Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society

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A new record of the blackfly Prosimulium latimucro Enderlein (Diptera: Simuliidae) in an upland lake outlet stream in Co. Leitrim, Ireland / Maria Callanan, Jan-Robert Baars and Mary Kelly-Quinn -- Additions, with some corrections, to the records of the craneflies of Ireland (Diptera: Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae and Tipulidae) / P. Ashe, J. P. O’Connor, K. N. A. Alexander, P. J. Chandler and P. Oosterbroek -- Notes on the 2007 breeding season of the natterjack toad Epidalea calamita Laurenti (Anura: Bufonidae) in Ireland / John Kelly Korky -- The ‘Connogh’ and the ‘Arglogher’: 17th-century anecdotes on natural history and folk-medicine from Co. Westmeath / Colm Ronayne -- Records of Irish galls (Fungi; Insecta: Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera; Acarina: Eriophyidae) including eight species new to Ireland and one deletion from the Irish list / J. P. O’Connor, J. P. Bowdrey, M. Redfern and T. Higginbottom -- Crustacean records from Lough Hyne (Ine), Co. Cork, Ireland: part viii J. M. C. Holmes -- More records for uncommon spiders (Araneae), including four species new to Ireland / Martin Cawley --Distribution records for uncommon ants including Stenamma debile (Foerster) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) new to Ireland / Martin Cawley -- On the arrival in Ireland of Sphegina sibirica Stackelberg, 1953 (Diptera: Syrphidae) / Martin C. D. Speight -- Irish spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) collected during a five-year, island-wide study including 696 new county records / Anne Oxbrough -- Drassodes pubescens (Thorell) (Araneae, Gnaphosidae): a spider new to Ireland from calcareous grassland / Myles Nolan and Eugenie C. Regan -- First records of three spider species in Ireland (Araneae): Glyphesis cottonae (La Touche), Mioxena blanda / (Simon) (Linyphiidae) and Segestria florentina (Rossi) (Segestriidae) Myles Nolan -- Arthropod biodiversity of agricultural grassland in south and east Ireland: introduction, sampling sites and Araneae / Annette Anderson, Alvin Helden, Tim Carnus, Rónan Gleeson, Helen Sheridan, Barry McMahon, Julie Melling, Yasmine Lovic and Gordon Purvis -- Arthropod biodiversity of agricultural grassland in south and east Ireland: Hemiptera / Alvin Helden, Annette Anderson and Gordon Purvis -- Arthropod biodiversity of agricultural grassland in south and east Ireland: Coleoptera / Alvin Helden, Annette Anderson and Gordon Purvis -- Arthropod biodiversity of agricultural grassland in south and east Ireland: Parasitoid Hymenoptera / Annette Anderson, Stephen McCormack, Alvin Helden, Gavin Broad, Hannes Baur, John Noyes and Gordon Purvis -- First records of Leptogamasus (Leptogamasus) obesus (Holzmann, 1969) and Leptogamasus (Valigamasus) pannonicus (Willmann, 1951) (Acari: Gamasida: Parasitidae) in Ireland / Julio Arroyo, María Lourdes Moraza and Thomas Bolger -- A short history of The Irish Biogeographical Society / Colm Ronayne and James P. O’Connor -- New publication. An annotated checklist of the Irish two-winged flies (Diptera)