The April 2016 issue of the Newsletter of the Alaska Entomological Society is available via the link below.
Category Archives: Publications
A new species of Oeneis from Alaska, United States, with notes on the Oeneis chryxus complex (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
The article appeared yesterday in The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera.
http://lepidopteraresearchfoundation.org/journals/49/JRL_49_1_20.pdf
First Alaskan records and a significant northern range extension for two species of Diplura (Diplura, Campodeidae)
Appearing in the journal ZooKeys on 15.Feb.2016, this article includes an introductory review of soil microarthropod research in Alaska.
http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6404
Sikes DS, Allen RT (2016) First Alaskan records and a significant northern range extension for two species of Diplura (Diplura, Campodeidae). ZooKeys 563: 147-157. doi:10.3897/zookeys.563.6404
New and poorly known Holarctic species of Boletina Staeger, 1840 (Diptera, Mycetophilidae)
The article appeared in Biodiversity Data Journal on 18.Jan.2016.
ADN: Alaska’s late butterfly king leaves one more contribution: State’s first guide
Zaz Hollander wrote a nice article (URI below) for the Alaska Dispatch News on Ken Philip and his newly available book, Butterflies of Alaska, A Field Guide.
Climate oscillations, glacial refugia, and dispersal ability: factors influencing the genetic structure of the least salmonfly, Pteronarcella badia (Plecoptera), in Western North America
The article appeared in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. See the URI below.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0553-4
Sproul et al. 2015, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 A map showing the distribution of sample localities for P. badia across portions western North America. Clade membership (as identified in Fig. 4) for all specimens at a given locality is represented by color. Clade names are abbreviated as follows. Widespread (WS), Northern Rockies (NR), Western Great Basin (WGB), Pacific Northwest (PNW), Old Rio Grande (ORG), and Old Colorado Plateau (OCP)
Butterflies of Alaska, A Field Guide
Butterflies of Alaska, A Field Guide, title page.
Butterflies of Alaska, A Field Guide will soon be available for purchase. Details are available at the URI below.
http://www.akentsoc.org/documents/field-guide-to-alaska-butterflies
Repeated Reticulate Evolution in North American Papilio machaon Group Swallowtail Butterflies
Generalized range map of current distributions of the Papilio machaon species complex in North America.
The article appeared in the journal PLOS ONE on October 30.
URI:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141882
Citation:
Dupuis JR, Sperling FAH (2015) Repeated Reticulate Evolution in North American Papilio machaon Group Swallowtail Butterflies. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0141882. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141882
A review of Canadian and Alaskan species of the genera Clusiota Casey and Atheta Thomson, subgenus Microdota Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
The article appeared in the journal ZooKeys on September 30. See the article at the URI below.
Alaska freshwater crustacean news: crayfish reproducing in Alaska and a new obscure, interstitial, subterranean arthropod from Alaska
Signal crayfish breeding in the Buskin River drainage, Kodiak Island
It appears that the signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus, is now established in Alaska. See the articles below.
Invasive Species Breeding in Buskin River
http://www.kmxt.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6769&Itemid=2
Another Crawdaddy Found in Buskin
http://www.kmxt.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6580&Itemid=2
A new species of bathynellid from Alaska
Camacho, A.I., R.L. Newell, Z. Crete, B.A. Dorda, A.Casado., and I. Rey. 2015. Northernmost discovery of Bathynellacea (Syncarida: Bathynellidae) with description of a new species of Pacificabathynella from Alaska (USA). Journal of Natural History. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1083621
From the abstract:
A new species of the genus Pacificabathynella Schminke and Noodt, 1988 is described from groundwaters of Alaska (USA). This is the first record of Bathynellacea Chappuis, 1915 from the far north of America.
These were from the Kwethluk River (60.34520N, 161.089146W) on the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.