INJ Volume 33 Part 1

The Irish Naturalists’ Journal Volume 33, Part 1 (published 12 December 2013)

  • Appreciation: Dr Robin Govier, Editor Irish Naturalists’ Journal 1988-2012.
  • What is the taxonomic status of Hieracium hesperium P.D.Sell, Donegal Hawkweed (Asteraceae)?
  • The characteristics of Irish Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) pellets.
  • Skrjabingylus nasicola (Leuckart, 1842) as a parasite of Irish Stoats (Mustela erminea hibernica Thomas and Barrett-Hamilton, 1895).
  • Mite abundance and richness in an Irish survey of soil biodiversity with comments on some newly recorded species.
  • Birds, bugs, bogs, botany and biodiversity: some clergymen naturalists associated with Ireland.
  • Observations on European eel (Anguilla anguilla) populations in two small Irish lakes.
  • Brambles (Rubus fruticosus L. agg.) of the Slieve Bloom Mountains.
  • Observations on road kill of mammals in the west of Ireland.
  • Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans (Rosaceae), new to Ireland.
  • Arabidopsis arenosa (L.) Lawalrée (Brassicaceae), new to Ireland.
  • A record of Juniperus communis L. in Connemara National Park, Co. Galway, H27.
  • Salix x pontederiana Willdenow (S. cinerea Linnaeus x S. purpurea Linnaeus): a hybrid willow confirmed for Ireland.
  • The colonizing of a recently excavated construction site by Bee Orchids (Ophrys apifera Hudson) within the Belfast City boundary, Co. Antrim.
  • Two Welsh Border Rubus species in Co. Mayo: evidence of a westward passage route by berry-eating birds?
  • New Irish fungal records.
  • Corbicula fluminea (Müller) arrives in Lough Derg, River Shannon.
  • First records of the sponge crab Dromia personata (L.) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Irish waters.
  • Dero obtusa D’udekem, a freshwater oligochaete worm (Haplotaxida, Naididae) new to Ireland.
  • Additional species associations of mermithid nematode parasitism of Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera).
  • Leptoglossus occidentalis (Heidemann) (Hemiptera, Coreidae) new to Ireland.
  • The Harlequin Ladybird (Harmonia axyridis (Pallas)) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) established out of doors in Co. Carlow.
  • Telenomus heliodorus Mineo (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Scelionidae) new to Ireland.
  • A second confirmed Irish locality for Dorcatoma dresdensis Herbst (Coleoptera: Anobiidae).
  • A species of aphid, Caricosipha paniculatae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) new for Ireland.
  • Macrosteles variatus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) a leafhopper species new for Ireland.
  • Tunbridge Wells Gem (Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, 1858)) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), a migrant new to Ireland.
  • Observations on the behaviour of Blue Shark (Prionace glauca L.) and Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus Gunnerus) in the North Celtic Sea.
  • Occurrence of wild Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) in the River Dodder at Ballsbridge, Dublin.
  • Juvenile Porbeagle Shark Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre, 1788) stranded live at Crookhaven, Co. Cork.
  • Exceptionally large Angler Fish Lophius piscatorius L. captured on the Labadie Bank, Celtic Sea.
  • Skeletal biometrics of Dunlin (Calidris alpina (L.)).
  • Records of Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea) in Northern Ireland.
  • Urban coastal domestic cat Felis catus (L.) predation on curlew Numenius arquata (L.)
  • Canon Island, Co. Clare as a potential refuge for pygmy shrews from new mammalian invaders.
  • First confirmed record of Hazel Dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) in the wild in Ireland.
  • Review of: ‘Atlas of the Irish rural landscape (Second Edition)’ by F.H.A. Aalen, Kevin Whelan and Matthew Stout (Eds).
  • Review of: ‘Dúlra Oileáin Árann’ by Con Ó Ruairc
  • Review of: ‘An annotated checklist of the Irish Hemiptera and small orders’ by James P. O’Connor and Brian Nelson
  • Review of: ‘Ireland’s Butterflies – A Review’ by David Nash, Trevor Boyd and Deirdre Hardiman
  • Review of: ‘The River Shannon – a journey down Ireland’s longest river’ by Aiveen Cooper