Steven R Davis

Division of Entomology
Natural History Museum 
1501 Crestline Drive-Suite #140 
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66049-4401
USA

steved@ku.edu

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Morphological and molecular systematics of Curculionoidea, with additional interests in fossil weevils and in combining evolutionary developmental and bioinformatic techniques with phylogenetics, such as examination of development and evolution of the weevil rostrum.

EDUCATION:
B.S. (Entomology), University of Maryland, College Park: 2005
M.A. (Entomology), University of Kansas, Lawrence: 2008
Ph.D. (Entomology), University of Kansas, Lawrence: 2008-present


Journal articles

2011	S R Davis (2011) Delimiting baridine weevil evolution (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 88-156 Abstract: Notes:
2010	S R Davis, M S Engel, D Ren (2010) A pupal caddisfly from the Early Cretaceous of China (Trichoptera) Cretaceous Research 31: 1-4 Abstract: Notes:
	S R Davis, M S Engel (2010) Antiquity and evolution of prosternal horns in baridine weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Journal of Paleontology 84: 5. 918-926 Abstract: Notes:
	Y M Omar, R Zhang, S R Davis (2010) Description of a new species of Pentarthrum Wollaston (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae) from China with an annotated checklist to species of the world Zootaxa 2629: 47-60 Abstract: Notes:
2009	S R Davis, D R Davis (2009) Neotropical Tineidae VIII: Falsivalva, a new genus of Tineidae from Austral South America with extreme modification of the male post-abdominal terga (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea) Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111: 2. 378-392 Abstract: Notes:

	S R Davis, D R Davis (2009) First report of the old world genus Pelecystola in North America, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Tineidae) ZooKeys 25: 69-78 Abstract: Notes:
	S R Davis, M S Engel (2009) An Orthognathine weevil of the genus Mesocordylus in Dominican Amber (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Dryophthoridae) Beiträge zur Entomologie 59: 233-238 Abstract: Notes:
	S R Davis (2009) Morphology of Baridinae and related groups (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) ZooKeys 10: 1-136 Abstract: Notes:
2008	S R Davis, S Sinev (2008) Dancing behavior of Cosmopterix victor Springer, a species new to the fauna of China (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae) Beiträge zur Entomologie 58: 205-210 Abstract: Notes:
	S Davis, P Gentili-Poole, C Mitter (2008) A revision of the Cossulinae of Costa Rica and cladistic analysis of the world species (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154: 222-277 Abstract: Notes:
	S R Davis, M S Engel (2008) A new species of Ceratosolen from the Philippines (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae) Genus 19: 2. 307-312 Abstract: Notes:
	S R Davis, V Gonzalez (2008) Two new species of Scotocryptus (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) from Colombia associated with the nests of Melipona compressipes (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 55: 1. 161-166 Abstract: Notes:
2007	S R Davis (2007) Wing locking mechanisms in the weevil subfamily Baridinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Entomological Research 37: suppl. 1. A103 Abstract: Notes:
	S R Davis, M S Engel (2007) A new ambrosia beetle in Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) Alavesia 1: 121-124 Abstract: Notes:
	Y M Omar, R Zhang, S R Davis (2007) On the genus Stereoborus Wollaston (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae) with description of a new species from China The Coleopterists Bulletin 61: 2. 200-207 Abstract: Notes:

	S R Davis, M S Engel (2007) Cossonine weevils in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Linzer Biologische Beiträge 39: 2. 803-820 Abstract: Notes:
	S R Davis (2007) Nectarivory in a weevil, Smicronyx squalidus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae), on Desmanthus (Fabaceae) Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 76: 221-224 Abstract: Notes:
2006	S R Davis, M S Engel (2006) Dryophthorine weevils in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 109: 3/4. 191-198 Abstract: Notes:
	S Davis (2006) Description of a new lepidopteran structure, the abdominal tubercles Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 60: 4. 194-202 Abstract: Notes:
	Y M Omar, R Zhang, S R Davis (2006) Description of two new species of Pseudocossonus Wollaston (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae) from mainland China with a key to the world species Zootaxa 1375: 59-68 Abstract: Notes:
	Y M Omar, R Zhang, S R Davis (2006) Description of a new species, Tarchius yunnanensis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae), from China Zootaxa 1270: 35-43 Abstract: Notes:
	S R Davis, M S Engel (2006) A weevil of the genus Caulophilus Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 75: 1. 101-104 Abstract: Notes:
	S R Davis, M S Engel (2006) A zygopine weevil in early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Caribbean Journal of Science 42: 3. 253-256 Abstract: Notes:

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