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Alex Ramsay I am currently a principal ecologist for an ecological consultancy based in northern England. I am interested in faunistics of UK Heteroptera but with an increasing focus on Western Palearctic Pentatomoidea taxonomy and ecology, particularly for cryptic and poorly-known species. I am also researching the pentatomid fauna of Greece, particularly zoogeography of island faunas. I am also developing an interest in Penatomidae and Acanthosomatidae worldwide with a view to improving ecological knowledge of newly described and poorly known species. I am a visiting researcher in Hemiptera at the Natural History Museum, London.
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Current Projects:
1) Taxonomy of European Pentatomoidea (Acanthosomatidae, Cydnidae, Pentatomidae, Scutelleridae).
2) Feeding ecology of Pentatomidae.
3) Pentatomidae of Greece.
4) Range
change in Heteroptera.
Publications:
Ramsay, A. J. 2003. Studies on the feeding behaviour of Lygus hesperus (Knight) and Nezara viridula (L.) on cotton. Ph.D. thesis, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Ramsay, A. J. 2010. Eysarcoris venustissimus in Yorkshire. Het News (2nd series) 15: 11.
Ramsay, A. J. 2010. Recent Hemiptera records from Cheshire. J. Lancs. & Chesh. Ent. Soc. 133-134: 4-6.
Ramsay, A. J. 2011. Recent captures of Pentatomoidea in Mallorca. Het News 17-18: 14-15.
Ramsay, A. J. 2013. Habitat preference and distribution of Rhacognathus punctatus (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Wales. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 26: 91-94.
Ramsay, A. J. 2013. Coprophagous feeding behaviour by two species of nymphal pentatomid. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 26: 145-147.
Ramsay, A. J. 2013. Bulgarian shieldbugs in the southwest mountains & Black Sea coast, June 2012. Het News 19-20: 4-5.
Ramsay, A. J. 2014. The history and status of the hawthorn shieldbug Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale (Hemiptera: Acanthosomatidae) in Scotland, 1946-2008. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 27: 81-91.
Ramsay, A. J. 2014. Graphosoma melanoxanthum (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) new to Europe from Albania, with notes on its ecology and distribution. Klapalekiana 49: 85-88.
Ramsay, A. J. 2016. Nocturnal mating behaviour in Pentatoma rufipes (L.) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 29: 40.
Ramsay, A. J. 2016. Hemiptera - Bugs. Pp. 222-241, in: Sparrow, D. J. and E. John (eds.), An Introduction to the Wildlife of Cyprus. Terra Cypria, Cyprus, xxv + 870 pp.
Holzinger, W. E., B. Aukema, K. F. M. den Bieman, T. Bourgoin, D. Burckhardt, A. Carapezza, F. Cianferoni, P-p. Chen, F. Faraci, M. Goula, A. J. Helden, V. Hemala, E. Huber, D. Jerinic-Prodanović, P. Kment, G. Kunz, H. Nickel, C. Morkel, W. Rabitsch, A. J. Ramsay, R. Rakauskas, M. Roca-Cusachs, L. Schlosser, G. Seljak, L. Serbina, A. Soulier-Perkins, M. Spodek, T. Friess. 2017. Hemiptera records from Lake Spechtensee and from Southern Styria (Austria). Entomologica Austriaca 24: 67-82.
David A. Rider
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updated: 01 November 2017
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