New Zealand Journal of Zoology 1998

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Volume 25/Number 1/March 1998

Conservation of native vertebrates

• Historical and modern distribution and abundance of the New Zealand sea lion Phocarctos hookeri
• Fine-scale genetic structuring in endemic galaxiid fish populations of the Taieri River

  Entomology

• Predatory and scavenging behaviour of Microvelia macgregori (Hemiptera: Veliidae), a water-surface bug from New Zealand
• Review of the genus Aneurus from New Zealand with description of three new species (Heteroptera, Aradidae)
• The identity of Romna marginicollis (Reuter), a new name for marginicollis sensu Eyles & Carvalho, and notes on two other mirids (Hemiptera)
• Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of New Zealand agricultural grassland and lucerne as potential non-target hosts of the parasitoids Microctonus aethiopoides Loan and Microctonus hyperodae Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

  Biology of pests

• Trap catch as a relative index of ferret (Mustela furo) abundance in a New Zealand pastoral habitat
• The insect fauna of four weedy Hieracium (Asteraceae) species in New Zealand

Volume 25/Number 2/June 1998

Physiology

• Normothermy, torpor, and arousal in hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) from Dunedin

  Control of pest mammals

• Endoparasites of possums from selected areas of North Island, New Zealand
• Evaluation of escape rates by possums captured in Victor No. 1 Soft Catch traps
• Evaluation of iophenoxic acid and rhodamine B for marking feral ferrets (Mustela furo)

  Native vertebrates

• Distribution and movements of Buller's albatross (Diomedea bulleri) in Australasian seas
• The taxonomic identity of a population of terrestrial Leiopelma (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) recently discovered in the northern King Country, New Zealand
• The effect of recording situation on the echolocation calls of the New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata Gray)

  Entomology

• Arboreal arthropod communities of remnant podocarp-hardwood rainforest in North Island, New Zealand
• Two new species of Diphascon (Eutardigrada) from New South Wales, Australia
• Area codes for recording specimen localities in the New Zealand subregion
• A revision of Acroperla (Plecoptera: Zelandoperlinae) and removal of species to Taraperla new genus

  Invertebrate zoology

• Plesioungella kathleenae gen. n. et sp. n. (Nematoda: Drilonematoidea) from the Australian endemic megascolecid earthworm Fletcherodrilus unicus (Fletcher, 1889)

  Parasitology

• Checklist of protozoan and closely related parasites of terrestrial mammals in New Zealand

Volume 25/Number 3/September 1998

Biology of pests

• Bait shyness and its prevention in the rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus L.
• Dynamics of sparse rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), Orongorongo Valley, New Zealand

  Ecology and behaviour

• Introgressive hybridisation, ducks, and ecological character displacement
• Prey-capture techniques and prey preferences of nine species of ant-eating jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Philippines

  Invertebrate taxonomy

• Three new species of Climocella (Gastropoda: Punctoidea: Charopidae) from northern New Zealand, and transfer/assignment of Charopa (Mocella) accelerata Climo, 1970 to the genus Flammocharopa Climo, 1970
• New Zealand nemertines from kelp holdfasts: Hoplonemertinea 1. Nipponnemertes sanguinea sp. n.

  Reproduction

• Influence of X-rays on incubation in tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus
• Ovarian structure in a millipede, Eumastigonus sp. (Diplopoda; Cambalidae), from New Zealand

Volume 25/Number 4/December 1998

Pest control

• Brodifacoum residues in target and non-target animals following large-scale poison operations in New Zealand podocarp-hardwood forests
• Effects of rat-poisoning operations on abundance and diet of mustelids in New Zealand podocarp forests
• The bethyline species (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae: Bethylinae) imported into New Zealand for biological control of pest leafrollers

  Entomology

• The subfamily Anthribinae in New Caledonia and Vanuatu (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)
• Larval stages of three Meropathus species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae: Ochthebiinae) from New Zealand
• The larva of Hydrobiosis gollanis Mosely (Trichoptera: Hydrobiosidae)
• The New Zealand planthopper genus Semo White (Hemiptera: Cixiidae): taxonomic review, geographical distribution, and biology

  Vertebrate biology

• Determining burrow occupancy, fledging success and land-based threats to mainland and near-shore island sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus) colonies
• Accidental importation of an Australian bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespadelus vulturnus) into New Zealand
• Diet and life history variation in the sympatric lizards Oligosoma nigriplantare polychroma and Oligosoma lineoocellatum

• Book review

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