The Irish Biogeographical Society

 

The Irish Biogeographical Society was founded in 1975. It encourages the study of Irish biodiversity, especially the distribution of plants and animals. The Society is also interested in the biogeographical implications of colonisation and past history. From its inception, the Society has published an annual Bulletin. In 2025 the 48^th issue was produced. The series now contains an impressive database including information on biota outside Ireland. The contents of the Bulletins are listed under Index Listings on this website. In 1986, a series of Occasional Publications was initiated. In 2005, another format (Macro Series) was established. In 2020, Occasional Electronic Publication Number 1 was published (A National Grid Atlas of the Irish Caddisflies (Trichoptera)) and in 2023, Occasional Electronic Publication Number 2 (Bibliography of Irish insects (1802-2020)). (see below). Details of the other Occasional Publications and the Macro Series are given under Occasionals on this website. PDFs of all publications are now available for download from the Society (see below) and from Trinity College Library's edepositIreland.

The Society is voluntary and non-profit making. Funding consists of members' subscriptions and sponsorship. All the money is used for the production, printing and distribution of its publications. Enquiries should be sent by e-mail to the Treasurer Mr John Walsh.

Published 18 July 2025

Article 1.

†Patrick Ashe and James P. O'Connor. Notes on a new groundplan hypothetical Diptera wing: pp 3-23. Click here for PDF (2.54MB)

Article 2.

Roy Anderson. Annotated checklist of saproxylic Coleoptera in the counties of Northern Ireland: pp 24-97. Click here for PDF (2.32MB)

Article 3.

J. P. O'Connor and M. A. O'Connor. New records of Irish sponge flies (Neuroptera: Sisyridae): pp 98-106. Click here for PDF (1.82MB)

Article 4

Anthony Bryant. A checklist of the butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of County Waterford: pp 107-153. Click here for PDF (1.70MB)

Article 5

J. P. O'Connor. Notes on the grey silverfish Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905 (Zygentoma; Lepismatidae) in Ireland: pp 154-157. Click here for PDF (1.44MB)

Article 6

James P. O'Connor, Hugh B. Feeley, Anthony Bryant, Pascal Sweeney, Rodney Monteith, John T. Brophy and Ryan Mitchell. Records of Irish caddisflies (Trichoptera) including Oecetis testacea (Curtis, 1834) new to Northern Ireland: pp 158-175. Click here for PDF (2.44MB)

Article 7

Pascal Sweeney. Nais communis Piguet, 1906 (Oligochaeta: Naididae), microhabitat and occurrence in southern Ireland: pp 176-182. Click here for PDF (1.47MB)

Article 8

Ruth Little and James P. O'Connor. Records of Trichoptera collected for the biomonitoring of Ireland's lake network 2022-2024: pp 183-190. Click here for PDF (1.45MB)

Article 9

James P. O'Connor. New Irish caddisfly (Trichoptera) records mainly from the EPA Rivers Survey (2007-2018) and Bioblitz: pp 191-209. Click here for PDF (907.27KB)

Article 10

Hugh B Feeley, Helen M. Barber-James, Bryan Kennedy, David McGrath, Ryan Mitchell, Stewart Rosell, Amy Weir and Jan-Robert Baars. Records of stoneflies (Plecoptera) from Ireland in 2024: pp 210-227. Click here for PDF (887.69KB)

Article 11

Margaret Norton. An annotated checklist of Carex L. (sedge) species in Co. Meath (H22), Ireland: pp 228-245. Click here for PDF (954.81KB)

Article 12

Jervis A. Good and Fidelma T. Butler. The staphylinid and carabid (Coleoptera) fauna of a restored Molinia-Juncus acutiflorus grassland in Co. Cork, Ireland: pp 246-263. Click here for PDF (1.85MB)

Article 13

Declan A. Murray. First records of Corynoneura lobata Edwards, 1924 and Micropsectra lindrothi Goetghebuer, 1931 in County Kildare and of Cricotopus sylvestris (Fabricius, 1794) in hydrometric area 8, Ireland (Insecta: Diptera, Chironomidae): pp 264-266. Click here for PDF (802.97KB)

Article 14

Declan A. Murray and James P. O'Connor. Replacement names for three species of Chironomus Meigen (Diptera, Chironomidae): pp 267-269. Click here for PDF (813.06KB)

Article 15

Myles Nolan. First Irish records of the seed-beetle Harpalus (Amblystus) honestus (Duftschmid, 1812) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Skellig Michael, Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara, Co. Kerry: pp 270-279. Click here for PDF (1.33MB)

Article 16

Myles Nolan and Sylvia Voss. The vouched, the unvouched and a digital phantom; four spiders (Araneae) published for, but not occurring in Ireland: pp 280-286. Click here for PDF (934.82KB)

Article 17

†Michael Viney. Life along the stream - a love story; caddisflies could take a prize for their variation of species [Review: A catalogue and atlas of the caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Ireland]: pp 287-288. Click here for PDF (868KB)

Article 18

James P. O'Connor. Index to Bulletins 1-48 of the Irish Biogeographical Society: pp 289-333. Click here for PDF (1.94MB)

Published 2 July 2024

Article 1.

Dominique W. Collins. A survey of Irish thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) in the collections of the Natural History Museum, London, with three additions to the Irish checklist: pp 3-24. Click here for PDF (2.44MB)

Article 2

Sylvia Voss. A five year study (2018-2022) of the flora and fauna of Ballywilliam (R909097), Ballyporeen, Cahir, County Tipperary, Ireland: pp 25-63. Click here for PDF (3.32MB)

Article 3

J. P. O'Connor, M. A. O'Connor and H. B. Feeley. New records of Irish caddisflies (Trichoptera) in 2014, 2021, 2022 & 2023: pp 64-76. Click here for PDF (3.03MB)

Article 4

Nicholas Parry. A study of the present state of an Irish colony of the Slow Worm (Anguis fragilis Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata: Anguidae) in the Burren, Counties Clare and Galway. Addendum 2020 - 2023: pp 77-93. Click here for PDF (2.69MB)

Article 5

James P. O'Connor, Ian D. Wallace and Robin D. Sutton. An aid for identifying adults of Limnephilus pati O'Connor (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae): pp 94-116. Click here for PDF (4.31MB)

Article 6

Declan T. G. Quigley, Gerhard C. Cadée and Paul A. Gainey. First records of Tropical Almond Terminalia catappa L. (Myrtales: Combretacea: Terminaliinae) drift mesocarps from Irish maritime shores and a review of NW European records: pp 117-130. Click here for PDF (3.14MB)

Article 7

Ruth Little and James P. O'Connor. Records of Trichoptera collected for the biomonitoring of Ireland's lake network 2013-2018 and 2019-2021: pp 131-154. Click here for PDF (2.33MB)

Article 8

Myles Nolan and Stephen Foster. First Irish records of Theridion pictum (Walckenaer, 1802) (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Counties Armagh and Antrim: pp 155-162. Click here for PDF (2.44MB)

Article 9

Hugh B. Feeley, Helen M. Barber-James, Bryan Kennedy, Andrew Kenny, David McGrath, Georgia Miles, Ryan Mitchell and Jan-Robert Baars. Stonefly (Plecoptera) records from Ireland in 2023, with additional records from 2009 to 2022: pp 163-184. Click here for PDF (2.19MB)

Article 10

James P. O'Connor, Anthony Bryant and Rodney Monteith. Miscellaneous Irish caddisfly (Trichoptera) records: pp 185-194. Click here for PDF (2.27MB)

Article 11

Declan A. Murray. Further records of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) in Ireland from recent and past collections: pp 195-206. Click here for PDF (2.45MB)

Article 12

Declan A. Murray. Corynoneura collaris Makarchenko & Makarchenko, 2010 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) new for Ireland: pp 207-210. Click here for PDF (1.76MB)

Article 13

James P. O'Connor. Freshwater parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae & Trichogrammatidae) from the River Inny, County Cavan, Ireland: pp 211-214. Click here for PDF (2.16MB)

 

Published 1 July 2023

Article 1.
Declan A. Murray and James P. O'Connor. In memoriam Dr Patrick Ashe (1954-2022): pp 3-25. Click here for PDF (924kb)

Article 2.
Declan T. G. Quigley, †Don Cotton, Alan Pyne and Liam McNamara. First records of Laurelwood Calophyllum sp. (Malpighiales: Calophyllaceae) drift endocarps from Irish maritime shores and a review of NW european and Western Atlantic records: pp 26-40. Click here for PDF (879kb)

Article 3.
Jervis A. Good and Aidan O'Hanlon. Irish Euplectus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from the Killarney area in the E. F. Bullock Collection: pp 41-47. Click here for PDF (334kb)

Article 4.
Hugh B. Feeley, Bryan Kennedy, Ryan Mitchell and Jan-Robert Baars. Adult stonefly (Plecoptera) records from Ireland in 2022: pp 48-61. Click here for PDF (341kb)

Article 5.
Nicholas Parry. Possible first evidence that slow worms (Anguis fragilis Linnaeus, 1758) feed on ant colonies: pp 62-66. Click here for PDF (1.03mb)

Article 6.
Jervis A. Good. The ground layer of alluvial forest as a habitat for Staphylinidae and Carabidae (Coleoptera) at the Gearagh (County Cork), Ireland: pp 67-90. Click here for PDF (372kb)

Article 7.
J. P. O'Connor, M. A. O'Connor and H. B. Feeley. Recent records of Irish caddisflies (Trichoptera): pp 91-108. Click here for PDF (722kb)

Article 8.
Declan A. Murray. Recent records of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) in Ireland from Counties Dublin, Kildare and Meath and a brief numerical update of the Irish checklist: pp 109-120. Click here for PDF (397kb)

Article 9.
P. H. Langton, D. A. Murray and A. Mantell. First record of Chironomus (Chaetolabis) macani Freeman, 1948 (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Ireland from Killarney, County Kerry: pp 121-123. Click here for PDF (259kb)

Article 10.
Myles Nolan and Jane Doe. The Green-jawed Tube Spider Segestria florentina (Rossi) (Araneae: Segestriidae) is established in Ireland: pp 124-133. Click here for PDF (436kb)

Published 10 December 2021

Article 1.
Declan A. Murray. Additional records of Chironomidae (Diptera, Insecta) in Ireland with new county records from Donegal and Meath: pp 3-10. Click here for PDF (428kb)

Article 2.
J. P. O'Connor and Hugh B. Feeley. Irish caddisfly (Trichoptera) records from national river and lake monitoring work in 2021: pp 11-23. Click here for PDF (2794kb)

Article 3.
Declan T. G. Quigley and Liam MacNamara. Blister Pod or Cojon de Burro Sacoglottis amazonica Mart. (Malpighiales: Humiriaceae) drift endocarp stranded in County Clare on the Atlantic coast of western Ireland, and a review of NW European records: pp 24-34. Click here for PDF (1579kb)

Article 4.
Myles Nolan and Alison O'Reilly. The first Irish record of Porrhomma microphthalmum (O.P.-Cambridge) sensu stricto (Araneae: Linyphiidae): pp 35-40. Click here for PDF (266kb)

Article 5.
Myles Nolan. A third county record of the caddisfly Hagenella clathrata (Kolenati) (Phryganeidae: Trichoptera) from Ireland: pp 41-46. Click here for PDF (550kb)

Article 6.
Hugh B. Feeley, Bryan Kennedy, Cathal McNaughton and Jan-Robert Baars. Records of adult stonefly (Plecoptera) from Ireland in 2021, with observations on wing length and wing crumpling: pp 47-55. Click here for PDF (576kb)

Article 7.
Myles Nolan. First Irish record of Micaria micans (Blackwall) (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and revalidation of Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall): pp 56-61. Click here for PDF (318kb)

Article 8.
Martin Cawley. An indexed bibliographical checklist of the harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) of Ireland, 1836-2020: pp 62-76. Click here for PDF (292kb)

Article 9.
Jervis A. Good, Phil Withers† and Tom Gittings. Psychodidae (Diptera) as indicators of the effects of the lined Kildare bypass motorway on tufa spring habitat at Pollardstown Fen, Ireland: pp 77-96. Click here for PDF (1046kb)

Article 10.
J. P. O'Connor and M. A. O'Connor. New distributional data on the caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Ireland: pp 97-124. Click here for PDF (3842kb)

Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, Bulletin Number 44 was published in sections online. The printed Bulletin was published on 14 December 2020.

Published 1st June 2020

Article 1.
Parry, Nicholas (2020) A study of the present state of an Irish colony of the Slow Worm (Anguis fragilis Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata: Anguidae) in the Burren, Counties Clare and Galway 2015 - 2019. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 3-18. Click here for PDF (615kb)

Article 2.
O'Connor, J. P. and O'Connor, M. A. (2020) Additional caddisfly (Trichoptera) records from Ireland including new records of Oxyethira mirabilis Morton, 1904. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 19-94. Click here for PDF (8mb)

Article 3.
Walshe, A. and O'Connor, J. P. (2020) The Water-stick Insect Ranatra linearis (L.) (Hemiptera: Nepidae) new to County Waterford, Ireland. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 95-101. Click here for PDF (354kb)

Published 7th November 2020

Article 4.
Quigley, Declan T. G. and McNamara, Liam (2020) First records of Persian Walnuts Juglans regia L. (Juglandaceae: Cardiocaryon) stranded on the Irish coast and a review of North Atlantic records. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 102-113. Click here for PDF (820kb)

Article 5.
O'Connor, James P. and Malumphy, Chris (2020) Addendum to "A review of the Irish Jumping Plant-Lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)". Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 114-123. Click here for PDF (282kb)

Article 6.
Murray, Declan A. (2020) Additional records of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) in Ireland with new records from Counties Longford, Mayo and Meath. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 124-137. Click here for PDF (585kb)

Article 7.
O'Connor, J. P. (2020) Some further distribution records of caddisflies (Trichoptera) from Ireland. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 138-166. Click here for PDF (3mb)

Article 8.
Murray, D. A., O'Connor, J. P., Langton, P. H. and Ashe, P. J. (2020) Amendments and clarification of some site details in distribution records of Irish Chironomidae (Diptera), Parts 1 - 3. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 167-177. Click here for PDF (74kb)

Article 9.
Quigley, Declan T. G., MacNamara, Liam and Gainey, Paul A. (2020) First records of stranded Nutnegs Myristica fragrans Houttuyn, 1774 (Magnoliales: Myristicaceae) on the Irish Coast and a review of North Atlantic records. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 178-188. Click here for PDF (679kb)

Article 10.
Nolan, Myles (2020) Notes on 'Irish' spiders (Arachnida): Atypus affinis Eichwald (Atypidae) and Entelecara errata O. P.-Cambridge (Linyphiidae) removed from the Irish list;Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart) (Theridiidae) new to Ireland. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 189-204. Click here for PDF (180kb)

Article 11.
Good, Jervis A. and Dorman, Jeremy A. (2020) Relative abundance of rove-beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from grasslands and pastures in Ireland and Galicia, Spain. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 205-235. Click here for PDF (187kb)

Article 12.
Feeley, Hugh B. and Baars, Jan-Robert (2020) Some records of adult stoneflies (Plecoptera), including observations on wing length, from Ireland, 2018-2020. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 236-241. Click here for PDF (61kb)

Article 13.
Quigley, Declan T. G., Minchin, Dan, Williams, Tracey and Gainey, Paul A. (2020) Brazil Nuts Bertholletia excelsa Humbolt & Bonpland (Lecythidaceae) stranded on Irish, NW European and Western North Atlantic maritime shores. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 242-251. Click here for PDF (287kb)

Article 14.
Cawley, Martin (2020) More records of uncommon Irish beetles (Coleoptera), including Chilothorax conspurcatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Scarabaeidae). Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 252-260. Click here for PDF (127kb)

Article 15.
O'Connor, J. P. and Feeley, Hugh B. (2020) Miscellaneous Irish caddisfly (Trichoptera) records mainly from National River Monitoring work. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 44: 261-269. Click here for PDF (752kb)

Please visit our separate page for a list of our electronic publications.

Published 11 December 2015 by the Irish Biogeographical Society in association with the National Museum of Ireland. A5 format, thread-sewn. viii+646 pages. 519 figures including line-drawings, colour and black/white photographs. ISBN 978-0-9550806-8-5.

Click here for PDF (32mb)

Published 18 May 2018 by the Irish Biogeographical Society in association with University College Dublin and the Environmental Protection Agency. A5 format, thread-sewn. 416 pages. Text with 1042 figures (black and white), frontispiece and 25 plates (colour and black & white). ISBN 978-0-9550806-9-2. Click here for PDF (56mb)

Occasional Publication of the Irish Biogeographical Society Number 13. Published 2021 by the Irish Biogeographical Society in association with the Environmental Protection Agency. 168 pages. ISBN 978-1-9164218-1-3.

This publication contains distribution maps for all the 156 Irish species along with a revised checklist and notes on habitats and flight periods. There is also a revised list of county records. The maps are based on 17,219 records. Published as a companion volume to A catalogue and atlas of the caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Ireland (Occasional Publication of the Irish Biogeographical Society Number 11), this printed volume updates A national grid atlas of the Irish caddisflies (Trichoptera) (Occasional Electronic Publication Number 1). Click here for PDF (18mb)