LSAM Website Table of Contents and Links
Louisiana State Arthropod Museum (LSAM) Homepage
LSAM Staff and Students
Victoria Moseley Bayless, Curator
Andrew Cline, Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D. Candidate)
Alexey Tishechkin, Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D. Candidate)
Stephanie Gil (Masters Candidate)
Recent Graduates
Debra Murray, Ph.D. Currently Postdoctoral Associate, University of Kentucky, Lexington
Erin Grindley Watson, Ph.D. Currently Postdoctoral Researcher, Tulane University, New Orleans.
Melissa Dean, undergraduate researcher. Currently Graduate Student at Humboldt State University
Joyce Fassbender, M.S. Currently Ph.D. graduate student, City University of New York/American Museum of Natural History
Lisa Peri, NSF Undergraduate Researcher
Project Pages
1. Systematics of the Inquilinous Hister Beetle Genus Mesynodites (and related topics), A. Tishechkin and C. Carlton.
Inquilinous beetles of La Selva, Costa Rica (report of results of 1998 expedition).
Report on Fieldwork at Yasuni National Park, Ecuador (report of results of 1999 expedition).
Histeridae of Louisiana by A. K. Tishechkin
2. Lucid Key to Genera of Chlamydopsinae (Histeridae) by A. K. Tishechkin, M. S. Caterino, and C. E. Carlton.
3. Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, Belize Survey Project, P. Kovarik, J. Shuey and C. Carlton.
Rio Bravo collection checklists of the following beetle taxa: Anthribidae, Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Curculionidae, Elateroidea, Erotylidae, Mordellidae, Pselaphine Staphylinidae, and Tenebrionidae.
4. Documenting beetle diversity at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Checklist of Coleoptera Species Known from GSMNP.
GSMNP Coleoptera Bibliography of References Cited in the Checklist.
Expeditions (Yasuni, Ecuador 1999, Costa Rica 1998, Belize 1997).
Including general information about submitting specimens for identification.
Course Related Materials
1. Insect Taxonomy (ENTM 4005), Spring 2005 (access limited, contact Carlton for information).
2. Insect Morphology and Phylogeny (ENTM 7014), currently dormant, next offered Fall 2005 (access limited, contact Carlton for information).
Supplements to Published Articles
1. Supplement to "Revision of Reichenbachia of Eastern North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)" by C. E. Carlton (a PDF document containing images and specimen data not included in the published version).
2. Supplement to "A New Species of Micropsephodes from the Southern United States (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Anamorphinae)" by R. Leschen and C. Carlton (photograph of holotype).
Short Articles and other Features
1. Images of Pselaphine Staphylinids by C. Carlton.
2. Images of Louisiana Histeridae by A. Tishechkin and C. Carlton.
3. Ornithocoris pallidus, a Bird Infesting Cimicid New to Louisiana by C. Carlton and R. Story.
4. New Record for Micropeplinae in Louisiana (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) by C. Carlton.
5. New Record for Camptodes nigerimmus Grouvelle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from Southeastern Arizona by A. Cline.
Related Websites
The Louisiana Museum of Natural History, umbrella organization for Louisiana's natural history collections.
The Coleopterist Society, an international society devoted to the study of beetles.
Odonata of Louisiana, Bill Mauffray's checklist of dragonflies and damselflies of Louisiana and link to the International Odonata Research Institute website.
Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service
Formosan subterranean termite webpage
National Science Foundation, source of funding for the Mesynodites project.
Discover Life in America (sponsor of the Great Smoky Mountains ATBI)