Professor

Arne C. Nilssen

Entomologist at Tromsų Museum



Arne C. Nilssen, professor and senior curator in entomology (the study of insects) at Tromsø Museum, The University Museum, University of Tromsø, NO-9037 Tromsų, Norway. Picture 1 Picure 2

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Address:
Tromsų Museum, NO-9037 Tromsų, Norway.
Phone: (+47) 77645012.
Fax: (+47) 77645520.
Mobile phone: +47 95703920
e-mail: arnec.nilssen@uit.no

Research:

  1. Behaviour and ecology of the parasitic reindeer oestrids (Diptera: Oestridae: Hypoderma tarandi (warble fly) and Cephenemyia trompe (nose or throat bot fly).
  2. Zoogeography, faunistics and host tree selection of bark inhabiting beetles (Scolytidae, Cerambycidae and Curculionidae).
  3. Life cycle strategies (cold hardiness, diapause, eclosion timing, cyclicity) in the autumnal and winter moths (Geometridae: Epirrita autumnata and Operophtera brumata).
  4. Biology of the reindeer sinus worm (Pentastomida: Linguatula arctica).

Published articles:

Geometrid outbreak (Excel file) in Fennoscandia (Appendix to a published article in Journal of Animal Ecology in 2007)

 

Scientific articles

(mostly in English, including some abstracts and pdf-files)

Popularization

(mostly in Norwegian)

Museology

(all in Norwegian)
Have a look at the exhibitions at Tromsø Museum

Insect collections:

In charge of the entomological collections (picture) at Tromsų Museum, http://www.muspro.uio.no.

They consist of more 120 000 insect specimens, mostly from northern Norway . The butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), collected by J. Sparre Schneider (1877-1918), are particularly valuable. Information about all insect specimens can be accessed by means of newly developed digital database, so far only offline (more information here).

Previous research students:

Jan Wasmuth (cand. real.) 15. Nov. 1982: "Temperaturens betydningfor etableringen av Ips typographus (L.) (Scolytidae) i Troms".

Kjetil Tunset (cand. real.) 17. Dec. 1982: "Primær attraksjon hos barkbiller (Scolytidae) og barksnutebiller (Curculionidae) i gran-og furuskog i Nord-Finland".

Svein Tore Halvorsen (cand. real.) 10. Apr. 1984: "Nisjedivergens og populasjonsdynamikk hos furubarkbillene Pityogenes quadridens Hartig. og Pityogenes bidentatus Hbst. (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)".

Ivar Folstad (cand. scient.) 10. Nov. 1987: "A quantitative approach to the parasite - host interaction Hypoderma tarandi (L.) - reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus L.)".

Rolf E. Haugerud (cand. scient.) 17. June 1988: "A life history approach to the parasite - host interaction Linguatula arctica Riley, Haugerud and Nilssen,1987 - Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus,1758).

Leon Johansson, (cand. scient.) 5. June1992: "Bark insects in spruce habitat islands: Distribution and success in Troms, northern Norway."

Nancy Peterson, (cand. scient.) 23. May 1995: "Late autumn hatching in Geometrid moths: A balance of selective forces in life cycle timing".

Jan Gunnar Brattli, (cand. scient.) 15. Dec. 1995: ”Primary attraction and host tree selection in deciduous and conifer living Coleoptera: Scolytidae, Curculionidae, Cerambycidae and Lymexylidae".

Frode Elverum, (cand. scient.) 1. July 2002: “The life cycle and cold hardiness of Argyresthia retinella, a new outbreak species in northern Norway".

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