The Mayfly Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 1 Article 1 2-1-2007 The Mayfly Newsletter Peter M. Grant Southwestern Oklahoma State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mayfly Recommended Citation Grant, Peter M. (2007) "The Mayfly Newsletter," The Mayfly Newsletter: Vol. 15 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mayfly/vol15/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Newsletters at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Mayfly Newsletter by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE MAYFLY NEWSLETTER Vol. 15 No. 1 Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, Oklahoma 73096-3098 USA February 2007 Letter from the Chairman Dear Colleagues, I take the opportunity of this Newsletter to give you some information about the Permanent Committee of the International Conferences on Ephemeroptera. Since the last conference in Montana in 2004, a couple of changes happened in the Committee’s composition. John Flannagan expressed the desire to resign from his position of treasurer, a charge he occupied since the beginning of our group. To replace him, we were lucky enough that Donna Giberspn accepted the position. To John, our sincere thanks for the whole work he has done during more than 30 years and to Donna our appreciation for keeping the business under the Canadian rules and authority. Secondly, a new member has joined the committee, namely Michael Hubbard all of you know, I am sure! Mike is in charge of the website Ephemeroptera Galactica [http://www.famu.org/mayfly/index.asp] and he will devote time and space to.bring up-to-date information concerning the Committee and next conferences. In that sense, it will be an ideal complementary information source to the Mayfly Newsletter Pete Grant rules so perfectly. Finally, I replaced Tomas Soldan as chairman of the committee. An up-to-date list of the Committee with contact information is available on page 4 of this Newsletter. All of you know that the next conference will be held in Stuttgart (Germany) from June 8 to 14, 2008. The convenor is our friend Arnold Staniczek and he already has a web site where important information, call for papers, registration, accommodation etc. will be posted. The address is http://www.jointmeeting08.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/. [See announcement on p. 2.] Do not forget to check regularly and above all, do not miss the chance to attend this meeting. This ,th Conference on Ephemeroptera will be held jointly with the 16th Symposium on Plecoptera. One of the tasks of our Committee is also to plan the next Conferences. We invite all of you to make their proposals for the 13th Conference that should be held normally in 2011. Looking back to the previous ones, two continents have not hosted our meetings: Africa and Asia and it would be wonderful to have some applications from there. Do not forget that your proposal must reach the Committee well before the next meeting in 2008 in order to be discussed and approved by the whole assembly in Stuttgart. [Read guidelines for proposals on p. 3.] Now, the Committee needs your help! We were looking for some kind of common action we could undertake before the Stuttgart meeting. We propose to create a database on mayfly workers, a who’s who in mayfly research. For that purpose, we need your contribution about your colleagues, recent or passed. Your input (text and pictures) can be sent to Mike Hubbard who will configure it and then post it on an Ephemeroptera Galactica website special page. The objective is to get as many contributions as possible before the next meeting. If we succeed to bring together a significant proportion of mayfly workers, we can even investigate the opportunity to make a printed version. Check soon for Ephemeroptera Galactica since the first contributions will be posted early this year. If you have any query, do not hesitate to contact Mike Hubbard or myself. I wish to all of you a happy, healthful and fruitful New Year! Michel Sartori, Chairman Frequency of Publication Inside This Issue Originally, my goal was to publish two issues of The Bibliography of the Neuropterida....................... Mayfly Newsletter each year. That worked out well for International Conference..................................... a time. However, as you have noticed, the frequency of Alfred Edwin Eaton............................................. publication is now about once a year. The main reason for Conference Proposal Guidelines.......................... this is simply efficiency - It’s easier and less expensive Ephemeroptera of South America....................... to publish one large issue each year than to publish two Members of Permanent Committee.................... smaller issues. hiblication Information....................................... As always, I welcome the submission of articles from you 2005 Mayfly Bibliography................................... to include in the Newsletter. Please contact me (contact Address Updates Needed..................................... information on p. 4) if you have some ideas. The Mayfly Newsletter is printed on recycled paper with vegetable-based ink. Bibliography of the Neuropterida, Version 7.06 A new version, 7.06, of the Bibliography o f the Neurop­ important neuropteran monographs, including: terida (http://entowww.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/ Hagen, H. A. 1861. Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North neurbibliography/bibhome.html) was posted to the web America, with a list of the South American species. Smith­ on 7 September 2006. The new version incorporates 155 sonian Miscellaneous Collections 4(l):xx+ 1-347. [BotN new and 2344 updated reference citations, and 1000 newly r#455] linked digital files. The new files linked to this version nearly Rambur, [J.] P. 1842. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, Nev- double the number of files directly accessible through the ropteres. Bibliography (now 2020 total files), and represent an addi­ Librairie encyclopedique de Roret. Fain et Thunot, Paris. tional 9500 pages of neuropterid literature available through [xviii]+534 pp. [BotN r#5314] the site. More than 21,600 pages of neuropterid literature are Tjeder, B. 1966. Neuroptera-Planipennia. The Lace-wings now available through the Bibliography. of Southern Africa. 5. Family Chrysopidae. Pp. 228-534 in Publications linked to the Bibliography can be viewed on South African Animal Life, B. Hanstrom, P. Brinck and G. line, and almost all can be freely downloaded as PDFs for Rudebec, eds. Yol. 12. Swedish Natural Science Research further use. A particular emphasis has been placed on making Council, Stockholm. [BotN r#6049] available copies of papers that contain the original descrip­ Tjeder, B. 1967. Neuroptera-Planipennia. The Lace-wings of tions of new species and higher taxa. Southern Africa. 6. Family Nemopteridae. Pp. 290-501 in The files now available from the Bibliography site contain South African Animal Life, B. Hanstrom, P. Brinck and G. the original descriptions of 45.1% of all available neuropter­ id species-group names, and 43.1% of available neuropterid Rudebec, eds. Vol. 13. Swedish Natural Science Research genus-group names. Council, Stockholm. [BotN r#6050 Although the Bibliography of the Neuropterida site will be Walker, F. 1853. List of the specimens of neuropterous in­ of special interest to entomologists studying the three insect sects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II.— orders Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Raphidioptera, some (Sialides—Nemopterides). British Museum, London, [iii] + of the literature linked to the site may also be of interest to 193-476. [BotN r#6194] workers in the many other orders that were broadly classed The next version of the Bibliography will include PDFs of as “neuropteroids” during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th cen­ the “Neuroptera” (sensu lato) sections of many of the works turies (e.g., Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, Odonata, Psocop- of Linnaeus, Fabricius, and other early authors. This litera­ tera, Plecoptera, and Mecoptera). Of particular interest in this ture will also make available a fair number of ephemerop- regard may be the 657 papers now linked to the Bibliography teran original descriptions. that were authored by the three wide-ranging “neuropterist” For more information about this bibliography, contact authors Herman Hagen, Nathan Banks and Longinos Navas. John D. Oswald, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M This release of the Bibliography also makes available for University, College Station, TX 77843-2475, phone: (979) the first time complete digital facsimiles of a number of 862-3507, email: [email protected]. Participants from developing countries will also have the opportunity to apply for limited travel grants to be able to participate in the meeting. Please check the webpage from early March on for details, or subscribe to the newsletter to keep updated! The Joint Meeting will have an informal welcome party at the evening of June 8th. The conference will start on June 9th. There will be four days packed with talks and The next International Joint Meeting will take place at the poster sessions the best poster will be awarded at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany, conference dinner on Thursday night. On Wednesday from 8-14 June 2008. Please note that the conference 12th there will be a field trip to creeks and rivers of the website has changed: Swabian Alps, linked to a visit to a medieval monastery http://www.jointmeeting08.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/ and University town. The post conference tour on This preliminary site will have a major update around the Saturday 14th will lead to the Black Forest. end of February or early March. If you want to get notified Take the opportunity and meet your colleagues at the when the site is updated, please subscribe to the conference Joint Meeting 2008! newsletter as soon as possible. Just send an e-mail to joint- Dr.