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Paul P. Tinerella
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1816 S. Oak St. Champaign, IL 61820 MC–652 Phone: 217-244-2149 Fax: 217-333-4949 Email: ptinerll@illinois.edu Title: Insect Collection Manager Office Location: NRB | ||
| Activities | Insect Systematist & Entomology Collections Manager; Biosystematics, taxonomy, and biogeography of aquatic true bugs (Heteroptera); taxonomy and faunistics of Nearctic water beetles (Coleoptera) |
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| Research |
Natural history collections preservation and management; Collection profiling methodology; Biodiversity informatics; Relational database development and implementation Revisionary monographs and phylogenetics of Corixoidea (water boatmen); Systematics of Pleoidea (pygmy backswimmers) and Notonectoidea (backswimmers); Faunistics and taxonomic study of Nearctic water beetle faunas; aquatic insect conservation biology. |
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| Message to Students |
Please email me for information regarding my research group. |
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| Recognition | Fulbright Scholar, US Department of State & Australian-American Fulbright Commission, 2003-2004 |
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| Professional affiliations |
International Heteropterists Society; Entomological Society of America; New York Entomological Society; Central States Entomological Society; American Entomological Society | ||
| Selected publications |
2008. Tinerella, P.P. Taxonomic revision and systematics of New Guinea and Oceania pygmy water boatmen (Heteroptera: Corixoidea: Micronectidae). Zootaxa, 1797: 1-66. 2006. Tinerella, P.P., and J. T. Polhemus. A new species of Neosigara Lundblad (Heteroptera: Corixidae) from Colombia with a revised key to adults. Russian Entomological Journal 15(2): 221-222. 2006. Tinerella, P.P. A new species of Micronecta Kirkaldy from Fiji, with notes on Australasian congeners. In Rabitsch, W., (ed.): Hug the bug – For love of true bugs. Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Ernst Heiss. — Denisia 19: 697-702. 2005. Tinerella, P.P., and R.W. Gundersen. The Corixidae of Minnesota (Insecta: Heteroptera). Pub. No. 23, Schafer-Post Series, North Dakota Insects. North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D. 119 pp. ISBN: 0-9766855-0-7 2004. Tinerella, P.P. and J. T. Polhemus. A new species of Micronecta Kirkaldy (Heteroptera: Corixidae: Micronectinae) from Irian Jaya with a key to the Micronecta of New Guinea. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 112(2): 183-189. (2005) 2003. Tinerella, P.P. New records of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from North Dakota. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76(4): 115-118. |
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| Program Affiliates |
Faculty Affiliate: Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Professional society involvement and activities |
Entomological Society of America Judge for paper and poster student competitions; ESA Heteropterist's Conference contributor; Reviewer for ESA, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, American Midland Naturalist, Entomological News | ||
| Education | --Postdoctoral Fellow, Insect Systematics, Michigan State University, 2006-2007 PhD, Entomology, North Dakota State University, 2006 --Fulbright Scholar, Australian Museum, 2003-2004 MS, Entomology, North Dakota State University, 2000 BS, Zoology, St. Cloud State University, MN, 1997 | ||