2021 AKES Newsletter posted

Posted on May 11, 2021 by Matt Bowser

Assessment of the pinned specimen digitization progress of the University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection
Ashley L. Smith, Derek S. Sikes, Taylor L. Kane, Adam Haberski, Jayce B. Williamson, Renee K. Nowicki and Michael J. Apperson
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a01.pdf

Bugs in winter
John Hudson and Bob Armstrong
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a02.pdf

Notes on a collection of spiders from agricultural by-catch from the Matanuska-Susitna area of Alaska
Jozef Slowik
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a03.pdf

Pollination, pilfering, and predation in an orchid pollinator network in the Juneau area of Southeast Alaska
Marlin Bowles and Robert Armstrong
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a04.pdf

Review of the fourteenth annual meeting
Alexandria Wenninger and Dana Brennan
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a05.pdf

Carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Puget Sound Lowland Sphagnum bogs and some other small lentic wetlands

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Matt Bowser

The article, which appeared January 7 in Bulletin of the Oregon Entomological Society, mentions that Agonum belleri, though not yet documented from Alaska, is likely to be found in extreme southeast Alaska.

http://odonata.bogfoot.net/oes/OES_Bulletin_2020_Winter.pdf

First record of Scaphinotus hoodooensis from Idaho, first records of Scaphinotus regularis from Montana, review of the geography of species in subgenus Pseudonomaretus (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cychrini), with comments on the endemic forest invertebrate fauna of the Clearwater Refugium

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Matt Bowser

The article, which mentions mentions Scaphinotus marginatus in south-central Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. appeared January 7 in Bulletin of the Oregon Entomological Society.

http://odonata.bogfoot.net/oes/OES_Bulletin_2020_Winter.pdf

Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz – a pioneer naturalist and explorer of the Pacific Islands and Western North America

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Matt Bowser

The article, which appeared in Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, covers Eschscholtz’s travels to Alaska in the early 19^th century and the resulting discoveries.

https://journal.fi/msff/article/view/101267

Interior ecosystem in the subarctic: wild, living, arthropod biodiversity in the University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Matt Bowser

The article appeared October 26 in The Canadian Entomologist.

https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2020.56

Protura in arctic regions, with description of Mastodonentomon n. gen. (Acerentomidae, Nipponentominae) and a key to known arctic taxa

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Matt Bowser

The article appeared March 9 in the journal insects.

https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11030173

Towards conserving natural diversity: A biotic inventory by observations, specimens, DNA barcoding and high-throughput sequencing methods

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Matt Bowser

Species accumulation curves of phyla documented in the Slikok Creek watershed.

The article appeared today in Biodiversity Data Journal. The authors used high-throughput sequencing to document terrestrial invertebrate biodiversity in part of an Alaskan watershed.

https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e50124

Genetic variation in intraspecific populations of Rabdophaga rosaria (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) indicating possible diversification scenarios into sibling species along with host range expansion on willows (Salicaceae: Salix)

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Matt Bowser

The article appeared yesterday in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz179

Reexamination of Rhopalosiphum (Hemiptera: Aphididae) using linear discriminant analysis to determine the validity of synonymized species, with some new synonymies and distribution data

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Matt Bowser

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.

https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e49102

Are subcortical rove beetles truly Holarctic? An integrative taxonomic revision of north temperate Quedionuchus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Matt Bowser

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.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-019-00422-2

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