Aquatic Coleoptera Literature for 1997
Compiled for the North American Benthological Society
by Warren U. Brigham
Illinois Natural History Survey
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Our colleague, Dr. Warren U. Brigham, passed away suddenly
on 7 August 1996. His obituary is available
here,
as printed in the November / December 1996 issue of Illinois Natural History Survey Reports
(No. 342: 4; 6) and the Fall 1996 issue of the Bulletin of the North American Benthological Society
13(3): 369-370.
Dr. Sharon K. Jasper, Department of Biology, Texas A & M University,
College Station, Texas 77843-3258 USA - electronic mail: sjasper@bio.tamu.edu -
has assumed responsibility for contributions to the Aquatic Coleoptera chapter of "Current and Selected
Bibliographies on Benthic Biology" published annually by NABS. Please send your reprints to Dr. Jasper
so that they may be included accurately in future bibliographies.
The citations below were included in a document that
Warren was compiling at the time of his death. As noted above, Dr. Sharon Jasper has assumed the
responsibility of maintaining this dynamic water beetle bibliography for the Society.
Alarie, Y.
- 1991. Description of larvae of 17 nearctic species of Hydroporus Clairville (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) with an analysis of their phylogenetic relationships. Canadian Entomol. 123:627-704.
- 1992. Description of the largal stages of Hydroporus (Heterosternuta) cocheconis Fall 1917 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) with a key to the known larvae of Heterosternuta Strand. Canadian Entomol. 124:827-840.
Alarie, Y., and A. N. Nilsson.
- 1996. The larvae of Neonectes J. Balfour-Browne, (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) with a description of N. natrix (Sharp) and a discussion of its phylogenetic relationships with members of the tribe Hydroporini. Coleop. Bull. 50(2):107-121.
Alexander, S. A., K. A. Hobson, C. L. Gratto-trevor, and A. W. Diamond.
- 1996. Conventional and isotopic determinations of shorebird diets at an inland stopover: The importance of invertebrates and Potamogeton pectinatus tubers. Canadian J. Zool. 74(6):1057-1068.
Audisio, P., A. De Baise, and M. A. Jach.
- 1996. Greek species of the genus Hydraena (subgenus Haenydra Rey)(Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Aquatic Insects 18(2):65-90.
Balke, M., and L. Hendrich.
- 1996. A new species of the terrestrial water beetle genus Geodessus Brancucci (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), sieved from leaf litter in southern India. Aquatic Insects 18(2):91-99.
Bameul, F.
- 1991. Redescription de Georissus crenulatus (Rossi). Coleoptere ripicole mal connu (Col. Georissidae). Bull. Soc. Entomol. France 95:253-258.
Boukal, M.
- 1996. First records of Rhantus incognitus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Biologia 51(2):162.
Davis, A. L. V.
- 1996. Habitat associations in a South African, summer rainfall, dung beetle community (Coleoptera:Hydrophilidae). Pedobiologia 40(3):260-280.
- 1996. Fine structure of flat-tipped antennal sensilla in three species of mayflies (Ephemeroptera) [mentions Dytiscidae]. Invert. Biol. 115(2):145-149.
Hansen, M.
- 1996. Case 2925. Crenitis Bedel, 1881, Georissus Latreille, 1809 and Oosternum Sharp, 1882 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 53(2):99-103.
Harp, G. L., and W. H. Neasbitt.
- 1992. A synopsis of the genus Tropisternus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) in Arkansas. Proc. Arkansas Acad. Sci. 46:101-102.
Holt, A., and G. L. Harp.
- 1995. Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of Jackson County, Arkansas. Proc. Arkansas Acad. Sci. 49:71-74.
Jach, M. A., L. F. Valladares, and J. Garcia-Aviles.
- 1996. Limnebius minoricensis sp. n. (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from the Balearic Islands, Spain. Aquatic Insects 18(2):113-116.
Lee, C.-F., and M. Sato.
- 1996. Nipponeubria yoshitomii Lee and Sato, a new species in a new genus of Eubriinae from Japan, with notes on the immature stages and description of the larva of Ectopria opaca (Kiesenwetter)(Coleoptera: Psephenidae). Coleop. Bull. 50(2):122-134.
Lee, C. F., and P. S. Yang.
- 1994. A review of the genus Ectopria LeConte from east Asia, with the description of a new species from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Psephenidae). Coleop. Bull. 48:381-389.
Marks, M. K., and G. L. Harp.
- 1989. A synopsis of the Laccophilinae (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of Arkansas. Proc. Arkansas Acad. Sci. 43:118-119.
Nilsson, A. N., and H. Soderberg.
- 1996. Abundance and species richness patterns of diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from exposed and protected sites in 98 northern Swedish lakes. Hydrobiologia 321(1):83-88.
Nurnberger, B.
- 1996. Local dynamics and dispersal in a structured population of the whirligig beetle Dineutus assimilis. Oecologia 106(3):325-336.
Pederzani, F.
- 1995. Keys to identification of the genera and subgenera of adult Dytiscidae (sensu lato) of the world (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Atti. Acc. Rov. Agiati, a. 244(1994), ser. vii, 4:5-83.
Plague, G. R.
- 1996. Examination of the feeding behavior of larva Tropisternus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 69(1):104-107.
Sato, M.
- 1990. Some aquatic Coleoptera from Taiwan, II. Trans. Shikoku Entomol. Soc. 19:101-103.
Van Berge Henegouwen, A. L.
- 1992. Notes on the genus Sphaeridium Fabricius in tropical Africa with descriptions of five new species (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). Storkia Vol.1:14-24,
Van Berge Henegouwen, A. L., and C. E. Sainz-Cantero.
- 1992. Hydrochus nooreinus , a new species from Spain (Coleoptera, Hydrochidae). Storkia 1:26-28.
Wellborn, G. A., and J. V. Robinson.
- 1996. Effects of a thermal effluent on macroinvertebrates in a central Texas reservoir. Amer. Midl. Nat. 136:110-120.
Last revision by Warren U. Brigham on 29 May 1996;
Modified by Mark J. Wetzel, INHS, on 21 February 1997.