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Gene Hall

Gene Hall, Collections Manager, with some of the 2M specimens in the UA collection. Photo: Ron Medvescek / AZ Daily Star
Collections Manager
CALS Cooperative Extension
wehall@email.arizona.edu
520-621-6446
University of Arizona Insect Collection

Education

MSc., Entomology.1998. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

BFA: Painting.1995. School of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Research

I am interested in museum collections as active and accessible resources to preserve and document our planet’s biodiversity, using specimens and associated data for scientific research and public outreach worldwide. I oversee the University of Arizona Insect Collection and provide insect and other arthropod identifications as part of the CALS Cooperative Extension's Insect Diagnostics Clinic. My research focuses on the evolutionary biology of insects, primarily the systematics, taxonomy, and biogeography of beetles, most notably Ptiliidae (featherwing beetles), Hydroscaphidae (skiff beetles), Sphaeriusidae (minute bog beetles). I also study fossil insects associated with packrat middens to help us better understand the past & recent fauna, flora, and climate of southwestern deserts

Selected publications

Skelley, P.E., T.R. Van Devender, W. E. Hall. 2017. First records of the fungus beetles Aegithus hogei Gorham, 1888 and Aegithus melaspis Gorham, 1888 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) in Sonora, Mexico. Dugesiana 24 (2): 149-150

Hall, W. E. 2016. Ptiliidae. Pp. 345- 356 in R. G. Beutel and R.A.B. Leschen (eds.), Handbook of Zoology, Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera, Beetles. Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Morphology and Systematics. De Gruyter, Berlin/New York.

W. Meyer III, J.A. Eble, K. Franklin, R.B. McManus, S.L. Brantley, J. Henkel, P.E. Marek, W. E. Hall, C.A. Olson, R. McInroy, E.M. Bernal Loaiza, R.C. Brusca, W. Moore. 2015. Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Communities of a Sky Island Mountain Range in Southeastern Arizona, USA: Obtaining a Baseline for Assessing the Effects of Climate Change. PLoS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135210

V.J. McKenzie, W. E. Hall, R.P. Guralnick. 2013. New Zealand mudsnails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) in Boulder Creek, Colorado: environmental factors associated with fecundity of a parthenogenic invader. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2013, 91(1): 30-36.

Hall, W. E. and A. E. Z. Short. 2010. A new species of Hydroscapha LeConte from northwestern Venezuela (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae). Zootaxa, 2358: 49-56.

Hall, W. E. 2005. Ptiliidae. Pp. 251- 261 in R. G. Beutel and R.A.B. Leschen (eds.), Handbook of Zoology, Volume 4. Arthropoda: Insects: Part 38. Coleoptera, Beetles. Volume 1: Morphology and Systematics. De Gruyter, Berlin/New York.

Guralnick, R., W. E. Hall and S. Perkins. 2004. A comparative approach to understanding causes and consequences of mollusk-digenean size relationships: a case study with allocreadiid trematodes and Cycloclayx clams. Journal of Parasitology, 90(6): 1253-1262.

Hall, W. E. 2003.  Limulopteryx, a new genus of neotropical featherwing beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea: Ptiliidae) and comments on pterycine ptiliids. Pp. 85-102. -In: G. Cuccodoro and R.A.B. Leschen (eds.), Systematics of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the Retirement of Ivan Lobl. Memoirs on Entomology, Volume 17. International Associated Publishers, Florida.

Hall, W. E. 2003.  Sphaeriusidae (Coleoptera). pp. 37-41. In: Water Beetles of China, Volume 3. Wien: Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Österreich and Wiener Coleopterologenverein.

 Mico, E., W. E. Hall and B. C. Ratcliffe. 2001. Descriptions of theLarvae of Hoplopyga singularis(Gory and Percheron) and Hologymnetis cinerea(Gory and Percheron) with a Revised Key to the Larvae of the New World Gymnetini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Coleopterists Bulletin, 55 (2): 205-217.

Hall, W. E. 2000. Ptiliidae Erichson, 1845, pp. 233-246. In: Arnett, R.H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.

Hall, W. E. 2000. Microsporidae Crotch, 1873, pp. 24-26. In: Arnett, R.H., Jr. and  M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.

Hall, W. E. 2000. Hydroscaphidae LeConte, 1874, pp. 27-29. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.

Hall, W. E. 1999. Generic Revision of the Tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae: Ptiliinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 125 (1- 2): 39 - 126.

Hall, W. E. 1999. Swimming Through the Air: Size Does Matter. Museum Notes, University Of Nebraska State Museum, No. 104.

Van Devender, T.R. and W. E. Hall. 1994. Holocene Arthropods from the Sierra Bacha, Mexico, with Emphasis on Beetles (Coleoptera). Coleopterists Bulletin, 48(1): 30-50.

Werner, F.G. and C.A. Olson (W. E. Hall, illustrator). 1994. Learning About and Living with Insects of the Southwest. Fisher Books, Tucson, Arizona, 162pp.

Van Devender, T.R. and W. E. Hall. 1993. Fossil Arthropods from the Sierra Bacha, Sonora, Mexico. Ecologica. 3(1): 1-12.

Olson, C.A. and W. E. Hall. 1992. Cockroaches of Arizona. Cooperative Extension Bulletin, No. 191059, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona.

Van Devender, T.R., A.M. Rea and W. E. Hall. 1991. Faunal Analysis of Late Quaternary Vertebrates from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southwestern Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist. 36(1): 94-106.

Hall, W. E., T.R. Van Devender and C.A. Olson. 1990. Arthropod history of the Puerto Blanco Mountains, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southwestern Arizona. In "Fossil Packrat Middens: The last 40,000 years of Biotic Change in the Arid West" (P.S. Martin, T.R. Van Devender, J.L. Betancourt, Eds.). Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Hall, W. E., C.A. Olson and T.R. Van Devender. 1989. Late Quaternary and Modern Arthropods from the Ajo Mountains of Southwestern Arizona. Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 65(3): 322-347.

Hall, W. E., T.R. Van Devender and C.A. Olson. 1988. Late Quaternary Arthropod Remains from Sonoran Desert Packrat Middens, Southwestern Arizona and Northwestern Sonora. Quaternary Research. 29: 277-293.

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