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

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