The article was published on 28.December.2018 in The Coleopterists Bulletin.
Taxonomic Revision of the Rove Beetle Genus Phlaeopterus Motschulsky, 1853 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini)
Name-bearing type specimens in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids & Nematodes (CNC): Blattodea, Dermaptera, Notoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera, Myriapoda, Neuroptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, Phthiraptera, Pseudoscorpiones, Psocoptera, Raphidioptera & Siphonaptera
The article, pertaining to Alaskan type specimens and species, was published in the journal Zootaxa on November 29.
Adding attractive semio-chemical trait refines the taxonomy of Alpinobombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
The article, pertaining to some Alaskan bumblebees, appeared recently in Apidologie.
First comprehensive list of non-native species established in three major regions of the United States
Part of a figure from Simpson and Eyler (2018) portraying numbers of non-native taxa in regions of Alaska.
The report was published on November 6 and includes records of non-native terrestrial invertebrates in Alaska.
Report:
Simpson, A. & Eyler, M. C. 2018. First comprehensive list of non-native species established in three major regions of the United States. Open-File Report 2018-1156. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181156
Data:
Simpson, A.; Eyler, M. C.; Cannister, M.; Libby, R.; Kozlowski, N.; Sellers, E. & Guala, G. F. 2018. Dataset of the first comprehensive list of non-native species established in three major regions of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey data release. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9E5K160
The News Tribune: This isn’t a furry building — it’s hundreds of daddy longlegs, Alaska park rangers say
Rangers at Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve posted a Halloween picture showing hundreds of daddy long legs hanging off a building, making it look like it was furry. Rangers said the clustering is for hunting or protection. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
The article appeared on October 31.
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nation-world/national/article220923140.html
Extremely low genetic diversity in a circumpolar dragonfly species, Somatochlora sahlbergi (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera)
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
2019 Annual meeting
Our 12th annual Alaska Entomological Society meeting will be held in Fairbanks at the Department of Natural Resources building on Saturday, February 9, 2019.
If you’d like to give a talk, please email president@akentsoc.org with a presentation title, author, job affiliation, and approximate length of the presentation (suggested length of either 15 or 25 min + 5 min for questions), and/or agenda items for the business meeting.
Our meeting minutes are posted from last year here.
Expanded concept and revised taxonomy of the milliped family Xystodesmidae Cook, 1895 (Polydesmida: Leptodesmidea: Xystodesmoidea): incorporations of Euryuridae Pocock, 1909 and Eurymerodesmidae Causey, 1951, taxon revivals/proposals/transferrals, and a distributional update
The article appeared on September 28 in Insecta Mundi and includes new locality records in Alaska.
Anchorage Daily News: Beetle damage skyrockets to nearly a million acres in Southcentral Alaska
Alaska Interagency News Release: Spruce beetle activity continues to rise in Southcentral Alaska
This news release was posted on October 1.
Aerial surveys conducted this summer by state and federal forest health specialists documented nearly 558,000 acres of active spruce beetle-caused tree mortality in Southcentral Alaska. The surveys are part of an annual program to detect forest insect and disease occurrences in Alaska forests. With the addition of this year’s data, the cumulative area impacted by spruce beetle in the region is estimated to have grown to roughly 910,000 acres since the current spruce beetle outbreak began in 2016.