Contact Information
505 S. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Tropical insect biodiversity; molecular systematics; phylogenomics; bioinformatics; evolutionary history; cockroaches; evolution of wings and other phenotypes
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Entomology
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Recent Publications
Deng, W. B., Drager, K., Li, X. R., Han, W., Djernæs, M., Wang, Y. S., Martin, J., Schwartz, J., Zhang, Z. Z., Kovacs, T. G. L., Lo, N., Hellemans, S., Che, Y. L., Bourguignon, T., Wang, Z. Q., & Evangelista, D. (2026). Blattodea systematics in the genomic age. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 10(1), Article ixaf042. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixaf042
Evangelista, D. A., Sanchez-Herrera, M., Schwartz, J., Ware, J. L., Hughes, B., Esposito, L., Banda, R., Montana, K. O., Bondoc Mafla, ST., Goodman, A., & Kohli, M. K. (2026). Evaluating perceptions of STEM majors to explain diversity gaps in entomology and other sciences. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 119(1), 25-37. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saaf035
Evangelista, D. A., Gilchrist, M. A., Legendre, F., & O’Meara, B. (2025). Concatenation fails to describe the anomalous radiation of giant cockroaches (Blattodea: Blaberidae) despite moderate to low discordance. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 25(1), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02409-4
Evangelista, D. A. (2024). Insects, 60% of All Biodiversity. In Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Third Edition: Volume 1-7 (pp. V2-504-V2-516). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00069-4
Evangelista, D. A., Nelson, D., Kotyková Varadínová, Z., Kotyk, M., Rousseaux, N., Shanahan, T., Grandcolas, P., & Legendre, F. (2024). Phylogenomic analyses of Blattodea combining traditional methods, incremental tree-building, and quality-aware support. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 200, Article 108177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108177