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Bob Rabaglia, Forest Service Entomologist & Scolytinae Specialist, Retires

Country: United States

Institutional affiliation: USDA Forest Service

Announcement: On December 30th, 2022, the United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service State & Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection National Entomologist, Robert (Bob) Rabaglia, Ph.D., retired from service. Bob will continue to work on bark and ambrosia beetle (Scolytinae & Platypodinae) systematics, training, and identification and he will be extending his Research Associateship with the National Weevil collection housed in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Some of Bob's recent publications are listed below. Congratulations Bob! 

Posted by: Lourdes Chamorro

Robert Rabaglia's Recent Publications

Poland, T.M., J. Juzwik, A. Rowley, C.D. Huebner, J.C. Kilgo, V.M. Lopez, D.H. Olson, D. E. Pearson, R. Progar, R. Rabaglia, J.D. Rothlisberger, J. B. Runyon & S.E. Sing. 2021. Management of Landscapes for Established Invasive Species. In: Poland, T.M., Patel-Weynand, T., Finch, D.M., Miniat, C.F., Hayes, D.C., Lopez, V.M. (eds) Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45367-1_7

Marsh, A.S., D.C. Hayes, P.N. Klein, N. Zimmerman, A. Dalsimer, D.A. Burkett, C.D. Huebner, R. Rabaglia, L.A. Meyerson, B.L. Harper-Lore, J.L. Davidson, M.R. Emery, T. Warziniack, R. Flitcroft, B.K. Kerns & V.M. Lopez .2021. Sectoral Impacts of Invasive Species in the United States and Approaches to Management. In: Poland, T.M., Patel-Weynand, T., Finch, D.M., Miniat, C.F., Hayes, D.C., Lopez, V.M. (eds) Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45367-1_9

Rabaglia, R.J., R.A. Beaver, A.J. Johnson, M.A. Schmaedick & S.M. Smith. 2020. The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa. Zootaxa 4808 (1): 171–195 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11

Rabaglia, R.J., S.L. Smith, P. Rugman-Jones, M.F. DiGirolomo, C. Ewing, & A. Eskalen. 2020. Establishment of a non-native xyleborine ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus monographus (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), new to North America in California. Zootaxa 4786 (2): 269–276 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4786.2.8

Rabaglia, R.J., A.I. Cognato, E R. Hoebeke, C. W. Johnson, J.R. LaBonte, M. E. Carter, & J.J. Vlach. 2019. Early Detection and Rapid Response: A 10-Year Summary of the USDA Forest Service Program of Surveillance for Non-Native Bark and Ambrosia Beetles. American Entomologist 65(1): 29–42  https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmz015

Hartshorn, J., D. Coyle, & R. Rabaglia. 2019. Responses of Native and Non-native Bark and Ambrosia Beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) to Different Chemical Attractants: Insights From the USDA Forest Service Early Detection and Rapid Response Program Data Analysis. Journal of Economic Entomology. 114(2):776-783. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toaa309

Havill, N.P., A. I. Cognato, E. del-Val, R.J. Rabaglia, & R.C. Garrick. 2019. New Molecular Tools for Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) Reveal an East–West Genetic Subdivision of Early Pleistocene Origin, Insect Systematics and Diversity 3(2):1-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixz002

Coleman, T.W., A.L. Poloni, Y.Chen., P.Q.Thu, Q. Li, J. Sun, R.J. Rabaglia, G. Man & S.J. Seybold. 2019. Hardwood injury and mortality associated with two shot hole borers, Euwallacea spp., in the invaded region of southern California, USA, and the native region of Southeast Asia. Annals of  Forest Science 76:61 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0847-6

Gomez, D.F. Gomez, J. Skelton, M.S. Steininger, R. Stouthamer, P. Rugman-Jones, W. Sittichaya, R. J. Rabaglia & J. Hulcr. 2018. Species Delineation Within the Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Complex Revealed by Morphometric and Phylogenetic Analyses. Insect Systematics and Diversity 2(6): 1–11 https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixy018

Smith, S.M., R.J. Rabaglia, R.A. Beaver, P.Q. Thu, & A.I. Cognato. 2018. Attraction of Ambrosia Beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini) to Semiochemicals in Vietnam, with New Records and a New Species, The Coleopterists Bulletin 72(4), 838-844 https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-72.4.838

Gomez, D.F., R.J. Rabaglia, K.E.O. Fairbanks & J. Hulcr. 2018. North American Xyleborini north of Mexico: a review and key to genera and species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae). ZooKeys 768: 19-68 https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.768.24697

Hoebeke, E.R., R.J. Rabaglia, M. Knizek, & J.S. Weaver. 2018. First records of Cyclorhipidion fukiense (Eggers) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini), an ambrosia beetle native to Asia, in North America. Zootaxa 4394 (2): 243–250 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4394.2.7

Dodds, K.J., C.F Aoki, A. Arango-Velez, J. Cancelliere, A.W. D’Amato, M.F. DiGirolomo & R.J. Rabaglia, 2018. Expansion of Southern Pine Beetle into Northeastern Forests: Management and Impact of a Primary Bark Beetle in a New Region, Journal of Forestry 116(2):178–191 https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvx009

Stouthamer R, P. Rugman-Jones, P.Q. Thu, A. Eskalen, T. Thibault, J. Hulcr, L.J. Wang, B.H. Jordal  C.Y. Chen, M. Cooperband, C.S. Lin, N. Kamata, H. Lu, Masuya, Z. Mendel, Rabaglia R, S. Sanguansub, H.H.Shih, W. Sittichaya, & S. Zong. 2017. Tracing the origin of a cryptic invader: Phylogeography of the Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) species complex. Agriculture and Forest Entomology 19:366–375

Jennifer C. Girón (entiminae@gmail.com)

Country: United States

Institutional affiliation: Texas Tech University

Announcement: Last week, graduate student Maria Fernanda Bermúdez Higinio, from the National University of Colombia in Medellín, defended her Master's thesis on Dryophthorine weevils from the Caquetá Department in Colombia. Maria Fernanda's thesis will be nominated for honors.
A list of the Dryophthorinae recorded from Colombia was published as a Checklist Dataset via GBIF earlier this year: Bermúdez-Higinio M F, Girón J C (2022): Listado de las especies de Dryophthorinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) de Colombia. v1.0. Grupo de Coleopterólogos de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/wtd0tk

Roberto Casalini (casalini.roberto@gmail.com)

Country: Italy

Institutional affiliation: Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma, Italy

Project: I am in the process of finalizing, together with Enzo Colonnelli the description of a new species of the genus Coniatus with a compilation of an identification key of the whole genera. 

Project: Biodiversity patterns of the Scolytinae and Platypodinae of Costa Rica. The material for this study is from about 14 years of Project ALAS (Arthropods of La Selva: https://ants.biology.utah.edu/ALAS/). Besides intensive trapping over 9 years at sea level (La Seva Biological Station), the project carried out a 5-year elevational transect up the side of Volcan Barva.

Project: Studying the weevil fauna of an ancient volcanic territory near Rome.

Project: I am also planning to describe a new species of Otiorhynchus from Georgia (Caucasus).