E. Richard Hoebeke

Senior Extension Associate

Michigan State University, 1973
Systematics of Coleoptera especially Staphylinidae; exotic pest detection and survey

2144F Comstock Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2601
Phone: 607.255.6530
Fax: 607.255.0939
Email: erh2@cornell.edu

Professional Overview and Objectives
Education
Academic Ranks
Areas of Expertise
Extension and Outreach
Publications
Conference Precedings
Books
Book Chapters
NYSAES & Extension Publications
USDA, APHIS, PPQ, & USFS Publications

Professional Overview and Objectives

To adequately appreciate arthropod diversity, and especially that of insects, one needs only to look around. But in spite of this tremendous diversity, many insects are very similar to each other morphologically, thus making the process of identifying any given specimen to species extremely difficult and challenging. Nevertheless, the cornerstone to sound pest management is the authoritative identity of the species in question. To this end, and as the department liaison between the Cornell University Insect Collection and the Insect Diagnostic Laboratory, I have remained actively involved in providing identification support for both research and extension efforts in the Department, College, and overall University community. Taxonomic support is also provided to other federal and state regulatory agencies.

Accurate species-level identification is absolutely essential when attempting to provide timely and important information on insect biology, management and control recommendations. An excellent example of this is the Asian longhorned beetle infestation in New York City and Chicago; I provided the initial identification of this exotic pest in September 1996 and this made it possible to learn about its biology, host trees, and pest status in Asia. The intended audience(s) include not only university researchers, but also homeowners, county agents, growers, and agri-producers. My expertise and experience in arthropod identification allows me to confidently provide valuable training (through pest identification workshops) to New York State extension personnel (agents, summer assistants, Master Gardeners, etc.) during the course of a year.

To provide the best possible taxonomic assistance in support of accurate species-level identifications for pest problems requires the continual curation, upgrading, and management of the Cornell University Insect Collection. This world-renowned biosystematic resource facility requires nothing less than the near full-time commitment of my services as a Senior Extension Associate/Assistant Curator. During times of downsizing and shrinking budgets, the task of maintaining excellence in insect/pest identification and our ability to provide timely identifications becomes even more difficult. It is absolutely essential that we maintain Cornell's image as the unparalleled leader in this support of agricultural research and production globally and regionally.

Education

Year	Degree	Institution
1973	M.S. (Entomology)	Michigan State University
1971	B.S. (Biology)	Michigan State University

Academic Ranks

Senior Extension Associate: 1981
Extension Associate: 1977

Areas of Expertise

Identification support, suspected adventive arthropods, North America.
Detection, survey, immigrant (exotic) arthropods, North America.
Systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, natural history, rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae).
Systematics, taxonomy, Asian longhorned beetles, Anoplophora (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Identification specialist, Scolytidae (bark/ambrosia beetles).

Extension and Outreach

My primary extension activities focus on curation and collection management support to the Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC). Upgrading all aspects of collection maintenance and building at Cornell will remain my major emphasis. Cornell, bar no other institution, has one of the largest and most species-diverse collection of identified research specimens in the world. This reference collection allows me to provide accurate identifications of potential pest species, native and exotic. I also serve as the department and college insect identification specialist in support of applied and basic research programs, and I provide timely, accurate species-level identifications to federal, state, and local stakeholders responsible for the safeguarding of American plant resources. I am committed to increasing public understanding about the importance of invasive insect pests and their impacts on society through effective communication and outreach efforts. I achieve to ensure dissemination of useful, timely information through a variety of methods, including personal contact and other communication systems (invited talks, workshops, seminars, the internet, and mass media such as newspapers, magazines, and radio). Education and outreach will create a depth of understanding and appreciation for the role of safeguarding the environment, our national food supply, and the economy from invasive organisms.

Publications

Couri, M. S., T. G. Murphy, and E. R. Hoebeke. 2007. Philornis fasciventris (Wulp) (Diptera: Muscidae): Description of the male, larva and puparium, with notes on biology and host association. Neotropical Entomology 36(6): 889-893.

Losey, J. E., J. E. Perlman, and E. R. Hoebeke. 2007. Citizen scientist rediscovers rare nine spotted lady beetle, Coccinella novemnotata, in eastern North America. J. Insect Conservation 11: 415-417.

Weston, P. A., G. Desurmont, and E. R. Hoebeke. 2007. Viburnum leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Biology, invasion history, and management options. American Entomologist 53(2): 96-101.

Hoebeke, E. R. and R. J. Rabaglia. 2007. First reported occurrence of Xyleborinus alni (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in the eastern United States, with notes on its recognition and tree hosts. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 109(1): 240-248.

Hoebeke, E. R. 2007. Asian Longhorned Beetle: Invasion on North American Urban Forests, pp. 25-29. In D. Pimentel, ed., Encyclopedia of Pest Management, Volume II. CRC Press, New York.

Hoebeke, E. R. 2007. Invasive Insects as Major Pests in the United States, pp. 288-291. In D. Pimentel, ed., Encyclopedia of Pest Management, Volume II. CRC Press, New York.

Hoebeke, E. R. and R. E. Acciavatti. 2006. Hylurgops palliatus (Gyllenhal) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), a Eurasian bark beetle new to North America. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 108(2): 267-273.

Peck, D. C., E. R. Hoebeke, and C. Klass. 2006. Detection and establishment of the European crane flies Tipula paludosa Meigen and Tipula oleracea L. (Diptera: Tipulidae) in New York: a review of their distribution, invasion history, biology, and recognition. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 108(4): 985-994.

Wheeler, A. G., Jr., T. J. Henry, and E. R. Hoebeke. 2006. Palearctic plant bugs (Hemiptera, Miridae) in Newfoundland, Canada: first North American records for Phytocoris longipennis Flor and Pilophorus cinnamopterus (Kirschbaum), new records of eight other species, and review of previously reported species, pp. 997- 1014. In Rabitsch, W. (ed.), “Hug the bug, For love of true bugs.” Festschrift zum 70. Geburststag von Ernst Heiss. Denisia 19: 1184 pp.

Hoebeke, E. R. and A. G. Wheeler, Jr. 2005. Establishment of three European flea beetles in Nova Scotia: Longitarsus ganglbaueri Heikertinger, L. jacobaeae (Waterhouse), and L. rubiginosa (Foudras) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 107(2): 319-322.

Wheeler, A. G., Jr. and E. R. Hoebeke. 2005. Livilla variegata (Low) (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psyllidae) new to North America, with records of three other Palearctic psyllids new to Newfoundland. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 107(4): 941-946.

Hoebeke, E. R., D. A. Haugen, and R. A. Haack. 2005. Sirex noctilio: discovery of a Palearctic siricid woodwasp in New York. Newsletter Mich. Entomol. Soc. 50(1&2): 24-25.

Hoebeke, E. R. and A. G. Wheeler, Jr. 2005. First records of adventive Hymenoptera (Argidae, Megachilidae, Tenthredinidae, and Vespidae) from the Canadian Maritimes and the United States. Entomol. News 116(3): 159-166.

Wheeler, A. G., Jr. and E. R. Hoebeke. 2004. New North American records of the European broom psyllid Arytaina genistae (Latreille) (Sternorrhyncha: Psyllidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 106(1): 176-180.

Wheeler, A. G., Jr. and E. R. Hoebeke. 2004. New records of Palearctic Hemiptera (Sternorrhyncha, Cicadomorpha, Heteroptera) in the Canadian Maritime Provinces. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 106(2): 298-304.

Wheeler, A. G., Jr. and E. R. Hoebeke. 2004. An introduced knapweed gall fly, Urophora quadrifasciata (Meigen) (Diptera: Tephritidae), in North America: northeastern and southeastern range extensions. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 106(4): 784-788.

Hoebeke, E. R., P. E. Kaufmann, C. S. Glenister, and S. M. Stringham. 2003. New Nearctic record for Epitranus clavatus F. (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 105(4): 1062-1063.

Hoebeke, E. R. and A. G. Wheeler, Jr. 2003. Sphaeroderma testaceum (F.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a Palearctic flea beetle new to North America. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 105(4): 991-995.

Weston, P. A. and E. R. Hoebeke. 2003. Viburnum leaf beetle, Pyrrhalta viburni (Paykull) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): dispersal pattern of a Palearctic landscape pest in New York and its distribution status in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 105(4): 889-895.

Hoebeke, E. R., E. J. Sensenbach, J. P. Sanderson, and S. P. Wraight. 2003. First report of Coenosia attenuata Stein (Diptera: Muscidae), an Old World ‘’hunter fly’ in North America. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 105(3): 769-775.

Losey, J. E., J. K. Waldron, E. R. Hoebeke, L. E. Macomber, and B. N. Scott. 2002. First record of the soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae), in New York. Great Lakes Entomologist 35(2): 101-105.

Hoebeke, E. R. and G. Page. 2002. Longhorned Beetles of the Genus Anoplophora and Lithography: Alien Invaders in the Eye of the Beholder! American Entomologist 48(4): 200-206.

Hoebeke, E. R. 2002. Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stal) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Regulatory Horticulture, Entomology Circular No. 204: 35-37.

Eisner, T., J. E. Carrel, E. Van Tassell, E. R. Hoebeke, and M. Eisner. 2002. Construction of a defensive trash packet from sycamore leaf trichomes by a chrysopid larva (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 104(2): 437-446.

Lingafelter, S. W. and E. R. Hoebeke. 2001. Variation and homology in elytral maculation in the Anoplophora malasiaca/macularia species complex (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Japan and Taiwan. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 103:757-769.

Hoebeke, E. R. 2001. Hylurgus ligniperda: A new exotic pine bark beetle in the United States. Newsletter Mich. Entomol. Soc. 46:1-2.

Wheeler, A. G., Jr. and E. Richard Hoebeke. 2001. Phaedon desotonis Balsbaugh (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): new distribution records, first host-plant associations, and seasonality of a seldom-collected beetle of rock-outcrop communities. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 103(4): 826-831.

Hoebeke, E. R., R. A. Byers, M. A. Alonso-Zarazaga, and J. F. Stimmel. 2000. Ischnopterapion virens (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Brentidae: Apioninae), a Palearctic clover weevil new to NorthAmerica: recognition features, distribution, and bionomics. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 102:151-161.

Hoebeke, E. R. and A. G. Wheeler, Jr. 2000. Telmatophilus typhae, a Palearctic cattail specialist established in the Canadian Maritime Provinces (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 102:398-402.

Rossini, C., E. R. Hoebeke, V. K. Iyengar, W.. E. Conner, M. Eisner, and T. Eisner. 2000. Alkaloid content of parasitoids reared from pupae of an alkaloid-sequestering arctiid moth (Utetheisa ornatrix). Entomol. News 111(4): 287-290.

Byers, R. A., G. M. Barker, R. L. Davidson, E. R. Hoebeke, and M. A. Sanderson. 2000. Richness and abundance of Carabidae and Staphylinidae (Coleoptera), in northeastern dairy pastures under intensive grazing. Great Lakes Entomol. 33(2): 81-105.

Wheeler, A. G., Jr. and E. R. Hoebeke. 1999. Rhopalus (Brachycarenus) tigrinus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae): First western U.S. records of a Eurasian scentless plant bug. Entomol. News. 110:92-96.

Hoebeke, E. R. and A. G. Wheeler, Jr. 1999. Anthidium oblongatum (Illiger); an Old World bee (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) new to North America, and new North American records for A. manicatum (L.). Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas (a continuation of the University of Kansas Science Bulletin). 4 pp.

Iyengar, V. K., C. Rossini, E. R. Hoebeke, W. E. Conner, and T. Eisner. 1999. First record of the parasitoid Archytas aterrimus (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Utetheisa ornatrix (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Entomol. News 110:144-146.

Eisner, T., M. Eisner, and E. R. Hoebeke. 1998. When defense backfires: detrimental effect of a plant's protective trichomes on an insect beneficial to the plant.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 95:4410-4414.

Cavey, J. F., E. R. Hoebeke, S. Passoa, and S. W. Lingafelter. 1998. New exotic threat to North American Hardwood forests: an Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). I. Description and diagnosis of the larva. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 100:373-381.

Conference Precedings

Wheeler, A. G., Jr. and E. R. Hoebeke. 2001. A History of Adventive Insects in North America: Their Pathways of Entry and Programs for Their Detection, pp. 3-15. In USDA-APHIS-CPHST, “Detecting and Monitoring of Invasive Species: Plant Health Conference 2000.” October 24-25, 2000, Raleigh, NC. 88 pp.

Books

Lingafelter, S. W. and E. R. Hoebeke. 2002. Revision of Asian longhorned beetles of the genus Anoplophora (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Lamiini). Misc. Publ. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 236 pp + 41 color plates.

Book Chapters

Hoebeke, E. R. 2002. “Asian Longhorned Beetle Invasion Threatens North American Urban Forests” (slated for 4^th Update, May 2003) Online. In D. Pimentel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Pest Management. Marcel Dekker, New York, NY.

Hoebeke, E. R. 2002. “Invasive Insects as Major Pests in the United States” (slated for 4^th Update, May 2003) Online. In D. Pimentel (ed.), Enclyclopedia of Pest Management. Marcel Dekker, New York, NY.

NYSAES & Extension Publications

Hoffmann, M., R. Hoebeke, and H. Dilliard. 1999. Flea beetle pests of vegetables. 4 pp. (color)

Weston, P. A., E. R. Hoebeke, and B. C. Eshenaur. 1999. Viburnum leaf beetle, Pyrrhalta viburni (Paykull) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). 2 pp. (color)

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