Lacewing News NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEUROPTEROLOGY No. 16 Spring 2013 Presentation From David Penney th Hi all! Here’s the 16 issue of Lacewing News. THE FOSSIL NEUROPTERA BOOK Leitmotiv of this issue is “old, fond memories”: GAUNTLET HAS BEEN PICKED UP so, a lot of photos and dear moments! I hope you will enjoy them, Thank to all colleagues who send photos, messages and contributions. Please, don’t forget this is not a “formal” gazette, nor an official instruments of IAN, but only a “open space” to disseminate information, cues, jokes through the neuropterological community. So don’t hesitate to send me any suggestions, ideas, proposal, information, for the next issue! Please send all communications concerning Lacewing News to [email protected] (Agostino Letardi). Questions about the International Association of Neuropterology may be addressed to our current president, Dr. In Lacewing News 15 I proposed the idea of a Michael Ohl ([email protected]), who book on Fossil Neuroptera. The gauntlet was is also the organizer of next XII International picked up and this work is now in progress as Symposium on Neuropterology (Berlin 2014). part of the Siri Scientific Press Monograph Ciao! Series (email for ordering information or visit http://www.siriscientificpress.co.uk), with an expected publication date of 2014. The authors will be James E. Jepson (currently National Museum of Wales), Alexander Khramov (Paleontological Institute Moscow) and David Penney (University of Manchester). The draft cover shows a particularly nice example of the extinct family Kalligrammatidae. We already have lots of nice fossil images (both amber and rock) for this volume, but if any of you have access to well preserved fossils or hold the copyright of such images and would like to see them published in this volume, then we would be very happy to receive high resolution images in jpeg format. We do not have funding for the 1 purchase of these images and hope that any So that his sole award decoration was the gold collection curators (from institutions that request medal of Exhibition of advancement in National payment for images) reading this request will economy in Moscow for the collection “Sexual appreciate the academic nature of this dimorphism in insects” when I was 14 years old. monograph that will be published in a short print Then in Leningrad University I studied run of not more than 500 copies (and so should entomology and prepared diploma project on hopefully fall within the remit of fair academic electric activity of nervous system of Insects usage reproduction anyway). The more images without enthusiasms and any publications. So we have of unique specimens the greater will be that after graduate the University, I started to the value of the book to its readership. All will be work with young naturalists, but at the first fully acknowledged and the originator will retain chance, I went to the Natura - Badghiz Natural their copyright. Images can be emailed to Reserve in Turkmenia (now Turkmenistan) as a [email protected] forest-worker in pistachio plantation. In free time Many thanks in advance. I had a right to scientific researches with insects. Best regards, Dave Penney Who is Who in Neuropterology Victor A. Krivokhatsky I was born in January 20, 1954 in Petrozavodsk, Russia, occasionally. Then permanently, I grew Collecting insects in Badghiz, 1978 in Leningrad / St.Petersburg in the family of an atomic physicist. My grand mother Valentina P. In the neighbouring Repetek Reserve I start to Romanova has been an entomologist in Rostov- work with the program “Insects from the rodents on-Don and she trained me to insect collecting. burrows in the desert” (1982, 1985b, 1994b) and prepared the first small book with check list of insects of Repetek (1985a). Collecting insects, 10 years old Collecting insects in rodent burrow in Karakum Desert, 1982 2 In next period the Natural Reserve of Leningrad University “Forest on the Vorscla” became reorganized (Krivokhatsky, 1989), and University invite me to the scientific branch, and since 1985 I become leader of the Reserve. In that time between Alexander Zakharenko (Charkov) and me there were less than 100 km., and we could organize common expeditions and write conjoint papers; among them, the catalogue of Neuroptera from the European part of the former USSR (Zakharenko, Krivokhatsky, 1993). In that period I included all my Neuroptera collection to the collection of Zoological Institute in Peterburg. Since 1991 I was Senior (since 1999 - Leading) Research Scientist of the Laboratory of Introduction of effective living organisms of Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and from 2002 till now I hold the rank of Leading Visit to the privat garden of Linne, 2005 Research Scientist of the Laboratory of Insects Systematics. My thesis on Doctor of Science in After apoplexy he works in red listing, reviewing Biology (1999) was devoted to the systematics in entomology and preferably with finishing old and biogeography of the palaearctic antlions. projects in myrmeleontology (2007a,b). Members of expedition to the Volga Region, 2003 Rehabilitation during mushrooming, 2009 Last 10 years the time runs too slow for me: in 2003 and 2004 I organized usual expeditions to Mostly my efforts were apply for 20-years project the Volga Region and between them my aorta - Russian fauna of antlions (2011). In 2012 I was was thrombed and operated; in 2005 I worked voted in congress as an honorary member of with collections of Neuroptera in Museum and Russian entomological Society. Institut Zoologii Polzka Akademia Nauk in I’m very sorry that my illness became to be Warszawa and in Upper Silesian Museum, reason that many projects conjoint with class Bytom, than attended house of Linne in Uppsala specialists in Neuropterology have been and in 2006 I visited the Chinese Agricultural postponed. In according with convalescence my University in Beijing with antlion project, and projects will renewed, and, as I promised, my than has a part in expedition along Chujsky personal page with list and copies of publication Tract in Altaj. In 2007 I survived cerebral and ZINsecta will be renewed too! infarction, but I was able to organized the XIII congress of Russian entomological Society from the bed. 3 I have started my work with Neuropterans as a student for my diploma when I was studying in Irkutsk State University at the Faculty of Biology and Soil Studies. When I graduated from the university, I arrived in postgraduate study of the Siberian Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry of Plants under the direction of the professor Andrey Sergeyevich Pleshanov. Certainly, first of all it is necessary to tell something about my tutor. He has worked all life at the Siberian Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry of Plants. Since the childhood, he has fond of an entomology, and in student's years he got Presentation: Krivokhatsky V.A., Ovtshinnikova O.G. Provinciality – acquainted with Neuroptera and started to bring the main principle of biogeography in: the conference together actively with them in Conbaikal Region. “Fundamental problems of entomology in XXI century” in Petergof, 2011 N.of E.: Here some of the web resources by Victor http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/eng/krivohat.htm http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/eng/krivbibl.htm http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/krivhpdf.htm http://www.zin.ru/projects/ZInsecta/eng/myrgen1.asp Nouvelles frontières Anastasia Kaversina e-mail: [email protected] Andrey Sergeyevich Pleshanov In 1974 A.S. Pleshanov published the first survey faunistic work about Neuroptera of Eastern Siberia. In the subsequent works he also paid considerable attention to studying not only faunae, but also ecology, phenology and biology of Neuroptera, occupying natural ecosystems. A.S. Pleshanov made the significant contribution to research of Neuroptera insects in Siberia. When five years ago I came to him with a request to be my tutor, he agreed. I asked to give me work on useful or harmful insects. But he became so inspired talking about the Neuroptera, about the first meeting with Libelloides sibiricus (Eversmann, 1850) and about green lacewings, that inspired me. It appeared that earlier I didn't meet almost Neuroptera. A.S. Pleshanov allowed me to work with a collection being in the Siberian Institute of Anastasia Kaversina in the collecting trip in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Physiology and Biochemistry of Plants. He was Kansk area, steppe 4 the person very widely-read, interesting, always helped another specialists with their scientific undertakings. All his colleagues, friends and pupils, knowing about his love to the Neuroptera brought them for it from all Siberia and the Far East. Unfortunately in 2011 he abandoned us, till last days we communicated with him and he gave advices and manuals. The last five years I have been actively collected Neuroptera of the Baikal region, but special attention gave Neuroptera to the flat territory of the basin of the Angara River. Last year I successfully finished postgraduate study. Now I work at the Siberian Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry of Plants and plan to continue work C. Reguilón- frutilla- Sur del Pais on fauna and ecology Neuroptera of the Baikal region. Now I’m in cooperation with Victor doctorado y estoy dirigiendo un Proyecto de Krivokhatsky in the base of Zoological Institute, investigación en la Fundación Miguel Lillo St.Petersburg, under supporting of the Russian llamado: "Neurópteros del Norte Argentino: Fund of Fundamental Researches. Biología y Capacidad Depredadora Aplicada a Cultivos de Importancia Agroeconómica". Estamos trabajando en diversos cultivos como frutas finas (fresa, frambuesa, Boysenberries, arándanos); Citrícos (Limón, Naranja); Pimiento en invernáculo, etc. Anastasia Kaversina in the collection of Zoological Institute, St.Petersburg, 2012 Social meetings C.