CURATORS
To contact any of the FSCA Curators, please email FSCA@fdacs.gov
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: Tritominae). Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods 9, 1–134.
Gordon, R. D., and Skelley, P. E. (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 and Parasitiformes
Selected Publications
Bolton, S.J. and 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. and 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 and Odonata
Selected Publications
Gorring, P. and Farrell, B. (2023). Evaluating species boundaries using coalescent delimitation in pinekilling Monochamus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) sawyer beetles. Molec. Phylogenetics and Evolution 184: 10777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107777
Gorring, P. and 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., and 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: 1–17. 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. 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
Mengual, X., P. Kerr, A. L. Norrbom, N. B. Barr, N. B., Lewis, M. L., Stapelfeldt, A. M., Scheffer, S. J., Woods, P., Islam, Md-S., Korytkowski, C. A., Uramoto, K., Rodriguez, E. J., Sutton, B. D., Nolazco, N., Steck, G. J., and Gaimari, S. (2017). Phylogenetic relationships of the tribe Toxotrypanini (Diptera: Tephritidae) based on molecular characters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 113, 84–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.05.011
Norrbom, A. L., N. B. Barr, P. Kerr, X. Mengual, N. Nolazco, E. J. Rodriguez, G. J. Steck, B. D. Sutton, K. Uramoto and A. Zucchi. (2018). Synonymy of Toxotrypana Gerstaecker with Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera: Tephritidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 120(4), 834–841. https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.120.4.834
Rodriguez, E. J., Steck, G. J., Norrbom, A. L., Moore, M. Sutton, B. D., and Branham, M. A. (2021). Description of A. amplidentata and A. durantae with review of larval morphology of the fraterculus group (Diptera: Tephritidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 123(1), 169–189. https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.123.1.169
Kyle Schnepp, Ph.D.
Collections Manager
Selected Publications
Schnepp, K. E. (2023a) Catalog of the world species of Trichodesma LeConte, 1861 (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) and associated genera. Insecta Mundi, 1000: 1–19.
Schnepp, K. E., McElrath, T. C., and Powell, G. S. (2019). The beetle fauna associated with the peduncle of Sabal mexicana (Arecaceae) in southern Texas. Journal of Natural History, 53(35–36), 2183–2193. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2019.1694183
Schnepp, K.E., (2023b). An illustrated type catalog of Trichodesma LeConte, 1861 (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from Mexico, with description of a new species. Insecta Mundi, 1024, 1–19.
Felipe Soto-Adames, Ph.D.
Curator of Thysanoptera, Collembola and Non-insect Arthropods
Selected Publications
Soto-Adames F.N., J.A. Barra, K. Christiansen and R. Jordana. (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 MC, Lahey, Z Roberts C, Combee L, van Noort S, McGathey N, Timokhov A, Hougardy E, 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 EJ, Johnson NF, Shih C, Ren D (2019) Proterosceliopsidae: A new family of Platygastroidea from Cretaceous amber. In: Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea II. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 73, 3–38. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.73.32256
Talamas E, Buffington M, Hoelmer K (2017) Revision of Palearctic Trissolcus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). In: Talamas EJ, Buffington ML (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56, 3–185.
To contact any of the FSCA Curators, please email FSCA@fdacs.gov