New Zealand Journal of Zoology 2000

Volume 27/Number 1/March 2000

Information for authors

List of referees

Taxonomy

Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Wiseana (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) BARBARA BROWN, ROWAN EMBERSON, ADRIAN PATERSON
The larva of Hydrobiosis torrentis Ward (Trichoptera: Hydrobiosidae) BRIAN J. SMITH
Additions to New Zealand notonemourid stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) I. D. MCLELLAN

Invertebrate zoology

Prey preferences and visual discrimination ability of Brettus, Cocalus and Cyrba, araneophagic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia, Kenya and Sri Lanka ROBERT R. JACKSON
Density dependent prey-feeding time of Stethorus bifidus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on Tetranychus lintearius (Acari: Tetranychidae) PAUL G. PETERSON, PETER G. MCGREGOR, B. P. SPRINGETT

Biostatistics

The problems of analysis of pilot-reported bird-strikes as an index for actual bird-strikes at airports JENNIFER BROWN, GRAHAM HICKLING

Pests

Do brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) show preferences for exogenous odours associated with food? J. H. TODD J. R. WAAS, C. E. O'CONNOR
Movements by stoats (Mustela erminea) and ferrets (M. furo) through rank grass of yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) breeding areas H. RATZ

Forum--Biological control of wasps B. J. DONOVAN, J. R. BEGGS, R. J. HARRIS

Volume 27/Number 2/June 2000

Biology of pests

Assessing spatial activity in captive feral ferrets, Mustela furo L. (Carnivora: Mustelidae) G. MEDINA-VOGEL , G. J. HICKLING, B. K. CLAPPERTON
Sensitivities of mosquitofish and black mudfish to a piscicide: could rotenone be used to control mosquitofish in New Zealand wetlands? KATE WILLIS, NICHOLAS LING

Invertebrate zoology

Phenology of native weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in New Zealand pastures and parasitism by the introduced braconid, Microctonus aethiopoides Loan (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) B. I. P. BARRATT, C. M. FERGUSON A. A. EVANS , M. R. MCNEILL, P. J. ADDISON
Tinginotum Kirkaldy in New Zealand and Australia: a shared new species, and a new species of Tinginotopsis Poppius from Norfolk Island (Hemiptera: Miridae) A. C. EYLES
The species of Saemundssonia (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from skuas (Aves: Stercorariidae) RICARDO L. PALMA
Web use during predatory encounters between Portia fimbriata, an araneophagic jumping spider, and its preferred prey, other jumping spiders ROBERT J. CLARK, ROBERT R. JACKSON

Notes

Notes on Antarctic wildlife: Ross seals Ommatophoca rossii and emperor penguins Aptenodytes forsteri JOHN F. SPLETTSTOESSER, MARIA GAVRILO, CARMEN FIELD, CONRAD FIELD, PETER HARRISON, MIKE MESSICK, PETER OXFORD, FRANK S. TODD

Errata

A. C. Eyles

Volume 27/Number 3/September 2000

Biology and control of pests

The potential for biological control of stoats (Mustela erminea) GRANT NORBURY
Hen eggs poisoned with sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) for control of stoats (Mustela erminea) in New Zealand E. B. SPURR
The use of poison eggs for the control of stoats PETER DILKS, BARRY LAWRENCE
Den sharing behaviour of captive brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) T. D. DAY C. E. O'CONNOR , J. R. WAAS
Nesting biology of Asian paper wasps Polistes chinensis antennalis Pérez, and Australian paper wasps P. humilis (Fab.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in northern New Zealand B. KAY CLAPPERTON, PETER L. LO
Development of the willow sawfly, Nematus oligospilus, at different temperatures, and an estimation of voltinism throughout New Zealand J. G. CHARLES, D. J. ALLAN
Comparison of the capture efficiency of a kill-trap set for brushtail possums that excludes ground-birds, and ground set leg-hold traps G. A. MORRISS, B. WARBURTON, W. A. RUSCOE

Native mammals

Influence of season, habitat, temperature, and invertebrate availability on nocturnal activity of the New Zealand long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) COLIN F. J. O'DONNELL

Invertebrate zoology

Rediscovery of the New Zealand diving beetle Rhantus plantaris Sharp, and notes on the south west Australian R. simulans Régimbart, with an identification key (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) MICHAEL BALKE, DAMIR KOVAC, LARS HENDRICH, GüNTHER FLECHTNER
Coexistence of two species of Halipeurus (Phthiraptera) on Chatham Island taiko (Pterodroma magentae) (Aves) RICARDO L. PALMA, MICHAEL J. IMBER
A revision of Cristaperla (plecoptera: notonemouridae) and some comments on notonemouridae and its generic groups I. D. MCLELLAN
Two new and peculiar species of Grania (Annelida: Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) inhabiting Tasmanian estuaries EMILIA ROTA, CHRISTER ERSéUS

Volume 27/Number 4/December 2000

Special issue: New Zealand seabirds

Guest editorial

The importance of seabird research for New Zealand H. MOLLER , C. FRAMPTON , A. G. HOCKEN , I. G. MCLEAN , V. SAFFER , L. SHERIDAN

Penguins

Climate fluctuation effects on breeding of blue penguins (Eudyptula minor) LYNDON PERRIMAN, DAVE HOUSTON, HARALD STEEN, EDDA JOHANNESEN
Blue penguin (Eudyptula minor) nest distribution and breeding success on Otago Peninsula, 1992 to 1998 LYNDON PERRIMAN, HARALD STEEN
Prolonged foraging trips and egg desertion in little penguins (Eudyptula minor) MIHOKO NUMATA, LLOYD. S. DAVIS, MARTIN RENNER
Fidelity and breeding success of the blue penguin Eudyptula minor on Matiu-Somes Island, Wellington, New Zealand LEIGH BULL
Internal organ weights of the blue penguin Eudyptula minor A. G. HOCKEN
Cause of death in blue penguins (Eudyptula m. minor) in North Otago, New Zealand A. G. HOCKEN
Genetic monogamy mirrors social monogamy in the Fiordland crested penguin IAN G. MCLEAN , STEPHANIE D. KAYES, JAN O. MURIE, LLOYD S. DAVIS, DAVID M. LAMBERT
Investigations into climate influence on population dynamics of yellow-eyed penguins Megadyptes antipodes L. PEACOCK M. PAULIN J. DARBY

Shearwaters and diving petrels

Sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus) breeding colonies on mainland South Island, New Zealand: evidence of decline and predictors of persistence CHRIS JONES
Aspects of the breeding ecology of the North Island little shearwater Puffinus assimilis haurakiensis ANDREA M. BOOTH , EDWARD O. MINOT , MIKE J. IMBER , ROBIN A. FORDHAM
Interannual variations in the diet of breeding sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus) J. C. KITSON , J. B. CRUZ, C. LALAS, J. B. JILLETT, J. NEWMAN, P. O'B. LYVER
Telemetry reduces colony attendance by sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus) ILKA S. SöHLE , HENRIK MOLLER, DAVID FLETCHER, CHRISTOPHER J. R. ROBERTSON
Seasonal variation in the diet of stoats in a breeding colony of Hutton's shearwaters RICHARD CUTHBERT , ERICA SOMMER , LLOYD S. DAVIS
The response of a colony of sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus) and flesh-footed shearwater (P. carneipes) to the cessation of harvesting and the eradication of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) PETER GAZE
What limits the harvest of sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus) on Poutama Island? P. O'B. LYVER
Muttonbirder selectivity of sooty shearwater (tïtï) chicks harvested in New Zealand CHRISTINE M. HUNTER , HENRIK MOLLER, JANE KITSON
Preliminary molecular analysis of Pelecanoides georgicus (Procellariiformes: Pelecanoididae) on Whenua Hou (Codfish Island): implications for its taxonomic status ADRIAN M. PATERSON, LISE J. WALLIS, GRAHAM P. WALLIS

Erratum: R. L. Palma, in vol. 27, No. 2, June 2000.
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