Phasmid Workers (Phasmatologists)

Phasmatologist Location Phasmid Interests Current Projects
Henry Walter Bates
Ian Abercrombie
Ed Baker London, UK
  • Bioinformatics
  • Pest Species
  • Phasmid-Foodplant Relationships
  • Hymenoptera parasites of phasmids
Allan Harman Essex, UK
Paul Brock Brockenhurst, Hampshire, UK

Taxonomy, rearing

Papers on phasmids (particularly Australian, joint papers with Jack Hasenpusch in hand; also others with Oskar Conle and Frank Hennemann), continual updating of PSF, uploading more type photos a priority, DNA barcoding [with Prof. Barbara Mantovani (Bologna, Italy) and Jack Hasenpusch (Nr Innisfail, Australia)]. Also non-phasmid work: popular book on insects of the New Forest and surrounds.

Tara Maginnis Austin, Texas, USA

predation, mating behavior, defense, colour polymorphisms

Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl

Taxonomy

Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) Sweden
Alfred Russel Wallace UK
Ermanno Giglio-Tos
Francis Seow Choen
Frank Hennemann Germany

Central American Phasmids

Oskar Conle Germany
Johan Christian Fabricius
John O. Westwood
Josef Redtenbacher
John T. Salmon New Zealand
Boris Petrovich Uvarov
J. T. Clark Uppingham, UK

rearing, Breeding, Egg morphology, ootaxonomy

George Robert Gray
Hermann Burmeister
William Forsell Kirby
James Wood-Mason
Robert Walter Campbell Shelford
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