The 2019 issue of the Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society has been posted at the URI below.
Category Archives: Freshwater arthropods
Assessment and application of DNA metabarcoding for characterizing arctic shorebird chick diets
In this master’s thesis the author documents the arthropods consumed by Alaskan shorebirds.
First records of Baetis vernus Curtis (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) in North America, with morphological notes
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
Corrections for the Hemiptera: Heteroptera of Canada and Alaska
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
The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods
This special issue appeared on January 24 in ZooKeys.
Extremely low genetic diversity in a circumpolar dragonfly species, Somatochlora sahlbergi (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera)
Cladotanytarsus crassus, a new North American non-biting midge with a distinctive hypopygial digitus (Diptera: Chironomidae)
Riparian defoliation by the invasive green alder sawfly influences terrestrial prey subsidies to salmon streams
![Seasonal pattern of terrestrial prey subsidies in Southcentral Alaska streams. Part of Figure 5 from Roon et al. (2018).](http://www.akentsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Roon_et_al_2018_fig5b-300x197.jpg)
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.
Nearctic Nemoura trispinosa Claassen, 1923 and N. rickeri Jewett, 1971 are junior synonyms of Holarctic Nemoura species (Plecoptera: Nemouridae)
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.
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
Even though this article does not cite any Alaskan specimens, it is pertinent to the Canadian and Alaskan members of the genus.