Research

Current/ongoing projects:

Revealing undiscovered diversity and distribution of phytoplasmas through screening of potential host insects in a museum biorepository

V. Trivellone, C. H. Dietrich and Y. Cao, PIs

Integrative genealogy, ecology and phenomics of deltocephaline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), and their microbial associates

D. Dmitriev and C. H. Dietrich, PIs

Previous projects:

Biotic Inventory of Central Asian Grasslands

C. H. Dietrich, PI

Monographic and Phylogenic Research on Leafhoppers and Treehoppers

C.H. Dietrich, PI and L.L.Deitz, Co-PI

Evolution of Novel Ovipositional Behavior in Neotropical Leafhopper Tribe Proconiini

Dietrich, C. H., Rakitov, R. A., Takiya D. M.

Revisionary Synthesis of the Genus Erythroneura

C. H. Dietrich, PI

Partnership for Training New Experts on Auchenorrhyncha

J. R. Cryan, C. H. Dietrich, and C. Simon, PIs

Revision of Tribe Empoascini

C. H. Dietrich and D. A. Dmitriev, PIs

Historical Occurrence and Present Status of Illinois Insect Species in Greatest Need of Conservation

C. H. Dietrich, PI

Reclassification of the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae with emphasis on the polyphyletic tribe Athysanini

James Zahnsier and C. H. Dietrich

Phylogenomics and morphology of the hemipteroid insect orders

K. P. Johnson, C. H. Dietrich, and H. Robertson

Phylogeny of Leafhoppers and Treehoppers

C. H. Dietrich and B. M. Wiegmann, Co-PIs