ENTOMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN ANTARCTICA

• Main Authors: K. A. J. Wise, C. E. Fearon, O. R. Wilkes, Bernice P. Bishop
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1964
• Subjects: Antarctic; Cape Geology; Cape Hallett; Fearon; Granite Harbor; Hallett; Leech; Marble Point; McMurdo Sound; New Zealand; Penny Lake; Ross Sea; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Gomphiocephalus hodgsoni; Mite
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.525.5275; http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pdf/6(3)-541.pdf

tica, during the 1962-63 summer season are reported. A survey extended into a biologically unknown area produced new distribution records for 2 collembolan species and 2 mite spe-cies. Regular ecological observations at 4 localities in south Victoria Land are recorded. These relate environmental conditions to diurnal and seasonal activities, distribution, and abundance of a collembolan, Gomphiocephalus hodgsoni Carp. Relative abundance and food of insects and mites are also considered. During the 1962-63 Antarctic summer season Bishop Museum field personnel continued investigations in the Ross Sea area. In early October 1962, Wise and Wilkes joined a New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme motor-toboggan party which travelled north along the south Victoria Land coast. Areas of bare ground investigated included Cape Geo-logy in Granite Harbor which is the type locality for the collembolan species Gomphioce-phalus hodgsoni Carp. In late November Wise and Fearon began ecological studies at Lake Penny, Lake Pewe, Marble Point and Cape Geology, and these were continued for the re-mainder of the season by Fearon. From late November to January, Wilkes investigated the McMurdo Sound area for spiders and aquatic mites. J. L. Gressitt worked in the Mc-Murdo Sound area for a short period in January 1963, while J. C. L. M. Mather, who was operating aerial nets on ships, spent one day in February ashore at Cape Hallett searching for spiders and collecting moss and soil samples. Part of the results are recorded in the paper preceding this one, but most of the results for 1962-63 are recorded below in two sections: I. A survey of Collembola and mites conducted during an expedition in south Victoria Land, II. Aspects of soil arthropod ecology at four localities in south Victoria Land. A few determinations have already been noted (Gressitt, Leech & Wise 1963; Womersley