Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

Volume 24 No. 1, 2005


 

Profile of Entomologists in Survey's Annotated List of Workers


 

General information and editorial notes

News and Notes

Bio-Blitz 2005

World taxonomist database

Activities at the Entomological Societies' meeting

Summary of the Scientific Committee meeting

Project Update: Forest Arthropods

Profile of Entomologists in Survey's Annotated List of Workers

The Quiz Page

A primer on pseudoscorpions and taxonomic status in Canada

Web Site Notes

First BSC Biodiversity Scholarship awarded

Arctic Corner

Arctic and Boreal Entomology Course 2004

Call for information on insect research in Canada's arctic

Impacts of a warming arctic

Selected future conferences

Quips and Quotes

Requests for Material or Information Invited

 

 

In 1997 the Survey had just published an update to the “Annotated List of Workers on Systematics and Faunistics of Canadian Insects and Certain Related Groups” and Volume 16, No. 2 issue of this newsletter highlighted a few statistics from that list. The list is no longer published in paper format but the information is available from a searchable database on the Survey’s web site (see List of Workers, http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/english/listofworkers.htm). A few comparisons from then and now. 

Number of entries 1997: 465 
Number of entries 2005: 392 

Taxonomic interests: The tables below show the number of entomologists who declared an interest in one or more of the noted orders. Orders that had fewer than 20 people with an interest are not shown.

1997 2005
Order % of entries Order % of entries
Lepidoptera 30% Coleoptera

55%

Diptera 30% Diptera

45%

Hymenoptera 24% Lepidoptera

43%

Coleoptera 18% Hymenoptera 38%
Homoptera 8% Homoptera 10%
Acari 7% Heteroptera 8%
Heteroptera 5% Trichoptera 6%
Orthopteroidea 5% Orthoptera 6%
Trichoptera 5% Ephemeroptera 6%
Araneae 5%
Odonata 5%

 

 

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