Leaf Beetle Enthusiasts met in York

摘要

Within the frame of the 10th European Congress of Entomology, Michael Geiser from the Natural History Museum, London, and I organised the 2nd European Symposium on the Chrysomelidae. We had six talks, presented by four speakers of whom two came from overseas (Fig. 1). Health problems prevented our honoured senior colleague, Pierre Jolivet (Paris, France) from attending in person. However, he had sent a manuscript of his keynote lecture "Together with 30 years of symposia on Chrysomelidae - what do weknow more about leaf beetles?" which was read out, accompanied by pictures highlighting some episodes of the history of leaf beetles symposia from 1981 to date. Caroline Chaboo (Lawrence, Kansas, USA) spoke about "The roles of phylogeny and ecology shaping cassidine beetle associations with diverse tropical vegetation"and on "The beetle families of Peru". Michael Geiser reported on "The Chrysomelidae collections of the Natural History Museum, London", while Margarete Valverde Macedo (Rio de Janeireo, Brazil) gave a talk on "Phenology of leaf beetles in a tropical montane forest in Southeast Brazil". The talk on "Functional morphology of the copulatory organs of a reed beetle (Donaciinae) and a shining leaf beetle (Criocerinae) using micro-CT" by myself closed our symposium, which was well attended by some 30 colleagues.