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December 31 Deadline for Matching Gift to Honor Sturgis McKeever
This fall I
received a letter from Dr. Stephen Vives,
Chair of the Department of Biology at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Vives indicated that an anonymous
donor had offered $10,000
USD in matching funds for any contributions to honor Dr. Sturgis McKeever that are
received prior
to
will support the activities of the
GSU Biology Department. Subscribers will
recall reading Dr. McKeever’s obituary in
the May,
2002 CIE issue and that Dr.
McKeever was a regular
participant at the annual Biting Fly Workshop.
Those who wish to make contributions should make checks payable
to the
Georgia
Southern University Foundation and indicate the Biology Department Fund
in your letter to:
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Contribution from Art Borkent
aborkent@jetstream.net
Salmon
The Genus Austroconops - Immatures and the Discovery of a Second Species
In a previous CIE
(Vol. 68: Nov. 2001) I described an expedition to
previously unknown immatures. Since that report there have been some
exciting developments. Firstly, I have
recognized a second undescribed species,
which
is quite
similar to A. mcmillani but with a
few
distinct features. While in
carried back to
instars. The
fourth instars of the unnamed species failed to thrive and slowly but
surely
died off. Those of A. mcmillani also petered out but when only two
last
larvae were left alive in a petri dish,
one of these
developed a swollen thorax and 2 days later successfully pupated and
made it
through to the male adult.
I therefore
have a beautiful pupal exuvia
of A. mcmillani in the bag (OK, in
the vial)!
During the first week of
September, I
travelled to
of
species.
The eggs appeared to be covered with a thin layer of “goop”
which meant
that the SEM shots of those were poor.
I
plan to complete my study of the genus this winter and hopefully ceratopogonid workers will see the results
sometime in
2003!
5th
International Congress of Dipterology
This Congress, held every
four years,
took place in
variety of talks were
given. Anyone who wants to survey the
titles can see these, as well as other information, at the Congress
website: http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/dipterol/diptconf.html
There were a few ceratopogonid
workers who attended and, allthough there
was no
formal workshop, there were a number of huddles to discuss
some of our
work. To my knowledge the following were
present: Doug Kettle, Alan Dyce, Dan
Hagan, Daniel
Kline, Marlene Elson-Harris, Art Borkent.
Catalog of the Nearctic Ceratopogonidae
in Press - by Art Borkent
and William
L. Grogan
Some of you may be pleased
to learn
that next year a new Nearctic Ceratopogonidae
will be published as part of a Myia
volume. The
catalog is similar
in format and content to that of Wirth (1965) and therefore
includes distributions and a reference to the latest taxonomic
information for
each group. There
are currently exactly
600 species recognized from
Fauna Europaea
- by Art Borkent
and Ryszard Szadziewski
The Europeans have
organized an
inventory of the species living in their area and are constructing a
database
indicating the distribution of each species.
Details may be seen at the following website: http://www.faunaeur.org . An inhouse list
of
species of Ceratopogonidae has been
completed and we
are
currently working on finishing the distributional data (country by
country,
with some being further divided). The
project is slated to be completed by
March 1, 2003
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Contribution from Professor
Doug S. Kettle
dkettle@acenet.net.au
In October,
Doug Kettle
informed me that he intends to dispose of the remaining reprints that
he has of
my own publications (these are in addition to
those he gave to the University of
Queensland Entomology Department some years ago). With
this notice of availability and the list below, the “clock
begins ticking” as
it were. Doug intends to give CIE
subscribers time to respond then recycle those remaining.
Doug
also contributes the following concerning the 5th International
Congress of Dipterology held Sept. 29- Oct. 4:
The Dipterology
Congress was most enjoyable and well attended with around 250
participants and
it was a pleasure to catch up with old friends some
of whom I not met for a
long time. The organisers can justifiably feel proud of their
achievement. It
bodes well for the International Congress of
Entomology due to be held in
LIST OF
AVAILABLE REPRINTS BY D.S. KETTLE
In multi-author papers the first author
is denoted by an asterisk (*) when that is not DSK.
(1969) The biting habits
of some
Bulletin of
Entomological Research 58:
729-753. With J.R. Linley.
(1975)
The
immature stages of Paradasyhelea minuta Wirth and Lee with a
note on adult antennal sensilla and a
discussion on the relationships
of the genus
Paradasyhelea
Macfie. Journal
of the Australian Entomological Society 14:
255-261. With M.M. Elson.
(1976)
Marking
of adult Culicoides brevitarsis Kieffer (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae). Journal
of the Australian Entomological Society 14:
383-386.
With M.M. Campbell*.
(1976)
Sugar
feeding and longevity in Culicoides brevitarsis Kieffer (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae) in the laboratory. Journal of the Australian
Entomological
Society 14: 333-337. With
M.M. Campbell*.
(1979)
Distribution
of Culicoides molestus (Skuse)
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
in
man-made canals in south-eastern
of Marine and Freshwater Research 30: 653-660. With E.J. Reye and P.B. Edwards*.
(1980)
Descriptions
of four pupae of Australian Culicoides Latreille
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae).
Journal of the Australian Entomological
Society
19: 11-18. With M.M. Elson.
(1983)
The bionomics of Culicoides brevitarsis.
(1990)
March
flies (Diptera: Tabanidae)
at Clairview,
(1991) The
effect of environmental factors on the distribution of immature Culex annulirostris Skuse (Diptera:
Culicidae). Australian
Entomological
Magazine 18:
65-69. With P. Mottram
and B.H.
Kay.
(1996)
The
Scottish midge, Culicoides impunctatus Goetghebuer
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae).
An early attempt (1945-1958) to control this
intractable
pest. Memoirs of the Entomological
Society of
(1998)
Factors affecting numbers of Culicoides
in
truck traps in coastal
Edwards and A. Barnes.
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Contribution from Jean-Claude Delecolle jean-claude.delecolle@zool-ulp.u-strasbg.fr
Dear
Colleagues,
Just a short message to
give you the location of a website(http://blue-tongue.cirad.fr/Index.html)
devoted to bluetongue disease in
Southern France
Best
regards,
Jean-Claude Delecolle, jean-claude.delecolle@zool-ulp.u-strasbg.fr
Stephane de
La Rocque, stephane.delarocque@cirad.fr
Bruno Mathieu, bmathieu@eid-med.org
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Contribution
from Bill Grogan
wlgrogan@salisbury.edu
Colleagues,
Below is a list of Ceratopogonidae collected by sweeping vegetation
during the
Biting Fly Workshop held in
Tennessee
County
phenol-balsam and in my synoptic collection.
Regards to all,
Bill Grogan
Subfamily Forcipomyinae
Atrichopogon minutus (Meigen)
Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) fairfaxensis Wirth
Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) dubiamima Wirth
& Spinelli
Subfamily Dasyheleinae
Dasyhelea grisea (Coquillett)
Subfamily Ceratopogoninae
Tribe Culicoidini
Culicoides venustus Hoffman
Tribe Ceratopogonini
Brachypogon canadensis Downes
Downeshelea stonei (Wirth)
Stilobezzia antennalis (Coquillett)
Stilobezzia lutea (Malloch)
Tribe Sphaeromiini
Mallochohelea atripes Wirth
Tribe Palpomyiini
Bezzia (Pseudobezzia) sp. (undescribed)
Palpomyia weemsi Grogan & Wirth
Palpomyia walteri Grogan & Wirth
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