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Jonathan R. Mawdsley
Early Papers on Entomology
From time to time, I am asked for reprints or copies of some of my very earliest papers on entomology,
which were published in the “Young Entomologists’ Society Quarterly” between 1990 and 1994. These
papers were written while I was in high school in Lynchburg, Virginia, and while I was in college as an
undergraduate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The papers deal with a broad range
of topics, including insect collecting methods, mimicry in beetles, fossil insects, and the taxonomy of
checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Many of the articles contain valuable biological information
about insect species that are of conservation or management interest. All of these articles were written
before I received formal instruction in insect taxonomy, insect morphology, scientific illustration and
phylogenetic methods at Cornell University.
The “Young Entomologists’ Society” is no longer extant and the “Young Entomologists’ Society
Quarterly” has long been out of production and out of print. Copies of the journal are available in some
institutional libraries, such as the Entomology Library at Cornell University, but I am informed by
colleagues that copies of these articles are not generally available and are very difficult to find.
Thanks to my good friend and colleague Dr. David G. Furth, now retired from the Smithsonian
Institution, I have been able to locate and scan copies of my early articles from the “Young
Entomologists’ Society Quarterly.” The attached scans include the following articles (numbers refer to
my overall comprehensive list of publications, numbered in order of appearance in print):
17.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1994. A key to the species of the zebra species-group of the genus
Enoclerus Gahan (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with notes on mimicry and coloration.
Young Entomologists' Society Quarterly 11(1):11-27.
14.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1993. A key to the species of the genus Myrmecomaea Fairmaire
(Coleoptera: Cleridae) with checklist of species, notes on mimicry, and discussion
of endemism in Madagascan Cleridae. Young Entomologists' Society Quarterly
10(4):19-29.
12.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1993. Re-description and biology of Malachius aeneus (Linnaeus)
(Coleoptera: Melyridae). Young Entomologists' Society Quarterly 10(1):35-45.
11.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1993. Biological notes on species of Cleridae observed in central
Virginia. Young Entomologists' Society Quarterly 10(1):19-29.
10.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1992. New example of probable mimicry in Coleoptera from
Massachusetts. Young Entomologists' Society Quarterly 9(4):25-33.

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9.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1992. A key to the species of the genus Trogodendron Spinola
(Coleoptera: Cleridae), with translations of original descriptions of species.
Young Entomologists' Society Quarterly 9(4):7-19.
7.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1992. A large coleopteran mimicry ring from eastern North America.
Young Entomologists' Society Quarterly 9(3):25-38.
4.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1992. A new example of mimicry in Coleoptera from Australia.
Young Entomologists' Society Quarterly 9(3):21-24.
3.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1992. Studies on the Silphidae. Young Entomologists' Society
Quarterly 9(3):2-13.
2.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1990. Evidences of possible mimicry of Hymenoptera by Cleridae.
Young Entomologists' Society Quarterly 7(2):9-12.
1.) Mawdsley, J. R. 1990. Skimming for Beetles. Young Entomologists' Society
Quarterly 7(1):15-18.