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Download Here TORONTO ENTOMOLOGISTS' ONTARIO ODONATA ASSOCIATION (TEA) Published annually by the Toronto The TEA is a non-profit educational and Entomologists' Association. scientific organization formed to promote interest in insects, to encourage co-operation Ontario Odonata - Volume 1 among amateur and professional entomologists, Publication date: June 2000 to educate and inform non-entomologists about ISBN 0-921631-21-9 insects, entomology and related fields, to aid in Copyright © T.E.A for Authors the preservation ofinsects and their habitats All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication and to issue publications in support ofthese may be reproduced or used without written objectives. permission. Publications received as part ofthe TEA To purchase copies contact Publication Dept.: membership include: Alan J. Hanks, 34 Seaton Drive, Aurora, - 3 issues ofOntario Insects per year, Ontario L4G 2K1 Canada. - annual Ontario Lepidoptera summary, email: [email protected] - Ontario Odonata (new in 1999). Information for contributors (articles, notes, THE TEA IS A REGISTERED CHARITY and records) to Ontario Odonata may be found (#1069095-21)~ ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX at the end ofa current volume. CREDITABLE. Communications concerning contributions should be directed to an editor or regional Executive Officers: compiler: President: Nancy van der Poorten Paul Catling, editor and provincial and central Vice-President: Jim Spottiswood and eastern Ontario compiler: 2326 Scrivens Treasurer: Alan J. Hanks Drive, RR 3 Metcalfe, Ontario KOA 2PO. 613­ Acting Secretary: Nancy van der Poorten 821-2064, ([email protected]) Board ofDirectors: Colin D. Jones, editor and northern Ontario compiler: Box 182, Lakefield, Ontario KOL Chris Darling, RO.M. Representative 2HO. work: 705-755-2166, home: 705-652­ Alan J. Hanks, Treasurer 5004, email: [email protected]. Duncan Robertson, Past President Jim Spottiswood, Vice-President Paul Pratt, editor and southwestern Ontario Tony Holmes, F.O.N. Representative compiler: 7100 Matchette Rd., LaSalle, Ontario Carolyn King: Publicity Co-ordinator N9J 2S3. Tel. 519-966-5852, email: Vanessa Carney: Editor, Ontario Insects [email protected]. MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION Cover: A male Hagen's Bluet (Enallagma Annual dues: hagen; (Walsh» feeding on a leafhopper Individual $20 (Graphoeephala piela (Walker». Student $10 Photographed by P. Pratt on 4 August 1997 at Family $25 Ira Lake, Lindsay Tp., Bruce Co., Ontario (see article by Catling, Brownell, Pratt and All membership queries and payment ofdues Marshall). The damselfy is widespread, but the can be directed to Alan J. Hanks, Treasurer, 34 leafhopper is an eastern species near its western Seaton Drive, Aurora, Ontario, Canada L4G range limit. The leafhopper was described by 2Kl. (905) 727-6993. Francis Walker (not the Canadian email: [email protected] Odonatologist E.M. Walker), who worked at the British Museum and described species for pay in the mid-1800s (A Hamilton, pers. comm.). ISBN # 0-921631-21-9 ONTARIO ODONATA VOLUME 1 (Including 1999 observations) Edited and compiled by Paul M. Catling, Colin Jones and Paul Pratt June 2000 Published by THE TORONTO ENTOMOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION TORONTO, CANADA Production by Paul Catling and Vivian R. Brownell Ontario Odonata, vol. 1 2000 CONTENTS Conservation status ranks for Ontario Odonata MICHAEL 1. OLDHAM, DONALD A. SUTHERLAND, and MATTHEW L. HOLDER 1 Citrine Forktail (lshnura hastata) in Ontario MICHAEL 1. OLDHAM 7 Notes on the Odonata ofSandbanks Provincial Park and surrounding area PAULM. CATLING, VIVIANR. BROWNELL AND DAVID BREE 10 Additions to (and a deletion from) the Odonata list ofAlgonquin Provincial Park COLIN D. JONES AND MATTHEW L. HOLDER 13 Odonata ofBon Echo Provincial Park - Preliminary checklist with notes DAVID BREE 17 Notes on the Odonata ofWheatley Provincial Park PAUL M. CATLING, VIVIAN R. BROWNELL and CORY H. CATLING 20 Observations ofStream Bluets (Enallagma exsulans) ovipositing at Mazinaw Lake, some interesting questions DAVID BREE 21 Common Garter Snake (Thamnophilis sirtalis) preying upon a teneral Black-tipped Darner (Aeshna tuberculifera) at Bat Lake, Algonquin Provincial Park COLIN D. JONES 22 Erosion control, channelization and reservoirs destroy habitats of imperiled dragonflies PAULM. CATLING 24 New odonate records for Timiskaming District, Ontario COLIN D. JONES 25 Noteworthy Odonata records from northwestern Ontario MICHAEL 1. OLDHAM AND DARREN R. ELDER 28 A preliminary annoated list ofthe Odonata ofnorthern Bruce County including Bruce Peninsula National Park PAUL M. CATLING, VIVIAN R. BROWNELL, PAUL PRATT AND STEVE MARSHALL 34 An annotated checklist ofthe Odonata ofRenfrew County, Ontario COLIN D. JONES, CHRIS MICHENER, CAREY PURDON AND MICHAEL W.P. RUNTZ 39 Dragonfly migration in the western Lake Ontario area in 1999 JOHN 1. BARKER 49 Green-faced Clubtail (Gomphus viridifrons) in Ontario MICHAEL 1. OLDHAM 51 An illustrated key to the mature nymphs and exuviae ofeastern Canadian hanging clubtails (Stylurus) PAUL M. CATLING 52 Introduction to the 1999 Ontario Odonata Summary PAUL M. CATLING, COLIN D. JONES and PAUL PRATT 54 Appendix Table 1: List ofContributors 58 Appendix Table 2: Observations ofOdonata in Ontario during 1999 60 ONTARIO ODONATA PROJECTS 146 NEWS 146 NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS 146 INDEX TO SPECIES IN 1999 SUMMARY TABLE 151 iii Ontario Odonata, vol. 1 2000 Conservation Status Ranks for an approximation ofthe risk ofextinction for a particular species. Ontario subnational ranks were Ontario Odonata. assigned based on published literature (e.g. Walker 1941, 1953, 1958, Walker and Corbet 1975, Catting I Michael J. Oldham , Donald A. and Brownell 1997), personal communications with I I 2 knowledgeable professional and amateur Sutherland , and Matthew L. Holder • odonatologists, and infonnation contained in the Ontario Odonata Database (000). The 000 is a I Natural Heritage Infonnation Centre Ontario Ministry ofNatural Resources, Box 7000, 300 database ofmore than 20,000 records ofOntario Water Street, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 8M5 dragonflies and damselflies compiled, in part, to (michael.oldham(tilmnr. gov.on.ca: produce the.Atlas of O~tario Odonata (Sutherland [email protected]. and Holder m preparation). This database is ~omprised of recor~ taken from the published lIterature on Ontano odonates (primarily the many 2 Present address: Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network (ACWERN), Biology papers ofE.M. Walker), museum collections (primarily the Royal Ontario Museum Canadian Dep~ent, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Na~iona! Gu~lph, ScotIa BOP lXO ([email protected]. Collection, University of U~v~rsityofWestern Ontario, and University of MIchigan), the Ontario Ministry ofNatural Abstract: The system ofconservation status ranks Resources Aquatic Habitat Inventory collections used by Ontario's Natural Heritage Infonnation (over 6,600 larval Odonate specimens housed at the Centre and similar conservation data centres Royal Ontario Museum; these records were not throughout the Western Hemisphere is described, used in the Atlas ofOntario Odonata (Sutherland defmed ~d applied to 164 Ontario dragonflies and an~ Hol~er in preparation) since some require damselflIes. Global (Granks) and subnational venficatIon), and records submitted by amateur (Sranks) conservation status ranks are provided for Odonate enthusiasts (major contributors include all Ontario odonate species. P.O. Pratt, M.L. Holder, C.D. Jones, D.A. Suthe~land, D.O. Beadle, D. Tozer, D. Walker, I. CarmIchael, J.B. Falls, J. Nancekivell, N. van der Ontario's Natural Heritage Infonnation Centre Poorten,1. Wilson, M. King, P. Burke, R Hutchinson, RL. Bowles, S.W. Dunkle, and W.G. (NHIC) is one ofover 80 Conservation Data S~ew~). Th~ Centres (CDCs or Heritage Programs) throughout 000 will be continually updated With infonnatIon submitted for "Ontario Odonata" the Western Hemisphere, including seven in ~ual s~ary Cana~~, which use a similar methodology for an ofOdonate sightings in the ' compdmg data on species, vegetation communities, provmce (Catlmg 1999b). Infonnation contained in and natural areas for conservation purposes. Some the 000 is available for research and conservation purposes. Accessing detailed infonnation from the ofthe tools used by the network ofConservation ~HIC, s~ch Data Centres are conservation status ranks. These .as that contained in the 000, may ranks are assigned in a similar way at the global mvolve SIgnmg a Natural Heritage Infonnation (Granks), national (Nranks), and subnational Exchange agreement (for further infonnation see (Sranks) levels. Global ranks are assigned and http://www.mnr.gov.on.caIMNR/nhic/data/datause maintained centrally by Association for protocol.html). For more infonnation on records ­ Biodiversity Infonnation (ABI) staffwhile contained in the ODD, contact Donald Sutherland at ~ub.n~tional ranks are assigned and maintained by the NHIC. mdividual CDCs such as the NHIC. Canadian national ranks have been assigned to some Conservation status ranks rely on the best available taxonomic groups but not yet to Odonata. These infonnation, including such sources as natural ranks help set conservation priorities for species at history museum collections, previously published reports and scientific literature and documented risk. si~ting.s by knowledgeable bi~logists. To augment av~ulable ~owledg~, OfCanada's approximately 200 odonate species, this CDC biologists conduct exten~Ive field ~nventones and population censuses, 164 occur in Ontario (depending
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