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Insects UMMZ Home Curators & Staff Graduate Students Collections Acari Systematics Insect Databases Mich. Odonata Survey Entomology Resources Frequently Asked Questions Mich. Cicadas Aquatic Insects	The UMMZ Insect Division houses a world-class collection with over 4.5 million specimens from all over the globe. An emphasis on specific taxonomic groups has produced outstanding collections of the Acari, Orthoptera, and Odonata, and to a lesser extent, the Homoptera, Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. The aquatic groups and a significant portion of the mite collection are databased and there is an ongoing effort to make the rest of the collection digitally accessible.

Publications Bochkov, A.V. and B.M. OConnor. 2006. Observations on the listrophorid (Acari: Listrophoridae) fauna of Pakistan. Acarina 13: 165-171. Bochkov, A.V., S.V. Mironov, and B.M. OConnor. 2006. Revision of the genus Galagocheles Fain (Acari: Cheyletidae) parasites of galagos (Primates: Galagonidae). Systematic Parasitology 63:183-202. Bochkov, A.V. and OConnor, B.M. 2006. Fur-mites of the family Atopomelidae (Acari : Astigmata) of the Philippines: systematics, phylogeny, and host-parasite relationships. Miscellaneous Publications. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 196: 1-62. OConnor, B.M. (2007, in press). Cohort Astigmatina. in Krantz, G.W. (ed). A Manual of Acarology, 3 rd ed. Texas Tech University Press. Maddison, W.P. & Knowles, L.L. 2006. Inferring phylogeny despite incomplete lineage sorting, Syst. Biol., 55:21-30. O'Brien, M.F. and J.A. Craves. 2007. Isodontia elegans now in Michigan (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae; Sphecinae). Great Lakes Entomologist. 39(1&2):94-96. O'Brien, M.F. 2008. Notes on Dianthidium simile (Cresson) in Michigan (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Great Lakes Entomol. 40:(in press).	News We have improved our web-accessible Insect Division databases. The move to Filemaker 8 has made them appear pretty much the way they would if one were using Filemaker, rather than the web to access the files. Coming Soon -- Melanoplus web pages with genitalia, maps, database links. The correspondence files of E.B. Williamson (1877-1933), one of our country's most pre-eminent odonatologists, have moved from the UMMZ to the University of Michigan archives at the Bentley Historical Library. At the Bentley, Williamson's letters and notes will be catalogued and searchable, and therefore available for researchers. Williamson's collection formed the nucleus of our holdings of Odonata, and was a good friend of Alexander G. Ruthven (1882-1971), UMMZ Director and UM President. Read about the Insect Division's participation in the Bioblitz at the UM Biological Station. THE UM press release (pre-bioblitz) is here.

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