 Don
Thomas
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Don
Thomas is a career Research Entomologist with the USDA Agricultural
Research Service. His investigative responsibilities involve
control and quarantine programs against the Mexican Fruit Fly,
Anastrepha ludens Loew (Tephritidae). The research
is conducted on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border in close
cooperation with growers and Mexican counterparts. Don has also
developed expertise in the taxonomy of stinkbugs (Pentatomidae),
the bionomics of livestock insects, and the ecology of desert
tenebrionids. An avocational interest in the Scarabaeidae has
resulted in avid collecting and becoming an aficionado of scarab
beetle diversity. His 1993 paper in the Coleopterists Bulletin
on the scarab diversity of forests in Chiapas, Mexico won the
Outstanding Paper of the Year Award from the Coleopterists Society. |
