Water Beetle World - the newsletter for aquatic Coleoptera workers.
Sharon Knight
Jasper, Ph.D.
The University of
Texas at Austin
School of Biological
Sciences
1 University Station
A6500
Austin, TX 78712-0182
You can see the
effect a box of beetles has on me!
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Water Beetle World (WBW) is a newsletter for world-wide water beetle workers (WWWBW). Say that fast 3 times! This is not intended to be a scientific journal but more of a news room where our activities can be shared, where we can look for help with sticky problems, where we can announce our publications, and much more. It will be up to you, the WWWBW, to decide. My name is Sharon Jasper and I work on Haliplidae. As the editor of this newsletter, I hope you will support its continuation with your contributions - not of money - but of your news, photos, images, species checklists, etc. |
Please contribute your news, help requests, photos, etc., to make WBW more useful for everyone!
If you would like to have your e-mail address included on my beetle worker list so that you will be notified when I make additions to Water Beetle World, please send me a message.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions
for Water Beetle World, or like most folks, I love a nice comment. If you need
to contact me quickly or ask a question, please use e-mail.
I would appreciate receiving copies of all papers on Haliplidae, all papers on North American, including Mexican, water beetles, and all papers on the ecology of water beetles. For the rest, I would appreciate receiving citations in an e-mail message or attachment to an e-mail. Please send them to sjasper@mail.utexas.edu.
CONTENTS
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CALL FOR NEWS
Water Beetles of South Carolina
A "can't-do-without" book on Nearctic dytiscids!!
SOME HELPFUL PUBLICATIONS FROM OHIO BIOLOGICAL SURVEY
AQUATIC COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY
NEW!! NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2006 NEW!!
NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2005
NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2004
NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2003
NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2002
NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2001
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE IMMATURE STAGES OF HYDROPHILOIDEA
The Balfour-Browne Club 1998 meeting news (with photos)
1993 Hydradephagan Meeting in Waleska, Georgia
Water Beetles of Florida
NEARCTICA - The Natural World of N. America
Nuisance Aquatic Insects from Ohio State Univ.
Noteridae - Checklist of Genera of the US, US Territories, and Canada
NEW!! New World Catalog of Noteridae from Anders Nilsson NEW!!
From the late Warren U. Brigham
From ANDRES MILLAN SANCHEZ
PHOTOS OF BEETLES
A QUOTE FOR ENTOMOLOGISTS
Andrew Short’Äôs
Hydrophiloidea website - a great resource!
http://www.hydrophiloidea.org/home.html
Ciegler, J. C., 2003. Water Beetles of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae, Hydraenidae, Scirtidae, Elmidae, Dryopidae, Limnichidae, Heteroceridae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae, and Chelonariidae). Biota of South Carolina, Volume 3. Clemson University, Clemson, S. C. 207 pp.
A faunal survey of fourteen families of water beetles of South Carolina is presented. Keys, brief descriptions, photographs, and drawings are provided to aid in identifying the 374 species, including terrestrial members of those families, that have been found or are likely to occur in South Carolina.
Costs $40.00 (incl. S/H). It may be
ordered online:
http://cufan.clemson.edu/olos/
Logon as GUEST and search the term "Biota".
Or send check payable to Clemson University to: Public Service Bulletin Room,
96 Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0129.
Larson, D.J., Alarie, Y. and Roughley, R.E. 2000. Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Neractic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. National Research Coucil of Canada Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 982 pp. ISBN 0-660-17967-9
64.95$ CAN, other countries 64.95$ US.
Order from:
http://www.monographs.nrc.ca
or go straight to the page for this title.
SOME HELPFUL PUBLICATIONS FROM OHIO BIOLOGICAL SURVEY
Aquatic Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of Northeastern Ohio by Eric G. Chapman 1998 $15.00
Studies on the Biology, Ecology, and Systematics of the Immature Stages of New World Hydrophiloidea by Miguel Archangelsky 1997 $25.00
AQUATIC COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY
I had to put the bibliography in two files so you will have to combine them after downloading. Instructions and hints for use are on the A-K page.
A-K
L-Z
NEW!! NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2006 NEW!!
NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2005
NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2004
NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2003
NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2002
NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2001
A BIBLIOGRAPHIC COMPILATION ON THE IMMATURE STAGES OF HYDROPHILOIDEA (INSECTA: COLEOPTERA)
By Miguel Archangelsky
KEY WORDS: Coleoptera, Hydrophiloidea, Hydrophilidae, Helophoridae, Epimetopidae, Georissidae, Hydrochidae,
Spercheidae, immature stages, larva, pupa, egg case, biology, ecology,
bibliography.
Palearctic Beetle Catalogue
From: Anders Nilsson <anders.nilsson@bmg.umu.se>
WORLD CATALOGUE OF INSECTS. Edited by M. Hansen & E. S. Nielsen. 25 x 17
cm. Hardback.
** Vol. 1: Hansen, M.: Hydraenidae. (Coleoptera.) 1998. 168 pages.ISBN
87-88757-27-7. DKK 290,00
** Vol. 2: Hansen: M.: Hydrophiloidea. (Coleoptera.) October 1999. 410 pages.
ISBN 87-88757-31-5. DKK 690,00
** Vol. 3: Nilsson, A.: Dytiscidae. (Coleoptera). 2001. 24 x 17 cm. 395 pages.
ISBN 87-888757-62-5. DKK 690,00.
** Vol. 4: Gielis: Pterophoroidea & Alucitidae. (Lepidoptera). 2003. 193
pages. ISBN 87.88757-68-4. DKK 320,-.
** Vol. 5: Baldizzone et al.: Coleophoridae. 2003. Approx. 200 pages. DKK 320,-
You can order these at http://www.apollobooks.com/pub2003-04.htm#WORLD%20CATALOGUE%20OF%20INSECTS
Anders Nilsson homepage http://www.bmg.umu.se/biginst/andersn/AN_ny.htm
A classification of the family Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) by Anders Nilsson: http://www.bmg.umu.se/biginst/andersn/Dyt_Clas.htm
Also, see a beetle image sent to us by Anders.
New World Catalogue of Noteridae
also from Anders Nilsson
is now available
via the Internet as a beta-version.
The address is: http://www.emg.umu.se/biginst/andersn/WCN/wcn_index.htm
The National Museum of Natural History
Aquatic Coleoptera Inventory
The National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institute) has posted a list of the aquatic Coleoptera at the museum. You can access the list at gopher://nmnhgoph.si.edu:70/11/.entomology/.coll/.beetle.
Be sure to read the introduction to the list for information on its contents.
Water Beetles of Florida
by John Epler
is now available in its entirity on the web at: http://home.earthlink.net/~johnepler/ Additions and corrections are available from John's website at also. Also available at the Florida Library are keys to many other groups in Florida, like dragonflies, damselflies, caddisflies, FW snails and clams, mites, and more. They are available as PDF files for downloading or printing. If you print them, you may need to adjust the percentage at which the page prints. For example, I found the dragonfly and damselfly pages printed well at aabout 120%, but I never could get the caddisfly pages to print small enough.
Water Beetles of Florida is again available in a printed format. For instructions, visit John's page above.
NEARCTICA - The Natural World of North America
This site contains a list of the 90,000 species known from the Nearctic region, along with links to all kinds of interesting stuff. It's a great site for scientists, educators, students, and anyone interested in natural history. It has sections and links for systematics, evolution, ecology, conservation and much more. Take a look!
Some neat stuff from the late Warren U. Brigham
- An image of Haliplus nitens.
- Also, visit a bibliography of over 7,000 aquatic beetle citations posted by Warren Brigham at the Illinois Natural History Survey. This bibliography has been of great use to me personally and I know to many of you also. However, Warren's bibliography is not being updated. Now all these citations (and more) are now on WBW. See above.
- Warren also posted taxonomic information of water beetles at his site.
A list of his papers and a list of water beetles from Segura River Basin.
PHOTOS
I have received some beautiful photos to post on Water Beetle World.
From Adrian Chalkley: A_C_Chalkley@compuserve.com
Adrian has a website that pusblishes the records of the Freshwater Invertebrate Survey of Suffolk, England. At the moment it includes Ephemeroptera, Heteroptera, Hirudinia and Cladocera, but will soon include his own Coleoptera records. See his site at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/A_C_Chalkley
Acilius sulcatus, a dry female, and the male tarsus with it's suckers and hooks.
And from Gerard Visser:
I am not a beetle specialist or biologist, just a pharmacist with far too
little spare time. I will send you some questions later.
As for now, maybe you like my picture of a female Dytiscus I caught in my
(little) pool May 1997. Photo with MicroNikkor 55mm, scanned with
Canoscan 2700F. Got some more pictures of water beetles and other
pond creatures (I'm interested in almost the whole pond world).
Gerard has also sent a photo of a Peltodytes larva.
Greetings from Gerard Visser, Almelo Holland
email: ApotheekAalderink@compuserve.com
Haliplid Photos by Jerry Watson of Maryland
4th International Conference on Classification, Phylogeny, and Natural History of Hydradephaga (Coleoptera)
17-20 August 1993
Waleska, Georgia, USA
Even though this meeting was a few (?) years back, I leave it up because there are some cool photos.
The Balfour-Browne Club
The Balfour-Browne Club is an organization in the United Kingdom of water beetle workers from everywhere. To learn more about this group, CLICK HERE.
View the Table of Contents of the 7th issue of their newsletter, Latissimus.
View the Table of Contents of the 8th issue of their newsletter, Latissimus.
View the Table of Contents of the 9th issue of their newsletter, Latissimus.
1998 meeting information, photos and lists.
My friend Mark Wetzel at the Illinois Natural History Survey sent me the following quote which is appropriate for all entomologists.
- "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze new problems, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- Robert A. Heinlein from "Time Enough For Love"
Last updated on 26 February 2007