Michael Forthman

California Department of Food and Agriculture — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Hemiptera Insect Studies(33), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control(16), Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography(14), Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens(8), Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy(7)

Publications81 total

Two new species of Abelocephala (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Taiwan
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
Two new species of Rhiginia Stål, 1859, with taxonomical notes on species in the “ cruciata-group ” of this genus and an updated key to the New World genera of Ectrichodiinae (Heteroptera, Reduviidae)
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
Supplemental material for 'Systematics of Ectrichodiella Fracker and Bruner, 1924 : with description of the first fossil millipede assassin bug species (Insecta, Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Ectrichodiinae) (American Museum novitates, no. 4025)'
2024Open Access
Systematics of Ectrichodiella Fracker and Bruner, 1924, with Description of the First Fossil Millipede Assassin Bug Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Ectrichodiinae)
American Museum Novitates·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
First record of Pyrrhocoris apterus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae) in California, U.S.A.
The Pan-Pacific Entomologist·2024
Phylogenetic placement of the leaf-footed bug tribes Agriopocorini, Amorbini, and Manocoreini (Heteroptera: Coreidae) using ultraconserved elements
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society·2024· 1 cited
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs
Evolution·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Morphological character matrix
Figshare·2024Open Access
Optimal gene trees
Figshare·2024Open Access
Locus alignments
Figshare·2024Open Access
Maximum likelihood tree files
Figshare·2024Open Access
Ultrametric trees
Figshare·2024Open Access
ASTRAL species tree files
Figshare·2024Open Access
Concatenated alignments
Figshare·2024Open Access
Low hybridization temperatures improve target capture success of invertebrate loci: a case study of leaf-footed bugs (Hemiptera: Coreoidea)
Royal Society Open Science·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Evolution of stridulatory mechanisms: vibroacoustic communication may be common in leaf-footed bugs and allies (Heteroptera: Coreoidea)
Royal Society Open Science·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Maximum likelihood tree files
Figshare·2023Open Access
ASTRAL species tree files
Figshare·2023Open Access
Coreoidea-exons-final.fasta
Figshare·2023Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Rebecca T. Kimball(22), Christine W. Miller(17), Christiane Weirauch(12), Eric R. L. Gordon(5), Rochelle Hoey‐Chamberlain(3), Wei Song Hwang(3), Junxia Zhang(2), Jean-Michel Bérenger(2), Edward L. Braun(2), Dominik Chłond(2), Hélcio R. Gil-Santana(2), Troy J. Kieran(1), Brant C. Faircloth(1), Travis C. Glenn(1), Kimberly K. O. Walden(1), Daniel R. Swanson(1), Kevin P. Johnson(1), Rudolf Meier(1), Lily Berniker(1), Dimitri Forero(1)