annotated list. Proceedings of the Chel- E-mail: SND [email protected] yabinsk Scientific Center of UB RAS 2: 110-114. (in Russian) [According an oral communication of AY 10010. Fukunaga, K.; Iomita, M.; Murata, M.; Matsumu- Kharitonov to the author, Ischnura aralensis is known ra, K.; Shirai, M. (2006): Analysis of mitochondrial DNA from the Chelyabinsk region (Bashkortostan).] Address: in the exuviae of Libellula angelina Selys (Libellulidae). Lagunov, A.V., Ilmensky state reserve, Ural branch of Tombo 48: 21-22. (in English, with Japanese summary) ["DNA analyses were made from the exuviae of Libellu- Russian Academy of Science, Miass, Russia. E–mail: [email protected] la angelina Selys and L. quadrimaculata asahinai Schmidt. The partial fragments of the mitochondrial 16 10003. Ma, S. (2005): Buzz of life in our bay. The Ham- S rRNA gene were amplified by using a polymerase ilton Spectator, Thursday, August 25, 2005: Go 5. (in chain reactions PCR method. Amplified genetic se- English) [General account on insects including Odona- quences extracted from two L. angelina individuals ta.] Address: not stated were 100% identical, but differed from that of L. quad- rimaculata asahinai. These results indicate that the use 10004. Sharapova, T.A.; Abdullina, G.H. (2005): On of exuviae is efficient for analyzing DNA sequences in studying the water invertebrates of the west Siberian odonate species." (Authors)] Address: not stated southern tundras. Bulletin of Environment, Forestry and Landscape 5: 97-115. (in Russian) [The paper reports 10011. Futahashi, R.; Futahashi, H. (2006): The on fauna of Jamal Peninsula and compiles data from Odonate fauna of the Noto Penmsula, Hokuriku District, the Gydan Peninsula including old records of Somato- Honshu (2). Tombo 48: 18-20. (in English, with Japane- chlora sahlbergia published by Belyshev & Kharitonov se summary) [Paracercion sexlineatum, Sympecma (1981).] Address: Sharapova, T.A., Institute of Northern paedisca, and Sympetrum maculatum are regionally Development, Siberian Branch of the RAS, Tyumen, noteworthy. "Two migratory species, Sympetrum fons- Russia colombii and Trapezostigma virginia, and a supposed hybrid between Anax nigrofasciatus nigrofasciatus Ogu- 10005. Xu, Q.-h. (2005): Note on the female sex of ma, 1915 and Anax parthenope julius Brauer, 1865 are Amphigomphus hansoni Chao (Odonata: ). newly recorded from this peninsula." (Author)] Address: Entomological Journal of East China 14(2): 191-192. (in Futahashi, R., Fujiwara Lab., Univ. Tokyo, Biosci. Bldg Chinese, with English summary) ["The female of Am- 501, Kashiwa, Chiba, 377-8562, Japan phigomphus hansoni Chao, 1954 is described for the first time and illustrated. It was collected at Hua'an 10012. Gärtner, E.; Olthoff, M.; Scherzer, H. (2006): Die County, Fujian Province of China, 2004-06-26. The Libellenfauna des Helstorfer Moores (Niedersachsen) specimen is deposited in Zhangzhou Education Col- unter besonderer Berücksichtigung eines Reliktvorkom- lege, Fujian, China." (Author)] Address: Xu, Qi-han, mens der Zwerglibelle (Nehalennia speciosa) und de- (Zhangzhou Education College, Zhangzhou, Fujian ren Habitatstruktur. Telma 36: 133-154. (in German, 363000, China with English summary) ["The Helsdorfer Moor, a small bog north of Hannover (Lower Saxony, Germany), has 10006. Bernard, R. (2006): New locality of Somatochlo- been exploited by peat cutting over some centuries. In ra arctica (Zetterstedt, 1840) (Odonata: ) in a two-year-inventarisation 35 Odonata species were western Poland. Wiad. Entomologiczne 25: 55-56. (in found, among these many rare typical species of peat Polish) [Kobyla Łąka, 50°50.N 15°22.E, UTM: WS23, 18 bogs. After one single male had been discovered by VIII 2005] Address: Bernard, R., Dept of General Zoolo- Pryswitt, in 2003 a large population of Nehalennia spe- gy, Adam Mickiewicz Univ., Umultowska 89, PL-61-702 ciosa was found in the Helsdorfer Moor, situated in a Poznań, Poland; E-mail: [email protected]. pl distance of about 20 km from another population near Hannover. The imagoes of this species predominantly occur in the northern part of the bog, where the peat 2006 waters are hydrologically influenced by flowing water 10007. Cheung, F. (2006): Will Luk Keng become an- and/or adjacent springs. In the small larval ponds Utric- other Sham Chung? Porcupine 34: 28. (in English) ["In ularia minor is the characteristic plant species. The peat water is strongly or weakly acid, the conductivity is be-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 8 low 100 µS. The imagoes of Nehalennia were found in 10016. Kawashima, I.; Sasamoto, A. (2006): Descrip- sections dominated by Molinia caerulea, in part mixed tion of the last instar larva of Periaeschna laidlawi (För- with sparse stands of trees (Pinus silvestris, Betula pu- ster) (Anisoptera, Aeshnidae) from Malaysia, south- bescens). The habitat is part of a Nature Reserve of western Asia. Tombo 48: 12-17. (in English, with Japa- 410 hectares, well protected against external detriment- nese summary) ["The external morphology of the last tal influences." (Authors)] Address: Olthoff, M., Natur- instar larva of P. laidlawi from Malaysia is described and förderstation im Kreis Coesfeld, Borkener Str. 13, 48653 illustrated for the first time, and is compared with the Coesfeld, Germany. E-Mail: [email protected] larvae of P. magdalena Martin from Taiwan (Matsuki & Lien, 1984) and Cephalaeschna spp. from Assam (Fra- 10013. Handke, K.; Adena, J.; Handke, P. (2006): ser, 1943; Asahina, 1961)." (Authors)] Address: Kawa- Landschaftsökologische Untersuchungen auf dem Golf- shima, I., 1-50-9 Nagasawa, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, platz Achim (Niedersachsen). Ein Vergleich mit dem 239-0842 Japan Ausgangsbestand und einem Referenzgebiet. Natur- schutz und Landschaftsplanung 38(7): 214-224. (in 10017. Kita, H. (2006): A female of Sympetrum specio- German, with English summary) ["On the golf course in sum speciosum that copulated after refusing in tandem Achim (ca. 113 ha) (near Bremen, Lower Saxony, Ger- position. Tombo 48: 27-28. (in Japanese, with English many) and on an adjacent reference site (ca. 294 ha) summary) ["A female Sympetrum s. speciosum repeat- an ecological survey was conducted in 2004. The in- edly showed a refusal behaviour [i.e., not complying vestigation comprised habitat types, endangered plant with taking a copula position by bending abdomen for- species, breeding birds, amphibians, dragonflies, but- ward) while in tandem with a male, although she did fi- terflies and grasshoppers. About 35 ha of the golf-cour- nally copulated with the male. The female is not fully se are intensively used whilst the remaining area con- mature and this may be the cause of this unusual be- sists of poor grassland, afforestation sites, and more haviour." (Author)] Address: Kita, H., Takiyama 6-2-15- than 70 water areas. On the golf-course five endanger- 308, Higashikunime City, Tokyo, 203-0033, Japan red plant and 43 animal species were identified. Com- pared to 1996 13 species of the Red Data Book have 10018. Kita, H. (2006): A male of lndolestes boninensis disappeared and 34 species were registered for the first (Odonata, Lestidae) connected with a dead female. time. As expected mainly breeding birds of the open ag- Tombo 48: 28-29. (in Japanese, with English summary) ricultural landscape have disappeared whilst particularly ["A male I. boninensis in tandem with a dead female amphibians and dragonflies have newly colonised the which had lost her abdomen posterior to the 5th seg- golf course area, and bird species of hedges and wood- ment, was observed in Otôto-jima Island of the Ogasa- lands have expanded. Ornithological importance has wara Islands. This male showed some movement that slightly increased. Compared to the former conditions seemed to prompt the female to oviposition." (Author)] the amount of habitat types of very high and high value Address: Kita, H., Takiyama 6-2-15-308, Higashikunime has markedly increased (1995: 4.6%, 2004: 25%). Fur- City, Tokyo, 203-0033, Japan thermore, the poor grassland sites and most of the wa- 10019. Kita, H. (2006): A heterospecific "Type AB" tri- ter areas and their shores developed positively. The lar- ple-connection between a male Sympetrum infuscatum ge amphibian populations of species like newt (Triturus (Selys, 1883) and a copulating pair of S. maculatum cristatus) and natter jack (Bufo calamita) as well as a Oguma, 1915. Tombo 48: 25-26. (in Japanese, with dragonfly fauna of national importance have also to be English summary) ["... Ojiya City, Niigata Prefecture. pointed out. All in all, the investigations reveal a positive The male S. infuscatum showed, while in the triple con- development of fauna and flora on the golf-course area. nection, swing movements that resembled typical tan- Compared to the reference site the golf course has a dem oviposition behaviour in the air above grassland significantly higher importance for habitat types and suitable for oviposition for this species. From this be- fauna. The study shows that the potential for nature haviour, and similar examples cited, it was guessed that conservation measures is high on oligotrophic grounds a male Sympetrum might show oviposition movements and that various animal species colonise such areas in in tandem without experiencing copulation with the a short time period." (Authors)] Address: Handke, K., connected partner (s) if it was in tandem with a heter- Riedenweg 19, 27777 Ganderkesse, Germany. E-mail: ospecific individual or in triple connection." (Author)] [email protected] Address: Kita, H., Takiyama 6-2-15-308, Higashikunime 10014. Ishikawa, H.; Yano, M. (2006): A record of Neu- City, Tokyo, 203-0033, Japan rothemis fluctuans (Fabricius,1793) from Tokyo. Tombo 10020. Lagunov, A.V. (2006): Red book listed arthro- 48: 36. (in Japanese) [28-IX-2005]. Address: not stated pods in fauna of the Chelyabinsk region. Proceedings in English. of the Chelyabinsk Scientific Center of UB RAS 4: 33- 10015. Kawashima, I.; Karube, H. (2006): External 37. (in Russian) [Russia; Aeshna viridis, Leucorrhinia morphology of the last instar larva of probable Petali- albifrons, Leucorrhinia caudalis and Ophiogomphus ce- aeschna flavipes Karube (Anisoptera, Aeshnidae, cilia are listed. (55°09'17''N 61°22'33''E)] Address: La- Brachytroninae) from Laos, Indochina. Tombo 48: 7-11. gunov, A.V., Ilmensky state reserve, Ural branch of (in English, with Japanese summary) ["The external Russian Academy of Science, Miass, Russia. E–mail: morphology of the last instar larva of what is presumed [email protected] to be Petaliaeschna flavipes Karube, 1999 from Laos is 10021. Lagunov, A.V. (2006): Insects from the Red reported and illustrated based on an exuvia. The char- Book of Russian Federation in fauna Ilmensky Reserve acters are compared with those of the genera Cepha- and prospects of their conservation. Proceedings of the laeschna Selys, 1883 (Fraser, 1943; Asahina, 1961) Chelyabinsk Scientific Center of UB RAS 1: 88-91. (in and Periaeschna Martin, 1909 (Matsuki & Lien, 1984)." Russian) [In July 2004 several specimens of Anax im- (Authors)] Address: Kawashima, I., 1-50-9 Nagasawa, perator were observed in the Uchalinsky district (Bash- Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 239-0842 Japan kortostan). According an oral communication of AY Hari- tonov to the author, also Ischnura aralensis is known

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 9 from the same region.] Address: Lagunov, A.V., Ilmen- 10025. Savard, M. (2006): Un bel exemple d'atlas pra- sky state reserve, Ural branch of Russian Academy of tique pour la conservation de la biodoversité des in- Science, Miass, Russia. E–mail: [email protected] sects à l'échelle humaine! Bulletin de l'entomofaune 33: 12-14. (in French) [Book review of: Jourde, Philippe. 10022. Nakada, A. (2006): An observation of heteroge- 2005. Les libellules de Charente-Maritime. Annales de neric copulation between Deielia phaon (Selys, 1883) la Société des Sciences Naturelles de la Charente- male and Orthetrum albistylum speciosum (Uhler, 1853) Maritime, Supplément décembre 2005. Société des female. Tombo 48: 23-24. (in English, with Japanese Sciences naturelles de La Rochelle. ISSN 0373.9929. summary) [4-VI-2005] Address: not stated in English 144 pages] Address: not stated 10023. Naraoka, H. (2006): Four continental Sympe- 10026. Schmidt, Eb. (2006): Stichwort: Hochmoor. trum dragonflies (Libellulidae) collected in Aomori Pre- Naturzeit 3(5): 5. (in German) [Concise characterisation fecture, northern Honshu, Japan, in 2005. Tombo 48: of bog ecology including a few passing references to 33-34. (in Japanese, with English summary) ["Sym- Odonata.] Address: Schmidt, E., Coesfelder Str. 230, D- petrum depressiusculum, S. cordulegaster, S. vulgatum 48249 Dülmen, Germany imitans and S. f. flaveolum were collected from Aomori Prefecture in autumn of 2005. The former three species 10027. Sugano, T.; Umeda, T. (2006): The first record are well known migrants from Continental Eurasia. S. f. of Neurothemis fluctuans (Fabricius, 1793) from Kana- flaveolum is new to Honshu, and is considered to have gawa Prefecture. Tombo 48: 35. (in Japanese) [26-VIII- migrated from Eurasia continent or Hokkaido. A female, 2005] Address: not stated in English instead of males, of S. vulgatum imitans was recorded 10028. Voni ka, P. (2006): The occurence of dragonfly for the first from Japan." (Author)] Address: Naraoka, č H., 36-71, Aza-Motoizumi, Fukunoda, Itayanagi-cho, Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Odonata: Libellulidae) in the Ji- Kita-gun, Aomori Prefecture, 038-3661, Japan zerske hory Mountains (Northern Bohemia). Váņky 2005: sborník referátu VIII. celostátního semináre 10024. Romstöck-Völkl, M.; Völkl, W.; Rebhan, H.; odonatologu ve Ņdárských vrńích: seminár usporádaly Franke T.; Krug, R. (2006): Auswirkungen einer natur- ve dnech 23.-26.6.2005 Správa CHKO Ņdárské vrchy, schutzorientierten Teichwirtschaft im NSG Craimoos- ZO CSOP Vlańim a Vlastivedné muzeum a galerie v weiher. Ergebnisse einer zehnjährigen Untersuchung Ceské Lípe / editor sborníku Lubomír Hanel. -- Vyd. 1. - auf Libellenfauna und Unterwasservegetation. Natur- - Vlańim: ZO CSOP Vlańim, 2006. ISBN 80-86327-52-3: schutz und Landschaftsplanung 38(8): 251-258. (in 162-164. (in Czech, with English summary) [Czech Re- German, with English summary) ["Between 1995 and public, Na Kotli bog, 14-VI-2005, 930m a.s.l., 1 male.] 2005 the effects of near-natural fish farming (main Address: Vonička, P., Severočeské muzeum, Masa- fish species: carp) on odonate fauna and submersed rykova 11, 46001 Liberec, Czech Republic. E-mail: vegetation were studied in the nature reserve "Crai- [email protected] moosweiher" in Northern Bavaria, Germany. The na- 10029. Watanabe, K. (2006): Sympetrum fonscolombei tural potential of carp increase has been estimated to approx. 150 kg/ha related to a water area of 14 ha. This emerged out in winter at Ishigaki Is.. Tombo 48: 17. (in potential was reached with a stocking rate of only 1500 English, with Japanese summary) ["The last instar lar- - 2000 specimens K2 (=* two year old carps) (approx. vae of S. fonscolombii were collected from a swimming 600 and 1000 kg input, according to fish size). In- pool at Ishigaki on Jan. 14, 2006. From them a male creased stocking rate led to reduced carp growth. Fur- and a pair emerged out on Jan. 18 and on Feb. 11 re- ther, the biomass reduction could not be raised by a spectively." (Author)] Address: not stated in English higher stocking rate. A total of 28 odonate species was 10030. Yamamoto, T.; Nishiura, N. (2006): A few atypi- recorded in the pond, with 15 species occurring in all cal oviposition behavior in Epitheca marginata (Selys) years of investigation. The average annual species (Anisoptera: Corduliidae). Tombo 48: 30-32. (in Japa- number was relatively constant and varied between 16 nese, with English summary) ["Three cases of atypical and 23 species. However, winter draining in 1996 and oviposition behaviour of E. marginata were observed in 2003 led to a subsequent reduction in the density of all Kyoto Prefecture, Japan: 1) A female did oviposition damselfly species. The population density of Erythrom- without perching after copulation. During oviposition ma najas was influenced most conspicuously; Eryth- she repeatedly released egg masses by striking the wa- romma viridulum and Coenagrion pulchellum complete- ter surface with the tip of abdomen, while the partner ly disappeared after winter drainage. The species-rich male flew around her. 2) A female repeated perching submersed vegetation (13 species of Angiospermae, 2 and flying oviposition about eight times. The oviposition species of Bryophyta-Hepaticae, 3 species of Charace- was carried out by striking the water surface with the tip ae) was dominated by Ceratophyllum submersum and of abdomen. While perching, the female made an egg Najas minor. Like the odonate fauna, the submersed mass. The egg masses after oviposition did not take an vegetation was negatively influenced by winter drain- usual form of "eggs-string" or "eggs-strand", but took a age. However, the plant species recovered faster than form of several small fragments of egg-masses. 3) the odonates. Additionally, high fish density (especially When a female arriving at a pond immediately began roach) led to a decrease in submerse vegetation densi- flying oviposition without perching, like that of Sym- ty and species number. At the same time this decrease petrum species." (Authors)] Adress: not stated in Eng- of vegetation had a negative influence on the odonate lish. fauna. A reduction of fish density enhanced both sub- mersed vegetation and odonate fauna. The case study "Craimoosweiher" allows the conclusion that freshwater 2007 fishery and nature conservation measures not neces- sarily contradict each other."] Address: Völkl, W., Öko- 10031. Abro, A. (2007): Microanatomy of the terminal logische Planung, Hohe Eiche 6, 95517 Seybothen- male genital tract in the dragonfly Aeshna juncea (L.) reuth, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] (Odonata: Anisoptera: Aeshnidae). Entomologist's

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 10 monthly magazine 143(1718/1720): 175-179. (in Eng- Dobson, J., 158 Main Rd, Danbury, Essex CM3 4DT, lish) ["Males of Odonata eject sperm into the copulatory UK. E-mail: [email protected] apparatus of secondary genitalia situated below the ba- 10034. Besse-Lototskaya, A.; Verdonschot, R.C.M.; se of their abdomen; during copulation the penis of this apparatus becomes inserted into the female vaginal Verdonschot, P.F.M.; Klostermann, J. (2007): Effect of canal. The micro-anatomy of the vesicula seminalis and climate change on the Netherlands government poli- the terminal ejaculatory canal in adult males of A. cies: the case of brooks and brook valleys (a study of juncea reveals in these tubular segments the presence literature Alterra-Rapport 1536: 134 pp. (in Dutch) [In of a powerful muscular coat that is presumed to play a appendix 2, the the ecological preferences amd toler- decisive role during the intramale sperm translocation ances of the following species are tabled: Calopteryx which is usually of brief duration. Sperm bundles dis- splendens, C. virgo, Cordulegaster boltonii, Gomphus persed in a gelatinous carrier-substance are thought to flavipes, G. vulgatissimus, Ophiogomphus cecilia, Or- be ejected by violent contraction of that musculature." thetrum brunneum, O. coerulescens.] Address: Alterra, (Author)] Address: Abro, A., Division of Anatomy, Dept P.O. Box 47, NL-6700 AA Wageningen of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, 10035. Brockhaus, T. (2007): Die Libellenfauna der Dö- N-5009 Bergen, Norway brichauer Wiesen, östlich von Torgau (Odonata). Säch- 10032. Bechly, G. (2007): Chapter 11.5 Odonata: dam- sische Entomologische Zeitschrift 2: 2-8. (in German) selflies and dragonflies. In: Martill, D.M., Bechly, G. & [Döbrichauer Meadows, east of Torgau, Sachsen, Ger- Loveridge, R.F. (eds) (2007): The Crato fossil beds of many, 31 Odonata species - including the regionally ra- Brazil: Window into an ancient world. xvi + 625 pp. - re species Brachytron pratense, Leucorrhinia pectoralis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK: 184-222. Sympetrum meridionale, Somatochlora flavomaculata, (in English) ["Even though they constitute only about Coenagrion pulchellum, Lestes virens, Orthetrum co- 2% of the fossil insects found (Bechly 1998c), dragon- erulescens, Anaciaeschna isoceles, Cordulia aenea - flies are not rare in the Crato Formation, so that more were observed between 2003 and 2006.] Address: than 1,000 specimens of about 46 different species Brockhaus, T., An der Morgensonne 5, D-09387 Jahns- have been discovered so far. No other fossil locality dorf, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] yields more fossil odonates, either in the number of in- 10036. Corbet, P.S. (2007): Dr Syoziro Asahina: fond dividuals or in the number of species, than the lime- recollections of fifty years of friendship. Tombo 50: 7-9. stones of the Crato Formation. Furthermore, Crato For- (in English) [P.S. Corbet met S. Asahina for the first time mation examples are outstanding because of their at 29 November 1953 in London. In this paper, he gives completeness and very beautiful preservation." (Author) a brief insight in a long lasting odonatological friendship Information on these taxa is compiled, including detai- between himself and Dr. S. Asahina.] led descriptions of the following new taxa: Euarchistig- ma marialuiseae sp. nov., Cratostenophlebia schwicker- 10037. Eda, S.; Kawashima, I.; Sasamoto, A.; Suito, Y.; ti sp. nov., Eotanypteryx paradoxa sp. nov., Cordula- Inoue, K. (2007): A checklist of publications by Dr Sy- gomphus winkelhoferi sp. nov., Cordulagomphus han- oziro Asahina (1928-). Tombo 50: 27-48. (in Japanese neloreae sp. nov. and (Procordulagomphus) michaeli and English) [Between 1928 and 1988, Dr. Asahina sp. nov.] Address: Bechly, G., Staatliches Museum für wrote 985 publications, on most cases referring to Naturkunde, Abt. Paläontologie, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Odonata.] Address: Sasamoto, A., Yakuoji Tawaramoto- Stuttgart, Germany. E-mail [email protected] cho, Shiki-gun, Nara, 636-0341 Japan 10033. Benton, T.; Dobson, J. (2007): The Dragonflies 10038. Eda, S. (2007): On the puncta of nodi on the of Essex. Lopinga Books: XII + 228 pp. (in English) wins of Libellula quadrimaculata asahinai Schmidt. ["Nineteen years have passed since Ted Benton pro- Tombo 49: 48. (in Japanese, with English summary) duced the first Dragonflies of Essex, as good as it was ["The puncta of nodi on the wings of L. quadrimaculata this volume far surpasses it in scope and production. A asahinai vary in size. The photograph shows an exam- hard backed washable and illustrated cover conceals ple of the "extremely reduced type". The note also ad- 228 pages with numerous colour photographs and dis- vices on two specimens of the "disappeared type".] Ad- tribution maps. A chapter on biology and conservation is dress: Eda, S., 3-4-25 Sawamura, Matsumoto, Nagano followed by a very useful illustrated guide to many of 390-0877, Japan. E-mail: SND [email protected] the best Essex sites for Dragonflies. The main body of 10039. Eda, S. (2007): On a mature male of Plan- the book, the species accounts includes sections on aeschna milnei (Selys) with the reflecting wings. Tombo identification, flight period, habits, distribution and con- 49: 30. (in Japanese) [Japan; an old male of P. milnei servation. Excellent photographs of each species are with heavily damaged wings is documented.] Address: included within the accounts as well as an Essex distri- Eda, S., 3-4-25 Sawamura, Matsumoto, Nagano 390- bution map of each species. Early records are also dis- 0877, Japan. E-mail: SND [email protected] cussed at the conclusion of each account. Chapter four is devoted to a history of dragonfly recording in Essex, 10040. Eda, S. (2007): Advance of the Japanese So- dealing with many notable entomologists from Victorian ciety for Odonatology in these 50 years. Tombo 50: 1-6. times until the present day. There are appendices on (in Japanese, with English summary) ["On October 7, former Essex species, possible future arrivals and a 1957, the Japanese Club of Odonatology was founded couple of rare species as well as a plant list. An exten- by only 14 members, and managed by Asahina, S., An- sive bibliography is included and the whole is fully in- do, H. C and Eda, S.C. This Club to study only Odona- dexed. All in all a first class book essential for all Essex ta is through to be the first in the World. Annual meet- field naturalists as well as dragonfly specialists. It is well ings were held once a year. The bulletin "TOMBO" was bound and produced on quality paper, place your order published in every year. After 10 years, 1967, the Club today." From: Del Smith, http://www.essexfieldclub. changed into the Society, chiefly because of members' org.uk/portal/p/Dragonflies%20of%20Essex] Address: activity and partly of increasing in number. Dr. Asahina

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 11 became the first president. On November 2, 1997, 40th parian wetlands in the Middle Ebro River floodplain (NE, anniversary of the Society, Dr. Eda became the second Spain): Structural characteristics and functional dynam- president and Dr. Asahina got the Honorary President. ics. Limnetica 26(2): 373-386. (in English) ["In Spring of At present members are about 380 persons including 2005, the relationships between the physical and chem- foreigners, and are gradually increasing." (Author)] Ad- ical characteristics of the aquatic and benthic environ- dress: Eda, S., 3-4-25 Sawamura, Matsumoto, Nagano ments and macroinvertebrate assemblages in seven 390-0877, Japan. E-mail: SND [email protected] wetlands representative of the floodplain of the Middle Ebro River (NE Spain), were analyzed. The selected 10041. Eda, S. (2007): An abnormal connection bet- wetlands differed in their hydrological connectivity, local ween two males of Leucorrhinia dubia orientalis Selys. environmental conditions and anthropic influence. Tombo 50: 76. (in Japanese) [Photo of a "tandem" be- Through multivariate analyses, two environmental gra- tween two males of L. orientalis.] Address: Eda, S., 3-4- dients and three main wetland groups were detected. 25 Sawamura, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-0877, Japan. The hydrological connectivity differences generate a E-mail: SND [email protected] heterogenous landscape of structurally and functionally 10042. Eda, S. (2007): A recollection of Lestes tempo- different wetlands in the Ebro Middle floodplain. Con- ralis Selys as a noxious insect to mulberry and fruit fined wetlands, such as older ox bow lakes, showed trees. Tombo 49: 35-40. (in Japanese, with English higher salt and organic matter contents and lower ma- summary) ["In 1915, Fukaya reported that L. temporalis croinvertebrates‘ density and biodiversity than did the used to lay eggs into the branches of mulberry and other wetlands. This suggests that confinement and fruits trees near the pond, after that the branches be- lack of disturbance events have led to water salinization come death, therefore the insect is not beneficial but and eutrophication, habitat homogenization and natural noxious. Thereafter some papers and books described succession of the communities towards more adapted L. temporalis belongs to noxious insects. Moreover structures with lower biodiversity. Wetlands that still "Explanatory Diagram of Noxious Insects to Mulberry maintain some functional relationship with the river, Tree" by SUZUKI (1930) showed Lestes temporalis Se- such as newer ox bow lakes, constructed wetlands, and lys at the top. In 1987, however, that name of the insect backwaters, show a higher inorganic nutrient concen- disappeared from "Major Insect and other Pests of tration and suspended solids. They also show higher Economic Plants in Japan"." (Author)] Address: Eda, S., taxa richness and evenness, which suggests that higher 3-4-25 Sawamura, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-0877, Ja- disturbance frequencies enhance habitat‘s heterogenei- pan. E-mail: SND [email protected] ty and resource availability, and therefore primary and secondary production that allow adapted and opportun- 10043. Eda, S. (2007): An introduction to "Fundamental istic species to coexist. The progressive flow regulation Study of Animals for Teaching Material" - rare books as tends to homogenise this complex system, endangering a phantom. Tombo 49: 40-43. (in Japanese, with Eng- its conservation. Therefore, the key processes identified lish summary) [The book introduced by S. Eda was here should be taken under consideration for the plan- published 1926 by Bunyosha, Tokyo. This book pres- ning and execution of ecological monitoring, manage- ently is hard to get from any antiquarian. It was directed ment and restoration." (Authors) Odonata are treated at to teachers to introduce animals to pupils of elementary the order level.] Address: Gallardo, Belinda, Pyrinean school and contains excellent explanations of dragon- Institute of Ecology (CSIC). Avda. de Monta.nana 1005, flies in volume 1 on pages 141-165 for 4th year pupils.] Zaragoza. 50192. Spain: E-mail: [email protected] Address: Eda, S., 3-4-25 Sawamura, Matsumoto, Na- gano 390-0877, Japan. E-mail: SND [email protected] 10047. Geraeds, R.P.G.; Schaik, V.A. van (2007): De Gevlekte glanslibel langs de Venbeek, De situatie in 10044. Eda, S. (2007): Color patterns of the larvae of 2005 en 2006 en een overzicht van de begleidende Li- Epiophlebia superstes Selys. Tombo 49: 22. (in Japane- bellenfauna. Natuurhistorisch Maandblad 96(7): 198- se, with English summary) ["The 13 instar larvae of 201. (in Dutch, with English summary) [Somatochlora Epiophlebia superstes may be divided into 3 types such flavomaculata along the Venbeek brook. Situation in as black, brown and Panda, in colour. Most of them are 2005 and 2006 and an overview of the accompanying black type and the last 2 types are very few. All of the dragonfly fauna. "The Venbeek brook is a shallow, last (14) instar larvae belong to black type. Regarding spring-fed and slowly flowing ditch in an agricultural ar- the Panda type the 6 instar larva is youngest at the pre- ea in the western part of the ‗De Meinweg‘ National sent time." (Author)] Address: Eda, S., 3-4-25 Sawamu- Park. It has a rich vegetation and features a thick (10 to ra, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-0877, Japan. E-mail: SND 40 cm) layer of organic sediment covering a sandy bot- [email protected] tom. The site was surveyed regularly in both years from 10045. Futahashi, R.; Futahashi, H. (2007): A record of May till October, mostly in June. S. flavomaculata was black mutant of Nannophya pygmaea Rambur, 1842. found along the Venbeek brook in June and July, which Tombo 50: 71-72. (in Japanese, with English summary) is the main flight period in the Netherlands. On 10 June ["An extremely melanized male of N. pygmaea was cap- 2005, 19 males were counted, the largest number of tured in Toyama Prefecture on July 15, 2007. This spec- males seen on a single day in these two years. Most imen had black coloration instead of normal reddish col- mating wheels were seen in June, especially in 2005. oration around the whole body, and was caught by a Males were seen most frequently, often patrolling pa- normal male perhaps because it looked like a female." trolling above richly vegetated parts of the ditch or (Authors)] Address: Futahashi, R., Fujiwara Lab., Univ. above land near bushes and trees. Only once, on 30 Tokyo, Biosci. Bldg 501, Kashiwa, Chiba, 377-8562, June 2006, was an ovipositing female observed; its be- Japan haviour is described in this article. S. falvomaculata is accompanied by 28 other dragonfly species along the 10046. Gallardo, B.; Garcia, M.; Cabezas, A.I.; Gonza- Venbeek brook, some of which are rare or even very ra- lez, E.; Ciancarelli, C.; Gonzalez, M.; Francisco A. re in the province of Limburg. Examples include Calop- Comin, F.A. (2007): First approach to understanding ri- teryx virgo, Brachytron pratense and Cordulegaster bol-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 12 tonii. Hence, this particular brook can be regarded as a uviae, and teneral adults of T. virginia in Matsuyama very important dragonfly habitat. This is somewhat re- City, Ehime Prefecture in springs of 2005 and 2007. markable because it is basically a straight ditch flowing These observations indicated, for the first time, that this through farmland, which is normally not the best habitat species over-wintered as larval stages in Ehime Prefec- for rare dragonflies. Nevertheless, its special character- ture." (Authors)] Address: not stated in English istics have resulted in the occurrence of many dragonfly species." (Authors)] Address: Schaik, V.A. van, Hoos- 10051. Irusta, J.B. (2007): Ecologia comportamental re- veld 56, 6075 DB Herkenbosch produtiva de Diastatops obscura Fabricius (Insecta, Odonata). Tese apresentada, Universidade Federal do 10048. Geurten, R.H.; Nordström, K.; Sprayberry, J.D. Rio Grande do Norte: 99 pp. (in partly bilingual Portu- H.; Bolzon, D.M.; O‘Carroll, D.C. (2007): Neural mech- guese and English) ["In this thesis I discuss the repro- anisms underlying target detection in a dragonfly cen- ductive behaviour and ecology of the libellulid Diasta- trifugal neuron. Journal of Experimental Biology 210: tops Obscura Fabricáis, 1775, (lnsecta: Odonata) in na- 3277-3284. (in English) ["Visual identification of targets tural conditions. Populations of this species were stud- is an important task for many animals searching for ied on the middle stretch of the Pitimbu River, Pama- prey or conspecifics. Dragonflies utilize specialized op- mirim municipality, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, during tics in the dorsal acute zone, accompanied by higher- four discontinuous periods between 2002 and 2004. order visual neurons in the lobula complex, and de- The objectives include the description of strategies and scending neural pathways tuned to the motion of small behaviours of both sexes, with especial interest in the targets. While recent studies describe the physiology of intra-male competition for territories and females, the insect small target motion detector (STMD) neurons, lit- mate selection by females and the importance of male tle is known about the mechanisms that underlie their body size and other secondary characters on their re- exquisite sensitivity to target motion. Lobula plate tan- productive success; from an adaptationist point of view. gential cells (LPTCs), a group of neurons in dipteran It was observed that the behaviour of males and fe- flies selective for wide-field motion, have been shown to males in the reproductive areas are interrelated: the take input from local motion detectors consistent with males came earlier to compete for the best territories the classic correlation model developed by Hassenstein and the females waited the result of that competition to and Reichardt in the 1950s. We have tested the hypo- be fertilized by dominants males, which preferably oc- thesis that similar mechanisms underlie the response of cupied areas near the river margin. The reproductive dragonfly STMDs. We show that an anatomically char- success of males with territories on the margin, esti- acterized centrifugal STMD neuron (CSTMD1) gives mated by number of copulations, ovipositions and days responses that depend strongly on target contrast, a acting as territorial, was better than obtained by more clear prediction of the correlation model. Target stimuli separated territorial males and by satellite males. The are more complex in spatiotemporal terms than the si- body size of males is an important factor for the copula- nusoidal grating patterns used to study LPTCs, so we tion and opposition taxes and for the number of territo- used a correlation-based computer model to predict re- rial days, favouring the biggest individuals. I also dis- sponse tuning to velocity and width of moving targets. cuss the apparently importance of wing brilliance and We show that increasing target width in the direction of wing integrity on male reproductive success. On inter- travel causes a shift in response tuning to higher veloci- sexual relationships, I proved that females of D. obscu- ties, consistent with our model. Finally, we show how ra participate in mate selection, rejecting non-territorial the morphology of CSTMD1 allows for impressive spa- males or substituting their sperm for other of higher sta- tial interactions when more than one target is present in tus." (Author)] Address: Irusta, J.B., Univ Fed Rio the visual field." (Authors)] Address: Nordström, Karin, Grande Norte, Sect Psychobiol, Dept Physiol, Caixa Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, PO Postal 1511, Campus Univ, BR-59072970 Natal, RN, Box 593, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: karin.nord- Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] 10052. Itoh, S. (2007): A case of horizontal perching in 10049. Haritonov, Yu.A.; Borisov, S.N.; Popova, O.N. Pantala flavescens (Fabricius). Tombo 49: 43. (in Japa- (2007): Odonatological researches in Russia. Eurasian nese, with English summary) ["Adults of P. flavescens Entomological Journal 6(2): 143-156. (in Russian, with usually take more or less vertical position while resting. English summary) ["A brief historical survey of dragonfly A male adult was observed perching on a tree branch in studies in the former USSR is presented. The Institute horizontal position in the early afternoon on September of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (Russian Acade- 14, 2006 at Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture." (Author)] my of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk) has pro- Address: Itoh, S., Kinoshita 4-9-7-102, Wakabayashi- vided an important centre for odonatological research in ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi, 984-0047 Japan Russia. The basic results of faunal, zoogeographic and ecological investigations are adduced. A list of odonate 10053. Kakichi, K.; Kakichi, K.; Futahashi, R. (2007): species of Russia and adjacent territories and distribu- The first collecting records of Tholymis tillarga (Fabri- tion in regions (European lowlands, Caucasus, Ural, cius, 1798) (Libellulidae) from Toyama prefecture, Hon- Middle Asia, Siberia, Russian Far East) are provided." shu, Japan. Tombo 50: 60. (in Japanese, with English (Authors) The odonate species are regionally checklist- summary) [24-VII-2007 and 17-VIII-2007; "Two males of ed.] Address: Haritonov, A.YU.; Laboratory of Insect T. tillarga were captured at Miyaaa in Himi-shi, Toyama Ecology, Biological Institute of the Siberian Branch of Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. This is the first record from the Acadamy of Sciences, Frunze str. 11, RUS-630091 Toyama Pref., and the northernmost record of this spe- Novosibirsk, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] cies from Japan." (Authors)] Address: Futahashi, R., Fujiwara Lab., Univ. Tokyo, Biosci. Bldg 501, Kashiwa, 10050. Hisamatsu, S.; Takechi, L. (2007): Tramea vir- Chiba, 377-8562, Japan ginia (Rambur. 1842) overwinters as larval stages in Ehime prefecture. Tombo 50: 69-70. (in Japanese, with 10054. Karube, H. (2007): The southernmost record of English summary) ["We collected later instar larvae, ex- dragonfly in Japanese territory. Tombo 50: 76. (in Japa-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 13 nese) [Bruno Bird Island (20°25'31''N, 136°4'11''E), tem by depositing the specimen(s) in our collect or an- Pantala flavescens, 12-17.X.2007] Address: Karube, H., other collection that will be available for examination by Kanagawa Prefect. Mus. Nat. Hist., 499 Iryuda, Odawa- interested individuals." (Authors)] Address: Keppner, E. ra, Kanagawa, 250, Japan. E-mail: paruki@nh-kanaga- J., c/o The St. Andrew Bay Environmental Study Team, wa-museum.jp PO Box 2465, Panama City, Florida 32402, USA 10055. Karube, H. (2007): Occurrence of a new spe- 10059. Kita, H.; Ozono, A. (2007): Notes on the ovipo- cies of the genus Procordulia (Anisoptera, Corduliidae) sition of a libellulid species, Brachythemis contaminata from northern Vietnam. Tombo 50: 47-50. (in English, (Fabricius, 1793) in Ishigaki-jima Is., Yaeyama Isis., SW with Japanese summary) [Procordulia asahinai sp. nov. Ryukyus. Tombo 49: 33-34. (in Japanese, with English is described from northern Vietnam. "It is related to P. summary) ["'Contact flying oviposition into water' of B. artemis Lieftinck, 1930, which has been recorded from contaminata has been recorded on Ishigaka-jima Is. high altitude mountain zones of West Malaysia, Suma- Ooviposition "occurred just after copulation, with fe- tra, and Java. But it is distinguished from the latter by males settling on twigs projecting from the water sur- the following characters:1) larger and stouter body, 2) face or on floating reed leaves. Eggs were attached via rather robust superior appendages with developed tri- the distal abdominal segments onto the surface of these angular lateral projections in male, 3) longer cerci in plant materials, as reported by Muraki (1990)." (Au- female, 4) female valvula valvae with rounded apices. thors)] Address: not stated in English Discovery of this new species demonstrates the expan- sion of the known distribution limit of Procordulia to 10060. Krassilov, V.; Silantieva, N.; Hellmund, M.; about1,800km north in Asian Continent." (Author)] Ad- Hellmund, W. (2007): Insect egg sets on angiosperm dress: Karube, H., Kanagawa Prefect. Mus. Nat. Hist., leaves from the Lower Cretaceous of Negev, Israel. 499 Iryuda, Odawara, Kanagawa, 250, Japan. E-mail: Cretaceous Res. 28: 803-811. (in English) ["Egg set im- [email protected] pressions on fossil leaves, a new field of palaeontologi- cal research, links insect palaeoecology with that of the 10056. Karuhe, H. (2007): On the scientific name of the host plant. Zygopteran egg sets from the Albian of Japanese name "Kiiroharabiro-tombo". Tombo 50: 71- Makhtesh Ramon, central Negev, Israel, were deposit- 72. (in Japanese) [Lyriothemis tricolor Ris, 1916] Ad- ed on narrow leaves of an angiospermous Acaciaephyl- dress: Karube, H., Kanagawa Prefect. Mus. Nat. Hist., lum-like morphotype. Their pattern resembles the extant 499 Iryuda, Odawara, Kanagawa, 250, Japan. E-mail: and Tertiary ―Coenagrionid Type‖, attesting to evolu- [email protected] tionary conservatism of this oviposition mode since the time of early angiosperms. A comparison with the Pal- 10057. Kawashima, I.; Sasamoto, A. (2007): Descrip- aeozoic–Jurassic proto-Odonata egg sets suggests a tions of the last two instar larvae or Heliaeschna filo- change in oviposition modes in several steps that can styla Martin, 1906 (Anisoptera, Aeshnidae, Aeshninae) be related to the evolution of wetlands. The Albian re- from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Tombo 49: 9-14. (in mains are among the earliest of a modern aspect sup- English, with Japanese summary) ["The external mor- posedly related to the advent of angiosperms. A wet- phology of the last two instar larvae of Heliaeschna filo- land source community has been previously suggested styla from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia are described and for Acaciaephyllum-like leaves on taphonomic grounds, illustrated for the first time. The external characters of and the finding of damselfly egg sets provides addition- these last instar larvae are compared with those of two al evidence in favour of such a habitat, thus having a species belonging to the same tribe, Gynacantha japon- bearing on the palaeoecology of Early Cretaceous an- ica from the mainland of Japan and G. ryukyuensis from giosperms." (Authors)] Address: Krassilov, V., Inst. the Ryukyu Islands, SW Japan." (Authors)] Address: Evol., Univ. Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa-31905, Israel Kawashima, I., 1-50-9 Nagasawa, Yokosuka, Kanaga- wa, 239-0842 Japan 10061. Lagunov, A.V. (2007): "Red Book" species of in- vertebrates Ilmen Reserve (south Ural). Bulletin of the 10058. Keppner, E.J.; Keppner, L.A. (2007): Dragon- Orenburg State University 12: 76-82. (in Russian) [Rus- flies and Damselflies (Odonata) of the St. Andrew Bay sia; Calopteryx virgo, C. splendens, Ischnura aralensis, Ecosystem and Bay County, Florida. For: St. Andrew Aeshna viridis, Leucorrhinia albifrons and Ophiogom- Bay Environmental Study Team, Inc. and Friends of St. phus cecilia are listed as rare in the reserve.] Address: Andrew Bay: 14 pp. (in English) ["The St. Andrew Bay Lagunov, A.V., Ilmensky state reserve, Ural branch of ecosystem supports a significant number of species of Russian Academy of Science, Miass, Russia. E–mail: odonates considering that the collection currently has [email protected] 49% of the total number of species reported from Flori- da. The presence of the number of species of odonates 10062. Macaulay, D. (2007): Survey of the Odonate is indicative of the variety of aquatic habitats that the Fauna in Kakwa Wildland Park - June – July, 2006. area supports. The inventory establishes the presence Prepared for the Alberta Natural Heritage Information of a number of species not previously reported from Centre, Parks Resource Management Coordination Bay County or the ecosystem (24 Anisoptera and 23 Branch, Alberta Tourism, 2nd Floor, Oxbridge Place, Zygoptera) including Phantom Darner, Swamp Darner, 9820 - 106 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2J6, Canada: Laura‘s Clubtail, Gray Petaltail, etc. Keppner and Kepp- 27 pp. (in English) ["A total of 21 odonate species were ner (in press) provide a list of the new records for Bay found during the 2006 survey of the Kakwa WP. … County, Florida. The survey extended the range of two There may be as many as 52 odonate species that oc- species, Everglades Sprite and Phantom Darner in Flor- cur in the area. Most of the species recorded for Kakwa ida. Collecting will continue in an attempt to document WP were common and have wide distributions across the species listed as possibly occurring in the county Canada. Of the 21 species recorded, 10 are either rare and ecosystem. Anyone who collects a specimen of or uncommon. The rare species were Aeshna septen- odonate can aid in this endeavour to document the trionalis (S1-rank), Somatochlora forcipata (S1-rank), species in Bay County and the St. Andrew Bay ecosys- and S. kennedyi (S1-rank). The uncommon species

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 14 were Aeshna subarctica (S2-rank), A. sitchensis (S3- delta). Research Journal of Agricultural Science 39(2): rank), S. albicincta (S2-rank), S. franklini (S2-rank), S. 489-498. (in English, with Romanian summary) [Roma- whitehousei (S2-rank), S. hudsonica (S3-rank) and nia; Odonata are only listed at the order level; several Enallagma hageni (S3-rank). The Kakwa WP odonate ecological indices are outlined in an annex on the basis survey was successful and a wide variety of species of Odonata larvae sampling.] Address: Paraschiv, Ga- were found. The diversity of suitable habitats in the park briela-Mihaela, University Ovidius, Constanta, Romania. supports a diversity of odonate species. Future surveys E-mail:[email protected] in the park, if conducted over the course of the spring and summer months, would likely add several more 10069. Richardson, G.M. (Ed.) (2007): One of North species to what is currently known." (Author)] Address: America's rarest dragonflies discovered in Canada. On- not stated tario Insects 13(1): 9-10. (in English) [Somatochlora hineana, Minesing Wetlands, Ontario, 20/27-VI-2007.] 10063. Matsuhira, K. (2007): A new record of Sympe- Address: Richardson, G.M., 18 McDonald St. West. Lis- trum fonscolombii from Amami-Ôshima Is., Amami Is- towel, ON, N4W 1 K4, CA lands. Tombo 49: 28. (in Japanese) [21-IV-2006, Japan] Address: not stated in English 10070. Sadyrin, V.M. (2007): The growth, somatic and exuvial production of Leucorrhinia dubia V.D.L. (Odona- 10064. Matsuhira, K. (2007): The first record of Rhipi- ta, Libellulidae). In: T.M. Mikheyeva, [Ed.]. Lake ecosys- dolestes okinawanus (Asahina, 1951) from Yoro-jima tems: biological processes, anthropogenic transforma- Is., Amami Islands. Tombo 49: 44. (in Japanese) [Ja- tion, water quality: materials of the III Intern. Sci. Conf., pan, 17-VI-2006.] September 17–22, 2007, Minsk – Narodn / Belarusian state university. ISBN 978-985-476-521-1: 250. (in Rus- 10065. Móra, A.; Barnucz, B.; Boda, P.; Csabai, Z.; sian, with English title) [The influence of different tem- Cser, B.; Deák, C.; Papp, L. (2007): On the macroinver- peratures on larval length and mass increase of L. du- tebrate fauna of inflows of Lake Balaton. Acta biol. De- bia was studied in the laboratory.] Address: Sadyrin, brecina Oecol. Hung. 16: 105-167. (in Hungarian, with V.M., Inst. Biol.. Russ. Acad. Sei., Syktyvkar, Russia. E- English summary) [Documentation on literature data mail: [email protected] and unpublished material of 35 Odonata species rec- orded from the streams in the catchment of the Balaton 10071. Sasamoto, A.; Karube, H. (2007): Descriptions Lake, Hungary.] Address: Móra, A., Balaton Limnol. of two new species of Drepanosticta (Zygoptera, Platy- Res. Inst., Hung. Acad. Sei. Klebeisberg Kuno 3, 8237 stictidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia, with a note of un- Tihany, Hungaria known female of D. pytho. Tombo 50: 51-57. (in Eng- lish, with Japanese summary) ["Two new species of 10066. Naraoka, H. (2007): Reproductive behaviour of Drepanosticta, D. asahinai sp. nov. (holotype male, Mt. the damselfly Lestes japonicus Selys (Odonata: Lesti- Sorik, Marapi, W. Sumatra) and D. sumatrana sp. nov. dae), with the comparison of other two Japansese Les- (holotype male, Bandar Baru, N. Sumatra), are de- tes. Tombo 50: 61-66. (in Japanese, with English sum- scribed and illustrated, these two species are easily dis- mary) ["The reproductive behaviour of L. japonicus was tinguished from the other allied species in the structures observed at two small marshes in Fukaura-machi and of prothorax and anal appendages etc. In addition, we Rokkasho-mura, Aomori Prefecture and in a insectari- make a brief description on a hitherto unknown female um built in the garden, from 2004 to 2006. The males of D. pytho, which has a peculiar structure in prothorax, formed tandem with the female without courtship and and has not been recorded for 70 years since original display by quick pursuing at when the female flight description." (Authors)] Address: Sasamoto, A., Yakuoji away. The male did intra-male sperm translocation of Tawaramoto-cho, Shiki-gun, Nara, 636-0341 Japan 77.5+-22.7s (n=24) in mean, after the tandem pair perched. Copulation duration was 17m42s+-5m54s 10072. Sasamoto, A.; Kawashima, I. (2007): Description (n=29) in mean, and it was divided into two stages of the last instar larva of Amphigomphus nakamurai (I:16m28s+-5m57s, n=25; II: 82s+-20s, n=27). Stage III Karube, 2001 (Anisoptera, Gomphidae, Onychogomphi- was not recognized. The reproductive behaviour, which nae) from Northern Vietnam, Indo-China. Tombo 49: 5-9. was bimodal type of 8:00-11:00h and 13:00-17:00h, is (in English, with Japanese summary) ["The external mor- considered with the difference of the utilization of the phology of the last instar larva of A. nakamurai from N. host plant, space and hour of the ovipositon, in the rela- Vietnam, Indo-China is described and illustrated for the tion of other Japanese two Lestes."] Address: not stated first time. The external characters are compared with in English those of two species belonging to the same tribe, Ony- chogomphus viridicostus and Nihonogomphus viridis 10067. Ozono, A.; Karube, H.; Muramatsu, M. (2007): A from Japan." (Authors)] Address: Kawashima, I., 1-50-9 new record for the Japanese fauna Neurothemis ram- Nagasawa, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 239-0842 Japan burii ramburii (Kaup in Brauer, 1866) from Yonaguni- jima Is. SW, Ryukyus. Tombo 49: 23-26. (in Japanese, 10073. Schaik, V.A. van; Geraeds, R.P.G. (2007): He- with English summary) [Neurothemis ramburii was new- rontdekking van de Gaffellibel langs de Swalm. Natuur- ly recorded on 17-V-2006 and in November 2006. The historisch Maandblad 96(11): 299-302. (in Dutch, with specimens probably originate from Taiwan. The Novem- English summary) [At 24-VII-2006, Ophiogomphus ce- ber-record was an ovipositing female, which gives the cilia was recorded for the first time after a gap of 70 opportunity that a population will be founded.] Address: years along the river Swalm, The Netherlands. Follow- Karube, H., Kanagawa Prefect. Mus. Nat. Hist., 499 ing this record, an intensified study proved several addi- Iryuda, Odawara, Kanagawa, 250, Japan. E-mail: paru- tional records of this species in the Swalm.] Address: [email protected] Schaik, V.A. van, Hoosveld 56, 6075 DB Herkenbosch, The Netherlands 10068. Paraschiv, G.-M.; Schroeder V.; Samargium M.D.; Sava, D. (2007): Ecological study of zoobenthos 10074. Sharapova, T.A. (2007): The Odonata larvae in communities from the Matita and Merhei lakes (Danube the periphyton of West Siberia. Questions of aquatic

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 15 entomology of Russia and adjacent lands: Materials of 10078. Usada, M. (2007): An observation of the ovipo- the Third All-Russia Symposium on Amphibiotic and sition site of Chlorogomphus okinawensis Ishida. Tom- Aquatic Insects. Voronezh State University. ISBN 978-5- bo 49: 31-32. (in Japanese, with English summary) 9273-1169-9: 374-376. (in Russian, with English sum- [Okmawa-jima Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. A female mary) ["Data on the species composition of Odonata lar- laid eggs on damp sand at a riverside. The oviposition vae and their role in freshwater zooperiphyton communi- site was very similar to that of C. b. brunneus.] Address: ties of various water bodies of West Siberia are given." not stated in English (Author). The following taxa are listed: Coenagrion lunu- latum, C. pulchellum, Enallagma cyathigerum, Libellula 10079. Verberk, W.C.E.P.; Kuper, J.T.; Lamers, L.P.M.; depressa, Sympecma paedisca, Leucorrhinia albifrons, Christianen, M.J.A.; Esselink, H. (2007): Restoring fen Aeshna grandis, A. juncea, A. caerulea, A. viridis, Anax water bodies by removing accumulated organic sludge: sp., Calopteryx splendens, Somatochlora metallica, what are the effects for aquatic macroinvertebrates?. Ischnura elegans, Erythromma humerale. Locality data Proc. Neth. Entomol. Soc. Meet. 18: 115-124. (in English) are lacking.] Address: Sharapova, T.A., Inst. of Northern [Only Pyrrhosoma nymphula and Erythromma najas are Develop., Siberian Branch of the RAS, Tyumen, Russia. mentioned. They are associated with dredged water bod- ies. "Pristine freshwater fens harbour many species of 10075. Shimizu, N. (2007): A record of nocturnal ovipo- aquatic macroinvertebrates. Effects of eutrophication and sition in Boyeria maclachlani (Selys) (Aeshnidae: desiccation have strong negative impacts on macroinver- Brachythroninae). Tombo 50: 74-75. (in Japanese, with tebrate assemblages. To restore degraded fens, the re- English summary) ["Nocturnal oviposition behaviour moval of accumulated organic sludge by dredging seems was observed for the first time in Boyeria maclachlani. I a necessary step. However, degraded fens may harbour observed a female of this species to lay eggs from relic populations of rare and characteristic species as 18:45 to 20:35 in August 21, 1995 (Sunset Time: 18:36 was found for raised bogs and shallow soft water lakes. PM). Next year and later, I observed 16 females to lay This study investigates the effectivity of dredging by eggs at nighttime: a latest example among them lasted comparing dredged and undredged water bodies in two until 21:05 on August 13, 2000 (Sunset Time: 18:44 areas (SW & MP). To help interpret the observed differ- PM)." (Author)] Address: not stated in English ences, a third least impacted area is sampled in addition (WD). Abiotic conditions clearly differed between areas, 10076. Shivakumar, K.N.; Lingaiah, S. (2007): Ultra but when comparing dredged and undredged water bod- lightweight materials for bio inspired microsystems. ies, only turbidity was lower in dredged water bodies. 16th International Conference on Composite Materials Coverage of submerged vegetation was higher in kyoto, Japan: 7 pp. (in English) ["Ultra lightweight nano- dredged water bodies, especially in MP. For aquatic ma- fiber fabrics play a vital role in the development of Mi- croinvertebrates, strong differences between dredged crosystems. Polyacrylonitrile, polybenzimidazole and and undredged water bodies were found for both SW Nylon-66 polymer based ultra lightweight nanofiber fab- and MP. Dredged water bodies in MP resembled WD rics were produced using electrospinning technique. most strongly, in abiotic conditions, vegetation, and inver- SEM characterization showed that the diameter of Ny- tebrates. Nevertheless, a number of species commonly lon-66 nanofibers varied from 50-300 nm. The average occurring in WD were mainly associated with undredged modulus and strength of Nylon-66 nanofiber fabric was water bodies, indicating incomplete restoration of certain 2.4 GPa and 154 MPa respectively. An attempt to build key factors. Results indicate that dredging contributes to dragonfly‘s wing using carbon fiber as grid and electro- ecological restoration of fens. To maximise effectiveness spun fabric as skin was made. Three types of phenom- of dredging, internal and external supply of nutrients enological dragonfly wings such as carbon fiber grid, should be minimized, removal of organic sludge should electrospun Nylon-66 nanofiber fabric bondedcarbon fi- be near-complete, while retaining small patches of vege- ber grid and commercial Nylon-6 film bonded-carbon fi- tation and recesses as sources of individuals to facilitate ber grid were made. The flexural stiffness to weight ra- recolonisation. Furthermore, this study shows that taking tio of electrospun Nylon-66 fabric bonded-wing was fauna into account can yield new information which is not 160% higher than that of commercial Nylon-6 film uncovered by researching solely abiotic conditions and bonded-wing. This shows the potential application of ul- vegetation. In contrast to raised bogs and shallow soft tra lightweight electrospun nanofiber fabric for building water lakes, no relic populations of rare and characteris- Microsystems." (Authors)] Address: Shivakumar, K.N., tic species were found in degraded, undredged fen water Center for Composite Materials Research, Dept of Me- bodies. These differences may be related to differences chanical & Chemical Engineering, North Carolina A & T in ecosystem functioning, with characteristic fen species State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA. E-mail: having a lower persistence and a higher recolonisation [email protected] rate." (Authors)] Address: Verberk, W. Dept Animal Ecol., 10077. Ueda, A.; Karube, H.; Noerdjito, W.A.; Fukuya- Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, PO Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijme- ma, K. (2007): A new record of Brachythemis contami- gen, The Netherlands, E-mail: [email protected] nata (Fabricius, 1793) from Borneo. Tombo 49: 29-30. 10080. Weida, S. (2007): Record of a gynandromorphic (in Japanese, with English summary) ["B. contaminata individual of Sympetrum maculatum Oguma, 1915 (An- was newly recorded from Borneo at the reservoir in low- isoptera: Libellulidae). Tombo 50: 67-68. (in Japanese, land Acasia mangiun plantation of East Kalimantan (12 with English summary) ["On August 31,2006, a gynan- km point on the road from Balikpapan to Samarinda, E. dromorphic individual of S. maculatum was captured for Kalimantan, Indonesia) (lat. 1°16'8'' S, long. 116°90'8'' the first time at Noto-jima Island, off the Noto Peninsula, E). Specimens are stored at Zoological Museum, Re- Ishikawa Pref., Japan. This individual roughly bears search Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sci- male characteristics on the left-hand side and female ences (LIPI), JL Ir. Juanda no.18 Bogor, Indonesia." characteristics on the right-hand side." (Author)] Ad- (Authors)] Address: Karube, H., Kanagawa Prefect. dress: not stated in English Mus. Nat. Hist., 499 Iryuda, Odawara, Kanagawa, 250, Japan. E-mail: [email protected]

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 16 10081. Westermann, K.; Weihrauch, F. (2007): Eindeu- 72190 Coulaines, France. E-mail: christian.kerihuel@ tige Indizien für eine bivoltine Entwicklung von Anax wanadoo.fr imperator in einigen Gewässern Süddeutschlands. mer- 10084. Borisov, S.N. (2008): Anthropogenic influence curiale 7: 12-17. (in German) [The bivoltine develop- ment of A. imperator at two localities in Baden-Würt- on the dragonfly fauna (Odonata) in an oasis of Pamir- temberg, Germany is document and discussed in de- Alai. Siberian Journal of Ecology 15(1): 43-52. (in Rus- tail.] Address: Westermann, K., Buchenweg 2, D-79365 sian, with English summary) ["Development of irrigation Rheinhausen, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] in the plains around the Pamir-Alai caused the for- mation of new habitats for Odonata: numerous water 10082. Zhou. Z.-h. (2007): Taxonomic and faunistic bodies of artificial irrigation systems which are unique in studies on the superfamily Calopterygoidea from China the hydrological regime. They serve as the main and of- (Odonata: Zygoptera). Special Zoology, Institute of En- ten sole biotopes for the larvae. Thus, a number of ini- tomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China: VII + 80 tially mountainous rheophil and eurytopic oxyphilic spe- pp. (in Chinese, with English summary) ["The present cies became able to adjust to the desert zone when dissertation is a systematic study on the superfamily warm water flows - channels and aryks - appeared the- Calopterygoidea from China. It mainly deals with the re. The mountainous and boreomontan limnophilic spe- morphology, and faunal analysis of the Chi- cies survive the least anthropogenic action. The nega- nese Calopterygoidea. Totally 4 families, 20 genera and tive anthropogenic action is connected with the disap- 84 species are treated in the taxonomic part, of which 2 pearance or change of natural biotopes of dragonflies. new species and 1 first female record are described: I It is essential in the submountain zone for stenoecic ob- new combination is proposed as well. The new taxa are ligate rheophilic and hemerophobic species that do not listed as follows: New species: Mnais leigongshanus populate artificial water flows." (Author)] Address: sp. nov., Bayadera unimaculata sp. nov.; new combina- Borisov, S., Institute of Systematics and Ecology of An- tion: Rhinocypha maolanensis (Zhou and Bao, 2002) imals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Bran, comb. nov.; first female record: Rhinocypha maolanen- Frunse str. 11, Novosibirsk 630091 Russia. E-mail: sis (Zhou and Rao, 2002) comb. nov. The faunal struc- [email protected] tures of the Chinese Calopterygoidea at generic and 10085. Buidin, C.; Rochepault, Y. (2008): Habitat des specific levels were examined. 20 known genera only constitute 3 types of distribution in zoogeographic re- larves de la libellule Somatochlora brevicincta Robert gions in the world. Among them, 12 genera are distrib- en Minganie, Québec, Canada. Naturaliste Canadien uted in Oriental region, which make up 60%. while 7 132(2): 30-37. (in French) [Imaginal and larval habitats genera in Oriental + Palaearctic region, accounting for of S. brevicincta are described in detail.] Address: 35%. 20 genera in total distribute in Oriental region, ac- Buidin, C. E-mail: [email protected] counting for 100%. It is clear that Oriental genera make 10086. Cannings, R.A. (2008): Grassland dragonflies. up the majority of the Chinese Calopterygoidea at gen- BC Grasslands (Summer 2008): 15-17. (in English) era level. 84 known species of Chinese Calopterygoi- ["Wherever grasslands are punctuated by ponds, mar- dea arc mainly distributed in Oriental region, in which shes or lakeshores, dragonflies can be abundant. While the number of species makes up 83.33% of Chinese they usually fly or perch around the edge of water bodies, species in total. All the known species constitute 16 many also move far into the dry, grassy landscape, es- types of distribution in seven Chinese zoogeographic pecially when they are hunting for prey or when young sub-regions. Among them, 16 species are present only adults are awaiting sexual maturity. [...] Of the 87 species in Central China sub-regions, 15 in South China sub-re- known in British Columbia, Canada at least 50 can be gions, 10 in Central China + South China sub-regions, 9 found around grassland waters, although not all of these in Southwest China sub-regions, 9 in Southwest China are common or widespread. [...] There is no specialized + South China sub-regions. 8 in Central China + South dragonfly fauna in BC grasslands. The species that occur China + Southwest China sub-regions, accounting for in the grasslands are the same as those found in marsh- 19.05%, 17.86%, 11.90%, 10.71%, 10.71% and 9.52%, es and on pond edges in other ecosystems around the respectively. It is obvious that Oriental species make up province. However, some dragonflies are more often the majority of Chinese Calopterygoidea at species lev- found in grassland waters than are their close relatives, el and they distribute mainly in Central China and South and a few are able to withstand the high salinities of alka- China sub-regions." (Author) "Please note that this the- line ponds, typical of many of our dry grassland habitats." sis may not constitute a published work in terms of Arti- (Author) Following this introduction, the paper introduces cle 8 of the CODE. So, the two new species group na- typical Odonata family wise.] Address: Cannings, R.A., mes are not yet available names and should not be in- Royal British Columbia Mus., 675 Belleville Street Victo- cluded in catalogues. Moreover, Haomiao Zhang and I ria, British Columbia V8W 9W2. Canada. E-mail: rcan- have some doubts of their status as valid species." [email protected] (Matti Hämäläinen, e-mail-note from 220052011)] Ad- dress: not available 10087. Cooper, I.A. (2008): Ecological causation of sex differences and a female-limited dimorphism in Hawai- ian damselflies. PhD thesis, Faculty of the University 2008 Graduate School, Dept of Biology, Indiana University: VI + 98 pp + app. (in English) ["Evolution theory posits 10083. Barbier, G.; Bécan, R.; Claude, J.-F.; Dussaix, that sexual selection, more so than natural selection, C.; Kerihuel, C. (2008): Entomofaune sarthoise: nouvel- drives sex differences, such as bright males and inter- les espèces apparues depuis ving ans. Troglodyte 21 / sexual mimicry. However, female-limited dimorphism 22: 9-21. (in French) [France, La Sarthe Department; has not been fully explained by sexual selection even Ophiogomphus cecilia: 6.VII-1996, SO Mans, Saint- though this phenomenon includes what appears to be Mars-d'Outillé; Leucorrhinia caudalis, 18-VI-2005, SO of intersexual mimicry of bright males. This dissertation La Flèche.] Address: Kerihuel, C., 2 imp. Ravault, F- presents evidence that natural selection over an eco-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 17 logical gradient may explain sexual dimorphism and 10091. Nikolaeva, N.E. (2008): Analysis of freshwater female-limited dimorphism in a damselfly species, as invertebrate fauna, caught in underwater light-trap. TSU well as macroevolutionary patterns of sexual dimorphi- Herald. A series of Biology and Ecology 7: 95-105. (in sm throughout a damselfly genus. I documented new Russian, with English summary) [White-light diodes cases of female-limited colour dimorphism in the en- were used as the source of light in traps. More than 80 demic Hawaiian Megalagrion damselflies. Two species, taxa were caught. Larval Lestes sponsa, L. virens, Sym- M. calliphya and M. hawaiiense, contain a typical, green petrum flaveolum, S. vulgatum and S. danae were at- female morph (gynomorph) as well a red female morph tracted by light. Coenagrion responded weakly, whereas (andromorph) that is similar in colour to the males. In M. Aeshna, Cordulia and Libellula larvae were not phototac- calliphya, I describe habitat differences between the tic.] Address: Nikolaeva, N.E., Tver State University, 33, sexes and patterns of colour variation in males and fe- Zhelyabova st., 170100, Tver, Russia males over an elevational gradient on Hawaii Island that varies in temperature and solar radiation. Using 10092. Salcher, M. (2008): Libellen der Mooswälder. In: transplant experiments, I determined that body temper- Helge Körner (Hrsg.): Die Mooswälder. Natur- und Kul- ature does not differ between the female morphs ac- turgeschichte der Breisgauer Bucht. Lavori-Verlag. cording to hue, although it is affected by body bright- Freiburg im Breisgau: 261-276. (in German) [The paper ness. Therefore, environmental temperature is not a se- includes both a general introduction into dragonfly biol- lective agent on the femalelimited dimorphism. Howev- ogy and a discussion of regional Odonata fauna. In the er, solar radiation may select for red individuals, includ- region of the western Freiburger Bucht, Baden- ing andromorphs, under exposed conditions. A compar- Württemberg, Germany a total of 48 odonate species ison of antioxidant ability between the female morphs was recorded (literature and author's data). Special as well between males over an elevational gradient in- emphasis is given to Calopteryx splendens, C. virgo, dicated that red pigmentation is an effective antioxidant Coenagrion mercuriale, Orthetrum coerulescens, Libel- that may enable red individuals to exist where free radi- lula fulva, Cordulegaster boltonii, and Sympetrum pe- cals are produced from high radiation levels. Finally, I demontanum.] Address: Salcher, M., Ferdinand-Weiß- extend the ecological explanation for the female-limited Str. 92, 79106 Freiburg, Germany dimorphism to patterns of sex differences throughout 10093. Shivakumar, K.N.; Lingaiah, S.; Sadler, R.L. the Megalagrion genus as well a case of female-limited (2008): Ultra lightweight material for building microsys- dimorphism in a distantly related species (Nehalennia tems. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronau- irene)." (Author)] Address: Cooper, Idelle A., 1001E, tics: 8 pp. (in English) ["Electrospinning technology was 3Rdst. Jordanhall, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA used to produce ultra lightweight nanofiber fabrics from 10088. Delarze, R.; Gonseth, Y. (2008): Lebensräume Nylon-66. The fiber diameter ranged from 50-300 nm der Schweiz. Ökologie - Gefährdung - Kennarten. 2. depending on the collector speed, polymer concentra- Auflage. ott-Verlag. Bern: 424 pp. (in German) [Odona- tion, distance, and the voltage. Tensile properties were ta are used as bioindicative important taxa to character- conducted using a specially designed test specimen ise springs, running and standing waters in Switzer- and fixture, and micro tension test machine. The aver- land.] Address: Gonseth, Y., Centre Suisse de Carto- age tensile modulus and strength were 960 MPa and graphie de la Faune, Terreaux 14, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, 60.7 MPa, respectively, which are 6 to 10 times higher Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected] than those reported in the literature. This nanofiber fab- ric was used as a membrane to construct a dragonfly 10089. Klenke, F. (2008): Änderungen im Bestand der wing from a carbon grid. The specific flexural stiffness Naturschutzgebiete in Sachsen im Jahre 2006. Natur- to nanofiber fabric wing was 260% of commercial Ny- schutzarbeit in Sachsen 49: 83-88. (in German) [The pa- lon-6 film wing. This study demonstrates a potential ap- per compiles amendments in the Saxonian nature con- plication of using electrospun nanofiber fabrics for mi- servation areas (extensions, new dedications by law). A crosystems." (Authors)] Address: Shivakumar, K.N., few Odonata are listed as follows: NSG D 105 Grenzwie- Center for Composite Materials Research, Dept of Me- sen Fürstenau und Fürstenauer Heide (ca. 507 ha, chanical & Chemical Engineering, North Carolina A & T Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge): Soma- State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA. E-mail: tochlora alpestris. NSG D 106 Rutschung P (ca. 112 ha, [email protected] Landkreis Görlitz): Leucorrhinia pectoralis, Coenagrion lunulatum, C. pulchellum.] Address: not stated 10094. Wang, Y.; Kalyanasundaram, S.; Young, J. (2008): Design and fabrication of dragonfly test bed for 10090. Macaulay, D. (2008): Survey of the Odonate aerodynamic characterization. In: Jonghyuk, K. & R. Fauna in . Prepared for: Mahony (eds): Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Parks Resource Management Coordination Branch, Al- Conference on Robotics & Automation, December 3 - 5, berta Tourism, 2nd Floor, Oxbridge Place, 9820 - 106 2008, Canberra, Australia. ISBN 978-0-646-50643-2: 6 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2J6, Canada: 15 pp. (in pp. (in English) ["This paper focuses on the design of English) [Alberta, Canada; "Willmore Wilderness Park an electro-mechanical device for studying the aerody- (about 4596.7 km² in size) is located in the northern namic behaviour of flapping wings. The experimental portion of Alberta‘s Rocky Mountains just west of Grand device is designed to mimic the flight behaviour of Cache and north of ." (Author) In dragon fly. Wing flapping speed is precisely controlled 2007, 17 Odonata species were collected at 18 locali- by controlling the motor speed. Wing flapping amplitude ties. Aeshna eremita, A. septentrionalis, A. juncea, A. could be varied by changing the rotating arm length. palmata, Libellula quadrimaculata, Leucorrhinia hud- Wing rotation amplitudes during down- and up- stroke sonica, , Cordulia shurtleffii, Soma- could be different and are controlled separately by two tochlora albicincta, S. cingulata, S. hudsonica, S. semi- different springs. A six degree of freedom sensor is circularis, Lestes unguiculatus, Coenagrion resolutum, placed at the wing root to collect the force and torque C. interrogatum, Enallagma boreale E. hageni] Address: data. The test of a wing with a dragonfly hind-wing con- not stated tour but enlarged 11 times, showed the device met the

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 18 design expectation, and further more, the phase-aver- tions of species to colonize the refilled pond. In tempo- aged data for lift force in one flapping cycle had the sim- rary ponds, the top predators are often larval dragon- ilar pattern as the ones obtained via CFD simulations as flies but their presence is dependent, in part, on the tim- well as the one calculated based on a real dragonfly‘s ing in which adult dragonflies find and oviposit in the flight behaviour." (Authors)] Address: Wang, Y., Dept of pond. We tested the hypothesis that the biodiversity of Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, aquatic invertebrates present in temporary ponds is in- Australia. E-mail: [email protected] fluenced by the arrival time of larval dragonflies. Specif- ically, we hypothesize that ponds with early-arriving 10095. Whitfield, J.B.; Kjer, K.M. (2008): Ancient rapid dragonflies will have a lower biodiversity of aquatic in- radiations of insects: Challenges for phylogenetic anal- sects compared to ponds where dragonfly colonization ysis. Annual Review of Entomology 53: 449-472. (in is continuously inhibited or where dragonflies arrive late English) ["Phylogenies of major groups of insects based in the summer. To test this hypothesis, we experimen- on both morphological and molecular data have some- tally altered the timing in which dragonflies could ovi- times been contentious, often lacking the data to distin- posit eggs into artificial ponds (modified stock tanks). guish between alternative views of relationships. This After a four month period, the insect biodiversity of each paucity of data is often due to real biological and histor- pond was sub-sampled and quantified. Results / Con- ical causes, such as shortness of time spans between clusions: We found that ponds allowing early dragonfly divergences for evolution to occur and long time spans colonization produced more metamorphosed dragon- after divergences for subsequent evolutionary changes flies than ponds preventing early dragonfly colonization. to obscure the earlier ones. Another reason for difficulty Preliminary results suggest that ponds with only late- in resolving some of the relationships using molecular arriving dragonflies had more late-instar dragonflies data is the limited spectrum of genes so far developed than ponds always allowing dragonfly colonization. The for phylogeny estimation. For this latter issue, there is fewest late-instar dragonflies were found in ponds with cause for current optimism owing to rapid increases in only early-arriving dragonflies. Hence, early-arriving our knowledge of comparative genomics. At least some dragonflies appear to inhibit late-arriving individuals. In historical patterns of divergence may, however, contin- addition, dragonfly oviposition caused differences in in- ue to defy our attempts to completely reconstruct them sect communities among ponds, yet dragonfly arrival with confidence, at least using current strategies." (Au- time does not influence total insect species richness in thors) The Palaeoptera problem (Odonata, Ephemero- ponds. We found that ponds which prevented dragonfly ptera, and their extinct stem lineages, along with the ex- colonization had greater beetle species richness than tinct Palaeodictyoptera) is discussed in detail.] Address: ponds allowing dragonfly colonization but dragonfly ar- Whitfield, J.B., Department of Entomology, University of rival time did not influence beetle richness. Total abun- Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61821, USA. E-mail: jwhitfie@ dance of beetles did not vary among treatments. Trends life.uiuc.edu indicate that chironomid abundance is greatest in ponds 10096. Zasypkina, I.A. (2008): Examination of the am- with only late-arriving dragonflies and least in ponds phibiotoc insect fauna of the Tauiskaya Bay coasts. Bul- where dragonflies can continuously oviposit. These re- letin of the North-East Scientific Center FEB RAS 4: 35- sults suggest predatory dragonflies have important ef- 44. (in Russian, with English summary) [Russia; fects on insect assemblages in ponds. The timing of Odonata are treated at the family level.] Address: E- dragonfly arrival, however, seems to play an important mail: [email protected] role in influencing the abundance of some taxa (e.g., dragonflies or flies) but did not affect the abundance or 10097. Zivic, N.; Vukanic, V.; Babovic-Jaksic, T.; Milja- biodiversity within other taxa (e.g., beetles) or in the novic, B. (2008): Distribution of macrozoobenthos in the number of insect species found." (Authors)] Address: tributaries of the river Ibar in the northern part of Koso- not stated vo and Metohija. Natura montenegrina 7(2): 401-411. (in English, with Serbian summary) [Cordulegaster bol- 10099. Babu, R.; Mondal, S.B. (2009): First record of tonii, Ophiogomphus cecilia, Gomphus vulgatissimus, Rhinocypha trifasciata Selys from Maharashtra, India Onychogomphus forcipatus, and Libellula quadrimacu- (Odonata: Zygoptera: Chlorocyphidae). Rec. zool. Surv. lata are recorded from the Socanska, Josanicka and India 109(3): 115-116. (in English) [2 males, 1 female, Ibar rivers.] Address: Zivic, N., Fac. Sei. & Math., Univ. Burgaon, Nagpur, India, 26-III-2004.] Address: Babu, Pristina, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo. E-mail: nebzivic R., Zool. Surv. India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- @gmail.com 700053, India 10100. Baker; R.L.; McGuffin, M.E. (2009): Technique and observer presence affect reporting of behaviour of 2009 damselfly larvae. JI N. Am. benthol. Soc. 26(1): 145- 10098. Amoroso, N.A.; Chalcraft, D.R. (2009): PS 78- 151. (in English) ["We experimentally tested for sys- 28: Effects of dragonfly colonization history on the bio- tematic biases in techniques commonly used to study diversity of aquatic communities. The 94th ESA Annual behaviour of larval aquatic insects. We determined Meeting (August 2 - 7, 2009) (in English) [Verbatim: whether larval Zygoptera responded to the presence of "Background/Question/Methods: It is clear that current an observer and whether live observation missed some interactions among species in a system can have an behaviours. We found significant differences between important role in controlling the biodiversity of that sys- behaviours recorded during live observations and be- tem. Some studies, however, have shown that the tim- haviours videotaped in the absence of an observer. All ing of species arrival to a community could influence behaviours, except Rotate, were exhibited less fre- the strength of species interactions within ecological quently in the presence of an observer. These results communities. Such priority effects should be important suggest that larvae respond to the presence of observ- in frequently disrupted environments, such as tempo- ers as if they were predators. Live observation also rary ponds, which provide opportunities for new collec- missed some behaviours. The duration of Crawl For-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 19 ward, which can be very subtle, and the frequency of We interpret this U-shape pattern as a balance between Rotate, which can be very rapid and is easily missed, isolation by distance caused by in-stream movements were greater when recorded from the videotape than by at low values of p and intense migrant exchanges within a live observer. Wherever possible, use of video record- the same branching unit at high values of p. Our study ing systems is preferable over reliance on live observa- is the first attempt to model out-of-network movements. tions." (Authors)] Address: Baker, R.L., Dept Ecol. & It clearly shows that both geometric and dispersal pa- Evol. Biol, Univ. Toronto, Mississauga, ON, M5S 3B2. rameters interact. Both should be taken into considera- Canada. E-mail: [email protected] tion in order to refine predictions about dispersal and gene flow in river network.] Address: Chaput-Bardy, 10101. Berezovikov, N.N. (2009): Notes on the feeding Audrey, Laboratoire Paysages et Biodiversité, UFR Sci- flights of the White-winged tern Chlidonias leucopterus ences, 2 Bd Lavoisier, 49045 Angers cedex 01, France. during the breeding period. Russian ornithological jour- E-mail: audrey.chaput-bardy @univ-angers.fr nal 18(494): 1118-1121. (in Russian) [Long-distance feeding flights of C. leucopterus are correlated with fee- 10104. Charest, P. (2009): Première mention au Qué- ding aggregations of (crepuscular) dragonflies.] Ad- bec de la demoiselle Ischnura hastata (Say, 1839) dress: Berezovikov, N.N., Lab. of Ornithology & Herpe- (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Naturaliste Canadien 133 tology, Inst. Zoology, Center for Biological Research of (1): 29-30. (in French) [I. hastata, was recorded in a the Ministry of Education & Science, Prospect Al Farabi, gravel pit near Maurice, Québec, Canada (46° 24' 51 " 93, Akademgorodok, Almaty 050060, Kazakhstan. E- N, 72° 35' 55" E) at 13-IX-2008.] Address: Charest, mail: [email protected] Pierrette. E-mail: chapie1©videotron.ca 10102. Bylak, A.; Kukuła, K.; Kukuła, E. (2009): Influ- 10105. de Araujo, N. A. de; Pinheiro, C.U.B. (2009): ence of regulation on ichthyofauna and benthos of the Ecological relations between the ichthyologic fauna and Różanka stream. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology 9(2-4): the ciliary vegetation of the lacustrine area of Low Pin- 211-223.[Poland; the density of Calopteryx virgo (the daré River in the Baixada Maranhense Region and their only Odonata species listed in this paper) reached up to implications on the sustainability of regional fishing. Bo- 192 indiv./m² at one station where the river was modi- letim do laboratório de hidrobiologia 22: 55-68. (in Por- fied into a channel (table. 3). Contrary to the fish fauna, tuguese, with English summary) ["The lacustrine area of channel regulation seems not to have negative effects Penalva, in the Baixada Maranhense region, is formed on C. virgo. Curiously enough, the species was not to by the lakes Cajari, Capivari, Lontra and Formoso, detect in unimpaired sections of the river (station 4, 5).] which encompass a diversified ciliary vegetation. Those Address: Bylak, Aneta, Dep of the Environmental Biolo- environments, subject to the influence of seasonal gy, University of Rzeszów, ul. Prof. S. Pigonia 6, 35-310 floods, provide a variety of habitats for shelter, repro- Rzeszów, Poland. E-mail: [email protected] duction and feeding of fish species. Some of the fish species, as they feed from fruits and seeds from ciliary 10103. Chaput-Bardy, A.; Fleurant, C.; Lemaire, C.; Se- plant species they help in the process of seed disper- condi, J. (2009): Modelling the effect of in-stream and sion, contributing to the reproductive success of the overland dispersal on gene flow in river networks. Eco- plants. This research aimed at studying the relationship logical Modelling 220(24): 3589-3598. (in English) between the ichthyologic fauna of the lacustrine area of ["Modelling gene flow across natural landscapes is a cur- Penalva and the ciliary vegetation and its implications in rent challenge of population genetics. Models are essen- the sustainability of the regional fishing. More specifical- tial to make clear predictions about conditions that cause ly, to analyze the relationship among the different plant genetic differentiation or maintain connectivity between species and the reproductive period, feeding habits and populations. River networks are a special case of land- shelter of the fish species, investigating which species scape matrix. They represent stretches of habitat con- are dependent on the ciliary vegetation and which spe- nected according to a branching pattern where dispersal cies function as seed dispersers. The methodology in- is usually limited to upstream or downstream move- cluded, in a first phase, interviews with fishermen (key ments. Because of their peculiar topology, and the in- informants), by using semi-structured questionnaires, to creasing concern about conservation issues in hydrosys- record the traditional knowledge on fish and vegetation. tems, there has been a recent revival of interest in mod- In a second phase, monthly collections of fish speci- elling dispersal in river networks. Network complexity has mens from the lakes Cajari and Capivari were carried been shown to influence global population differentiation. out in the period April, 2007 to June, 2008; following the However, geometric characteristics are likely to interact collections, the specimens were taken to laboratory with the way individuals move across space. Studies analyses. The results showed that fishermen possess a have focused on in-stream movements. None of the work vast knowledge on the relationship between the ichthy- published so far took into consideration the ability of ofauna and the regional ciliary vegetation, making clear many species to disperse overland between branches of the dependence between fish and plants. In this study the same network though. We predicted that the relative eleven fish species were identified as seed dispersers contribution of these two dispersal modalities (in-stream of eleven ciliary plant species. In the rainy season, and overland) would affect the overall genetic structure. when extensive vegetation areas are flooded, the big- We simulated dispersal in synthetic river networks using gest number of fish specimens was recorded with full an individual-based model [using Calopteryx splendens]. stomachs, as well as the biggest number of males and We tested the effect of dispersal modalities, i.e. the ratio females in the maturation phase, confirming the im- of overland/in-stream dispersal, and two geometric pa- portance of the ciliary forests for the ichthyofauna." (Au- rameters, bifurcation angle between branches and net- thor) Odonata are treated at the order level.] Address: work complexity. Data revealed that if geometrical pa- Pinheiro, C.U.B., to de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Av. rameters affected population differentiation, dispersal pa- dos Portugueses s/n, Campus do Bacanga, CEP rameters had the strongest effect. Interestingly, we ob- 65080-040, São Luís-MA, Brazil. E-mail: cpinhei- served a quadratic relationship between p the proportion [email protected] of overland dispersers and population differentiation.

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 20 10106. Dijkstra, K.D.B. (2009): Dragonflies and dam- global warming - Odonata used as biological indicators selflies (Odonata) of the Lower Malagarasi Basin, west- can give data about global warming: some species can ern Tanzania. In: Malagarasi Aquatic Rapid Biodiversity fly over long distances and quickly respond to environ- Assessment. Mott MacDonald. 53-60 (report): 98-104 mental changes. In Europe the consequences of this (appendix). (in English) ["Eighty eight species were rec- phenomenon could be: dominance of southern origin orded, although two genera (Lestinogomphus and Neu- species in areas with continental climate (e.g. actually rogomphus) were found as larvae only and cannot be in north-western Germany the dominant species are identified to species. Agriocnemis victoria, Ceriagrion mediterranean), northward expansion of occupied are- corallinum, Pseudagrion sudanicum, Ictinogomphus as (e.g. in Lombardy are increasing 7 southern species, regisalberti, Trithemis dichroa and T. grouti were rec- and 16 in Europe) or displacement to higher altitudes in orded from Tanzania for the first time, while a single the mountains, local extinction of relict mountain popu- Pseudagrion species appears to be new to science. lations, living in south-European territories with isolated None of the recorded species are included in the Mala- populations, or of microthermic species in plain territo- garasi Aquatic Rapid Biodiversity Assessment IUCN ries, with 7 threatened species, phenological modifica- Red List as globally or regionally threatened, nor are tions (larval life length and adult emergence moment, any rangerestricted or confined to the Malagarasi Ba- flight times, perhaps passage from mono- to bi- sin, although the new species may be unique to Lake voltinism). If also some elements can disturb the analy- Tanganyika (see discussion). Table B.2 summarizes sis, e.g. the increase of suitable habitat for some ex- observed habitat preferences, further discussion of the panding species, the available data examination, includ- ecology of the species will be provided within the final ing recent studies in southern Sardinia, confirms the report." (Author)] Address: Dijkstra, K.D., Netherlands variations originated from climatic warming in Europe, Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, P.O. Box 9517, NL- also with the recent colonisation of 4 African species." 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: dijkstra@ (Author)] Address: Groppali, R., Laboratorio di Ecologia nnm.nl degli Invertebrati e Conservazione della Natura del Di- partimento di Ecologia del Territorio, Università di Pavia, 10107. Geraeds, R.P.G. (2009): De Gaffellibel langs de Via S.Epifanio 14, 27100 Pavia, Italy. E-mail: grop- Vlootbeek. Natuurhistorisch Maandblad 98(6): 121-125. [email protected] (in Dutch, with English summary) ["The green Snaketaila along de Vlootbeek brook: discovery of the 10109. Karube, H. (2009): Present status of Odonata third dutch population in a canalised brook. On 3 May species at Ogasawara Islands and conservation effort 2008, twelve larvae of Ophiogomphus cecilia where to preserved endangered endemic species. Japanese caught along the upper stretches of the Vlootbeek journal of limnology 70(3): 239-245. (in Japanese) ["The brook in Posterholt (NL), near the German border. Two five endemic species of Odonata inhabiting the oceanic more larvae were caught in the German Kitschbach islands of Ogasawara have been rapidly declining from brook, which is connected to the Vlootbeek. In the the mid-1980s. The reason for that decline is likely due course of July, 18 exuviae were found along the Vloot- to predation by an invasive alien species, ‗green ano- beek. This brook is the third location in the Netherlands les‘. Currently, almost all the endemic Odonates have where this species has been found, the other two being gone extinct from the main islands of Chichi-jima and the Roer and Swalm rivers. Both are large, naturally Haha-jima. Although these endemic Odonates have still meandering streams, whereas the Vlootbeek is a cana- managed to survive in a few satellite islands, there are lised brook. At the sites where the finds were made, the only small aquatic habitats which readily dry up when brook is 1 to 1.5 m wide and 10 to 30 cm deep. The wa- severe droughts hit Ogasawara. Our recent efforts to ter quality is not too good, as it contains high levels of construct artificial conservation ponds in these satellite sulphate, nitrate, phosphate, copper and nickel. The islands appear to be effective. Three endemic species oxygen level is favourable, however. Almost all of the are currently breeding in those ponds, and the total larvae and exuviae where found along a 300 m stretch population has increased. Based on these encouraging of the brook, where the substrate is dominated by sand results, we continue to stress the importance of an inte- that locally contains grit. Upstream and downstream of grated action plan, including the development of areas this location, the substrate was covered with algae in protected from green anoles predation and the con- May, while the substrate further downstream is domi- struction of more permanent ponds." (Author)] Address: nated by silt, making these stretches of the Vlootbeek Karube, H., Kanagawa Prefect. Mus. Nat. Hist., 499 unsuitable for the larvae of the Green Snaketail. The al- Iryuda, Odawara, Kanagawa, 250, Japan. E-mail: pa- gae had disappeared in July. Although the occurrence [email protected] of the Green Snaketail is normally associated with larg- er natural rivers and brooks, we now find that the spe- 10110. Kim, D.G.; Jeong, M.-H.; Tae, J.-Y.; Yeon, J.-B. cies also occurs in small, canalised streams with a me- (2009): Relationship between temperature and egg de- diocre water quality. The oxygen level appears to be an velopment of Nannophya pygmaea Rambur (Odonata: important factor for the larvae of this species. The other Libellulidae), an endangered dragonfly in Korea. Kore- two locations where this species has been found, the an J. Environ. Biol. 27(3): 292-296. (in Korean, with Roer and Swalm rivers, are also characterised by rela- English summary) ["This study was conducted to esti- tively poor water quality (with high levels of nutrients) mate relationship between temperature and egg devel- but favourable oxygen levels." (Author) Larvae also opment of N. pygmaea, using eight different tempera- were found in the near situated Kitschbach (Nordrhein- ture conditions (17, 20, 22, 25, 28, 30, 33, and 36°C). Westfalen, Germany).] Address: Geraeds, R.P.G., Berg- Eggs of N. pygmaea were collected from female adults straat 70, 6131 AW Sittard, The Netherlands inhabited a small wetland in Mungyeong-si, Gyeong- sangbuk-do, Korea, in June 2007. As a result, hatching 10108. Groppali, R. (2009): Odonati europei e riscalda- rates were 2.86, 17.09, 24.32, 39.67, 34.43, 40.57, mento globale. Studi Trent. Sci. Nat., 86: 115-118. (in 44.79, and 1.75% at 17, 20, 22, 25, 28, 30, 33, and Italian, with English summary) ["European Odonata and 36°C, respectively. The nonlinear model of the tempera-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 21 ture related to egg development was well fit to the mo- Odonate Fauna of Aonogahara. Sympetrum Hyogo 11: dified Sharpe and DeMichele model. The derived lower 45-59. (in Japanese, with English summary) [Except developmental threshold temperature for egg hatching 2003 and 2004, several trips during 2002 and 2008 was 14.02°C (y = 0.005988x-0.084, r² = 0.99), and the were made to study the odonate fauna of Aonogahara, derived optimal development temperature was 30~35° Japan. Prior this study, Symetrum maculatum was seen C.] Address: Yeon J.B, Korean Ent. Inst., Korea Univ., in numbers here, but only one male was seen during Seoul 136-701, Korea. E-mail. [email protected] the study period. Sympetrum uniforme is likewise an endangered species, but was recorded in good num- 10111. Lee, T. E.; Patel, A.J.; Johnson, B.W.; Vogts- bers throughout these years here. Lestes japonicus and berger, R.C. (2009): Noteworthy records of Dragonflies Sympetrum gracile are abundant but population number (Odonata: Anisoptera) from Jones and Taylor Counties is strongly diminishing.] Address: Nishu, S., 247 Gunge of Central Texas. Texas Journal of Science 61: 157-160. Shonomoto, Mikage-cho, Higashinda-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, (in English) [USA; records of the following species are 658-0057, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] presented: Rhionaeschna multicolor, Didymops trans- versa, Epitheca costalis, Neurocordulia xanthosoma, 10117. Obolewski, K.; Strzelczak, A. (2009): Epiphytic Libellula luctuosa, Pachydiplax longipennis, Plathemis fauna inhabiting Stratiotes aloides in a new lake of the lydia, and Tramea lacerata.] Address: Lee, T.E., Dept of Slowiński National Park (Smołdzińskie lake, Poland). Biology, Abilene Christian University Abilene, Texas Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology 9(2-4): 257-267. (in Eng- 79601, USA. E-mail: [email protected] lish) ["Qualitative and quantitative structure of phytophi- lous macrofauna inhabiting Stratiotes aloides L. have 10112. Müller, J.; Steglich, R. (2009): Fundort- und Ar- been studied in a newly formed Smoldziñskie Lake in tenliste eigener Libellen-Nachweise im Jahre 2008 in the area of the Slowiñski National Park during vegeta- Sachsen-Anhalt - Odonatologischer Jahresbericht 2008. tion period (V-IX) in year 2008. Jointly 27 taxa (includ- halophila, Mitteilungsblatt der Fachgruppe Faunistik und ing Aeshna grandis and Calopteryx sp.) inhabiting the Ökologie Staßfurt 53: 7-13. (in German) [Locality rec- studied plant species were identified and their number ords from 2008 including species of regional importan- varied in time. The highest amount of epiphytic fauna ce: Crocothemis erythraea, Libellula fulva, Leucorrhinia taxa was observed in June (22) and September (20) caudalis, L. pectoralis, Orthetrum coerulescens, Soma- while the lowest in August (13). The quality of lake wa- tochlora flavomaculata, Sympetrum meridionale, Coen- ters significantly influenced both density and biomass of agrion mercuriale, Erythromma lindenii, Ceriagrion ten- fauna inhabiting and mining the leaves of water sol- ellum, Aeshna affinis.] Address: Müller, J., Frankefelde diers. On the basis of qualitative and quantitative struc- 3, 39116 Magdeburg, Germany. E-mail: FaunOek. ture of epiphytic fauna, the quality of lake waters was [email protected] assessed, which - according to BMWP-PL index - cor- 10113. Muranyi, D.; Tarjanyi, N.; Schöll, K. (2009): First responded to class III. The analyses of benthofauna in- record of the genus Atrichops Verrall, 1909 in Hungary habiting pleustonic vegetation, as a part of biomonitor- (Diptera: Athericidae). Opusc. Zool. Budapest 40(2): ing, seem to complete the ecological assessment of 103-105. (in English) [Hungary, Pest county, Börzsöny aquatic ecosystems." (Author)] Address: Obolewski, K., Mts, Kismaros, Morgó Stream above the bridge of the Dept of Water Ecology, Pomeranian Univ., Arciszewski- forest railway terminal, N 47°49.751‘ E 19°00.777‘, 200 ego St. No 22 b, 76-200 Słupsk, Poland. E-mail: ob- m a.s.l., 28-X-2008: Calopteryx virgo and Onychogom- [email protected] phus forcipatus.] Address: Muranyi, D., Magyar 10118. Post, M. (2009): Libellen im Raum Neustadt an Természettudományi Múzeum Állattára (Department of der Weinstraße (TK 6614 und 6615). POLLICHIA-Kurier Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum), H-1088 25(2): 47-49. (in German) [Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary. E-mail: mura- records of 40 species are briefly commented.] Address: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] 10114. Nationalpark Hainich (Hrsg.) (2009): Artenbe- 10119. Post, M. (2009): Weitere Libellenbeobachtun- richt 2008: Tiere, Pflanzen und Pilze im Nationalpark gen im Raum Neustadt. POLLICHIA-Kurier 25(4): 40. Hainich. Kenntnisstand zum 31.12.2008. Hrsg.: Natio- (in German) [Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; records from nalpark Hainich Verwaltung, Bei der Marktkirche 9. D- 2009 of the following species are briefly noted: Sym- 99947 Bad Langensalza: 134 pp. (in German) [Thür- petrum fonscolombii, Brachytron pratense, Aeshna af- ingen, Germany; on pages 23-24, 43 Odonata species finis, Coenagrion mercuriale, Libellula fulva, Gomphus are listed. Of special regional interest are records of vulgatissimus, Ophiogomphus cecilia] Address: E-Mail: Coenagrion mercuriale, Lestes barbarus, Crocothemis [email protected] erythraea, Leucorrhinia pectoralis, L. rubicunda, Orthe- trum coerulescens, and Sympetrum pedemontanum.] 10120. Prunier, F. (2009): Presencia de Macromia splen- Address: Nationalpark Hainich Verwaltung, Bei der dens (Pictet, 1843) (Odonata: Corduliidae) en el embalse Marktkirche 9, 99947 Bad Langensalza, Germany del Tranco de Beas (Jaén). Zool. baetica 20: 97-99. (in Spanish) [A larva of M. splendens was captured in the 10115. Ngiam, R.W.J. (2009): The record of Archibasis Tranco de Beas reservoir (Jaén, Spain) (UTM 30S rebeecae Kemp, 1989 in Singapore (Odonata: Zygo- 0520/4226), 620 a.s.l., 30-VIII-2007.] Address: Prunier, ptera: Coenagrionidae). Nature in Singapore 2: 449- F., Centro Internacional de Estudios y Convenciones 452. (in English) [1 male, small sandy stream in Central Ecológicas y Medio Ambientales (CIECEM), Matalasca- Catchment Nature Reserve, 22-V-2009] Address: Robin ñas, Huelva, Spain. E-mail: [email protected] Wen Jiang Ngiam, R.W.J., National Biodiversity Centre, National Parks Board, 1 Cluny Rd, Singapore 259569. 10121. Sadeghi, S.; Mohammadalizadeh, J. (2009): E-mail: [email protected] Additions to the Odonata fauna of Iran. Iranian Journal of Science & Technology, Transaction A, Vol. 33, No. 10116. Nishu, S. (2009): Report of the survey trips of A4: 355-359. (in English) [Forty eight species of Odona- The Hyogo Society of Odonatology in 2002-2008. The ta from 46 sampling sites in Iran were recorded bet-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 22 ween early May 2001 to mid June 2002. Libellula fulva, friend in Bonn. As assistant at the Koenig Museum and Sympetrum sinaiticum, and Paragomphus sinaiticus are a member of the Deutsche Ornithologische Gesellschaft recorded from Iran for the first time.] Address: Sadeghi, (German Ornithological Society), the zoologist le Roi, S., Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Shiraz who had meanwhile received a doctorate, was given University, Shiraz, Iran the possibility of working with the most notable zoolo- gists of that time. The war, however, put an end to this 10122. Schaik, V.A. van; Geraeds, R.P.G. (2009): The promising research scientist existence." (Author) Le Roi emergence period of the Gomphus vulgatissimus - A has written 12 papers and notes referring to Odonata. three year study along the river Roer, The Netherlands. Some of these papers belong to the most cited German Natuurhistorisch Maandblad 98(8): 153-158. (in Dutch, odonatological papers.] Address: Seemann, Renate, with English summary) ["From 2001 to 2003, a 150 m Naturhistorische Landessammlung im MÜRITZEUM stretch of the river Roer was examined to analyse some Waren, Zur Steinmole 1, 17192 Waren, Germany aspects of the emergence period of G. vulgatissimus. Exuviae were collected every other day, from the start 10124. Sharma, G.; Ramamurthy, V.V.; Kumar, R. till the end of the emergence period. During these three (2009): Collection of damselflies and dragonflies (Odo- years, 1585 exuviae were collected: 385 in 2001, 510 in nata: Insecta) in National Pusa collection, Division of 2002 and 690 in 2003. The emergence period seems to Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New be very constant over the years, lasting 31 to 35 days. Delhi, India. Biological Forum 1(2): 47-50. (in English) It took 8(9) to 11(12) days (average 9) for 50% of the [273 Odonata species are represented in the collection; population to emerge (EM50). The overall sex ratios in these are listed without further details.] Address: Shar- 2001, 2002 and 2003 were 1.0 (49.9% females), 0.7 ma, G., Desert Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of (57.3% females) and 0.8 (55.2% females), respectively. India (Ministry of Environment & Forests), Post-Jhala- The sex ratios changed during the emergence period. mand, Pali Road, Jodhpur-Rajasthan, India From the start of emergence until the moment when EM50 was reached, the sex ratios were 1.5 (40.6% fe- 10125. Wang, Y.; Kalyanasundaram, S.; Young, J. males), 1.1 (48.4% females) and 0.9 (52.5% females) in (2009): Effects of angle-of-attack on lift and thrust. Ex- 2001, 2002 and 2003, respectively. During the period perimental study via test apparatus with passive wing from EM50 until the end of emergence, the sex ratios rotation. Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International were 0.6 (63.5% females), 0.4 (71.6% females) and 0.7 Conference on FLUID MECHANICS (FLUIDS'09) ISSN: (59.2% females), respectively. The predominance of 1790-5095: 126-139. (in English) ["This paper focuses females in this period was significant in all three years." on the effect of mean angle-of-attack (AOA) on aerody- (Authors)] Address: Schaik, V.A. van, Hoosveld 56, namic forces of flapping wings. The study was conduct- 6075 DB Herkenbosch, The Netherlands ed with the aid of a test bench, which provided an ac- tive flapping motion in a vertical stroke plane and 10123. Seemann, R. (2009): Otto le Roi (1878 - 1916) meanwhile a passive rotating motion about the longitu- – Zoologe aus Leidenschaft. Archiv der Freunde der dinal axis of the tested wing having the planform of a Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg XLVIII: 5-70. (in Ger- dragonfly‘s hindwing. AOA effect was studied together man, with English summary) [Otto le Roi was one of the with the wing stiffness effect using Taguchi‘s DOE most profiled German odonatologists in the early 20th method in order to extract the major effects with mini- century with an extraordinary broad knowledge in many mum expenditure both in labor and time. The experi- zoological groups. "Correspondence can give informa- mental results indicated that during downstroke, the lift tion about people's lives and about contemporary histo- decreased with the decreasing of the overall AOA mon- ry. Both aspects can also be taken from the correspond- otonically, but thrust increased. However, during up- dence between the Mecklenburger Otto Hermann Held stroke, the relationship between the effects of mean (1875 - 1945) and the Rhinelander by choice, Otto Au- AOA and aerodynamic forces were not monotonic: gust le Roi (1878 -1916). 214 letters and cards from Ot- larger and smaller AOAs were beneficial to the lift; to le Roi dating from between 1899 and 1916 have sur- smaller AOA was detrimental to the thrust; and the ef- vived in the scientific inheritance of the apothecary and fect of larger AOA on thrust was close to the one ornithologist Otto Held, kept in the archives of the fed- caused by medium AOA." (Authors)] Address: Wang, Y., eral state natural history collections at the MÜRITZEUM Department of Engineering, Australian National Univer- in Waren. The paper concerned here centres on the sity, Canberra, 0200, Australia. E-mail: yutong.wang@ versatile zoologist Dr. Otto le Roi, whose promising sci- anu.edu.au entific career as assistant to the Bonn zoologist Profes- sor Alexander Koenig ended at the eastern front in the First World War in October 1916. With the aid of further 2010 records and publications, an attempt has been made to trace the short life of le Roi, who initially in 1896 started Aliberti Lubertazzi, M.A.; Ginsberg, H.S. (2010): Emerg- training to become an apothecary. Scientific curiosity ing dragonfly diversity at small Rhode Island (U.S.A.) that became evident at an early stage and a special wetlands along an urbanization gradient. Urban Eco- passion for ornithology influenced his further develop- systems 13(4): 517-533. (in English) ["Natal habitat use ment. He made contact with numerous notable scien- by dragonflies was assessed on an urban to rural land- tists in order to learn and to gain ideas for his scientific use gradient at a set of 21 wetlands, during two emer- work. Two personalities had a formative influence on gence seasons (2004, 2005). The wetlands were char- the life of le Roi: Johannes Thienemann and Alexander acterized for urbanization level by using the first factor Koenig. Le Roi made the acquaintance of Thienemann, from a principal components analysis combining chlo- who was in charge of the ornithological station at former ride concentration in the wetland and percent forest in Rossitten, during a fairly long stay on the Kurische Neh- the surrounding buffer zone. Measurements of species rung (Courland Spit) in 1902. Professor Alexander diversity and its components (species richness and Koenig became le Roi's teacher, mentor and fatherly evenness) were analyzed and compared along the ur- banization gradient, as were distributions of individual

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 23 species. Dragonfly diversity, species richness, and The occurrence of Platystictidae (Drepanosticta, Proto- evenness did not change along the urbanization gradi- sticta) and that of the genera Aeshna, Gynacanthaesch- ent, so urban wetlands served as natal habitat for nu- na, Megalogomphus and Zygonyx in Himachal Pradesh merous dragonfly species. However, several individual is documented for the first time."] Address: Babu R., species displayed strong relationships to the degree of Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kol- urbanization, and most were more commonly found at kata-700 053, India. E-mail: [email protected] urban sites and at sites with fish. In contrast, relatively 10130. Blakely, T.J.; Harding, J.S.; Clews, E.; Winter- rare species were generally found at the rural end of the gradient. These results suggest that urban wetlands bourn, M.J. (2010): An illustrated guide to the freshwa- can play important roles as dragonfly habitat and in ter macroinvertebrates of Singapore. Canterbury Edu- dragonfly conservation efforts, but that conservation of cational Printing Services, University of Canterbury, rural wetlands is also important for some dragonfly spe- New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-473-16730-1: 74pp. (in Eng- cies." (Authors)] Address: Aliberti Lubertazzi, Maria, lish) [On pages 46-50, a key to the Odonata at the fami- Dept of Plant Sciences and Entomology, Woodward ly level is provided.] Address: School of Biological Sci- Hall, Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA. ences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, E-mail: [email protected] Christchurch 8140, New Zealand 10126. Amaya Vallejo, V.A.; Ledezma; J. (2010): Li- 10131. Bößneck, U.; Sparmberg, H. (2010): Die Schutz- bélulas (Odonata: Anisoptera) de la colección entomo- gebiete der Landeshauptstadt Erfurt (Thüringen). Teil lógica del museo de historia natural Noel Kempff Mer- XVII: Flora und Fauna des GLB "Am Entenpfuhl" bei cado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Kempffiana 6(2): Stotternheim. Thüringer Faunistische Abhandlungen XV: 40-47. (in Spanish, with English summary) ["A list of 33-54. (in German, with English summary) [Thüringen, genera and species of Anisoptera deposited in the en- Germany. The total of 422 species recorded in 2008 and tomological collection of Noel Kempff Mercado Natural 2009 includes only Sympeca fusca, Ischnura elegans, History Museum is presented. The 1401 Anisoptera Enallagma cyathigerum, and Aeshna grandis.] Address: specimens registered since 1986 were examined, and Bößneck, U., Stadtverwaltung Erfurt, Umwelt- und Natur- 261 unidentified specimens were identified and incorpo- schutzamt, Stauffenbergallee 18, 99085 Erfurt, Germany. rated to the collection, adding to a total of 1662 collect- E-mail: [email protected] ed specimens from five of the nine Bolivian depart- 10132. Bonifait, S.; Villard, M.-A. (2010): Efficiency of ments (Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, La Paz, Tarija, and buffer zones around ponds to conserve odonates and Beni). There were 1650 individuals identified to species songbirds in mined peat bogs. Ecography 33(5): 913- and 12 to genera level. The infraorder is represented by 920. (in English) ["Patch isolation resulting from habitat three families: Aeshnidae, Gomphidae, and Libellulidae, loss and fragmentation generally has detrimental effects with 41 genera and 149 species. The best represented on associated species. Peatlands may be especially genera are Erythrodiplax (24%), Micrathyria (14%) and sensitive to such effects because peat mining results in Erythemis (11%). Orthemis sp. probably O. tambopatae drastic changes in the hydrology of natural remnants. von Ellenrieder 2009, Macrothemis hahneli Ris 1913, This study aimed to assess the efficiency of conserva- Macrothemis flavescens Kirby 1897, Rhionaeschna tion zones surrounding ponds in mined bogs for two confusa Rambur 1842 and Zenithoptera Selys 1869 are taxa: songbirds and odonates. We compared songbird reported as new records for the country." (Authors)] Ad- distribution and odonate assemblages between ponds dress: Ledezma, Julieta, Directora Sección de Ento- isolated by peat mining (n=6–12) and control ponds mología, Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mer- (n=11–13) located in natural bogs. Birds did not show cado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. E-mail: jledez- major responses to pond isolation, whether in terms of [email protected] their relative abundance or reproductive activity. How- 10127. Arulprakash, R.; Gunathilagaraj, K. (2010): ever, longer-term data would be required to confirm this Odonata fauna of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University trend. In contrast, odonate abundance, as estimated campus, Coimbatore India. Notulae Odonatologicae from exuviae, was higher in natural ponds than in iso- 7(6): 53-55. (in English) [26 species are listed; Anax lated ones. Some taxa, especially bog specialists, were guttatus, Gynacantha hyaline, Epophthalmia frontalis, more sensitive than others. Hence, pond isolation by and Tholymis tillarga were attracted by a light source.] peat mining significantly altered the structure of odo- Address: Arulprakash, R., Dept Argicultural Entomology, nate assemblages. Pond size also influenced odonate Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641003, abundances and distribution. Effective conservation of Tamil Nadu, India. E-mail: [email protected] bog ponds should account not only for variations in the response of different taxa, but also for pond structural 10128. Arulrakash, R.; Gunathilagaraj, K. (2010): Odo- diversity, which influence species response to isolation." nate fauna of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University cam- (Authors)] Address: Villard, M.-A., Chaire de recherche pus, Coimbatore, India. Notulae odonatologicae 7(6): du Canada en conservation des paysages, Dépt de bi- 53-55. (in English) ["An annotated list of 26 species is ologie, Univ. de Moncton, Moncton, NB E1A 3E9 Cana- presented. Anax guttatus, Gynacantha hyalina, Ep- da. E-mail: [email protected] ophthalmia frontalis and Tholymis tillarga were attracted 10133. Borisov, S.N. (2010): Geographic variations in by a light source." (Authors)] Address: Arulrakash, R., Department of Agricultural Entomology, Tamil Nadu Ag- the life cycle of Sympecma paedisca (Brauer, 1877) ricultural University, Coimbatore-641 003, Tamil Nadu, (Odonata, Lestidae) in the plains of Central Asia. Euro- India. E-mail: [email protected] asian entomological journal 9(2): 249-254. (in Russian, with Engish summary) ["Latitudinal changes in life cycle 10129. Babu, R.; Nandy, S. (2010): New Odonata rec- of Sympecma paedisca from forest-steppe zone of ords from Himachal Pradesh, India. Notulae odonato- South Siberia (53° N) to deserts of Tadjikistan depres- logicae 7(6): 55-57. (in English) ["The records are pre- sion (37° N) are shown. The species is univoltine with sented of 19 species, all new to the fauna of the state. long-term imaginal period, including aestivation and hi-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 24 bernation. To the south, the reproductive period of the 10136. Chaudhry, M.T.; Aslam, M.; Naeem, M. (2010): species is moderately extended and moved to spring- New record of genus Gynacanthaeshna Fraser, 1922 time. Latitudinally there is a more significant change in (Odonata: Anisoptera: Aeshnidae) from Pakistan. Paki- the ratio of aestivation and hibernation period duration. stan Journal of Zoology 42(4): 501-503. (in English) In the northern part, the areal time from exclusion to [Gynacanthaeschna sikkima was collected from Rawal- imago wintering covers less than 3 months and the pindi. This species is a new record for Pakistan.] Ad- imago winters for 7 months, while in southern part the- dress: Chaudhry, M.T., PMAS-Arid Agriculture Univ., se periods last 6 and 4 months respectively. During the Rawalpindi (Pakistan). Dept. of Entomology, Pakistan. pre-reproductive period dragonflies make bidirectional E-mail: [email protected] migrations. Aestivation appeared far from where the imago emerged from its pupa, but the wintering imago 10137. Clausnitzer, H.-J.; Hengst, R.; Krieger, C.; Tho- returns to these habitats. In the plains (forest-steppe) of mes, A. (2010): Boyeria irene in Niedersachsen (Odo- Siberia, dragonfly migrations are shorter than in central nata: Aeshnidae). Libellula 29(3/4): 155-168. (in Ger- Asia. Dragonflies from the former, after emergence, man, with English summary) ["A population of B. irene move to the mountains for the whole summer period, was recorded in Lower Saxony, northern Germany, on and return to the plains in late autumn. This strategy the river Örtze, a tributary of the river Aller. Adults were avoids the high summer temperatures experienced in recorded from 2008 to 2010 at ten different localities the central Asian plains. However, some dragonflies along the lower reaches of the river over 20 km, and remain in the plains throughout the summer in habitats reproduction was proved by the finding of 37 exuviae. from where they emerged from their pupae." (Author)] On a small brook situated close to river Örtze, three ex- Address: Borisov, S.N., Siberian Zoological Museum, uviae and imagines were additionally found." (Authors)] Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Rus- Address: Clausnitzer, H.-J., Eichenstr. 11, 29348 Esche- sian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Frunze str. de, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] 11, Novosibirsk 630091 Russia. 10138. Collier, A.; Nair, V.; Taylor, S.; Zettler, J. (2010): 10134. Boudot, J.-P. (2010): Abondance, synchronisme Apparent risk of predation by dragonfly naiads (Odona- et sex-ratio à l'émergence chez Epitheca bimaculata ta: Libellulidae) inhibits tadpole growth (Rana spheno- (Charpentier, 1825) en Lorraine (NE France) (Odonata, cephala). BIOS 81(2): 45-54. (in English) ["We reared Anisoptera: Corduliidae). Martinia 26(1-2): 9-17. (in 120 Rana sphenocephala tadpoles in 1.5 m long cham- French, with English summary) ["Population size in Epi- bers (10 tadpoles per chamber) made from vinyl rain theca bimaculata varies considerably with space and gutters. The chambers contained predatory late-instar time in Lorraine (northeast France). However, emer- dragonfly naiads (Odonata: Libellulidae) confined at gences are always synchronized with an EM50 index one end in clear tubes drilled with aeration holes. The ranging from 4 to 6 days, irrespective of the population number of confined predators varied between control (n size. The daily sex ratio (male to female ratio) shows a = 0), low (n = 1), and high density conditions (n = 5). constant imbalance in favour of females throughout the Tadpoles were free to swim throughout each chamber, emergence time, with values ranging from 0.59 to 0.97 although food was isolated at one end adjacent to the and an overall value of 0.74 at the end of emergence (i.e. predator tubes. In an additional high density predator 42% of males, 58% of females). These results are com- condition, food was isolated at the opposite end of the pared to published data from other countries and the chamber away from the predator tubes. There were a reasons for such a constant imbalance in sex ratio are total of three replicates for each of the four conditions. discussed. The hypotheses of i) a segregation of male Tadpoles from each condition were individually weighed and female according to banks orientation, ii) a differen- (g) and their total length (mm) was recorded at regular tial phenology between males and females, do not ac- intervals throughout the trial. Tadpoles raised in the high count for such an imbalance, which is a frequent trend in density condition with multiple predators surrounding Anisoptera, particularly Corduliidae." (Author)] Address: their only food source were significantly shorter in Boudot, J.-P., LIMOS, UMR CNRS 7137, Universités de length and weighed significantly less that those reared Nancy, Faculté des Sciences, B.P. 239, F-54506 - Van- in all other conditions. When multiple predators and lar- doeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France. E-mail: jean-pierre. val food were isolated at opposite ends of the chamber, [email protected] tadpole growth did not statistically differ from that of control animals. Tadpoles raised with multiple predators 10135. Cannings, R. (2010): Calopteryx aequabilis (Ri- surrounding their food also possessed slightly deeper ver Jewelwing) in Northeastern British Columbia. Bo- tails, although these results were not statistically signifi- reus 30(2): 29-30. (in English) [25-VII-2009, Hay River cant. Our results suggest that the inhibition of tadpole east of Fort Nelson, BC (10V 649049E 6504599N). "Gi- growth observed in this study may be linked to behav- ven the occurrence of C. aequabilis in the boreal forests ioral changes when perceived predation risks are high." of northern Alberta (Acorn 2004), its presence in north- (Authors)] Address: Collier, A., Dept Biology, Armstrong eastern BC has long been suspected. The species is Atlantic State Univ., 11935, Abercorn Street, Savannah, now known from two populations and two localities in GA, 31419, USA. E-mail: alex.collier @armstrong.edu the province, almost 1200 km apart. Although the sou- thern population still must be considered endangered, 10139. Curtis, A.E.; Paton, P.W.C. (2010): Assessing the addition of the northern population to the provincial detection probabilities of larval amphibians and ma- croinvertebrates in isolated ponds. Wetlands 30(5): fauna requires a modest reduction in the species‘ con- servation rank, but probably maintaining its presence on 901-914. (in English) ["Isolated ponds provide vital habi- the provincial red list." (Author)] Address: Cannings, R., tat for an array of vertebrates and invertebrates (includ- Curator of Entomology, Royal British Columbia Muse- ing Libellulidae, excluding Damselflies). Given the po- um, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, BC V8W 9W2, Can- tential decline in protection of isolated ponds and the ada. E-mail: [email protected] increase in urbanization in northeastern North America, knowledge of the condition of this aquatic resource is essential for developing revisions to existing regula-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 25 tions, conservation efforts, and restoration initiatives. ta).] Address: Laura Dlugolecki, Laura, U.S. Environ- We were interested in the ability of rapid assessment mental Protection Agency, Office of Water (4100T), methods, which require only one site visit, to estimate Healthy Watersheds Project, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave- the condition of isolated ponds. During 2008, we con- nue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20460, USA ducted dip-net surveys at 10-day intervals from mid- May to late July 2008 at each of 36 isolated ponds in 10143. Donnelly, N. (2010): Book review: Damselfly Rhode Island. We calculated detection probabilities for genera of the New World: An illustrated and annotated larval amphibian species and predatory macroinverte- key to the Zygoptera. Argia 22(3): 21-23. (in English) brate families and assessed factors influencing detec- [Rosser W. Garrison, Natalia von Ellenrieder, and Jerry tion probabilities. Most taxa displayed distinct seasonal A. Louton. 2010, The Johns Hopkins University Press, phenologies in detection probabilities. Pond depth and Baltimore. ISBN 978-8018-9670-5. 490 pp, 2586 fgs., vegetative characteristics also influenced detection 24 colour pls., $125.00. (Incl. additions and corrections probabilities of many taxa. Based on seasonal variation for previous book, The Dragonfly Genera (Odonata: An- in detection probabilities, rapid assessment methods isoptera) of the New World, 2006, by the same au- would not be effective to monitor overall biodiversity of thors)] Address: Donnelly, T., 2091 Partridge Lane, isolated ponds in southern New England. Rather, multi- Binghamton, NY 13903, USA. E-mail: tdonnel@ bing- ple visits would be required to estimate occupancy rates hamton.edu of pond-breeding amphibians or aquatic macroinverte- 10144. Dow, R.A.; Choon, C.Y.; Ng, Y.F. (2010): A re- brates if they were used as ecological indicators of view of the genus Amphicnemis in Peninsular Malaysia pond condition." (Authors)] Address: Curtis, Annie, Nat- and Singapore, with descriptions of two new species ural Resources Office, Massachusetts Army National (Odonata: Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae). Zootaxa 2605: Guard, Bldg. 2808 Richardson Road, Camp Edwards, 45-55. (in English) ["The Amphicnemis species occur- MA 02542, USA. E-mail: [email protected] ring in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore are re- 10140. Dehondt, F.; Mora, F.; Ferrez, Y. (2010): Redé- viewed, and two new species are described: A. bebar couverte en France de Nehalennia speciosa (Charpen- and A. hoisen (holotype for both: Malaysia, Pahang, tier, 1840) (Odonata, Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae). Mar- Sungai Bebar). Keys to both sexes of all species are tinia 26(1-2): 3-8. (in French, with English summary) [In provided. A. ecornuta is recorded from Borneo for the July 2009, N. speciosa has been rediscovered by first time. A summary of the distributions of the named chance by a botanist in a peat bog located in the south species of Amphicnemis occurring in Sundaland is giv- of the Jura department, France. The habitat is charac- en. Four species of Amphicnemis are now known from terised as a predominately Eriophoro-Caricetum lasio- Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, and twelve from carpae. The current knowledge about its biology and Borneo." (Authors)] Address: Dow, R.A., National Mu- distribution in France are discussed.] Address: De- seum of Natural History Naturalis, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 hondt, F., 22A rue de la Rotonde, F-25000 Besançon, RA Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: rory.dow230@ France. E-mail: [email protected] yahoo.co.uk; Ng, Y.F., Centre for Insect Systematics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, 10141. Deutschmann, U.; Dettmann, K.; Eifler, M.; Hal- Selangor, Malaysia. E-mail: [email protected] letz, S.; Hengmith, K.; Ludwig, R.; Plotz, A.; Schuster, A.; Woog, D.; Zessin, W.; Ziegler, W. (2010): Erfassung und 10145. Dragonfly Society of the Americas; Alcook, J. (2010): Argia 22(3). Argia 22(3): 1-23. (in English) [oas Bewertung der Insektenfauna im FFH-Gebiet „Wald- und 31, In This Issue; DSA is on Facebook; Calendar of Moorlandschaft um den Röggeliner See― bei Dechow, Mecklenburg (, Coleoptera, Heteroptera, Or- Events; 2010 DSA Annual Meeting in Orono, Maine thoptera, Odonata). Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomo- Donnelly, N.; Congratulations Dennis Paulson!; Photos logischen Vereins Mecklenburg 13(2): 4-35. (in Geman) Needed; 2011 Dragonfly Society of the Americas Annu- [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; in 2008, 19 com- al Meeting at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, mon distributed Odonata species were recorded. These Colorado by Kondratieff, B.C.; International Odonata are briefly discussed.] Address: Zessin, W., Lange Str. 9, Research Institute 'Garage Sale' for DSA Members; A 19230 Jasnitz, Germany. E-mail: zessin@zoo-schwe- Call for Papers for BAO; Request for Annual DSA Meet- rin.de ing Proposals; Drink Beer?URL] Address: Alcock, J., Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, 10142. Dlugolecki, L. (2010): A characterization of sea- Arizona 85287-1501, USA. E-mail: [email protected] sonal pools in Central Oregon‘s high desert. MSc The- 10146. Duquef, M.; Salack, P. (2010): Nouvelle capture sis, Oregon State University: XIV + 76 pp. (in English) ["Seasonal wetlands in arid and semi-arid lands provide en Guyane d'Aphylla producta Selys, 1854 (Odonata, An- an important source of surface water in otherwise dry isoptera: Gomphidae). Martinia 26(1-2): 48. (in French) [Corossony, 24-XI-2008] Address: Duquef, M., 25 rue lands. Central Oregon‘s high desert, located in the Northern Great Basin (NGB) is dotted with hundreds of Paul Baroux, Blangy-Tronville, F-80440 Boves, France seasonal pools, locally called playas. The playas hold 10147. Eutropio, F.J.; Gomes, L.C. (2010): Dieta ali- water or snow during parts of winter and spring but typi- mentar de Trichomycterus longibarbatus Costa, 1992 e cally dry up during summer months. The mechanisms Pimelodella transitoria Miranda Ribeiro, 1905 (Siluri- of seasonal pool hydrology, especially in the NGB, are formes): um caso de competição interespecífica. Na- poorly understood and have not been thoroughly exam- tureza on line 8(2): 67-70. (in Portuguese, with English ined. There is high seasonal variability and inter-annual summary) [The catfish Trichomycterus longibarbatus variability in surface water amounts in the playas. [...]" and Pimelodella transitoria are associated with sub- (Author) The thesis includes a list of aquatic macroin- merged litter streams of Yellow Wood, REBIO de Duas vertebrates observed during the 2007 inventory period Bocas, Brazil. Their stomach contents were analyzed and the frequency of observation at a playa. Odonata and identified up to the lower taxonomic level. The food are treated at the genus/species level (Anax junius, items were dominated by Chironomidae and Odonata, Rhionaeschna californica, Libellula pulchella, L. satura- while T. longibarbatus preyed exclusively on Odonata.]

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 26 Address: Eutrópio, F.F., Programa de Mestrado em Ovipositioning: 21; Feeding: 23; Predation: 25; Field Ecologia de Ecossistemas. Centro Universitário Vila guide key: 27; Damselfly taxonomy: 33; Families Velha - UVV. Rua Comissário José Dantas de Melo, 21, Broadwings: 35; Spreadwings: 43; Pond damsels: 67; Boa Vista, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasil. CEP Checklist: 121; Potential species: 124; References: 29101-770. E-mail: [email protected] 136; Index of species: 138. This guide is available as a free download in PDF format: http://fm2.fieldmuseum. 10148. Finkenzeller, M. (2010): First record of Pantala org/plantguides/damselflies] Address: Garrison, Marla, flavescens for Croatia (Odonata: Libellulidae). Libellula Biology Faculty McHenry County College Crystal Lake, 29(3/4): 205-208. (in German, with English summary) IL, USA. E-mail: [email protected] ["On a short holiday trip to the island of Krk, Croatia, at least three individuals of P. flavescens were observed, 10153. Garrison, R.W.; Ellenrieder, N. von; Louton, J.A. patrolling along a beach nearStara Baska.This is the (2010): Damselfly genera of the New World: An illus- first record for Croatia." (Author)] Address: Finkenzeller, trated and annotated key to the Zygoptera. Johns Hop- M., Stauferstraße 24, D-88239 Wangen, Germany. E- kins University Press; 1 edition. ISBN-10: 0801896703. mail: [email protected] 528 pp. (in English) ["This book follows by four years its companion volume on the Anisoptera of the New World 10149. Fiuczynski, K.D.; Hallau, A.; Hastädt, V.; Herold, by the same authors (Garrison et al. 2006, reviewed in S.; Kehl, G.; Lohmann, G.; Meyburg, B.-U.; Meyburg, Florida Entomologist 90: 290-291). Although about the C.; Sömmer, P. (2010): Der Baumfalke in der modernen same number of genera (124 Anisoptera, 118 Zygopte- Kulturlandschaft. Greifvögel und Falknerei 2009/2010: ra) are treated in the two books, the dragonflies are 230-244. (in German) [The paper includes detailed de- treated in 368 pages with 1626 figures, the damselflies scriptions on hunting methods of hobbies (Aves: Falco in 490 pages with 2586 figures. This points out the con- subbuteo) on dragonflies, and documents a successful siderably greater degree of work and detail the authors hunt and final catch of an Aeshna sp.] Address: not put into the second volume. In addition, while preparing stated to write and writing this volume, the first two authors 10150. Frank, M. (2010): Nachweis der Zierlichen Moos- have become the pre-eminent odonate taxonomists of jungfer (Leucorrhinia caudalis Charpentier, 1840) im the New World tropics, publishing no fewer than 17 pa- Landkreis Nordwest-Mecklenburg. Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt pers (since 2000) to clarify the taxonomy of numerous des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklenburg 13(2): 71-72. groups, some of them large. Before this, the largest (in German) [Kleekamp, Germany; records from 05.06. family, Coenagrionidae, was a taxonomic quagmire, 2010 and 10.07.2010 are documented.] Address: Frank, and now a fair modicum of order has emerged from the M., Zur Traubenmühle 5A, 55268 Nieder-Olm, Germany. chaos. How else to build a key to genera that actually E-mail: [email protected] works? This book easily lives up to the expectations promised by 10151. Gander, A. (2010): Nehalennia speciosa (Char- the dragonfly pentier, 1840) dans la Grande Cariçaie: une population volume, in- singulière d‘importance internationale (Odonata: Coen- cluding com- agrionidae). Entomo Helvetica 3: 189-203. (in French, prehensive, with English and German summaries) ["A population of extremely N. speciosa, one of the most endangered odonate spe- well illustrat- cies of Europe, was detected in 2007 in the nature re- ed keys; de- serves named ‗Grande Cariçaie‘ on the southern shore tailed mor- of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland. In order to secure ade- phological quate maintenance measures of the habitat aimed at descriptions the conservation of this species, corresponding investi- of each ge- gations were conducted in 2008. The purpose of these nus; and brief studies was on one hand to specify the local distribution descriptions and the ecological requirements of N. speciosa and on of natural his- the other hand to evaluate the impact of mowing the tory wherever marsh meadows on the attractiveness of the different known. The sites within the colonized area. 29 transect runs com- writing is prising 6466 m in length allowed to sample 30 ha of the clear, but its marsh. In total 391 individuals of N. speciosa were rec- conciseness orded on an area of 9 ha, 94 % of them being situated fails to con- within flooded stands of large sedges (Magnocaricion). vey how Marsh meadows without maintenance are not colo- much work at the microscope must have gone into the nized. The number of years after cutting the vegetation keys and descriptions. And most of us will be unable to in maintained allotments is not decisive for the habitat imagine the amount of time that went into producing the choice. The singularities of the species‘ local ecology, figures. They are meticulous and superb, by the stand- the importance of the population on the European scale ards of any scientific illustrator. They are lavishly pro- and the modalities of conservation of N. speciosa in the vided, often more than one species in a genus. I am nature reserves of the Grande Cariçaie are discussed." constantly engaged by the morphological diversity of (Author)] Address: Gander, Antoine, Grande Cariçaie, damselflies that one can see under magnification, and ch. de la Cariçaie 3, CH-1400 Cheseaux-Noréaz, Swit- this book shows it all. Many of them were used before, zerland. E-mail: [email protected] in their recently published papers, but the majority ap- 10152. Garrison, M. (2010): Damselflies of Chicago- pear uniquely in this book. Having worked with the au- land. A Photo Field Guide, version 1. Published by The thors on several genera, I can add that they are impec- Field Museum, Chicago. 140 pp. (in English) [Introduc- cably accurate. The three-dimensional rendering of tion: 5; Basic anatomy: 10; Life cycle: 17; Mating: 19; medio-dorsal views of terminal appendages is so much

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 27 more helpful than the old standard of dorsal and lateral 10155. Goffart, P. (2010): Southern dragonflies expand- views that one wonders why the excellent illustrators of ing in Wallonia (south Belgium): a consequence of glo- a century ago didn‘t come up with it. There are a lot bal warming? BioRisk 5: Special issue: Monitoring cli- more photos in this book than in the dragonfly book, 81 matic change with dragonflies: 109-126. (in English) vs. 24, and the beauty and variety of New World dam- ["The occurrence of seven southern Odonata species selflies are shown off to the fullest. All the families are (Crocothemis erythraea, Lestes barbarus, Sympetrum represented, and there was a real effort made to get all fonscolombii, Anax parthenope, Coenagrion scitulum, the genera. Many have not been photographed. Every- Aeshna affinis, S. meridionale) has been watched in thing about this volume invites the term ―comprehen- Wallonia over the last two decades (from 1981 to 2000). sive.‖ The maps of generic ranges are of great value to They have clearly expanded in the meantime and this the biogeographer and might be used to point out poor- pattern is still highly significant when the data are cor- ly surveyed regions. The long list of references provides rected for the increase of sampling efforts. Moreover, access to the taxonomic and biological literature of all reproduction evidences have been collected recently New World damselflies, and to that all-important oppor- (from 1993 onwards) for all these species and several tunity to identify specimens to species. The list that at- settled and have now resident populations in Wallonia. tributes a locality to every figure is a nice touch. If there In a second step, all present regular and irregular resi- are mistakes in the volume, I did not find them with my dent species of Wallonia were looked for change in level of scrutiny. The very timely Appendix lists addi- range size and observation rate per visit between two tions and corrections to the Anisoptera volume, and six years periods of a survey and monitoring scheme, such a list will doubtless be generated for this volume in from 1989 to 2000. Analysis was achieved on grid cells a few years. Like Philip Corbet‘s grand book on Odona- visited at the right time at both periods, a procedure de- ta (Corbet 1999), the two superb volumes from these signed to neutralize the spatio-temporal heterogeneity authors are perfectly placed to show us what still needs of sampling. The comparison of results in relation to the to be done: 1) databasing and georeferencing existing distribution types of species and their habitat prefer- collections to give an even clearer picture of regional ences show a significant global trend toward an in- biodiversity; 2) many more surveys and much more col- crease for southern species during the investigated lecting over neotropical regions that are still poorly time interval, contrasting with other groups of species. If known; 3) modern taxonomic revisions of genera that there is a tendency to rise for species preferring eu- have not yet received that treatment; and 4) sets of keys trophic still waters, this proves to be clearly due to the to species, especially regional keys such as those by southern species sub-group, the other dragonflies of Lencioni (2005, 2006). Finally, regional photo-illustrated this habitat type showing a stable or even decreasing field guides to all species!"] (Dennis Paulson). Orders: trend. Three distinct hypotheses are examined and dis- The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 North Charles cussed as possible explanations of the expansion pat- Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363, USA tern of southern species: (1) global warming, (2) change in aquatic habitats, especially eutrophication, 10154. Gauquie B. (2010): Habitats de l'Orthetrum brun and (3) intrinsic population dynamics. The rise of tem- (Orthetrum brunneum) et de l'Orthetrum bleuissant (Or- peratures appears to be the main factor explaining the thetrum coerulescens) sur le territoire du Parc naturel observed expansions." (Author)] Address: Philippe Gof- des Plaines de l'Escaut et dans le bassin carrier tour- fart, P., Observatoire de la Faune, de la Flore et des naisien. Les naturalistes Belges 91(3-4): 37-53. (in Habitats (OFFH), Département de l'Étude du Milieu na- French, with English summary) ["During this last five turel et agricole (DEMna), Service Public Wallon (SPW) years, I undertook a specific search on two rare Or- - DGARNE - Direction de la Nature et de l'Eau, Avenue thetrum species in Belgium, O. coerulescens and O. Maréchal Juin, 23, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium. E-mail: brunneum), both recently discovered in Western Hai- [email protected] naut province. The exploration area is Tournai and the territory of the Natural Park of the Plains of the Scheide, 10156. Grand, D. (2010): Tramea basilaris (Palisot de which extends east to west from Bernissart to Antoing. Beauvois, 1805): un nouveau Libellulidae pour l'île de la O. brunneum was found on five sites and O. coerules- Réunion (Odonata, Anisoptera: Libellulidae). Martinia cens on three sites. Following data analysis, it seems 26(1-2): 18. (in French) [pond near Gol à Saint-Louis, that in the region O. coerulescens is more a stenotopic 23-I-2003] Address: Grand, D., Impasse de la Voûte, F- species, selecting only limestone quarries and O. brun- 69270 St. Romain-au-Mont d'or, France. E-mail: dan- neum is an eurytopic species, occupying more varied [email protected] environments, nevertheless at least four abiotic param- eters characterize in common the breeding sites of the 10157. Gros, P. (2010): Die Libellenfauna des Mandlin- two species: a sunny environment, a shallow water, ger Moores (Gemeindegebiet Radstadt, Slbg): Erster in- with good physico-chemical conditions and constantly neralpiner Nachweis der Großen Moosjungfer Leucor- renewing seepage, or flow resurgence. If these ecologi- rhinia pectoralis (Charpentier,1825) aus dem Bundes- cal requirements are met, it appears that, among other land Salzburg und erste Meldung der Glänzende Bin- factors (biotic or abiotic), the vegetation structure is of senjungfer Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890 aus dem Ennstal crucial importance for the reproduction of either spe- Österr. (Odonata). Mitteilungen aus dem Haus der Na- cies. At sites with still water, O. brunneum proves to be tur Salzburg 18: 29-34. (in German, with English sum- a pioneer species essentially, eventually disappearing mary) [A total of 29 odonate species are listed for the when the vegetation becomes too high. For O. coeru- locality Mandlinger Moor, Austria. "L.pectoralis and L. lescens, eutrophication is really a non-favorable factor, dryas "are reported from Salzburg‘s part of the Enns but the vegetal cover did not appear to be influential." river valley for the first time. For L. pectoralis, it is the (Author)] Address: Gauquie B., Chargé de mission Re- first report inside the alpine region in Salzburg. In this sourches et milieux natureles, Parc naturel des Plaines Austrian county, these two dragonfly species are cur- de l'Escaut, rue des Sapins 31, 7603 Bon-Secours, rently only known from very few sites. Details of these Belgium. E-mail: [email protected] discoveries are given. Beyond that, all dragonfly spe-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 28 cies recently found in this area are listed." (Author)] Ad- (Authors) The paper includes references to Odonata.] dress: Gros, P., Haus der Natur, Museumsplatz 5, 5020 Address: Horváth, G., Biooptics Laboratory, Department Salzburg, Austria. E-mail: [email protected] of Biological Physics, Loránd Eötvös University, 1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1, Hungary. E-mail: 10158. Helitas, N.; Lambret, P. (2010): Observation d'un [email protected] tandem de Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1836) se lais- sant dériver à la surface d'un plan d'eau (Odonata, Zy- 10161. Houard, X.; Lorthiois, M. (2010): Premiers indi- goptera: Lestidae). Martinia 26(1-2): 29-34. (in French, ces formels d'autochtonie d'Anax parthenope (Selys, with English summary) [A tandem of L. sponsa was ob- 1839) en Haute-Normandie (Odonata, Anisoptera: served landing and drifting on the surface of a lake in the Aeshnidae). Martinia 26(1-2): 39-40. (in French) [28-VII- Vosges mountains (northeastern France). Thermoregula- 2009, oviposition, Val-de-Reuill, France] Address: tory behaviour is discussed as a possible cause of this Houard, X., Conservatoire des Sites Naturels de Haute- behaviour.] Address: Helitas, N., 4 rue de Longeville - Normandie, Rue Pierre de Coubertin, BP 424, F-76850 F-55000 Savonnières devant Bar, France. E-mail: nico- St-Étienne-du-Rouvray Cedex, France. E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] 10159. Hertzog, M. (2010): Beobachtung eines frisch 10162. Imler, E.; Olberg, R.; Leonardo, A. (2010): 3D geschlüpften Weibchens von Boyeria irene am Seer- reconstructions and flight statistics of dragonfly prey- hein (Odonata: Aeshnidae). Libellula 29(3/4): 169-174. capture trajectories. Abstracts of the 9th International (in German, with English summary) ["On 17-VIII-2007 a Congress of Neuroethology, Salamanca (Spain) 2-7 teneral female B. irene was found and documented August 2010. P 395: 649. (in English) ["Dragonflies are photographically near Gottlieben, Canton of Thurgau, among evolution‘s finest aerial hunters; intercepting Switzerland, west of Constance, where a 4 km-section prey in mid-air, they rarely miss their targets. Most pre- of the River Rhine connects the upper with the lower vious studies of dragonfly prey capture have taken part of Lake Constance. This is the first record of repro- place outdoors and have been limited by environmental duction of this species in the Lake Constance basin." variability and availability of adult dragonflies in these (Author)] Address: Hertzog, M., Rebhaldenstrasse 19, situations. These single camera studies have been re- CH-596 Scherzingen, Switzerland. E-mail: mhertzog@ stricted to 2D analyses, and have missed long complex bluewin.ch flights due to the narrow field-of-view (FOV) required by outdoor conditions. To enable more sophisticated stud- 10160. Horváth, G.; Blaho, M.; Egri, A.; Kriska, G.; ies of prey capture, we have constructed a fully indoor Seres, I.; Robertson, B. (2010): Reducing the maladap- flight arena that can be used to study dragonfly behav- tive attractiveness of solar panels to polarotactic in- iour in a controlled environment. The flight arena is sects. Conservation Biology 24(6): 1644-1653. (in Eng- 5.5m x 4m x 4.5m in size, and is illumined to lish, with Spanish summary) ["Human-made objects 10mW/cm². The end result is a bright, windless, tem- (e.g., buildings with glass surfaces) can reflect horizon- perature and humidity controlled environment in which tally polarized light so strongly that they appear to adult dragonflies can forage year round. Individual ani- aquatic insects to be bodies of water. Insects that lay mals gained up to 100mg of weight per day, and lived eggs in water are especially attracted to such structures as long as 3 weeks. We have focused our studies on li- because these insects use horizontal polarization of bellulid dragonflies (L. lydia, L. luctuosa), because they light off bodies of water to find egg-laying sites. Thus, will forage readily from a single perch positioned in the these sources of polarized light can become ecological focal zone of a high speed camera array (2 cameras; traps associated with reproductive failure and mortality 1000fps). We have analyzed over 150 prey capture tra- in organisms that are attracted to them and by exten- jectories of both the dragonfly and its prey (Drosophila) sion with rapid population declines or collapse. Solar in a 3D recording volume of ~1m³, with sub-millimeter panels are a new source of polarized light pollution. Us- tracking accuracy. Foraging success rates were ~80%, ing imaging polarimetry, we measured the reflection – with a mean flight time of 361 ± 124ms – on the order of polarization characteristics of different solar panels and 15 wing strokes. Dragonfly flight accelerations were in multiple-choice experiments in the field we tested very high, over double those of its prey (dragonfly: their attractiveness to mayflies, caddis flies, dolichop- mean acceleration 18 m/s², max 75 m/s² ; Drosophila: odids, and tabanids. At the Brewster angle, solar panels mean acceleration 8 m/s², max 42 m/s²). When the polarized reflected light almost completely (degree of dragonfly failed to catch its prey, mean flight times in- polarization d = 100%) and substantially exceeded typi- creased by 20%, and mean accelerations increased by cal polarization values for water (d = 30–70%). Mayflies 10% (dragonfly) and 30% (Drosophila). The data sug- (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Trichoptera), dolichopodid gest the presence of a narrow ―trigger zone‖ above and dipterans, and tabanid flies (Tabanidae) were the most slightly forward of the dragonfly‘s head, which most attracted to solar panels and exhibited oviposition be- prey pass through in the moments before a foraging haviour above solar panels more often than above sur- flight begins." (Authors)] Address: Olberg, R.M., De- faces with lower degrees of polarization (including wa- partment of Biological Sciences, Union College, Sche- ter), but in general they avoided solar cells with nonpo- nectady, NY 12308, USA. E-mail: [email protected] larizing white borders and white grates. The highly and horizontally polarizing surfaces that had nonpolarizing, 10163. Jeon, D-Y.; Lee, S.-L.; Son, J.-W.; Cha, Y.-W.; white cell borders were 10- to 26-fold less attractive to Yoo, P.-J. (2010): Assessments of ecosystem health in insects than the same panels without white partitions. middle reaches of Suyoung River. The Annual Report of Although solar panels can act as ecological traps, frag- Busan Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environ- menting their solar-active area does lessen their attrac- ment 20(1): 98-121.[A total of 44 species including five, tiveness to polarotactic insects. The design of solar not further specified Odonata species was recorded be- panels and collectors and their placement relative to tween September 2008 to October 2010 in the middle aquatic habitats will likely affect populations of aquatic reach of the Suyoung river in Busan, South Korea.] Ad- insects that use polarized light as a behavioural cue." dress: E-mail: [email protected]

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 29 10164. Karolinska, E.O.; Gram, B.M. (2010): New finds South-East Kazakhstan. Euroasian entomological jour- of dragonflies (Odonata) in Kharkiv region. Vestnik zo- nal 9(2): 299-302. (in Russian, with Engish summary) ologii 44(6): 524. (in Ukrainian, with English title) ["An annotated list of 24 species of Odonata collected [Ukraine; records of the following taxa are documented: on expeditions to the Dzhungarian Alatau Mountains in Sympecma paedisca, Anax parthenope, Orthetrum brun- 1993–1994 and 2006–2007 is given. Water bodies fit neum, Orthetrum coerulescens anceps, Crocothemis for odonate breeding are sparse and located mostly in erythraea, Sympetrum fonscolombii, S. striolatum, S. de- foothills; however, Sympecma spp., Sympetrum spp. pressiusculum, and Leucorrhinia rubicunda.] Address: and Aeshna mixta migrate to the mountains in the pre- not stated reproductive period." (Authors)] Address: Kosterin, O. E., Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch, 10165. Kipping, J. (2010): The dragonflies and damsel- Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave 10, flies of Botswana – an annotated checklist with notes on 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia. E-mail: kosterin@bionet. distribution, phenology, habitats and Red List status of nsc.ru the species (Insecta: Odonata). Mauritiana (Altenburg) 21: 126-204. (in English, with German summary) ["Be- 10169. Krieg-Jacquier, R.; Lathuillière, M. (2010): Cor- tween 2000 and 2010, 111 species of Odonata have dulegaster bidentata Selys, 1843 dans le département been recorded mainly from northern Botswana. Togeth- de l'Ain. État des connaissances en 2009 (Odonata, An- er with other published and unpublished records, this isoptera: Cordulegastridae). Martinia 26(1-2): 35-39. (in increases the checklist of the Odonata of Botswana to French, with English summary) [2008 and 2009, in the 127 species, of which 21 species have not been rec- Ain department (Eastern France, Rhône-Alpes region) orded before in Botswana. This updated checklist pro- records of C. bidentata were added to the regional list vides information for each recorded species on distribu- of Odonata. The distribution of the species in the Ain tion, phenology, preferred habitats and specific notes, and the adjacent Departments is mapped.] Address: where appropriate. A detailed list of records is given, Krieg-Jacquier, R., 18 rue de la Maçonne F-73000 Bar- the localities sampled by the author are described in the beraz, France. E-mail: [email protected] appendix. The Red List status according to the IUCN assessment is given. Distribution patterns of the Odo- 10170. Krieg-Jacquier, R.; Grand, D.; Mora, F. (2010): nata species in different freshwater ecoregions are dis- Fragments odonatologiques sur le Doubs, 2009 (Ré- cussed." (Authors)] Address: Kipping, J., Naturkundli- gions Franche-Comté et Bourgogne). Martinia 26(1-2): ches Museum Mauritianum Altenburg, Parkstr. 1, 04600 41-47. (in French, with English summary) [In summer Altenburg, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] 2009, eight Odonata species could be added to the re- gional list of (autochthonous) species: Chalcolestes vi- 10166. Klimaszyk, P.; Heymann, D. (2010): Vertical dis- ridis, Erythromma viridulum, Boyeria irene, Gomphus tribution of benthic macroinvertebrates in a meromictic pulchellus, G. vulgatissimus, Onychogomphus forcipa- lake (Lake Czarne, Drawieński National Park). Oceano- tus, Somatochlora metallica, and Crocothemis erythr- logical and Hydrobiological Studies XXXIX(4): 99-106. aea. Distribution maps of these species are updated.] (in English) ["Investigations of the distribution of benthic Address: Grand, D., Impasse de la Voûte, F-69270 St. macroinvertebrates in Lake Czarne were conducted in Romain-au-Mont d'or, France. E-mail: danielgrand@ fall 2005 and spring 2006. Samples were taken in three yahoo.fr transects (at a depth of 0.5 m and at 5 m intervals). It was noted that macrobenthos only inhabit depths to 10 10171. Kunz, B. (2010): Heterospecific copulation with m. Laminar sediments from 15 m to 29 m indicate that subsequent oviposition in Libellulidae (Odonata). Libel- macrobenthos never inhabit the deepest part of the lake lula 29(3/4): 223-230. (in English, with German sum- in spite of temporary oxygen abundance (between 15 mary) [Sardinia, Italy; Baden-Württemberg, Germany; and 20 m during the winter and spring mixing periods). "Two cases of heterospecific mating in two different The largest diversity and biomass of macrozoobenthos genera of Libellulidae were documented photograph- was observed in the littoral zone at a depth of 0.5 m. At ically from pair formation to subsequent oviposition. The a depth of 5 m in the characean stands and at a depth pairs consisted of male Orthetrum trinacria x female O. of 10 m the number and biomass of benthic macroin- cancellatum and of male Sympetrum danae x female S. vertebrates were significantly smaller. The reason for striolatum. Copulation and oviposition took place in the the decrease of benthos density seems to be gradual genus specific manner. Due to the rare observation of oxygen depletion." (Authors) Odonata larvae could be these events the full course of the behaviour is de- found up to a depth of app. 5 m. Odonata occurred at scribed and the possible reproductive success of heter- densities of 15 ind./m².] Address: Klimaszyk, P., De- ospecific pairing is discussed." (Author)] Address: Kunz, partment of Water Protection, University of Adam Mic- B., Hauptstr. 111, D-74595 Langenburg, Germany. E- mail: [email protected] kiewicz ul. Umultowka 89, 61–614 Poznań, Poland. E- mail: [email protected] 10172. Kyek, M.; Wittmann, H. (2010): Die Geländeab- 10167. Knijf, G. de; Termaat, T. (2010): Statut et distribu- senkung Oberau – ein Naturschutzprojekt der besonde- tion de Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841) dans le ren Art - Kurzbericht über den Zustand des Naturhaus- haltes kurz nach Fertigstellung. Mitteilungen aus dem nord ouest de l‘Europe, en particulier en Belgique et aux Pays-Bas (Odonata, Anisoptera: Libellulidae). Martinia Haus der Natur, Salzburg 18: 91-102. (in German, with 26(3/4): 81-82. ["The more and more frequent presence English summary) ["During the late winter months of of S. meridionale in Northwestern Europe is detailed. The 2008 the Mayr-Melnhof forest management newly cre- habitats where breeding occurs are briefly described."] ated the ―Oberau― wetland, covering an area of 11 hec- Address: De Knijf, G., Matrouwstraat 10, 9661 Parike- tares. The biotope is located between the Antheringer Brakel, Belgium. E-mail: [email protected] Au lowland forest and the Haunsberg hill. From the ar- ea the humus layer was removed, gravel extracted and 10168. Kosterin, O.E.; Borisov, S.N. (2010): Dragon- 13 new near-natural ponds built. Most of the area im- flies (Odonata) of the Dzhungarskiy Alatau mountains, mediately adjacent to the ponds was assigned to be left

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 30 to natural succession, in some parts grey alder, ash house a higher number of mites. Parasitism by aquatic trees, willows and, for the Red-backed Shrike, thorny mites reduces both individual survival of males and fe- shrubs were planted. Rough pasture surrounds the for- males and male‘s mating success, and bigger males est. Preliminary botanical, ornithological, entomological are less attacked, have a higher survival and obtain and herpetological analyses of the area‘s species in- higher numbers of matings. These results suggest that ventory prove it to be a species-rich and exciting bio- females could use male size as an indicator to their ca- tope. The Oberau project was implemented within a pacity to resist the attack from mites." (Authors)] Ad- short period of time, but has already a sustained posi- dress: Mendoza-Cuenca, L. E-mail: lmendoza@lca. tive influence on the ―Salzachauen‖ Natura 2000 Area. unam.mx It remains to hope that in the interest of supporting bio- diversity a large number of similar projects may be initi- 10176. Martens, A. (2010): New Odonata records from ated in the future." (Authors) 17 odonate species were Atiu and Rarotonga, with an overview of the species recorded including Sympetrum pedemontanum.] known from the Cook islands. Notulae odonatologicae 7(6): 57-59. (in English) ["In September and October 10173. Lambert, P. (2010): Un mâle de Lestes macro- 1995, 6 species were collected at Atiu and 4 at Raro- stigma (Eversmann, 1836) prisonnier de Juncus mari- tonga. Of these 5 species are recorded for the first time timus. Martinia 26(1-2): 49-51. (in French, with English from Atiu. The odonate fauna of the Cook Islands is summary) [The right forewing of a male L. macrostigma poorly known; an island-annotated list of the hitherto that was accidentally pierced by a stem of Juncus mari- recorded 9 species is presented." (Author)] Address: timus.] Address: Lambert, P., Amis des Marais du Vi- Martens, A., Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe, gueirat, F-13104 Mas Thibert, France. E-mail: philam- Postfach 111062, 76060 Karlsruhe, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] 10174. Leonardo, A.; Imler, E.; Olberg, R. (2010): Gui- 10177. Martinov, A.V.; Martinov, V.V. (2010): Distribu- dance laws underlying prey capture in the dragonfly. tion of Cordulegaster bidentata (Selys, 1843) (Odonata, Abstracts of the 9th International Congress of Neuro- Cordulegastridae) in Ukraine. Euroasian Entomological ethology, Salamanca (Spain) 2-7 August 2010. P 363: Journal 9(2): 303-307. (in Russian, with English sum- 235. (in English) [Verbatim: "Dragonflies are nature‘s mary) [C. bidentata is widespread in mountainous and consummate aerial predators; flying at extremely high sub-mountainous regions of the Ukrainian Carpathian speeds, they catch small moving insect prey; escapes settling at altitudes between 400 - 1000 m a.s.l. It pre- are rare. We have constructed the first indoor dragonfly fers habitats with low water temperature and a moder- flight arena in order to unravel the computations and ate water velocity, providing sedimentation of sand and circuit dynamics underlying this remarkable behaviour. small gravel, a prerequisite for larval development. It is We will present data from an array of high speed cam- also tolerant of anthropogenic loads and is therefore eras that allows us to reconstruct the trajectory of the present in artificial water bodies. In general, the status dragonfly and its prey (Drosophila). From these data, of C. bidentata populations on the territory of Ukrainian we can test quantitatively the hypothesis (Olberg et al., Carpathian Mountains is considered by the authors as 2000) that dragonflies use a strategy of proportional satisfactory. Since the majority of known populations navigation to intercept their prey. Starting with the three- occur within the boundaries of nature conservation si- dimensional coordinates of the dragonfly and its prey, tes, no additional protective measures are taken for we calculate the azimuthal and elevational line-of-sight necessary. All known localities are listed.] Address: Mar- position of the prey as a function of time. The numerical tinov, A.V., Dept. Gen. & Appl. Ent, Schmalhausen Inst. derivatives of these line-of-sight vectors are then esti- Zool, Natn. Acad. Sci., Khmelnytskogo 15, 01601 Kyiv, mated, and their drift rates are compared to the dragon- Ukraine fly‘s acceleration vector normal to its bearing. The ex- tent to which these numbers are consistent with differ- 10178. Martinov, A.V. (2010): The Odonata fauna of the ent models of proportional navigation and other guid- basin of the river Severskyi Donets in its middle current ance laws will be discussed." (Authors)] Address: Ol- (Eastern Ukraine). International Dragonfly Fund - Re- berg, R.M., Dept Biol. Sciences, Union College, Sche- port 31: 1-41. (in English) ["A list of 57 Odonata species nectady, NY 12308, USA. E-mail: [email protected] from 108 localities recorded in the basin of the river Severskyi Donets in its middle range (Eastern Ukraine) 10175. Lopez Salmeron, A.; Mendoza-Cuenca, L. is provided. This compilation includes literature and (2010): Efecto del parasitismo por ácaros acuáticos en museum data as well as results from field surveys real- la adecuación de Argia sp. (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). ized between 2001 and 2009. Annotations to the history Biológicas 12(2): 122-128. (in Spanish, with English of regional odonate research are made. Brief descrip- summary) ["In the late three decades a deep interest in tions of typical dragonfly habitats in the floodplain of theoretical and empirical knowledge of sexual selection, Severskyi Donets are presented. Locality wise notes on have showed that it is common in nature. In dragonfly the reproductive status for most of the species are species such as Argia sp. (Odonata: Coenagrionidae), made." (Author)] Address: Martynov, A.V., Entomology where males did not perform any precopulatory display Department, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of and the sexual harassment to females occurs very fre- Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. Email: [email protected] quently, we would expect that females use traits to dis- criminate between males. We evaluated, using capture- 10179. Matos, R. (2010): Analysis of biogeography of recapture marking and through behavioral observa- stream Botafogo, Presidente Prudente – Sao Paulo – tions, if mites attack affects individual survival of Argia Brazil. Geoatos, Departamento de Geografia da FCT/ sp. from one population with high levels of parasitism UNESP, Presidente Prudente 10(1): 70-85. (in Portu- by aquatic mites, and also if parasitism levels could be guese, with English summary) [Limnological data of the used by females to discriminate among males. Our re- main channel within the basin of the Botafogo stream sults showed that mites attack males with higher inten- system and water source are taken and discussed with sity, despite females are bigger and could potentially emphasize on the implications resulting from urbaniza-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 31 tion in this area. Odonata are treated at the family lev- has a further species classed as 'vulnerable'. One resi- el.] Address: Matos, R., Grupo de Pesquisa Gestão Am- dent species in Britain has become established only this biental e Dinâmica Socioespacial (GADIS), Rua Rober- century and a further two species have begun breeding to Simonsen, 305; [email protected]. on a regular basis and may become established as permanent residents in the near future.] Address: Parr, 10180. Mauscherning, I.; Jödicke, K.; Neumann, C.; A.J., 10 Orchard Way, Barrow, Bury St. Edmunds, Suf- Winkler, C. (2010): Artenhilfsprojekt Grüne Mosaikjung- folk IP29 5BX, UK. E-mail: [email protected] fer und Krebsschere in Dithmarschen. Bündnis Natur- schutz in Ditmarschen e.V. (Hrsg.): Faltblatt, 6 pp. (in 10183. Nationalpark Hainich (Hrsg.) (2010): Artenbe- German) [Leaflet with a brief introduction into conserva- richt 2009: Tiere, Pflanzen und Pilze im Nationalpark tion tasks to protect habitats of Aeshna viridis and Stra- Hainich. Kenntnisstand zum 31.12.2009. Hrsg.: Natio- tiotes aloides in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.] Ad- nalpark Hainich Verwaltung, Bei der Marktkirche 9. D- dress: Bündnis Naturschutz in Ditmarschen e.V., Mel- 99947 Bad Langensalza. 135 pp: 24-25. (in German) dorfer Str. 17, 25770 Hemmingstedt, Germany. E-mail: [Thüringen, Germany; on pages 24-25, 44 Odonata [email protected] species are listed.] Address: Nationalpark Hainich Ver- waltung, Bei der Marktkirche 9. D-99947 Bad Langen- 10181. Mikolajewski, D.J.; De Block, M.; Rolff, J.; Jo- salza hansson, F.; Beckerman, A.P.; Stoks, R. (2010): Preda- tor-driven trait diversification in a dragonfly genus: co- 10184. Ngiam, R.W.J. (2010): Heliogomphus cf. retro- variation in behavioral and morphological antipredator flexus Ris, 1912, (Odonata: Anisoptera: Gomphidae), a defense. Evolution 64(11): 3327-3335. (in English) possible new record for Singapore. Nature in Singapore ["Proof for predation as an agent shaping evolutionary 3: 221-225. (in English) [As pointed out in Ngiam et al trait diversification is accumulating, however, our un- 2011, the description of the larvae of this taxon and derstanding how multiple antipredator traits covary due presented in this paper is not valid for H. retroflexus to phenotypic differentiation is still scarce. Species of and refers to Microgomphus chelifer.] Address: Ngiam, the dragonfly genus Leucorrhinia underwent shifts from R.W.J., National Biodiversity Centre, National Parks lakes with fish as top predators to fishless lakes with Board, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569. E-mail: large dragonfly predators. This move to fishless lakes [email protected] was accompanied by a partial loss and reduction of lar- 10185. Nordström, K.; Bolzon, D.; O'Carroll, D. (2010): val spines. Here, we show that Leucorrhinia also re- duced burst swimming speed and its associated energy Slow facilitation of small target motion responses. Ab- fuelling machinery, arginine kinase activity, when invad- stracts of the 9th International Congress of Neuroethol- ing fishless lakes. This results in patterns of positive ogy, Salamanca (Spain) 2-7 August 2010. P 393: 617. phylogenetic trait covariation between behavioral and (in English) [Verbatim: "Many insect species pursue morphological antipredator defense (trait cospecializa- small moving targets, e.g. the predatory dragonflies tion) and between behavioral antipredator defense and chase and capture small prey. To overcome the inher- physiological machinery (trait codependence). Across ently limited resolution of the compound eye, many in- species patterns of trait covariation between spine sta- sects that pursue targets have developed acute zones. tus, burst swimming speed and arginine kinase activity The optical specializations are accompanied with neural also matched findings within the phenotypically plastic hardware giving selective responses to small targets. In L. dubia. Our results highlight the importance of preda- the dragonfly lobula (3rd optic ganglion) small target tion as a factor affecting patterns of multiple trait covari- motion detectors (STMD) respond to small moving tar- ation during phenotypic diversification." (Authors)] Ad- gets (1-3º), with no response to larger bars or to wide- dress: Mikolajewski, D.J., Laboratory of Aquatic Ecolo- field stimuli (1,2). STMDs are exquisitely sensitive neu- gy and Evolutionary Biology, Katholieke Universiteit rons, detecting targets with an effective neural contrast Leuven, Charles Debériotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven, Bel- as low as 2% (3). This performance is especially im- gium. E-mail: [email protected] pressive considering the ability to respond to small tar- gets against moving backgrounds, and the lack of sus- 10182. Mill, P.; Brooks, S.; Parr, A. (2010): 26. Dragon- tained responses to clutter within moving natural flies (Odonata) in Britain and Ireland. In: Maclean, N. scenes. What mechanisms provide STMDs with a high- (Ed.): Silent Summer; The Stale of Wildlife in Britain and enough gain to allow responses to lowcontrast targets, Ireland. Cambridge University Press: 471-494. (in Eng- while still avoiding breakthrough responses to target- lish) ["Although three species of dragonfly became ex- like features in natural backgrounds? It is possible that tinct in Britain and Ireland in the 1950s, the outlook for a summation mechanism plays a role, enabling re- most of the present resident species is favourable, sponses to build up as targets move continuously providing that appropriate freshwater habitat is in- across the receptive field. To investigate the presence creased and pollution reduced. A number of species arc of facilitation mechanisms, we record intracellularly extending their range northwards, mostly as a result of from the recently characterized Centrifugal STMD1 overall temperature increase, but at least one also as a (CSTMD1) (2,4). Its large centrifugal axon allows for result of reduction in river pollution. Three northern more stable recordings than usual for STMDs. We show species arc showing some sign of a retraction north- that CSTMD1 has a slow facilitation mechanism where wards of their southern range margins and this could responses continue to grow for several hundred milli- lead to a serious problem if temperatures continue to seconds as targets move across the receptive field. rise. A further species currently restricted to the East This gives a partial explanation for the ability of STMDs Anglian coast is threatened by projected sea-level rise. to respond to low contrast targets: only continuous mo- According to IUCN criteria, of our 39 breeding species tion of a target with the correct spatiotemporal profile al- (17 zygopterans) and 22 anisopterans) two are classed low responses to continue to build up to maximum firing as 'endangered*, four as 'vulnerable' and six as 'near frequencies. References: 1. O"Carroll. 1993. Nature threatened' in Britain. One of these 'near threatened' 362, 541. 2. Geurten, et al. 2007. J Exp Biol 210, 3277. species is classed as 'vulnerable' in Ireland and Ireland 3. Nordström, et al. 2006. PLoS Biol 4, 378. 4. Bolzon,

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 32 et al. 2009. J Neurosci 29, 14143." (Authors)] Address: mensional object movements outdoors under blue sky. Nordström, Karin, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsa- Abstracts of the 9th International Congress of Neuro- la University, PO Box 593, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden. E- ethology, Salamanca (Spain) 2-7 August 2010: 76. (in mail: [email protected] English) [Verbatim: "Dragonflies make their living by foraging on flying insects. Eight pairs of identified neu- 10186. Noskov, Yu.A.; Boyarisheva, E.A.; Belevich, O. rons are implicated in controlling the dragonfly‘s flight E.; Yurchenko, Yu.A. (2010): Species sensitivity distri- path as it intercepts its flying prey. These targetselective bution of a freshwater Arthropoda community to the in- descending neurons (TSDNs) descend from the brain secticide Esfenvalerate in the south of Western Siberia. of the dragonfly to the thoracic ganglia. They show di- Eurasian Entomological Journal 9(4): 583-589. (in Rus- rectionally selective responses to small objects moving sian, with English summary) [The sensitivity of 18 insect relative to the dragonfly. Their receptive fields are locat- larva species including Sympetrum flaveolum and ed in the dorso-frontal quadrant of the visual field, the Lestes sponsa to the pyrethroid insecticide Esfen- region that views prey during the foraging flight. When valerate is studied. The results of this study showed stimulated intracellularly with highfrequency, depolariz- that the widely used laboratory test object Daphnia ing current pulses, each of these neurons evokes small magna is ineffective to predict impacts of Esfenvalerata. adjustments in wing position and attitude. To under- The odonate species react less sensitive as D. magna.] stand the behavior of the TSDNs under more natural Address: Noskov, Yu.A., Institute of Systematics and environmental conditions, we studied their responses Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Si- outdoors, under blue sky, to the movement of opaque berian Branch, Frunze str. 11, Novosibirsk 630091 Rus- white beads of three sizes (2, 4, and 8 mm) around the sia. E-mail: [email protected] immobilized dragonfly. The bead movements were vid- 10187. Olberg, R.; Leonardo, A. (2010): Towards wire- eotaped (100 frames/s) for 3-dimensional reconstruc- less monitoring of neural activity during dragonfly prey tion of their paths. The extracellularly recorded TSDN interception flights. Abstracts of the 9th International spikes were sorted and correlated with bead positions Congress of Neuroethology, Salamanca (Spain) 2-7 and velocities. We recorded from dragonflies of two August 2010: 25. (in English) [Verbatim: "In response to genera: Aeshna (which forages from continuous flight) an insect passing overhead, the foraging dragonfly and Pachydiplax (which takes off to forage from a takes off on an interception trajectory, aiming a point perch). The outdoor recordings revealed several new ahead of the flying prey. If the potential prey deviates in properties of the neurons and their receptive fields, its flight path, the dragonfly corrects its own course so three of which are presented here. (1) Receptive fields that the bearing to the prey is held constant, a strategy are not identical between genera, a result that may be than ensures interception. During the foraging flight the related to their markedly different foraging strategies. dragonfly adjusts its head angle to maintain the prey‘s (2) Three-dimensional receptive field reconstruction image centered on the dorsal fovea of its compound showed that size selectivity varies with object distance. eye. Eight pairs of identified neurons are implicated in (3) The higher light levels and ambient temperatures controlling the dragonfly‘s flight path as it intercepts its outdoors resulted in TSDN spike rates of 900 Hz or flying prey. These target-selective descending neurons greater, much higher than have ever been observed in (TSDNs) descend from the brain of the dragonfly to the laboratory experiments." (Authors)] Address: Olberg, R. thoracic ganglia. They show directionally selective re- M., Dept Biological Sciences, Union College, Schenec- sponses to small objects moving relative to the dragon- tady, NY 12308, USA. E-mail: [email protected] fly. Their receptive fields are located in the dorso-frontal 10189. Outomuro, D.; Ocharan, F.J.; Herrero, F.; Pérez- quadrant of the visual field, the region that views prey Andueza, G. (2010): Primera cita de Oxygastra curtisii during the foraging flight. Intracellular stimulation of any (Dale, 1834) para la provincia de Ávila (Odonata: Cor- of these neurons evokes small adjustments in wing po- duliidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Ara- sition and attitude. Details of the neural control of prey gonesa 46: 615-616. (in Spanish, with English sum- interception are not obvious. For example, because the mary) ["A new Spanish locality for the endangered O. dragonfly rotates its head to fixate the prey‘s image, the curtisii is described. It constitutes the first record of the signal that indicates the prey‘s drift is probably very species from Ávila province and its highest recorded al- brief. In addition, the dragonfly must factor in its own titude in the Iberian Peninsula (1205 m a.s.l.). The Ibe- head angle in determining the bearing of the prey. To rian distribution of the species is briefly discussed, with more fully understand the neural underpinnings of this special reference to other, nearby populations." (Au- complex flight behavior, we are developing the means thors)] Address: Ocharan, F.J., Depto de Biología de to monitor TSDN activity from a dragonfly in free flight. Organismos y Sistemas, Univ. de Oviedo, E-33071 Extracellular TSDN activity will be recorded from the Oviedo, Spain: E-mail: [email protected] mesothoracic ganglion, amplified and transmitted from a lightweight telemetry chip mounted on the dragonfly. 10190. Outomuro, D. (2010): Patrones morfológicos Neuronal activity will be correlated with the 3- latitudinales en poblaciones ibéricas de Calopteryx dimensional trajectories of the dragonfly and its flying Leach, 1815 (Odonata, Calopterygidae): posibles cau- prey, reconstructed from high-speed video recordings. sas ambientales y evolutivas. Boln. Asoc. Esp. Ent. Our goal in this approach is to understand how visual 33(3-4) (2009): 299-319. (in Spanish, with English sum- information is translated into steering commands for in- mary) ["Latitudinal morphological patterns in Iberian Ca- terception in a freely flying insect." (Authors)] Address: lopteryx Leach, 1815 (Odonata, Calopterygidae) popu- Olberg, R.M., Department of Biological Sciences, Union lations: possible environmental and evolutionary fac- College, Schenectady, NY 12308, USA. E-mail: olbergr tors. - The morphological clines related with latitudinal @union.edu or altitudinal gradients, generally caused by natural se- lection, can be modified by sexual selection, especially 10188. Olberg, R.; Imler, E.; Seeman, S.; Shulman, D.; when it plays a major role in interpopulation divergence. Worthington, A. (2010): The responses of target-selec- Two species of Calopteryx damselflies [C. virgo merid- tive descending neurons in the dragonfly to 3-di-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 33 ionalis, C. xanthostoma] were studied at three different cussed. A map with records of Atlantic Forest Navicor- latitudes in the Iberian Peninsula. Latitudinal patterns in dulia species and a list of Brazilian corduliids by state size and secondary sexual traits were recorded. A mo- are also presented." (Authors)] Address: Pinto, A.P., dified converse Bergmann rule explains size patterns. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Patterns in secondary sexual traits are better explained Nazaré 481, Ipiranga 04263-000 São Paulo-SP, Brazil. by a balance between sexual selection processes with- E-mail: [email protected] in and between the two species. These processes are 10194. Poulin, B.; Lefebvre, G.; Paz, L. (2010): Red flag influenced by latitudinal differences in relative abun- dances, in the sense that the most abundant species for green spray: adverse trophic effects of Bti on breeding displaces the traits of the other species because of birds. Journal of Applied Ecology 47(4): 884-889. (in Eng- sexual interference, in order to reduce reproductive ef- lish) ["The expanding use of selective pest-control agents fort costs between species. Differences in relative abun- provides a unique opportunity to study food web interac- dances are supported by the distribution frequencies of tions in the field while addressing major environmental both species in the Iberian Peninsula. The third Iberian issues. Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) is the most species might cause a reinforcement polymorphism in commonly used microbial agent to control mosquitoes one of the species studied." (Author)] Address: Outomu- worldwide. Using breeding house martins Delichon ur- ro, D., Depto de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, bicum as a model species, we assessed the effect of Bti Universidad de Oviedo. 33071 Oviedo, Spain. E-mail: spraying on foraging rates and chick diet prior to and dur- [email protected] ing 3 years of Bti spraying in the Camargue, France. Some 9051 feeding flights and 14 857 prey items were 10191. Outomuro, D.; Ocharan, F.J. (2010): Gomphus recorded in the early, mid and late nesting season at up simillimus Sélys, 1840 (Odonata, Gomphidae) en la to three control and three treated sites. Breeding pa- cuenca del Segura y el sur de la cuenca del Duero (SE rameters were assessed during 1 year at two control and y Centro de España). Boln. Asoc. Esp. Ent. 34(1-2): two treated sites. [...] Nematocera, Araneae and Odonata 245-248. (in Spanish) [All known records of G. similli- were taken significantly more often at control sites, mus in Spain are mapped. Current additions result from whereas Hymenoptera (flying ants) accounted for a larg- the river Segura basin and the south of the river Duero er portion of the diet at treated sites (Table 2). ... Because basin (SE and Central Spain).] Address: Outomuro, D., Odonata and Araneae are favourite prey of swallows‘ Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, nestlings (Foelix 1996; McCarty & Winkler 1999), and Universidad de Oviedo. 33071 Oviedo, Spain. E-mail: major predators of Nematocera (Foelix 1996; Corbet [email protected] 1999), their lower intake at treated sites suggests an indi- rect effect of Bti treatments through the food web." (Au- 10192. Parkinson, D. (2010): Plateau des Tailles: ré- thors)] Address: Poulin, Brigitte,Tour du Valat Research ponse positive des libellules suite aux travaux de res- Center, Le Sambuc, 13200 Arles, France. E-mail: poulin tauration du projet LIFE. Les naturalistes Belges 91(3- @tourduvalat.org 4): 55-67. (in French, with English summary) [Belgium; "In peatlands of the southern slope of the plateau des 10195. Principe, R.E.; Gualdoni, C.M.; Oberto, A.M.; Tailles, numerous water bodies were created during Raffaini, G.B.; Corigliano, M.C. (2010): Spatial-temporal "plateau des Tailles" LIFE Nature project. Dragonflies patterns of functional feeding groups in mountain found on restored sites were surveyed annually from streams of Córdoba, Argentina. Ecología Austral 20: 257- 2006 to 2010. Following restoration's work, the number 268. (in English) ["Trophic structure of benthic communi- of dragonfly species recorded increased from 15 to 28. ties is influenced by the availability of food resources Several endangered species have expanded their which indeed may be conditioned by stream size, shad- range and their numbers. Through their response to the ing and substrate. This study aims to analyze the distri- restoration works, the species studied show very differ- bution of macroinvertebrate Functional Feeding Groups ent dispersal abilities and ecological requirements. in different habitats of mountain streams (Córdoba, Ar- Odonata are an excellent indicator taxonomic group to gentina) and to assess the environmental variables con- assess the quality of peatlands restoration." (Author)] ditioning this distribution at the habitat level. Four Address: Parkinson, D., Les Floxhes, 4, 4160 Anthis- streams were sampled in two hydrological periods (high nes, Belgium. E-mail: [email protected] and low discharge) and three benthic samples were tak- en in riffles and runs of coarse and fine substrate. Gath- 10193. Pinto, A.P.; Lamas, C.J.E. (2010): Navicordulia ering collectors were dominant in most of the habitats, aemulatrix sp. nov. (Odonata, Corduliidae) from north- streams and periods except in riffles during the low water eastern Santa Catarina State, Brazil. Revista Brasileira period in which filtering collectors dominated. At the habi- de Entomologia 54(4): 608-617. (in English, with Portu- tat level, current velocity, substrate, abundance of macro- guese summary) ["Navicordulia aemulatrix sp. nov. from algae and twigs and leaves were the most important var- northeastern Santa Catarina State, Brazil. Navicordulia iables explaining functional feeding group distribution. aemulatrix sp. nov. (holotype male deposited in MZSP: Functional feeding group abundances varied in relation Brazil, Santa Catarina State, [São Bento do Sul munici- to the stream, the hydrological period and the habitat. pality, 26°14‘58‖S, 49°22‘59‖W], [railroad station] Rio The dominance of collectors demonstrates the im- Vermelho, II.1952) is described and illustrated based on portance of the role of this functional group and that fine three males. The long cercus (2.9-3.2 mm) places this detritus is the main food resource in these lotic ecosys- species in the longistyla-group together with N. kiautai, tems. The phenology and life history of the species, and N. longistyla and N. nitens but it differs from them main- the amount and type of organic matter retained in each ly by the shape of cercus, with carinated part occupying habitat may explain the observed spatial-temporal pat- 0.33 of cercus total length, and also by dorsal, ventro- terns." (Authors) Odonata - including "Progomphus sp." medial and ventrolateral tubercles developed. An unu- are treated at the family level.] Address: Príncipe, Ro- sual process on tergal portion of prothorax is reported mina, Univ. Nacional de Río Cuarto, Depto de Ciencias for the first time in Navicordulia. The rate of description Naturales, Río Cuarto, Pcia. de Córdoba, Argentina of new species of South American ‗Corduliidae‘ is dis-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 34 10196. Reels, G. (2010): Dragonfly surveys in Hainan, tadpole survival, mass, and relative morphology. In- China, 2007-2008. Agrion 14(2): 34-38. (in English) creased herbicide concentrations caused increased ["The first field trip (18-26 May 2007) centred on sites in tadpole mortality, but the amount of mortality decreased and around Yinggeling Nature Reserve in central Hai- in the presence of caged dragonflies. Tadpole mass ex- nan, with two days at Ganzaling Nature Reserve in hibited little effect of the herbicide when no predators or southern Hainan. The next trip (17-23 June 2007) was caged newts were present, but mass declined with to the Wanning region of southeast Hainan. This was higher herbicide concentrations when caged dragonflies followed by two trips to Wuzhishan Nature Reserve (16- were present. Not surprisingly, the cues from caged 23 April and 8-14 August 2008); the latter trip also in- dragonflies induced adaptive morphological changes in volving sites between Wuzhishan and Wanning, and in the tadpoles. What was surprising is that the herbicide the Wanning region. In total, 28 days of field work were induced the same morphological changes in the tad- conducted, and 98 species recorded (vouchered, pho- poles as the larval dragonflies. In the second experi- tographed, or, in the case of common and easily-re- ment, Roundup and the predator treatments also had cognised species, unambiguously sighted). Four spe- interactive effects. Increased herbicide concentrations cies had not previously been found in Hainan (the first again caused increased mortality and the amount of three of these were reported by Wilson et al., 2008): mortality again declined with caged dragonflies. With le- Lestes praemorsus, Rhyothemis obsolescens, R. pluto- thal dragonflies, however, there mortality was reduced nia and Zyxomma petiolatum. New locality records we- similarly across all herbicide concentrations. Tadpole re made for five interesting species previously known mass increased with higher herbicide concentrations from only a single location in Hainan: Rhinagrion hai- when predators were absent, was unaffected by the nanense and Nannophyopsis clara (first reported by herbicide when caged dragonflies were present, and Wilson & Reels, 2001) Dysphaea gloriosa and Rhipido- decreased with higher herbicide concentrations when lestes cyanoflavus (first reported by Wilson et al., lethal dragonflies were present. Once again, the mor- 2008), and Hylaeothemis clementia (unpublished; Dra- phology of the tadpoles was induced similarly by caged gonfly surveys in Hainan, China, 2007-2008 Graham dragonflies and the herbicide. Collectively, these results Reels one male collected by Bosco Chan at Yinggeling, suggest that the effects of Roundup on larval amphibi- 2005; det. by G.T. Reels – the first specimen of this ge- ans can differ tremendously depending on community nus for China). By an extraordinary coincidence, a fe- context. Moreover, the herbicide is somehow able to in- male specimen of a new Sinosticta species that was duce anti-predator responses." (Author)] Address: Re- subsequently named S. sylvatica Yu & Bu, 2009, was lyea, R.A., Dept Biol. Sci., Univ. of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, collected by team member Hilario Padilla on the same Pennsylvania 15260, USA. E-mail: [email protected] date (25 May 2007) that Yu Xin, working completely in- 10198. Righi-Cavallaro, K.O.; Roche, K.F.; Froehlich, dependently, collected the first of his two males, and both records were made in Yinggeling, by groups una- O.; Cavallaro, M.R. (2010): Structure of macroinverte- brate communities in riffles of a Neotropical karst ware of each other‘s existence! The following year, I found this species to be quite common around Wuzhi- stream in the wet and dry seasons. Acta Limnologica shan." (Author)] Address: Reels, G., H-3-30 Fairview Brasiliensia 22(3): 306-316. (in English, with Portu- Park, Yuen Long, Hong Kong. E-mail: gtreels@gmail. guese summary) ["Aim: Our study evaluated the effects com of physical and chemical variables and seasonality on diversity and structure of the macroinvertebrate fauna in 10197. Relyea, R.A. (2010): COS 53-2: New effects of riffles of a Neotropical chalk stream; Methods: Sampling Roundup® on amphibians: Predation, stratification, and was performed during the dry (September 2003) and induction of tadpole morphology. The 95th ESA Annual rainy (March 2004) seasons, in five sites. Five samples Meeting (August 1-6, 2010): (in English) [Verbatim: were taken at each point with a Surber sampler. Physi- "Background/Question/Methods: To understand the im- cal and chemical variables were also evaluated; Re- pacts of anthropogenic chemicals on natural communi- sults: Temperature, pH, orthophosphate and total nitro- ties, we often must base our predictions on short-term, gen were very similar for both seasons, while riffle single-species tests that are conducted as part of the length, conductivity, alkalinity, ammonia, phosphorus regulation process. While a valuable first-step, these and leaf litter had different values. The total number of tests tell us little about the impacts of contaminants un- organisms collected was 25114 belonging to at least 50 der more natural conditions. Thus, many ecotoxicolo- families. Insects dominated in the samples. The highest gists have moved to testing contaminants under more abundance was found for the dry period. Temporary natural conditions where natural stressors are abun- stretches were sampled in rainy season in order to dant. Among the many natural stressors, predator complement the faunal inventory; Conclusions: The en- stress is a common one whose interactions with pesti- vironmental seasonality was an important factor for cides have only been examined under laboratory condi- structuring the macroinvertebrate fauna, with a signifi- tions. Using two mesoscosm experiments, I examined cant difference between the invertebrate compositions how predation stress interacted with the effects of in the sampling periods. The results of this study de- Roundup®, the most widely applied herbicide in the monstrate the influences of seasonality on the temporal world. The first experiment, conducted with three variation of communities." (Authors) Odonata are treat- spring-breeding species of anurans, crossed four con- ed at the family level.] Address: Righi-Cavallaro, Karina, centrations of Roundup with the presence of no preda- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, tors, caged adult newts, or caged dragonfly larvae. The Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo – USP, second experiment, conducted with three species of Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, CEP 14040-901, Ribeirão Pre- summer-breeding anurans, crossed four concentrations to, SP, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] of Roundup with the presence of no predators, caged dragonfly larvae, or lethal dragonfly larvae. Results/ 10199. Roland, H.-J. (2010): Schlupfphänologie von Conclusions: In the first experiment, Roundup and the Anax imperator und A. parthenope an einem Braunkoh- caged-predator treatments had interactive effects on lerestloch in der Wetterau (Odonata: Aeshnidae). Libel-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 35 lula 29(3/4): 143-154. (in German, wtih English sum- 10203. Schweighofen, W.; Hochebner, T.; Rotheneder, mary) ["Between 06-vi-2010 and 11-x-2010, at an open- G. (2010): Lestes macrostigma im westlichen Niederös- cast brown coal mining lake 35 km north of Frankurt on terreich (Odonata: Lestidae). Libellula 29(3/4): 175-182. the Main, 937 exuviae of A. imperator and 1026 of A. (in German, with English summary) ["During the sum- parthenope were collected. By the use of these syste- mer of 2010, L. macrostigma was recorded in the Alpine matically taken data, emergence charts were produced foothills of Lower Austria for the first time. A maximum that allow the comparison of both species. While the of three pairs, exhibiting reproductory behaviour, was emergence chart for A. imperator had one peak, the observed. The conditions of the habitat are character- one for A. parthenope was double-peaked during the ised, potential migration paths are discussed, and the emergence period. The size of A. imperator exuviae reproductory behaviour of one pair is depicted in detail." fluctuated during the emergence period, while A. par- (Authors)] Address: Schweighofen, W., Ötscherblick 10, thenope showed a clear trend of increasing in size until 3661 Artstetten, Austria. E-mail: wolfgang.schweighofer the first emergence peak and stayed at a high level @schule.at from then on." (Author)] Address: Roland, H.-J., Im Mühlahl 35, 61203 Reichelsheim, Germany. E-mail: 10204. Sharma, G. (2010): Studies on the reproductive [email protected] behaviour of Ischnura aurora (Brauer) (Odonata: Insec- ta) around Dholbaha Dam (Punjab Shivalik), India. Bio- 10200. Roland, H.-J. (2010): Haltbarkeit von Anax-Exu- logical Forum 2(1): 6-8. (in English) ["Courtship is well vien am Ort der Emergenz (Odonata: Aeshnidae). Libel- marked and male demonstrate a circular territory with a lula 29(3/4): 231-240. (in German, wtih English sum- radius of about 30-50cm. The courtship wheel lasts for mary) ["In the context of a systematic collection of exu- about 15-18 minutes performed by perching on vegeta- viae at an open-cast mining lake in the Wetterau, Hes- tion. Oviposition is endophytic among the aquatic vege- se, Germany, it was noted that exuviae of Anax impera- tation and lasts for 15-20 minutes. The duration of re- tor and A. parthenope were able to remain for many productive behaviour lasts for 50-85 minutes." (Author)] months, until the emergence period of the following Address: Sharma, G., Zoological Survey of India (Minis- year, at their emergence sites. The prerequisite is that try of Environment and Forests), Post-Jhalamand, Pali the imagines have emerged fixed to a substrate that Road, Jodhpur, (RJ) India does not alter during that time. In many cases it will be impossible to tell whether an exuvia has been hanging 10205. Sites, R.W.; Vitheepradit, A. (2010): Recovery at a site for three days or three weeks. Hence, pheno- of the freshwater lentic insect fauna in Thailand follow- logical statements based on records of exuviae are only ing the tsunami of 2004. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology possible when the monitoring is conducted at short in- 58(2): 329-348. (in English) ["The tsunami of 26 De- tervals." (Author)] Address: Roland, H.-J., Im Mühlahl cember 2004 inundated the coastlines of many South- 35, 61203 Reichelsheim, Germany. E-mail: Hjuergenro- east Asian countries, including Thailand. The force of [email protected] the surge was devastating to the extent that hundreds of thousands of humans were killed, whereas the effect 10201. Rümpler, F.; Peter, H.-U. (2010): Der ehemalige on non-human biota, including insects, remains largely Truppenübungsplatz "Jenaer Forst" - Erfolgskontrolle unreported. Along the Andaman Sea coastline of Thai- landschaftspflegerischer Maßnahmen. Landschaftspfle- land, we sampled lentic (pond) habitats within the area ge und Naturschutz in Thüringen 47(3): 118-133. (in directly affected by the tsunami and other reference German) [Seven Odonata species are listed and briefly ponds slightly inland to determine the rate and trajecto- discussed. Special emphasis is given to the regionally ry of community recovery following extirpation. Our first rare Orthetrum brunneum.] Address: Rümpler, F., Fried- samples were taken five months after the tsunami, rich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Inst. für Ökologie, Dornburger which marked the end of a dry season. By that time, Str. 159, 07743 Jena, Germany. E-mail: Florian.Ruemp- many impacted ponds already had substantial freshwa- [email protected] ter recharge through rainfall, and conductivity had fallen to approximately 10% that of seawater. An insect com- 10202. Sánchez, M.; Realpe, E.; Salazar, C. (2010): A munity with a mean richness of 20 taxa was present al- Neotropical polymorphic damselfly shows poor congru- ready, whereas the unaffected inland ponds had a ence between genetic and traditional morphological mean richness of 27 taxa. Insect tolerance to salinity in characters in Odonata. Molecular Phylogenetics and general appears to be greater and taxonomically more Evolution 57(2): 912-917. (in English) ["The Neotropical widespread than previously considered. Three addi- damselfly genus Polythore consists of nineteen de- tional sampling periods were spaced over the next 12 scribed morphospecies. We used the COI barcode lo- months. Two-way ANOVA tests for species richness cus (799bp), male genitalia, wing venation, and geo- among higher taxa revealed significant differences metrical pattern variation to clarify specific status in four among sampling periods for total Insecta and four or- Polythore procera populations in the Andean foothills of ders separately (Odonata, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, and Colombia. Morphological data corroborates that all Diptera), and six subordinate taxa (Anisoptera, Zy- populations are Polythore procera, but molecular data goptera, Gerridae, Notonectidae, Dytiscidae, and Chi- suggests two well-supported reciprocal monophyletic ronomidae). Patterns of species richness in impacted clades. A high genetic divergence (3%) was observed ponds across sampling periods were evaluated with between them, and different degrees of gene flow were Discriminant Function Analysis separately using ordinal estimated by MDIV among populations. Our results and family richness values. Using ordinal richness val- support a recent (1.4 mya) possible speciation with ues, 55.0% of the ponds were classified to the correct morphological stasis where unknown reproductive me- sampling period, whereas when using family richness chanisms may be involved." (Authors)] Address: Sán- values, 92.5% of the ponds were classified correctly. A chez Melissa, Laboratorio de Zoología y Ecología parsimony analysis was performed to evaluate commu- Acuática, Universidad de los Andes, Cr 1 No 18A – 10 nity succession and recovery trajectory. Numerous tan- J307. Tel: (571)-3394949 ext. 2765. Bogotá, Colombia. gential trajectories are evident, suggesting that the E-mail: [email protected]

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 36 communities of the impacted ponds are not assembling Germany.] Address: Stephan, Ulrike, Im Westengarten toward the taxonomic composition of the unaffected 12, 79241 Ihringen, Germany ponds, but to one or more alternative stable states. 10210. Stollard, J.; Stollard, J. (2010): Damsels and Taxonomic composition was evaluated also by cluster- Dragons. The Wood Duck 63(8): 175-176. (in English) ing Jaccard‘s Similarity scores. On each of the four sampling dates and overall, fidelity of pond type based [Ontario, Canada; brief introduction into Odonata sys- on the taxonomic composition is distinct, suggesting tematics and who to observe dragonflies.] Address: that the community in the impacted ponds has not Stollard, J. E-mail: [email protected] demonstrated any signs of shifting toward that of the 10211. Strobbe, F.; McPeek, M.A.; De Block, M.; Stoks, unaffected ponds. In addition to the evaluation of inun- R. (2010): Fish predation selects for reduced foraging dated and unaffected pond communities, a series of activity. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 65(2): 241-247. (in Eng- peat swamps that had been collected in 1994 and 1995 lish) ["Despite the importance of foraging activity for the were resampled to obtain comparable post-tsunami da- growth/predation risk trade-off, studies that demon- ta. We found only 16 of the 33 taxa previously recorded strated predator-induced survival selection on foraging and substantially fewer individuals." (Authors) Only odo- activity under semi-natural conditions are relatively rare. nate morphospecies are listed.] Address: Sites, R.W., Here, we tested for fish-induced selection for reduced Enns Entomology Museum, Division of Plant Sciences, foraging activity in two larval Enallagma damselflies us- University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA. ing a field enclosure experiment. Fish imposed consid- E-mail: [email protected] erable mortality in both damselfly species and survival 10206. Sivtseva, L.V. (2010): New data on the dragon- selection on foraging activity could be detected in Enal- fly fauna (Odonata) of central Yakutia. Euroasian ento- lagma geminatum. We did not detect selection in Enal- mological Journal 9(2): 295-298. (in Russian, with Eng- lagma hageni, probably because this species already lish summary) [Russia; 28 species are recorded includ- was not eating very much in the absence of fish com- ing new regional records: Coenagrion glaciale, Nihono- pared to E. geminatum. Both species responded gomphus ruptus, Somatochlora exuberata, S. graeseri.] strongly to the presence of predators by reducing their Address: Sivtseva, L.V., Institute of Biological Problems foraging activity. The documented survival selection on of Cryolythozone, Lenina ave. 41, Yakutsk 677980 foraging activity was detected despite the already low Russia. E-mail: [email protected] activity levels in fish lake prey species and despite strong predator-induced plasticity in this trait." (Au- 10207. Staufer, M. (2010): Beobachtungen zur Mortali- thors)] Address: Stoks, R., Department of Biology, La- tät wandernder Sympetrum striolatum und S. vulgatum boratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, an einem Autobahnzubringer im Nordburgenland (Odo- University of Leuven, Ch. Debériotstraat 32, 3000 Leu- nata: Libellulidae). Libellula 29(3/4): 183-196. (in Ger- ven, Belgium. E-mail: [email protected] man, with English summary) ["Studies of the traffic mor- tality of insects have been restricted so far to the inves- 10212. Tamm, J. (2010): Keineswegs nur braun: Vom tigation of road kills. In this study a different research blauen Fleck an der Flügelbasis von Sympecma fusca approach has been used to quantify the relative traffic (Odonata: Lestidae). Libellula 29(3/4): 241-246. (in Ger- risk for dragonflies. During the morning hours of four man, wtih English summary) ["Males of S. fusca have days a total of 906 Darters (S. vulgatum and S. striola- been observed spreading and whirring their wings im- tum) were counted whilst they were crossing a state mediately before copulation. During this behaviour the dual carriageway which was heavily used by vehicles. light blue patches on the wing bases, which are present Most dragonflies moved when temperatures reached in both sexes in spring time, conspicuously became vis- 25°C. All days showed a traffic risk of 5.9 to 7.6 % due ible. The colour patches are virtually invisible in the to collisions with vehicles or their airstreams. The colli- normal perching position, in which the wings are folded sion rate was highest within 50-60 Minutes from the be- above the abdomen. These colour patches might be ginning of the first flight activities of the respective day used as a precopula signal inviting the female to accept and decreased to zero after 100 minutes." (Author)] the partner." (Author)] Address: Tamm, J., Elgershäuser Address: Staufer, Martina, Dept für Biodiversität der Tie- Str. 12, 34131 Kassel, Germany. E-mail: jochen.Tamm re, Fak. für Lebenswissenschaften, Univ. Wien, Renn- @t-onl¡ne.de weg 14, 1030 Wien, Austria. E-mail: [email protected] 10213. Tang, H.B.; Wang, L.K.; Mmalainen, M. (2010): 10208. Staufer, M.; Holusa, O. (2010): First record of A photographic guide to the dragonflies of Singapore. Cordulegaster heros in the Czech Republic, with notes Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. ISBN 981 on Cordulegaster spp. in southern Moravia (Odonata: 0861551: 222 pp. (in English) [All 124 species currently Cordulegastridae). Libellula 29(3/4): 197-204. (in Ger- found in the country are covered and almost all are il- man, with English summary) ["On 19-VIII-2009 a dead lustrated in brilliant colour photographs. There are addi- female of C. heros was found in Buchlovicky stream in tional chapters covering Odonata taxonomy, morpholo- Buchlovice village in the Chriby hills of the Czech Re- gy, ecology and conservation and tips on where to find public. The potential occurrence of permanent popula- and how to study them.] Address: http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg tions of C. heros and records of other Cordulegaster 10214. Torralba-Burrial, T.; Outomuro, D.; Alonso-Na- species in southern Moravia are discussed." (Authors)] veiro, M. (2010): Teratología alar en Sympetrum flaveo- Address: Staufer, Martina, Dept für Biodiversität der Tie- lum (Linnaeus, 1758) (Odonata: Libellulidae). Boletín re, Fak. für Lebenswissenschaften, Univ. Wien, Renn- de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 46(1): 583- weg 14, 1030 Wien, Austria. E-mail: [email protected] 584. (in Spanish, with English summary) [A teratology 10209. Stephan, U. (2010): Mitgliederversammlung am involving the apical area of the left forewing of a Sym- 17. April 2010 in Kißlegg. mercuriale 10: 57-60. (in petrum flaveolum male is described.] Address: Outomu- German) [Report on the meeting of the regional dragon- ro, D., Depto de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, fly society for the Federal State Baden-Württemberg, Universidad de Oviedo. 33071 Oviedo, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 37 10215. Trapero-Quintana, A.; Reyes-Tur, B.; Mateu- Sborník referátù XIII. celostátního semináře odona- Arebalo, J. (2010): Distancia sobre el agua durante la tologů v Podyjí: 91-107. (in Czech, with English sum- emergencia en larvas de Odonata para tres cuerpos mary) ["The distribution of C. ornatum in the Czech Re- dulceacuícolas de Cuba Oriental. Dugesiana 17(2): public is far more extensive than considered up to 103-111. (in Spanish, with Englis summary) ["The dis- 2009. Before 2008 only one recent population from the tance reached over the water surface at the time of Piletický brook watershed and five historical records emergence by species of Odonata in three ecosystems from Bohemia and Moravia were known. In 2009 twen- from the Santiago de Cuba province, was estimated. A ty-five new localities with C. ornatum were discovered. positive correlation between height and species size Thirty-five new localities with C. ornatum were discov- was found in the three localities. The greater heights ered in 2010. These localities are distributed in Bohe- were registered in Guásima and Arroyo, the best con- mia as well as in southern Moravia which means further served areas and with a few stressing elements. In confirmation of this species distribution within the whole general, anisopterans reached the superior heights, area of Moravia and Silesia. Furthermore, three locali- whereas zygopterans tend to be close to the water sur- ties with larvae occurrence were discovered in Bohe- face. Females reached major heights than the males." mia. The new C. ornatum localities are situated mostly (Authors)] Address: Trapero-Quintana, A., Universidad in open farmland or mining areas at altitudes below 250 de Oriente. Depto de Biología. Patricio Lumumba s/n m a.s.l. C. ornatum prefers sunny parts of brooks and 90500. Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. E-mail: atrapero@ amelioration ditches with lush littoral vegetation (e.g. cnt.uo.edu.cu Sparganium erectum, Veronica beccabunga, Potamo- geton spp., Berula erecta). However, it also occurs 10216. Villanueva, J.R.; Mohagan, A.B. (2010): Diversi- along degraded and regulated sections of the streams ty and Status of Odonata across Vegetation Types in where thevegetation is dominated by Phalaris arundi- Mt. Hamiguitan Wildlife Sanctuary, Davao Oriental. nacea and Urtica dioica." (Authors)] Address: Wald- Asian Journal of Biodiversity 1(1): 35-45. (in English) hauser, M., Správa CHKO Luņické hory, Ńkolní 12, Ja- ["Diversity and status of Odonata in Mt. Hamiguitan blonné v Podjeńtìdí, CZ 47 125, Czech Republic. E- Wildlife Sanctuary was determined after a year of sam- mail: [email protected] pling in five vegetation types: agroecosystem (400 masl), dipterocarp (900 masl), montane (1200 masl), 10219. Wesolek, B.E.; Genrich, E.K.; Gunn, J.M.; mossy (1400 masl) and pygmy (1600 masl) using 2-Km Somers, K.M. (2010): Use of littoral benthic invertebra- transect walk sampling to provide information on spe- tes to assess factors affecting biological recovery of ac- cies richness trend and ecological status of Odonata. id- and metal-damaged lakes. Journal of the North Study showed 31 species with 94% endemism for dam- American Benthological Society 29(2): 572-585. (in selflies and 33.3% for dragonflies. Species richness and English) ["Biological recovery of aquatic ecosystems endemism were low in agroecosystem H‘=0.631 and 1 from acidification damage is a slow process. In lakes endemic; high and increasing in the dipterocarp near the massive Cu and Ni smelters in Sudbury, Can- H‘=2.298 and 4 endemic to dense montane forest with ada, the delays might be caused by residual metals, H‘= 3.056 and 18 endemic; decreasing in mossy habitat damage, altered predator–prey interactions, or H‘=2.036 and pygmy H‘=1.846. The effects of disturb- other persistent ecological stressors. Assessments of ance on diversity showed highest in agroecosystem benthic invertebrate communities in 24 Sudbury lakes (d=83%), mossy and pygmy had intermediate value were conducted to evaluate the relative importance of d=27% and d=24%. Low disturbance was observed in these delaying factors" (The analysis includes Odonata Montane d=10%, dipterocarp d=18.5%. Bray-curtis which are treated at the order level). "At the time of similarity index for species composition showed four sampling, all lakes had chemically recovered to a pH discernible clusters of habitats. Results suggest that >6.0, but they varied widely in the duration of time Odonata has preference for dense forest, undisturbed above this threshold and in current metal concentra- vegetation, optimum temperature and presence of tions, watershed contributions of organic matter, littoral aquatic habitat." (Authors)] Address: Villanueva, R.J.T., habitat composition, and fish community composition. A D3C Gahol Apartment, Lopez Jaena St., PH-8000 Da- model developed with redundancy analyses (RDA) of 4 vao, Philippines. E-mail: [email protected] groups of environmental variables (i.e., water chemistry, fish communities, physical lake descriptors, and littoral 10217. Waldhauser, M. (2010): Faunistic records of habitat) accounted for 74.9% of the variance in benthic dragonflies (Odonata) from the Czech Republic. invertebrate community metrics across these environ- Sborník referátù XIII. celostátního semináře odona- mental gradients. Fish species richness, duration of pH tologů v Podyjí: 59-71. (in Czech, with English sum- recovery, and % boulder habitat were the most signifi- mary) [The paper documents species that are protected cant variables and explained 22%, 9%, and 8% of the by law, rare or regionally significant: Sympecma pae- variance in benthic invertebrate community metrics, re- disca, Coenagrion lunulatum, C. scitulum, Brachytron spectively. Damaged systems clearly need sufficient pratense, Stylurus flavipes, Ophiogomphus cecilia, So- time to recover from severe disturbances. However, our matochlora flavomaculata, S. arctica, S. alpestris, Or- study suggests that remediation techniques, such as thetrum albistylum, Sympetrum depressiusculum, S. manipulation of predator–prey interactions through fish meridionale, S. pedemontanum, Leucorrhinia albifrons, introductions, might speed the recovery of benthic in- L. pectoralis, L. rubicunda.] Address: Waldhauser, M., vertebrate communities." (Authors)] Address: Wesolek, Správa CHKO Luņické hory, Ńkolní 12, Jablonné v B.E., Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit, Biology Podjeńtìdí, CZ 47 125. Czech Republik. E-mail: martin. Dept, Laurentian Univ., 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sud- [email protected] bury, Ontario, Canada, P3E 2C6. E-mail: bxwesolek@ 10218. Waldhauser, M.; Mikat, M.; Dolny, A. (2010): laurentian.ca Coenagrion ornatum (Sélys, 1850) (Odonata, Coen- 10220. Yakubovich, V.S. (2010): First record of the dra- agrionidae) distribution and ecology in the Czech Re- gonfly Orthetrum albistylum speciosum (Uhler, 1858) public – new information based on records in 2010.

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 38 (Odonata: Libellulidae) from Khabarovskii Krai. Far 10224. Zessin, W. (2010): Die Kleine Königslibelle (O- Eastern Entomologist 219: 11-12. (in English) [Russia: donata: Aeshnidae: Anax parthenope) neu am Waldsee Khabarovskii krai, vicinity of Khabarovsk: Bol- in Kraak, Landkreis Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg. Virgo, shekhekhtsirsky State Nature Reserve, mouth of Chirki Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklen- River; 48°X11'4" N, 134°X40'5" E, 6-8.VII 2009, 6 burg 13(2): 69-70. (in German) [Germany; a record of males, 2 females (V. Yakubovich); vicinity of Korfovskii, A. parthenope at 2-VIII-2010 is documented and dis- 48°X12'5"N, 135°X2'7" E, 21.VI 2008, 1 female (V. Ya- cussed.] Address: Zessin, W., Lange Str. 9, 19230 Jas- kubovich); vicinity of Chernaya Rechka, 48°X27'1" N, nitz, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] 135°X18'2" E, 30.VI 2010, 2 males· (V. Yakubovich).] Address: Yakubovich, V.S., Dept of Biology, Far Eastern Medical University, Murav‘ev-Amursky Street 35, Kha- 2011 barovsk 680000, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 10225. Abbott, J.C. (2011): Dragonflies and Damsel- 10221. Yu, W.-y.; Li, Z.-h.; Huan, G.c.; Lu, J. (2010): On flies (Odonata) of Texas. Odonata Survey of Texas. Vol. fauna and diversity of Odonata in Nanjing, Jiangsu 5: 323 pp. (in English) ["This is the fifth volume of the province. Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) of Texas to be Basin 19(5): 514-521. (in Chinese, with English sum- published and serves as an update of records including mary) [43 (+ 2 taxa) Odonata species were caught be- all those reported in 2010. As with earlier volumes, this tween 2005 to 2008 at seven localities near Nanjing, book is meant to serve as a guide to the distributions China.The characteristic of the fauna is that Oriental and seasonality of all 238 species occurring in the species take the most part.There are 13 species be- state. The interest in dragonflies and damselflies in longing to Oriental,which accounted for 28.89% in to- North America, and Texas specifically, continues to tal.Palearctic species is comparatively poor.There are 5 grow as does our knowledge of the fauna. Judging by Palearctic species,which accounted for 11.11% in to- the increasing number of records submitted since 2005, tal.Calculating species richness(S ) , species composi- The Odonata Survey of Texas (OST) appears to be a tion similarity ( Cs) and species diver sity index ( H฀Œ) success. I hope this volume continues to increase in- for the seven habitats showed that the species richness terest and excitement for the Odonata fauna in Texas." decreased in the following sequence :Zijin Mountain (Author) These compilation of data is organised in the (30) = Lao Mountain (30) >J iangjun Mountain (24) > following chapters: Statistical Summary of Odonata in Jiangxinzhou Alluvion (19) > Fang Mountain (18) > Texas (page1), Abundance & Distribution of Texas Donglu Mountain (13) > Jinniu Lake (9) ; the species di- Odonata (page 3), Diversity of Texas Odonata by Coun- versity decreased in a different sequence :Jiangjun ty (page 4), Checklist of Dragonflies & Damselflies of Mountain (2. 929 8) > Zijin Mountain (2. 915 0) > Lao Texas (page 5), Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas Mountain ( 2. 725 8 ) > Fang Mountain ( 2. 657 4 ) > Conservation Ranks (page 8), Seasonality of Odonata Jiangxinzhou Alluvion ( 2. 547 8 ) > Donglu Mountain in Texas (page12), Dragonflies & Damselflies of Texas (1. 902 5) > Jinniu Lake (1. 670 0) . The dragonfly spe- Listed by County (page 29), Distribution Maps of Texas cies composition between Fang Mountain and Donglu Odonata (page 69), Appendix: Collection Guidelines for Mountain had the highest similarity (0. 774 2), while the Odonata Survey of Texas (page 308), The Dragon- Jinniu Lake and Lao Mountain had the lowest similarity fly Society of the Americas Guidelines for Collecting (0. 410 3).] Address: Yu, W.-y., Dept of Life Science, (page309), Specific Collecting & Preservation Instruc- Nanjing Xiaozhuang College, Nanjing 211171, China tions (page 311), Guidelines for Field Notes & Data Re- 10222. Zessin, W.; Brauckmann, C. (2010): Aulertupus cording (page 313), Odonata Field Guides, Resources, tembrocki n. gen. et sp. (Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera: Societies, & Suppliers (page 316), Glossary of Terms Aulertupidae n. fam.) aus dem Ober-Karbon von Mazon Relating to Odonata (page 318), and Index to Maps Creek, Illinois (USA). Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Ento- (page 320)] Address: Abbott, J.C., Patterson Labs 219, mologischen Vereins Mecklenburg 13(2): 36-43. (in School of Bio. Sci., University of Texas, Austin TX Geman, with English summary) [Along "Oligotypus ma- 78712, USA. E-mail: [email protected] kowskii Carpenter & Richardson, 1971 and Paralogop- 10226. Abbott, J.C.; Hibbitts, T.D. (2011): Cordulegas- sis longipes Handlirsch, 1911, Aulertupus tembrocki ter sarracenia, n. sp. (Odonata: Cordulegastridae) from gen. n., sp. n. is the third giant dragonfly sp. (Megan- east Texas and western Louisiana, with a key to adult isoptera) from the famous nodules of Westphalian C/D Cordulegastridae of the New World. Zootaxa 2899: 60- (Moscovian) age of the Mazon Creek collection sites in 68. ["C. sarracenia is described from spring seepages Illinois, USA, which is described and illustrated on in pitcher plant bogs of southeast Texas and western adults. It is assigned here to Aulertupidae fam. n. The 3 Louisiana. It is most closely related to C. sayi of the C. recently described additional species from the same lo- diastatops group. It is unique among all North American cality (Kukalová-Peck 2009) are based on larvae and species of its genus in having the mesepimeral and cannot be grouped on family level." (Authors)] Address: metepimeral stripes distinctly paler than the mesepi- Zessin, W., Lange Str. 9, 19230 Jasnitz, Germany. E- sternal stripes in combination with yellow bands on S3– mail: [email protected] 8 that are interrupted middorsally by the carina." (Au- 10223. Zessin, W. (2010): Kurzfassungen der Vorträge thors)] Address: Abbott, J.C., Curator of Entomology, auf der Tagung des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklen- Texas Natural Science Center, Brackenridge Field La- burg am 13. März 2010 im Natureum am Schloss Lud- boratory, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 2907 Lake Austin wigslust. Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen Blvd., Austin, Texas 78703, USA. E-mail: jcabbott@ Vereins Mecklenburg 13(2): 64-68. (in German) [A co- mail.utexas.edu operation of the Ent. Ver. Meckl.-Vorp. with three odo- 10227. Anjos-Santos, D.; Carricio, C.; Costa, J.M.; natological societies is mentioned.] Address: Zessin, Santos, T.C. (2011): Description of the final instar larvae W., Lange Str. 9, 19230 Jasnitz, Germany. E-mail: zes- of Acanthagrion gracile (Rambur) and Acanthagrion [email protected] lancea Selys (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Zootaxa

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 39 2832: 44-50. (in English) ["The final instar larvae of A. plexippus), which rival the largest flocks and herds of gracile and A. lancea are described and illustrated migratory birds and mammals in terms of biomass, and based on reared specimens from Rio de Janeiro and far exceed them in total numbers. [...] Green darner Espírito Santo States, Brazil, being compared with the dragonflies have a number of simple decision rules that other known larvae of this genus." (Authors)] Address: guide their autumn migrations along the eastern sea- Costa, J.M., Departamento de Entomologia, Museu board of North America in a favourable, southerly direc- Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, tion (Wikelski et al. 2006). They initiate migratory flights Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, BR-20942-040 Rio on days following two preceding nights of dropping de Janeiro, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] temperatures, which are highly likely to be associated with persistent northerly air flows, and then simply fly in 10228. Aura, C.M.; Raburu, P.O.; Herrmann, J. (2011): the downwind direction while avoiding being carried Macroinvertebrates‘ community structure in Rivers Kip- over large water bodies (and thus out to sea). [...] karen and Sosiani, River Nzoia basin, Kenya. Journal of Odonata have regular, bidirectional seasonal long- Ecology and the Natural Environment 3(2): 39-46. (in distance migrations that involve movements that are di- English) [From December 2006 to May 2007 seven rected in predictable ways but not targeted at a specific sites were sampled for macrozoobenthos. A total of site or region." (Authors)] Address: Bauer, Silke, Nether- 1499 macroinvertebrates belonging to 13 orders, 28 lands Institute of Ecology (NIOOKNAW), PO Box 1299, families and 31 genera were collected. The taxa list in- 3600 BG Maarssen, The Netherlands cludes "Aeschenia sp., Gomphus sp., Agrion sp.".] Ad- dress: Aura, C.M., Kenya Marine and Fisheries Re- 10231. Bolliger, J.; Keller, D.; Holderegger, R. (2011): search Institute, P.O. Box 81651-80100, Mombasa, When landscape variables do not explain migration ra- Kenya. E-mail: [email protected] tes: An example from an endangered dragonfly, Leucor- rhinia caudalis (Odonata: Libellulidae). Eur. J. Entomol. 10229. Barry, M.J. (2011): Effects of copper, zinc and 108(2): 327-330. (in English) ["L. caudalis is a dragonfly dragonfly kairomone on growth rate and induced mor- species threatened throughout Europe. Despite eviden- phology of Bufo arabicus tadpoles. Ecotoxicology and ce of the recent extension of its distribution range, it is Environmental Safety 74(4): 918-923. (in English) ["It is unknown whether L. caudalis regularly or hardly ever well documented that many amphibian species can de- migrates among ponds. The contemporary migration tect chemical signals from predatory invertebrates and patterns of the species were investigated using Bayesi- subsequently develop alternate phenotypes that are an assignment tests and the migration rates related to protective against predation. The effects of metallic pol- landscape structural and thematic variables (distance lutants on the development of predator-induced mor- between ponds, forest area, area of water body, area of phology have not previously been reported. Tadpoles of hedgerow). Migration rates of L. caudalis are independ- the Arabian toad Bufo arabicus were exposed for 20 ent of any landscape element. Thus, landscape struc- days to copper (0, 10 or 100 µg/L), zinc (0, 10 or 100 ture is not a barrier or corridor for migration in this spe- µg/L) and kairomones of larval dragonflies (Croco- cies. The tendency of L. caudalis to disperse is largely themis erythrea 1 dragonfly/12 L) in a fully crossed de- independent of the nature of the landscape, at least at sign. The effects of these treatments of growth and the scale of the present study." (Authors)] Address: Bol- body shape were measured. Measured copper concen- liger, Janine, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, trations after 24 h were 4.25 µg/L±1.30 (10 µg/L nomi- Zürcherstr. 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland. E-mail: nal) and 34.9 µg/L±2.15 (100 µg/L nominal). Measured [email protected] zinc concentrations were 3.04 µg/L±0.1 (10 µg/L nomi- nal) and 26.3 µg/L±12.3 (100 µg/L nominal). Tadpoles 10232. Bonnaud, E.; Medina, F.M.; Vidal, E.; Nogales, exposed to 34.9 µg/L copper were significantly lighter M.; Tershy, B.; Zavaleta, E.; Donlan, C.J.; Keitt, B.; Le and had a shorter body length than other groups. There Corre, M.; Horwath, S.V. (2011): The diet of feral cats was no direct effect of zinc on growth or tadpole shape. on islands: a review and a call for more studies. Biolog- Tadpoles exposed to dragonfly kairomones were heavi- ical Invasions 13(3): 581-603. (in English) ["Cats are er, wider and had deeper bodies when viewed laterally among the most successful and damaging invaders on and had longer tails but overall length was not affected. islands and a significant driver of extinction and endan- At 4.25 µg/L copper differences between the control germent. Better understanding of their ecology can im- and predator-exposed phenotypes increased but at prove effective management actions such as eradica- 34.9 µg/L the phenotypes converged, indicating that tion. We reviewed 72 studies of insular feral cat diet copper may inhibit the induced response." (Author)] Ad- from 40 islands worldwide. Cats fed on a wide range of dress: Barry, M.J., Biology Department, Sultan Qaboos species from large birds and medium sized mammals to University, P.O. Box 36 Al Khod, Muscat 123, Oman. E- small insects with at least 248 species consumed (27 mail: [email protected] mammals, 113 birds, 34 reptiles, 3 amphibians, 2 fish and 69 invertebrates). Three mammals, 29 birds and 3 10230. Bauer, S.; Nolet, B.A.; Giske, J.; Chapman, reptiles recorded in the diet of cats are listed as threat- J.W.; Åkesson, S.; Hedenström, A.; Fryxell, J.M. (2011): ened by the IUCN. However, a few species of intro- Cues and decision rules in animal migration. In: Milner- duced mammals were the most frequent prey, and on Gulland, E.J., Fryxell, J.M.; Sinclair, A.R.E. (eds.): Ani- almost all islands mammals and birds contributed most mal Migration. A Synthesis. Oxford University Press: of the daily food intake. Latitude was positively correlat- 68-87. (in English) [The paper provides a concise com- ed with the predation of rabbits and negatively with the pilation on current knowledge in insect migration. predation of reptiles and invertebrates. Distance from Odonatological text passages are: "Some insect migra- landmass was positively correlated with predation on tions are highly noticeable; among the most impressive birds and negatively correlated with the predation of of natural phenomena are the mass migrations in reptiles. The broad range of taxa consumed by feral enormous cohesive swarms of a few species (e.g. the cats on islands suggests that they have the potential to desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria, the dragonfly impact almost any native species, even the smallest Aeshna bonariensis, and the monarch butterfly Danaus

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 40 ones under several grams, that lack behavioral, mor- (including "Anisoptera"), 1 gastropod and 1 cnidarian. phological or life history adaptations to mammalian pre- Copepods and cladocerans were among the most fre- dators. Insular feral cat‘s reliance on introduced mam- quent taxa (occurrence frequency >40%) in most wet- mals, which evolved with cat predation, suggests that land types. No significant differences in taxonomic rich- on many islands, populations of native species have al- ness were found among wetlands types (P = 0.076). ready been reduced." (Authors) The list of prey items The cladogram based on invertebrate taxonomic com- also considers (unidentified) Odonata.] Address: Bon- position resulting from similarity in taxonomic composi- naud, E., Mediterranean Institute for Ecology and Pal- tion among wetland types showed three distinct clus- aeoecology (UMR CNRS/IRD), Aix-Marseille University ters; one included flooded quarries, peatland ponds, (Université P. Cezanne), Bâtiment Villemin, Domaine du beaver ponds and floodplain pools, the second one the Petit Arbois, Avenue Philibert, BP 80 13545 Aix-en- large ponds and the third one roadside pools. 4. Our Provence cedex 04, France. E-mail: elsa.bonnaud@ results suggest that the wetland types studied have dif- univ-cezanne.fr ferent conservation values, like the clusters obtained in the cladogram show. Artificial wetlands, such as the 10233. Brodin, T.; Drotz, M.K. (2011): Larval behavioral roadside pools, could play an important role in maintain- syndrome does not affect emergence behavior in a ing connectivity between isolated fragments of pristine, damselfly (Lestes congener). Journal of Ethology 29(1): natural wetlands." (Authors)] Address: Loetti, Maria Ve- 107-113. (in English) ["Activity is a key behavioural trait ronica, Grupo de Estudio de Mosquitos, Departamento that often mediates a trade-off between finding food for de Ecologíá, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Cien- growth and evading predation. We investigated how ac- cias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, tivity of the damselfly Lestes congener is affected by Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos larval state and predator presence and if larval behav- Aires, Argentina. E-mail: [email protected] ioural type (BT) can be used to predict larval emer- gence behaviour. Activity level of individual larvae was 10235. Catling, P.; Kostiuk, B.; Tate, D. (2011): River studied without predators at two different physiological Jewelwing, Calopteryx aequabilis Say, new to North- states (hungry, fed) and in two predator treatments (fa- west Territories. Argia 23(1): 13. (in English) [10-VII- miliar or unfamiliar predator cues). Larvae did not adjust 2010, Mackenzie Highway bridge over Kakisa River, their activity depending on state or when subjected to 60°98'87'' N 117°24'41''W, Canada] Address: Catling, unfamiliar predator cues but a general reduction in ac- P.M., 170 Stanford Ave., Ottawa, Ontario K2C 0E9, Ca- tivity was seen in the familiar predator treatment. Hen- nada. E-mail: [email protected] ce, active individuals remained active compared to their 10236. Chale, F.M.M. (2011): Preliminary studies on conspecifics, independent of state or predator treatment illustrating the presence of a behavioural syndrome. the ecology of Mbasa (Opsaridium microlepis (Gun- However, we found no correlation between larval BT ther)) in Lake Nyasa around the Ruhuhu River. Journal and emergence behaviour. Active individuals did not dif- of Ecology and the Natural Environment 3(2): 58-62. (in fer from less active individuals in any emergence char- English) [Tanzania; Odonata contributed with 12% to acteristics. The results illustrate that the larval BT oc- the diet of Opsaridium microlepis; diet was depent from curs in many situations keeping active larvae active age stage of fishes, and thus only 30% of the juvenile even in maladaptive situations. Furthermore, we show consumed Odonata.] Address: Chale, F.M.M., Depart- that damselfly emergence behaviour can be completely ment of Life Science, Faculty of Science, Technology decoupled from larval BT, indicating a loss of stability in and Environmental Studies, The Open University of individual BT during critical stages in ontogeny." (Au- Tanzania, P.O. Box 23409, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. E- thors)] Address: Brodin, T., Dept of Ecology and Envi- mail: [email protected] ronmental Science, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, 10237. Cielocha, J.; Cook, T.J.; Clopton, J. (2011): Host Sweden. E-mail: [email protected] utilization and distribution of Nubenocephalid grega- 10234. Burroni, N.E.; Marione, M.C.; Freire, M.G.; rines (Eugregarinorida: Actinocephalidae) parasitizing Schweigmann, N.; Loetti, M.V. (2011): Invertebrate Argia spp. (Odonata: Zygoptera) in the Central United communities from different wetland types of Tierra del States. Comparative Parasitology 78(1): 152-160. (in Fuego. Insect Conservation and Diversity 4(1): 39-45. English) ["Gregarine host specificity has been the cor- (in English) ["1. Loss or deterioration of wetlands, which nerstone of gregarine taxonomy for nearly a century. represent highly valuable environments, is a worldwide Several laboratory experiments have accepted strict phenomenon. Sustainable management of wetlands, host specificity by failure to cross-infect distantly related however, requires detailed understanding of the factors hosts with unrelated gregarine species. These empirical controlling their communities. The present study report studies are not feasible for all gregarine hosts, especial- the taxonomic composition and richness of invertebrate ly nondomesticated groups. Additionally, studies of assemblages in different wetland types in Tierra del gregarine distributions have always focused on insect Fuego. 2. Aquatic invertebrates from 79 freshwater wet- hosts of disparate groups, rather than targeting poten- lands in Tierra del Fuego were inventoried in January tial hosts species within a single genus and their con- 2001 and 2002 (austral summer). All wetlands were generic gregarines. This study addresses host utiliza- classified into six categories: roadside pools, floodplain tion of nubenocephalid gregarines parasitizing the odo- pools, flooded quarries, peatland ponds, beaver ponds nate genus Argia. Populations of 9 species of adult Ar- and large ponds. The wetland type effect on the taxo- gia were collected, dissected, and observed for grega- nomic richness was analysed by one-way ANOVA. To rine infection during the April–September flight seasons identify wetland types with similar invertebrate commu- in 2007 from 17 localities in the central United States. nities, cluster analysis has been performed using occur- On average, 2.5 species of Argia were collected at each rence frequency of each taxa in each wetland type and locality. A species of Nubenocephalus—Nubenocepha- the Jaccard similarity index. 3. A total of 35 taxa were lus nebraskensis, Nubenocephalus secundus, or Nu- identified, including 21 microcrustaceans, 12 insects benocephalus spp.—was collected from every infected population of Argia except for the Argia vivida popula-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 41 tion at Prairie Dog Town Fork-Red River, Randall Coun- 10240. Do, M.C.; Karube, H. (2011): Nihonogomphus ty (Co.), Texas, U.S.A. Nubenocephalus secundus uti- schorri sp. nov. from Huu Lien Nature Reserve, Lang lizes at least 7 of the 9 argid hosts sampled whereas N. Son Province, Vietnam (Odonata: Gomphidae). Zoota- nebraskensis was collected from only 2 argid species. xa 2831: 63-68. (in English) ["A new species Nihono- Only Argia translata was observed to host both N. gomphus schorri Do & Karube, sp. nov. is described on secundus and N. nebraskensis. These patterns of host the basis of male specimens collected from Huu Lien utilization by nubenocephalid gregarines represent an Nature Reserve, Lang Son Province, northern Vietnam. ecotypic gregarine assemblage rather than a vicariant It is close to the Chinese species N. bequaerti Chao, assemblage, demonstrating that nubenocephalid grega- 1954 due to the similarity of hamules, anal appendages rines do not differentiate between species of Argia as and vesicle, but is easy to separate from that species hosts." (Authors)] Address: Cielocha, Joanna, Dept of by the vesica spermalis structure and body markings." Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State Univ., Hunts- (Authors)] Address: Do Manh, C., 409 – 57A, 22/20 ville, Texas 77341-2166, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Nguyen Cong Hoan, Hanoi, Vietnam. E-mail: docuong @gmail.com 10238. Dia, A.; Dumont, H.J. (2011): The Odonata of Lebanon (Insecta: Odonata). Zoology in the Middle East 10241. Do, M.C. (2011): Notes on three species of 52: 63-70. (in English) ["In a year-long survey of the gomphid dragonflies from Vietnam (Odonata: Gomphi- Odonata of Lebanon, 29 species of the approximately dae). International Dragonfly Fund - Report 36: 1-9. (in 49 known or expected to live in the country were rec- English) ["First records for Vietnam of Fukienogomphus orded. Some endangered species should be consid- promineus Chao, 1954 and Gomphidia abbotti William- ered for urgent protection. Others are doing well. A brief son, 1908 are documented with emphasis on morpho- biogeographic analysis of the fauna is given. The al- logical details. The previously published record of Sie- most complete absence of species typical of semi-arid boldius gigas (Martin, 1904) in Do et al. (2011) has to to arid environments is to be noted." (Authors)] Ad- be corrected into Megalogomphus sommeri (Selys, dress: Dumont, H.J., Univ. Gent, Inst. Animal Ecology, 1854)." (Author)] Address: Do, M.C., 409 – 57A, 22/20 K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. E- Nguyen Cong Hoan, Hanoi, Vietnam Email: docuong mail: [email protected] @gmail.com 10239. Dijkstra, K.-D.B.; Clausnitzer, V.; Mézière, N.; 10242. Dolny, A.; Barta, D.; Lhota, S.; Rusdianto; Kipping, J.; Schütte, K. (2011): Chapter 5. The status Drozd, P. (2011): Dragonflies (Odonata) in the Bornean and distribution of dragonflies and damselflies (Odona- rain forest as indicators of changes in biodiversity re- ta) in central Africa. In: The Status and Distribution of sulting from forest modification and destruction. Tropical Freshwater Biodiversity in Central Africa Brooks, E.G. Zoology 24(1): 63-86. (in English) ["Dragonfly assem- E., Allen, D.J. and Darwall, W.R.T. (Compilers): 62-76. blages represent sensitive indicators of environmental (in English) ["Equatorial Africa is naturally dominated by conditions including the water environment and forest almost continuous Guineo-Congolian lowland rainfor- structure. However, an understanding the ecology of est, which has a gradual transition of riverine forests tropical forest odonates remains one of the most signifi- and woodland into peripheral savannahs. The highest cant gaps in our knowledge of the order. We sampled odonate diversity in tropical Africa is found here : all Af- odonates at Sungai Wain Protection Forest, East Kali- rican countries with well over 200 species have a con- mantan, Indonesia. Relatively high dragonfly species siderable portion of this forest within their borders richness (88 species) was found during 35 survey days (Dijkstra and Clausnitzer 2006). Although many species divided between two seasons. Seasonal differences in range throughout Africa‘s forested heart, it can be sub- the species diversity were fairly small, in accordance divided into four main areas of endemism (Dijkstra with the fact that the climate in Kalimantan is generally 2007a), of which only the more westerly Upper Guinea stable. The highest species diversity was observed in lies outside the central Africa assessment region (see intact primary forest: 60% of all recorded species were Dijkstra et al. 2010). The three others are (1) the Lower found there and 32% of all species were exclusive to Guinea, with the Cameroon highlands as its focus, (2) this habitat. The proportion of biotope specialists de- the Congo Basin, and (3) the slope east of the Congo creased along the gradient - intact primary forest, slight- River towards the Albertine Rift. Each area, which ly degraded primary forest, secondary forest, heavily agree reasonably with the freshwater ecoregions of degraded forest and non-forest. The ordination obtained Thieme et al. (2005), is discussed separately below, as from detrended correspondence analysis showed, is the large area of more open habitats to the south of along the main axis, a gradient in community similarity the rainforest belt that dominates Katanga and adjacent corresponding to the degree of forest degradation. The Angola and Zambia. Central Africa has the richest, but evidence indicates that, within the applied spatial scale, also the least known and probably (currently) least im- any forest degradation results in fewer species, with a perilled, odonate fauna in Africa. Therefore this report pronounced change in the species composition, and an focuses primarily on what we do and, especially, do not overall reduction in taxonomic diversity." (Authors)] Ad- know. Much emphasis is given on recent discoveries, dress: Dolný, A., Katedra biologie a ekologie, Prírod- including collection work conducted as part of the cen- ovedecká fakulta Ostravské univerzity, Bráfova 7, 701 tral African freshwater biodiversity assessment and 03, Ostrava 1, Czech Republic. E-mail: Alnes.Dolny@ fieldwork by the authors in Cameroon and Gabon (all osu.cz results otherwise still unpublished). We attempt to pro- vide information on all threatened (or Near Threatened) 10243. Dow, R.A.; Reels, G.T. (2011): Coeliccia south- and Data Deficient species in the region, their status welli sp. nov. (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platycnemididae) being Least Concern unless indicated." (Authors)] Ad- from Mount Dulit, Sarawak. Zootaxa 2832: 63-68. (in dress: Dijkstra, K.D., Netherlands Centre for Biodiversi- English) ["Coeliccia southwelli sp. nov. is described ty Naturalis, P.O. Box 9517, NL-2300 RA, Leiden, The from Mount Dulit, Miri and Kapit Divisions, Sarawak, Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] Malaysian Borneo. It belongs to the borneensis-group of species, and is the sixth species from this group to

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 42 be described from Borneo. New material of other bor- help researchers by providing baseline information and neensis-group species is put on record." (Authors)] Ad- will provide managers‘ information on the species im- dress: Dow, R.A., 6 Bramley Avenue, Coulsdon, Surrey, pacted by work being done. Further study of this animal CR5 2DP, UK. E-mail: [email protected] group is needed to better understand their true impact on the ecological system at the Wash." (Author) The fol- 10244. Doxon, E.D.; Davis, C.A.; Fuhlendorf, S.D. loowing Odonata are listed in an appendix: Anax junius, (2011): Comparison of two methods for sampling inver- Rhionaeschna multicolor, Hetaerina americana, Argia tebrates: vacuum and sweep-net sampling. Journal of sp. A. alberta, A. moesta, A. sedula, A. vivida, Enallag- Field Ornithology 82(1): 60-67. (in English, with Spanish ma civile, Ischnura cervula, I. denticollis, Erpetogom- summary) ["With numerous invertebrate sampling tech- phus compositus, Erythemis collocata, Libellula coman- niques available, deciding which technique to use under che, L. luctuosa, L. saturata, Orthemis ferruginea, Pan- certain circumstances may be difficult. Many research- tala hymenaea, Sympetrum corruptum, Tramea lacera- ers interested in invertebrate abundance and availability ta, T. onusta.] Address: Eckberg, J.R., Southern Nevada relative to the foraging ecology of birds may use a Water Authority, 100 City Parkway, Suite 700, Las Ve- technique (e.g., vacuum sampling or sweep-netting) gas, Nevada 89106, USA without understanding the impacts their choice may have on the samples collected and the ability of the 10246. Everard, M.; Fletcher, M.S.; Powell, A.; Dobson, method to meet research objectives. We compared the M.K. (2011): The feasibility of developing multi-taxa indi- characteristics, including overall biomass, morphospe- cators for landscape scale assessment of freshwater cies richness, average size, diversity, and body length systems. Freshwater Reviews 4: 1-19. (in English) ["The categories, of invertebrates collected using a sweep-net use of bird assemblages as wetland indicators is now and a Dietrick vacuum sampler along paired transects well established in the UK. An indicator based on a single in Woodward County, Oklahoma, from May to July 2007 taxonomic group can, however, have limitations. Con- and 2008. These sampling techniques differed in the versely, a multi-taxa approach can potentially provide a taxa collected, with the orders Diptera, Homoptera, and more robust reflection of the health of fresh waters. In Hymenoptera dominating vacuum samples and the or- this paper, we consider the inherent suitability of different ders Homoptera, Orthoptera, and Araneae dominating taxonomic groups for inclusion in a multi-taxa indicator, sweep-net samples. Although morphospecies richness based upon taxon characteristics, species richness and was similar for the two techniques, the mean size of in- prevalence across a range of freshwater habitats, and vertebrates collected and overall invertebrate biomass their practical suitability, based upon quality and quantity were greater for sweep-netting than vacuum sampling. of available data. We conclude that, in addition to birds, Vacuum sampling was more effective at collecting small there are six candidate groups of taxa throughout the (e.g., <5 cm) invertebrates, whereas sweep-netting cap- world that are currently suitable for inclusion in a multi- tured large (>5 cm) orthopteran and lepidopteran larvae taxa indicator. These are: mammals, amphibians and at higher rates. Thus, our results indicate that neither reptiles, fish, dragonflies and damselflies (based on adult sampling method effectively sampled all invertebrate fa- recording), benthic macroinvertebrates and macrophytes. milies and investigators should be aware of the poten- Of these taxa, all but amphibians and reptiles and fish tial biases of different sampling techniques and be cer- are suitable for inclusion in a UK indicator. The types and tain that the technique selected will allow study objec- limitations of currently available datasets are reviewed. tives to be met." (Authors) Comparing the mean relative We provide recommendations for advancing this ap- biomass collected for Odonata by vacuum sampling proach in the assessment of freshwater systems. [...] and sweep-netting, no significant differences resulted.] Odonata are part of the aquatic macroinvertebrate fauna Address: Doxon, Elizabeth, Department of Natural Re- as larvae, but as adults they are also very suitable as source Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State candidates for inclusion in a multi-taxa indicator, as they University, 008C Agricultural Hall, Stillwater, Oklahoma are easy to see and distinguishable in the field, and pro- 74078, USA. E-mail: [email protected] vide information about the status of the terrestrial shore- line of habitats as well as the underwater component. 10245. Eckberg, J.R. (2011): Las Vegas Wash Inverte- Most are also highly mobile, and they will rapidly colonise brate Inventory, 2000-2010. Prepared for: Research new or restored sites and abandon impacted sites. and Environmental Monitoring Study Team, Las Vegas Worldwide, the dragonfly and damselfly fauna is relative- Wash Coordination Committee: VI + 22 pp, appendix. ly well known (Kalkman et al., 2008), and their conspicu- (in English) ["This report summarizes previously docu- ous nature and often high alpha diversity makes them an mented, as well as undocumented, invertebrate speci- attractive option for biomonitoring. Adult Odonata are the mens identified along the Las Vegas Wash (Wash), most thoroughly recorded emergent aquatic inverte- where this wildlife group has a significant impact on brates in the UK. The Dragonfly Recording Network is ecological components. Four of the six major environ- co-ordinated by the British Dragonfly Society and oper- mental resource categories laid out in the Las Vegas ates within guidelines based upon recommendations giv- Wash Comprehensive Adaptive Management Plan are en by the National Biodiversity Network. However, the impacted by invertebrates: water quality, soils, vegeta- quantity and spread of data is not currently adequate to tion, and fish and wildlife. Living in both aquatic and ter- be considered a robust national monitoring programme." restrial environments, many invertebrates serve as indi- (Authors)] Address: Fletcher, M.S., Freshwater Biological cators of environmental quality in both areas. Insects Association, The Ferry Landing, Far Sawrey, Ambleside, are the primary pollinator for many plants along the Cumbria, LA22 0LP, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Wash and provide many other benefits such as control- ling herbivores and seed dispersal. Many insects can 10247. Feindt, W.; Damm, S.; Hadrys, H. (2011): Spe- be primary consumers of plant material and secondary ciation in the neotropical giant damselfly Megaloprepus consumers of other insects. They are also the food caerulatus reflects forest fragmentation (Pseudostig- source for a wide variety of birds, small mammals, fish, matidae: Odonata). In: Niekisch, M. & B. Streit (Eds.): reptiles and amphibians. Cataloging these species will Status and future of tropical biodiversity. Conference of

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 43 the Society for Tropical Ecology, Gesellschaft für Tro- size of survivors was independent of the mother's clutch penökologie e.V. - gtö, Goethe University, 21 - 24 Feb- size. Finally, large clutches failed to satiate dragonfly ruary 2011, Frankfurt a. M., Programme & Abstracts: predators, and although 25 neonates were better than 2 190. (in English) [Verbatim: "Increasing fragmentation as insurance against nonpredator mortality, a clutch of rates of tropical forests disturb ecological dynamics and 50 provided no additional benefit. In natural and exper- result in loss of biological and genetic diversity. Odona- imental holes, survivorship was female biased, suggest- tes, which are sensitive indicator organisms, face the ing that sons suffered greater mortality than daughters. destruction of tropical forests as probably the most im- Because mothers seemed unable to adaptively bias portant threat (Kalkman et al. 2008). Due to their com- offspring sex ratio, excess offspring may compensate plex life cycle and specific habitat preferences odonates for the lower survivorship of sons, particularly in large come to know an increasing importance for measuring nurseries where males garner a disproportionate size environmental health and identifying driving factors con- advantage relative to females." (Author)] Address: trolling biodiversity. Megaloprepus caerulatus the Fincke, Ola, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Pro- world´s largest damselfly is widespread in the Neotrop- gram, Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, ics from the South of Mexico to Bolivia (Davies & Tobin Norman, OK 73019, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 1984, Finke & Hedström 2008). It is highly restricted to 10249. Florencio, M.; Diaz-Paniagua, C.; Serrano, S.; primary forests and old grown secondary forests, which provide water filled tree holes needed for reproduction. Bilton, D.T. (2011): Spatio-temporal nested patterns in Females exclusively oviposit in water filled tree holes, macroinvertebrate assemblages across a pond network which are defended by males. The size and the density with a wide hydroperiod range. Oecologia 166(2): 469- of these microhabitats ultimately affect larval abun- 483. (in English) ["Nestedness has been widely used to dance and survivorship (Fincke 2006) resulting in measure the structure of biological communities and changes in population size and structure. We used two occurs when species-poor sites contain subsets of spe- mitochondrial sequence marker (ND1 and 16S rDNA) cies-rich ones. Here, we examine nested patterns a- and microsatellites to analyze the population structure cross the macroinvertebrate assemblages of 91 ponds and diversities between populations covering the north- in Don˜ana National Park, Spain, and explore temporal ern range of M. caerulatus between Mexico and Pana- variation of nestedness and species richness in 19 ma. High sequence divergences and an absence of temporary ponds over 2 years with differing rainfall. Ma- gene flow indicate complete separation of all popula- croinvertebrate assemblages were significantly nested; tions studied. Our results suggest ongoing speciation both pond spatial arrangement and environmental var- processes within the genus Megaloprepus probably iation being important in driving nested patterns. De- driven by ongoing fragmentation of their forest habitats. spite the nested structure observed, a number of taxa Genetic distances at the species level suggest that the and ponds deviate from this pattern (termed idiosyn- Megaloprepus caerulatus is not a single species rather cratic), by occurring more frequently than expected in than a group of at least three species. Our data illus- species-poor sites, or having assemblages dominated trate the impact of tropical rainforest fragmentation on by species largely absent from species-rich sites. genetic isolation of a habitat specialized species and Aquatic adults of winged insects, capable of dispersal, demonstrate how important it is to evaluate genetic di- were more highly nested than non-dispersing taxa and versities of indicator species. Together with general mo- life-history stages. Idiosyncratic taxa were found in nitoring data the knowledge about conservation genetic ponds spanning a wide range of hydroperiods, although parameters allow to propose refined conservation deci- nestedness was higher in more permanent waterbod- sions in tropical forests." (Authors)] Address: Feindt, ies. Monthly sampling demonstrated a gradual increase Wiebke, ITZ, Ecology and Evolution, TiHo Hannover, of species richness and nestedness from pond filling to Bünteweg 17d, 30559, Hannover, Germany. E-mail: April–May, when the most temporary ponds started to [email protected] dry. Although the degree of nestedness of individual pond assemblages varied from month to month, the 10248. Fincke, O.M. (2011): Excess offspring as a ma- overall degree of nestedness in the two study years ternal strategy: constraints in the shared nursery of a was practically identical despite marked differences in giant damselfly. Behavioral Ecology 22(3): 543-551. (in hydroperiod. Our results suggest that differential oloni- English) ["Maternal reproductive strategies should opti- zation and environmental variation are key processes mize the quality and quantity of surviving offspring. In driving the nested structure of Don˜ana ponds, that ma- Megaloprepus caerulatus, a damselfly that exhibits croinvertebrate assemblages change in a predictable male-biased size dimorphism, larval siblicide, and a manner each year in response to cycles of pond wetting disproportionate fitness advantage from large sons, and drying, and that connectivity and environmental mothers lay many more eggs in water-filled tree holes variability maintain biodiversity in pond networks." (Au- than can survive to emergence. Using field experi- thors) Larvae of Lestes virens are largely restricted to ments, I tested the siblicide advantage of excess off- long hydroperiod sites, and some Sympetrum dragonfly spring (i.e., faster development and/or larger survivors) larvae occurred preferentially in ponds with short and in small and large holes and 2 alternative functions of intermediate hydroperiods.] Address: Florencio, Marga- excess offspring (predator satiation and insurance rita, Donana Biological Station-CSIC, P.O. Box 1056, against nonpredator mortality). In small pots, the sole 41080 Seville, Spain. E-mail: [email protected] siblicidal survivors emerged larger than noncannibals but no sooner. However, doubling or even quadrupling 10250. Gall, B.G.; Stokes, A.N.; French, S.S.; Schlep- a modest clutch of 25 failed to produce larger offspring. phorst, E.A.; Brodie, E.D.; Brodie, E.D. (2011): Tetro- In large tubs, the size advantage that survivors gained dotoxin levels in larval and metamorphosed newts from siblicide was constrained by a trade-off between (Taricha granulosa) and palatability to predatory drag- offspring size and number. A clutch of 20 produced half onflies. Toxicon 57(7-8): 978-983. (in English) ["Some as many but larger offspring than one of 100. When populations of the newt Taricha granulosa possess ex- multiple females contributed eggs to a large nursery, tremely high concentrations of the neurotoxin tetro-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 44 dotoxin (TTX). Tetrodotoxin is present in adult newts tions is often considered the result of sexual conflict, and their eggs, but has been assumed to be absent where polymorphic females benefit from reduced male from the larval stage. We tested larval and metamor- sexual harassment. Mate-searching males easily detect phosed juveniles for the presence of TTX and evaluat- suitable partners when only one type of female is pre- ed the palatability of these developmental stages to sent, but become challenged when multiple female predatory dragonfly nymphs. All developmental stages morphs coexist, which may result in frequency-depen- retained substantial quantities of TTX and almost all in- dent mate preferences. Intriguingly, in damselflies, one dividuals were unpalatable to dragonfly nymphs. Tetro- female morph often closely resembles the conspecific dotoxin quantity varied greatly among individuals. When male in body coloration, which has lead to hypotheses adjusted for mass, TTX concentrations declined steadily regarding intra-specific male-mimicry. However, few through metamorphosis. Several juveniles were palata- studies have quantitatively evaluated the correspond- ble to dragonflies and these individuals had significantly ence between colour reflectance spectra from males lower TTX levels than unpalatable juveniles. These re- and male-like females, relying instead on qualitative sults suggest that despite previous assumptions, sub- visual assessments of coloration. Using colour analyses stantial quantities of TTX, originally deposited in the of reflectance spectra, we compared characteristics of embryo, are retained by the developing larvae and met- the body coloration of ontogenetic male and female amorphosed juveniles and this quantity is enough to colour morphs of the damselfly Ischnura elegans. In make them unpalatable to some potential predators." addition, we evaluated whether males appear to (1) (Authors)] Address: Gall, B.G., 5305 Old Main HL, Lo- discriminate between immature and mature female col- gan UT, 84321, USA. E-mail: [email protected] our morphs, and (2) whether male-like females experi- ence reduced male mating attention and low mating 10251. Gassmann, D.; Richards (2011): Odonata (dam- frequencies as predicted from male-mimicry. Spectral selflies and dragonflies) of the Nakanai Mountains, East reflectance data show that immature female morphs dif- New Britain proving, Papua New Guinea RAP. Rapid fer substantially in coloration from mature individuals. Biological Assessments of the Nakanai Mountains and Mating frequencies were much lower for immature than the upper Strickland Basin: surveying the biodiversity of mature female morphs. For the male-like female morph, Papua New Guinea's sublime karst environments 60: measures of colour were statistically indistinguishable 61-69. (in English) ["Odonatological results of a biodi- from that of both immature and mature conspecific versity assessment … in April 2009 are presented. Thir- males. Mating frequencies of male-like females were ty-two species of Odonata were collected at three dif- lower than those of other mature female morphs under ferent elevations (200-1,700 m) in the Nakanai Moun- field and experimental conditions. Together, our results tains and, to a minor extent, on the coastal fringe of indicate that males may use the observed spectral dif- Jacquinot Bay. Ten species are recorded from New ferences in mate choice decisions. Furthermore, male- Britain island for the first time. An undescribed species like females may be regarded as functional mimics that of Pseudagrion Selys and a species or subspecies of have reduced attractiveness and lowered rates of sex- Tetrathemis Brauer new to science were found. Eleven ual harassment by mate-searching males." (Authors)] odonate taxa appear to be endemic to the island and Address: Van Gossum, H., Evolutionary Ecology Group, some species were only found at particular elevations University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 suggesting that more odonate species await discovery Antwerp, Belgium. E-mail: [email protected] on the island. Due to the karst topography of the Naka- nai Mountains, surface water that is essential for the 10254. Grant, P.B.C.; Samway, M.J.; Simaika, J.P. development of odonate larvae is very scarce in the re- (2011): Threats to dragonflies on land islands can be as gion. Natural forest cover is crucial for the survival of great as those on oceanic islands. Biological Conserva- forest-dwelling habitat specialists, particularly those oc- tion 144(3): 1145-1151. (in English) ["We ask whether cupying the limited above-ground aquatic habitats that oceanic islands and equivalent-sized continental do exist. The designation of a World Heritage Area in blocks, which we call here ‗land islands‘, are similar or die Nakanai Mountains will be an important first step to not in their species richness, number of range-restricted protect New Britain's unique aquatic invertebrate fauna species, and in number of threatened species. We used from extinction." (Authors)] Address: Gassmann, D., In- sites in southern Africa and islands in the Western Indi- stitute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Leiden an Ocean. We chose dragonflies as they are taxonomi- University, c/o National Museum of Natural History, P.O. cally tractable, well surveyed, and provide a range of Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: characteristics from narrow-range endemics to widely- [email protected] spread and vagile opportunists. We then selected as many oceanic islands as possible where there were suf- 10252. Geseke, C.; Hill, B.; Möller, L.; Roland, H.-J.; ficient data to make comparisons with land islands of a Stübing, S. (Red.) (2011): Atlas der Libellen Hessens. similar area in African savanna, grassland and moun- FENA Wissen 1: 184 pp. (in German) [Hessen, Germa- tains rich in endemic species. Generalized Linear Mixed ny; 65 Odonata species are mapped and introduced Models were used to analyse the overall, range-re- with information on habitat, phenology, morphology, and stricted and threatened species richness for all islands population trends.] Address: Hessen-Forst, Forstein- (both oceanic and land) and then for the two types of is- richtung und Naturschutz, Europastr. 10-12, 35394 Gie- land separately. Species richness increased with island ßen, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] size, with oceanic and land island size relationships be- sen.de ing similar. Land islands overall had significantly more 10253. Gossum, H. van; Bots, J.; Heusden, J. van; range-restricted species. Species on land islands were Hammers, M.; Huyghe, K.; Morehouse, N.I. (2011): Re- as threatened as those on oceanic islands. However, flectance spectra and mating patterns support intraspe- the land islands of the Western Cape were under a cific mimicry in the colour polymorphic damselfly Isch- higher level of threat than oceanic islands of compara- nura elegans. Evol. Ecol. 25: 139-154. (in English) ["Co- tive size. The large islands of Madagascar and Sri Lan- existence of female colour morphs in animal popula- ka were outliers with very high levels of threat. Trans-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 45 lated into conservation, the results illustrate that over- Odonata are listed at the order level.] Address: Guo, generalizations about island faunas being more threat- Cheng, Department of Life Sciences, Chifeng Universi- ened than continental ones are not necessarily valid. ty, Chifeng 024000,China While not wishing to draw attention away from the ur- gent conservation action needed on many tropical is- 10257. Hämäläinen, M.; Yu, X.; Zhang, H. (2011): De- lands, we argue that comparisons of oceanic versus scriptions of Matrona oreades spec. nov. and Matrona land islands detract from the more urgent task of local corephaea spec. nov. from China (Odonata: Caloptery- conservation action based on the special needs of any gidae). Zootaxa 2830: 20-28. (in English) ["Matrona particular area, whether land or oceanic. It is more oreades Hämäläinen, Yu & Zhang, spec. nov. (holotype meaningful to establish how threats operate and how to male, China, Gansu, Wenxian, Bikou, alt. 950m, 9/13 vii mitigate them on small populations rather than focusing 2005) and Matrona corephaea Hämäläinen, Yu & purely on any particular island type per se." (Authors)] Zhang, spec. nov. (holotype male, China, Zhejiang, Address: Samways, M.J., Dept Entomol. & Nematol., West Tianmushan, alt. 700m, 8 viii 2007) are described Univ. Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, ZA-7602, Matie- and illustrated for both sexes. These two species differ land, South Africa. E-mail: [email protected] markedly from the members of the Matrona basilaris species group by their sparser venation and absence of 10255. Grant, P.B.C.; Samway, M.J. (2011): Micro-hot- bluish-white reticulation at the wing base." (Authors)] spot determination and buffer zone value for Odonata in Address: Hämäläinen, M., Netherlands Centre for Bio- a globally significant biosphere reserve. Biological Con- diversity Naturalis, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden, servation 144(2): 772-781. (in English) ["Reserves are The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] frequently constrained in design and size by various fi- nancial, social or political factors. Maintenance of exist- 10258. Harabiń, F.; Dolný, A. (2011): The effect of eco- ing reserves must therefore rely on strategic manage- logical determinants on the dispersal abilities of central ment practices, and prioritization of conservation activi- European dragonflies (Odonata). Odonatologica 40(1): ties within them. Identification of global and regional 17-26. (in English) ["Individual species dispersal ability hotspots have been effective for prioritizing conserva- deserves special attention mainly because of negative tion activities. Yet, identification of micro-hotspots, or impact of human induced changes on freshwater eco- overlapping areas of endemic and rare species that are systems. This study is focused on Central European under threat at the landscape scale, have largely been dragonflies, because there is a high concentration of ignored. From a reserve management point of view, very experienced odonatologists in this region. It is knowledge of critical micro-hotspots within a reserve, more difficult to estimate dispersal ability of distant taxa are focal points for directing cost effective, conservation than closely related species. This study supports the initiatives, especially removal of invasive alien plants widespread awareness of limited dispersal abilities of which are a major threat to biodiversity. Using diversity habitat generalists. Although there are a variety of life- patterns of dragonfly assemblages, many endemic and history groups between both suborders, the majority of threatened, within a biosphere reserve located in the species with limited dispersal abilities are from the sub- core of a global biodiversity hotspot, we investigated order Zygoptera. Mediterranean elements, often re- the concept of micro-hotspots. As biosphere reserves ferred to as those expanding due to global warming, contain zones with varying degrees of anthropogenic embody higher dispersal abilities than Siberian ele- impact, we also investigated the value of buffer and ments. Lentic species may benefit from the stable con- transition zones for complementing the dragonfly fauna ditions of standing waters in comparison to lotic ones, of the reserve core. We found a distinct micro-hotspot although this preference is not so strong according to within the protected core zone which shows concord- authors‘ analysis." (Authors)] Address: Harabiń, F., De- ance for both endemism and species richness. We con- partment of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Scienc- clude that focused conservation actions to remove in- es, Czech University of Life Sciences, CZ-165 21 Pra- vasive alien plants within this micro-hotspot would help gue 6, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected] insure its continued integrity. Furthermore, while there is 10259. Holly, M. (2011): New and rare dragonflies (O- greater habitat degradation within the buffer and transi- donata) in the Bieszczady National Park recorded in the tion zones, they support many additional species, but years in 2009 and 2010. Odonatrix 7(1): 19-23. (in not those necessarily endemic or threatened. The com- Polish, with English summary) ["The author studied plementary value of buffer and transition zones there- small water bodies created for amphibians in the Bies- fore lies in increasing habitat heterogeneity and species zczady National Park in the years 2009 and 2010. Les- richness of the whole reserve." (Authors)] Address: tes dryas and Cordulia aenea have been recorded for Samways, M.J., Dept Entomol. & Nematol., Univ. Stel- the first time in the park. Records of additional species lenbosch, Private Bag X1, ZA-7602, Matieland, South are given too, of which Aeshna juncea is of special in- Africa. E-mail: [email protected] terest. Two sites of Cordulegaster bidentata were also 10256. Guo, C.; Liu, F.; Yuan, S.-x.; Ren, B.-z. (2011): found in the Bieszczady National Park." (Author)] Ad- Dynamic study of insect community in Heilihe National dress: Holly, M., Ośrodek Naukowo–Dydaktyczny Bies- Nature Reserve. Journal of Jilin Agricultural University zczadzkiego Parku Narodowego, ul. Bełska 7, 38-700 2/2011: 1-6. (in Chinese, with English summary) [Insect Ustrzyki Dolne, Poland. E-mail: [email protected] fauna of five habitats (Quercus mongolica -, Betula 10260. Huang, C.-C.; Lin, S.-C. (2011): Lineage-speci- platyphylla - Corylus heterophylla -, man-made conifer- fic late Pleistocene expansion of an endemic subtropi- ous forest edge communities and riverside meadow cal gossamer-wing damselfly, Euphaea formosa, in community) from Heilihe National Natural Reserve in Taiwan. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011, 11:94: (in Eng- Chifeng of Inner Mongolia, China were studied from lish) ["Background: Pleistocene glacial oscillations have June to October in 2007. The total of more than 4000 significantly affected the historical population dynamics specimens obtained belong to 11 orders, 65 families, of temperate taxa. However, the general effects of re- 176 genera and 223 species." (Authors) Taxa including cent climatic changes on the evolutionary history and

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 46 genetic structure of extant subtropical species remain struction (land-use type around the pond and pond poorly understood. In the present study, phylogeogra- bank protection), and invasive alien species (abun- phic and historical demographic analyses based on mi- dance of bluegill, largemouth bass, red swamp crayfish, tochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences were used. and American bullfrog). We then evaluated the relation- The aim was to investigate whether Pleistocene climatic ships among direct pressures and the individual biodi- cycles, paleo-drainages or mountain vicariance of Tai- versity indicators and used a hierarchical Bayesian ap- wan shaped the evolutionary diversification of a sub- proach to calculate the integrated biodiversity indicator. tropical gossamer-wing damselfly, Euphaea formosa. Using this framework, we demonstrated that eutrophi- Results: E. formosa populations originated in the middle cation had greater effects on the state of biodiversity of Pleistocene period (0.3 Mya) and consisted of two evo- the agricultural ponds than did habitat destruction or the lutionarily independent lineages. It is likely that they de- presence of invasive alien species. We also showed rived from the Pleistocene paleo-drainages of northern that the integrated indicator could well explain the be- and southern Minjiang, or alternatively by divergence haviours of several individual biodiversity indicators, in- within Taiwan. The ancestral North-central lineage colo- cluding total richness, endangered species richness, nized northwestern Taiwan first and maintained a slowly and functional diversity of focal taxa. These results growing population throughout much of the early to demonstrate the advantages of the framework in provi- middle Pleistocene period. The ancestral widespread li- ding a more practical method for assessing biodiversity, neage reached central-southern Taiwan and experi- and quantifying the relative importance of the major enced a spatial and demographic expansion into east- threats to biodiversity to prioritize strategies in conser- ern Taiwan. This expansion began approximately vation planning and policy making." (Authors)] Address: 30,000 years ago in the Holocene interglacial period. Kadoya, T., Environmental Biology Division, National The ancestral southern expansion into eastern Taiwan Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2, Onogawa, indicates that the central mountain range (CMR) formed Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan a barrier to east-west expansion. However, E. formosa 10262. Kerbiriou, C.; Bargain, B.; Le Viol, I.; Pavoine, S. populations in the three major biogeographic regions (East, South, and North-Central) exhibit no significant (2011): Diet and fuelling of the globally threatened aquat- genetic partitions, suggesting that river drainages and ic warbler at autumn migration stopover as compared mountains did not form strong geographical barriers with two congeners. Animal Conservation 14(3): 261- against gene flow among extant populations. Conclu- 270. (in English) ["The effective conservation of aquatic sions: The present study implies that the antiquity of E. warbler Acrocephalus paludicola, one of the most threat- ened western Palaearctic migratory passerines, requires formosa‘s colonization is associated with its high dis- persal ability and larval tolerance to the late Pleistocene good knowledge of its ecological needs at stopover sites. dry grasslands. The effect of 3 late Pleistocene climatic In particular, identifying its diet, which controls the accu- mulation of fat reserves during migration, facilitates the changes on the subtropical damselfly‘s historical de- mography is lineage-specific, depending predominantly selection and management of adequately protected are- on its colonization history and geography. It is proposed as. Further key information includes the relationship be- that the Riss and Würm glaciations in the late Pleisto- tween prey species abundance and habitats of aquatic cene period had a greater impact on the evolutionary warbler on stopover. We performed standardized mist diversification of subtropical insular species than the netting in the Audierne marshes (western France) during last glacial maximum (LGM)." (Authors)] Address: Lin, 12 years, which resulted in the capture of 1200 aquatic C.P., Department of Life Science & Center for Tropical warblers, and provided measurements for mass gain and Ecology and Biodiversity, Tunghai University, Taichung, the collection of faeces to infer the birds‘ diet. Inverte- Taiwan 40704. E-mail: [email protected] brate sampling was carried out in the three main Au- dierne marsh habitats (reed bed, fen mire and meadow). 10261. Kadoya, T.; Akasaka, M.; Aoki, T.; Takamura, N. In order to go beyond prey digestibility bias, we also (2011): A proposal of framework to obtain an integrated studied two closely related Acrocephalus species, pre- biodiversity indicator for agricultural ponds incorporating sent at migration stopover sites during the same period. the simultaneous effects of multiple pressures. Ecologi- We found that the diet composition of aquatic warbler cal Indicators 11(5): 1396-1402. (in English) ["One of observed at migration stopover sites is based on large- the promising approaches to monitoring biodiversity is sized prey (Odonata, Orthoptera, Lepidoptera). Like assessing the status of pressures driving the biodiversi- sedge warblers, aquatic warblers put on weight during ty state. To achieve this, we need to identify the princi- migration stopovers (daily mass gain=0.38 g). This in- pal pressures that cause simultaneous biodiversity loss crease in weight suggests that the aquatic warblers might across taxonomic groups and clarify how multiple pres- have adopted a strategy for long-distance migration with sures act synergistically or at least simultaneously to few stopovers only. Owing to great differences in diet, decrease biodiversity in the focal ecosystem. Here, we conservation management for the threatened aquatic used a series of 64 ponds as a case study and we de- warbler at stopover sites should not rely on existing veloped a framework for an integrated biodiversity indi- knowledge about sedge and reed warblers. Similarities in cator that took into consideration the estimated relative the diet of aquatic warbler between nesting areas and importance of multiple pressures. The indicator is de- migration stopover areas and the relationship between fined as a function of the pressure(s) and is parameter- habitat and prey abundance suggest that fen mires play ized to explain a number of individual indicators of bio- an important role in the quality of the foraging habitat at diversity, such as richness, abundance, and functional stopover sites." (Authors)] Address: Kerbiriou, C., UMR diversity of focal taxa. We selected aquatic macro- 7204 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC Conservation des Espèces, phytes, Odonata, and benthic macroinvertebrates as Restauration et Suivi des Populations (CERSP), the focal taxa. In addition, we focused on three types of Muséum National d‘Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France pressure: eutrophication (represented by total phospho- rus, total nitrogen, suspended solids, chlorophyll a, and 10263. Kloskowski, J. (2011): Impact of common carp density of cyanobacteria of pond water), habitat de- Cyprinus carpio on aquatic communities: direct trophic

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 47 effects versus habitat deterioration. Fundamental and 32 dragonfly species were observed in the peat bog in Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie 178(3): which four of them are under protection: Aeshna sub- 245-255. (in English) ["C. carpio, a worldwide introdu- arctica, Leucorrhinia albifrons, L. caudalis and L. pecto- ced benthivorous fish, has been implicated in the deg- ralis. In the future, in the area of the peat bog, the form- radation of native environments through initiation of a ing of the nature reserve called „Bieszkowickie Moc- shift to a phytoplankton-dominated turbid state, which is zary‖ is planned, however, nowadays the steps for es- associated with dramatic biodiversity loss. This study tablishing the second refuge for the N. speciosa in the combined surveys of ponds containing either low total area of the Tricity Landscape Park are taken." (Author)] biomass of small-sized carp or high densities of large- Address: Konopko, D., ul. Dedala 8/2/9, 81-197 Gdynia, sized carp with an enclosure/exclosure experiment, in Poland. E-mail: [email protected] order to quantify the direct (trophic) and indirect (via 10266. Kovalenko, K.E.; Dibble, E.D. (2011): Effects of habitat deterioration) impacts of carp on pond communi- ties. High-density ponds supported substantially lower invasive macrophyte on trophic diversity and position of biodiversity and were more turbid than low-density secondary consumers. Hydrobiologia 663(1): 167-173. ponds. The subsequent field experiment examined the (in English) ["Invasive species are one of the wide- effects of carp presence/absence and of clear-water spread stressors of aquatic ecosystems. Several stud- versus moderately turbid conditions mediated by carp ies document food web effects of invasive fish, but little on the survival to metamorphosis of larval anurans information is available on the effects of invasive mac- Pelobates fuscus and Hyla arborea, on Zygoptera and rophytes. We studied differences in food chain length Anisoptera densities, and on the biomass of submerged as well as trophic position and trophic diversity of fish macrophytes. The presence of enclosed one-year old and odonates in lakes dominated by native plants or in- carp resulted in the complete elimination of larval anu- vasive Eurasian watermilfoil. Trophic position and food rans and the absence of Odonata. The effects of the chain length were determined using baseline-adjusted habitat conditions were not significant, apart from better d15N isotope signatures. Trophic diversity, or isotope survival of P. fuscus in the moderately turbid carp ex- niche width, was estimated from convex hull area anal- closures than in clear water. Submerged plants were ysis. Results show that trophic position of secondary more abundant in clear-water than in turbid treatments, consumers was not affected by the invasive macro- with a negligible effect of enclosures/exclosures. These phyte, whereas trophic diversity was greater in water- results suggest that carp predation and related effects milfoil-dominated lakes. The direction of isotopic niche may be primarily responsible for animal diversity loss in expansion was different in fish and odonates, suggest- invaded communities, as they may act prior to, or inde- ing potential decoupling in predator–prey interactions. pendent of, the ecosystem switch to a turbid phase." This study shows that dominant non-native macro- (Authors)] Address: Kloskowski, J., Dept of Nature Con- phytes may cause significant changes in food web structure of invaded ecosystems. Trophic diversity may servation, Institute of Biology, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland. E- be a more sensitive indicator of environmental stress mail: [email protected] than trophic position and has the potential to be used for assessment of invasive species impacts and resto- 10264. Klymko, J. (2011): Ophiogomphus anomalous, ration success." (Authors)] Address: Kovalenko, Katya, Extra-striped Snaketail, a new species for Nova Scotia. Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor. Argia 23(1): 21-22. (in English) [Medway River between ON N9B 3P4, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] Bangs Falls and Riversdale, Canada, 18-VI. and 20-VII- 2010] Address: Klymko, J., Canada. E-mail: jklymko@ 10267. Koyama, T.; Takano, H.; Yokoyama, T. (2011): mta.ca Micropores in the Vitteline Layer of the Eggs of the Dragonfly Oligoaeshna pryeri: A Preliminary Observa- 10265. Konopko, D. (2011): New locality of the Pygmy tion from the Viewpoint of Oxygen Uptake. Advances in Damselfly Nehalennia speciosa (Charpentier, 1840) experimental medicine and biology 915: 307-310. (in (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) in the Tricity Landscape English) ["In dragonfly eggs, oxygen diffusing in, and Park. Odonatrix 7(1): 24-27. (in Polish, with English carbon dioxide diffusing out, encounter barriers in the summary) ["N. speciosa inhabits mainly small natural shell. According to Tullett and Board, in avian eggs the water bodies with the area less than 1 ha, great amount most important of these barriers results from the geom- of mud sedge Carex limosa and slender sedge C. la- etry of the pores through the shells. As in birds, dragon- siocarpa as well as submerged vegetation. In Poland, fly egg shells consist of three layers: the exochorion, 75 sites of this species have been discovered so far of endochorion and the innermost vitelline membrane. which 44 are regarded as contemporary. In the Tricity Trueman has described pores and fine anchorlike struc- Landscape Park, the Pygmy Damselfly was discovered tures in the endochorion but the vitelline membrane for the first time in July 2006 at the site about 1,1 km does not seem to have been studied. In the present NE away from Kamień in the commune of Szemud (Ko- work we have used scanning electron microscopy to nopko 2007). The next site was discovered in July examine the vitelline membrane in hatching eggs of Ol- 2009, in a peat bog bordered from NE with Zawiat Lake igoaeschna pryeri. We have assumed that the numer- situated in the vicinity of Bieszkowice, in the commune ous openings seen on the micrographs are pores of Wejherowo. The central point of the peat bog is a through the membrane. Results are expressed as dystrophic water body with the Sphagnum moss matt means ± SD. The pore diameter, pore area and number separated from the lake by 90 meter-width belt of Vac- per µm² of the vitelline membrane were 74.7 ± 61.3 nm, cinio uliginosi-Pinetum sylvestris Kleist 1929 bog wood- 4380 ± 3555 nm2 and 4.16 ±1.3 pores/µm2 (4.16 x108 land. N. speciosa are present in Carex limosa swamp. pores/cm2), respectively. The total pore area was calcu- The population is small; the highest number of individu- lated to be 18,222 nm2/µm(2). In avian egg shells pore als was 70. During earlier studies this species was not density depends on the weight of the egg. Results giv- found in the peat bog. The colonization of this site was en by Tullett and Board suggest that an egg weighing 1 probably made before our eyes. Except for N. speciosa, g may have a pore density of 300 pores/cm², which is

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 48 much lower than the present result for dragonflies. It suggest that the small-scale extractivism in these re- seems likely that the difference reflects the fact that in gions carries little effect because the fauna of adjacent Oligoaeshna pryeri the eggs are immersed in water." areas probably can quickly colonize the disturbed are- (Authors)] Address: Koyama, T., Hokkaido University, as. ... Because only the fauna associated with sediment Sapporo, Japan. E-mail: [email protected]. have been assessed in this study, some taxa more ac- tive or rare, were not sampled in larger quantities, 10268. Lampo, C.; Riservato, E.; Lencioni, V. (2011): among them Odonata, Ephemeroptera and Hyallelidae Contributo alla conoscenza dell‘odonatofauna della Val (Table 1). The sampler used (corer) is more effective in di Ledro (Trentino). Studi Trent. Sci. Nat. 88: 53-59. (in collecting taxa with little mobility, i.e. most of detri- Italian, with English summary) ["In 2009-2010 the tivores." (Authors)] Address: Rodrigues, G.G., Depto de odonatofauna from two lakes, Ampola and Ledro Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de (southern Trentino, NE-Italy) was studied. Larvae, exu- Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, viae and adults were collected. In all, 21 species were Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes identified, all of them already known for the Trentino Rego, 1235, 50670-420, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Province but only three already found in the study area. Pernambuco, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] The occurrence in Trentino of two species, Somatochlo- ra flavomaculata and Aeshna isosceles, is confirmed af- 10271. Mac Nally, R.; Wallis, E.; Lake, P.S. (2011): Ge- ter 30 years. As expected, a higher species richness ometry of biodiversity patterning: assemblages of ben- was recorded in Lake Ampola, being a protected site thic macroinvertebrates at tributary confluences. Aquat- since 1990thies: 16 species of which 9 with evidence of ic ecology 45(1): 43-54. (in English) ["We assessed reproduction. Only 9 species (of which 5 reproductive, whether tributaries in upland catchments (=watersheds) with modified phenology) were observed at Lake Ledro, affected assemblages of benthic macroinvertebrates in impacted by water abstraction with consequent high mainstems, as has been reported in northern hemi- level fluctuations." (Authors)] Address: Lencioni, Valeria, sphere systems. Eight confluences of small to medium Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Lungadige streams (stream orders 1–4, 2.2–10.8 m wide) were Porta Vittoria 9, 37122, Verona, Italia. E-mail: len- studied in the Acheron River basin in Victoria, Australia. [email protected] For each confluence, two transects were sampled at each of five zones relative to the confluence: two zones 10269. Li, Y.; Nel, A.; Ren, D.; Zhang, B.; Pang, H. upstream in the mainstem, one zone upstream in the (2011): A new Chinese Mesozoic dragonfly clarifies the tributary, one zone at the confluence and one zone relationships between Rudiaeschnidae and Cymato- downstream in the mainstem. Surveys were conducted phlebiidae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera). Zootaxa 2802: 51- in both high-flow and lowflow conditions. In mainstems, 57. (in English) ["A very well preserved fossil specimen there was no change in macroinvertebrate density, tax- of Rudiaeschna limnobia Ren & Guo, 1996, is de- onomic richness or functional feeding group composi- scribed and diagnosis for Rudiaeschna is emended. Its tion downstream relative to upstream of the conflu- clear morphological structures, including body charac- ences. While tributaries statistically had distinctive ben- ters, clarify and confirm the affinities of Rudiaeschna thic macroinvertebrate assemblages compared to and the Rudiaeschnidae with Cymatophlebia Deichmül- mainstems, these distinctions were small. In low flows, ler, 1886, and the Cymatophlebiidae, previously inferred densities in tributaries were substantially lower than in only through venational characters." (Authors)] Address: mainstems, but densities during high flows were more Ren, D., College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal Uni- similar (albeit only about one-third as high as in low versity Beijing 100048, China. E-mails: rending@mail. flow) in tributaries and mainstems. An inverse pattern cnu.edu.cn was evident for taxonomic richness, where richness in 10270. Lima Silveira, T.C.; Rodrigues, G.G.; Coelho de tributaries and mainstems was similar in low flows but Souza, G.P.; Würdig, N.L. (2011): Effects of cutting dis- was greater in mainstems than in tributaries in high turbance in Schoenoplectus californicus (C.A. Mey.) flows. We found little evidence of tributary effects in Soják on the benthic macroinvertebrates. Acta Scien- macroinvertebrate assemblages in this basin, which is tiarum. Biological Sciences, Maringá 33(1): 31-39. (in at odds with some previous results from other conti- English, with Portuguese summary) ["Lagoons are con- nents. To explain this divergence, we suggest a concep- sidered protected areas because these systems play a tual model outlining factors that control variation in ef- key ecological role. However, the extraction of macro- fects of tributaries on assemblages of benthic macroin- phyte Schoenoplectus californicus is held for manufac- vertebrates in mainstems." (Authors) The "Supporting ture of handcrafts, being an alternative income for information" to this paper includes a list of taxa record- riverbank communities. This study evaluated the impact ed in the Acheron River catchment and including "Syn- of S. californicus experimental cutting on benthic ma- themistidae" and "Telephlebiidae".] Address: Mac Nally, croinvertebrates trough a field experiment. Macroinver- R., Australian Centre for Biodiversity, School of Biologi- tebrates were sampled at 1, 12, 26 and 60 days after cal Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Aus- the macrophyte cutting in demarked plots (1 m²), as tralia. E-mail: [email protected] well at control plots. The families number was not statis- 10272. Marin, A.A.; Dumbrava-Dodoaca, M., Petrovici, tically different (ANOVA, p > 0.05), but the total density M.; Herlo, G. (2011): The human impact on benthic of invertebrates, and the density of Ceratopogonidae community structure and dynamics of different ecosys- were significant (ANOVA, p < 0.05) for interaction be- tems from Lunca Muresului Nature Park (West of Ro- tween sampling date and treatment. A Principal Com- mania). Aquaculture, Aquarium, Conservation & Legis- ponents Analysis identified that the level of the water lation. International Journal of the Bioflux Society 4(1): column was the variable that most influenced the varia- 72-78. (in English, with Romanian and Hungarian tion between the samples gathered in the experiment. summaries) [Macrozoobenthos of Mures River and Ca- We concluded that the cutting of S. californicus, in this ramidariei Lake, within the area of Lunca Muresului Na- area, as the intensity of the cut held, did not affect con- ture Park, Romania, was investigated to get information siderably the aquatic macroinvertebrates. The results

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 49 on impacts of pollution to these water bodies. Taxonom- katchewan. In: of Canadian Grasslands (Vo- ic work considered only order level insects, including lume 2): Inhabitants of a Changing Landscape. Edited Odonata.] Address: Dumbrava-Dodoaca, Malina, West by K. D. Floate. Biological Survey of Canada. ISBN University of Timisoara, Faculty of Chemistry Biology 978-0-9689321-5-5: 119-157. (in English, with French and Geography, Department of Biology, Timisoara, Ro- summary) ["The diversity of aquatic insects in the Sas- mania. E-mail: [email protected] katchewan River system in Saskatchewan is high. This reflects the postglacial recruitment of species from as 10273. Martens, A.; Grabow, K. (2011): Early stadium far away as the Colorado River system and Eurasia, but damselfly larvae (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) as prey of also the diverse nature of the waterway itself. Clear, an aquatic plant, Utricularia australis. International Jour- cool waters flow over a variety of rubble, gravel, and nal of Odonatology 14(1): 101-104. (in English) ["Two sand substrates and harbour habitats of submerged third stadium larvae of Coenagrionidae (probably Coen- branches, logs, and growing vegetation. Of the more agrion puella or Ischnura elegans) were recorded in the than 1,000 species of aquatic and semi-aquatic insects bladders of U. australis sampled from a garden pond in that inhabit waters on the grasslands of the Canadian Karlsruhe, Germany, in June 2010. These are the first prairie, at least half occur in streams and rivers. This records of odonate larvae as prey of carnivorous aquat- chapter provides an overview of the latter species, with ic macrophytes." (Authors)] Address: Martens, A., Päda- an emphasis on mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies gogische Hochschule Karlsruhe, PF 111062, 76060 (Plecoptera), caddisflies (Trichoptera), and non-biting Karlsruhe, Germany. E-mail: andreas.martens@ph- midges (Chironomidae) and only brief mention of other karlsruhe.de insect species. Aquatic insects often represent a large 10274. Medlock, J.M.; Vaux, A.G.C. (2011): Assessing biomass with great biodiversity in pristine prairie rivers. the possible implications of wetland expansion and This is still the case for some areas of the Saskatche- management on mosquitoes in Britain. European Mos- wan River, which shows minimal damage and appears quito Bulletin 29: 38-65. (in English) ["The expansion of to be in its near original state. Elsewhere, however, existing wetlands, their creation from arable land, and dams, sewage, and agricultural runoff have degraded the creation of new saltmarsh to alleviate coastal ero- aquatic habitats over large expanses. Laws protecting sion and flooding are important UK issues as the envi- flowing waters in Canada are weak, and large areas of ronment sector adapts to the possible impacts of cli- these waters require detailed study to increase our un- mate change and continues to meet its goals in provid- derstanding of the biodiversity and ecological roles of ing increased wetland habitat for wildlife, and an out- aquatic insects." (Authors) Odonata are treated at pag- door space for human ‗well-being‘. Concerns have been es 150-152.] Address: Miyazaki, R., Department of Bio- raised over the potential impacts that such initiatives logy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sas- might have on mosquitoes and the possible future katchewan, Canada S7N 5E2 transmission of infectious diseases. This paper aims to 10277. Muzon, J.; Lozano, F. (2011): Description of the firstly review wetland management and design strate- final instar larva of Progomphus joergenseni Ris (Epi- gies used in North America and Australia in relation to procta: Gomphidae). Zootaxa 2762: 56-60. (in English) managing mosquitoes in wetlands, and secondly specif- ["The final instar larva of P. joergenseni is described ically discuss possible mitigating strategies for the key and illustrated for the first time based on specimens col- British mosquito species of freshwater wetland habitats lected in Río Negro Province, northern Patagonia, Ar- in order to guide future research in this field. Develop- gentina. Right mandibular molar crest shows an ex- ing this evidence-base is a crucial element in preparing treme reduction in the number of teeth with no interme- for the emergence of mosquito-borne disease in the UK diates between teeth a and b. Antennal, leg and para- and in aiding policy makers in their assessments of the procts morphology suggest a close relationship with the risks and impacts associated with wetland expansion on species included in the Pygmaeus group, but P. joer- mosquito nuisance and disease risk. It is important to genseni differs from them because of its larger size and ensure that biodiversity gain and habitat restoration can longer anal pyramid." (Authors)] Address: Muzón, J., advance without inadvertently elevating the risks from Inst. Limnol. "Dr. R.A. Ringuelet", C.C. 712, AR-1900 La disease vectors." (Authors) Passing references to Odo- Plata, Argentina. E-mail: [email protected] nata as predators of mosquitoes are made.] Address: Medlock, J.M., Medical Entomology & Zoonoses Ecolo- 10278. Nagel, L.; Zanuttig, M.; Forbes, M.R. (2011): gy Group, Microbial Risk Assessment, Emergency Re- Escape of parasitic water mites from dragonfly preda- sponse Department, Health Protection Agency, Porton tors attacking their damselfly hosts. Canadian Journal Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 0JG, UK. E-mail: of Zoology 89(1): 213-218. (in English, with French [email protected] summary) ["Many parasites are transmitted trophically, whereas others can either succumb to, or escape from, 10275. Minova, S.; Balla, M.; David, S. (2011): First the predators of their hosts. We examined the extent to record of Hemianax ephippiger (Odonata: Aeschnidae which larval arrenurid water mites (Arrenurus planus [sic] from Slovakia. Folia faunistica Slovaca 16(1): 25- Marshall, 1908 and Arrenurus pollictus Marshall, 1910) 26.[E Slovakia, Vychodoslovenska rovina Plain; Inac- parasitizing Lestes forcipatus and L. disjunctus escape ovce (N 48°41'31.6'', E 22°3'53.7''), 2 pairs of adults fly- from predatory libellulid dragonflies that are consuming ing in tandem, 23.5.2007; loc. ibid. 1 mating pair, 6.6. their hosts. We hypothesized that the brightly coloured 2007.] Address: Minov, Slávká, State Nature Conserv- mites would be avoided by feeding dragonflies. Howev- ancy of the Slovak Republic, Administration of the Pro- er, all partially engorged A. pollictus mites were eaten tected Landscape Area Latorica, M. R. Ńtefánika 1755, while their host was being consumed in staged preda- SK-075 01 Trebińov, Slovakia. E-mail: slavka.minova tion trials. In contrast, half of the fully engorged mites @sopsr.sk detached and therefore escaped consumption. Trials 10276. Miyazaki, R.; Lehmkuhl, D.M. (2011): Chapter with A. planus mites showed that they detached more 6: Insects of the Saskatchewan River System in Sas- readily than their congenerics, which may be due to se-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 50 lection on those temporary pond mites to survive desic- level.] Address: Nelson, S.M., Technical Service Center, cation stress following detachment. The effect of drag- Bureau of Reclamation, Denver Federal Center, Bldg. onfly predation on transitioning of mites from parasitic 56, Rm. 2010, P.O. Box 25007 (86-68220), Denver, CO larvae to their free-living aquatic stages therefore de- 80225, USA. E-mail: [email protected] pends on the degree of engorgement and the mite spe- cies." (Authors)] Address: Forbes, M.R., Dept of Biolo- 10281. Ngiam, R.W.J.; Sun, S.W.; Sek, J.Y. (2011): An gy, Carleton University, 587 Tory Building, 1125 Colonel update on Heliogomphus cf. retroflexus Ris, 1912 with By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada. E-mail: mfor- notes on Microgomphus chelifer Selys, 1858 in Singa- [email protected] pore (Odonata: Anisoptera: Gomphidae). Nature in Sin- gapore 4: 95-99. (in English) ["Ngiam (2010) published 10279. Neiss, U.G.; Fiorentin, G.L.; De Marmels, J. a paper describing two gomphid larvae collected from (2011): The larva of Allopodagrion brachyurum De Mar- the Central Catchment Nature Reserve which had been mels, 2001 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Megapodagrionidae) reared unsuccessfully. The two larvae were believed to from Southern Brazil. Zootaxa 2836: 44-50. (in English) be from the genus Heliogomphus, and based on their ["The larva of A. brachyurum is the first known for the ge- antennal morphology, Ngiam discussed the possibly nus. The larva is described and illustrated based on exu- that the larvae could be Heliogomphus cf. retroflexus. viae of reared larvae collected in the upper course of the However the two larvae were not reared to adulthood Rio dos Sinos, in Caraá município, Rio Grande do Sul, and Heliogomphus retroflexus adults have never been Brazil. The larva of A. brachyurum can be distinguished recorded locally. Singapore is also well outside the from all other neotropical megapodagrionid larvae pri- known distribution range of Heliogomphus retroflexus marily by the presence of a well developed obtuse tuber- and no other Heliogomphus species other than Helio- cle in sub-vertical orientation on each side of occiput; two gomphus kelantanensis Laidlaw, 1902 has been rec- blunt tubercles on top of the head; and caudal gills thin, orded in Singapore (Tang et al., 2010). Thus the exact stiff, triquetral and extremely long, as long as body." (Au- identity of the two mysterious gomphid larvae remains thors)] Address: Neiss, U.G., Coordenação de Pesquisas unsolved. Recently more larvae similar to those collect- em Entomologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da ed by Ngiam (2010) were collected and two individuals Amazônia/INPA, Caixa Postal 478, CEP 69011-970, Ma- were reared to adulthood. The identity of the larva is fi- naus, AM, Brazil. Bolsista Doutorado/CNPq. E-mail: nally revealed to be Microgomphus chelifer Selys, [email protected] 1858. In this paper, larvae from the genus Heliogom- phus and Microgomphus are discussed. In addition, the 10280. Nelson, S.M. (2011): Response of stream ma- successful rearing of Microgomphus chelifer larvae pro- croinvertebrate assemblages to erosion control struc- vides an update on its local status." (Authors)] Address: tures in a wastewater dominated urban stream in the Robin Wen Jiang Ngiam, R.W.J., National Biodiversity southwestern U.S. Hydrobiologia 663: 51-69. (in Eng- Centre, National Parks Board, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore lish) ["Effects of stream erosion control structures on 259569. E-mail: [email protected] aquatic macroinvertebrates were studied (2000–2009) in a wastewater dominated drainage (Wash) in Las Ve- 10282. Nóbrega, C.C.; De Marco Jr. P. (2011): Unpro- gas, Nevada. Mainstem sites with and without structu- tecting the rare species: a niche-based gap analysis for res, wastewater treatment plant outfalls, a reference odonates in a core Cerrado area. Diversity and Distribu- site above treatment plant inputs, and tributary sites tions 17(3): 491-505.["Aim: We evaluated Odonata dis- were sampled. Ordination suggested hydrology and tribution data and predicted the compositional resem- channel characteristics (current velocity, stream depth, blance based on niche-based species distribution mod- and width), and water quality (conductivity) were prima- els to analyse the following questions: (1) How is esti- ry factors in organizing macroinvertebrate communities, mated species richness distributed, and how can it be with some variables altered at structures. Treatment preserved under the actual network of conservation plant inputs changed hydrology (increased flows), water units (a gap analysis approach)? (2) How is the esti- chemistry (conductivity decreased below treatment mated odonate beta diversity distributed, and is there a plants), and temperature. Assemblages differed be- better distribution of conservation units (a priority set- tween site types, with midges and damselflies important ting approach)? (3) Is the probability of being under pro- at tributary sites and Fallceon mayflies and Smicridea tection a function of the potential species range size? caddisflies common at erosion control structures. Local- and (4) Will the current conservation network proposals ly unique communities developed at structures which protect odonate taxa? Location: Central Brazil in a core also may have facilitated exotic species invasions. Cerrado area. Methods: We generated odonate species Analyses showed that taxa richness increased over distribution predictions based on MaxEnt and maps de- time at these sites and differed significantly from rich- rived from estimated species richness, beta diversity ness at sites without structures. Structures appeared and gap analysis for all species predicted to occur in important in retaining organic matter and, among main- the study area. Then, we compared these maps with stem sites, coarse particulate organic matter was high- current conservation units, land-use patterns and pro- est, but variable, at structures and at wetlands above posals for the establishment of conservation units. Re- the structures. Erosion control structures, coupled with sults: Raw odonate species records provided limited warm effluent, high baseflows, and altered water quality utility for setting conservation priorities without the use resulted in development of a macroinvertebrate com- of niche-based models. However, area under the re- munity that did not trend towards reference or tributary ceiver operating curve (AUC) values were character- sites. In this case, ecological communities at structures ized by substantial variation that was related to the used for river restoration were not on a continuum be- number of records. No current conservation units over- tween disturbed and reference sites. Goal setting of lapped the areas with higher predicted richness and be- community responses at these structures would have ta diversity, and in general, conservation units were not required insight beyond the simple use of reference site preserving restricted/rare species. There was a direct attributes." (Author) Odonata are treated at the family linear correlation between species range size and the

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 51 proportion of its range protected in the current network ver, elevation), c) resources (vegetation index, distance of conservation units. Finally, we identified three areas to water) and d) potential anthropogenic impact (popu- with high odonate beta diversity where conservationist lation density). These example species show the mod- actions should be implemented. Main conclusions: Cur- el‘s usefulness in e.g. identifying areas in need of con- rent conservation units and future suggested areas do servation for these species in East-Africa. An assess- not overlap regions with high conservation values for ment of the sensitivity of the variables in regard to the odonates. Conservation units protect species at ran- predicted habitat ranges can help to project relative im- dom, and the level of protection has a direct relation- pacts caused by the various variables." (Authors)] Ad- ship with species range size; thus, wide-range species dress: Ojha, Nirmal, Hochschule Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, are expected to be more protected than restricted or Germany. E-mail: [email protected] threatened species." (Authors)] Address: De Marco Jú- 10285. Olthoff, M.; Ikemeyer, D. (2011): Erstnachweis nior, P., Laboratório de Ecologia Teórica e Síntese, ICB 1, Universidade Federal de Goiâs, CP 131, 74.001-970, von Hochmoor-Mosaikjungfer (Aeshna subarctica) und Goiânia, GO, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] Arktischer Smaragdlibelle (Somatochlora arctica) im Amtsvenn-Hündfelder Moor (Kreis Borken) (Anisoptera: 10283. Novelo Gutierrez, R.; Gomez Anaya, J.A. Aeshnidae, Corduliidae). Natur und Heimat 71(1): 1-8. (2011): The larva of Progomphus lambertoi Novelo-Gu- (in Germany, with English summary) ["A. subarctica and tiérrez, 2007 (Odonata: Gomphidae). Zootaxa 2872: 58- S. arctica were recorded for the first time in the nature 62. (in English) ["The larva of Progomphus lambertoi is reserve Amtsvenn-Hündfelder Moor in the district of described and illustrated; it belongs to the obscurus- Borken (Westphalia, Germany) in 2010. Both species group of Progomphus. It appears closely related to P. are bog specialists confined to Sphagnum-dominated belyshevi Belle and P. borealis McLachlan based on bog pools. While the reproduction of S. arctica could stature and size of abdominal dorsal protuberances but not be proved, A. subarctica breeds in Sphagnum-domi- is easily separated from these species by abdominal nated peat cuttings. It is assumed that the observed in- colour pattern." (Authors)] Address: Gomez Anaya, J.A., dividuals of the latter species are part of a cross-border Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Apartado Postal 63, 91000 metapopulation, comprising further peat bogs in the dis- Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. E-mail: antonio.gomez@in- trict of Borken, the adjacent Netherlands and Lower ecol.edu.mx Saxony."] Address: Olthoff, M., Biologische Station Zwillbrock e.V., Zwillbrock 10, 48691 Vreden, Germany. 10284. Ojha, N.; Clausnitzer, V.; Suhling, F.; Schaab, G. E-mail: [email protected] (2011): Adding a distribution modelling tool for conser- vationists of the African Odonata database. In: Niekisch, 10286. Ordonez, C.; Lougheed, V.L.; Gardea-Torres- M. & B. Streit (Eds.): Status and future of tropical biodi- dey, J.L.; Bain, L.J. (2011): Impact of Metals on Macro- versity. Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology, invertebrate Assemblages in the Forgotten Stretch of Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie e.V. - gtö, Goethe Uni- the Rio Grande. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 60: versity, 21 - 24 February 2011, Frankfurt a. M., Pro- 426-436. (in English) ["The objective of this study was gramme & Abstracts: 163. (in English) [Verbatim: "Spe- to examine how changes in the benthic macroinverte- cies distribution models have often been employed to brate community structure and a variety of abiotic vari- find the potential habitat range. Making use of the ables, such as conductivity and sediment metal concen- unique African Odonata database which covers over trations, are modified along the Forgotten River stretch 800 species, we present a logistic-regression based of the Rio Grande. This stretch receives industrial efflu- modelling tool for predicting their potential distribution. ent, raw sewage, and agricultural return flow from the El Thus, the scientifically collected database has the po- Paso (TX, USA)–Ciudad Juárez (CHI, Mexico) metro- tential to be useful for conservation related applications; plex and then flows relatively undisturbed for 320 km as determining the species potential distribution range before its next significant input. The high degree of use, is one of them. E.g. the potential distribution range can followed by the 320-km undisturbed stretch, makes the aid in the assessment of IUCN‘s threat status. Odonata Forgotten River a unique study site to examine down- serve as good indicator species for conservation and stream attenuation of contaminants and other abiotic environmental monitoring and planning for various rea- variables to determine their potential effects on ma- sons: they are easy to monitor, the taxonomy is straight croinvertebrates. Five different sites along the Forgot- forward, they inhabit aquatic (larvae) and terrestrial ten Stretch were sampled over a 2-year period. Metal (adults) habitats, and they are top predators. Here we concentrations were low throughout the stretch and present the example of modelling, currently based on were predominantly correlated to percent sediment or- presence-only data, of two Odonata species in tropical ganic matter rather than explained spatially. Several Africa categorised as vulnerable in the IUCN red list of sensitive invertebrate species, such as Leptophlebiidae, threatened species. The tool applies the maximum like- increased in relative abundance downstream, whereas lihood method based on the expectation-maximisation the percentage of tolerant invertebrates decreased. approach. In order to develop a tool in particular useful Nonmetric multidimensional scaling separated the ma- to conservationists, emphasis is given mainly to a) func- croinvertebrate communities upstream from those tions to ensure proper harmonisation of raster and vec- downstream, with the more sensitive species being tor datasets, b) a user-friendly graphical user interface, found predominantly downstream and more tolerant and c) a comprehensive help system. Coryphagrion taxa associated upstream. Additionally, there was a dis- grandis, mainly residing in the coastal areas of Kenya tinct seasonal gradient to the community. The most im- and Tanzania and Pseudagrion bicoerulans, mainly portant drivers of the community assemblage appear to found in the montane areas of Kenya, Uganda and Tan- be distance downstream and seasonality, as well as zania have been threatened by wood extraction (defor- water conductivity and concentrations of sediment cad- estation), agriculture and water pollution. Therefore, the mium, which was the only metal that exceeded protec- variables used for modelling are surrogates of a) cli- tive criteria. This study did not provide evidence of the mate (like 6 bioclimatic variables), b) habitat (land-co- downstream attenuation of heavy metals in the sedi-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 52 ments in the Forgotten Stretch; however, downstream macroinvertebrate drift community of a regulated river changes in macroinvertebrates toward more sensitive were compared to that of an unregulated river, longitu- taxa suggests that other, unmeasured contaminants dinally and across three seasons. The regulated river might be affecting biological communities in this isolat- operated under minimum flow and ramping rate (rate of ed stretch of an international waterway." (Authors) change of flow) restrictions resulting in a ‗modified Odonata are treated at the family level.] Address: Bain, peaking‘ regime, which means the facility could still L.J., Dept of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, peak, but at a slower rate and may not reach maximum Clemson, SC, USA. E-mail: [email protected] turbine flows in the short time typically required to re- spond to market energy demand. The unregulated river 10287. Ott, J. (2011): GNOR Arbeitskreise. AK Libellen. had no dams or other water control structures. There Neue Informationen für Libellenfreunde. GNOR info 112: was a trend of increasing abundance and diversity with 30-31. (in German) [The following books are introduced: distance from the dam on the regulated river, with no Libellenatlas für die SAAR-LOR-LUX-Plus-Großregion discernable trend along the unregulated river. While and "Monitoring Climate Change with Dragonflies" (Bio- feeding guild proportions did not vary along the unregu- risk online) as well as information are given on the cur- lated river, within the regulated river feeding guild pro- rent campaign on dragonflies in Germany of BUND.] Ad- portions changed longitudinally as scrapers and collec- dress: Ott, J., Friedhofstr. 28, D-67705 Trippstadt, Ger- tor gatherers increased, and filterers and predators de- many. E-mail: [email protected] creased with distance downstream. The regulated river 10288. Ott, J. (2011): Moorlibellen. Verlierer und Ge- had similar or higher abundance across all seasons, winner. BUNDmagazin 2/: 21. (in German) [General ac- with lower diversity in the spring. Seasonal average count on the dragonflies of bogs in the framework of the discharge was found to be lowest in summer on both present campaign of the German section of "Friends of rivers, with the regulated river benefiting from a mini- the Earth and directed to the protection of dragonflies.] mum flow to help maintain higher abundance and di- Address: Ott, J., Friedhofstr. 28, D-67705 Trippstadt, versity. Overall, our examination of the drifting inverte- Germany. E-mail: [email protected] brate community on a regulated river support that oper- ational constraints associated with modified peaking re- 10289. Outomuro, D.; Ocharana, F.J. (2011): Wing pig- gimes helped mitigate the typical negative effects asso- mentation in Calopteryx damselflies: a role in thermo- ciated with river regulation." (Authors) Taxa - including regulation? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society Odonata - are treated at the order level.] Address: Smo- 103(1): 36-44. (in English) ["Body melanization may korowski, Karen, Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries show adaptive variation related to thermoregulation & Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries & Oceans Canada, 1219 ability, and it is to be expected that the degree of me- Queen Street East, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, P6A 2E5, lanization will change among populations or closely re- Canada. E-mail: [email protected] lated species across environmental gradients of solar radiation and/or environmental temperature. Some 10291. Perez-Gutierrez, L.; Montes-Fontalvo, J.M. melanized secondary sexual traits may also play a role (2011): Heteropodagrion croizati sp. nov. (Odonata: in sexual selection, leading to interpopulation variation, Megapodagrionidae) with a key to the known species of which would not be predicted by thermoregulation pres- the genus. Zootaxa 2810: 63-68. (in English) ["Heteropo- sures alone. We studied the relationships between the dagrion croizati sp. nov. is described and illustrated on interpopulation variation in wing pigmentation level (i.e. the basis of two males and one female (holotype male: melanized secondary sexual trait) of two closely related Colombia, Putumayo Dept., Mocoa, PNN Churumbelos species of Calopteryx damselfly, and both solar radia- (1°09´40.93´´N 76°39´49.13´´W) alt. 1000m, 28-I-2010. tion and maximum environmental temperature esti- The new species is characterized by male paraproct sur- mates. Wing pigmentation differs between these spe- passing length of cercus, genital ligula distally bilobulate, cies, is gender specific and is used in species' discrimi- trumpet-shaped, and with laterally expanding distal nation. Only C. virgo meridionalis males showed a sig- lobes, and female with basal pale rings on all abdominal nificant negative partial correlation between wing pig- segments. A key for the known species of Heteropo- mentation degree and temperature. However, C. virgo dagrion and the closely related Mesagrion leucorrhinum meridionalis females showed a positive significant par- is provided." (Authors)] Address: Pérez-Gutiérrez, L., tial correlation between wing pigmentation degree and Grupo de investigación en Biodiversidad del Caribe co- solar radiation. Wing pigmentation in C. xanthostoma lombiano. Depto de Biología, Universidad del Atlántico, males was not related to solar radiation or temperature. km 7 antigua vía Puerto Colombia, Barranquilla, Colom- Thus, thermoregulation pressures poorly explained the bia. E-mail: [email protected] observed variations in wing pigmentation between pop- 10292. Pérez-Santigosa, N.; Florencio, M.; Hidalgo-Vila, ulations, although they might have an adaptive signifi- J.; Díaz-Paniagua, C. (2011): Does the exotic invader tur- cance at the species' level. As wing pigmentation tle, Trachemys scripta elegans, compete for food with showed important latitudinal variation, several other se- coexisting native turtles? Amphibia-Reptilia 32(2): 167- lection pressures which might act on melanized traits 175. (in English) ["Nowadays, established populations of are briefly discussed." (Authors)] Address: Outomuro, exotic turtles, Trachemys scripta elegans, coexist with D., Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Siste- native turtles in the wild in southern Spain. We analysed mas, University of Oviedo, E-33071, Spain. E-mail: ou- the diet of this exotic species and compared it with the [email protected] diet of the two native species (Mauremys leprosa and 10290. Patterson, R.J.; Smokorowski, K.E. (2011): As- Emys orbicularis) in two ponds. The exotic turtle is an sessing the benefit of flow constraints on the drifting in- opportunistic omnivore. In one of our study ponds where vertebrate community of a regulated river. River re- exotic invasive crayfish were very abundant, adult and search and applications 27: 99-112. (in English) [Ontar- juvenile exotic turtles fed mainly on this prey. In the other io, Canada; "The downstream effects of hydroelectric study pond, juveniles fed mainly on animal matter and dam operations on the abundance and diversity of the adults ate similar proportions of plants and animals. Na-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 53 tive turtles also ingested mainly crayfish in the first study Biology, University of Turku, FIN-20024 Turku, Finland. pond, but M. leprosa were mainly herbivorous in the se- E-mail: [email protected] cond pond. We did not detect strong differences among 10295. Remsburg, A.J. (2011): Relative influence of the diets of the three species. While native species signif- icantly differ in their diets, the exotic turtles did not differ prior life stages and habitat variables on dragonfly from some groups of native ones. Exotic turtles had the (Odonata: Gomphidae) densities among lake sites. Di- widest range of food, overlapping the food spectra of dif- versity 3(2): 200-216. (in English) ["Many aquatic spe- ferent age groups of the two native species in both locali- cies have discrete life stages, making it important to ties. Comparing with previous reports on native turtles di- understand relative influences of the different habitats et of the same area, our results did not reveal changes in occupied within those populations. Although population the diet which could be associated to interactions with demographics in one stage can carry over to spatially exotic turtles, but the observed shift to a higher propor- separated life stages, most studies of habitat associa- tion of animals in the diet in one of the ponds were main- tions have been restricted to a single life stage. Among ly due to the high abundance of exotic crayfish." (Au- Gomphidae, recruitment via adult oviposition establish- thors) Odonata contributed significantly to the diet of all es initial population sizes of the aquatic larvae. Howev- turtle species.] Address: Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen, Es- er, spatial variability in larval survivorship could obscure tación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), P.O. Box 1056, the relationship between adult and larval densities. This 41080 Sevilla, Spain, Email: [email protected] study uses surveys conducted during 2005 and 2006 of Gomphidae larval, emergence, and adult stages from 10293. Popa, M.; Zaharia, A. (2011): Early jurassic ovi- 22 lake sites in northern Wisconsin, USA, to investigate positories on Bennettitalean leaves from Romania. Acta (1) whether the Gomphidae density of each life stage Paleontologica Romaniae 7: 285-290. (in English) ["Early correlated spatially with that of the preceding life stage Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) rare insect oviposito- and (2) what habitat factors help explain variation in ries occurring on Pterophyllum sp. bennettitalean (cyca- densities at each life stage. Results indicated that adult deoidalean) leaves are described from Pregheda, a for- densities from the previous season helped predict den- mer open cast mine for bituminous coals belonging to the sities of early-instar larvae. This finding suggests that Sirinia Basin, Danubian Units of the South Carpathians, oviposition site selection controlled the local larval dis- Romania. These ovipositories are represented by groups tribution more than larval survivorship or movement. of 2-3 elliptical bodies, distributed with their longer axis Late-instar larval densities helped predict densities of parallel to the leaf venation, and associated in four dis- emerging Gomphidae later the same season, suggest- tinct rows, parallel to the rachis, two rows on each side of ing that variation in survivorship of final-instar larvae it, a peculiar pattern for the ichnospecies Paleoovoides among sites is small relative to the variation in larval re- rectus (Vasilenko) Sarzetti et al. 2009 to which the mate- cruitment. This study demonstrates that locations with rial is assigned. The Hettangian–Sinemurian oviposito- higher densities of odonates in the water also have ries recorded in Pregheda belong to fossil representa- higher densities of odonates on land. In addition to the tives of the Odonata. They were generated after the densities of Gomphidae in previous life stages, water leaf's abscission, in a wetland area associated with a clarity helped predict larval densities, and riparian wet- coal-generating marsh." (Authors)] Address: Popa, M., land vegetation helped predict emergent dragonfly den- Univ. of Bucharest, Fac. of Geology & Geophysics, La- sities." (Author)] Address: Remsburg, Alysa, Unity Col- boratory of Palaeontology, 1, N. Bãlcescu Ave., 010041, lege, 90 Quaker Hill Rd, Unity, ME 04988, USA. E-mail: Bucharest, Romania. E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] 10294. Rantala, M.J.; Honkavaara, J.; Dunn, D.W.; 10296. Rival, D.; Schönweitz, D.; Tropea, C. (2011): Suhonen, J. (2011): Predation selects for increased Vortex interaction of tandem pitching and plunging immune function in male damselflies, Calopteryx splen- plates: a two-dimensional model of hovering dragonfly- dens. Proc. R. Soc. B. 278(1709): 1231-1238. (in Eng- like flight. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 6(1) 016008: (in lish) ["Predation selects for numerous traits in many an- English) ["The force evolution and associated vortex imal species, with sick or parasitized prey often being at dynamics on a nominal two-dimensional tandem pitch- high risk. When challenged by parasites and patho- ing and plunging configuration inspired by hovering gens, prey with poor immune functions are thus likely to dragonfly-like flight have been investigated experimen- be at a selective disadvantage. We tested the hypothe- tally using time-resolved particle image velocimetry. The sis that predation by birds selects for increased immune aerodynamic forces acting on the flat plates have been function in a wild population of male damselflies Calop- determined using a classic control-volume approach, teryx splendens, while controlling for a trait known to be i.e. a momentum balance. It was found that only the under selection by bird predation, dark wing-spots. We tandem phasing of ? = 90° was capable of generating found that selection on both immune function and wing- similar levels of thrust when compared to the single- spot size was significantly positive, and that selection plate reference case. For this tandem configuration, on either trait was independent of selection on the oth- however, a much more constant thrust generation was er. We found no evidence of nonlinear quadratic or cor- developed over the cycle. Further examination showed relational selection. In contrast to previous studies, we that the force and vortex development on the fore-plate found no phenotypic correlation between immune func- was unaffected by the tandem configuration and that tion and wingspot size. There was also no difference in nearly all variations in performance could be attributed immune response between territorial and non-territorial to the vortex interaction on the hind-plate. By calculat- males. Our study suggests that predation may be an ing the trajectory and strength of the hind-plate's trail- important agent of selection on the immune systems of ing-edge vortex, the chain-like vortex interaction mech- prey, and because the selection we detected was direc- anism responsible for improved performance at ? = 90° tional, has the potential to cause phenotypic change in could be identified. The underlying result from this study populations." (Authors)] Address: Rantala, M.J., Dept of suggests that the dominant vortex interaction in dragon- fly flight is two dimensional and that the spanwise flow

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 54 generated by root-flapping kinematics is not entirely 10299. Rowe, R.J.; Davies, C.; Davies, D.; Pohe, S.R.; necessary for efficient propulsion but potentially due to Simpson, E.H. (2011): Tramea loewii (Odonata: Libellu- evolutionary restrictions in nature." (Authors)] Address: lidae), a dragonfly newly arrived in New Zealand. New Rival, D., Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynam- Zealand Journal of Zoology 38(2): 189-193. (in English) ics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. E- ["Two adult females of the large, migratory dragonfly mail: [email protected] Tramea loewii were observed at Lake Rotokawau, Northland in 2005 and 2007. Larvae found at nearby 10297. Roberts, N.W.; Porter, M.L.; Cronin, T.W. (2011): Lake Waipara in 2007 indicate the species had bred in The molecular basis of mechanisms underlying polariza- New Zealand. Given appropriate climatic conditions, tion vision. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 366(1565): 627-637. (in this species may be expected to expand its range within English) ["The underlying mechanisms of polarization the northern reaches of the country. Queensland and sensitivity (PS) have long remained elusive. For rhabdo- New Caledonia are likely sources for the New Zealand meric photoreceptors, questions remain over the high population. Morphological characters are provided to levels of PS measured experimentally. In ciliary photore- enable identification of adults and larvae in the field." ceptors, and specifically cones, little direct evidence sup- (Authors)] Address: Rowe, R.J., School of Tropical Biol- ports any type of mechanism. In order to promote a ogy, James Cook University, Townsville 4811, Australia. greater interest in these fundamental aspects of polariza- E-mail: [email protected] tion vision, we examined a varied collection of studies linking membrane biochemistry, protein–protein interac- 10300. Samways, M.J.; Pryke, J.S.; Simaika, J.P. tions, molecular ordering and membrane phase behav- (2011): Threats to dragonflies on land islands can be as iour. While initially these studies may seem unrelated to great as those on oceanic islands. Biological Conserva- polarization vision, a common narrative emerges. A sur- tion 144(3): 1145-1151. (in English) ["We ask whether o- prising amount of evidence exists demonstrating the im- ceanic islands and equivalent-sized continental blocks, portance of protein–protein interactions in both rhabdo- which we call here ‗land islands‘, are similar or not in meric and ciliary photoreceptors, indicating the possible their species richness, number of range-restricted spe- long-range ordering of the opsin protein for increased cies, and in number of threatened species. We used PS. Moreover, we extend this direction by considering sites in southern Africa and islands in the Western Indi- how such protein paracrystalline organization arises in all an Ocean. We chose dragonflies as they are taxonomi- cell types from controlled membrane phase behaviour cally tractable, well surveyed, and provide a range of and propose a universal pathway for PS to occur in both characteristics from narrow-range endemics to widely- rhabdomeric and cone photoreceptors." (Authors) Hemi- spread and vagile opportunists. We then selected as cordulia tau is presented as ultraviolet-sensitive, blue- many oceanic islands as possible where there were suf- sensitive and green-sensitive. According a personal in- ficient data to make comparisons with land islands of a formation given by the author, at present the develop- similar area in African savanna, grassland and moun- ment of polarization vision in odonates from larval stages tains rich in endemic species. Generalized Linear Mixed through to adult is studied.] Address: Roberts, N.W., Models were used to analyse the overall, range- School of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Bristol, Woodland restricted and threatened species richness for all is- Road, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK. E-mail: nicholas.roberts@ lands (both oceanic and land) and then for the two bristol.ac.uk types of island separately. Species richness increased with island size, with oceanic and land island size rela- 10298. Rosario, K.; Marinov, M.; Stainton, D.; Kraberger, tionships being similar. Land islands overall had signifi- S.; Wiltshire, E.J.; Collings, D.A.; Walters, M.; Martin, cantly more range-restricted species. Species on land D.P.; Breitbart, M.; Varsani, A. (2011): Dragonfly cyclovi- islands were as threatened as those on oceanic is- rus, a novel single-stranded DNA virus discovered in lands. However, the land islands of the Western Cape dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera). Journal of General Vi- were under a higher level of threat than oceanic islands rology 92: 1302-1308. (in English) ["We describe Dragon- of comparative size. The large islands of Madagascar fly cyclovirus (DfCyV), a new species of ssDNA virus dis- and Sri Lanka were outliers with very high levels of covered using viral metagenomics in dragonflies (Libellu- threat. Translated into conservation, the results illus- lidae family) from the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongatapu and trate that over-generalizations about island faunas be- Vava‘u islands). Metagenomic sequences of DfCyV were ing more threatened than continental ones are not nec- similar to viruses of the recently proposed Cyclovirus ge- essarily valid. While not wishing to draw attention away nus within the Circoviridae family. Specific PCR resulted from the urgent conservation action needed on many in the recovery of twenty-one DfCyV genomes from three tropical islands, we argue that comparisons of oceanic dragonfly species (Pantala flavescens, Tholymis tillarga, versus land islands detract from the more urgent task of and Diplacodes bipunctata). The 1741 nucleotide DfCyV local conservation action based on the special needs of genomes share >95% nucleotide identity and are classi- any particular area, whether land or oceanic. It is more fied into eleven subtypes representing a single strain. meaningful to establish how threats operate and how to The DfCyV genomes share 48-63% genome-wide nucle- mitigate them on small populations rather than focusing otide identity to cycloviruses identified in human faecal purely on any particular island type per se." (Authors)] samples. Recombination analysis revealed three recom- Address: Samways, M.J., Dept Entomol. & Nematol., binant DfCyV genomes suggesting that recombination Univ. Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, ZA-7602, Matie- plays an important role in cyclovirus evolution. To our land, South Africa. E-mail: [email protected] knowledge this is the first report of a circular ssDNA virus identified in insects, and the data may help elucidate evo- 10301. Schmidt Dalzochio, M.; Rodrigues, M.E. (2011): lutionary links among novel Circoviridae recently identi- Description of the larva of Archilestes exoletus (Hagen in fied in animals and environmental samples." (Authors)] Selys) (Odonata: Lestidae). Zootaxa 2756: 65-68. (in Address: Marinov, M., 7/160 Rossall Str., Merivale 8014, English) ["The larva of A. exoletus is described and illus- Christchurch, New Zealand. E-mail: mgmarinov@ya- trated based on exuviae of reared larvae collected in hoo.com Cascavel, State of Paraná, Brazil. The larva of A. exole-

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 55 tus can be distinguished from other species of Archil- sp., Erpetogomphus designatus, Stylurus plagiatus, Epi- estes of which the larva has been described by the ab- theca spinigera, and Tramea calverti.] Address: Sibley, sence of a lateral spine at the margin of the 4th ab- F.C., The Conservation Agency, 6 Swinburne St. Jame- dominal segment and having the cleft of the ligula clo- stown, RI 02835, USA. E-mail: [email protected] sed." (Authors)] Address: Schmidt Dalzochio, Marina, Laboratory of Ecologia e Conservação de Ecossistemas 10305. Staniczek, A.H. (2011): Rivers and other freshwa- Aquáticos, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 93022- ter habitats. Focus on aquatic insects. Patrimoines na- 000, São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil. E-mail: mahsdalzochio@ turels 70: 251-257. (in English) [The paper includes a key gmail.com zu Odonata and an annotated species list of Odonata (n = 17) from Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. Agriocnemis exsu- 10302. Scudder, G.G.E.; Lucas, L.; Warman, L. (2011): dans, Ischnura aurora, Vanuatubasis santoensis, Vanu- Rarity and richness biodiversity hotspots of the montane atubasis sp., Pseudagrion microcephalum, Pseudagrion Cordillera ecozone. In Assessment of Species Diversity sp., Anax guttatus, Hemicordulia fidelis, Diplacodes in the Ecozone. Edited by G.G.E. bipunctata, D. haematodes, D. trivialis, Neurothemis Scudder and I.M. Smith. Royal British Columbia Muse- stigmatizans, Rhyothemis phyllis, Orthetrum serapia, O. um: 1-7. (in English) ["Based upon available geo- villosovittatum, Tramea propinqua, Pantala flavescens.] reference distributional data on more than 15 taxa of na- Address: Staniczek, A.H., Dept of Entomology, State Mu- tive animals (including Odonata) and vascular plants in seum of Natural History, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, British Columbia, biodiversity hotspots were determined Germany. E-mail: [email protected] and mapped on the 1:50 000 NTS grid. Rarity hotspots are shown for provincially Red-listed animals and plants, 10306. Stoks, R.; De Block, M. (2011): Rapid growth and for the potentially rare and endangered freshwater reduces cold resistance: Evidence from latitudinal varia- and terrestrial invertebrates. Richness hotspots were de- tion in growth rate, cold resistance and stress proteins. termined for the freshwater animals, the terrestrial ani- PLoS ONE 6(2): e16935. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. mals, and the vascular plants. It is shown that the Mon- 0016935: 6 pp. (in English) ["Background: Physiological tane Cordillera Ecozone in British Columbia is a major costs of rapid growth may contribute to the observation hotspot region in the province for all the categories that organisms typically grow at submaximal rates. Alt- mapped. Some of the conservation implications are dis- hough, it has been hypothesized that faster growing in- cussed." (Author)] Address: Scudder, G.G.E., Dept of Zo- dividuals would do worse in dealing with suboptimal ology, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T temperatures, this type of cost has never been explored 1Z4, Canada. empirically. Furthermore, the mechanistic basis of the physiological costs of rapid growth is largely unexplo- 10303. Sesterhenn, T.M. (2011): Effects of predators red. Methodology/Principal Finding: Larvae of the dam- and injury over different time scales in the damselfly selfly Ischnura elegans from two univoltine northern and Ischnura posita (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Annals of two multivoltine southern populations were reared at the Entomological Society of America 104(2): 358-363. three temperatures and after emergence given a cold (in English) ["Sublethal appendage injury or loss has shock. Cold resistance, measured by chill coma recov- been shown to alter many behaviors of animals, includ- ery times in the adult stage, was lower in the southern ing foraging and predation avoidance. But most studies populations. The faster larval growth rates in the south- of this phenomenon to date have been short-term in ern populations contributed to this latitudinal pattern in scope, and longer term studies may produce different cold resistance. In accordance with their assumed role results as seen in some studies on predator effects. in cold resistance, Hsp70 levels were lower in the Larval damselflies routinely autotomize their caudal la- southern populations, and faster growing larvae had mellae and encounter predators, making them ideal for lower Hsp70 levels. Yet, individual variation in Hsp70 comparisons of short-term and longer term effects of levels did not explain variation in cold resistance. Con- appendage loss and predator exposure. In this study, I clusions/Significance: We provide evidence for a novel examined activity and foraging of larval I. posita, testing cost of rapid growth: reduced cold resistance. Our re- for effects of lamella loss and predator cues both in the sults indicate that the reduced cold resistance in south- short term (1 h) and the longer term (8 d). I predicted ern populations of animals that change voltinism along that both predators and injury would decrease activity the latitudinal gradient may not entirely be explained by and foraging for a short time and that these effects thermal selection per se but also by the costs of time would diminish over time. Results indicated that only constraint-induced higher growth rates. This also illus- the most severe injuries affected foraging, delaying first trates that stressors imposed in the larval stage may prey capture when no predator was present; but injury carry over and shape fitness in the adult stage and did not affect total prey caught. In the 1-h experiment, highlights the importance of physiological costs in the damselflies had lower activity in the presence of preda- evolution of life-histories at macro-scales." (Authors)] tor cues, with no effect of injury, whereas the 8-day ex- Address: Stoks, R., Laboratorium voor Aquatische Eco- periment showed no effect of predator cues on activity. I logie, K.U. Leuven, De Beriotstraat 32, B-3000 Leuven, did not find a major effect of injury or predator cues on Belgium. E-mail: [email protected] activity or foraging of larval damselflies; no effects were detectable over the entire 8-d study. I conclude that the 10307. Sychra, J.; Adamek, Z. (2011): The impact of ecological implications of such injuries in nature may of- sediment removal on the aquatic macroinvertebrate as- ten be negligible." (Author)] Address: Sesterhenn, T.M., semblage in a fishpond littoral zone. J. Limnol. 70(1): Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexing- 129-138. (in English) [Bottom sediment removal, a ton, KY 40506-0225, USA. E-mail: [email protected] widely used technique in restoration management of standing water bodies, has a strong influence on com- 10304. Sibley, F.C. (2011): New species for Nebraska. munities of aquatic organisms. As most information on Argia 23(1): 20-21. (in English) [New records for the Ne- the impact of sediment removal on the aquatic envi- braska, USA State list are: Argia nahuana, Enallagma ronment comes from studies on lakes, the aim of this vesperum, Nasiaeschna pentacantha, Dromogomphus study was to describe macroinvertebrate assemblage

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 56 succession in a fishpond (Ńtìpánek fishpond, Bohe- ce might help males to detect potential mates effective- mian-Moravian highlands, Czech Republic) littoral zone ly and avoid sexually unreceptive immature female. We following restoration by sediment removal during the finally discuss the adaptive significance of the ontoge- winter of 2003/2004. Semi-quantitative hand net sam- netic colour change in females." (Authors)] Address: pling was undertaken one year before (2003) and in Takahashi, Y., Graduate School of Life & Environmental each of the following five years (2004–2008) after sed- Sciences, Univ. of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, iment removal. A significant decrease in both abun- Ibaraki Japan. E-mail: [email protected] dance (approx. 90% of individuals) and diversity (ap- prox. 30% of taxa) of macroinvertebrates was detected 10309. Todd, B.D.; Bergeron, C.M.; Hepner, M.J.; immediately after pond restoration. The values gradual- Burke, J.N.; Hopkins, W.A. (2011): Does maternal ex- ly increased over subsequent years, reaching compa- posure to an environmental stressor affect offspring re- rable abundance and diversity three years after sedi- sponse to predators? Oecologia 166(1): 283-290. ment removal. A significant shift was recorded in the ["There is growing recognition of the ways in which ma- taxonomic and functional composition of the macroin- ternal effects can influence offspring size, physiological vertebrate assemblage after sediment removal. Mayfly performance, and survival. Additionally, environmental larvae were the dominant invertebrates before restora- contaminants increasingly act as stressors in maternal tion, while chironomid larvae and oligochaetes domi- environments, possibly leading to maternal effects on nated after sediment removal. Phytophilous taxa, graz- subsequent offspring. Thus, it is important to determine ers and scrapers, and swimming or diving invertebrates whether contaminants and other stressors can contrib- were common in 2003, whilst open-water taxa prefer- ute to maternal effects, particularly under varied ecolog- ring mud and other mostly inorganic microhabitats, ical conditions that encompass the range under which gatherers/collectors, and burrowing/boring invertebrates offspring develop. We used aquatic mesocosms to de- were relatively common after sediment removal. In termine whether maternal effects of mercury (Hg) expo- 2008, the assemblage reverted towards the situation sure shape offspring phenotype in the American toad before sediment removal, probably connected with a (Bufo americanus) in the presence or absence of larval lower water level and accelerated macrophyte bed suc- predators (dragonfly naiads). We found significant ma- cession. Principal Component Analysis on the species ternal effects of Hg exposure and significant effects of data confirmed the differences in invertebrate taxonom- predators on several offspring traits, but there was little ic structure among sampling years. Succession of the evidence that maternal effects altered offspring interac- fishpond invertebrate assemblage in the years following tions with predators. Offspring from Hg-exposed - sediment removal was mainly influenced by fish farming ers were 18% smaller than those of reference mothers. practice and local conditions, i.e. the presence of mac- Offspring reared with predators were 23% smaller at rophyte beds, mesohabitat changes following restora- metamorphosis than those reared without predators. tion, and the presence of other water bodies in the sur- There was also evidence of reduced larval survival roundings." (Authors) Odonata taxa reported are: Platy- when larvae were reared with predators, but this was cnemis pennipes, Coenagrion sp., Ischnura elegans, independent of maternal effects. Additionally, 5 times Ischnura sp., and Libellula depressa.] Address: Sychra, more larvae had spinal malformations when reared J., Dept of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, without predators, suggesting selective predation of Masaryk Univ., Kotláøská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Re- malformed larvae by predators. Lastly, we found a sig- public. E-mail: [email protected] nificant negative correlation between offspring survival and algal density in mesocosms, indicating a role for 10308. Takahashi, Y.; Watanabe, M. (2011): Male mate top-down effects of predators on periphyton communi- choice based on ontogenetic colour changes of females ties. Our results demonstrate that maternal exposure to in the damselfly Ischnura senegalensis. Journal of an environmental stressor can induce phenotypic re- Ethology 29(2): 293-299. (in English) ["While male mate sponses in offspring in a direction similar to that pro- choice behaviour has been reported in many taxa, little duced by direct exposure of offspring to predators." is known about its plasticity and evolutionary conse- (Authors)] Address: Todd, B.D., Department of Fish and quences. In I. senegalensis, females exhibit colour di- Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, 100 Cheatham morphism (gynomorph and andromorph). The body col- Hall, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA our of gynomorphs changed ontogenetically in accord- ance with sexual maturation, while little change oc- 10310. Topkara, E.T.; Ozbek, M.; Tasdemir, A.; Yildiz, curred in andromorphs. To test the male mate choice S.; Balik, S.; Ustaoglu, M.R. (2011): Determination of between sexually immature and mature females of both pollution level of Yuvarlak stream (Koycegiz-Mugla) by morphs, binary choice experiments were conducted. using benthic macro invertebrates. Journal of Animal Virgin males that were reared separately from females and Veterinary Advances 10(9): 1194-1201. (in English) after emergence did not show significant preference be- [Turkey; Odonata are treated at the genus level.] Ad- tween sexually immature and mature females for both dress: Topkara, E.T., Dept of Hydrobiology, Faculty of morphs, indicating that virgin males were unable to dis- Fisheries, Ege University, 35100 Bornova-Izmir, Turkey criminate female reproductive status. On the other 10311. Vanderhaeghe, F. (2011): Lestes dryas in the hand, males that had experienced copulation with gy- west of Vlaams-Brabant. "In Flanders. Libellenvereni- nomorphs preferred sexually mature gynomorphs to ging Vlaanderen —nieuwsbrief 5(1): 2-3. (in Dutch, with sexually immature ones. However, males that had ex- English summary) [L. dryas is mainly confined to the perienced copulation with andromorphs could not dis- Antwerp en Limburg Campine region, with more scat- criminate between sexually immature and mature an- tered stations elsewhere. In July 2010 the author dis- dromorphs, probably due to the absence of significant covered two males at a pond in Merchtem, about 5 km ontogenetic change in their thoracic colour. Therefore, from where this species had also been found also in female body colour is an important cue for males in dis- 1997. Although this species shows important dispersion criminating between sexual maturation stages. Learned capacities, we suggest is that a local population could mate discrimination depending on copulation experien- be present and in general it would be wise to have a

Odonatological Abstract Service 31(June 2011) - page 57 good search for this species elsewhere also." (Author)] es decreased as the flight season progressed and Address: Floris Vanderhaeghe. E-mail: floris.vander- whether this led to seasonal changes in sexual size di- [email protected] morphism (SSD); (b) SSD patterns were related to mat- ing systems; (c) biases in sex ratio could be explained by 10312. Wendzonka, J.; Buczyński, P. (2011): Literatura i mortality rates associated with the largest sex (e.g. in recenzje [Literature and reviews]: – Recenzja. Bellmann species with male-biased SSD, a female-biased sex ra- H. 2010. Przewodnik entomologa. Ważki. MULTICO Ofi- tio; in species with female-biased SSD, a male-biased cyna Wydawnicza. 280 ss. ISBN 978-83-7073-706-1. sex ratio). Our results indicated that adults in most spe- [Review. Bellmann, H. 2010. [Entomologist‘s guide. Dra- cies, but not all, tend to reach a smaller body size as the gonflies]. MULTICO Oficyna Wydawnicza. 280 pp. ISBN season progressed. However, the opposite pattern was 978-83-7073-706-1.]. Odonatrix 7(1): 27-30. (in Polish, found in a few species. Predictions about the relation be- with English summary) ["The reviewed work is the first tween SSD and mating systems were confirmed: a fe- general book about dragonflies from over 100 years in male-biased SSD in nonterritorial species and monomor- Poland. It has been translated from the German edition. phism for territorial species. However, predictions of bi- It contains general information about dragonflies of Cen- ases in sex ratio according to SSD were not met in all tral Europe with keys to adults (relatively good) and lar- species. Interestingly, changes in body size and SSD vae (very poor) and individual descriptions of all species along the season were lake-specific in two species in with good photographs and drawings. Unfortunately, the which these patterns could be examined. These results, publisher has not consulted this edition with any Polish although partially supportive of environmental and sexual odonatologists and the book contains a lot of mistakes selection patterns acting on size and sex ratio as docu- and omissions." (Author)] Address: Buczyński, P., Dept of mented in other odonate species, indicate that we are Zool., Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univ., Akademicka 19, still far from understanding seasonal constrains in these PL-20-033 Lublin, Poland. E-mail: pawbucz@ gmail.com animals." (Authors) 14 species (Aeshna californica, A. 10313. Wiesenborn, W.D. (2011): Nitrogen Contents in multicolor, Anax junius, Erythemis collocata, Libellula fo- Riparian Arthropods is most dependent on allometry and rensis, Pachydiplax longipennis, Sympetrum costiferum, order. Florida Entomologist 94(1): 71-80. (in English, with S. occidentale, Enallagma boreale, E. carunculatum, Spanish summary) ["I investigated the contributions of Ischnura cervula, I. perparva, Lestes congener, Tramea body mass, order, family, and trophic level to nitrogen (N) lacerata) were caught, but only 10 species used for the content in riparian spiders and insects collected near the analysis, as the small sample size of the remaining four Colorado River in western Arizona. Most variation prevented statistical analysis.] Address: Córdoba-Aguilar, (97.2%) in N mass among arthropods was associated A., Depto de Ecol. Evol., Inst. Ecologýa, Univ. Nacional with the allometric effects of body mass. Nitrogen mass Autnoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Apdo. Postal increased exponentially as body dry-mass increased. 70-275, 04510 México DF, Mexico. E-mail: acordoba@ Significant variation (20.7%) in N mass adjusted for body ecologia.unam.mx mass was explained by order. Adjusted N 10315. Zhang, H.-m.; Tong, X.-l. (2011): Descriptions of mass was highest in Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, Araneae, Boyeria karubei Yokoi and Periaeschna f. flinti Asahina and Odonata and lowest in Coleoptera. Classifying ar- larvae from China (Anisoptera: Aeshnidae). Odonatologi- thropods by family compared with order did not explain ca 40(1): 57-65. (in English) ["The final stage larvae of significantly more variation (22.1%) in N content. Herbi- the 2 species are for the first time described and illustrat- vore, predator, and detritivore trophic-levels across or- ed based on laboratory reared specimens. The reared ders explained little variation (4.3%) in N mass adjusted adults are also illustrated and discussed. Some biological for body mass. Within orders, N content differed only notes are provided." (Authors)] Address: Zhang, H.-m., among trophic levels of Diptera. Adjusted N mass was Dept of Entomology, College of Natural Resources & En- highest in predaceous flies, intermediate in detritivorous vironment, South China Agricultural Univ., Guangzhou- flies, and lowest in phytophagous flies. Nitrogen content 510642, China. zhanghaomiao6988 @gmail.com in riparian spiders and insects is most dependent on al- lometry and order and least dependent on trophic level. I 10316. Zhang, Z.-Q. (2011): Describing unexplored bi- suggest the effects of allometry and order are due to ex- odiversity: Zootaxa in the International Year of Biodiver- oskeleton thickness and composition. Foraging by verte- sity. Zootaxa 2768: 1-4. (in English) ["In the Internation- brate predators, such as insectivorous birds, may be af- al Year of Biodiversity (2010), Zootaxa published 1,582 fected by variation in N content among riparian arthro- papers (including 92 monographs) in 405 issues, with a pods." (Author)] Address: Wiesenborn, W.D., U.S. Bu- total of 32,330 pages. These papers included descrip- reau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Regional Office, tions of 3,951 new taxa, of which 3,664 are of the spe- P.O. Box 61470, Boulder City, NV 89006 cies-group, 268 of the genus-group and 19 of the fami- ly-group. It is estimated that the total new animal spe- 10314. Wong-Munoz, J.; Cordoba-Aguilar, A.; Cueva del cies described in 2010 is most likely to be between Castillo, R.; Serrano-Meneses, M.A.; Payne, J. (2011): 15,000 and 20,000, and Zootaxa has thus contributed Seasonal changes in body size, sexual size dimorphism 18 to 24% of the total." (Author) Odonata species: 30 and sex ratio in relation to mating system in an adult and Odonata genus: 3.] Address: Zhang, Z.-Q., Land- odonate community. Evolutionary Ecology 25(1): 59-75. care Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland 1142, (in English) [Study area: 27 lakes of the Columbia Na- New Zealand. E-mail: [email protected] tional Wildlife Refuge (USA) in 1997, which occur in the centre of the Columbia Basin in eastern Washington State (46°550' N, 119°150' W; USA. "Seasonal environ- ments impose developmental time constraints on insects which can be reflected in body size and sex ratio. By Many thanks to all who contributed to this issue of tracking these two aspects in recently emerged adults of OAS! A special thank to Paweł Buczyński for lin- 10 species of an odonate community in a number of guistic help and Werner Piper for contributing many lakes, we investigated whether (a) body size in both sex- papers to this issue.

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