FNZ 45 - Nemonychidae, Belidae, Brentidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) - Contributor notes
Kuschel, G 2003. Nemonychidae, Belidae, Brentidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Fauna of New Zealand 45, 100 pages.
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ISSN 0111-5383 (print),
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ISBN 0-478-09348-9 (print),
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Published 28 Apr 2003
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Contributor notes
Contributor Guillermo (Willy) Kuschel was born in Frutillar, southern Chile. Brought up bilingual in Spanish and German, he also learned English, French, classical Greek, and Latin at college. He graduated at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, with an MSc in 1950 and PhD in 1953. He was a research entomologist at the Instituto de Zoología, Universidad de Chile, and co-founder and editor of the Revista Chilena de Entomología. He was invited to New Zealand in 1962 to be in charge of the then newly created Systematics Section of Entomology Division, DSIR. His interest in plant/insect associations started early in his teens, and he later devoted most of his time to weevils, especially to those of conifers and other early plant groups. He traveled extensively in South America and New Zealand doing fieldwork. He was editor of a book on ecology and biogeography of New Zealand, and is author of over one hundred publications on taxonomy, biology, ecology, biogeography, paleontology, and higher classification of weevils. Married to Beverley A. Holloway (author of Fauna of New Zealand 3 on the Orthoceri weevil family Anthribidae), they have two daughters and a son.
I whānau mai te kaituhi, a Guillermo (Willy) Kuschel, ki Frutillar, i te tonga o Chile. Ko te reo Pāniora me te reo Tiamana ngā reo o te kāinga i a ia e tamariki ana, ā, me tana ako anō i te reo Ingarihi, te reo Wīwī, te reo Kariki onamata, tae atu ki te reo Rātini i te kura tuarua. Nō te tau 1950 i whakawhiwhia ai ia ki tana tohu MSc e te Universidad de Chile, Santiago, whai i muri mai ko tana tohu Ph D i te tau 1953. He kairangahau pepeke ia i te Instituto de Zoología o te Universidad de Chile, ā, ko ia tētahi o te tokorua nā rāua te pukapuka Revista Chilena de Entomología i whakatū. Ko ia anō te ētita o taua rauemi. He mea āta pōhiri ia kia haere mai ki Aotearoa i te tau 1962 hei rangatira mō te Kaupeka Whakapapa o te Wāhanga Pepeke o te DSIR kātahi anō ka whakatūria i tērā wā. Nōna e taiohi tonu ana, ka tipu ake tana minamina ki ngā hononga i waenga i ngā tipu me ngā pepeke. Nō muri mai, ka whāiti ake tana titiro ki ngā wīwhara, me te aronui ki ērā e noho tahi ana ki ngā rākau whai koroī me ērā atu kāhui tipu o tuauri whāioio. I kaha tonu tana toro haere i Amerika ki te Tonga me Aotearoa, he rangahau ā-nuku te mahi. Ko ia te ētita o tētahi pukapuka e pā ana ki te taupuhi kaiao me te arowhenua-koiora o Aotearoa, ā, he neke atu i te kotahi rau ngā tānga kōrero kua puta i a ia e pā ana ki te whakarōpūtanga, te koiora, te taupuhi kaiao, te arowhenua-koiora, te mātai mātātoka, me ngā whakarōpūtanga whakarunga o ngā wīwhara. Ko Beverley A. Holloway tana hoa rangatira (nāna ngā kōrero o Te Aitanga Pepeke o Aotearoa 3, e pā ana ki te whānau wīwhara Anthribidae, o te rōpū Orthoceri). E rua ā rāua tamāhine, kotahi te tama.