E. Richard Hoebeke Senior Extension Associate and Assitant Curator Department of Entomology, Comstock Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-0901 Phone: 607-255-6530 (office) Fax: 607-255-0939 E-mail: erh2@cornell.edu

Research Areas:

• Identification support for suspected adventive arthropods in North America.
• Detection of and survey for immigrant (exotic) arthropods in North America.
• Systematics, phylogeny, biogeography and natural history of rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae).

Background:

Rick is a native of Michigan and received his B.S. degree in Biological Sciences in 1971 and his M.S. degree in Systematic Entomology in 1973 both from Michigan State University, and continued his graduate studies in Systematic Entomology in a Ph.D. program at Cornell University from 1974-1977. His thesis research was a taxonomic revision of species of the staphylinid tribe Falagriini of America north of Mexico.

While a portion of his current research includes phylogenetic and taxonomic studies of beetles of the family Staphylinidae of North, Central, and South America, his primary research interests focus on the detection of and survey for non-indigenous (exotic) insects among the North American entomofauna. Having discovered many alien species either new to the Western Hemisphere, North America, or the United States during the past 20 years, he has written or co-written over 60 publications on these and related topics. He not only has collected and identified immigrant species belonging to diverse orders, but he has also published numerous papers on exotic species, providing valuable information on their recognition, North American distribution, seasonal history, and habits.

One of Rick's leisure activities is road running and cross country running. He is a national-ranked Masters runner (age 40+) and was recognized as "Honorable Mention" in the Men's 45-49 age-group by Running Times Magazine in the United States in 1995 and 1996. He races distances from 5km to 10 miles on the roads and also cross country.

Recent Publications:

Hoebeke, E. R. and J. S. Ashe. 1994. New species of Autalia Leach 1819 from the Neotropics (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with new distributional data for A. phricotrichosa Hoebeke 1988 and key to the Neotropical species of Autalia. Trop. Zool. 7:191-208.

Hoebeke, E. R. and A. G. Wheeler, Jr. 1994. Micropeza corrigiolata (L.), a Eurasian stilt-legged fly (Diptera: Micropezidae) new to North America: Diagnosis, geographic distribution, and bionomics. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 96:466-470.

Hoebeke, E. R. 1994. New records of immigrant bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in New York: Attraction of conifer-feeding species to ethanol- baited trap logs. Entomol. News 105:267-276.

Wheeler, A. G., Jr. and E. R. Hoebeke. 1995. Coccinella novemnotata in northeastern North America: Historical occurrence and current status (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 97:701-716.

Hoebeke, E. R. 1995. Three Palearctic species of Rugilus Leach in North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Paederinae): redescriptions, new synonymy, and new records. Insecta Mundi 9:69-80.

Hoebeke, E. R. and A. G. Wheeler, Jr. 1996. Pteromalus elevatus (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae): North American records of an immigrant parasitoid of the gall fly Urophora jaceana (Diptera: Tephritidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 98:87-92.

Hoebeke, E. R. and A. G. Wheeler, Jr. 1996. Meligethes viridescens (F.) (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in Maine, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island: diagnosis, distribution, and bionomics of a Palearctic species new to North America. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 98:221-227.

Hoebeke, E. R. and A. G. Wheeler, Jr. 1996. Adventive lady beetles (Coleoptera:Coccinellidae) in the Canadian Maritime Provinces, with new eastern U.S.records of Harmonia quadripunctata. Entomol. News 107:281-290.

Wheeler, A. G., Jr., and E. R. Hoebeke 1997. Trioza chenopodii Reuter: First North American record of an Old World psyllid (Homoptera: Psylloidea: Triozidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 99:409-414.

Hoebeke, E. R. and K. Beucke. 1997. Adventive Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in North America: geographic ranges, diagnoses, and new distributional records. Entomol. News 108:345-362.