The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').
Filters:
Affected Part | Summary | Taxon | Vernacular | Classification | References | |||
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(egg) | egg is predated by | Macrocheles glaber | a predatory mite | Mesostigmata: Macrochelidae | Checklist of the mites (Arachnida: Acari) associated with bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in the British Isles, Baker, A.S. & Craven, J.C., 2003 |
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(larva) | larva is predated by | Macrocheles glaber | a predatory mite | Mesostigmata: Macrochelidae | Checklist of the mites (Arachnida: Acari) associated with bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in the British Isles, Baker, A.S. & Craven, J.C., 2003 |
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(small) | small is predated by | Androlaelaps casalis | an omnivorous mite | Mesostigmata: Laelapidae | Checklist of the mites (Arachnida: Acari) associated with bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in the British Isles, Baker, A.S. & Craven, J.C., 2003 |
Author & Year | Title | Source |
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Baker, A.S. & Craven, J.C., 2003 | Checklist of the mites (Arachnida: Acari) associated with bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in the British Isles | Systematic & Applied Acarology Special Publications Systematic & Applied Acarology Vol 14: 1-20. |
Subtaxon | Rank | Featured subtaxa |
No of interactions |
No of references |
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Class | 3 subtaxa | 5 trophisms | 18 references | ||||
Class | 2 subtaxa | 3 references | |||||
Class | 6,392 subtaxa | 17,277 trophisms | 5,644 references |
Subphylum | HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms) |
Phylum | ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
Superphylum | ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) |
Clade | Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) |
Subkingdom | EUMETAZOA (metazoans) |
Kingdom | ANIMALIA (animals) |
Domain | Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
Life | BIOTA (living things) |
NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms) |
Handling & Magnification | Author | Year | Title | Source |
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American Entomologist | ||||
Freshwater | ||||
Visser, H. & Veldhuijzen van Zanten, H.H. | European Limnofauna | wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/limno.php | ||
Regional/Greenland | ||||
Böcher, J., Kristensen, N.P., Pape, T. & Vilhelmsen, L. (eds) | 2015 | The Greenland Entomofauna: An Identification Manual of Insects, Spiders and their allies | 898pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd. |
HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
Author | Year | Title | Source |
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Entomological Society of Canada | |||
Barnard, P.C. | 2011 | The Royal Entomological Society Book of British Insects | 383pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London |
Godfrey, A. & Middlebrook, I. | 2007 | Invertebrates associated with coarse woody debris in stream and rivers in Britain | British Wildlife Vol 18 (3): 178-183. |
Guide To Identification Literature | |||
Barnard, P.C. (Ed.) | 2005 | Identifying British Insects and Arachnids: An Annotated Bibliography of Key Works | 368pp, Cambridge University Press |
Journals | |||
Entomologica Fennica | |||
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Entomology | British Museum (Natural History) | ||
Invertebrate Rearing | |||
Physiological Entomology | |||
Bolletino della Societa Entomologica Italiana | |||
Entomol. Gener. | |||
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata | Blackwell Scientific Publications | ||
Systematic Entomology | |||
Entomologica Scandinavica | |||
Entomophaga | |||
Ecological Entomology | |||
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London | |||
Bulletin of Entomological Research | |||
Entomologist’s Record and journal of variation | |||
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London | |||
Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine | Gem Publishing | ||
Entomologist | |||
Entomologist’s Gazette | Gem Publishing | ||
Acta entomologica musei nationalis Pragae | |||
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France | |||
Entomologica Americana | |||
Latvijas entomologs | Entomological Soceity of Latvia | ||
Acta entomologica bohemoslovaca | |||
Israel Journal of Entomology | |||
Amateur Entomologists’ Society | Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists’ Society | Published for/by:Amateur Entomologists' Society | |
American Entomological Institute | Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute | Published for/by:American Entomological Institute | |
American Entomological Society | Transactions of the American Entomological Society | Published for/by:American Entomological Society | |
British Entomological and Natural History Society | British Journal of Entomology and Natural History | Published for/by:British Entomological and Natural History Society, British Entomological and Natural History Society | |
British Entomological and Natural History Society | Proceedings and Transactions of the British Entomological and Natural History Society | Published for/by:British Entomological and Natural History Society, British Entomological and Natural History Society | |
Kansas Entomological Society | Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society | Published for/by:Kansas Entomological Society | |
Norwegian Entomological Society | Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift | Published for/by:Norwegian Entomological Society | |
Norwegian Entomological Society | Norwegian Journal of Entomology (old series) | Published for/by:Norwegian Entomological Society | |
Norwegian Entomological Society | Norwegian Journal of Entomology | Published for/by:Norwegian Entomological Society | |
Journals/Plant Pathology | |||
Black, R. | New Disease Reports | Published for/by:Black, R., The British Society for Plant Pathology | |
Journals/Regional | |||
New Zealand Entomologist | |||
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington | |||
Polish Journal of Entomology (Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne) | |||
Annales Entomologici Fennici | |||
South London Entomological & Natural History Society | Proceedings of the South London Entomological & Natural History Society | Published for/by:South London Entomological & Natural History Society | |
Journals | |||
Royal Entomological Society of London | Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London | Published for/by:Royal Entomological Society of London, The Royal Entomological Society of London | |
Royal Entomological Society of London | Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London | Published for/by:Royal Entomological Society of London, The Royal Entomological Society of London | |
Royal Entomological Society of London | Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series A, General Entomology | Published for/by:Royal Entomological Society of London, Wiley | |
Royal Entomological Society of London | Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy | Published for/by:Royal Entomological Society of London | |
Society for British Entomology | Transactions of the Society for British Entomology | Published for/by:Society for British Entomology | |
South London Entomological and Natural History Society | Proceedings and Transactions of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society | Published for/by:South London Entomological and Natural History Society | |
Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden | Entomologische Abhandlungen | Published for/by:Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden | |
Université de Liège | Entomologie faunistique - Faunistic Entomology | Published for/by:Université de Liège | |
Plant Pathology | |||
Alford, D.V. | 2011 | Plant Pests | HarperCollins |
Survey Methodologies | |||
Drake, C.M. | 2004 | Grazing marsh assemblages and site classification using invertebrates | Research Reports, Report no 579, 133pp, English Nature |
Techniques | |||
Thomas, A. | 2012 | A Winter Spider | Micscape. |
Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms):
BioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 47,699 images of HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms) |
Hand Sanitiser Gel is a useful temporary mountant for examination and photographic purposes, of both macroscopic and microscopic subjects. The gel is sufficently viscous to hold an insect in place, once it has been positioned. It also self-supporting and doesn’t flow (so only needs a base, not a full container).
It can also be used as a long term preservative if the container is properly sealed (eg Super Glue).
Initial testing of a water-based sanitiser (Sainsbury’s Sensitive Antibacterial Handwash) found it to be slightly cloudy in use. An alcohol-based formulation (eg Carex, Purell) worked much better and the remaining notes relate to such products.
Despite the high alcohol content immersion in the gel is not an effective way of killing insect specimens. They should first be killed in the normal way eg freezing, by dropping in alcohol or hot water, or by ethyl acetate vapour.
Freshly killed insects can be transferred directly to the gel, then examined or photographed. For photography it’s best to have an optically flat surface, either by placing the gel in a cuvette or by floating a coverslip. For examination, at least at low magnification, the surface of the gel is often adequately flat.
Miscibillity With Other Reagents:
The gel is miscible with ethyl acetate, water and acids (eg white wine vinegar, lactic acid).
Melzer’s Iodine is also miscible so it might be useful to slow movement in slide preps of fungal spores scraped from spore prints.
Surprisingly the gel goes cloudy with 70% IMS, but not with unadulterated ethanol. It similarly goes cloudy with Euparal and Berlese’s fluid (although the latter later clears). Isopropanol may work but was not tested.
Alkaline solutions (10% KOH) are immiscible. Residues go cloudy, while stronger concentrations dissolve the gel.
General use:
Smaller specimens need a slide and coverslip, ideally with some sort of spacer (eg plastazote strips) to hold the coverslip up. Put a generous dollop of gel on the slide and place the insect on top. Push it into the gel, gently stroking the surface of the legs with a needle to remove air bubbles as you push them under. Make sure the subject is entirely immersed. Arrange the appendages symmetrically to your taste. Add an extra blob of gel so that the surface rises in the middle - this avoids air bubbles when you add the coverslip. Add the coverslip and gently press it down.
For larger specimens make a sandwich between two microscope slides (double-width slides are easier to handle, if you can get them). The mount can then be turned over to examine the underside.
For oblique views, use a deeper container with a glass coverslip on top.
Protocol for Genitalia Preps:
Genitalia preps to be macerated in hot KOH solution as usual, then left overnight in acid (white wine vinegar or lactic acid) to neutralise all traces of KOH, before transferring to the gel. Beware that any residual water on the specimen will dilute the gel, so perhaps transfer via a small dab of gel to wash it.
References:Author & Year | Title | Source |
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Droege, S. | Preserving with Hand Sanitizer | www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqFaia_8bU&feature=youtu.be |
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