CURRICULUM VITAE WESTON OPITZ Kansas Wesleyan University Professor of Biology Salina, KS

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:

State University, Farmingdale, New York	Animal Science A.D.	1963
Kansas State University	Agriculture B.S.	1966
Rutgers University, New Jersey	Entomology B.S.	1968
Rutgers University, New Jersey	Entomology Ph.D.	1972
Smithsonian Institution, Wash. DC	Evol. Biology Postdoc. Fellow	1974

APPOINTMENTS:

1995 - present	Professor of Biology, Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, Ks.
1998 - present	Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History, N.Y.
2006 - present	Adj. Professor, Entomology, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, Ks.
1990 - present	Res. Associate, Florida Museum of Arthropods, Gainsville, Fla.
1987 - 1994	Instructor. Columbus State Community College, Columbus, Ohio
1987 - 1995	Res. Sci., NSF, Univ. of California, Davis, California
1980 - 1983	Curator, Chair Entomol., Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., Pittsburgh, Pa.
1977 - 1980	Assist. Prof. Entomol., Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1976	Res. Biol., Office of Endangered Species, Washington D. C.
1975	Exh. Res. Assoc., USNM, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D. C.
1974	Postdoc Res. Fellow, USNM, Smithsonian Institution, Wash., D.C.

PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO PROPOSAL:

Opitz, W. 2008. Classification, natural history, and evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part V. Decorosa Opitz, a new genus of checkered beetles from Hispaniola with description of its four new species. American Museum Novitates 3628: 1-19.

Opitz, W. 2008. Classification, natural history, and evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part VI. The genera Epiphlaeus Spinola and Opitzius Barr. Annales Zoologici (Warszawa), 58(1): 1-34.

Opitz, W. 2008. Classification, natural history, and evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part VII. The genera Hapsidopteris Opitz, Iontoclerus Opitz, Katamyurus Opitz, Megatrachys Opitz, Opitzia Nem\303\251sio, Pennasoli s Opitz, new genus, Pericales Opitz, new genus, Pteroferus Opitz, new genus, and Turbophloeus Opitz, new genus. Zootaxa 1754: 1-40.

Opitz, W. 2007. Classification, natural history, and evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part IV. The genera Pyticeroides Kuwert and Diapromeces Opitz. Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey 29: 77-166.

Opitz, W. 2006. Classification, natural history, and evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part III. The genera Parvochaetus, n. gen., Amboakis, n. gen, and Ellipotoma Spinola. Insecta Mundi 20(3-4): 97-164.

OTHER SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS:

Opitz, W. 2005. Classification, natural history, and evolution of the genus Aphelocerus Kirsch (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 293: 1-128.

Opitz, W. 2004. Classification, natural history, and evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part II. The genera Chaetophloeus Opitz and Plocamocera Spinola. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 280: 1-82.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES:

1. The PI and six undergraduate biology majors partook in a insect collecting expedition that involved southwestern USA, Mexico. Guatemala, and Nicaragua. The students were taught the intricacies of insect/plant interactions, collecting techniques, and the mechanics of preparing a museum insect collect ion.

2. The PI uses his field experiences in the tropics to enhance his discussions of species-level biology in his offerings of General Entomology, Invertebrat e Zoology, and General Entomology.

3. The PI frequently communicates with graduate students in several national and international universities in subject matter relevant to the graduate st udent\342\200\231s research program in the Cleridae. The names of these graduate students are listed in the project summary.

4. The PI is currently involved as a collaborator of an NSF grant, awarded to Dr. Amy Berkov, \342\200\234Panama Canal Amplification: Making the best of a clear-cut situation\342\200\235. The PI will conduct three weeks of fieldwork among tree piles resulting from deforestation activities along the Panama Cana l.