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Australian
Expeditions 2001-2003
by
Christine Lambkin
Dave
Yeates, Mike Irwin, Ev Schlinger, and Chris
Lambkin were part of a large CSIRO ANIC group that spent six
weeks in the field in May and June 2001 in the isolated Keep River
and Gregory National Parks in the Northern Territory Australia,
to observe the ecological, and behavioral characteristics of therevids
in their environments, fill taxon and geographic gaps in extant
therevid material, and provide well- preserved material for molecular
and morphological studies. The group sampled 54 sites using malaise
traps, flight intercept traps, hand nets, and soil sieving. Thousands
of therevids, with many new species and several new genera, were
collected.
Gregory
National Park: Mike Irwin, Rolf Oberprieler, Dave Yeates, Frank
Parker, Chris Lambkin,
Noel
Starick, Ev Schlinger, Marianne Horak, Lisa Boutin. Photo Noel Starick,
CSIRO.
Keep
River National Park, sorting the catch: Chris Lambkin, Rolf Oberprieler,
Andrew Calder.
Photo
Noel Starick, CSIRO.
Keep
River National Park, on the quad: Mike Irwin, Ev Schlinger. Photo
Noel Starick, CSIRO.
Chris
Lambkin, accompanied by CSIRO staffer, Noel Starick,
carried out a two week preliminary survey of the Therevid fauna
in the semi-arid desert parks of western Victoria in spring (September)
of 2001. A total of 14 malaise traps; 12 small Sharkey and 2 large
6m traps in Hattah-Kulkyne, Murray-Sunset, Little Desert, Wyperfeld,
and Grampians National Parks. Due to heavy rainfall, few therevids
were collected.
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