Research FieldsSnow Entomologica Museum;
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Kansas 66045-2119
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Systematics and evolution of mushroom inhabiting beetles; evolution, host relationships and ecology of parasitic staphylinid beetles and their rodent hosts. Systematics and evolution of staphylinid beetles with special emphasis on the Neotropical fauna.
Invited Symposium Presentations: Ashe, J. S. 1981. Evolution of relationships between gyrophaenine staphylinids and mushrooms. Presented at a symposium on Insect/Fungus relationships. Ithaca, New York. Hosted by Cornell University and Eastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America, October, 1981. Ashe, J. S. 1982. Potential use of mouthpart characters in systematics of the Aleocharinae (Staphylinidae). Presented at a special symposium on staphylinid beetles. Ottawa, Ontario. Hosted by the Canadian National Museum, December, 1982. Ashe, J. S. 1987. Vicariance biogeography of North American gyrophaenine staphylinid beetles. Presented at a symposium on Vicariance Biogeography. New Orleans, Louisiana. Hosted by the Society for Systematic Zoology, December, 1987. Ashe, J. S. 1989. Mouthpart modifications correlated with fungivory among aleocharine staphylinids. Presented at a symposium on Functional morphology of insect mouthparts. San Antonio, Texas. Hosted by the Entomological Society of America, December, 1989 (to be published in the proceedings of the symposium). Ashe, J. S. 1990. Testing the phylogenetic context of evolutionary change: comparative phylogeny of larval and adult gyrophaenine staphylinids. Presented at a symposium on Phylogenetic inference in holometabolous insects using immatures. New Orleans, Louisiana. Hosted by the Entomological Society of America, December, 1990. Ashe, J. S. 1992. Evolution of the male copulatory organ of aleocharine staphylinids (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) and its phylogenetic implications. Symposium in honor of Dr. G. E. Ball, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, November, 1992. Research Papers Presented at Meetings: Ashe, J. S. and J. F. Cornell. 1973. Some aspects of the host-fungus relationships of beetles of the subtribe Gyrophaeninae (Staphylinidae). Presented to the North Carolina Academy of Sciences, Charlotte, North Carolina. Ashe, J. S. 1980. The gyrophaenines (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), a group of obligatory mushroom inhabiting insects: the mushroom as a habitat. Presented to the Entomological Society of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. Ashe, J. S. 1981. Evolution of relationships between gyrophaenine staphylinid beetles and mushrooms. Presented at the Eastern Branch Meetings of the Entomological Society of America, Syracuse, New York. Ashe, J. S. 1984. Origin of fungus feeding in gyrophaenine staphylinid beetles. Presented at the International Congress of Entomology, Hamburg, West Germany. Ashe, J. S. 1985. Value of larval structure in clarifying relationships in the Aleocharinae: a gyrophaenine example. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Entomological Society of America, Hollywood, Florida. Ashe, J. S. 1986. Host persistence and the evolution of complex nesting behavior among gyrophaenine staphylinids. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Entomological Society of America, Reno, Nevada. Timm, R. M. and J. S. Ashe. 1986. Host and elevational specificity of parasitic beetles (Amblyopinus) on Neotropical mammals. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Mammalogists, Madison, Wisconsin. Timm, R. M. and J. S. Ashe. 1987. Evolution of the interaction between staphylinid beetles (Amblyopinus) and their rodent hosts. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Mammalogists, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ashe, J. S. 1989. The systematic position of Placusa and Euvira within the Aleocharinae (Staphylinidae). Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Entomological Society of America, San Antonio, Texas. Ashe, J. S. 1991. Phylogeny of genera of the subtribe Bolitocharina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Entomological Society of America, Reno, Nevada. Newton, A. F., Jr. and J. S. Ashe. 1991. First larval description and placement of the odd genus Trichophya (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Entomological Society of America, Reno, Nevada. Ashe, J. S. and K.-J. Ahn. 1992. Systematics and distribution of the intertidal rove beetle Pontomalota (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland. Ashe, J. S. 1993. Phylogeny of the Autaliini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana.