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2019 AKES Newsletter posted

Posted on 27.Mar.2019 by Matt Bowser

The 2019 issue of the Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society has been posted at the URI below.

http://www.akentsoc.org/newsletter-php/newsletter-v12-n1

Posted in Exotics, Freshwater arthropods, Lepidoptera, News, Publications

Assessment and application of DNA metabarcoding for characterizing arctic shorebird chick diets

Posted on 13.Feb.2019 by Matt Bowser

In this master’s thesis the author documents the arthropods consumed by Alaskan shorebirds.

https://search.proquest.com/docview/2173878458

Posted in Freshwater arthropods, News, Publications

First records of Baetis vernus Curtis (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) in North America, with morphological notes

Posted on 12.Feb.2019 by Matt Bowser

The species group covered in this article pertains to the Alaskan fauna. The article appeared in December in the Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia.

https://journal.entsocbc.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/999

Posted in Freshwater arthropods, News, Publications

Corrections for the Hemiptera: Heteroptera of Canada and Alaska

Posted on 12.Feb.2019 by Matt Bowser

The article appeared in December in the Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia.

https://journal.entsocbc.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1000

Posted in Freshwater arthropods, News, Publications

The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods

Posted on 25.Jan.2019 by Matt Bowser

This special issue appeared on January 24 in ZooKeys.

https://zookeys.pensoft.net/issue/1251/

Posted in Exotics, Freshwater arthropods, Lepidoptera, News, Publications

Extremely low genetic diversity in a circumpolar dragonfly species, Somatochlora sahlbergi (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera)

Posted on 16.Oct.2018 by Matt Bowser

Larva of S. sahlbergi. Image from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32365-7.

This article appeared October 11 in Scientific Reports.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32365-7

 

Posted in Freshwater arthropods, News, Publications

Cladotanytarsus crassus, a new North American non-biting midge with a distinctive hypopygial digitus (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Posted on 1.Oct.2018 by Matt Bowser

This article appeared recently in the Polish Journal of Entomology and includes records of the genus in Alaska.

http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjen-2018-0017

Posted in Freshwater arthropods, News, Publications

Riparian defoliation by the invasive green alder sawfly influences terrestrial prey subsidies to salmon streams

Posted on 12.Jun.2018 by Matt Bowser

Seasonal pattern of terrestrial prey subsidies in Southcentral Alaska streams. Part of Figure 5 from Roon et al. (2018).

Seasonal pattern of terrestrial prey subsidies in Southcentral Alaska streams. Part of Figure 5 from Roon et al. (2018).

The article (URI below) appeared on June 11, 2018 in the journal Ecology of Freshwater Fish.

https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12407

Posted in Exotics, Freshwater arthropods, News, Publications

Nearctic Nemoura trispinosa Claassen, 1923 and N. rickeri Jewett, 1971 are junior synonyms of Holarctic Nemoura species (Plecoptera: Nemouridae)

Posted on 3.Apr.2018 by Matt Bowser

The article appeared on April 2 in the journal Illiesia.  The authors found Nearctic Nemoura rickeri to be a junior synonym of Nemoura sahlbergi, which affects Alaskan specimens.

http://illiesia.speciesfile.org/papers/Illiesia14-3.pdf

Posted in Freshwater arthropods

Diura washingtoniana (Hanson) resurrected from synonymy with D. nanseni (Kempny) (Plecoptera: Perlodidae), supplemented with a description of the larva and egg and comparison to other congeners

Posted on 9.Mar.2018 by Matt Bowser

Even though this article does not cite any Alaskan specimens, it is pertinent to the Canadian and Alaskan members of the genus.

http://illiesia.speciesfile.org/papers/Illiesia14-1.pdf

Posted in Freshwater arthropods, News

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