Andrew Smith

 
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Photo:  Andrew Smith collecting at Parque Nacional Monte Cristo on the El Salvador / Guatemala / Honduras border in 2002.
  

Andrew Smith is a Research Associate of the Canadian Museum of Nature and the University of Nebraska State Museum. His research interests include the systematics, molecular phylogenetics, biogeography, and conservation of scarab beetles. Andrew has recently completed revisions of all of the Neotropical Anoplognathini (Rutelinae) and currently has an NSF funded project to study the scarab beetle biodiversity of southern South America.

  ANDREW B. T. SMITH
Research Division
Canadian Museum of Nature
P.O. Box 3443, Station D
Ottawa, ON, K1P 6P4
CANADA

TEL: (613) 364-4070
EMAIL: asmith@mus-nature.ca
URL:
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/andrewsm.htm
   
 

SCARAB PUBLICATIONS

Smith, A. B. T. and A. V. Evans.   2005.   A supplement to the checklist of the New World chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) with notes on their tribal classification.   Zootaxa 1032: 29-60.

Smith, A. B. T.   2005.   Stegopterus Burmeister & Schaum and Trichiotinus Casey, 1915 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae): proposed conservation.   Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 62(2): 75-78.

Roig-Juñent, S., G. Flores, F. C. Ocampo, and A. B. T Smith.   2005.   Algunas nuevas primeras citas de Coleoptera para Argentina (Carabidae, Scarabaeoidea y Tenebrionidae).   Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 63(3-4): 45-48.

Smith, A. B. T.   2004.   Clarification on the nomenclatural status of six genus-group names in the tribe Trichiini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae).   Coleopterists Bulletin 58(2): 285-291.

Smith, A. B. T. 2003. A new species of Phalangogonia Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini) from Costa Rica. Zootaxa 316: 1-4.

Smith, A. B. T. 2003. A monographic revision of the genus Platycoelia Dejean Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 15: 1-202.

Smith, A. B. T. and M. A. Morón. 2003. Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Central American endemic genus Phalangogonia Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini). Systematic Entomology 28: 323-338.

Paulsen, M. J. and A. B. T. Smith. 2003. Replacement names for the genera Batesiana Erwin, 1994 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and Metabolus Fairmaire, 1887 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Coleopterists Bulletin 57(3): 254.

Paucar-Cabrera, A. and A. B. T. Smith. 2002. Larval descriptions for the Neotropical genus Platycoelia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini). Coleopterists Bulletin 56(3): 438-445.

Ratcliffe, B. C., M. L. Jameson, and A. B. T. Smith. 2002. Scarabaeidae Latreille 1802, chapter 34. In, R. H. Arnett, M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank (eds.), American Beetles. Volume 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 861 pp.

Smith, A. B. T. 2002. Leucopelaea albescens Bates, 1891 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed validation of the lectotype designation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 59(2): 97-98.

Smith, A. B. T. 2002. Revision of the South American endemic genus Aulacopalpus Guérin-Méneville with phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of the subtribe Brachysternina (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini). Coleopterists Bulletin 56(3): 379-437.

Jameson, M. L. and A. B. T. Smith. 2002. Revision of the South American genus Brachysternus Guérin-Méneville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini: Brachysternina). Coleopterists Bulletin 56(3): 321-366.

Smith, A. B. T. and F. Génier. 2001. Revision of the genus Holocephalus Hope (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scabaeinae: Coprini). Canadian Entomologist 133: 777-792.

Smith, A. B. T. and M. L. Jameson. 2001. Eremophygus bicolor (Gutiérrez, 1951) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini): a new tribal and generic placement for the Bolivian scarab Platycoelia bicolor (Gutiérrez, 1951) (Anoplognathini). Coleopterists Bulletin 55(1): 103-106.

Micó, E., A. B. T. Smith, and M. A. Morón. 2000. New larval descriptions for two species of Euphoria Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Cetoniini: Euphoriina) with a key to the known larvae and a review of the larval biology for species in the genus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93(4): 795-801.

Smith, A. B. T. and A. Paucar. 2000. Taxonomic review of Platycoelia lutescens Blanchard (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini) and a description of the use of this species as food by the people of the Ecuadorian highlands. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93(3): 408-414.

Ratcliffe, B. C. and A. B. T. Smith. 1999. New Species of Canthonella Chapin (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Amazonian Brazil. Coleopterists Bulletin 53(1):1-7.

 

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