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., Medina-Espinoza, E. F., Mendieta Yáñez, S. K., Drager, K., Swichtenberg, K. L., Gile, G., Kang, Y., Hromádka, J., Vanker, K., & Sanchez-Herrera, M. (2026). Xylomycophagy in a close relative of termites: Lampro-blattidae (Blattodea) systematics, ecology, and diet. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny, 84, 309-342. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.84.e144506
Goodman, A. M., Tolman, E. R., Beatty, C. D., Blair, M. E., Abbott, J. C., Alfaro, D. M., Bybee, S., Uche-Dike, R., Evangelista, D. A., Frandsen, P. B., Gamett, E., Garcia, L., Guralnick, R., Hulick, C. P., Kohli, M. K., McCarthy, L., Reyes, K., Taveras, K., Wade, V., ... Ware, J. L. (2026). The Great Dividing Range as a driver of genetic divergence in a low-dispersing dragonfly. Ecological Entomology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.70109
Mirzaee, Z., Büscher, T. H., Evangelista, D., Eggleton, P., Anisyutkin, L., & Legendre, F. (2026). Arthropod diversity in Iran: Class Insecta– Polyneoptera, part I. Blattodea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882, Mantodea Burmeister, 1838, and Phasmatodea Jacobson & Bianchi, 1902. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 12(2), 359-396. https://doi.org/10.48311/jibs.12.02.359