User:Marielle Fields Newsome

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

I decided to take this write-a-thon to put in entries for every order in [Hexapoda]]. It has been a total source nightmare. I 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.

After all that, I discovered 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. Marielle Fields Newsome 16:59, 4 June 2008 (CDT)

Orders:

Completed

(Class: Entognatha)

Protera Diplura Collembola

(Class: Insecta)

Order Zygentoma Order Ephemeroptera -- efêmera, efeméride, éphémères, mayflies

To Do

Order Archaeognatha Börner, 1904 -- jumping bristletails 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