Josephine Cardale
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of Queensland
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology
InstitutionsCSIRO,
Australian National Insect Collection
ThesisThe biology of amegilla friese (hymenoptera, apoidea)

Josephine Christina Cardale worked as an entomologist for CSIRO from 1967 to 2001. She was a collection manager of Hymenoptera at the Australian National Insect Collection.[1]

Career

Prior to working for CSIRO, her Master of Science thesis at University of Queensland focused on The biology of amegilla friese (hymenoptera, apoidea).[2] Her thesis focused on describing the females of Amegilla (Amegilla) pulchra (Smith) at nesting sites in Brisbane, Queensland. It also discusses four parasites from A. pulchra cells, and the behaviour of females of Amegilla (Asarapoda) sp. at a nesting site in Brisbane.

During her work at CSIRO, she took part in the pre-wet survey for insects which may indicate environmental pollution at McArthur River, Northern Territory (October–November 1975).[3] The survey was contracted by Mimets Development Pty.Ltd., a subsidiary of Mt Isa Mines. The resulting "Report on a survey of the Insects of the McArthur River Area, NT" recommended insect populations for monitoring effects of water pollution.

Cardale was also part of an intensive collecting trip to the Iron Range area of Cape York, Queensland (June–July 1986), which garnered 50,000 specimens (Upton, p. 240). She was also in the team which recorded some insects in Australia for the first time during a trip to Kununurra (Mitchell Plateau, Western Australia, May 1983) (Upton, pp. 243–4).

She was credited with working with Dr John Lawrence in collecting most of the specimens of Psocoptera from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.[4]

Cardale's volume of the Zoological Catalogue of Australia was reviewed by C.D. Eardley as "...indispensable to anyone interested in Australian bees or pollination biology."[5]

Namesakes

The parasitoid wasp species Ondontacolus cardaleae Valerio & Austin, sp. n. was named after Cardale, who collected the species.[1][6]

She is also the namesake of another parasitoid wasp species which she collected, Ophelosia josephinae sp.n.[7] and a cuckoo wasp, Primeuchroeus cardaleae Bohart.[8]

She is also the namesake of a further parasitoid Ichneumon wasp 'Denticeria cardaleae,' which she collected. sp.n [9]

Publications

  • Cardale, J. (1968), Immature stages of Australian Anthophorinae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Australian Journal of Entomology, 7: 35–41. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1968.tb00698.x[10]
  • W.W.K. Houston & G.V.Maynard (eds). Cardale, J.C. (author). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 10. Hymenoptera: Apoidea. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1993. ix + 406 pp. ISBN 0 644290803

Awards

Cardale was highly commended in the Australian Society of Indexers Medal Award (1992)[11] for her index to Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers.[12][13]

References

  1. 1 2 Valerio, Alejandro A. (2013). Systematics of Old World Odontacolus Kieffer s.l. (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.): parasitoids of spider eggs. Pensoft Publishers Ltd. pp. 31–32.
  2. ↑ Cardale, Josephine Christine (1 January 1967). The biology of amegilla friese (hymenoptera, apoidea) / by Josephine Christine Cardale (Thesis). Brisbane: Thesis MSc - University of Queensland, Brisbane.
  3. ↑ Upton, Murray S. (1997). A rich and diverse fauna: the history of the Australian National Insect Collection 1926-1991. Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing. p. 237. ISBN 978-0643063228.
  4. ↑ Smithers, C. N. (1995). "Psocoptera (Insecta) of Christmas Island". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 9 (3): 529–61. doi:10.1071/IT9950529.
  5. ↑ Eardley, C.D. (1994). "Book reviews: Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 10. Hymenoptera: Apoidea" (PDF). African Entomology. 2 (1): 77.
  6. ↑ G. V. Maynard (May 1997). "Revision of Leioproctus (Anacolletes) Michener and Description of a New Subgenus Leioproctus (Odontocolletes) (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)" (PDF). Australian Journal of Entomology. 36 (2): 141–143. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1997.tb01446.x. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  7. ↑ Berry, Jocelyn Asha (1994). The systematics of the Australasian Eunotinae (Hymenoptera: pteromalidae). Canberra. Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University. pp. 207–209. doi:10.25911/5d7785e9db067.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ Bohart, Richard M. (March 1988). "A key to species of the genus Primeuchroeus and descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae)". Insecta Mundi. 2 (1): 24–25.
  9. ↑ Gauld, Ian (1984). Introduction to the Ichneumonidae of Australia. p. 235.
  10. ↑ Cardale, Josephine (1 June 1968). "Immature Stages of Australian Anthophorinae (hymenoptera: Apoidea)". Australian Journal of Entomology. 7 (1): 35–41. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1968.tb00698.x. ISSN 1440-6055.
  11. ↑ "Australian Society of Indexers Medal Award (1992)" (PDF). InCite: 13. 14 December 1992.
  12. ↑ CSIRO Division of Entomology (1991). Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers (2nd ed.). University of Melbourne Press.
  13. ↑ "Highly Commended indexes". www.anzsi.org. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
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