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==Current Projects==
==Current Projects==


I decided to take this write-a-thon to put in entries for every order in  [Hexapoda]].  It has been a total source nightmareI started with Peterson's Field Guide.  I got to the order [[Orthoptera]]... and it included [[cockroaches]]!  Good lord.  The last time I checked, cockroaches were in their own order (and there was a 2007 paper suggesting they should actually be a suborder in [[Isoptera]], but the dust hasn't settled on that yet).  And then I realized that despite the fact that I bought the field guide in my teenage years, it hadn't been updated since 1970.  So I brought out my Nat'l Audubon Society Field Guide, which is copyright 1995.  Better, but a lot has changed.
Insect classification, like much of taxonomy, has been going through rather dramatic changes recentlyThe most complete source for up-to-date classification seems to be [http://www.itis.gov/ ITIS]. As such, I've decided that the site will be my final authority on taxonomy.  I notice that Wikipedia uses more recent material in their classification, but I'm hesitant to do that, mostly because taxonomy is often interdependent, and one paper does not a new order make.  
 
[[User:Marielle Fields Newsome|Marielle Fields Newsome]] 16:59, 4 June 2008 (CDT)
After all that, I discovered [http://www.itis.gov/ ITIS]. As it claims to be an authority, I will be using that.  I notice that wikipedia uses quite recent material in their classification, but I'm hesitant to do that, mostly because taxonomy is often interdependent. [[User:Marielle Fields Newsome|Marielle Fields Newsome]] 16:59, 4 June 2008 (CDT)
 
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===Completed===
===Completed===

Revision as of 21:15, 4 June 2008

I am an Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. I graduated with Honors in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY in May 2008.

My primary interest in contributing to the Citizendium is in the field of animal behavior; however, I've contributed to articles on Wikipedia in other areas of biology, chemistry, and physics, and expect to do so here as well. I am also interested in scientific classification. My organisms of choice generally belong to the class ''Insecta''. As for nonscientific interests, anime, manga, and other aspects of Japanese popular culture are a hobby of mine. I am also an avid reader of both fiction and non fiction.

Current Projects

Insect classification, like much of taxonomy, has been going through rather dramatic changes recently. The most complete source for up-to-date classification seems to be ITIS. As such, I've decided that the site will be my final authority on taxonomy. I notice that Wikipedia uses more recent material in their classification, but I'm hesitant to do that, mostly because taxonomy is often interdependent, and one paper does not a new order make. Marielle Fields Newsome 16:59, 4 June 2008 (CDT)

Completed

(Class: Entognatha)

Protera Diplura Collembola Archaeognatha

(Class: Insecta)

Zygentoma Ephemeroptera

To Do

Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 -- beetles, besouro, coléoptères Order Dermaptera De Geer, 1773 -- earwigs, lacrainha, tesourinha Order Dictyoptera Order Diptera -- gnats, mosca, mosquito, mosquitoes, true flies Order Embiidina Hagen, 1862 -- web-spinners, webspinners Order Grylloblattodea -- grylloblattids, rock crawlers Order Hemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 -- hemipterans, true bugs Order Hymenoptera -- abelha, ants, bees, formiga, vespa, wasps Order Isoptera Brullé, 1832 -- cupim, termites Order Lepidoptera -- Borboleta, butterflies, Mariposa, moths, papillons, papillons de nuit Order Mantophasmatodea Zompro, Klass, Kristensen and Adis, 2002 -- African rock crawlers, gladiator-bugs, gladiators, heelwalkers Order Mecoptera -- hangingflies, scorpion flies, scorpionflies, snowflies Order Orthoptera -- crickets, criquet-locustes, gafanhoto, grasshoppers, grilo, katydids, locustes, locusts, sauterelles Order Phasmatodea Jacobson and Bianchi, 1902 Order Phthiraptera Haeckel, 1896 -- biting lice, chewing lice, sucking lice Order Plecoptera -- plécoptères, stoneflies Order Psocoptera -- bark lice, book lice, piolho de livro, psócidos, psocids, psocóptero Order Siphonaptera -- fleas, pulga Order Strepsiptera Kirby, 1813 -- estrepsítero, parasitic insects, twisted-wing parasites, twisted-winged parasites Order Thysanoptera Haliday, 1836 -- thrips, trips Order Trichoptera -- caddisflies, phryganes, porte-bois, tricóptero Order Zoraptera Silvestri, 1913 -- zorapterans, zorápte Order Megaloptera -- alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies Order Neuroptera -- ant lions, antlions, bichos lixeiros, formigas leão, lacewings, mantisflies, mantispids, owlflies, spongillaflies Order Raphidioptera Martynov, 1938 -- snake flies, snakeflies Order Odonata Fabricius, 1793 -- damselflies, dragonflies, libélula