FNZ 53 - Harpalini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae) - Contributor notes
Larochelle, A; Larivière, M-C 2005. Harpalini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae). Fauna of New Zealand 53, 160 pages.
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ISSN 0111-5383 (print),
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53.
ISBN 0-478-09369-1 (print),
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Published 04 Jul 2005
ZooBank: http://zoobank.org/References/5A8BF6BE-EA73-4476-8C81-E4F00709AC9B
Contributor notes
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, up to 1990. With the encouragement of the late carabid specialist Carl H. Lindroth, André very quickly becames interested to 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 1993 he was co-author of a “Catalogue of Carabidae of America north of Mexico”. With his wife, Marie-Claude, he published “A Natural History of Carabidae” for the same region (2003) as well as a catalogue of New Zealand Carabidae (2001) and Heteroptera (2004). His current main research interest is the faunistics and taxonomy of New Zealand ground beetles, which involves a soon-to-be-published identification guide to the tribes and genera of Carabidae from New Zealand.
Contributor Marie-Claude Larivière was born and educated in Québec, graduating with a Ph.D. in systematic entomology from McGill University in 1990. For the following 2 years she did postdoctoral research at Agriculture Canada, Ottawa. In 1992, Marie-Claude moved to New Zealand to work as a full-time Hemiptera biosystematist with Landcare Research. From 1994 to 1997 she led the Biosystematics of New Zealand Land Invertebrates programme, and from 1999 to 2004, the Koiora-BioAssist™ project (Biodiversity Assessment using Information Technology and Taxonomy). Marie-Claude is the author of over 70 papers and monographs on the taxonomy, distribution, and natural history of Hemiptera and Carabidae (Coleoptera), including four Fauna of New Zealand contributions (Hemiptera—Cixiidae and Pentatomoidea revisions, catalogues—Carabidae and Heteroptera ). She has also published on North American Orthoptera and Carabidae. Many of her publications were written in collaboration with her husband André with whom she hopes to soon publish new works on New Zealand Hemiptera and Carabidae. Marie-Claude has a keen interest in biodiversity informatics, especially digital taxonomy, computer imaging, interactive identification, and web-publishing.