Josephine Christina Cardale worked as an

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

for

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications. CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...

from 1967 to 2001. She was a

collection manager A collection manager ensures the proper care and preservation of objects within cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, and archives. Collection managers, along with registrars, curators, and conservators, play an important role in co ...

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are parasitic. Females typi ...

at the

Australian National Insect Collection The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications. CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...

Career

Prior to working for CSIRO, her Master of Science thesis at

University of Queensland The University of Queensland is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone ...

focused on ''The biology of

amegilla ''Amegilla'' is a large genus of bees in the tribe Anthophorini. It has been split into many subgenera, including '' Asaropoda'', ''Micramegilla,'' '' Notomegilla'' and '' Zonamegilla''. Description ''Amegilla'' are generally medium-sized to ...

friese (hymenoptera, apoidea)''. Her thesis focused on describing the females of Amegilla (Amegilla) pulchra (Smith) at nesting sites in

Brisbane Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a ...

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

. It also discusses four parasites from A. pulchra cells, and the behaviour of females of Amegilla (Asarapoda) sp. at a nesting site in Brisbane. During her work at CSIRO, she took part in the pre-wet survey for insects which may indicate environmental pollution at

McArthur River The McArthur River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria at Port McArthur, opposite the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands. The river was named by Ludwig Leichhardt while he explored the a ...

, Northern Territory (October–November 1975). The survey was contracted by Mimets Development Pty.Ltd., a subsidiary of Mt Isa Mines. The resulting ''"Report on a survey of the Insects of the McArthur River Area, NT"'' recommended insect populations for monitoring effects of water pollution. Cardale was also part of an intensive collecting trip to the

Iron Range The Iron Range is collectively or individually a number of elongated iron-ore mining districts around Lake Superior in the United States and Canada. Much of the ore-bearing region lies alongside the range of granite hills formed by the Giants ...

area of Cape York, Queensland (June–July 1986), which garnered 50,000 specimens (Upton, p. 240). She was also in the team which recorded some insects in Australia for the first time during a trip to Kununurra (Mitchell Plateau, Western Australia, May 1983) (Upton, pp. 243–4). She was credited with working with Dr John Lawrence in collecting most of the specimens of

Psocoptera Psocoptera () are a paraphyletic group of insects that are commonly known as booklice, barklice or barkflies. The name Psocoptera has been replaced with Psocodea in recent literature, with the inclusion of the former order Phthiraptera into Psoc ...

from

Christmas Island Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an States and territories of Australia#External territories, Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same name. It is about south o ...

, Indian Ocean. Cardale's volume of the ''

Zoological Catalogue of Australia Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction">extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoolo ...

'' was reviewed by C.D. Eardley as "...indispensable to anyone interested in Australian bees or pollination biology."

Namesakes

The

parasitoid wasp Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran Superfamily (zoology), superfamilies, with all but the wood wasps (Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita. As parasitoids, they lay their eggs on or in the bodies of other arthropods, ...

species ''Ondontacolus cardaleae'' Valerio & Austin, sp. n. was named after Cardale, who collected the species. She is also the namesake of another parasitoid wasp species which she collected, ''Ophelosia josephinae'' sp.n. and a

cuckoo wasp Commonly known as cuckoo wasps or emerald wasps, the hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species) of parasitoid or kleptoparasitic wasps, often highly sculptured, with brilliant metallic color ...

, ''Primeuchroeus cardaleae'' Bohart. She is also the namesake of a further parasitoid Ichneumon wasp 'Denticeria cardaleae,' which she collected. sp.n

Publications

* Cardale, J. (1968), Immature stages of Australian Anthophorinae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Australian Journal of Entomology, 7: 35–41. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1968.tb00698.x * W.W.K. Houston & G.V.Maynard (eds). Cardale, J.C. (author). ''Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 10. Hymenoptera: Apoidea.'' Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1993. ix + 406 pp.

Awards

Cardale was highly commended in the Australian Society of Indexers Medal Award (1992) for her index to ''Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers''.

References

External links

Zoological Catalogue of Australia
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