Gene Hall, M.S.
Collections Manager for the University of Arizona Insect Collection
I am interested in museum collections as active and accessible resources to preserve and document our planet's biodiversity, using specimens and associated data for scientific research and public outreach worldwide. I am presently working as the Senior Program Coordinator on two NSF-funded projects in the University of Arizona Insect Collection (UAIC), a collections improvement grant and the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN). I am also identifying ground dwelling arthropods collected as part of the Arizona Sky Island Arthropod Project (ASAP).
My research program focuses on the evolutionary biology of insects, primarily the systematics, taxonomy and biogeography of beetles, most notably Ptiliidae (featherwing beetles), Hydroscaphidae (skiff beetles), Sphaeriusidae (minute bog beetles) and New World species of Limnichidae (minute marsh-loving beetles). I also work on fossil insects associated with pack rat middens to help us better understand the past & recent fauna, flora and climate of southwestern deserts.
Publications
Hall, W.E., T.R. Van Devender and C.A. Olson. 1988. Late Quaternary Arthropod Remains from Sonoran Desert Packrat Middens, Southwestern Arizona and Northwestern Sonora. Quaternary Research. 29: 277-293.
Hall, W.E., C.A. Olson and T.R. Van Devender. 1989. Late Quaternary and Modern Arthropods from the Ajo Mountains of Southwestern Arizona. Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 65(3): 322-347.
Hall, W.E., T.R. Van Devender and C.A. Olson. 1990. Arthropod history of the Puerto Blanco Mountains, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southwestern Arizona. In "Fossil Packrat Middens: The last 40,000 years of Biotic Change in the Arid West" (P.S. Martin, T.R. Van Devender, J.L. Betancourt, Eds.). University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Van Devender, T.R., A.M. Rea and W.E. Hall. 1991. Faunal analysis of Late Quaternary vertebrates from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southwestern Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist. 36(1): 94-106.
Olson, C.A. and W.E. Hall. 1992. Cockroaches of Arizona. Cooperative Extension Bulletin, No. 191059, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona.
Van Devender, T.R. and W.E. Hall. 1993. Fossil arthropods from the Sierra Bacha, Sonora, Mexico. Ecologica. 3(1): 1-12.
Van Devender, T.R. and W.E. Hall. 1994. Holocene arthropods from the Sierra Bacha, Mexico, with Emphasis on Beetles (Coleoptera). Coleopterists Bulletin, 48(1): 30-50.
Hall, W. E. 1999. Generic revision of the tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae: Ptiliinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 125 (1- 2): 39 - 126.
Hall, W E. 1999. Swimming Through the Air: Size Does Matter. Museum Notes, University Of Nebraska State Museum, No. 104.
Hall, W. E. 2000. Ptiliidae Erichson, 1845, pp. 233-246. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.
Hall, W. E. 2000. Microsporidae Crotch, 1873, pp. 24-26. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.
Hall, W. E. 2000. Hydroscaphidae LeConte, 1874, pp. 27-29. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.
Mico, E., W. E. Hall and B. C. Ratcliffe. 2001. Descriptions of the larvae of Hoplopyga singularis (Gory and Percheron) and Hologymnetis cinerea (Gory and Percheron) with a revised key to the larvae of the New World Gymnetini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Coleopterists Bulletin, 55 (2): 205-217.
Hall, W.E. 2003. Sphaeriusidae (Coleoptera). pp. 37-41. In: Water Beetles of China, Volume 3. Wien: Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Österreich and Wiener Coleopterologenverein.
Hall, W. E. 2003. Limulopteryx, a new genus of neotropical featherwing beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea: Ptiliidae) and comments on pterycine ptiliids. Pp. 85-102. -In: G. Cuccodoro and R.A.B. Leschen (eds.), Systematics of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the Retirement of Ivan Lobl. Memoirs on Entomology, Volume 17. International Associated Publishers, Florida.
Guralnick, R., W.E. Hall and S. Perkins. 2004. A comparative approach to understanding causes and consequences of mollusk-digenean size relationships: a case study with allocreadiid trematodes and Cycloclayx clams. Journal of Parasitology, 90(6): 1253-1262.
Hall, W. E. 2005. Ptiliidae. Pp. 251- 261 in R. G. Beutel and R.A.B. Leschen (eds.), Handbook of Zoology, Volume 4. Arthropoda: Insects: Part 38. Coleoptera, Beetles. Volume 1: Morphology and Systematics. De Gruyter, Berlin/New York.
Hall, W. E. and A. E. Z. Short. 2010. A new species of Hydroscapha LeConte from northwestern Venezuela (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae). Zootaxa, 2358: 49-56.
McKenzie, V.J.,W.E. Hall and R.P. Guralnick (in press). New Zealand mudsnails in Boulder Creek, Colorado: environmental factors associated with fecundity of a parthenogenic invader. Canadian Journal of Zoology.
I am interested in museum collections as active and accessible resources to preserve and document our planet's biodiversity, using specimens and associated data for scientific research and public outreach worldwide. I am presently working as the Senior Program Coordinator on two NSF-funded projects in the University of Arizona Insect Collection (UAIC), a collections improvement grant and the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN). I am also identifying ground dwelling arthropods collected as part of the Arizona Sky Island Arthropod Project (ASAP).
My research program focuses on the evolutionary biology of insects, primarily the systematics, taxonomy and biogeography of beetles, most notably Ptiliidae (featherwing beetles), Hydroscaphidae (skiff beetles), Sphaeriusidae (minute bog beetles) and New World species of Limnichidae (minute marsh-loving beetles). I also work on fossil insects associated with pack rat middens to help us better understand the past & recent fauna, flora and climate of southwestern deserts.
Publications
Hall, W.E., T.R. Van Devender and C.A. Olson. 1988. Late Quaternary Arthropod Remains from Sonoran Desert Packrat Middens, Southwestern Arizona and Northwestern Sonora. Quaternary Research. 29: 277-293.
Hall, W.E., C.A. Olson and T.R. Van Devender. 1989. Late Quaternary and Modern Arthropods from the Ajo Mountains of Southwestern Arizona. Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 65(3): 322-347.
Hall, W.E., T.R. Van Devender and C.A. Olson. 1990. Arthropod history of the Puerto Blanco Mountains, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southwestern Arizona. In "Fossil Packrat Middens: The last 40,000 years of Biotic Change in the Arid West" (P.S. Martin, T.R. Van Devender, J.L. Betancourt, Eds.). University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Van Devender, T.R., A.M. Rea and W.E. Hall. 1991. Faunal analysis of Late Quaternary vertebrates from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southwestern Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist. 36(1): 94-106.
Olson, C.A. and W.E. Hall. 1992. Cockroaches of Arizona. Cooperative Extension Bulletin, No. 191059, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona.
Van Devender, T.R. and W.E. Hall. 1993. Fossil arthropods from the Sierra Bacha, Sonora, Mexico. Ecologica. 3(1): 1-12.
Van Devender, T.R. and W.E. Hall. 1994. Holocene arthropods from the Sierra Bacha, Mexico, with Emphasis on Beetles (Coleoptera). Coleopterists Bulletin, 48(1): 30-50.
Hall, W. E. 1999. Generic revision of the tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae: Ptiliinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 125 (1- 2): 39 - 126.
Hall, W E. 1999. Swimming Through the Air: Size Does Matter. Museum Notes, University Of Nebraska State Museum, No. 104.
Hall, W. E. 2000. Ptiliidae Erichson, 1845, pp. 233-246. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.
Hall, W. E. 2000. Microsporidae Crotch, 1873, pp. 24-26. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.
Hall, W. E. 2000. Hydroscaphidae LeConte, 1874, pp. 27-29. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr. and M. C. Thomas (eds.). 2000. American Beetles. Vol. 1. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. xv + 443 pp.
Mico, E., W. E. Hall and B. C. Ratcliffe. 2001. Descriptions of the larvae of Hoplopyga singularis (Gory and Percheron) and Hologymnetis cinerea (Gory and Percheron) with a revised key to the larvae of the New World Gymnetini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Coleopterists Bulletin, 55 (2): 205-217.
Hall, W.E. 2003. Sphaeriusidae (Coleoptera). pp. 37-41. In: Water Beetles of China, Volume 3. Wien: Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Österreich and Wiener Coleopterologenverein.
Hall, W. E. 2003. Limulopteryx, a new genus of neotropical featherwing beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea: Ptiliidae) and comments on pterycine ptiliids. Pp. 85-102. -In: G. Cuccodoro and R.A.B. Leschen (eds.), Systematics of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the Retirement of Ivan Lobl. Memoirs on Entomology, Volume 17. International Associated Publishers, Florida.
Guralnick, R., W.E. Hall and S. Perkins. 2004. A comparative approach to understanding causes and consequences of mollusk-digenean size relationships: a case study with allocreadiid trematodes and Cycloclayx clams. Journal of Parasitology, 90(6): 1253-1262.
Hall, W. E. 2005. Ptiliidae. Pp. 251- 261 in R. G. Beutel and R.A.B. Leschen (eds.), Handbook of Zoology, Volume 4. Arthropoda: Insects: Part 38. Coleoptera, Beetles. Volume 1: Morphology and Systematics. De Gruyter, Berlin/New York.
Hall, W. E. and A. E. Z. Short. 2010. A new species of Hydroscapha LeConte from northwestern Venezuela (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae). Zootaxa, 2358: 49-56.
McKenzie, V.J.,W.E. Hall and R.P. Guralnick (in press). New Zealand mudsnails in Boulder Creek, Colorado: environmental factors associated with fecundity of a parthenogenic invader. Canadian Journal of Zoology.
