Selwyn Times: October 06, 2021

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HARD WORK: Research technician Sally Ladbrook spent about 700
hours on the new collections.
Beetlemania at
bug museum
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IT’S BEEN a hard
day’s night for Lincoln
University entomology
research collection curator
John Marris and his team.
They recently completed
the mammoth task of
adding 14,000 new beetle
specimens to the university’s
collection.
The beetles, gifted by the
University of Canterbury,
represent the single largest
donation of specimens in
the collection’s 50-year
history.
Numbering almost 1000
species, many of which are
new to science, the specimens
add significantly
to the overall coverage of
insect biodiversity within
the Lincoln collection.
As such, they are a large
addition to the existing
250,000 pinned insects
already held.
Lincoln University
houses one of the country’s
largest entomology collections
and is the only
university-based collection
in New Zealand.
The collection is used by
Lincoln staff and students,
as well as national and
international researchers,
as an identification
reference library and as
a source for new species’
descriptions.
Marris said the beetle
donation came from a
large study on the impact
of forest changes on the
invertebrate fauna in
the Hurunui District. It
focused on topics such as
BUG INVASION: Thousands of new beetle
specimens at Lincoln University will be an
important resource for future research, says
entomology research collection curator John
Marris.
declining forest cover and
edge effects from adjacent
pastoral land.
“It will be an important
resource for future
research on the impacts
of changes to our forests,”
Marris said.
The project took
research technician
Sally Ladbrook around 700
hours to complete.
It was was supported
by funding from the
Brian Mason Scientific and
Technical Trust, which
provides grants for science
and technology in the
Canterbury and Westland
regions.
The New Zealand insect
fauna consists of 10,000
described (named) species,
but it is estimated that
another 10,000 species are
yet to be described.
Beetles account for 40
per cent of all insect species.
The overwhelming
majority of New Zealand
insect species, more than
90 per cent, are endemic to
New Zealand.