Derek Scott Sikes Curriculum Vitae Curator of Insects, Professor of Entomology University of Alaska Museum Institute of Arctic Biology Department of Biology and Wildlife Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6960 Phone: (907) 474-6278 fax: (907) 474-5469 e-mail: [email protected] last update: 20 May 2019 Principal Research Interests Systematics: molecular and morphological based phylogenetics, taxonomy, and faunistics of nonmarine arthropods, principally Alaskan. Tertiary Education Ph.D., Systematic Entomology - University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. May, 2003 (Major advisor, C. W. Schaefer). MS, Entomology- Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. December 1994. (Major advisor, M. A. Ivie). BA, Biology- University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. April 1992 (Major advisor, D. K. Letourneau). Positions 2018- Curator of Insects, Professor, University of Alaska Museum, Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 2011-2018 Curator of Insects, Associate Professor, University of Alaska Museum, Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 2006-2011 Curator of Insects, Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Museum, Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 2003-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB CV highlights - 66 Peer reviewed journal articles since 1993 - 48 Peer reviewed journal articles since starting at UAF in 2006 (3.7 /yr) - $1.734739M total in grants and contracts at UAF (3 NSF) - Google Scholar Metrics: Citations: 1706, h-index: 19 - 30 invited presentations - 6 graduate students graduated, 1 PhD, 5 MS Derek S. Sikes – vita 2 Refereed Publications (* indicate students I have mentored or co-mentored) 66. Klimaszewski J, Sikes DS, Brunke A, Bourdon C (2019) Species review of the genus Boreophilia Benick from North America (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Athetini): Systematics, habitat, and distribution. ZooKeys 848: 57–102. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.848.34846 65. Gillespie, M.A.K., Alfredsson, M., Barrio, I.C., Bowden, J. J., Convey, P.,Coulson, S.J., Culler, L. E., Dahl, M. T., Daly, K. M., Koponen, S., Loboda, S., Marusik, Y., Sandström, J.P., Sikes, D.S., Slowik, J., Høye, T.T. 2019. Circumpolar terrestrial arthropod monitoring: A review of ongoing activities, opportunities and challenges, with a focus on spiders. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01185-y 64. Gillespie, M.A.K., Alfredsson, M., Barrio, I.C., Bowden, J. J., Convey, P., Culler, L. E., Coulson, S.J., Krogh, P. H., Koltz, A.M., Koponen, S., Loboda, S., Marusik, Y., Sandström, J.P., Sikes, D.S., Høye, T.T. 2019. Status and trends of terrestrial arthropod abundance and diversity in the North Atlantic region of the Arctic. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01162-5 63. Sikes, D.S. 2019. Diplura and Protura of Canada. In: Langor DW, Sheffield CS (Eds) The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods. ZooKeys 819: 197–203. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.819.25238 62. Mullen, L. J.*, Campbell, J. M., Sikes, D. S. 2018. Taxonomic revision of the rove beetle genus Phlaeopterus Motschulsky, 1853 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini). The Coleopterists Bulletin. Patricia Vaurie Series Monograph 16. 1-54. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-72.mo4.1 61. Booysen, M.*, Sikes, D., Bowser, M., Andrews, R.* 2018. Earthworms (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) of Interior Alaska. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e27427. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e27427 60. Forbes, V., Sikes, D. 2018. A survey of beetles (Coleoptera) from the tundra surrounding the Nunalleq archaeological site, Quinhagak, southwestern Alaska. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22788. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22788 59. Sikes, D.S. and Barclay, M. 2017. The type of Nicrophorus chryseus Mazokhin-Porshnyakov, 1953, (Coleoptera: Silphidae) rediscovered, and a commentary on “accidental taxonomy.” The Coleopterists Bulletin 71(4): 721-726. DOI.org/10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.721 58. Sikes, D.S. M. Bowser, K. Daly*, T. T. Høye, S. Meierotto*, L. Mullen*, J. Slowik*, J. Stockbridge* 2017. The value of museums in the production, sharing, and use of entomological data to document hyperdiversity of the changing North. Arctic Science 3: 498-514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/AS-2016-0038 57. Seltmann, Katja C., Neil S. Cobb, Lawrence F. Gall, Charles R. Bartlett, M. Anne Basham, Isabelle Betancourt, Christy Bills, Benjamin Brandt, Richard L. Brown, Charles Bundy, Michael S. Caterino, Caitlin Chapman, Anthony Cognato, Julia Colby, Stephen P. Cook, Kathryn M. Daly*, Lee A. Dyer, Nico M. Franz, Jon K. Gelhaus, Christopher C. Grinter, Charles E. Harp, Rachel L. Hawkins, Steve L. Heydon, Geena M. Hill, Stacey Huber, Norman Johnson, Akito Y. Kawahara, Lynn S. Kimsey, Boris C. Kondratieff, Frank-Thorsten Krell, Luc Leblanc, Sangmi Lee, Christopher J. Marshall, Lindsie M. Mccabe, Joseph V. Mchugh, Katrina L. Menard, Paul A. Opler, Nicole Palffy-Muhoray, Nick Pardikes, Merrill A. Peterson, Naomi E. Pierce, Andre Poremski, Derek S. Sikes, Jason D. Weintraub, David Wikle, Jennifer M. Zaspel, Gregory Zolnerowich. 2017. LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network. Zootaxa 4247 (1): 073– 077 doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.10 Derek S. Sikes – vita 3 56. Sikes, D.S., M. Bowser, J. M. Morton, C. Bickford*, S. Meierotto*, K. Hildebrandt. 2017. Building a DNA barcode library of Alaska’s non-marine arthropods. Genome 60: 248-259 doi: 10.1139/gen-2015-0203 55. Sikes, D.S, S. T. Trumbo, S.B. Peck. 2016. Cryptic diversity in the New World burying beetle fauna: Nicrophorus hebes Kirby, 1837; new status as a resurrected name (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 74(3): 299-309. Open access: http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/arthropodsystematics/asp_74_3/ 05_asp_74_3_sikes_299-309.pdf 54. Sikes, D.S., Copas, K., Hirsch, T., Longino, J.T., Schigel, D. 2016. On natural history collections, digitized and not: a response to Ferro and Flick. ZooKeys 618: 145–158. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.618.9986 53. Trumbo, S.T., D. S. Sikes, P. K. B. Philbrick. 2016. Parental care and competition with microbes in carrion beetles: a study of ecological adaptation. Animal Behaviour 118: 47-54 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.06.001 52. Klimaszewski J, Webster RP, Langor DW, Sikes D, Bourdon C, Godin B, Ernst C. 2016. A review of Canadian and Alaskan species of the genus Liogluta Thomson, and descriptions of three new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). In: Webster RP, Bouchard P, Klimaszewski J (Eds) The Coleoptera of New Brunswick and Canada: providing baseline biodiversity and natural history data. ZooKeys 573: 217–256. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.573.7878 51. Sikes, D.S., Allen, R.T. 2016. First Alaskan records and a significant northern range extension for two species of Diplura (Diplura, Campodeidae). ZooKeys 563: 147-157. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.563.6404 50. Sikes, D. S. and Chaboo, C.S. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Silphidae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88: 184-185. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2317/kent-88-02-184-185.1 49. Klimaszewski, J., Webster, R.P., Sikes, D., Bourdon, C., Labrecque, M. 2015. A review of Canadian and Alaskan species of the genera Clusiota Casey and Atheta Thomson, subgenus Microdota Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) ZooKeys 524: 103-136 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.524.6105 48. Kerr, J. T., Pindar, A., Galpern, P., Packer, L., Potts, S. G., Roberts, S. M., Rasmont, P., Schweiger, O., Colla, S. R., Richardson, L.L., Wagner, D. L., Gall, L. F., Sikes, D. S., Pantoja, A. 2015. Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents. Science 349 (6244): 177-180. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa7031 47. Bartlett, C. R., S. W. Wilson, D. S. Sikes. 2015. First New World record of Paradelphacodes paludosus (Flor 1861) (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea : Delphacidae) in Alaska. Entomological News, 124(5): 370-372. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3157/021.124.0511 46. Pampell, R.*, Sikes, D., Pantoja, A., Holloway, P., Knight, C., Ranft, R. 2015. Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus spp.) of interior Alaska: Species composition, distribution, seasonal biology, and parasites. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5085. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5085 45. Slowik, J.* and Sikes, D. S. 2015. Molecular systematics of the Pardosa groenlandica species complex (Araneae: Lycosidae): Large sample sizes fail to find monophyletic species. The Canadian Entomologist 147:643-664. doi:10.4039/tce.2014.87 Derek S. Sikes – vita 4 44. Scudder, G.G.E. and Sikes, D. S. 2014. Alaskan Heteroptera (Hemiptera): new records, associated data, and deletions. Zootaxa 3852 (3): 373-381. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3852.3.6 43. Ridling*, S. K., Scudder, G.G.E., Sikes, D. S., LaBounty, K. 2014. Sitka Bioblitz discovery produces first Notonecta (Hemiptera: Notonectidae) recorded in Alaska. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 116(2): 195-196. 42. Pantoja, A., Sikes, D. S., Hagerty, A. M., Emmert, S. Y., Rondon S. 2013(2014). Ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in the Conservation Reserve Program crop rotation systems in interior Alaska. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 110: 6-18. 41. Yoo, I.-S., Sikes, D.S., Ahn, K.-J. 2013. A redescripton of Lyrosoma pallidum (Eschscholtz) and distributional range extension of Lyrosoma Mannerheim (Coleoptera: Agyrtidae). ZooKeys 329: 23–32. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.329.4957 40. Bousquet, Y., Bouchard, P., Davies, A.E., and Sikes, D.S. 2013. Checklist of Beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second Edition. ZooKeys 360: 1–44. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.360.4742 [data paper] (BOOK): Pensoft Series Faunistica No 109, Sofia- Bulgaria, 402 pp. ISSN 1312-0174, ISBN 978-954-642-704-5 39. Slowik, J*. and Sikes, D.S. 2013. Synonymy of four Pardosa species (Araneae: Lycosidae) undiagnosable without geography. Journal of the Arachnological Society. 41: 327-334.