The CIE, issued twice a year (no subscription costs
but donations to help with photocopying/mailing costs are
welcomed),
was begun in 1968 as a newsletter to facilitate communication between
workers interested in Ceratopogonidae. The format
is extremely flexible. Contributions may be of
any length and deal with any subject having some
bearing on the study of
ceratopogonids. For example, contributors
may report their current interests or plans, observations or techniques
of probable
value to the readership, requests for addresses, study material
or reprints, or any other matter of concern. The
newsletter
serves also as a bulletin for planning and communicating
information on meetings, symposia, workshops and so forth.
Finally,
there is in every issue a compilation
of recent literature in the field.
Any
person(s) wishing to contribute to the newsletter or to receive future
issues via e-mail should contact
:
Dr. C. Steven
Murphree e-mail: murphrees@mail.belmont.edu
Department of Biology Phone: 615-460-6221
CIE
Vol. 74 - December 2004 The Ceratopogonidae Information Exchange
Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to again express my thanks to those researchers
who have submitted contributions for this issue of CIE.
Since the May issue I have been able to assist colleagues with
questions as well as direct others who have e-mailed me
from the website to CIE subscribers for assistance. Many thanks to
individuals like Bill Grogan and Art Borkent who
have devoted time to educating others about ceratopogonids in this way.
With kind regards and best wishes for 2005,
Steve Murphree
1. . Postdoctoral
Position Available
-From Dr. Walter Tabachnick:
I would appreciate if you would alert appropriate candidates
to an available Postdoctoral Position in my laboratory
at the University of Florida's Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in
Vero Beach.
This position will
study the genetics and environmental parameters that influence
vector competence of several species
of Culex for West Nile virus. The work will provide experience
in genetics, molecular biology and arbovirology in
collaboration with several FMEL faculty. This is part of a
multidisciplinary program involving field and laboratory
work on WN epidemiology in Florida.
Please have
candidates send me a letter of application, graduate transcripts,
resume,
and three letters of reference.
Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.
Walter J. Tabachnick, Ph.D.
Director, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
Professor of Entomology and Nematology
University of Florida - IFAS
200 9th St, SE
Vero Beach, FL 32962
Tel. (772)778-7200 ext. 124
Fax: (772)778-7205
http://fmel.ifas.ufl.edu
FMEL Encephalitis Information System (EIS)
http://eis.ifas.ufl.edu/
New CIE Subscribers/Address Changes:
|
New Subscribers: Dr. George Poinar |
Address Changes: Dr Alison Blackwell
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Contributions
from
Ceratopogonid Scientists:
Dr. Daniel V. Hagan, Ph.D.
dhagan@GeorgiaSouthern.edu
Professor of Biology
www.GeorgiaSouthern.edu/~dhagan
Georgia Southern University
I want to pass on a note about a work published July 2004 in
Entomologica Fennica that may be of interest to Dipterists.
Karl H. Thunes*, John Skartveit, Ivar Gjerde, Josef Stary, Torstein
Solhψy, Arne Fjellberg, Sverre Kobro, Sueo Nakahara,
Richard zur Strassen, Gijsbertus Vierbergen, Ryszard Szadziewski,
Daniel V. Hagan,William L. Grogan Jr., Terje Jonassen,
Kjetil Aakra, Johannes Anonby, Lita Greve, Berend Aukema, Kai Heller,
Verner Michelsen, Jean-Paul Haenni, Alexandr F.
Emeljanov, Per Douwes, Kai Berggren, Jutta Franzen, R. Henry L. Disney,
Sabine Prescher, Kjell A. Johanson, Boris
Mamaev, Sigitas Podenas, Stig Andersen, Stephen D. Gaimari, Emilia
Nartshuk, Geir E. E. Sψli, Laszlo Papp, Fred Midtgaard,
Arild Andersen, Michael von Tschirnhaus, Gerhard Bδchli, KjellM. Olsen,
Hans Olsvik, Mihαly Fφldvαri, Jan E. Raastad, Lars
O. Hansen & Per Djursvoll. 2004: The arthropod community
of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) canopies in Norway.—
Entomol. Fennica 15: 65–90.
Abstract: We summarise the findings of arthropods collected by
fogging the canopy of 24 pine trees in two sites in Eastern
and Western Norway. From the samples, taken in 1998 and in 1999, almost
30,000 specimens were determined to 512
species, with Diptera being most species rich (210 species),
followed by Coleoptera (76 species) and Araneae (49 species).
Of the 96 new species records, nine were new to science (5 Diptera and
4 Oribatida), two were new to the European, three
to the Scandinavian and 82 to the Norwegian faunas. The paper
demonstrates the need for detailed faunistical inventories of
European forests.
It may be particularly remarkable to dipterists that seventy-eight of
the 210 dipterous species (37.1%) were new to the
Norwegian fauna. Of these, five were new to Scandinavia, one new to
Europe and five new to science. Among the Diptera,
the families Ceratopogonidae and Phoridae showed an extraordinary high
number of new faunistical records. Of the 78 new
records, 44 were ceratopogonids (56.4%), including two species new to
science. Rysgard Szadziewski, William L. Grogan
Jr., and I worked on the ceratopogonid component of the Diptera.
The work is available (downloadable) as a “.pdf” file at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~dhagan/EntomologFen.July04.pdf
Best regards,
Dan Hagan
Art
Borkent
e-mail: aborkent@jetstream.net
Salmon Arm, British Columbia
Canada
This notice is to let all my colleagues know that I will be off on a 9
month sabbatical from Sept. 21 to June 30, 2005 and
largely incommunicado during that time. I plan to spend 3 months in
Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua and
Guatemala) followed by 6 months on Hornby Island off the west coast of
British Columbia to write, write and write,
without any distractions. I'll look forward to renewed contact with
many of you when I return!
The following have been recently published:
Spinelli, G.R. and A. Borkent. 2004. A new species and first
record of Forcipomyia (Schizoforcipomyia) Chan and
LeRoux from the Neotropical Region (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 572:1-8. This paper freely available
at
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/
Borkent, A. and D.A. Craig. 2004. Austroconops Wirth and Lee,
a Lower Cretaceous genus of biting midges yet living
in Western Australia: a new species, first
description of the immatures and discussion of their biology and
phylogeny
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). American Museum
Novitates 3449: 1-67.
Borkent, A. and A. Picado. 2004. Distinctive new species of Atrichopogon
Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from
Costa Rica. Zootaxa 637:1-68. This paper
freely available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/
Blackwell, A. 2004. A morphological
investigation of Culicoides spp. biting midges (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae) from
the Caribbean. Journal of Vector Ecology
29(1): 51-61.
Borkent, A. and D. A. Craig. 2004. Austroconops
Wirth and Lee, a lower cretaceous genus of biting midges yet
living in western Australia: a new species, first
description of the immatures and discussion of their biology and
phylogeny
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). American Museum
Novitates 3449: 1-67.
Borkent, A. and A. Picado. 2004. Distinctive new species of Atrichopogon
Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from
Costa Rica. Zootaxa 637: 1-68.
Grogan, W. L., Spinelli, G. R., Phillips, R.A. and D. L. Woodward.
2004. The male of Culicoides reevesi Wirth,
with a redescription of the female and new seasonal
activity, distribution, and biting records (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae)
Western North American Naturalist
64(4):433-438.
Marino, P. I. and G. R. Spinelli. 2004. Descriptions of the
Patagonian species of the subgenus Trichohelea of
Forcipomyia, with a key to the Neotropical
species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Journal of Natural History
38(17): 2251-2262.
Marino, P. I. and G. R. Spinelli. 2004. Further notes on
the subgenus Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) from Argentinean
patagonia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Transactions
of the American Entomological Society (Philadelphia) 130(1):
147-154.
Perruolo, G.L. 2004. Nueva especie de Culicoides
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), de la region Andina, Venezuela. Boletin
de malariologia y Saneamiento Ambiental XLI (1
&2).
Ritchie, A., Blackwell, A., Malloch, G. and B. Fenton. 2004.
Heterogeneity of ITS1 sequences in the biting midge
Culicoides impunctatus (Goetghebuer) suggests a
population in Argyll, Scotland, may be genetically distinct. Genome
47(3): 546-558.
Spinelli, G. R. and A. Borkent. 2004. A new species and first
record of the subgenus Forcipomyia (Schizoforcipomyia)
Chan & LeRoux from the Neotropical Region
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Zootaxa 572:1-8.
Spinelli, G. R. and C. G. Cazorla. 2004. A new species of Brachypogon
(Isohelea) from arid zones of Argentina (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 570: 1-6.
Spinelli, G. R. and C. G. Cazorla. 2004. New findings
of species of the tribe Palpomyiini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in
Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica
Argentina 62(3-4): 46-48.
Szadziewski, R. and A. Borkent. 2003. New synonyms, combinations
and records of biting midges (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne
72(3):249-260.
Szadziewski, R. and A. Arillo. 2003. The oldest fossil record
of the extant subgenus Leptoconops (Leptoconops)
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Acta Zoologica
Cracoviensia 46 (Oct.): 271-275.
Distribution and Development in Lithuania. Ph.D.
Dissertation. Institute of Ecology, Vilnius University. [thanks
to Larry Hribar for providing this citation-ed]
Ceratopogonidae) to light-emitting diodes. Australian
Journal of Entomology 43(Part 2): 184-188.
Bishop A. L., Spohr L. J. and I. M. Barchia. 2004. Effects
of altitude, distance and waves of movement on the dispersal in
Australia of the arbovirus vector, Culicoides
brevitarsis Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Preventative
Veterinary
Medicine 65(3-4):135-45.
Blackwell, A. and S. J. Page. 2003. Biting midges and
tourism in Scotland. Managing Tourist Health and Safety in the New
Millennium. Advances in Tourism Research:177-196.
Burian, S.K. 1985. An analysis of the benthic
macroinvertebrate community of a fluctuating river-reservoir zone in
middle
Tennessee. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of
Science 60:
79-84. [many thanks to Larry Hribar for finding this citation
referencing Ceratopogonidae not previously included
in CIE – ed]
Campbell, C. L., Mummey, D. L., Schmidtmann, E. T. and W. C. Wilson.
2004. Culture-independent analysis of midgut
microbiota in the arbovirus vector Culicoides
sonorensis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Journal of Medical
Entomology
41(3):340-348.
Cetre-Sossah, C., Baldet, T., Delecolle, J.C., Mathieu, B., Perrin, A.,
Grillet, C. and E. Albina. 2004. Molecular
detection of Culicoides spp. and Culicoides
imicola, the principal vector of bluetongue (BT) and African horse
sickness (AHS) in
Africa and Europe. Veterinary
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Cushman, R.M., P.J. Franco, J.C. Goyer, & P.A. Lesslie. 1986.
Production ecology of invertebrates in small experimental
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Hribar, L. J., Vlach, J. J., DeMay, D. J., James, S. S., Fahey, J. S.
and E. M. Fussell. 2004. Mosquito larvae (Culicidae) and
other Diptera associated with containers, storm
drains, and sewage treatment plants in the Florida Keys, Monroe County,
Florida. Florida Entomologist 87(2):
199-203. [Dasyhelea pseudoincisurata Waugh and Wirth is reported
as very common
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Langner, K. F., Greiser-Wilke, I., Schlote, S., Heselhaus, J. and W.
Leibold. 2004. Isolation and initial characterization
of a protein from Culicoides nubeculosus
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Mraz, R. and I. Orszagh. 1998. Biting midges of the genus Culicoides
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Paradise, C.J. 2004. Relationship of water and leaf litter
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Podlipaev, S., Votypka, J., Jirku, M., Svobodova, M. and J.
Lukes. 2004. Herpetomonas ztiplika n. sp.
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Richardson, M. 2004. Causes and effective management of
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Thunes, K.H., Skartveit, J., Gjerde, I., Star, J., Solhoy,
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W.L., Jonassen, T., Aakra, K., Anonby, J., Greve, L., Aukema, B.,
Heller, K., Michelsen, V., Haenni, J.-P., Emeljanov,
A.F., Douwes, P., Berggren, K., Franzen, J., Disney, R.H.L.,
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S., Andersen, S., Gaimari, S.D., Nartshuk, E., Soli, G.E.E.,
Papp, L., Midtgaard, F., Andersen, A., von
Tschirnhaus, M., Bachli, G., Olsen, K.M., Olsvik, H., Foldvari, M.,
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Unkles, S. E., Marriott C., Kinghorn, J. R., Panter C. and A.
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Butan, C., van der Zandt, H. and P. A. Tucker. 2004. Structure and assembly of the RNA binding domain of bluetongue
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