Weevil News	http://www.curci.de/Inhalt.html	No.7	3 pp.	12. December 2001	ISSN 1615-3472
Bayer, Ch. & P.E.Stüben (2001): Chances and Necessity of a close Europe-wide Cooperation of the Specialists of West Palearctic Weevils (Curculionoidea) - Report on the first international meeting of the members of the CURCULIO-Institute in Cattolica/San Giovanni in Marignano (Italy) in October 2001
Weevil News: http://www.curci.de/Inhalt.html, No. 7: 3 pp., CURCULIO-Institut: Mönchengladbach. (ISSN 1615-3472).

Chances and Necessity of a close Europe-wide Cooperation of the Specialists of West Palearctic Weevils (Curculionoidea)

Report on the first international meeting of the members of the CURCULIO-Institute in Cattolica/San Giovanni in Marignano (Italy) in October 2001

By Christoph Bayer, Berlin and Peter Stüben, Mönchengladbach

The meeting was held from 12^th to 15^th October 2001

Course:

§ Friday 12^th October 2001

Arrival of the first participants in the restaurant of Fabio Talamelli in San Giovanni in Marignano (Italy). Field trip organized by local specialists on entomology and insect ecology (Armin Scheidweiler, Fabio Talamelli).

§ Saturday 13^th October 2001

Field trip of the participants organized by Fabio Talamelli and colleagues from Italy. In the late afternoon: Welcoming of the participants by the board of the CURCULIO-Institute and detailed information on the meeting programme. [Fig. 20] Opportunity of closer acquaintance and of exchange of views of the participants in the hotel. [Fig. 21] Introducing speech on opportunities and ideas on international coordination of weevil-research from the Iberian point of view given by Dr. Miguel A. Alonzo-Zarazaga (Museum of Natural History, Madrid). [Fig. 22] Subsequently discussion of future chances of research on weevils.

In the evening: Get together and dinner of the participants in the restaurant of Fabio Talamelli. [Fig. 23] [Fig. 24]

§ Sunday 14^th October 2001

In the morning: Welcoming of the participants in the meeting room of the City hall of San Giovanni in Marignano.

Subsequently: Presentation of the new SNUDEBILLER 2 including the first “Analytical Catalogue” – a fundamentally new principle of extensive entomological information on taxonomy, biology and ecology by Christoph Bayer, and detailed discussion about the opportunities of publishing in the SNUDEBILLER. [Fig. 25] Exchange of ideas and proposals on the future of the CURCULIO-Institute.

Presentation and discussion of the new project ”Comprehensive Determination Key of West Palearctic Curculionoidea (Transalpina/Cisalpina)” (Dr. Peter E. Stüben and Friedhelm Bahr).

Discussion: Chances and necessity of a Europe-wide cooperation of the specialists of West Palearctic weevils in the CURCULIO-Institute.

Finally: Short report on the aims of the workgroup „Hyperini“ (H. Winkelmann).

In the early afternoon: Meeting with the members of the "Naturalistic Society of Romagna, Italy" and joint lunch in a restaurant north of Rimini. [Fig. 26]

Late afternoon: Discussions in small groups in the lounge of the hotel in Cattolica.

Evening: Dinner of the participants in the restaurant of Fabio Talamelli. Appointments about field trips and a visit of the museum and the collection in Milano on Monday have been made during the dinner.

§ Monday 15^th October 2001

After breakfast in the Hotel in Cattolica departure of the participants in small groups. Field trips in the vicinity of San Giovanni in Marignano and on the journey to their home towns have been carried through. [Fig. 27] [Fig. 28] [Fig. 29] One group of participants went to the museum in Milano to meet specialists working at the museum (Carlo Pesarini, Roberto Caldara). [Fig. 30] [Fig. 31]

List of participants:

Italy:

Bellò, Cesare – specialist of Peritelini [Fig. 1]

Caldara, Roberto – specalist of Gymnetron, Tychius, Bagoinae [Fig. 2]

Casalini, Roberto – working on Curculionoidea [Fig. 3]

Colonnelli, Enzo – specialist of Ceutorhynchinae (worldwide) [Fig. 4]

Giusto, Carlo – specialist of Apionidae [Fig. 5]

Meregalli, Massimo – specialist of Ocladiini (contact via SMS)

Osella, Giuseppe – specialist of Curculionidae: Cossoninae, Torneumatini [Fig. 7]

Pesarini, Carlo – specialist of Brachyderinae [Fig. 8]

Pierotti, Helio – specialist of Peritelini [Fig. 9]

Sacco, Francesco – working on Curculionoidea: Apionidae [Fig. 10]

Scheidweiler, Armin – working on the entomofauna of the Cattolica-region

Talamelli, Fabio – specialist of Cleoninae: Lixini [Fig. 12]

Germany:

Bahr, Friedhelm – specialist of digital photography and for Cionini [Fig. 13]

Bayer, Christoph – editor of “Snudebiller” (Publication of CURCULIO-Institute) [Fig. 14]

Behne, Lutz – representing the German Entomological Institute in Eberswalde [Fig. 15]

Sprick, Peter – editor of “Weevil-News” (internet publication) [Fig. 16]

Stüben, Peter – President of the CURCULIO-Institute [Fig. 17]

Winkelmann, Herbert – specialist of Hyperini [Fig. 18]

Spain:

Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel Angel – representing the Museum of Natural History in Madrid [Fig. 19]

Results of the meeting

In general all participants of the meeting agreed about the necessity and the chances of tight international cooperation of all specialists of Curculionoidea in the West Palearctic region in the near future!

The importance of a future cooperation with international nature protection organisations of the European Community was pointed out by Dr. Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga. The members of the CURCULIO-Institute are grateful to Dr. Alonso-Zarazaga offering the publication of his speech of the 13^th October 2001 in the Weevil News to make this essential information and his new ideas available to all colleagues as soon as possible.

The members of the CURCULIO-Institute agreed to organize the next international meeting in October 2002 in Sicily (Italy).

Furthermore, due to the high number of specialists of Curculionoidea working and living in eastern Central Europe, it was decided to arrange a conference in October 2003 in either Dresden (Germany), Prague (Czech Republic) or Wroclaw (Poland). Until June 2002 the venue of the conference will be fixed.

Several colleagues from Italy and Spain announced the publication of contributions in the Weevil-News and the SNUDEBILLER in the course of the meeting.

Some participants asked for a more intensive and quicker communication via internet (e-mail). As a consequence of this request, the board of the CURCULIO-Institute would like to ask all members to use the full variety of opportunities offered on the homepage: www.curci.de

Acknowledgment

The CURCULIO-Institute would like to thank the following people and institutions for kindly supporting and organizing the first international meeting of the institute:

Many thanks to Enzo Colonnelli and Fabio Talamelli organizing the meeting in Italy. Also thanks to Armin Scheidweiler for supporting our meeting. Special thanks to Fabio Talamelli organizing the nice accommodation in Cattolica and providing a very good atmosphere of our meeting in his lovely traditional restaurant “L’Usignolo” in San Giovanni in Marignano!

The CURCULIO-Institute would like to thank the administration of the city of San Giovanni in Marignano for kindly opening the city hall of San Giovanni in Marignano for our meeting on Sunday 14^th October to carry through the main part of the meeting!

The CURCULIO-Institute would like to give special thanks to the Society of Naturalists of Romagna for making possible a joint meeting and lunch on Sunday 14^th October 2001. [Fig. 26]

Authors:

Christoph Bayer and

Dr. Peter E. Stüben

CURCULIO-Institute

Hauweg 62

41066 Mönchengladbach

Germany