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    SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

    Lewis DS . 2010. Phylogeny and Revision of the genus Heraclides Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera : Papilionidae: Papilionini). PhD Dissertation

    Lewis DS, and Covell CV. 2008. A Review of the Neotropical genus Cyllopoda (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Sterrhinae: Cyllopodini). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 18(2): 88-101.*

    Revision of the genera Zanthyris, Smicropus, Paratyria, Formiana, Atyriodes, and Atyria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Sterrhinae: Cyllopodini). Ongoing research.

    CONSERVATION BIOLOGY / INVASIVE SPECIES

    Lewis DS , Vogel P, and Wilson BS. 2008. Survival, dispersal and home range of endangered Jamaican Iguanas (Cyclura collei ). Caribbean Journal of Science 44(3): 423-425.*

    Lewis DS, van Veen R, and Wilson BS. Conservation Implications of Mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) diet in a hotspot within a hotspot: the Hellshire Hills, Jamaica. Article submitted 2009.10.13.

    Lewis DS. 2008/2009. Lime Swallowtail, Chequered Swallowtail, Citrus Swallowatil Papilio demoleus (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). EENY 444 / IN786 . *

    ECOLOGY

    The effect of the amino acid methionine on larvae of the butterfly Heraclides cresphontes. Ongoing research. 

    Population ecology of a New World invasive swallowtail butterfly, Papilio demoleus, from Southeast Asia. Research interest.

    Collaborations

    2006 - present. Arrange collecting  of Sulcophanaeus carnifex in Jamaica for a study on Conditional Male Phenotypes across Phanaeine dung beetle taxa and communities.

    Weissman DB, Walker TJ, and Gray DA. 2009. The Field Cricket Gryllus assimilis and Two New Sister Species (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 102(3): 367-380. * Collected   Gryllus assimilis in Jamaica in 2004.

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