Dr Mike Wilson
Head of Entomology & Curator of Hemiptera
Department of Biodiversity & Systematic Biology
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Email: Dr Mike Wilson
Tel:+44 (0)29 2057-3263
Expertise and interests
Systematics and biology of Auchenorrhyncha (leafhoppers, plant hoppers etc.), particularly in the Palaearctic region. Also interest in those species associated with crops, including rice and in vector species.
Current projects
James Turner
Research Assistant
Entomology Section
Department of Biodiversity & Systematic Biology
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Email: James Turner
Tel:+44 (0)29 2057-3135
Expertise and interests
Specialist in Biological Imaging for taxonomic research, and the development of relational databases and web-based taxonomic tools for identification. Also has interests in the taxonomy of deep sea bivalves of the Protobranchia group from the North East Atlantic.
Visit Rhagor - Opening Our National Collections to see examples of images.
Current projects
- Leverhulme Trust funded project to provide an authoritive guide to the leafhopper and planthopper vectors of phytoplasma and virus disease, using digital images of adult insects, taxonomic drawings of morphological features, and text on the biology and pest status of each species.
- Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) funded project to produce an online identification guide to the Marine Bivalves of the British Isles. Marine Bivalve Shells of the British Isles
- Leverhulme Trust funded project to produce an online identification guide and illustrated checklists to the Sharpshooter Leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae subfamily Cicadellinae) of the World, based on the taxonomic study of the subfamily by David Young (1968, 1977, 186). Leafhopper, Planthopper and Psyllid Vectors of Plant Disease.
- Atlantic Frontier Environmental Network (AFEN) funded taxonomic study of deep-sea bivalves, focusing on bivalves from the genus Thyasira, Yoldiella and Cuspidaria, with the aim to produce fully illustrated taxonomic publications.