- Project Mantodea is a collaborative program to revise the classification of praying mantises (Mantodea) and is funded by a Revisionary Synthesis in Systematics (REVSYS) grant from the US National Science Foundation awarded to GJ Svenson (PI) and KB Miller (CoPI).
- This website is dedicated to providing project results and taxonomic resources to the broader community of researchers and the public.
Julio Rivera
Ph.D. student recruit
Department of Biology University of New Mexico 167 Castetter Hall Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Contact: Phone: (###) ###-#### Email: jrivera(AT)lamolina.edu.pe [replace (AT) with @] |
Education |
M.Sc. 2008, University of Toronto, Canada (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) B.S. 2002, La Molina National Agrarian University, Peru (Biology) |
Appointments |
Associated Researcher, Klaus Raven Buller Entomological Museum, La Molina National Agrarian University, Peru |
Research Focus |
My research is focused on Neotropical Mantodea revisionary systematics and phylogenetic relationships. Using phylogenetic methods, I aim to restructure Mantodea classification to reflect natural lineages and produce a comprehensive monograph of the Earless Neotropical Mantodea. |
Fieldwork |
2010: Peru
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Curriculum Vitae
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Publications
- Rivera, J. 2010. A historical review of praying mantid taxonomy and systematics in the Neotropical region: state of knowledge and recent advances (Insecta: Mantodea). Zootaxa (IN PRESS)
- Rivera, J. 2010. Lost and Found: Rediscovery of the genus Margaromantis Piza, 1982 and consequential nomenclatural changes in the genus Colombiella Koçak & Kemal, 2008 (Mantodea: Mantidae, Photinainae). Zootaxa (IN PRESS).
- Rivera, J. 2010. Chromatophotima, a remarkable new genus of Neotropical praying mantid and its two new species (Mantodea: Mantidae, Photinainae). Zootaxa 2415, 22-32.
- Rivera, J. & D.C. Currie. 2009. Identification of Nearctic black flies using DNA Barcodes (Diptera: Simuliidae). Molecular Ecology Resources 9, 224-236.
- Rivera, J. 2005. A new species of Acanthopinae from Peru: Miracanthops eseejja n. sp. and notes on Acanthops occidentalis Lombardo & Ippollito, 2004 (Mantodea: Acanthopidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research 14(2), 255-260.
- Rivera, J. & S. Novoa. 2006. Preliminary observations on the habitat of Coptopteryx brevipennis Beier, 1958 in Ayacucho, Peru and remarks on the biogeography of Coptopteryx (Mantodea: Mantidae, Photininae). Peruvian Journal of Entomology 45, 19-25.
- Rivera, J. 2004. A new mantid record from Ecuador (Dictyoptera: Mantodea: Mantoididae). Peruvian Journal of Entomology 44, 16.
- Rivera, J. 2003. Discovery of Podagrion brasiliense Howard, 1894 (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) as a parasitoid of the oöthecae of Musonia surinama (Saussure & Zehntner, 1894) (Mantodea: Thespidae). Peruvian Journal of Entomology 43, 20.
- Rivera, J. 2003. Remarks on some species of Photinanae from Peru, including the description of a new species of Orthoderella Giglio-Tos, 1897 (Dictyoptera: Mantodea: Mantidae). Peruvian Journal of Entomology 43, 7-12.
- Rivera, J. 2001. On the taxonomic identity of Vates peruviana Rehn, 1911 (Mantodea: Vatidae). Peruvian Journal of Entomology 42, 93-96.
