The Entomological Society of New Zealand

Ento 2011

Accepted Oral Abstracts

The blue-rinse moth with the secret inflatable hair-drier, the star-spangled can-opener and other wonders of the wainscot world

Robert Hoare

Patterns – and lack of patterns – in Thysanoptera host associations

Laurence Mound

Australasians behaving badly Up-Over: a downunder thrips killing an invasive New Zealand tree in California

Jon Sullivan, Richard Hill, Laurence Mound, Stephen Cameron, Cynthia King

Lessons from the diet of a native pest, the grass grub beetle - host shift or host range expansion?

Marie-Caroline Lefort, Susan Worner, Travis Glare, Saïana DeRomans, Karen Armstrong

Eriophyoid mites on Corymbia spp. (Myrtaceae)

Sebahat Ozman-Sullivan, Simon Lawson, Helen Nahrung

The role of bark beetles as vectors in the colonisation of windthrown timber by fungi

James McCarthy, Eckehard Brockerhoff, Ian Hood, Arvind Varsani, Raphael Didham

Host range testing of xylem feeders by measuring real time feeding

Manoharie Sandanayaka, Yilin Jia, John Charles

A new tussock butterfly species (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Argyrophenga) for New Zealand?

Hamish Patrick, Rob Cruickshank, Steve Wratten, Brian Patrick

Multigene phylogeny of Australian darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Nicole Gunter, Ainsley Seago, Hermes Escalona, Tom Weir, Stephen Cameron

Taxonomic triage: molecular tools complementing morphological description, a New Zealand case study

Marie-Caroline Lefort, Karen Armstrong, Barbara Barratt, John Marris, Susan Worner

Phylogeny of Australian Saprinus spp. Erichson (Coleoptera: Histeridae) - contrasting ecological, morphological and molecular data

Jocelyn King, Markus Riegler, Robert Spooner-Hart

Structure and function of 3-D photonic crystals in weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Ainsley Seago

New Zealand's micro-caddisfly fauna: why so depauperate?

Alice Wells

The evolution of sticks; quantifying clasper morphology across a hybrid zone in the stick insect genus Clitarchus

Shelley Myers, Thomas Buckley, Gregory Holwell

The curious case of New Zealand Coelostomidiidae

Manpreet Dhami, Jacqueline Beggs, Mike Taylor

Associating the life stages of Calocidae (Trichoptera) using genetic methods

Michael Shackleton, Phil Suter, Susan Lawler, Jeff Web

Phylogeography of the trans-Tasman marine caddisflies (Trichoptera: Chathamiidae)

Alexander Boast, Ian Henderson, Peter Ritchie

Is host source location a factor in the presence of chewing lice on birds introduced to New Zealand?

Phillip Cochrane, Adrian Paterson, Richard Duncan, Catriona Macleod

Of lice and Men(acanthus): supercoloniser or host-race complex?

Adrian Paterson, Rob Cruickshank, Catriona Macleod, Terry Galloway, Ricardo Palma, Emily Fountain, Martyn Kennedy

Using stable isotopes to track nutrient flow through invertebrates at the marine-terrestrial interface

David Hawke, John Clark

Mites from Procellaria burrows of the Antipodes Islands

John Clark, David Hawke

Picky learning: understanding the specific conditions under which the kleptoparasitic spider Argyrodes antipodianus learns

Mary Whitehouse

When substrate matters; drivers of assemblages and interspecific relationships in tussock grasslands spiders

Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, Rob Cruickshank, Cor Vink, Adrian Paterson

Introduced Vespidae: patterns of invasion and attempts at control

Jacqueline Beggs, Eckehard Brockerhoff, Juan Corley, Marc Kenis, Maité Masciocchi, Franck Muller, Quentin Rome, Claire Villemant

Behavioural and population genetic divergence of an invasive ant in a novel environment

Monica Gruber, Benjamin Hoffmann, Peter Ritchie, Phil Lester

The catastrophic collapse of Argentine ant populations in New Zealand

Meghan Cooling, Stephen Hartley, Dalice Sim, Phil Lester

Does New Zealand have a hope against invasive ants?

Lloyd Stringer, John Kean, Max Suckling

The biogeography of ant invasions and its implications for biosecurity

Andy Suarez

Role of fitness trade-offs and dispersal in persistence of generalists across a wetland predator-permanence gradient

Mark Galatowitsch, Angus McIntosh, Sharyn Goldstein

Exploratory study of Macrosiphum hellebore’s vectoring capability of Helleborus Net Necrosis Virus

Peter Mee, Joanne Mackie, Fiona Constable, Brendan Rodoni

Response of the bird cherry-oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi) to climate change

Kyla Finlay, Jo Luck

Understanding range shifts: using current and historical data to model the invasive redlegged earth mite, Halotydeus destructor

Matthew Hill, Jane Elith, Sarina Macfadyen, Paul Umina, Ary Hoffmann

Hot bugs or hot trees? Responses of eucalypt feeding insects to climate change

Tara Murray, David Ellsworth, Markus Riegler

Biological control in a changing world: How climate affects host-parasitoid dynamics

Cecilia Romo

DNA barcoding: A tool to identify exotic wood-boring beetle larvae of the family Bostrichidae

Disna Gunawardana, Biju Balakrishnan, Diane Jones, Lalith Kumarasinghe

Northern Australian Quarantine Strategy: Pre-Border Surveillance in the Far North

Anthony Rice, James Walker, Sally Cowan, Anthony Postle

Pieris brassicae (L.) Large white butterfly in Nelson

Dave Voice, Carol Muir, Travis Ashcroft

Comparison of the efficacy and longevity of two types of dichlorvos strips (DDVP) proposed for use in New Zealand fruit fly surveillance traps

Dave Voice, James Haw, Rory MacLelland

Hitching a ride to Australia

Chris Norwood

Bamboo Moth and Other 'Hairy Caterpillars' Reported Through MAF's Public Enquiry Surveillance Programme

Olwyn Green, Carol Muir

Above- and below-ground herbivore interactions: what do they mean for weed biocontrol outcome?

Ronny Groenteman, Dave Kelly, Simon Fowler, Graeme Bourdôt

Classical biological control of Cirsium arvense: lessons from the past

Michael Cripps, Andre Gassmann, Simon Fowler, Graeme Bourdot, Alec McClay, Grant Edwards

Impact of the heather beetle (Lochmaea suturalis), a biocontrol agent for heather (Calluna vulgaris), in New Zealand

Paul Peterson, Simon Fowler, Merilyn Merrett, Paul Barrett

Successfully eliminating parasitic gregarines from Neolema ogloblini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) - a biocontrol agent for Tradescantia fluminensis (Commelinaceae)

Lindsay Smith, Simon Fowler, Quentin Paynter, José Pedrosa-Macedo, Peter Wigley

How will predicted climate change affect weed biocontrol in New Zealand?

Simon Fowler, James Barringer

Community implementation of biological control of weeds across south-eastern Australia

Greg Lefoe, Paul Sullivan, Lesley Postle, Hillary Cherry, Andrew Petroeschevsky

Searching for the signal of competition in plant-mediated interactions among coexisting gall insects on broad-leaved paperbark

S. Raghu, Bradley Brown, Matthew Purcell

Predicting parasitism of weed biocontrol agents

Quentin Paynter, Simon Fowler, Hugh Gourlay, Ronny Groenteman, Paul Peterson, Lindsay Smith, Chris Winks

Climate change, invasive species and impact on productive and indigenous ecosystems: where might we end up?

Susan Worner, Karel Lindsay, Shuqi He, Kathrin Affeld

Predicting insect responses to climate change

Ary Hoffmann

Odonata of the Pacific islands – a contemporary story for enthusiastic treasure hunters

Milen Marinov

Taxonomic illustration in the digital age

Rudi Schnitzler

MicroCT imaging of insects

Holger Averdunk, Ajay Limaye, Andrew Kingston, Glenn Myers, Michael Turner, Ben Young, David Lovell, John La Salle

Remote Microscopy: A success story in plant biosecurity

Michael Thompson

New approaches for collaborative key design and development: What Bug Is That? and IdentifyLife

David Yeates, Kevin Thiele, Matt Taylor

PaDIL - A Virtual Diagnostic tool to assist in plant pest diagnostics

Ken Walker, Gary Kong

Australasian contributions to systematic entomology: a decade of Zootaxa

Zhi-Qiang Zhang

The online Australian Faunal Directory, a vital biodiversity resource

Alice Wells

Publish – or perish? What has paper to do with it?

Peter Cranston

Antipodean contributions to the dissemination of entomological information.

Laurence Mound

The ongoing biological consequences of climate change: lessons from and for ectotherms

Steven Chown

Making the most of intelligence information and expert judgments for biosecurity

Mark Burgman, Mike Nunn, Aidan Lyon, Geoff Grossel

Mating versus oviposition in Diaeretiella rapae (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae)

Rashmi Kant, Maria Minor, Steve Trewick

Intraspecific host choice and suitability in the solitary koinobiont parasitoid Eadya paropsidis Huddleston & Short (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): Bigger hosts are not necessarily better

Anthony Rice, Geoff Allen

Sneaking versus fighting: Alternative reproductive tactics in the New Zealand giraffe weevil (Lasiorhynchus barbicornis)

Christina Painting, Thomas Buckley, Robert Hoare, Gregory Holwell

Gumleaf skeletonizer (GLS) and Desire: field testing the New Zealand sex pheromone lure system during a recent outbreak of GLS (Uraba lugens) in south-west Western Australia

Janet Farr, Allan Wills

Scent of the New Zealand honeydew beech forest and the attraction of introduced Vespula wasps

Robert Brown, Ashraf El-Sayed, Jacqueline Beggs, Max Suckling

Parasitoids use chemical footprints to ‘sniff out‘ present and future hosts

Michael Rostás, Daniela LoGiudice, Michael Riedel, Enzo Peri, Stefano Colazza

Conservation vs. Restoration: the battle of the Chathams coxella weevil

Emily Fountain, Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte

Te Paki: a spider hotspot revealed

Olivier Ball, Brian Fitzgerald

Surveillance for introduced invertebrates on Barrow Island, Western Australia

Jonathan Majer, Nihara Gunawardene, Christopher Taylor, Peter Whittle

Conservation of New Zealand’s rarest tree weta (Hemideina ricta)

Mike Bowie, Rachel van Heugten, Roddy Hale

Using next-generation sequencing for food web analyses; a detective story involving endemic landsnails and earthworms

Stephane Boyer, Steve Wratten, Andrew Holyoake, Rob Cruickshank, Jawad Abdelkrim

From Rumble to Raoul. A biodiversity expedition to the Kermadec Islands, May 2011

Warren Chinn

Invertebrate functional biodiversity in plantation forests

Stephen Pawson, Alwin Sky, Raphael Didham

Indirect control of the invasive yellow crazy ant through biological control of its mutualist scale insect on Christmas Island

Gabor Neumann, Peter Green, Dennis O'Dowd

Identifying generalist predators of polyphagous pest species for potential use in conservation biological control in viticulture

Ben Hancock, Steve Wratten, Travis Glare, Cor Vink

Vegetation effect on invertebrate abundance in Australian vineyards

Purabi Ghosh, Linda Thomson, Ary Hoffmann

Floral resource provision for insect communities: the effect on multi-trophic interactions in agricultural systems

Dean O'Connell, Steve Wratten, Mark Gillespie

The arrival in Australia of Hippodamia variegata: consequences for insect communities and pest management

Viliami Heimoana, Geoff Gurr, Andrew Mitchell

Attract and reward: combining chemical ecology and habitat manipulation to enhance biological control in field crops

Maria Simpson, Geoff Gurr, Steve Wratten, David James, Gary Leeson

The role of refuges in the resistance management of Helicoverpa moths and the implications of this to IPM in cotton

Mary Whitehouse

Biodiversity and biological control of arthropods

Steve Wratten, Harpinder Sandhu, Mariska Anderson, Ben Hancock, Samantha Scarratt

A comprehensive study of the commercial insectary industry in Australia

Mahmuda Begum, Peter Ampt, Sarah Mansfield

Impact of Polistes chinensis on invertebrates in kiwifruit orchards

Jacqui Todd, Leah Tooman, Brian McArdle, Louise Malone, Jacqueline Beggs

Entomopathogenic fungi of Papua New Guinea oil palm pest, Zophiuma butawengi (Hemiptera: Lophopidae), and potential for biological control

Deane Woruba, Geoff Gurr, Catherine Gitau, Michael Priest, Charles Dewhurst, Murray Fletcher

Parasitoids of Zophiuma butawengi (Heller) (Hemiptera: Lophopidae), the cause of Finschhafen disorder of oil palm in Papua New Guinea

Catherine Gitau, Geoff Gurr, Murray Fletcher, Charles Dewhurst, Emilio Guerrieri, John Noyes, John Huber

When density matters: development of teneral Argentine stem weevils under crowded conditions

Jessica Vereijssen, Stephen Goldson

Impacts of ant-black scale mutualism on the biological control of red scale

Hang-Thi Dao, Andrew Beattie, Robert Spooner-Hart, Alan Meats

Optimising methods for collecting beneficial Hymenoptera in orchards

Ngaire Larsen, Alastair Robertson, Maria Minor

Management tools for Frankliniella occidentalis in hydroponic lettuce – mites might work. Is biocontrol spreading its wings in Australia?

Leigh Pilkington

Parasitoid family planning: How can we help?

Craig Phillips, John Kean

Impact of climate change on biological control in New Zealand

Pip Gerard, John Kean, Craig Phillips, Simon Fowler, Toni Withers, Graham Walker, John Charles

How New Zealand pasture ecosystems provide unique opportunities for biocontrol and ecological experimentation

Stephen Goldson

The Economics of Nature – findings from the TEEB study

Georgina Langdale

The deader the better: invertebrate communities of decaying timber in a sea of hostile terrain

Alwin Sky, Stephen Pawson, Raphael Didham

Wildfire or mosaic fires? Impacts on beetles in South-West Australia

Paul Van Heurck

Using trait-based theory for predicting functional losses in dung beetle communities: Do species matter?

Andrew Barnes, Rowan Emberson, Raphael Didham, Hazel Chapman

Influence of land-use on dung-associated interaction webs in an Afrotropical forest

Kristy Udy, Hazel Chapman, Ximena Nelson

Weevil diversity in a podocarp-hardwood forest fragment in Canterbury, New Zealand

Samuel Brown, Mike Bowie

Spatial analysis of a gall midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and its associated parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera) on Hebe stricta

Claas Damken, Jacqueline Beggs, George Perry

Spatial patterning of invasive mice and indigenous weta in an alpine ecosystem

Eric Edwards, James Reardon, Megan Willans, Deb Wilson, Grant Norbury

Effects of land cover on parasitism of the red admiral, Bassaris gonerilla (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Eckehard Brockerhoff, Inge van Halder

Managing for the persistence of saproxylic beetles in Tasmanian production forest

Christina Schmuki, Lynette Forster, Simon Grove, Caroline Mohammed

Do remnants of native vegetation on farmland provide a refuge for native mosquito species or a source to maintain introduced invasives?

Mary McIntyre

Inducible Bt tolerance in Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and its effects on egg production and subsequent parasitism by Trichogramma pretiosum (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

Kay Anantanawat, Richard Glatz, Michael Keller

Management of apple weevil in Australian olive groves

Stewart Learmonth

Aceria tosichella and its role in the transmission of wheat streak mosaic virus in Australia

Adam Miller

Effect of larval predators Thanasimus dubius (Coleoptera: Cleridae), reared on an improved diet, against the southern pine beetle Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Arnaud Costa, John Reeve

The changing nature of IPM in outdoor vegetables in New Zealand

Graham Walker

Food preferences, toxic bait preferences, and the toxicity of the baits for Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) and Darwin's ant (Doleromyrma darwiniana)

Melissa Mathieson, Richard Toft, Phil Lester

Efficacy and safety of APITHOR^TM for the control of adult small hive beetles in bee hives

Garry Levot

Systematics and phylogeny of the plant bug genus Felisacus Distant, 1904 (Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae)

Anna Namyatova, Gerasimos Cassis

Preparation of the Fulgoromorpha (Hemiptera) for the Australian Faunal Directory

Murray Fletcher

Systematics and diversity of native pest beetles, Eucolaspis, in New Zealand

Prasad Doddala, Steve Trewick, Maria Minor, Dave Rogers

Developing a benchmark invertebrate group for biodiversity modelling: phylogenetics and databasing of the dung beetle (Scarabaeidae) genus Lepanus

Nicole Gunter, Tom Weir, Jordan Crabbe, Stephen Cameron, David Yeates

Conservation through DNA: Unravelling the past of the weevil genus Hadramphus

Emily Fountain

A survey of indigenous gall forming invertebrates in New Zealand

Nicholas Martin

Update on taxonomic revision of New Zealand Austrosimulium (Diptera: Simuliidae)

Douglas Craig, Ruth Craig, Trevor Crosby

Recent advances in IPM in greenhouses in Australia and New Zealand

Robin Gardner-Gee

Key lessons from Australia inform the development of arable IPM in NZ

Abie Horrocks, Jessica Page

IPM for potato crops: lessons from Australia

Paul Horne, Duncan McLeod

Towards developing an IPM programme for potatoes in New Zealand; the role of natural enemies

Graham Walker

The tomato potato psyllid: lessons from New Zealand for Australia

Nadine Berry, David Madge, Alan Yen

Strategic trans-Tasman collaborations enhance arable and vegetable IPM in Australia and New Zealand

Paul Horne, David Teulon

Something old, something New – Australian spiders in New Zealand

Phil Sirvid, Cor Vink

Flies regifted? Did Australia give New Zealand its horse flies (Scaptia Diptera: Tabanidae)

Bryan Lessard, David Yeates, Stephen Cameron, John Trueman

Systematics and biogeography of the Gondwanan Orthocladiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Matt Krosch, Andrew Baker, Peter Mather, Peter Cranston

Hopping across the ditch: The New Zealand Orthoptera

Steve Trewick, Mary Morgan-Richards

Biodiversity, biogeography and evolutionary history of giant springtails from Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia

Vanesa Duran Racero, Mark Stevens, Andy Austin, Cyrille D’Haese, Penelope Greenslade

The rise and fall of Zealandia: biogeographic implications for entomology

Adrian Paterson, Steve Trewick

Australia: sistership or mothership to the NZ invertebrate fauna Opening remarks on testing biogeographic hypotheses

Steve Trewick, David Yeates

What can insects, especially Chironomidae, tell us about austral ecological and biogeographic history?

Peter Cranston

Accepted Poster Abstracts

Better management of cotton refuges within the best management practices framework

Dominic Cross, Sarah Mansfield, Mary Whitehouse, Sharon Downes

Insecticides susceptibility in Culex vishnui Theobald in paddy field in Sekinchan, Selangor, Malaysia

Cherng-Shii Leong, Chee-Dhang Chen, Han-Lim Lee, Van-Lun Low, Koon-Weng Lau, Mohd Sofian-Azirun

The circadian activity pattern of carrion flies in Malaysia

Chee-Dhang Chen, Wasi-Ahmad Nazni, Koon-Weng Lau, Mohd Sofian-Azirun

Forensic entomological study on monkey carcasses submerged in river in tropical rain forest in Malaysia

Chee-Dhang Chen, Wasi-Ahmad Nazni, Ramli Rosli, John Jeffery, Koon-Weng Lau, Chong-Chin Heo, David McAlpine, Thomas Pape, Mohd Sofian-Azirun

How to assess the risk posed to the New Zealand native flora by an invasive defoliator

Toni Withers, Karina Potter, Lisa Berndt, Shaun Forgie, Quentin Paynter, Darren Kriticos

Ips Grandicollis (Eichhoff) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) - a bark beetle on a mission.

Catherine Gitau, Angus Carnegie, Robin Bedding, Richard Bashford, Geoff Gurr

Comparing the fitness of woolly apple aphid Eriosoma lanigerum populations: evidence of different biotypes in Australia?

Arnaud Costa, Peter Mee, Valeria Blackhall, Kevin Powell

Interactions among introduced ant species in the Auckland region

Thomas Goodman

Negative occurrence patterns of two native ant species (Monomorium antarcticum and Prolasius advenus) within beech forests

Rafael Barbieri, Julien Grangier, Phil Lester

A new attempt to introduce the lacy-winged seed fly to Australia for biological control of boneseed

Tom Morley, Greg Lefoe

Intimacies and intricacies of rearing the Queensland fruit fly larval parasitoid, Diachasmimorpha tryoni (Cameron) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Jessica Smart, Olivia Reynolds, Geoff Gurr

Biological control of root-feeding scarabs: an experience in cooperation between New Zealand and Mexico

Miguel Najera-Rincon, Trevor Jackson

Unexpected genetic variation in an endemic ground beetle: the molecular surprise of Megadromus guerinii (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Benjamin Wiseman, Rob Cruickshank, Mike Bowie, Emily Fountain

Diversity and phylogeny of Australian chelonine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae); parasitoids of lepidopteran eggs

Rebecca Kittel, John Jennings, Andy Austin

Exploring phylogeographic congruence in a continental island system

Julia Goldberg, Steve Trewick

Beta Weta Geta: Rhaphidophoridae taxonomy in New Zealand

Josephine Fitness, Steve Trewick, Mary Morgan-Richards, Loraine Cook

Parasitic wasps of the Proctotrupoidea, Platygastroidea and Ceraphronoidea in New Zealand: review and analysis

John Early, Lubo Masner, Darren Ward

Imaging of whole insect drawers for virtual management and curation of the Australian National Insect Collection

Beth Mantle, Nicole Fisher, John La Salle

Technology and collaboration helping improve eucalypt plantation pest surveillance in Western Australia

Francisco Tovar, Nicholas Garel, Treena Burgess

Burnt pine longicorn surveillance in eastern Australia

Deborah Kent, Ross Rickard, Elaine Tou

Going beyond world’s best practice - Barrow Island quarantine management system

Karl Edwards

Forestry-induced disturbances and biodiversity: an examination of population structures and gene flow among saproxylic beetles

Lynette Forster, Christina Schmuki, Simon Grove, Morag Glen, Caroline Mohammed

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