Collecting trips: Spring-Summer 1994: E.-Jutland, DK: Ecological/Habitat-investigation (Mols Laboratory Area); N.W.-Jutland: Faunistical Survey. Fall 1994: Spain ?
Museum trips: I asked for C. Rondani's Platygastertypes in "La Specola", Firenze but received only P. ericeti; now revised. I have also redescribed Fouts' Euxestonotus types, and I am presently revising A. Förster's Platygaster-types. Hopefully, I will soon be revising Thomson's and Zetterstedt's Platygaster- types.
Other activities: Probably visiting Lund soon. Michael Söderlund (Göteborg; Cynipoidea) visits Copenhagen this summer and is interested in exchanges.
Projects in progress: 1. Platygaster-revision (in small steps!). 2. Proctotrupoidea s.l. habitat-investigation at Mols laboratory, Jutland. - Additions to list of Danish Proctotrupoidea s.l. Exchanges with Platygaster for other material always welcome.
Papers published or in press: Bibliography numbers 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.
Miscellaneous news: Reviews of general hymenopterological or entomological books pointing out what especially concerns proctotrupidologists. I could perhaps review a book now and then. Also presentations of computer programmes, etc. would be of interest. General lists of Proctotrupoidea in collections (ZMUC, etc.). Notes on intrapsecific variation (espec. from rearings).
Your suggestions about PROCTOS: International faunal survey in face of environmental deterioration (standardization of methods). Securing reared material of all groups from other entomologists. New name: Proctotrupidologica?; Forum Proctotrupidarum?; Blackwasps? (the Danish name for a proctotrupid = "sorthveps" = "blackwasp". Is there an English informal name?).
Personal news: Bachelor (personally as well as professionally). Student in the humanities (literature). Interested in the history of entomology. Will perhaps some day write the history of proctotrupidology?
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