Illinois State Entomologist Chris Dietrich leads the Leafhopper Lab.
Vector Ecologist
Valeria Trivellone, ecology and genetics of leafhopper vectors of plant pathogens
Graduate Students
- Wardah Noor Syeda, M.S. student, evolution of Hemiptera-phytoplasma-plant interactions
- You-Sheng Lin, Ph.D. student, phylogeny of bamboo-associated Deltocephalinae
- Morgan Brown, M.S. student, conservation status of tallgrass prairie insects
Lab Affiliates
- Adilson Pinedo-Escatel, UNAM, Mexico City
- Jin Hyung Kwon, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
Former Lab Members

Daniela Takiya, Laboratorio de Entomologia, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Roman Rakitov, Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Adam Wallner, USDA APHIS-PPQ, Miami

Sindhu Krishnankutty, Xavier University, Ohio

Therese Catanach, Drexel University, Philadelphia

Dmitry Dmitriev, Biodiversity Informatician, INHS

James Zahniser, USDA APHIS-PPQ, U. S. National Museum, Washington
- Yanghui Cao, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Maria Inés Catalano, Centro de Bioinvestigaciones (UNNOBA-CICBA), Pergamino, Argentina
- Wu Dai, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Yani Duan, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Ling Feng, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
- Ana Gonçalves, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
- Clayton Gonçalves, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Daniel Guimarães, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Jin-Hyung Kwon, Korean National Biodiversity Inventory, Daegu, Korea
- Adilson Pinedo-Escatel, UNAM, Mexico City
- Victor Quintas, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- Guy Sinaiko, Steinhardt Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Saad El Sonbati, King Saad University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Yuehua Song, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
- Liyuan Yang, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Yang Wang, Shangluo University, Shangluo, Shaanxi, China
- Xiudan Wang, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China
- Ye Xu, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China