Plant Pest Diagnostics Center - Entomology Laboratory

Research Programs

• Insecta: Coleoptera (beetles)
  • Bostrichoidea (Dr. Andy Cline)
  • Buprestoidea (Dr. Chuck Bellamy)
  • Cucujoidea (Dr. Andy Cline)
  • Tenebrionoidea (Dr. Andy Cline)
• Insecta: Diptera (flies)
  • Asiloidea (Drs. Eric Fisher & Steve Gaimari)
  • Lauxanioidea (Dr. Steve Gaimari)
  • Sciaroidea (Dr. Peter Kerr)
  • Opomyzoidea (Drs. Steve Gaimari & Alessandra Rung)
  • "Rhagionoidea" (Dr. Peter Kerr)
  • Tephritoidea (Drs. Steve Gaimari, Peter Kerr & Alessandra Rung)
• Insecta: Hemiptera (true bugs, leafhoppers, scales, mealybugs, whiteflies)
  • Auchenorrhyncha (Dr. Alessandra Rung)
  • Sternorrhyncha (Drs. Gillian Watson, John Sorensen & Alessandra Rung)
• Insecta: Lepidoptera (moths)
  • Zygaenoidea (Dr. Marc Epstein)
• Insecta: Odonata (dragonflies, damselflies)
  • Anisoptera (Dr. Rosser Garrison)
  • Zygoptera (Dr. Rosser Garrison)

CDFA Insect Systematists

• Charles Bellamy
• Andrew Cline
• Marc Epstein
• Eric Fisher
• Stephen Gaimari
• Rosser Garrison
• Peter Kerr
• Alessandra Rung
• John Sorensen
• Gillian Watson