Curators

Paul E. Skelley, Ph.D.

Head Curator

Selected Publications

Skelley, P. E. (1998). Revision of the genus Ischyrus Lacordaire (1842) of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Erotylidae). Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods 9, 1-134.

Gordon, R. D., and P. E. Skelley. (2007). A monograph of the Aphodiini inhabiting the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 79, 1-580.

Skelley, P. E, G. Xu, W. Tang, A.J. Lindström, T. Marler, J. S. Khuraijam, R. Singh, P. Radha, and S. Rich. (2017). Review of Cycadophila Xu, Tang and Skelley (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Pharaxonothinae) inhabiting Cycas (Cycadaceae) in Asia, with descriptions of a new subgenus and thirteen new species. Zootaxa 4267(1), 1–63.

Samuel J. Bolton, Ph.D.

Curator of Acariformes & Parasitiformes

Selected Publications

Bolton, S.J. & Cora, J.R. (2021). Virtual Equivalents of Real Objects (VEROs): A type of non-fungible token (NFT) that can help fund the 3D digitization of natural history collections. Megataxa, 6(2), 93–95. https://doi.org/10.11646/MEGATAXA.6.2.2

Bolton, S.J. & Bauchan, G.R. (2022). Caenonychus, a senior synonym of Speleorchestes (Acariformes: Nanorchestidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 27(2), 241–249. https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.27.2.6

Bolton, S.J. (2022). Proteonematalycus wagneri Kethley reveals where the opisthosoma begins in acariform mites. PLoS ONE, 17(2), Article e0264358. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264358

Patrick Gorring Ph.D.

Curator of Coleoptera & Odonata

Selected Publications 

Gorring, P. & Farrell, B. (2023). Evaluating species boundaries using coalescent delimitation in pinekilling Monochamus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) sawyer beetles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 184, 10777.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107777 

Gorring, P. & A. Cognato, A. I. (2023). The case for a nuclear barcode: using the CAD CPS region for species and genus level discrimination in beetles. Diversity 15(7), 847. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15070847 

Karpinski, L. Gorring, P. Kruszelnicki, L., Kasatkin, D., & Szczepanski, W. (2021). A fine line between species and ecotype: a case study of Anoplistes halodendri and A. kozlovi occurring sympatrically in Mongolia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny, 79: 1-23. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.79.e61499 

Gorring, P., Smith, S. M., Cognato, A.I., and Redford, A.J. (2022). CerambycID: A tool to identify invasive and conifer-feeding Cerambycidae. USDA APHIS Identification Technology Program (ITP) and Michigan State University. https://idtools.org/wbb/cerambycid/

Susan E. Halbert, Ph.D.

Curator of Hemiptera (Not including Coccoidea and Aleyrodidae)

Selected Publications

Halbert, S.E., and Burckhardt, D. (2020). The psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of Florida: newly established and rarely collected taxa and checklist. Insecta Mundi 0788(1–88).

Halbert, S.E. and Singer, B. (2020) Epidemiology of Huanglongbing: Implications of infective colonization events. In J.A. Qureshi and P.A. Stansly, (Eds.), Asian citrus psyllid: Biology, ecology and management of the Huanglongbing vector. (pp. 140-155). CABI International.  https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786394088.0140

Snyder, J., Dickens, K.L., Halbert, S.E., Dowling, S., Russell, D. N., Henderson, R., Rohrig, E., Ramadugu, C. (2022). The Development and Evaluation of Insect Traps for the Asian Citrus Psyllid, Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), vector of citrus huanglongbing. Insects, 13, 295. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13030295

James Hayden, Ph.D.

Curator of Lepidoptera

Selected Publications

Hayden, J. E. (2013). Sufetula Walker in Florida (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Insecta Mundi 0296, 1–15.  https://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/0296/79235

Hayden, J. E. (2021). Two new species of palm-leaf skeletonizers (Lepidoptera: Pterolonchidae: Homaledra Busck). Insecta Mundi 0859: 1–24. Available at: https://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/128524/129665

Mally, R., Hayden, J. E., Neinhuis, C., Jordal, B. H., and Nuss, M. (2019). The phylogenetic systematics of Spilomelinae and Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) inferred from DNA and morphology. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 77(1), 141–204. https://doi.org/10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-07

Erin Powell, Ph.D.

Curator of Coccoidea and Aleyrodidae (Hemiptera)

Selected Publications

Powell, E. C., and Taylor, L. A. (2017). Specialists and generalists coexist within a population of spider-hunting mud dauber wasps. Behavioral Ecology, 28(3), 890-898.

Powell, E. C., Painting, C. J., Hickey, A. J., Machado, G., and Holwell, G. I. (2021). Diet, predators, and defensive behaviors of New Zealand harvestmen (Opiliones: Neopilionidae). The Journal of Arachnology, 49(1), 122-140.

Powell, E. C., Painting, C. J., Hickey, A. J., and Holwell, G. I. (2020). Defining an intrasexual male weapon polymorphism in a New Zealand harvestman (Opiliones: Neopilionidae) using traditional and geometric morphometrics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130(2), 395-409.

Erick J. Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Curator of Diptera and Minor Orders

Selected Publications

Rodriguez, E. J., Steck, G. J., Moore, M. R., Norrbom, A. L., Diaz, J., Somma, L. A., Ruiz-Arce, R., Sutton, B. D., Nolazco N., Muller A., and Branham, M. A. (2022). Exceptional larval morphology of nine species of the Anastrepha mucronota species group (Diptera, Tephritidae). ZooKeys 1127: 155–215. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1127.84628

Rodriguez, E. J., Norrbom, A. L., Steck, G. J., Moore, M. R., Sutton, B. D., Ruiz-Arce, R., Wiegmann, B. M., Cassel, B., Nolazco, N., Muller, A., Gangadin, A., Romero, B., Rivera, M., Rodriguez, P., Keil, C. B., Quisberth Ramos, E., and Branham, M. A. (2023). New host plant and distribution records of Anastrepha species (Diptera, Tephritidae) primarily from the western Amazon. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 125(1): 89–164. https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.125.1.89

Norrbom, A. L., Moore, M. R., Quentin, P., McGrath, Z., Probst, C. M., Korneyev, V. A., Wiegmann, B. M., Cassel, B., Rodriguez, E. J., Steck, G. J. Sutton, B. D., Branham, M. A., and Ruiz-Arce, R. (2024). Color morphs in Anastrepha nigrotaenia (Enderlein) new combination (Diptera, Tephritidae) and resultant synonymy. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 126(1): 21–55. https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.126.1.21

Felipe Soto-Adames, Ph.D.

Curator of Thysanoptera, Collembola and Non-insect Arthropods

Selected Publications

Soto-Adames F. N., Barra, J. A., Christiansen, K. and Jordana, R. (2008). Suprageneric Classification of the Entomobryomorph Collembola. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 101(3), 501-513.

Soto-Adames, F. N. (2008). Postembryonic development of the dorsal chaetotaxy of Seira dowlingi (Collembola, Entomobryidae); with an analysis of the diagnostic and phylogenetic significance of primary chaetotaxy in Seira. Zootaxa, 1683, 1–31.

Soto-Adames, F. N. (2002). Molecular Phylogeny of the Puerto Rican Lepidocyrtus and Pseudosinella (Hexapoda: Collembola: Entomobryidae), a validation of Yoshii’s “color pattern species”. Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution, 25, 27-42.

Elijah Talamas, Ph.D.

Curator of Hymenoptera, Neuroptera and Mollusca

Selected Publications

Talamas, E., Bremer, J., Moore, M., Bon, M. C., Lahey, Z., Roberts, C., Combee, L., van Noort, S., McGathey, N., Timokhov, A., Hougardy, E., and Hogg, B. (2021). A maximalist approach to the systematics of a biological control agent: Gryon aetherium Talamas, sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 87, 323–480. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.72842

Talamas, E. J., Johnson, N. F., Shih, C., and Ren, D. (2019). Proterosceliopsidae: A new family of Platygastroidea from Cretaceous amber. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 73, 3–38. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.73.32256

Talamas, E. J., Buffington, M., and Hoelmer, K. (2017). Revision of Palearctic Trissolcus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). In: Talamas, E. J., Buffington, M. L. (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 56, 3–185.

Evan Waite

Collections manager

Selected Publications

Waite, E.S., Hays, B.T., and Johnston, M.A. (2024). Discoderus LeConte species exhibit episodic emergences in both urban and natural environments of Arizona, USA (Coleoptera: Carabidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 78(1): 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-78.1.1

M.A. Johnston, E.S Waite, E.R. Wright, G.J. De Leon, A.I. Esquivel, J. Kerwin, M. Salazar, E. Sarmiento, T. Thiatmaja, and S. Lee. (2023). Insect collecting bias in Arizona with a preliminary checklist of beetles from the Sand Tank Mountains. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e101960

Waite, E.S., G.R. Houseman, W.E. Jensen, M.R. Reichenborn, M.L. Jameson. (2022). Ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) responses to cattle grazing, grassland restoration, and habitat across a precipitation gradient, Insects,13:696  https://doi.org/10.3390/ insects13080696