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Contact Information

Illinois Natural History Survey
Rms. 2025, 2000, MC-652
1909 S Oak St.
Champaign, IL 61820
Associate Research Scientist, Aquatic Entomology

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Research Scientist, Aquatic Entomology, Illinois Natural History Survey

Recent Publications

Grubbs, S. A., Verdone, C. J., Myers, L. W., & DeWalt, R. E. (2025). New Stonefly Synonymy Changes Conservation Outlook: 100-Year-Old Specimens and Integrated Taxonomy Clarify Species Concepts and Distributions of Several Eastern Nearctic Stripetails (Perlodidae: Isoperla Banks, 1905). Diversity, 17(9), Article 633. https://doi.org/10.3390/d17090633

Grubbs, S. A., Hogan, P. N., Myers, L. W., & DeWalt, R. E. (2025). Taxonomic evaluation of Leuctra laura Hitchcock (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) negates the need for a conservation assessment. Journal of Natural History, 59(29-32), 2007-2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2514891

Hart, L. V., DeWalt, R. E., Hogan, P. N., Grubbs, S. A., & Burton, D. K. (2025). The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Arkansas: a checklist compiled from museum specimen data. Biodiversity Data Journal, 13, Article e145637. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.E145637

Myers, L. W., Kondratieff, B. C., Grubbs, S. A., Pett, L. A., DeWalt, R. E., Mihuc, T. B., & Hart, L. V. (2025). Distributional and species richness patterns of the stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera) in New York State. Biodiversity Data Journal, (13), Article e158952. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e158952

Verdone, C. J., Williams, B. W., Beaty, S. R., Holland, V. B., Grubbs, S. A., & Dewalt, R. E. (2025). The adults, larvae, and systematics of the Nearctic Oemopteryx Klapálek, 1902 (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae). Zootaxa, 5595(1), 1-94. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5595.1.1

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