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 A5400

Austin, TX  78712

 

  

You can see the effect a box of beetles has on me!

 

 

 

 

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.

Haliplus solitarius Sharp 1882

 

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 2009NEW!!

NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2008

NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2007

NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2006

NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2005

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’s 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/
 
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 2009 NEW!!

NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2008

NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2007

NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2006

NABS COLEOPTERA BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2005


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@emg.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/

Anders Nilsson homepage  http://www.emg.umu.se/projects/biginst/andersn/

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/projects/biginst/andersn/WCN/wcn_index.htm


Water Beetles of Florida

by John Epler

is now available in its entirity on the web at: http://www.floridadep.org/labs/cgi-bin/sbio/keys.asp#keys Additions and corrections are available from John's website at http://home.comcast.net/~johnepler3/index.html. 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.


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.


From ANDRES MILLAN SANCHEZ:

acmillan@fcu.um.es

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://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sbrc/sbrc05.htm

Dytiscus marginalis

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 1 December 2008