K. G. Andrew Hamilton, Ph.D.

Projects

• Leafhopper (Cicadellidae) pests of shade and fruit trees, vines and berry crops
• Leafhopper diversity and evolution in North American prairies including relict grasslands of Alaska, Yukon, intermontane valleys of the Cordilleras and alvars and beach ridges in Ontario
• Taxonomy and systematics of North American leafhoppers, treehoppers, spittlebugs, cicadas and planthoppers (Auchenorrhyncha)
• Higher classification of world spittlebugs (Cercopoidea)
• Fossils and evolution of short-horned bugs (Homoptera)
• Short-horned bug fauna of ecozones of Canada
• Identification of North American aquatic bugs (Cryptocerata)

Expertise

• Biogeography and host associations
• Morphology and phylogeny
• Palaeontology
• Illustration

Affiliations

• Entomological Society of Canada
• Entomological Society of America
• Entomological Society of British Columbia
• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• Sigma Xi

Honours

• 1963 Canada-Wide Science Fair
  P.W. Fattig Scholarship, Univ. of Georgia
• 1980-83 Unit Curator of Hemiptera collection
• 1981-83 Head, Diptera/Hemiptera Section, Biosystematics Research Centre, Ottawa
• 1984-87 Member of Handbook, Library and Maps Committees
• 1999-2002 Unit Curator of Hemiptera collection
• 2000-present Book Review Editor, Biodiversity
• 2004-present International Advisory Board of Annales Zoologici, member

Presentations

• Sixteen major presentations - for a list, click here.

Publications

• More than 85 publications on systematics, biogeography, palaeontology, diversity and faunistics of short-horned bugs, and morphology and evolution of insects which include over 3000 illustrations. To see a list of these, click here.

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