Contact Information
1816 S. Oak St., MC-652
Champaign, IL 61820
Research Interests
Insect systematics; evolution, biodiversity, and conservation of leafhoppers and related insects (Hemiptera)
Research Description
Ongoing projects include phylogenomic analyses of major lineages of Membracoidea, development of online tools for genus and species identification, studies of the diversity and evolution of leafhopper-associated plant pathogens, and conservation of grassland insect biotas.
Education
PhD, Entomology, North Carolina State University, 1990
BS, Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 1984
Additional Campus Affiliations
Systematic Entomology, Section Leader, Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate, Entomology
Affiliate, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
External Links
Recent Publications
Trivellone, V., Cao, Y., & Dietrich, C. H. (2026). A Workflow for Phytoplasma Discovery and Characterization in Potential Insect Vectors: From Non-destructive DNA Extraction and Vouchering to Next-Generation Sequencing. In Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 101-118). (Methods in Molecular Biology; Vol. 3008). Humana Press Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-5104-9_9
Cai, W., Nie, W., Li, J., Dietrich, C. H., & Yuan, X. (2025). Source of Introduction to China and Global Suitable Habitat Prediction for the Invasive Insect Stictocephala bisonia (Hemiptera: Membracidae). Ecology and Evolution, 15(12), Article e72708. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72708
Camisão, B. M., Zahniser, J. N., & Dietrich, C. H. (2025). The Neotropical genus Kanorba Oman, 1938: synonymy and new combinations (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Zootaxa, 5601(2), 387-394. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5601.2.12
Cao, Y., Dietrich, C. H., Dmitriev, D. A., Kits, J. H., Xue, Q., & Zhang, Y. (2025). Phylogeny, biogeography and morphological evolution of the treehopper-like leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) Megophthalminae and Ulopinae. Systematic Entomology, 50(2), 296-308. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12655
Chen, W., Dietrich, C. H., & Zhang, Y. (2025). On the genus Otiocerus with a new species and two new combinations to Shellenius (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Derbidae). Zootaxa, 5633(3), 553-563. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.8