The agenda for the 2020 annual meeting on February 14-15 has been posted at the URL below.
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_meeting_agenda_15FEB2020.pdf
Author Archives: Matt Bowser
Reexamination of Rhopalosiphum (Hemiptera: Aphididae) using linear discriminant analysis to determine the validity of synonymized species, with some new synonymies and distribution data
The article appeared January 27 in Biodiversity Data Journal. It pertains to the identity of Rhopalosiphum padi, an aphid that is present in Alaska but not native to Alaska.
Are subcortical rove beetles truly Holarctic? An integrative taxonomic revision of north temperate Quedionuchus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
The article, which deals with multiple Alaskan species of rove beetles formerly in the genus Quedius, appeared December 10 in the journal Organisms Diversity & Evolution.
2020 annual meeting details
Our upcoming annual meeting will be held at the Alaska Botanical Garden in Anchorage on February 15th, 2020 (details below).
If you would like to present, please write to president@akentsoc.org.
The Alaska Botanical Garden address is provided below. Parking is in the Benny Benson Secondary School lot.
Assessment of North American arthropod collections: prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8086
The article, which appeared November 25 in the journal PeerJ, includes data from two Alaskan entomology collections.
New genera, species, and records of Trichogrammatidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
The article was published on November 15 in the journal Fragmenta entomologica. Among the new species described, one (Oligosita microciliata) occurs in Alaska.
http://www.fragmentaentomol.org/index.php/fragmenta/article/download/377/369
Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska
The article was published on September 6 in Zootaxa.
Integrative taxonomy of an arctic bumblebee species complex highlights a new cryptic species (Apidae: Bombus)
The article appeared on August 31 in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. The authors synonymized Bombus sylvicola with Bombus lapponicus and described Bombus (Pyrobombus) interacti sp. nov. from Alaska.
Phylogeny and biogeography of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Epeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and cophylogenetic analysis with its host bee genus Colletes (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)
The article is in press in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Moose and Their Flying Antagonists
The article appeared in the September 2019 issue of Alaska Fish & Wildlife News.
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=922