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Geoffrey G.E. Scudder

Job Title: Professor Emeritus
Employer: University of British Columbia
Place of Birth: Fawkham, Kent, England
Public School attended: Fawkham Primary
High School attended: Gravesend Grammar
Further Education: University of Wales (B.Sc.), Oxford University (D.Phil.).
Geographic focus of research: British Columbia and Canada generally

Brief synopsis of current research:
Systematic Monograph of the Aquatic and Semiaquatic Heteroptera of Canada and Alaska.

Mailing address:
University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology, 6270 University Blvd., Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 Canada

E-mail:
scudder@zoology.ubc.ca

Website:
www.zoology.ubc.ca/~alistair/z/faculty/scudder.html

Recent Publications:

Reynolds, J.D. & G.G.E. Scudder. 1987. Serological evidence of realized feeding niche in Cenocorixa species (Hemiptera: Corixidae) in sympatry and allopatry. Can. J. Zool. 65:974-980.

Lancaster, J. & G.G.E. Scudder. 1987. Aquatic Coleoptera and Hemiptera in some Canadian saline lakes: patterns in community structure. Can. J. Zool. 65:1383-1390.

Scudder, G.G.E. 1988. Aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera of peatlands and marshes in Canada. Mem. Entomol. Soc. Can. 140:65-98.

Cooper, P.D., G.G.E. Scudder, and G.A. Quamme. 1989. Segmental differences in secretion by the Malpighian tubules of the fresh water dwelling corixid, Cenocorixa blaisdelli (Hung.) (Corixidae: Hemiptera). J. Insect Physiol. 35(7):531-536.

Bennett, A.M.R. and G.G.E. Scudder. 1998. Differences in attachment of water mites on water boatmen: further evidence of differential parasitism and possible exclusion of a host from part of its potential range. Can.. J. Zool. 76:824-834.