Gareth Powell

Bio

Powell’s research focuses on the systematics and evolutionary history of the most diverse lineage of described life, Coleoptera, or beetles. His work currently spans descriptive taxonomy, classification, phylogenomics, and character evolution. Powell also strives to use natural history collections in each of these research areas and serves as the director for the NC State University Insect Museum.

Publications

• A new species of Atarphia (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Nitidulinae) from Laos , ZOOTAXA (2024)
• Repeated feeding guild evolution: the impact of competition on diversification , Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society (2024)
• A New Species of Urophorus (Anophorus) Kirejtshuk, 1990 (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from Ishigaki-Jima Island, Southern Ryukyu, Southwestern Japan , The Coleopterists Bulletin (2023)
• A story of vicariance? how the geology of oceanic archipelagos influenced the evolutionary history of endemic damselflies , Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2023)
• Forensically important sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) of North America , Journal of Forensic Entomology (2023)
• Ground beetles suppress slugs in corn and soybean under conservation agriculture , Environmental Entomology (2023)
• A Survey of the Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in Several Natural Areas Across Indiana, U.S.A. , The Great Lakes Entomologist (2022)
• Beetle bioluminescence outshines extant aerial predators , Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2022)
• Investment in visual system predicted by floral associations in sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) , Systematic Entomology (2022)
• Beetle bioluminescence outshines aerial predators , (2021)