ROLLING STONEFLY NEWS
Volume 8, January 1996, Clinton, MS, B. Stark, Editor
XII SYMPOSIUMThe 12th International Symposium on Plecoptera, organized by Dr. Michel Sartori and Dr. Peter Landolt, met August 18-20, 1995, on the Dorigny Campus of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Twenty three oral presentations, 17 poster presentations and two invited lectures were scheduled around an evening welcome party, symposium dinner, and field trip to the Hongrin River. Session chairpersons included P. Zwick, P.P. Harper, K.W. Stewart, J.E. Brittain, I. McLellan and S. Uchida.In business activities, special recognition awards were given to T. Kawai, I. McLellan and J. Aubert (posthumous) for their lifetime contributions to Plecopterology. Participants also agreed to a proposal from K. Stewart that a formal name, The International Society of Plecopterologists, be adopted. The proposal also provides for selection of an in ternational committee. A complete explanation of this proposal will be given in the next issue of Perla. In other business, Tucaman, Argentina was selected as a tentative site for a 1998 symposium. INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORSNace Siveis back home in Slovenia after a fall collecting trip to Nepal. Nace indicated this was not the most productive time for adult stonefly diversity in the region. After the symposium, Ian McLellan remained in Schlitz for several weeks to continue his systematic study of Neotropical gripopterygids. Claudio Froehlich spent several months in Washington prior to the symposium working on Brazilian material in the Smithsonian collection. Maria del Carmen Zuniga de Cardoso and Martha Rojas de Hernandez returned to Colombia via Spain and Clinton, Mississippi. While in Clinton, they worked on Anacroneuria with B. P. Stark. Independently of one another, Dick Baumann, C. Riley Nelson and Stan Szczytko all spent some time in Costa Rica during this past year. Stan will be there through January 18, 1996. |
SEM AT MCAfter years of "borrowing" or renting time on various scanning electron microscopes, B. P. Stark now has direct access to a new AMRAY 1810D in his lab at Mississippi College. Several undergraduate students currently are gaining hands-on experience through use of stonefly models. Angela Smith is studying variation in characters for southeastern Neoperla eggs. Other projects include studies of Allocapnia genitalia and Anacroneuria aedeagi. The figure shows a dorsal view of Allocapnia mohri genitalia.
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