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Publications from the MSB Division of Arthropods

 

Medrano, M.F. 2009. Natural History and Population Status of the Slate Milliped, Comanchelus chihuanus (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Atopetholidae). In A Lifetime of Contributions to Myriapodology and the Natural History of Virginia: A Festschrift in Honor of Richard L. Hoffman's 80th Birthday. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 16, 233-235.

Shelley, R.M., Medrano, M.F., & K. Ovaska. 2009. The milliped family Tingupidae (Chordeumatida) on Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA, a geographically remote record of indigenous Diplopoda. Insecta Mundi, 0105: 1-5.

Giorgi, J.A., Vandenberg, N.J., McHugh, J.V., Forrester, J.A., Slipinski, S.A., Miller, K.B., Shapiro, L.R., & M.F. Whiting. 2009. The evolution of food preferences in Coccinellidae. Biological Control, 51: 215-231.

Metzler, E. H., D. Bustos and G. S. Forbes. 2009. The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero Co., New Mexico, USA. I. Two new species of Noctuidae

(Lepidoptera, Noctuninae, Agrotini). ZooKeys 9:47-62.

Nearns, E.H. and K.B. Miller. [In Press]. A new species of Plectromerus Haldeman from Central America and description of the female of Plectromerus dezayasi Nearns & Branham, 2008 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Plectromerini). ZooKeys.

Nearns, E.H., Swift, I.P., & L.J. Joly. [In Press]. First record of Curius chemsaki Nearns and Ray, 2006 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Curiini) in Colombia. Insecta Mundi.

Wappes, J.E., Ledezma Arias, J. and E.H. Nearns. 2009. Coleoptera Holotypes in Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma "Gabriel René Moreno," Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Insecta Mundi, 0081: 1-8.

Miller, K.B., Gibson, J.R. and Y. Alarie. 2009. North American Stygobiontic diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) with description of Ereboporus naturaconservatus Miller, Gibson and Alarie, new genus and species, from Texas, U.S.A. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 63(2): 191-202.

Miller, K.B., Bergsten, J., and M.F. Whiting. 2009. Phylogeny and classification of the tribe Hydaticini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): partition choice for Bayesian analysis with multiple nuclear and mitochondrial protein-coding genes. Zoologica Scripta, 1-25.

Miller, K.B. 2009. On the systematics of Noteridae (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Hydradephaga): Phylogeny, description of a new tribe, genus and species, and survey of female genital morphology. Systematics and Biodiversity, 7(2): 191–214.

Miller, K.B. 2009. Genus- and family-group names in the order Embioptera (Insecta). Zootaxa, 2055: 1-34.

Cameron, S.L., Sullivan, J., Song, H., Miller, K.B., and M.F. Whiting. 2009. A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of the Neuropterida (lace-wings, alderflies and snakeflies) and their relationship to the other holometabolous insect orders. Zoologica Scripta, 1-16.

Shelley, R.M., Medrano, M.F., Shear, W.A., Ovaska, K., White, K.J. and E.I. Havard. 2009. Distribution extensions of the milliped families Conotylidae and Rhiscosomididae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida) into northern coastal British Columbia and Southern Alaska. Insecta Mundi, 0071: 1-6.

Miller, K.B. 2008. Review of the genus Odontembia Davis, 1939 (Embioptera: Embiidae) with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 1723: 63-68.

Lightfoot, David C., Sandra L. Brantley, and Craig D. Allen. 2008. Geographic patterns of ground-dwelling arthropods across an ecoregional transition in the North American Southwest. Western North American Naturalist 68, no. 1: 83-102.

Miller, K.B., P. Mazzoldi, & Q. Wheeler. 2008. An unusual new species of Gyrinidae (Coleoptera), Orectochilus orbisonorum n. sp., from India. Zootaxa, 1712: 65-68.

Cartron, J. E., D. C. Lightfoot, J. E. Mygatt, S. L. Brantley and T. K. Lowrey. 2008. A field guide to the plants and animals of the Middle Rio Grande bosque. Univeristy of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM.

Nearns, E.H. & M.A. Branham. 2008. Revision and phylogeny of the tribes Curiini LeConte and Plectromerini Nearns & Branham, new tribe (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, 47: 1-117.

Davidson, A.D. and D. C. Lightfoot. 2008. Burrowing rodents increase landscape heterogeneity in a desert grassland. Journal of Arid Environments 72:1133-1145.

Weissman, D. B. and D. C. Lightfoot. 2008. Techniques for the Field Capture and Captive Rearing of Jerusalem Crickets. Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute. 2007 Invertebrates in Captivity Conference Proceedings, pages 22-29.

Davidson, A. D. and D. C. Lightfoot. 2007. Interactive effects of keystone rodents on the structure of desert grassland arthropod communities. Ecography 30:515-525.

Miller, K.B., Alarie, Y. & M.F. Whiting. 2007. Description of the Larva of Notaticus fasciatus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) Associated with Adults Using DNA Sequence Data. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 100(6): 787-797.

Lingafelter, S.W. & E.H. Nearns. 2007. Five new species of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Dominican Republic in genera Ataxia Haldeman, 1845; Atimiola Bates, 1880; Drycothaea Thomson, 1868; Eburia Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1830; and Hormathus Gahan, 1830. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 61(2): 177-191.

Woodley, N.E. & E.H. Nearns. 2007. The type material of Buprestidae (Coleoptera) in the Fernando de Zayas collection, Havana, Cuba. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 61(3): 334-338.

Bergsten, J. & K.B. Miller. 2007. Phylogeny of diving beetles reveals a coevolutionary arms race between the sexes. PLoS ONE, 2(6): e522.

Miller, K.B., Bergsten, J. & M.F. Whiting. 2007. Phylogeny and classification of the diving beetle tribe Cybistrini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Zoologica Scripta, 36: 41-59.

Giese, E., and D. C. Lightfoot. 2005. Arthropods. Pages: 129-141. In: R. Julyan and M. Stuever, editors. Field guide to the Sandia Mountains. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM. 259 pages.

Brantley, S.L. and U.L. Shepherd. 2004. Effect of cryptobiotic crust type on microarthropod assemblages in piñon-juniper woodland in central New Mexico. Western North American Naturalist 64:155-165.

Ford, P.L., R.A. Fagerlund, D.W. Duszynski and P.J. Polechla. 2004. Fleas and lice of mammals in New Mexico. General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-123. Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Brantley, S.L., M.C. Molles, Jr. and S.M. Fettig. 2003. Range extension for Carabus maeander Fischer (Coleoptera: Carabidae): from the Canada/U.S. border to New Mexico. Coleopterists Bulletin 57:382.

Cartron, J.-L. E., M. C. Molles, Jr, J. F. Schuetz, C. S. Crawford, and C. N. Dahm. 2003. Ground arthropods as indicators of flooding regime in the riparian forest of the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico. Environmental Entomology 32:1075-1084.

Harrison, R.L., M.J. Patrick and C.G. Schmitt. 2003. Foxes, fleas, and plague in New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 48: 720-722.

Bess, E. C., R. R. Parmenter, S. McCoy, and M. C. Molles, Jr. 2002. Responses of a riparian forest-floor community to wildfire in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico. Environmental Entomology 31:774-784.

Brookhart, J. O. and P. E. Cushing. 2002. New species of Eremobatidae (Arachnida, Solifugae) from North America. Journal of Arachnology 30:84-97

Ellis, L. M., C. S. Crawford, and M. C. Molles, Jr. 2002. The role of the flood pulse in ecosystem-level processes in Southwestern Riparian Forests: a case study from the Middle Rio Grande. pp. 51-107 In B. A. Middleton (ed.) Flood Pulsing in Wetlands: Restoring the Natural Hydrological Balance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.

Shepherd, U.L., S.L. Brantley and C.A. Tarleton. 2002. Species richness and abundance patterns of microarthropods on cryptobiotic crusts in a piñon-juniper habitat. Journal of Arid Environments 52:349-360.

Brantley, S.L., P.L. Ford, R.A. Fagerlund and D.C. Lightfoot. 2001. Surface-active arthropods of shortgrass steppe: new county and state records from New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 46:207-209.

Ellis, L. M., C. S. Crawford and M. C. Molles, Jr. 2001. Influence of annual flooding on terrestrial arthropod assemblages of a Rio Grande riparian forest. Regulated Rivers: Research & Management. 17:1-20.

Fagerlund, R.A., P.L. Ford and P.J. Polechla, Jr. 2001. New records for fleas (Siphonatera) from New Mexico with notes on plague-carrying species. Southwestern Naturalist 46: 94-96.

Richard S. Vetter. 2001. Revision of the spider genus Neoanagraphis (Araneae, Liocranidae). The Journal of Arachnology 29:1-10.

Ellis L. M., M. C. Molles, Jr., C. S. Crawford and F. Heinzelmann. 2000. Surface-active arthropod communities in native and exotic riparian vegetation in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico. The Southwestern Naturalist 45:456-471.

Crawford, C.S., L.M. Ellis, D. Shaw and N.E. Umbreit. 1999. Restoration and monitoring in the Middle Rio Grande bosque: current status of flood pulse related efforts. pp. 158-163 in Finch, D.M., J.C. Whitney, J.F. Kelly and S,R. Loftin (eds.). Rio Grande ecosystems: linking land, water, and people. RMRS-P-7, Ogden, Utah, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

DeLay, L.S., D.M. Finch, S.L. Brantley, R.A. Fagerlund, M.D. Means and J.F. Kelly. 1999. Arthropods of native and exotic vegetation and their association with willow flycatchers and Wilsons warblers. pp. 216-221 in Finch, D.M., J.C. Whitney, J.F. Kelly and S,R. Loftin (eds.). Rio Grande ecosystems: linking land, water, and people. RMRS-P-7, Ogden, Utah, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Ellis, L. M., M. C. Molles, Jr. and C. S. Crawford. 1999. Influence of experimental flooding on litter dynamics in a Rio Grande riparian forest, New Mexico. Restoration Ecology 7:193-204.

Schowalter, T. D., D. C. Lightfoot, and W. G. Whitford. 1999. Diversity of arthropod responses to host-plant water stress in a desert ecosystem in southern New Mexico. American Midland Naturalist 142:281-290.

Brookhart, J.O. and S.L. Brantley. 1998. Solpugids (Arachnida) of the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 45:443-449.

Linderoth, O.C. 1999. Restoration efforts in the Rio Grande Valley State Park. pp. 136-138 in Finch, D.M., J.C. Whitney, J.F. Kelly and S,R. Loftin (eds.). Rio Grande ecosystems: linking land, water, and people. RMRS-P-7, Ogden, Utah, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Molles, M. C., Jr., C. S. Crawford, L. M. Ellis, H. M. Valett and C. N. Dahm. 1998. Managed floods: restoration of riparian forest ecosystem structure and function along the Rio Grande. BioScience 48:749-756.

Pereira, A. P., M. A. S. Graça, and M. Molles. 1998. Leaf litter decomposition in relation to litter physico-chemical properties, fungal biomass, arthropod colonization, and geographical origin of plant species. Pedobiologia 42:316-327.

Shaw, D. D., D. C. Lightfoot, and D. B. Weissman. 1998. Chromosomes as isolating mechanisms in Trimerotropine grasshoppers. Journal of Orthoptera Research 7:157-163.

Lightfoot, D. C. 1997. The fauna of El Malpais National Monument. In: K. Mabery, editor. Natural history of El Malpais National Monument. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Bulletin 156:139-154.

Lightfoot, D. C. 1996. A comparison of ground-dwelling arthropod assemblages among different habitats resulting from the 1977 La Mesa fire. Pages 166-178. In: Craig Allen, editor, Fire effects in Southwestern forests. Proceedings of the Second La Mesa Fire Symposium. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report RM-GTR-286.

James, C. D., M. T. Hoffman, D. C. Lightfoot, G. S. Forbes, and W. G. Whitford. 1994. Fruit abortion in Yucca elata and its implications for the mutualistic association with yucca moths. Oikos 69:207-216.

James, C. D., M. T. Hoffman, D. C. Lightfoot, G. S. Forbes, and W. G. Whitford. 1993. Pollination ecology of Yucca elata: An experimental study of a mutualistic association. Oecologia 93:512-517.

Richman, D. B., D. C. Lightfoot, C. A. Sutherland, and D. J. Ferguson. 1993. A manual of the grasshoppers of New Mexico. New Mexico State University, Cooperative Extension Service, Handbook No. 7. 112 pages.

Lightfoot, D. C. and D. B. Weissman. 1991. A review of the grasshopper genera Dracotettix and Litoscirtus Orthoptera: Romaleidae) with a discussion of their origins and life histories. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 47:159-174.

Lightfoot, D. C. and W. G. Whitford. 1991. Productivity of creosotebush foliage and associated canopy arthropods along a desert roadside. American Midland Naturalist 125:310-322.

Lightfoot, D. C. and W. G. Whitford. 1990. Phytophagous insects enhance nitrogen flux in a desert creosotebush community. Oecologia 82:18-25.

Lightfoot, D. C. and W. G. Whitford. 1989. Interplant variation in creosotebush foliage characteristics and canopy arthropods. Oecologia 81:166-175.

Lightfoot, D. C. and W. G. Whitford. 1987. Variation in insect densities on desert creosotebush: is nitrogen a factor? Ecology 68:547-557.

John, B. C., D. C. Lightfoot and D. B. Weissman. 1983. The meiotic behavior of natural F1 hybrids between Trimerotropis suffusa and T. cyaneipennis (Orthoptera:Oedipodinae). Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology 25:467-477.

Molles, M. C., Jr. 1982. The Trichoptera associated with aspen and spruce-fir forests: long term community change. Ecology 63:1-6.