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Chris Dietrich
1816 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820
MC–652
Phone: 217-244-7408   Fax: 217-333-4949
Email: dietrich@inhs.illinois.edu
Title: Systematic Entomologist, Associate Center Director
Unit: DBEE–SBD
Office Location: NRB

Activities Insect systematics; evolution, biodiversity, and conservation of leafhoppers and related insects (Hemiptera); curator of Insect Collection; Research Leader, Section for Biodiversity

Research
Research: Ongoing projects include phylogenetic analysis and revision of the family-group taxa of Membracoidea (leafhoppers and treehoppers); revisionary studies of the leafhopper subfamilies Typhlocybinae; inventory and conservation of grassland insect biotas.

Teaching: Systematics Discussion Seminar.


Professional
affiliations
Society of Systematic Biologists; Entomological Society of America; Entomological Collections Network

Selected
publications
Dietrich, C. H., R. A. Rakitov, J. L. Holmes, and W. C. Black, IV. 2001. Phylogeny of the major lineages of Membracoidea (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) based on 28S rDNA sequences. Mol. Phyl. Evol. 18: 293-305.

Dietrich, C. H. 2002. Evolution of Cicadomorpha (Insecta, Hemiptera). Denisia 176: 155-170.

Dietrich, C. H. 2005. Keys to the families of Cicadomorpha and subfamilies and tribes of Cicadellidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Florida Entomologist 88: 502-517.

Novikov, D. V., N. V. Novikova, G. A. Anufriev, and C. H. Dietrich. 2006. Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) of Kyrgyz grasslands. Russian Entomological Journal 15: 65-72.

Dietrich, C. H., and D. A. Dmitriev. 2006. Review of the New World genera of the leafhopper tribe Erythroneurini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey 37(5): 119-190.


Program
Affiliates
INHS Center for Economic Entomology, Department of Entomology, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

Professional
society
involvement
and activities
Associate Editor, Annals of Entomological Society of America; Cicadomorpha Editor, Zootaxa.

Education PhD, Entomology, North Carolina State University, 1990

BS, Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 1984