Spring 2001 Vol. 20, No. 1 NEWSLETTER OF THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA (TERRESTRIAL ARTHROPODS) Table of Contents General Information and Editorial Notes ............(inside front cover) News and Notes Activities at the Entomological Societies’ Meeting ...............1 Summary of the Scientific Committee Meeting.................5 Canadian Biodiversity Network Conference .................12 Biological Survey Website Update ......................12 The E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum .................13 Project Update: Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands .............14 The Quiz Page..................................16 Arctic Corner Introduction .................................17 Arctic Insects, Global Warming and the ITEX Program ............17 Selected Future Conferences ..........................24 Answers to Faunal Quiz.............................26 Quips and Quotes ................................27 List of Requests for Material or Information ..................28 Cooperation Offered ..............................34 List of Email Addresses.............................34 List of Addresses ................................36 Index to Taxa ..................................38 General Information The Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) appears twice yearly. All material without other accreditation is prepared by the Secretariat for the Biological Survey. Editor: H.V. Danks Head, Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) Canadian Museum of Nature P.O. Box 3443, Station “D” Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4 TEL: 613-566-4787 FAX: 613-364-4021 E-mail: [email protected] Queries, comments, and contributions to the Newsletter are welcomed by the editor. Deadline for material for the Fall 2001 issue is July 16, 2001. ************ Editorial Notes The Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) develops and coordinates national initiatives in taxonomic and ecological entomology on behalf of the Canadian Museum of Nature (formerly the National Museum of Natural Sciences) and the Entomological Society of Canada. This Newsletter communicates information about systematic and faunistic entomology that may be of interest in Canada, and reports especially on activities relevant to the Biological Survey. This newsletter will also be available soon on the Survey’s website at: http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/esc.hp/bschome.htm Vol. 20, No. 1 1 News and Notes Activities at the Entomological Societies’ Meeting he 2000 Joint Annual Meeting of the Ento- biology; Biology, ecology and behaviour; Medi- Tmological Society, Société d’entomologie cal and veterinary entomology; Regulatory and du Québec and Entomological Society of extension entomology; and Crop protection ento- America took place in Montreal 2-6 December mology. 2000. The meeting was attended by nearly 3000 Poster sessions, grouped in the same way. people, and this large meeting, which included A student paper competition, in many subsections, the Entomological Society of America for the for both talks and posters. first time since 1982, comprised about 15 si- multaneous sessions, with a full range of sym- The Linnaean games posia, contributed papers, posters and other The ESC Gold Medal Address. events. In all the meeting had more than 1000 Governing Board and Annual General papers and more than 800 posters. Meetings also took place, and various honours Items in the program (emphasizing were awarded by the Societies. Because the those of particular interest to the Biological meeting was so large, and its core structure or- Survey) included: ganized by the ESA, there was no banquet, and An opening plenary session no complimentary coffee during the sessions, and some other events normal at the ESC meet- Symposia or conferences on: Acarology; Soil mites: systematics, biodiversity and ecology in ing were abbreviated or took a different form. four dimensions; Coleoptera systematics: per- However, the SEQ and ESC organized a very spectives and philosophical approaches; Water well attended evening President’s reception at relations and winter survival of insects; the Château Ramezay Museum for members of Modelling insect seasonality; Insects in art and those societies. illustration: will we always need scientific illus- The meeting also featured an extensive trators; Arthropod diversity and management in display area, with numerous booths showing dryland cropping systems; Mining the scientific books, equipment, and other items. A Coleopteran holomorph; North American Canadian pavilion included displays from orga- Dipterists Society; Coleoptera Society: The sys- nizations such as the Entomological Society of tematics of Coleoptera: a millennium view; Canada, including the Biological Survey, the Heteroptera Society: Contributions of Thomas R. Yonke to Hemipterology in collaboration with Société d’entomologie du Québec, the Associa- his students and colleagues; Why is the Insecta so tion des entomologistes amateurs du Québec, diverse and species rich: a phylogenetic perspec- the Insectarium de Montréal, the Biodome de tive; Aquatic insect studies: old questions, new Montréal, and the Cooperation Entomofaune tools; Arthropods of grasslands: current status du Québec. and future directions; International Society of The Biological Survey showed a general Hymenopterists; The science of entomology: a poster at the ESC booth, displayed selected view of the past and lessons for the future; Pro- publications, and made available leaflets about tecting and promoting our pollinators. the Survey, as well as its for-sale and free-of- Many other symposia, formal and informal confer- charge publications. ences, typically convened (like those above) by The program was so diverse that a sum- American and Canadian coorganizers. mary of individual titles of interest would be ex- Submitted papers, grouped by the ESA sections: tremely long. However, presentations by Cana- Systematics, morphology and evolution; Physi- dian entomologists on systematics and related ology, biochemistry, toxicology, and molecular themes included the following titles: 2 Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) Ascid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of soil and adja- Generic relationships of the subfamily cent habitats in lowland tropical rainforest of La Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). S. Selva, Costa Rica: An example of underesti- Brooks mated acarine biodiversity. E. Lindquist Supercooling capacity and survival of low tempera- Patterns of diversity in the Ceratozetoidea (Acari: tures by a pyrethroid-resistant strain of Oribatida): A global assessment. V. Typhlodromus pyri Scheuten (Acari: Behan-Pelletier Phytoseiidae). D. Moreau and J. Hardman Mites on a rampage: Exploration of arboreal sus- Realized host range assessment of European pended soils in ancient rainforests. N. Winches- Peristenus species. H. White and U. Kuhlmann ter Psithyrus invasions of bumblebee field colonies. L. What’s on the Horizon?: Coleopteran systematics Pelletier and J. McNeil st in the 21 Century. R. Anderson Differential dispersal and resource partitioning ex- Water balance in insects dormant for the winter. H. plain the coexistence of competing parasitoid Danks species. B. Van Hezewijk and J. Roland. Modeling gypsy moth diapause: The key to a geo- Insect succession on pig carrion in Manitoba. G. graphically robust phenology? D. Gray Gill, T. Galloway and G. Anderson Grasshopper seasonality in the Northern Great The pollination ecology of cloudberry (Rubus Plains. D. Johnson chamaemorus). A. Brown and J. McNeil The stability of gypsy moth seasonality in coastal After the 1998 ice storm: Temporal and spatial re- British Columbia: A study of persistence. J. sponses by a scolytid and its associated preda- Régnière tors. K. Ryall and S. Smith Phylogeny of the Papilio machaon species group: Does forest fragmentation affect the lepidopteran Are P. joanae and P. brevicauda hybrid species? host assemblages of forest tent caterpillar A. Mitchell and F. Sperling parasitoids? C. Schmidt and J. Roland Biological assessment of the link between mito- Biodiversity of Torymus (Hymenoptera: chondrial DNA sequences, Dioryctria morphol- Torymidae) associated with galls of Diplolepis ogy and larval host. F. Sperling, G. Roux, N. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in western vs. eastern Rappaport, J. Stein and G. Grant Canada. S. Rempel and J. Shorthouse Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Thricops Implications of spruce budworm management for Rondani and the status of Alloeostylus Schnabl the ecological diversity of moths and carabid (Diptera: Muscidae). J. Savage beetles in the boreal forest. C. Wytrykush and A taxonomic revision of North American members N. Holliday of Gyretes Brullé (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae), North Large-scale population genetic structure of an al- of Mexico. J. Babin and Y. Alarie pine butterfly: Effects of landscape, dispersal, Cladistics of the Tryphoninae (Hymenoptera: and population history. N. Keyghobadi, J. Ichneumonidae) with comments on tribal rela- Roland and C. Strobeck tionships, classification and adaptive radiation. Flying beetle biodiversity and the effect of inte- A. Bennett grated pest management in mature northern Inte- The higher Diptera community of sedge meadows rior Douglas-fir, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae. S. (Carex: Cyperaceae) in southern Quebec. F. Carson Beaulieu Comparison of arthropod abundance, diversity and The use of molecules and morphology in delineat- trophic richness within intercropped agroforesty ing bumble bee species. T. Whidden and monoculture