Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois

Paul P. Tinerella
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)

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.


Message to
Students
Please email me for information regarding my research group.

Recognition Fulbright Scholar, US Department of State & Australian-American Fulbright Commission, 2003-2004

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.


Program
Affiliates
Faculty Affiliate: Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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



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