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Volume 6 13 July 2005 Issue 2 TORTS Newsletter of the Troop of Reputed Tortricid Systematists TORTRICIDAE OF TAIWAN “I ELEN” MEETING IN NOW ON-LINE CAMPINAS, BRAZIL According to Shen-Horn Yen, the on-line I ELEN (I Encontro Sobre Lepidoptera checklist of the Lepidoptera of Taiwan has been Neotropicais), roughly translated as the “First uploaded to the "Taiwan Biodiversity Meeting On The Neotropical Lepidoptera,” was Information Network" (http://taibnet.sinica. held in Campinas, Brazil, 17-21 April 2005. edu.tw/english/home.htm). A recently revised Hosted and organized by two Brazilian and updated checklist of the Tortricidae of lepidopterists, Andre Victor Lucci Freitas and Taiwan can be found there. The literature and Marcelo Duarte, the meeting was attended by image databases are still under construction, over 200 Lepidoptera enthusiasts, primarily and Shen-Horn indicates that those will be Latin Americans, over half of which were completed within about 2 years. students. The large number of young people _____________________________________ was in stark contrast to most North American Lepidoptera meetings in which the crowd is TORTRICID CATALOG dominated by geriatric (or nearly geriatric, as in my case) professionals, with student AVAILABLE FROM participation about 20-30%. Among the APOLLO BOOKS attendees were about 8-10 North Americans and about 5-6 Europeans, with the remainder of the World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 5, audience and presenters from Central and South Lepidoptera, Tortricidae is now available from America, with nearly every Latin American Apollo Books. The catalog treats over 9,100 country represented by one or more participants. valid species and over 15,000 names; it is 741 The talks, presented mostly in Portuguese pages in length. The price is DKK 960,00 or and Spanish, were dominated by butterfly about $175 US. It can be ordered at themes. However, several presentations focused “[email protected]”. A list of on larger ecological or biogeographic questions, corrections, omissions, and other miscellaneous with considerable interest to a broader audience. changes will be available in the future via The conference featured four symposia: Zootaxa. Annual updates (new taxa, new Systematics and Taxonomy, Patterns of combinations, etc.) also will be provided via the Diversity, Molecular Systematics, and Ecology TORTS Newsletter. 1 Volume 6 13 July 2005 Issue 2 and Conservation, each consisting of several and identify Tortricidae collected during field talks by invited speakers. With over 40 oral work in Bolivia. His visit was hosted by John presentations and 95 posters, the meeting Brown and Charles Mitter. offered something for everyone. Richard Brown spent the first week of June The meeting was very well organized, and 2005 collecting in Puerto Rico, working in the facilities at UNICAMP were superb. The coastal dry forest and montane forest. He was banquet was unforgettable, featuring typical accompanied by graduate student SangMi Lee Brazilian cuisine. and Edda Martinez. Because of the tremendous success of the Marianne Horak is putting the finishing conference it was determined by the organizers touches on her long awaited labor-of-love on the and those in attendance that it would be a Olethreutinae of Australia. It promises to be a tragedy to lose the momentum created by the large, ground-breaking work, bringing together meeting. As a result, there was a consensus to considerable information on Oriental and have additional meetings every two years. The Australian olethreutines, primarily at the generic next meeting (II ELEN) is scheduled for 2007 at level. Start saving your money to buy a copy. the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at Eric Metzler’s long-term project on prairie Barro Colorado Island, Panama, to be hosted by Lepidoptera - a monumental, multi-authored Annette Aiello. tome - is nearing publication. Eric recently For information on the organization and moved his base of operations to New Mexico. meeting go to http://www.zoologia.bio.br/ William Miller was honored during the xoops/modules/mylinks/singlelink.php?cid=9 annual celebration of alumni day at the &lid=138. University of Minnesota, St. Paul, in May for ____________________________________ his career accomplishments at that university. Felix Sperling is the President-Elect of the WHO’S DOING WHAT Lepidopterists’ Society and will take the reigns of that organization at the annual meeting in Vitor Becker is spending much of the August in Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA. summer at the National Museum of Natural _____________________________________ History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, identifying specimens from a variety of NEW EDITOR NEEDED faunal survey projects, primarily in FOR ZOOTAXA collaboration with Scott Miller. Construction on Vitor’s newly developed research station at Interested in putting your editorial skills to Cerro Bonita, Brazil, is nearing completion, and good use? Zootaxa is a international journal he hopes to be able to host visitors sometime providing an expedient outlet for monographs, next year. catalogues and checklists, bibliographies, Joaquin Baixeras visited the National identification guides, analyses of phylogenetic Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian relationships and zoogeographical patterns of Institution, 19 June - 2 July 2005 to discuss distribution, descriptions of new taxa, etc. For protocols for collecting specimens for DNA information contact Dr. Z.-Q. Zhang at analyses, work on a small taxonomic project, [email protected]. 2 Volume 6 13 July 2005 Issue 2 TORTRICID BIBLIOGRAPHY applications against natural infestations of FOR 2004 codling moth in Pacific Northwest apple orchards. Biological Control 31: 388-397. Asaro, C., R. S. Cameron, J. T. Nowak, D. M. Aarvik, L. 2004. A new genus and species of Gosman, J. O. Seckinger & C. W. Berisford. Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from Africa. 2004. Efficacy of wing versus delta traps for Norwegian Journal of Entomology 51: 67- predicting infestation levels of four 70. generations of the Nantucket pine tip moth Aarvik, L. 2004. Revision of the subtribe (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in the southern Neopotamiae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in United States. Environmental Entomology Africa. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 33: 397-404. 51: 71-122. Beltran, E. M., E. M. Bernal & A. V. Moreno. Aarvik, L. 2004. Revision of African 2004. Tubuliferodes josephinae (Toll, Cryptaspasma Walsingham, 1900 1956), Tubuliferola flavifrontella ([D. & (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Norwegian Schiff.], 1775), Agonopterix selini (Hein., Journal of Entomology 51: 193-201. 1870) y Pandemis corylana (F., 1794) Aarvik, L. 2004. Tortricidae (Lepidoptera: nuevas especies para la fauna de España Tortricoidea). 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