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Research at the MSB Division of Arthropods

Systematics and Taxonomy

Phylogeny and systematics of diving beetles (Orthoptera:Dytiscidae) and web-spinners (Embiidina); Kelly B. Miller.
See: Kelly Miller Lab.com

Systematics of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera:Cerambycidae) with an emphasis on a generic-level phylogenetic analysis of the longhorned beetle tribe Onciderini (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae); Gino Nearns. See: Kelly Miller Lab.com

Phylogeny of Chihuahuan Desert millipedes, Mike Medrano. See: Kelly Miller Lab.com

Systematic revision of the longhorned beetle (Cerambycidae) genus Elytroleptus; Traci L. Grzymala. See: Kelly Miller Lab.com

Mating systems in diving beetles (Dytiscidae); Lauren M. Cleavall. See: Kelly Miller Lab.com

Phylogeny of the holarctic bee genus Andrena with a revision of the subgenus Callandrena (Hymenoptera); Leah Larkin.

Regional analysis of Southwestern sheet-web weaver spiders (Lyniphiidae); Sandra Brantley.

Systematic revisionary work of the North American Trimerotropine grasshoppers (Orthoptera), and the North American katydid genera Aglaothorax, Neduba, Eremopedes, Pediodectes, Ateloplus, and Steiroxys (Orthoptera); David Lightfoot.

Ecology

An inventory survey of the arthropods of White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. David Lightfoot, Sandra Brantley, Kelly Miller, Gino Nearns, Karen Wetherill.

Conservation ecology of the endangered Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly, New Mexico; Julie McIntyre.

Environmental associations of aquatic insects of the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico; Tom Kennedy.

Ecology of Rio Grande bosque ground-dwelling arthropods, New Mexico; Manuel Molles, Clifford Crawford, Jean-Luc Cartron.

Arthropods of the riparian corridor of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona, in relation to water fluctuation from Glen Canyon Dam; David Lightfoot and Sandra Brantley.

Microarthropods associated with soil cryptobiotic crusts in the arid Southwest; Sandra Brantley and Ursula Shepard.

Spatial and temporal dynamics of ground-dwelling arthropod communities across the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico; David Lightfoot and Sandra Brantley.

Ecological interactions and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies at several spatial scales; Karen Gaines.

The ecology of native bee pollinators at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico; Karen Wetherill.

Community and population ecology of grasshoppers of the Jornada and Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research sites, New Mexico; David Lightfoot.