GABRIELA CHAVARRIA
beeetle@sprintmail.com
TITLE:
Research Associate, Department of Entomology, NHB stop 105, National
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Isntitution, Washington D.C.,
20560, USA.
EDUCATION:
B.S. Biology, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, 1989.
M.A., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1993.
Ph.D., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996.
POSITIONS:
Laboratory Assistant, Laboratory of Ecology of Social Insects, Ecological
Center, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, 1987-1990.
Biology Teacher, Colegio Oxford, Mexico City, 1988-1989
Head Teaching Fellow in Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 1991-1995.
Graduate Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Entomology
Department, Harvard University, 1992-1996.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Association of University Women; Asociaci¢n Mexicana de
Entomologia; Association of Women in Science; Cambridge Entomological
Club, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Entomological Society of America;
International Society of Hymenopterists; International Union for the
Study of Social Insects;
Sigma Xi; Willi Hennig Society.
FIELD EXPERIENCE:
Extensive research and field work in over 30 countries in North, Central,
and South America, and Europe; central and northern Kuril Islands, 1996.
PUBLICATIONS:
Since 1990, six scientific publications on the taxonomy and distribution
of bumble bees.
Five publications most relevant to the present project:
- Chavarria, G. 1994. Phoresy on a Neotropical bumble bee
(Hymenoptera: Apidae) by Anterophagus (Coleoptera:
Cryptophagidae). Psyche, 101(1-2):109-111.
- Chavarria, G. 1994. First Neotropical mutualistic association in
bumble bee nests. Psyche, 101(1-2):113-118.
- Chavarria, G. 1995. Notes on Bombus pullatus (Hymenoptera:
Apidae) and their inquiline Acromyrmex octospinosis (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae). Jour. Kansas Ent. Soc., 17(3):43-60.
- Chavarria, G., and J. M. Carpenter. 1995. Total evidence and the
evolution of highly social bees. Cladistics, 10(3):229-258.
- Chavarria, G. 1996. Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical bumble
bee genus Bombus. Thomas Say Publications, Entomological Society
of America.
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