Association of Westphalian Entomologists

The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Westfälischer Entomologen e. V. was founded in Bielefeld in 1965 as a working group of East Westphalian-Lippe entomologists and is based in the city's natural history museum . Some members of the AG perform biological studies on the Westphalian and German insects - fauna through. Furthermore, the working group looks after and processes the insect collections of the Natural History Museum.

Federal Entomology Committee at NABU

Werner Schulze, chairman of the working group, also chairs the BFA Entomology in the German Nature Conservation Union (NABU). The Federal Technical Committee is an important communication body for the cooperation between scientifically working entomologists and practical nature conservation. Specialist conferences and the BFA newsletter provide information on current topics in entomology. The BFA Entomology is also the publisher of the specialist journal INSECTA .

Specialist publications

The working group is the publisher of three specialist journals:

• Communications from the Association of Westphalian Entomologists ( ISSN  1619-7836 )

Until 2002, the journal was run under the name Mitteilungen of the Working Group of East Westphalian-Lippe Entomologists .

• Attachments to the communications of the Association of Westphalian Entomologists
• Bembix ( ISSN  0946-6193 )

Bembix was developed by the hymenopterists Dr. Christian Schmid-Egger and Heinrich Wolf founded and published by the Association of Westphalian Entomologists. The first two issues appeared as a circular for all friends of the Aculeates (from issue No. 2 "Akuleates") Hymenoptera in Karlsruhe - from issue No. 3 as Bembix, published in Bielefeld.

Web links

• official website
• Literature by and about Arbeitsgemeinschaft Westfälischer Entomologen in the catalog of the German National Library - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostwestfälisch-Lippischer Entomologen (1965-2001)
• Literature by and about Arbeitsgemeinschaft Westfälischer Entomologen in the catalog of the German National Library - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Westfälischer Entomologen
• Literature from and about Arbeitsgemeinschaft Westfälischer Entomologen in the catalog of the German National Library - notifications of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostwestfälisch-Lippischer Entomologen / Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostwestfälisch-Lippischer Entomologen eV, Verein für Entomologie und Naturschutz; Count: No. 1 (1965) to Vol. 17, H. 2/4 (2001)
• Literature from and about Arbeitsgemeinschaft Westfälischer Entomologen in the catalog of the German National Library - Bembix: Circular letter for all friends of the aculeatic Hymenoptera / Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostwestfälisch-Lippischer Entomologen; since No. 1.1993; ISSN 0946-6193.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Schulze: Entomological collection access (Lepidoptera, Coleoptera) for the Association of Westphalian Entomologists and the Natural History Museum (namu) of the city of Bielefeld with information on the Central European beetle fauna. Ed .: Communications of the Association of Westphalian Entomologists. tape 25 , no. 2 , December 15, 2009, ISSN  1619-7836 , p. 17-24 .
2. ^ AG Westphalian entomologists: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Westfälischer Entomologen e. V. Accessed on February 9, 2018 (German). 
3. ^ AG Westphalian entomologists: BFA Entomologie - Mitteilungsblatt. Retrieved on February 9, 2018 (German). 
4. ^ BFA Entomology in NABU: The BFA Entomology and its Tasks - NABU. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .