Karla E. Villatoro

Photo:  "Scarabs watchout!" Karla Villatoro at Yasuni National  Park, Ecuador, August 1998. Photo by Andrew Smith.

Karla Villatoro finished her M.S. degree in our lab in 2000 .

For her research she revised the genus Trizogeniates (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Geniatini), which was published in Entomotropica in 2002.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Villatoro, K.  2002. Revisión del género neotropical Trizogeniates Ohaus
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Geniatini).  Entomotropica 17: 225-294.

Villatoro, K. and M.L. Jameson. 2001. Xenogeniates, a new and unusual genus
of geniatine scarab (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Geniatini) from Brazil. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94(6):866-87.

Villatoro, K. 2000. Revision of the genus Trizogeniates (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Geniatini). M. S. Thesis. Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska.
174pp.

Villatoro, K. 2000. Overview of the tribe Geniatini. URL: http://www-museum.
unl.edu /research/entomology/Guide/Scarabaeoidea/Scarabaeidae/Rutelinae/
Rutelinae-Tribes/Geniatini/Geniatini-Overview/GeniatiniO.html

Villatoro, K. and M.L. Jameson. 2000. Key to the genera of Geniatini. URL: http://www-Mseum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Scarabaeoidea
/Scarabaeidae/ Rutelinae/ Rutelinae-Tribes/Geniatini/Geniatini-Key/
GeniatiniK.html

Villatoro, K. 2000. Profiles of the species of Trizogeniates. URL: http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Scarabaeoidea/Scarabaeidae/
Rutelinae/ Rutelinae-Tribes/Geniatini/Geniatini-generic-pages/Trizogeniates/
Trizogeniates-generic-page/Trizogeniates.html

Villatoro, K. 1999-2000. Catalog of the Geniatini. URL: http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Scarabaeoidea/
Scarabaeidae/Rutelinae/ Rutelinae-Tribes/Geniatini/Geniatini-Catalog
/GeniatiniC.html

Villatoro, K. 1999. Monographic research on Trizogeniates and relationships
of the tribe Geniatini (Rutelinae). URL: http://museum.unl.edu/research/
entomology /obj-triz.html

Villatoro, K. and A. B. T. Smith. 1998. Field Research in Ecuador:
13 July- 7 August 1998. URL: Http://museum.unl.edu/research/
entomology/ecuador.html

Villatoro, K. 1998. Evaluacion del metodo de PCR para el estudio taxonomico
de Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Licenciatura Thesis. Departamento
de Biologia, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.

Villatoro, K. 1997. Evaluacion del metodo de PCR para el estudio taxonomico
de Passalidae (Coleoptera:Scarabaeoidea). Paper given at the Latinamerican
reunion of Scarabeoidology, Instituto de Ecologia, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, October 1997.