Contact Info E-mail: ak43 [at] hawaii [dot] edu |
Post-doctoral Researcher Fields of research: Systematics, taxonomy, evolution, phylogenetics |
EducationUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD. July 2010-present: Rubinoff Lab, University of Hawai‘i, Manoa Hyposmocoma systematics and evolution.
2004-2010: Graduate Researcher, Jerome C. Regier Laboratory for Arthropod Molecular Systematics, Center for Biosystems Research, College Park, MD.
2004: Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
2002-2003: Project ALAS, La Selva Biological Station and Volcan Barva, Costa Rica.
1999-2002: Undergraduate Researcher, Quentin D. Wheeler Laboratory, Dept. of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2007-2009: Teaching Assistant. Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Český Krumlov, Czech Republic; and the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta, GA.
Fall 2006, 2007: Teaching Assistant. BSCI 120: Insects. University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
June 2006, 2007: Teaching Assistant. Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, MD. Workshop on Laboratory Methods for Arthropod Molecular Systematics.
2000, 2001: Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Selected publications available at: http://entmcv.umd.edu/?name=kawahara Mitter, K.T., Larsen, T.B., Collins, S., Vande Weghe, G., De Prins, J., De Prins, W., Sfian, S., Zakharov, E., Hawthorne, D.J., Kawahara, A.Y., Regier, J.C., Genetic evidence for multiple cryptic species of Pseudopontia (Pieridae: Pseudopontiinae). Systematic Entomology 36, 139-163. Kawahara, A.Y., Sohn, J.C., De Prins, J., Cho, S. 2010. Five species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) new to Korea. Entomological Research 40: 131-135. Scott, J., Kawahara, A.Y., Skevington, J., Yen, S.H., Sami, A., Smith, M., Yack, J. 2010. The evolutionary origins of ritualized acoustic signals in caterpillars. Nature Communications 1: 4. Kawahara, A.Y., Mignault, A.A., Regier, J.C., Kitching, I.J. and Mitter, C. 2009. Phylogeny and biogeography of hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae): evidence from five nuclear genes. PLoS ONE. 4(5): e5719. Kawahara, A.Y. 2009. Phylogeny of snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae): combining evidence from the morphology of extant, fossil, and recently extinct taxa. Cladistics 25(3): 263-278. Kawahara, A.Y., Nishida, K., and Davis, D.R. 2009. Systematics, host plants, and life histories of three new Phyllocnistis species from the highlands of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Phyllocnistinae). ZooKeys 27:7-30. Kawahara, A.Y., Saito, M. 2009. The current state of The Butterfly Society of Japan. News of the Lepidopterists' Society 51(4): 128. Kawahara, A.Y. 2009. The Hawk Moths of North America: A Natural History of the Sphingidae of the United States and Canada by James P. Tuttle. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111(4): 911-912. [Book review]. De Prins, J. and Kawahara, A.Y. 2009. On the taxonomic history of Phyllocnistis Zeller 1848 (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 32(2): 113-121. Regier, J.C., Zwick, A., Cummings, M.P., Kawahara, A.Y., Cho, S., Weller, S.J., Roe, A.D., Baixeras-Almela, J., Brown, J.W., Parr, C.S., Davis, D.R., Epstein, M.E., Hallwachs, W., Hausmann, A., Janzen, D.H., Kitching, I.J., Solis, M.A., Yen, S.-H., Bazinet, A., Mitter, C. 2009. Toward reconstructing the evolution of advanced moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an initial molecular study. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 280. Roe, A.D., Weller, S.J., Baixeras, J., Brown, J., Cummings, M.P., Davis, D., Kawahara, A.Y., Parr, C., Regier, J.C., Rubinoff, D., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., and Zwick, A. 2009. Evolutionary Framework for Lepidoptera Model Systems. pp. 1-24 In Goldsmith, M. & F. Marec (eds.), Genetics and Molecular Biology of Lepidoptera. CRC Press, Boca Raton. [Book chapter]. Rubinoff, D., Osborne, K. H., and Kawahara, A.Y. 2009. Synonymization of the euphonious Arctonotus Boisduval, 1852 (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) based on molecular phylogenetic analysis. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 63(4): 233-235. Kawahara, A.Y. 2007. Thirty-foot telescopic nets, bug-collecting videogames, and beetle pets: Entomology in modern Japan. American Entomologist 53(3): 160-172. Kawahara, A.Y. 2007. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea: Sphingidae) and the evolution of the sphingid proboscis. Masters Thesis. University of Maryland, College Park. 144 pp. Kawahara, A.Y. and Wahlberg, N. 2007. Libytheinae. Version 02 December 2007. http://www.tolweb.org/Libytheinae/12193 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/ Root, H.T., Kawahara, A.Y. and R.A. Norton. 2007. Anachipteria sacculifera n. sp. (Acari: Oribatida: Achipteriidae) from arboreal lichens in New York State. Acarologia 157 (3-4): 187-195. Kawahara, A.Y. 2006. Biology of the snout butterflies (Nymphalidae: Libytheinae), Part 1: Libythea Fabricius. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 57(1): 13-33. Kawahara, A.Y. 2006. Biology of the snout butterflies (Nymphalidae: Libytheinae), Part 2: Libytheana Michener. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 57(3): 265-277. Kawahara, A.Y., and Adamski, D. 2006. Taxonomic and behavioral studies of a new dancing Beltheca Busck (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108(2): 253-260. Kawahara, A.Y., Winkler, I.S., and Hsu, W.W. 2006. New host records of the ectoparasitic biting midge Forcipomyia pectinunguis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) on adult geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 79(3): 297-300. Kawahara, A.Y., and Dirig, R. 2006. Nectar source records for Libytheana carinenta (Nymphalidae: Libytheinae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 60(4): 233-237. Ylla, J., Peigler, R.S., and Kawahara, A.Y. 2005. Cladistic analysis of moon moths using morphology, molecules and behaviour: Actias Leach,1815; Argema Wallengren, 1858; Graellsia Grote, 1896 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). SHILAP Revista Lepidopterologica 33(131): 299-317. Kawahara, A.Y. 2004. Lepidoptera of Mt. Shirao: A survey from 1998-1999. Journal of the Entomological Society of Shizuoka (Suruga No Konchu) 205: 5714-5716. Dirig, R. and Kawahara, A.Y. 2004. The brazilian skipper (Calopodes ethlius, Hesperiidae) in West Virginia. News of the Lepidopterists' Society 46(1): 22, 31. Kawahara, A.Y. 2003. Rediscovery of Libythea collenettei Poulton & Riley in the Marquesas, and a description of the male. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 57(2): 81-85. Kawahara, A.Y. 2003. Behavioral observations of Libytheana carinenta Cramer. News of the Lepidopterists' Society 45: front cover + 107-108, 127. Kawahara, A.Y. 2002. Systematics of the Snout Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae) with an emphasis on the morphology and phylogeny. Honors Thesis. Cornell University. 162 pp. Kawahara, A.Y. 1999. A New Locality of Strymonidia mera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in Fujinomiya. Journal of the Entomological Society of Shizuoka (Suruga No Konchu) 186: 5224. Kawahara, A.Y., and Kobayashi, K. 1998. A New Record of Argyreus hyperbius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Shizuoka (Suruga No Konchu) 184: 5163.
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