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R. Wills Flowers

Professor of Entomology

B.S. (1970), Cornell University
M.S. (1972), North Carolina State University
Ph.D. (1975), University of Wisconsin


Agricultural Research Programs
Entomology and Structural Pest Control
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307

Tel: (904) 561-2215
Fax: (904) 561-2221
rflowers@famu.edu


Research Interest:

Systematics and biogeography of Ephemeroptera; ecology of Central American Ephemeroptera. Taxonomy and ecology of the Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), esp. The subfamily Eumolpinae. Biodiversity inventory of the Chrysomelidae of Costa Rica, and insects of longleaf pine - wiregrass in the Southeast U.S.


Selected Publications:

Flowers R.W. 1990. New records of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from Florida. The Coleopterists Bulletin 44:65.

Flowers R.W. 1991. Aggregations of Cassidinae (Chrysomelidae) in Santa Rosa and Guanacaste National Parks, Costa Rica. Biotropica, 23:308-310.

Flowers, R.W. 1995. Hermesia Lefevre, a resurrected genus of Neotropical Eumolpinae (Coleoptera:Chrysomelidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 97:35-45.

Flowers, R.W. 1995. Some corrections to the generic records of Central American Eumolpinae (Chrysomelidae: Coleoptera) Florida Entomologist 78:553-557.

Flowers, R.W. 1996. La subfamilia Eumolpinae (Chrysomelidae: Coleoptera) en América Central. Publ. esp. No. 2, Rev. Biol. Trop. 1-60

Flowers R.W. & R. Tiffer S. 1992. Comportamiento gregario de la vaquita (Hypolampsis sp.; Coleoptera: Alticinae) en el Parque Nacional Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Brenesia 37:135-136.

Flowers, R.W., D.G. Furth & M.C. Thomas. 1994. Notes on the distribution and biology of some Florida leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Coleopts Bull. 48:79-89.

Askevold, I.S. & R.W. Flowers. 1994. Glyptosceloides dentatus, a genus and species of Eumolpinae new to Chile (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Rev. Chilena de Entomologˇa 21:69-76.

Flowers R.W. 1991. Diversity of stream-living insects in northwestern Panamá. J.N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 10:322-334.

Flowers R.W. 1992. A review of the genera of mayflies of Panama, with a checklist of Panamanian and Costa Rican species. (Ephemeroptera). in D. Quintero and A. Aiello (eds.) Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.

Flowers R.W. & R.T. Yamamoto. 1992. Feeding on non-host plants by partially maxillectomized tobacco hornworms (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Florida Entomologist, 75:89-93.

McCafferty, W.P., R.W. Flowers & R.D. Waltz. 1992. The biogeography of Mesoamerican mayflies. in S.P. Darwin and A.L. Welden (eds.) Biogeography of Mesoamerica. Special Publ. of the Mesoamerican Ecol. Inst., Tulane Univ., New Orleans.

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