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Articles, short notes and some regular features from printed issues of Invertebrata are listed on this page. Links to individual items are given if available, or to the whole issue (as a downloadable PDF file). Please note that we haven't listed some minor items, such as cartoons and desperate calls by the editor for contributions (!). For all issues beginning with no. 10, minor items can be viewed in the PDF versions.

Please also note: although the print (photocopied) version of Invertebrata was sent to about 200 individuals, institutions and libraries around the world, Invertebrata was NOT a formal publication, and you should not cite an article appearing here as though it had been properly published. If you wish to reproduce any item from Invertebrata, please contact the author for permission.

Issues 1-7 of Invertebrata (spring 1994 - spring/summer 1996/97) were edited by Louise McGowan (Zoology Research Officer at QVMAG) and all subsequent issues by Bob Mesibov (QVMAG Research Associate).


Invertebrata 21, November 2001 (download as PDF, 1264 kb)

- Andrew Hingston et al.: Another introduced hymenopteran (abstract) view
- Sandy Leighton: A tale of two rare and threatened invertebrates view
- Bob Mesibov: Odd tales from the overstorey view
- Craig Proctor & Tim McManus: Asterias amurensis and Henderson Lagoon view
- Owen Seeman & Lionel Hill: Bede Lowery and those fire ants view
- Notices & reviews: Butterflies in the Pine Rivers Shire (poster) view
- Notices & reviews: Jewel beetles of Tasmania (book) view
- Editorial view, Historical footnote view, Invertebrates in the media view, Literary footnote view, What is it? view

Invertebrata 20, July 2001 (download as PDF, 671 kb)

- Bonnie Bain: Pycnogonids (sea spiders) of southeastern Australia and Tasmania view
- Dick Bashford: Forestry Tasmania & IBOY projects view
- Rob Blakemore: Tasmanian earthworm grows second head view
- Fredric Govedich et al.: Parental care in leeches view
- Alison Green: The riddle of Schayer's slater, Spherillo misellus (Crustacea: Isopoda) view
- Mark Harvey: A little bit of the north is down south view
- Lionel Hill & Bob Mesibov: Happily bugged view
- Joanna Lyall: A study of Astacopsis gouldi habitat in two rivers in northwest Tasmania view
- Tim McManus & Craig Proctor: Bad news from Henderson Lagoon view
- Craig Reid: Beetles for bones view
- Brian Smith: News from QVMAG view
- Liz Turner: Recent spider crab aggregations view
- Leigh Winsor: Confessions of a serial sectioner view
- Leigh Winsor: Land planarians found on Macquarie Island view
- Notices & reviews: An introduction to the invertebrates (book) view
- Editorial view, Historical footnote view, Invertebrates in the media view

Invertebrata 19, March 2001 (download as PDF, 588 kb)

- Rachel Anderson: Ptunarra Brown butterfly project
- Kevin Bonham: The ballad of little 'Al'
- Michael Driessen: World Heritage Area invertebrate projects
- Bob Mesibov: Invertebrate politics: Anoglypta
- Bob Mesibov: (Some) University of Tasmania invertebrate research projects
- Brian Smith: A snail training course
- Brian Smith: The grass is always greener
- Belinda Yaxley: Austral conifer entomofauna
- Belinda Yaxley: Glow worm tours
- Notices & reviews: Australian ants (book)
- Notices & reviews: Australian insects (book)
- Editorial, Good news/bad news, Invertebrates in the media, The worth of a bird, What is it?

Invertebrata 18, November 2000 (download as PDF, 357 kb)

- Anonymous: Anaspides (poem)
- Wolfgang Dohle: Hunting for Anaspides eggs
- Lionel Hill: Spring emergence dates for cabbage white butterfly in Tasmania
- Brian Smith: QVMAG mollusc happenings
- Brian Smith: To list or not to list
- Bill Thomas, Warwick Nash: The trouble with Astacopsis
- Liz Turner: Micro-molluscs
- David Wilcove & Thomas Eisner: The impending extinction of natural history (reprint)
- Editorial, Invertebrates in the media, Letters to the editor, What is it?

Invertebrata 17, July 2000 (download as PDF, 488 kb)

- Dick Bashford: A new species of 'European' wasp in Tasmania
- Sharna Baylis & Susan Hirst: A study of the white-tailed spider, Lampona cylindrata
- Penny Greenslade: Completion of the 'Invertebrate site register' project in Tasmania
- Andrew Hingston: Bumblebees - another exotic organism for Australia
- Jennifer Rowlands: Hellyer's cicada
- Liz Turner: Buzzing around Tasmania
- Liz Turner & Richard Willan: Macquarie Harbour gives up some of its molluscan secrets
- Liz Turner: The saga of 'Squidly'
- Editorial, Historical footnote, How to..., Invertebrates in the media

Invertebrata 16, March 2000 (download as PDF, 516 kb)

- Australian Museum: Become immortal!
- Niall Doran: Developing Tasmania's Nature Conservation Strategy
- Michael Driessen: News of WHA invertebrates
- Jean Jackson: Conservation of the giant freshwater lobster Astacopsis gouldi
- Bob Mesibov: How to age and sex a flatback millipede
- Peter McQuillan: News from the Uni
- J.T. Moss: Notes on the Tasmanian cicada fauna with comments on its uniqueness (reprint)
- Helen Otley: Hunting the burgundy snail
- Craig Reid: QVM capers
- Trevor Semmens: Draw an insect!
- Brian Smith: QVM shapers
- Editorial, Historical footnote, Invertebrates in the media, Zit zit revealed

Invertebrata 15, November 1999 (download as PDF, 501 kb)

- Stefan Eberhard: News from the Mole Creek caves
- Brita Hansen: Ever-changing names, or why ecologists hate taxonomists!
- Lionel Hill: Linking collection databases
- Peter McQuillan: A new subfamily of tineid moth recorded in Tasmania
- Bob Mesibov: Seafood cheques and balances
- Laurence Mound: The thrips of Australia...and Tasmania!
- Owen Seeman: The hidden world of passalid beetles
- Brian Smith & Liz Turner: Museum news
- Veronica Thorp: Another spider crab stranding
- Liz Turner: Bumblebee update
- Notices & reviews: ICZN Code 4th edition (book)
- Notices & reviews: Lea's legacy (book)
- Notices & reviews: The other 99% (book)
- Editorial, Historical footnote, Invertebrates in the media, To Sweden with the BBC

Invertebrata 14, July 1999 (download as PDF, 400 kb)

- Kevin Bonham: Anoglypta crawls off list
- Niall Doran: Good news for the BBC
- Caleb Gardner: Spider crab aggregation on Tasmania's northwest coast
- Lionel Hill & Trevor Semmens: DPIWE happenings
- Jean Jackson: Rediscovery of McCubbin's and Lake Pedder caddisflies
- Brian Smith: Happenings at QVMAG
- Brian Smith: Insects - THE success story
- Notices & reviews: Between Tasmanian tidelines (book)
- Notices & reviews: Terrestrial flatworm workshop (journal issue)
- Editorial, Historical footnote, Invertebrates in the media

Invertebrata 13, March 1999 (download as PDF, 378 kb)

- Dick Bashford: Collections conference
- Kevin Bonham & David Obendorf: Anoglypta goes political
- Chas Canden: Letter to the editor, Examiner newspaper (reprint)
- Bob Mesibov: Birds 5, bugs 1 - the NHT is perpetuating the conservation bias against invertebrates
- Alastair Richardson & Roy Swain: Cuties in the pouch - the other marsupials
- Renate van Riet: Snow flea, where are you?
- Brian Smith: Snail news from QVMAG
- Brian Smith & Liz Turner: Museum news
- Liz Turner: Jellyfish and their human 'relations'
- Invetebrates in the media

Invertebrata 12, November 1998 (download as PDF, 436 kb)

- Ian Bayly: Beetle-mites that take to the water
- Rob Blakemore: Heads or tails?
- Kevin Bonham: Atlasing Tasmanian snails
- Roger Buttermore: Sees bees overseas
- Michael Driessen: What's on in the WHA Fauna Program for 1998/99
- Jane Elek: Honours and post-graduate projects at the University of Tasmania
- Lionel Hill: Windy old weather
- Jeff Meggs & Sarah Munks: Conservation management of Hoplogonus simsoni
- Alastair Richardson: Crustacean conferences
- Trevor Semmens: New flowers visited by bumblebees
- Roy Swain: Scorpions wanted
- Editorial

Invertebrata 11, July 1998 (download as PDF, 710 kb)

- Dick Bashford: Monitoring for autumn gum moth in Eucalyptus plantations
- Tracey Churchill: Monitoring spider diversity (abstract)
- Mark Harvey: 'What is it?' poem
- Lionel Hill: Pepper-suckers and taco-lovers
- Tim Kingston: Return of the Spider Woman
- Bob Mesibov: Curious, yes, but not all that rare
- David Obendorf: Nematodes infecting human muscles
- Alastair Richardson: News from the Uni
- Rob Taylor: PVA to stick snails in place
- Liz Turner: News from TMAG
- Liz Turner: Two new records of molluscs probably introduced into southeastern Tasmania
- Cathy Young: A study of the geometrid moth genus Paralaea in Tasmania
- Notices & reviews: Mollusca - the southern synthesis (book)
- Editorial, Invertebrate crime does not pay!, What is it?

Invertebrata 10, March 1998 (download as PDF, 425 kb)

- Sally Bryant: What has the Threatened Species Unit done for invertebrate conservation? ...I hear you say
- Michael Driessen: News from the WHA Zoologist
- Caleb Gardner: The southern rock lobster recruitment monitoring program
- Julian Finn: Sex and the giant squid
- Bob Mesibov: A millipede name re-attached
- Alastair Richardson: On the beach
- Brian Smith: Are snails bad for your health?
- Brian Smith & Liz Turner: Around the traps
- Liz Turner: 'Zoom in' to the microscopic world
- Editorial, Historical footnote, Letter to the editor, What is it?

Invertebrata 9, November 1997

- Dick Bashford, Tim Kingston, Alastair Richardson, Trevor Semmens, Liz Turner: Around the traps
- Ian Bayly: Gnammas and their freshwater fauna (view)
- Sylvana Bettiol & David Obendorf: Cats and toxoplasmosis (view)
- Rob Blakemore: First 'common earthworm' found in Tasmania (view)
- DELM: Back from the dead (view)
- David Britton: The costs of feeding on an introduced tree species for an Australian lepidopteran (abstract)
- Jim Nelson: Rethinking the common name of Astacopsis gouldi (view)
- Liz Turner: When a Paper Nautilus is not a nautilus (view)
- David Yeates: Back from the missing (view)
- Notices & reviews: A field guide to insects in Australia (book)
- Notices & reviews: (four Tasmanian plant identification guides)
- Editorial, Historical Footnote, How to...

Invertebrata 8, June 1997

- Dick Bashford, Roger Buttermore, Tim Kingston & Trevor Semmens: Around the traps
- Jean Jackson: Towards nationally consistent identification of larval caddisflies (Trichoptera) (view)
- Bob Mesibov: Weird geology (view)
- Trevor Semmens: Girault's gems (view)
- Brian Smith: How to collect, preserve and package land snails (view)
- Liz Turner & Jeff Cossum: Strange spider sightings (view)
- Notices & reviews: Colour guide to invertebrates of Australian inland waters (book)
- Editorial, Historical footnote (view), What is it?

Invertebrata 7, Spring-Summer 1996/97

- Claudia Brockmann: Current research (view)
- Tim Kingston & Alastair Richardson: Around the traps
- Louise McGowan: Unusual web-building behaviour in the redback spider Latrodectus hasselti (view)
- Bob Mesibov: Land nemertines for fun and profit (view)
- Rob Raven: Around Australia in 22 days (view)

Invertebrata 6, Autumn-Winter 1996

- Dick Bashford & Louise McGowan: Around the traps
- Sally Bryant: Invertebrate research in the CRA
- Niall Doran: 'Spiders Alive!' at QVMAG
- Alison Green: An isopod species, Cymodetta gambosa, found in brackish water in Tasmania (view)
- Alison Green: Two crab species from the Tamar River, Tasmania (view)
- Tim Kingston: An atlas and guide to the earthworms of Tasmania
- Bob Mesibov: Chordeumatidan millipedes (view)
- Sophie Reid: Observations of a breeding cockroach (view)
- Mike Tobias: The leaf beetle, Cadmus australis (Family Chrysomelidae) (view)

Invertebrata 5, Spring-Summer 1995/96

- Louise McGowan & Liz Turner: Around the traps
- Jane Griffith: Arm regeneration in the eleven-armed sea-star Coscinasterias calamaria (Gray, 1840) (view)
- Jane Griffith: Death by sponge! (view)
- Tim Kingston & Rob Blakemore: Plomley Foundation funds earthworm taxonomy
- Louise McGowan: Treatment of the Redback Spider bite (view)
- Tim McManus: A proliferation of Rosy Screw Shells (view)
- Bob Mesibov: A first sighting? (view)
- Bob Mesibov: Evening strolls in the forest (view)
- Liz Turner: Rediscovery of Lake Fenton Funnelweb (view)

Invertebrata 4, Winter 1995

- Anonymous: Around the traps
- Anonymous: The European Shore Crab Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) happily breeding in Tasmania (view)
- Michael Fletcher: Lepidoptera collection, QVMAG
- Jane Griffith: Ballast water - a major marine pollutant (view)
- Tim McManus: Those beastly jellyfish (view)
- Bob Mesibov: The identity of Shelob (view)
- Mike Tobias: Ticked off! (view)
- Letter to the editor

Invertebrata 3, Autumn 1995

- Anonymous: Around the traps
- Jane Griffith, Brian Smith & Tim McManus: A preliminary report on large aggregations of Turbo undulatus Solander... (view)
- Bob Mesibov: Pitfall trapping (view)
- Liz Turner: Digital imaging in the Tasmanian Museum (view)

Invertebrata 2, December 1994

- Anonymous: Around the traps
- Shelley Barker: Jewel beetles
- Mike Cassidy: Waterwatch
- Alison Green: Isopods from Queensland
- Bede Lowery: The Myrmecia of Tasmania (view)
- Tim McManus: An unusual proliferation of heart urchins, Echinocardium cordatum (view)
- Bob Mesibov: Where it all started (view)
- Winston Ponder: Hydrobiid gastropods
- Lynne Robertson: Spider survey
- Trevor Semmens: The bumblebees are really buzzing! (view)
- Mike Tobias: Leech bites - goodies and baddies (view)
- Letter to the editor

Invertebrata 1, Spring 1994

- Anonymous: Around the traps
- Shelley Barker: Have you seen...? (view)
- Tim McManus: Much worse than 'flu (view)
- Bob Mesibov: Colourful but puzzling (view)
- David Obendorf: Wildlife parasitology (view)
- Martin Steinbauer: Acantholybas kirkaldyi Bergroth (Hemiptera: Coreidae) rediscovered (view)
- Letters to the editor

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