AINSLEY SEAGO
Beetle systematics and morphology
Will Lab, UC Berkeley
Systematics of staphylinoid beetlesThe meat of my thesis: using morphology and molecular data to elucidate phylogenetic relationships within the family Leiodidae. Current projects: review of the monotypic genus Agyrtolasia; revision of the genus Agyrtodes, a large and plesiomorphic "clade" of Camiarinae found in Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.
Beetle diffraction gratingsThe potatoes of the thesis (i.e., the delicious, starchy part): an ongoing investigation of diffraction gratings in Coleoptera. This little-known mechanism of beetle iridescence shall not go unheeded, if I have anything to say about it. By gum.
Scientific Illustration and Such
CV/ Publications/ etc
Information of questionable relevance.
Pertinent Links
... for those with an interest in Staphylinoidea, the most awesome superfamily in Coleoptera.
A. Seago 2005
