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J. E. McPherson

Professor and Assistant Departmental Chair
Office: 337 Life Science II
Phone: 618-453-4118
email: mcpherson@zoology.siu.edu

Education: Ph.D., Michigan State University

Courses taught: ZOOL 220A (Diversity of Animal Life-Invertebrates), ZOOL 471 (Entomology), ZOOL 473 (Aquatic Entomology), ZOOL 514 (Advanced Entomology)
Areas of interest: Entomology, Insect Ecology

Research interests are (1) taxonomy and biology of North American Pentatomoidea, including effects of photoperiod on various species, (2) biology of aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera, and (3) taxonomy and biology of Illinois Reduviidae.

For more information on my research program, please see my lab webpage.

Honors

  • Elected Honorary Member, Entomological Society of America (2004).
  • Recipient, Award of Merit, North Central Branch, Presented at Annual Meeting, Entomological Society of America in Bloomington, IL, 26-29 March 2006.
  • Elected Fellow, Entomological Society of America (2007).

    • Recent Publications

    McPherson, J. E., and Imtiaz Ahmad. 2007. Redescriptions of Brochymena and Parabrochymena (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), based primarily on male genitalia, with reclassification of three species and description of New World tribe (Halyini). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 100: 673-682.

    McPherson, J. E., Rachel A. Shurtz, and Shannon C. Voss. 2006. Identification of nymphs of midwestern species and instars of Sinea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 99: 755-767.

    McPherson, J. E., and Steven J. Taylor. 2006. Notes of the field life history of Steinovelia stagnalis (Hemiptera: Veliidae) in southern Illinois, U.S.A., with a survey of the biological literature. Entomol. News 117: 399-405.

    Taylor, S. J., and J. E. McPherson. 2006. Gerromorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in southern Illinois: species assemblages and habitats. Great Lakes Entomol. 39: 1-26.

    Shurtz, Rachel A., and J. E. McPherson. 2005. Life history and laboratory rearing of Sinea spinipes (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) with descriptions of immature stages. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 98: 18-36.

    Tecic, Diane L., and J. E. McPherson. 2004. Resurvey of the Pentatomoidea (Heteroptera) of the La Rue-Pine Hills Research Natural Area in Union County, Illinois. Great Lakes Entomol. 37: 30-70.

    McPherson, J. E.and Imtiaz Ahmad. 2005. Further information on male genitalia of Parabrochymena Larivi¦re and Brochymena Amyot & Serville (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 98: 282-290.

    Bundy, C. S., and J. E. McPherson. 2005. Morphological examination of the egg of Mecidea major (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Southwest. Entomol. 30: 41-45.

    Bundy, C. S., J. E. McPherson and P. F. Smith. 2005. Comparative laboratory rearing of Mecidea major and M. minor (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). J. Entomol. Sci. 40: 291-294.

    McPherson, J. E., Steven J. Taylor, Steven L. Keffer, and John T. Polhemus. 2005. Life history and laboratory rearing of Macrovelia hornii (Hemiptera: Macroveliidae). Entomol. News 116:217-224.