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 . of Dr. Wright's interest in 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 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. 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 . 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.