Bibliography of Doctor Mike Wright
L.K. Gloyd
Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
Abstract — A portrait and the complete KORMONDY's "In Memoriam, Mike
of I he had bibliography(1937-1959) M. Wright (1914- Wright, 1914-1953". would add that a
-1953) are presented along with a few personal marvelous sense of humor. To his biography
Most work the brief notes. of his is devoted to which gave only a summary of the scope
North American Odonata. of Dr. Wright's interest in taxonomy and
ecology, I would also like to add his biblio
Note Of his the Introductory graphy. 29 papers. 25 deal with
Doctor Mike Wright was known to me only Odonala. He described the nymphs of three
and through his letters and accounts of his friends. species wrote eight other articles concern-
It him that I learned of his was from excessive ing dragonfly nymphs. One was a key to the
weight and occasional ludicrous situations genera of Anisoptera of the United States and
because of it comical and Canada. Another some some not so key to genera, published
still chuckle a of him in funny. I over snapshot posthumously with Mike Wright as junior
comic that he sent "The the well. The a pose me illustrating author, included Zygoptera as
esthetic known way to collect dragonflies". To Dr. following list includes all of his papers 142 Notul. odonatol., Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 141-156, June I, 1982
to me. Diss. Ohio Si. Univ. 36: 365-370.
1943a. The effect of certain ecological
J. factors on dragonfly nymphs.
Term. Acad. Sci. 18 (2): 172-196.
1943b. Additions to the list of Odonata from
Tennessee. J. Term. Acad. Sci. 18(2):
211-212.
1943c. Dragonflies collected In the vicinity
of Fiorala, Alabama. Fla Ent. 26(2):
30-31; (3): 49-51.
1943d. A comparison of the dragonflyfauna
of the lower delta of the Mississippi
River with that of the marshes of the
Central Gulf Coast. Ecol. Monogr.
13 (4): 481-497, fig. I. — 1944a. ( & A. PETERSON) A key to the
genera of anisopterous dragonfly
Mike - nymphs of the United States and Dr. Wright. The portrait was
obtained throughthe kindnessof Professor D. Canada (Odonata, suborder Aniso-
Ohio Lyle Goleman, Chairman of the Department ptera). J. Sci. 44 (4): 151-166.
of Entomology, Ohio State University, pis. 1-6.
1944b. N otes on dragonflies in the vicinity of Columbus, Ohio, who had an enlargement
New Beach, Florida. Fla made ofa section of a group picture of faculty Smyrna
Em. 27 35-39. and graduate students, taken about 1940. (2):
1944c. (SIMMONS, S.W. & -) The use of
DDT in the of for Bibliography of Mike Wright, 1937-1959 treatment manure
J. Em. the fly control. econ. 37 (4): 135. 1937a A survey of Odonata nymphs in I944d. Some random observations dra- the vicinity of Nashville. Tennessee. on
gonfly habits with notes on their [Abstract of thesis]. Bull. Vanderhill pre- daceousness bees. .1 Term. Acad. Univ. 37 (9): 26-27. [Master of on
Sci. 19 295-301. Science], (4):
of the 1945a. Dragonfliespredaceous on the stable- 1937b. A survey adult anisopterous fly, calcitrans Fla dragonfliesof the Central Gulf Coast Stomoxys (L.).
Em. 28 (1); 31-32. region. J. Term. Acad. Sci. 12 (3); 11-13; (2): 1945b. (— & C.S. SHOUP) Dragonfly 255-266. nymphs from the Obey River drai- 1938a. A review of the literature on the
and in Tennes- Odonata of Tennessee. J. Tenn. nage adjacent streams
see. J. Term. Acad. Sci. 20 266- Acad. Sci. 13(1): 26-33. (3): 278. 1938b Notes on the dragonflies of Reelfoot 1946a. The economic importanceofdragon- Lake, Tennessee. J Tenn. Acad. Sci.
flies (Odonata). J. Term. Acad. Sci. 13 (2); 104-108.
21 (1): 60-71. 1939a. Additions to the list of anisopterous 1946b. A description of the of dragonfliesof the Central Gulf Coast nymph Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur), region. J. Tenn. Acad. Sci. 14 (2):
with habitat notes. J. Term. Acad. 203-208.
Sci. 21 135-138, 1-2. 1939b. Argia fumipennis in Ohio. Ohio J. (I): figs
1946c. Notes on of the Sci. 39 (3): 155-156. nymphs dragonfly
Helocordulia Needham. Ohio 1942. A comparison ofthe dragonfly fauna genus J. Sci. 46 (6); 337-339. of the lower delta of the Mississippi
I946d. Taxonomic the of River with that of the marshes of the notes on nymphs the Central Gulf Coast. Ahstr. doer. dragonfly genus Dromogomphus 143 Notul. odonatol., Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 141-156, June I, 1982
Selys J. Term. Acad. Sci. 21 (2): 183- Postscript
186, pi. I. When Dr W.T. Edmondson, editor for the
I946e. of the Ward Notes on nymphs dragonfly new edition of & Whipple’s ’’Fresh-
J. Term. Sci. genus Tarnetrum. Acad. water Biology", asked me after Dr Mike
198-200, 21 (2): Wright’s death to completehis manuscript on
1946f. A note on hellgrammitesin eastern the Odonata, it was intended that 1 be the
Tennessee. Ent. News 57(6): 156-157. junior author. After submitting the finished
I946g. Dragonflies collected in central Ten- manuscript to Dr H.H. Ross, head of the
Term. nessee during 1945. J. Acad. Insect Identification Section of the State
Sci. 21 (3); 268-280. Illinois Natural History Survey, for his
1946h. A description ofthe nymphof Agrión approval and sending it to Dr Edmondson,
dimidiatum (Burmeister). J. Term. they decided that I be the senior author
Acad. Sci. 21 (4): 336-338, fig. I. because of additions and having rewritten
1948. Notes ofcertain on swarming species much of it. Without Dr Wright’s manuscript
of insects. J. Term. Acad. Sci. and the and 23(4): as a basis, without encouragement
255-258. help of Dr E.M. Walker and Dr Minter J.
1949a. ( — & L. BERNER) Notes on the Westfall, Jr., I would not have attempted to
mayflies of eastern Tennessee. J. write the chapter.
Term. Acad. Sci. 24 (4): 287-298.
1949b. Notes on nymphs of the dragonfly Reference —KORMONDY, E.J., 1955, J.
J. Term. Sci. genus Boyeria. Acad. 24 Term. Acad. Sci. 30 (3): 193-194.
(3): 213-215, figs. 1-2.
1959. (GLOYD, L.K. & —) Odonata. In: Received January 8, 1982
W.T. Edmondson (Ed.), Ward &
Fresh-water Whipple’s Biology, pp.
917-940, Wiley. New York.