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Odonatological Abstract Service published by the INTERNATIONAL DRAGONFLY FUND (IDF) in cooperation with the WORLDWIDE DRAGONFLY ASSOCIATION (WDA) Editors: Dr. Martin Lindeboom, Landhausstr. 10, D-72074 Tübingen, Germany. Tel. ++49 (0)7071 552928; E-mail: Lindeboom @aol.com and Martin Schorr, Schulstr. 7B D-54314 Zerf, Germany. Tel. ++49 (0)6587 1025; E-mail: [email protected] Published in Rheinfelden, Germany and printed in Tübingen, Germany. ISSN 1438-0269 cho, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, 658-0032, Japan. E-mail: 1997 [email protected] 2215. Aoki, T (1997): Dragonflies inhabiting Shijimi 2219. Muraki, A. (1997): A case of oviposition of Epio- River in Shijimi-cho, Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture. phlebia superstes in Gifu Prefecture. Sympetrum Hyogo Sympetrum Hyogo 4: 15. (in Japanese with English 4: 16-17. (in Japanese with English summary). [A fema- summary). [A survey on the Odonata fauna of Shijimi le E. superstes was laying eggs into bryophytes in Gifu River, Japan was carried out on 26 May 1996. Pref. in 1975. This is the 12th prefecture in which this Relatively clear water from Donto-dam before joining species was found ovipositing into mosses.] Address: Ogo River enabled the development of gomphid not stated species such as Nihonogomphus viridis, Stylogomphus suzukii, Onychogomphus viridicostus, Asiagomphus 2220. Nishu, S. (1997): Report of the surey trip of the pryeri, Trigomphus citimus tabei, Gomphus Hyogo Society of Odonatology, Part 1 in 1996. postocularis, and Sieboldius albardae. Increasing water Sympetrum Hyogo 4: 8-13. (in Japanese with English polution downstream reduced gomphid diversity,] summary). [27 species have been recorded on April 28 Address: Aoki, T., Rokko Island High School, Naka 4- and May 6, 1996. Special emphasize was given to chome, Koyo-cho, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, 658-0032, Libellula angelina. This endangered species was found Japan. E-mail: [email protected]. ne.jp in low abundance at Sara Pond, Fukuden-cho, Ono City, but none was observed in the additionally visited 2216. Aoki, T. (1997): Lanthus fujiacus (FRASER) habitat Maruodani, Kobe City. "The latter pond lost its was discovered in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. water because of drought in 1994, leak from cracks of Sympetrum Hyogo 4: 4. (in Japanese with English pond walls caused by the great earthquake in 1995 and summary). ["I collected an ultimate instar larva of L. complete drainage for the repairing works in 1995 and fujiacus at Arima-cho, Kobe on July 9,1996. This 1996." In 1970's, more than ten habitats of L. angelina species has often been found at habitats of Epiophlebia in Hyogo Prefecture were known, but actually only Sara superstes. I heard that the latter species was found Pond seems to bear a population. Even this habitat ist there, so I tried to collect the formar species. It was threatened by a local government "development plan". succesful, and the total number of species recorded in Action has to been taken, to enable survival of the Kobe counts 89 including 14 species in species at Sara Pond.] Address: Nishu, S., 247 Gunge Gomphidae."(Author)] Address: Aoki, T., Rokko Island Shonomoto, Mikage-cho, Higashinda-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, High School, Naka 4-chome, Koyo-cho, Higashinada- 658-0057, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] ku, Kobe, 658-0032, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] 2221. Nishu, S. (1997): Report of the survey trip of the Hyogo Society of Odonatology, Part 2 in 1996. 2217. Aoki, T. (1997): Odonata fauna of Kobe City, Sympetrum Hyogo 4: 18-24. (in Japanese with English Part 5. (Lestidae). Sympetrum Hyogo 4: 2-4. (in summary). ["The Hyogo Society of Odonatology had a Japanese with English summary). [Lestes sponsa, L. survey tour for Mortonagrion hirosei visiting Momojima japonicus, Sympecma paedisca, and Indolestes Pond, Kinosaki-cho, Hyogo Prefecture on July 20-21. peregrinus are treated. L. japonicus seriously has been Estimation of the individual number was made through influencted negatively by destruction of habitats.] the marking-recapturing method. 100 males were Address: Aoki, T., Rokko Island High School, Naka 4- marked and released, and 92 males were captured on chome, Koyo-cho, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, 658-0032, the next day including 13 marked ones. The total Japan. E-mail: [email protected] number of this damselfly inhabiting this pond was 2218. Aoki, T. (1997): The Odonata fauna of Kobe estimated to be at the order of 10,000 for the time. City, Part 6. (Calopterygidae). Sympetrum Hyogo 4: 25- Masses of this species were found sleeping at night. 27. (in Japanese with English summary). [Calopteryx Most of them were roosting on stalks at a hight of 10 to atrata Selys 1853, C. cornelia Selys 1853, Mnais prui- 20 cm above water-level. [...]." A list of 41 species nosa Selys 1853, Mnais nawai Yamamoto, 1956. The recorded in the framework of the survey ar listed in a status of C. japonica Selys 1869 in the Kobe region is table.] Address: Nishu, S., 247 Gunge Shonomoto, unknown; only old records are existing.] Address: Aoki, Mikage-cho, Higashinda-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 658-0057, T., Rokko Island High School, Naka 4-chome, Koyo- Japan. E-mail: Snishu @mx2.nisiq.net Odonat. Abstr. Service 10 (July 2002) - page 1 2222. Nishu, S. (1997): Report of the survey trip of the 2225. Altmoos, M. (1998): Möglichkeiten und Grenzen Hyogo Society of Odonatology, Part 3 in 1996. des Einsatzes regionalisierter Zielarten - dargestellt am Sympetrum Hyogo 4: 28-31. (in Japanese with English Modellbeispiel des Biosphärenreservates Rhön. summary). ["An immature male Stylurus nagoyanus Laufener Seminarbeiträge 8/98: 127-156. (in German). was caught in Mt. Funakoshi, Sayo-cho in 1993. This is [This is an extensive and sound discussion of methods the only record of this species in Hyogo Prefecture until and fundaments for the use of a regionalised target today. Immature imagoes of this species are known to species concept. Odonata are considered as good migrate to distant places, and we had a survey trip to target species; in the studied area Calopteryx virgo / C. find the original habitat. One of our members, Mr Inoue, splendens, Gomphus vulgatissimus, Coenagrion once happened to see a gomphid dragonfly much like hastulatum, Lestes dryas, Aeshna juncea, A. subarctica this species along Ibo River, hence we had a survey trip / Somatochlora arctica, Cordulegaster boltonii, and to this river on September 8, 1996. The results were not Sympetrum flaveolum are important umbrella species successful, but we recorded 14 species in 6 families for nature conservation measures.] Address: Altmoos, including many males and 3 females of M., Projekt "Zoologischer Artenschutz im Onychogomphus viridicostus and 5 males of Biosphärenreservat Rhön", Bauerbacher Str. 46, D- Anisogomphus maaki." (Author) In addition species lists 35043 Marburg, Germany. for five localities are given in two tables.] Address: Nishu, S., 247 Gunge Shonomoto, Mikage-cho, 2226. Aoki, T.; Nishu, S. (1998): A survey for Higashinda-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 658-0057, Japan. E-mail: discovery of new breeding sites colonized by [email protected] Ictinogomphus pertinax (Selys) in southwestern Hyogo Prefecture. Sympetrum Hyogo 5: 16-20. (in Japanese 2223. Sogame, S. (1997): A male Sympetrum with English summary). [I. pertinax extends its range pedemontanum elatum with an aberrant wing brown northeastward in Japan. It was found at Ushimado in marking. Sympetrum Hyogo 4: 14. (in Japanese with eastern part of Okayama Prefecture in 1980, and at English summary). [A male S. pedemontanum elatum Akashi in southwestern part of Hyogo Prefecture in had a round colourless area in the brown marking on 1987. "In 1994, the senior author found a new locality at right forewing. This area is thinner than the other parts, Kakogawa, some 25 km northwest to Akashi. The area and was found broken after the specimen was kept in a from Ushimado to Kakogawa has been left unrecorded triangulor paper.] Address: not stated for this species." On 18 August 1997 five members of the Hyogo Society of Odonatology tried to fill the blank. 2224. Wada, N.; Inoue, K. (1997): First record of Eleven localities - with splendid dragonfly populations - Zyxomma obtusum from Kuroshima island, Taketomi- were visited, but they failed to discover this southern cho, Okinawa Prefecture. Sympetrum Hyogo 4: 5-7. (in gomphid species. The results of the survey a compiled Japanese with English summary). [A male Z. obtusum in a table including 24 species.] Address: Aoki, T., was caught on Kuroshima Island, Japan, a small Rokko Island High School, Naka 4-chome, Koyo-cho, oceanic island located between Ishigaki and Iriomote Higashinada-ku, Kobe, 658-0032, Japan. E-mail: Islands. "This crepuscular insect was found at 20:00 - [email protected] 21:00 attracted to a fluorescent lamp in a passage of a cottage in Marine Research Center. This species had 2227. Aoki, T. (1998): Odonata fauna of Kobe City, been found only on North and South Borodino Islands Part 7. (Plarycnemididae, Epiophlebiidae, Petaluridae). in Japan, but in 1996 a female was caught by Mr Akira Sympetrum Hyogo 5: 21-22. (in Japanese with English Nishida on June 23 at Nishi- funatsukibashi, Iriomote summary). [Platycnemis foliacea sasakii, Copera annu- Island ( Nishida, A. 1996) and males and females were lata, Epiophlebia superstes, and Tanypteryx pryeri are captured by Mr Osamu Tabata on June 30 to July 2 at recorded in Kobe City. "E. superstes was found at Taisho Pond, Iriomote Island [...] .Thus this is the third Arima in Mt. Rokko area on June 12, 1996 (two larvae), record outside N. and S. Borodino Islands. Oguma, K. on July 9, 1996 (two larvae) and on May 25, 1997 recorded a male of this species in 1915. The specimen (oviposition incisions). These records are rediscoveries is labelled "Okinawa,VIII, 1902", but no additional after 60 years for this area."] Address: Aoki, T., Rokko material had been found from Okinawa Main Island, Island High School, Naka 4-chome, Koyo-cho, and many males and females have been found after Higashinada-ku, Kobe, 658-0032, Japan.
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    International Journal of Odonatology 1 (2): 175-184, 1998. © 1998 Backhuys Publishers. 175 POST-COPULATORY BEHAVIOUR IN CALOPTERYX FEMALES (INSECTA, ODONATA, CALOPTERYGIDAE). Martin Lindeboom Institut fiir systematische Zoologie, Eberhard-Karls-Universitiit Ttibingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Ttibingen, Germany, e-mail: [email protected] Received 30 May 1998; revised 12 October 1998; accepted 13 October 1998. Key words: Odonata, Calopteryx, post-copulatory behaviour, functional morphology, ovipositor, copulatory organ, microstructures, sperm removal, cryptic female choice. Abstract The post-copulatory behaviour of Calopteryx splendens females was studied under field and laboratory conditions. After termination of copulation females usually perch and bend the abdomen so that its apex touches the ground (post-copulatory posture). The post-cop­ ulatory posture is a consequence of sperm removal by males. Male and female microstruc­ tures (spines and scales) interact to move previous sperm from the female sperm storage organs to the outside during copulation stage I, after which moved sperm is located on the ovipositor. After termination of copulation females require an average of 45 seconds to brush off this sperm (N=21). The post-copulatory behaviour of females may also allow males to chase rival males before the females start to oviposit (prevention of dis­ turbances). The present study shows no evidence of cryptic female choice in C. splendens. Introduction Sperm competition in Odonata has resulted in the evolution of direct sperm removal in Zygoptera and Anisoptera. Sperm removal resulting in last male sperm precedence seems to be widespread in Zygoptera (Waage 1979a, 1984, 1986; Miller & Miller 1981; Fincke 1984; Siva-Jothy & Tsubaki 1989; Cordero & Miller 1992; Siva-Jothy & Hooper 1995).
  • • Burnt Lands PARKS Interim Management Statement

    • Burnt Lands PARKS Interim Management Statement

    , . ONTARIO • Burnt Lands PARKS Interim Management Statement ® Ontario Cette publlcatlon hautement speclalisee n'est disponible qu'en anglais en vertu du reqlernent 411/97, qui en exempte I'application de la Loi sur les services en trenceis. Pour obtenir de I'aide en francais, veuillez communiquer avec Ie bureau district du MRN de Kemptville, au (613) 258-8204. Zone Manager's Approval Statement The recommended Burnt Lands Provincial Park (Nature Reserve Class) will protect alvar communities of international significance. The park will include land secured through the Ontario Parks Legacy 2000 Program and Crown land identified through the Ontario's Living Legacy Land Use Strategy. This Interim Management Statement will provide direction for the management of the park until a Park Management Plan is prepared. This document will provide the basis for future management planning. I am pleased to approve this Interim Management Statement for the recommended Burnt Lands Provincial Park (Nature Reserve Class). , L .-.­ John. M. Immerseel 'South Eastern Zone Manager Ontario Parks Kingston, ON Burnt Lands Provincial Park (Nature Reserve Class) Interim Management Statement Ontario Parks, South Eastern Zone 2001 CONTENTS 1.0 Background ......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Planning Issues............................................................................................. 2 2.0 Site Description ......................................... ~ .........................................................