May, 2002

Events and Travel

• Brian Brown and Giar-Ann Kung spent three weeks in March in Bolivia collecting phorid flies in collaboration with other dipterists from the U.S. National Museum.

• Chuck Bellamy and Section associate Rick Westcott re-discovered the very rare buprestid beetle Acmaeodera horni in the Santa Catalina mountains near Tucson, Arizona in late April.

• Roy Snelling spent three months in Kenya collecting for the Section.

Donations

• In early February, the Benjamin H. Landing collection of Lepidoptera and a large library of books on butterflies and moths was donated to the Section. Re-labelling and curation is underway.  The library is being inventoried for accession and duplicate volumes will be offered for sale through a local dealer with all proceeds going to the Section's general accounts.

• On June 25, the collection of Dr. Harry Biehl was donated to the museum by his nephews Bert and Bob England. The collection is currently being fumigated prior to accession and curation.

Visitors to the Section

• Dr. John Brown, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, c/o Entomology, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

• Dr. Henry Hespenheide, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles

• Dr. John Lawrence, retired from Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

• Dr. M. Malipatil, Agriculture Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

• Dr. M. Alma Solis, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, c/o Entomology, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

• Dr. Nathan Schiff, USDA-Forest Service, Southern Hardwoods Laboratory, Stoneville, Mississippi

• Richard L. Westcott, retired, Plant Divison, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Salem, Oregon

New Research Publications

• Barker, S. and C. L. Bellamy. 2001. Stanwatkinsius, a new genus of Australian jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae) with a key to known species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 125(1):1-14.

• Bellamy, C. L. and M. Peterson. 2000a. Contributions to the taxonomy of Australian Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Part I: New synonymy, combinations, and names. Folia Heyrovskiana 8(2):73-100.

• Bellamy, C. L. and M. Peterson. 2000b. Contributions to the taxonomy of Australian Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Part II: Three new species and a new coraebine generic member of the Australian fauna. Folia Heyrovskiana 8(2):101-108.

• Bellamy, C. L. 2000. Buprestidae (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), pp. 185-191. In: Kirk-Spriggs, A. H. & Marais, E. (eds). Dâures - biodiversity of the

• Brandberg Massif, Namibia. Cimbebasia Memoir 9, National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek, 1-389 pp.

• Bellamy, C. L. 2001. Case 3149. Proposed conservation of 31 species-group names originally published as junior primary homonyms in Buprestis Linnaeus, 1758  (Insecta, Coleoptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 58(1):24-31.

• Brown, B.V. 2000. Diversity of flies, gnats and mosquitoes. Pp. 815-826, in S.A. Levin (editor). Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, volume 2. Academic Press.

• Brown, B.V. 2000. Insects, overview. Pp. 479-484, in S.A. Levin (editor). Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, volume 3. Academic Press.

• Currie, D.C., D. Giberson and B.V. Brown. 2000. Insects of Keewatin and Mackenzie. Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods). 19: 48-51.

• Kung, G. and B.V. Brown. 2000. The patterned-wing species of Coniceromyia (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science 484: 1-10.

• Kung, G. and B.V. Brown. 2000. Two new species of Coniceromyia from South America. Studia dipterologica 7: 83-86.

• Peterson, M. and C. L. Bellamy. 2000. Contributions to the taxonomy of Australian Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Part III: A new genus and species of buprestid from Queensland and comments about its placement. Folia Heyrovskiana 8(2):127-132.