The red beetle October 1978 החיפושית הירוקה (original) (raw)
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Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2011, September 29-30, Prague, Czech Republic
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The fourth Immature Beetles Meeting was held in Prague in September 29-30, 2011, two years after the previous meeting (for abstracts see FIKÁČEK et al. (2010)). The meeting took place at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, in cooperation with the National Museum in Prague and the Crop Research Institute in Prague. Altogether 40 participants attended the meeting, including the scientists from Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba and Japan. Similarly as two years ago, the most expected were Cleide Costa and Sergio Vanin who are well known for their lifelong studies of beetle larvae of South America, as well as Vasily Grebennikov, who presented the loudest and most general lecture comparing the life style of leaf-mining larvae of beetles and moths. Three lectures were focused on groups with parasitic larvae, including Strepsiptera which are again recognized as sister to beetles based on most recent studies. The friendly and unoffi cial form of the meeting also provided excelent opportunity for three students to present the results of their M.Sc. theses: Albert Deler-Hernández from Cuba, Haruki Suenaga from Japan and Kateřina Jůzová from the Czech Republic. During both days, attendants presented 19 short lectures (including one unoffi cial by Petr Švácha) and four posters (including one unoffi cial by V. Grebennikov). Abstracts of the offi cial ones are presented below in alphabetical order (lectures fi rst, posters following). Coffee breaks and joint lunches in a nearby restaurant provided a handy opportunity for informal discussions of the lectures and individual research projects and interests of the participants. During both evenings, most people continued in a slightly more relaxed setting in a pub over a glass (or perhaps two) of Czech beer. The next meeting is planned for the autumn 2013 and will be held at the Charles University in Prague again. Details about the forthcoming meeting will be available on the Immature Beetles Meeting web pages at http://www.cercyon.eu/IBM/ IBM_2011.htm, together with the photos and abstracts of the past meetings. Please contact us if you need further information.
Zootaxa, 2018
The genus Ahermodontus Báguena, 1930 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) is currently comprised of three species: A. marini Báguena, 1930 and A. ambrosi (Pardo Alcaide, 1936) from southern Spain and Morocco and A. bischoffi (Všetečka, 1939) from Albania (see e.g., Dellacasa et al. 2001, 2002, 2016). The distribution and bionomy of both of the western Mediterranean Ahermodontus species are relatively well known. Contrastingly, A. bischoffi was described using a single female specimen collected by A. Bischoff in Llogara, Albania in 1934 (Všetečka 1939) and additional specimens remained unknown until now. Geodesist Alfons Bischoff (1890–1942) was a famous Albanian speleologist and insect collector (Horn et al. 1990; Genest & Juberthie 1994; Zhalov 2015). He often made his insect material accessible to specialists on particular insect groups and several species is dedicated to him: for example, the Carabidae (Coleoptera) species Duvalius bischoffi Meschnigg, 1936, Pterostichus bischo...