Robert L. Zuparko
Assistant Specialist/Curatorial Assistant
201 Wellman Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3112
(510) 643-0804
bz@nature.berkeley.edu
Research Interests
I received my B.S. at U.C. Berkeley in 1975 in the Conservation of Natural Resources major, specializing in integrated pest management. This led to a four-year stint in an urban IPM program led by Dr. William Olkowski, where I worked on pests of shade trees. In 1985-86, I worked under Dr. Roger Akre at Washington State University. In 1987 I began my graduate studies at Berkeley under Dr. Donald Dahlsten. Initially I studied the tuliptree aphid, but ultimately completed my dissertation investigating the biological control of the linden aphid.
As an associate curator of the Essig Museum, my primary duties are curating the Hymenoptera (now located in the Michelbacher Hymenoptera Room, across the hall from the main room of the Museum in Wellman Hall), and maintaining the Museum's website. I am also employed at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, working under Dr. Wojciech Pulawski and Dr. Norman Penny, as a curatorial assistant.
My research interests are the taxonomy of the Chalcidoidea and other parasitoid groups in the Hymenoptera, with special interest in their use in biological control programs.
Selected Publications
Zuparko, R. L. & J. Hamai. 1994. Depositions of parasitic Hymenoptera (Insecta) types from the University of California, Berkeley. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 70: 313-317.
Zuparko, R. L. 1995. Notes on Parablastothrix nearctica (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society Washington 97: 884- 886.
Zuparko, R. L. & P. Stary. 1995. A new species of Trioxys (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from California. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 71: 173-175.
Zuparko, R. L. 1995. New host record for Metanotalia maderensis (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Pan-Pacific
Entomologist 71: 245-246.
Zuparko, R. L. & D. L. Dahlsten. 1995. Parasitoid complex of Eucallipterus tiliae (Homoptera: Drepanosiphidae) in northern California. Environmental Entomology 24: 730-737.
Zuparko, R. L. 1996. Hymenoptera reared from Plagiotrochus suberi (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) galls in California. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 72: 27-30.
Zuparko, R. L. 1997. A review of the host ranges of aphidophagous Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 6: 99-106.
Zuparko, R. L. 1997. Notes on Brachycaudonia Ashmead spp. (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Pan- Pac. Entomol. 73: 243-244.
Zuparko, R. L. & G. O. Poinar, Jr. 1997. Aivalykus dominicanus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a new species from Dominican amber. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 99: 744-747.
Zuparko, R. L., D.L. Dahlsten, E.P. Hansen, & R.B. Norgaard. 1998. Biological control of the blue gum psyllid proves economically beneficial. California Agriculture 52: 35-40.
Zuparko, R. L., D.L. Dahlsten, A.E. Hajek, D.L. Rowney, & S.H. Dreistadt. 1999. Long-term sampling of Eucallipterus tiliae (Homoptera: Drepanosiphidae) and associated natural enemies in a northern California site. Environ. Entomol. 28(5): 845-850.
Zuparko, R. L. & P. Stary. 2002. Diaeretus essigellae (Hymen: Braconidae), a new species parasitic on Essigella pine aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) from California. Pan-Pac. Ent. 78(1): 56-61.
Zuparko, R. L. 2002. Obituary and bibliography of Kenneth S. Hagen (1919-1997), dedicated entomologist and teacher. Pan-Pac. Entomol. 78(3): 151-167.
