The Triplehorn Insect Collection has undergone major updates in the past 15 years, including the re-organization of our vast primary type collection and the digitization of our specimens of bees, ants, and wasps (order Hymenoptera). In 2010, after the installation of a compactor system and the increase of storage capacity, the re-organization of our beetles (order Coleoptera) was initiated. We also established new curatorial protocols, involving the careful recording of the time & resources necessary to perform the various curatorial tasks.
Undergraduate student assistants, interns, and volunteers are an intricate part of our activities.
Here is a list of presentations related to the work that we do in the collection. Clicking on a link will initiate the download of a .pdf file. If you are interested in our work but cannot access the .pdf, please contact us via the email address listed below.
2019
Philips, Molotievskyi, Musetti, Johnson. A survey of Lampyridae biodiversity, with a focus on Lucidota. Poster Presentation at the CFAES Undergraduate Research Forum, 26 March 2019.
Drake, Molotievskyi, Musetti, Johnson. Lampyridae of Ohio: A Survey of the Genus Pyropyga. Poster Presentation at the CFAES Undergraduate Research Forum, 26 March 2019.
2018
Musetti, Molotievskiy, Johnson. A customizable framework to integrate undergraduate research and natural history collections. Poster Presentation at the Entomological Society of America, Entomological Society of Canada, and Entomological Society of British Columbia Joint Meeting, 2018.
2017
Molotievskiy, Musetti & Johnson. The beetle heritage of the Triplehorn Insect Collection: Cataloguing the primary types of Coleoptera. Poster Presentation at the Entomological Society of America Meeting, 2017.
2016
Musetti, Hemly, Elder & Johnson. The good, the bad and the ugly: The wild, wild west of specimen databasing. Poster Presentation at the International Congress of Entomology (ICE) & the Entomological Collections Network Meeting, 2016.
2015
Musetti, Hemly, Johnson. Quantification of the costs of insect collection curation. Poster Presentation at the Entomological Collections Network Meeting, 2015.
Johnson. A comparative study of the growth in knowledge of biodiversity, taxonomy and systematics in the order Hymenoptera. Poster presentation at Entomological Society of America Meetings, 2015.
2014
Johnson, Musetti, Zeinner, Hemly & Cora. Phylogenetic concentration and provenance of host data for parasitic wasps of the superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera). Poster presentation at Entomological Society of America Meeting, 2014.
2012
Musetti, Hemly & Johnson. Quantification of the costs of insect collection curation. Poster Presentation at the Entomological Society of America Meeting, 2012.
2010
Musetti, Johnson & Hemly. Managing specimen processing in a large-scale collaborative taxonomic project. Poster presentation at Entomological Society of America Meeting, 2010.