Fauna of New Zealand 69 - Landcare Research

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Contributor André Larochelle was born and educated in
Québec, graduating in 1974 with a Brevet d’Enseignement
spécialisé from the Université du Québec à Montréal. He
taught ecology at the Collège Bourget, Rigaud, Québec,
until 1990. With the encouragement of the late carabid
specialist Carl H. Lindroth, André very quickly became
interested in the study of ground-beetles. From 1975 to
1979 he was the co-editor of two entomological journals,
Cordulia and Bulletin d’inventaire des insectes du Québec.
From 1986 to 1992, he was honorary curator to the Lyman
Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, McGill
University, Québec. In 1992, André moved to New Zealand
to work as a research scientist. Currently, he is a Research
Associate with the New Zealand Arthropod Collection,
Landcare Research, Auckland. André has written over 400
papers on the distribution, ecology, biology, and dispersal
power of North American carabids and other insects
(including two handbooks on the Heteroptera of Québec).
In 1990 he published “The food of carabid beetles of the
world”; in 1993, with Yves Bousquet, he co-authored a
“Catalogue of Carabidae of America North of Mexico”;
and in 2001 and 2003, with his wife Marie-Claude, he
published a “Natural History of the tiger beetles of North
America North of Mexico” and “A Natural History of
Carabidae” for the same region. His currrent main research
interests are the faunistics and taxonomy of New Zealand
ground-beetles on which he has co-authored four Fauna of
New Zealand contributions (Catalogue of Carabidae, 2001;
Revision of tribe Harpalini, 2005; Synopsis of supraspecific
taxa, 2007; Synopsis of species, 2013). André is also
actively involved in providing web-based information on
ground-beetles. Finally, he and his wife Marie-Claude have
carried out specialised field inventories in New Zealand for
20 years, surveying Hemiptera and ground-beetles in over
1000 localities so as to gain a better understanding of their
taxonomy, natural history, and biogeography.
Contributor Marie-Claude Larivière was born and
educated in Québec, graduating with a PhD in systematics
entomology from McGill University in 1990. For the
following two years she did postdoctoral research at the
Canadian National Collection (Agriculture Canada, Ottawa).
In 1992, Marie-Claude moved to New Zealand to
work as a full-time Hemiptera systematist with Landcare
Research and Curator of Hemiptera at the New Zealand Arthropod
Collection. From 1994, in addition to working as a
researcher, she has been involved in science management
as Programme Leader, Biosystematics of New Zealand
Land Invertebrates (1994-1997); Project Leader, development
of New Zealand Arthropod Collection’s databasing
(1995-2005, 2011-present) and digital imaging facilities
(1995-2005); Project Leader, establishment of Koiora-
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André Larochelle
me Te Waipounamu. He ahurei tonu tēnei puninga, inā
hoki tōna ngutu whāwhā whai wehenga whakamutunga
pūhuruhuru. Hei ētahi momo he ngoikore noa ngā karu,
he pupuhi tonu te rae, he kōtea, he pāraharaha te tinana, he
huruhuru roroa hei whakakapi. Te āhua nei he noho i raro
i te whenua ēnei. Ko ētahi momo mā ngā tikanga horoi
oneone anake e kohia ai.
Trechini. Ko ngā rerenga o tēnei iwi, 11 ngā puninga, e 34
ngā momo rerekore, ko te rohe o ēnei mai i Te Ika-ā-Māui
ki ngā moutere o Te Moana-o-Te-Tonga. Nō Aotearoa
taketake ngā kanohi katoa o tēnei rōpū, hāunga anō tētahi,
ka kitea hoki tērā i ngā moutere Falkland, i te Moutere o
South Georgia, me Patagonia. Ko te nuinga o ōna momo
he noho ana, he maha tonu hoki he noho ki te tahataha
awa, ko ētahi anō he noho i te takutaki moana, inā koa i
raro i ngā kōhatu, i roto tahora kirikiri hoki. Kotahi anō
te momo ka noho i roto i te paraumu me te pūranga rau
rākau i ngā ngahere tawhai o te tonga. Ko te nuinga o ngā
momo noho ana he kōtea te kano, he pāraharaha te tinana,
he kore karu, he roa ngā hihi me ngā wae. Te āhua nei he
konihi ngā momo o tēnei iwi. Ko te momo matahuhua
rawa ko Duvaliomimus, 13 ōna momo, e rua ngā momo
whāiti; he noho ā-rōpū, he haere pō, he huna i te awatea i
raro i te kōhatu, i roto hoki i ngā kirikiri.
Translation by Piripi Walker
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