Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Roman Rakitov
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1816 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 MC–652 Phone: 217-244-2151 Fax: 217-333-4949 Email: rakitov@inhs.uiuc.edu Title: Insect Systematist Unit: DBEE–SBD Office Location: NRB | ||
| Activities | Entomology. Systematics, behavior, and evolution of leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae). |
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| Research |
A post-doctoral fellow with C. H. Dietrich. Morphological, behavioral, ultrastructural, and DNA-based phylogenetic studies with the goal of elucidating the evolution of key biological features of leafhoppers and related Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha. Oviposition biology and evolution of the Proconiini sharpshooters. |
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| Professional affiliations |
The New York Entomological Society | ||
| Selected publications |
Rakitov R.A. (2004) Powdering of egg nests with brochosomes and related sexual dimorphism in leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140: 353-381. Rakitov R.A. (2002): What are brochosomes for? An enigma of leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae). Denisia 4: 433-452. Dietrich C.H. & R.A. Rakitov (2002): Some remarkable new deltocephaline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Amazonian rainforest canopy. J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 110: 1-48. Rakitov R.A. (2002): Structure and function of the Malpighian tubules, and related behaviors of juvenile cicadas: evidence of homology with spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cicadoidea & Cercopoidea). Zool. Anz. 241: 117-130. Dietrich C. H., Rakitov R. A., Holmes J. L. & W. C. Black, IV. (2001): Phylogeny of the major lineages of Membracoidea based on 28S rDNA sequences (Homoptera: Cicadomorpha). Mol. Phyl. Evol. 18: 293Æ305. Rakitov R.A. (2000): Secretion of brochosomes during the ontogenesis of a leafhopper, Oncometopia orbona (F.) (Insecta, Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Tissue & Cell. 32/1: 28-39. Rakitov R.A. (2000): Nymphal biology and anointing behaviors of Xestocephalus desertorum (Berg), a leafhopper feeding on grass roots. J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 108/1Æ2: 171Æ180. Rakitov R. A. (1999): Secretory products of the Malpighian tubules of Cicadellidae (Hemiptera, Membracoidea): an ultrastructural study. Int. J. Ins. Morphol. Embryol. 28: 179Æ192. Rakitov R. A. (1998): On differentiation of cicadellid leg chaetotaxy (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Membracoidea). Russian Entomol J. 6: 7Æ27. Rakitov R. A. (1996): Post-moulting behaviour associated with Malpighian tubule secretions in leafhoppers and treehoppers (Auchenorrhyncha: Membracoidea). Eur. J. Entomol. 93:167Æ18 |
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| Education | PhD, Entomology, Moscow State University, Russia, 1996 MS, Zoology/Botany, Moscow State University, Russia, 1989 BS, Biology, Moscow State University, Russia, 1987 | ||