Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois

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
Office Location: NRB

Activities Insect systematics; evolution, biodiversity, and conservation of leafhoppers and related insects (Hemiptera); curator of Insect Collection

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 (IB 514).


Message to
Students
Please e-mail me to inquire about current openings. See the U of I Entomology Dept. website (http://www.life.illinois.edu/entomology/) for application instructions.

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
Department of Entomology, Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

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

Education PhD, Entomology, North Carolina State University, 1990

BS, Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 1984



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