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CHRYSOMELA newsletter Dedicated to information about the Chrysomelidae Report No. 34 October 1997 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Camino 2-Editor’s Corner de 2-Notes Up Front 3-The Scientific Method . Cantar 4-Systematics in Africa Nature 4-XXI ICE General Program Trail, 5-Aulacoscelis feeding on cycads 6-Research Activities (cont.) Cerro 6-Literature (Available or Needed) Azul, 6-Exchange those Duplicates 7-Insects in African Economy . PANAMA 7-Specimens (Available or Needed) Donald Windsor takes a 8-Timarcha djerbensis Pic Lives! moment to collect some 8-A Photo Rerun insects while looking for Aulacoscelis on cycads in 9-Literature on the Chrysomelidae the forests of Panama. 11-Phone, FAX, & Email October ’97 June 1997. (full story on page 5.) Research Activities and Interests Maria F. Barberena (San Juan, Puerto arctic region. Actually, working on the Thi Dap Dang (Hanoi, Vietnam) Con- Rico) Working on Master degree (under classification of the great genus Chrysoli- tinues work and publication on faunal, the advice of Catherine Duckett). Work- na and carrying on the writing of the Chry- biological and populations of Vietnam ing with two species of the alticine genus somelinae of French Fauna. Willing to Chrysomelidae. Aspicela this year (A. discoidalis and A. identify Palearctic Chrysomelidae except Roy A. Crowson (Glasgow, UK) Phy- viridicollis) and plans to continue work on Alticinae, Hispinae and Cassidinae. logeny, biology and palaeontology of Chry- the genus as a Master's thesis (see Request Andrzej O. Bienkowski (Moscow, someloidea and allied groups. for Specimens). Russia) Currently working on a review of Astrid Eben (Mexico, Mexico) Chem- Grace F. Barroga (Laguna, Philippines) Chrysolina subgenera. At present, re- ical ecology and evolutionary ecology of Finished MS thesis in June (Venus J. Ca- viewed the place of Chrysolina within the plant/insect and of tritrophic level interac- lilung, Advisor) and plans to work on the subtribe Chrysolinina (with key to the gen- tions. Currently doing postdoc research Galerucine fauna of the Philippines. Inter- era) and prepared diagnosis of several sub- on chemical ecology of parasitoids (Hy- ested in revising the genera Aulacophora genera. menoptera: Braconidae) of Anastrepha and Monolepta beacause of their pest sta- Caroline S. Chaboo (Ithaca, USA) In- (Diptera: Tephritidae). Future plans in- tus in the Philippines. terested in morphology and systematics; clude project on evolution of diabroticite Jean-Claude Bourdonné (Alés, evolution, behavior and biogeography; (Luperini) host plant associations, espe- France) Systematics and biology of Chry- Coleoptera; Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae. cially with Cucurbita spp. in Mexico. somelinae and Galerucinae from the Pale- Entering Ph.D. program (News and Notes). continued on page 6 CHRYSOMELA no. 34, October 1997 1 THE EDITOR'S •Insect and Spider Collections of the ESA Job Listings World. This web offering is a subset of the The Entomological Society of America publication by Arnett & Samuelson, et al. CORNER job listings: and provides codens and collections names. Terry N. Seeno, Sacramento http://www.entsoc.org/career.htm The names have linking buttons to collec- tions pages, where available, or the institu- Items of Interest tional home page. A form to update or add NSF on the Web collections is available. The web address for The National Sci- •More? You bet, including images, staff ence Foundation is: http://www.nsf.gov/ The Bishop Museum Website and program information, and even educa- This address came to me courtesy of tional activities such as endangered and Charles J. O'Kelly, NSF Program Direc- This is one of the best sites for all items alien species pages. Neal Evenhuis and tor, Systematic Biology, one of our newest related to Pacific Rim natural history, es- Gordon Nishida have done an excellent colleagues to receive the newsletter. pecially entomology. Here are just a few job of presenting and providing material. Charles has a web address of his own: of the things that you may find interesting: The site is both useful and easy to use. http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/pro- •The Hawaiian Terrestrial Arthropod You can check out the entomology site at: tists/cjocv.html Checklist; it not only lists the taxa, but the http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/ distribution and residency status for native ento/ento.html and alien Hawaiian terrestrial arthropods. The Insect WebServer The Hawaii Biological Survey address is: •Available through the checklist or as a The ecological database of the World's http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/ separate file are ‘Species of Concern’ (or Insect Pathogens (EDWIP) produced by HBS/hbs1.html the old C2 designation for candidate en- David Onstad at the University of Illinois dangered or threatened species). The en- and the Illinois Natural History Survey: CHRYSOMELA tries for the candidate species include label http://insectweb.inhs.uiuc.edu/ data from all the specimens in the Museum Numbers 31-33 of CHRYSOMELA have collection (ca. 40,000) and literature cita- been on the WWW for the past three The Latest in ICE XXI tions extracted from published sources for months. Initial problem with the address- each candidate species, including the gray ing, firewalls and such have been cor- Decio Luiz Gazzoni (Londrina, Brazil) literature. rected and seem to be repaired. The ad- President of the XXI International Con- •The Directory of Pacific Entomolo- dress: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/ gress of Entomology, invites you to visit gists. The original directory was pub- ppd/publication.htm will get you to the the ICE XXI homepage at: lished by the Pacific Science Association, Plant Pest Diagnostics publications page http://www.embrapa.br/ice was updated by Geoff Scudder (Universi- for selection of a PPD publication. We If you have additional questions regard- ty of British Columbia), and provides use- plan to add three issues to the site before ing the event, please call or email. General ful contact information. the end of the year (#34, 30 and 29). Program details are given on page 4. Bohumila (Mila) de Bêchyné is expe- ter in Sacramento on September 25-26. riencing poor health. All of her friends Vilma Savini will be working at the wish her a speedy recovery. NOTES Smithsonian Institute (Washington, USA) Grace F. Borranga finished her MS on Heikertingerella for three weeks begin- thesis in June and plans to continue work Up Front ning October 16, 1997. on Galerucinae. J. S. Yadav reports that Prof. H. R. Caroline S. Chaboo is starting a Ph.D. Catarina states for collecting. Maria Hel- Pajni celebrated his 65th birthday on June program (Quentin Wheeler, advisor) in ena Galileo and Luciano Acevedo Moura 22, 1997. His colleagues throughout the morphology and systematics of were extremely helpful in assisting in the world wish Professor Pajni well. Chrysomelidae at Cornell University. permit process. Catherine will be collect- Catherine Duckett recieved an 18 ing and rearing chrysomelids with Luciano Corrigenda: CHRYSOMELA 33:6 month NSF Research Planning Grant in the field. Caption error (left, bottom photo) The (RPG) to rear oedionychine larvae in Bra- John Lawrence, enroute to various en- person with Pierre Jolivet is Seniz Kis- zil during the first 3 months of 1998, and tomology facilties on a round-the-world mali (Bornova, Turkey) and not Miriam will be visiting Rio Grande do Sul and Sta. trip, visited the Plant Pest Diagnostics Cen- Becker (Porto Alegre). (see page 8.) The Newsletter CHRYSOMELA–Founded 1979– is published semiannually in April and October by the California Department of Food & Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832-1448. E-mail: [email protected]; telephone (916) 262-1160; FAX (916) 262-1190. This newsletter is sent to students of the Chrysomelidae to encourage the exchange of ideas and to disseminate information on these insects. Editor: Terry N. Seeno, Sacramento. Advisors: Catherine Duckett, San Juan; Brian D. Farrell, Cambridge; R. Wills Flowers, Tallahassee; Elizabeth Grobbelaar, Pretoria; Pierre Jolivet, Paris and Gainesville; Chris Reid, Townsville; Ed Riley, College Station; G. Al Samuelson, Honolulu; Eric H. Smith, Lynchburg; Charlie L. Staines, Edgewater; and Kunio Suzuki, Toyama. 2 CHRYSOMELA no. 34, October 1997 post-Darwinian taxonomy, seeks to con- qualities of classification and reduces it struct classifications which reflect the true from a tool communicating evolutionary history of evolution and group organisms information to a mere handle used to iden- THE with a shared evolutionary history to- tify taxa. gether (Wiley 1981, Mayr and Ashlock Classification based on phylogeny con- 1991). veys maximum information to all workers FORVM Most systematists recognize shared, de- about all aspect of biology of the two rived (advanced) characters as the markers groups. Classification based strictly on The Scientific of Darwinian descent with modification phylogeny is democratic as it does not and, as such, use these markers to define favor any particular discipline (ecologists, Method and the natural groups. If a group is natural, it is morphologists, molecular biochemists, Predictive Value monophyletic (represents all the descen- etc.); all aspects of the organisms biology of Classification dants of a common ancestor), and predic- are accurately communicated. The predic- tions can be made based on the morphol- tive value of classification based on phy- Catherine N. Duckett, San Juan ogy, behavior, physiology, development, logeny to all biologists