Dr. Peter H. Kerr
Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food & Agriculture
3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832-1448, U.S.A.
Office: 916-738-6678
Fax: 916-262-1190
Email: pkerr@cdfa.ca.gov
Senior Insect Biosystematist
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Preparation
- Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Davis Joint UCD/CDFA (2004)
- Doctor of Philosophy (Entomology) - University of Maryland, (2004)
- Bachelor of Science with Honors (Zoology/Botany) - University of California, Santa Cruz, (1993)
- UC Education Abroad (full year; Biology) Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose (1992)
Appointments
- 2007-present, Senior Insect Biosystematist: California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento
- 2007-2009, Co-Curator of the CSCA: California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento
- 2004-2007, Associate Insect Biosystematist: California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento
- 2003-2004, Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis & Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento
Recent Publications
- Kerr, P. H. (2004) A new species of Schizella Bezzi, with notes on Rhagionidae sensu Stuckenberg (Diptera, Brachycera). Studia dipterologica 10(2)2003: 453-457.
- Winterton, S.L. and Kerr, P.H. (2006) A new species of Alloxytropus Bezzi (Diptera: Scenopinidae: Proratinae) from Israel. Zootaxa 1155: 41-50. [PDF available]
- Kerr, P.H. (2007) Revision of the Holarctic genus Novakia Strobl (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Zootaxa 2554: 27-40. [abstract]
- Kerr, P.H. (2008) Fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae and others). Pp 1551-1554, in Capinera, J.L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd Edition. Springer.
- Kerr, P.H. and Winterton, S.L. (2008) Do parasitic flies attack mites? Evidence in Baltic amber. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:9-13.
- Kerr, P.H., Fisher, E.M., & Buffington, M.L. (2008) Dome lighting for insect imaging under a microscope. American Entomologist 54 (4): 198-200.
- Barr, N.B., L.A. Ledezma, J.D. Vasquez, M. Epstein, P.H. Kerr, S. Kinnee, O. Sage, and T.M. Gilligan (2009) Molecular Identification of the Light Brown Apple Moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in California Using a Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay of the Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 Locus. Journal of Economic Entomology, 102(6): 2333-2342.
- Kerr, P.H. (2009) Rhagionidae. Pages 485-489, in Brown, B.V., A. Borkent, J.M. Cumming, D.M. Wood, N.E. Woodley & M. Zumbado (eds.), Manual of Central American Diptera, Volume 1. National Research Council Press, Ottawa, 714 pp.
- Sformo, T., F. Kohl, J. McIntyre, P.H. Kerr, J.G. Duman, B.M. Barnes (2009) Simultaneous freeze tolerance and avoidance in individual fungus gnats, Exechia nugatoria. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 179: 897-902.
- Kerr, P. H. (2010) New Azana species from Western North America (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Zootaxa 2397: 1-14. [abstract]
- Kerr, P. H. (2010) Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera). Zootaxa 2592: 1–133. [abstract]
- Kerr, P. H. (2011) Six new species of Acomoptera from North America (Diptera, Mycetophilidae). ZooKeys 137: 41–76. [PDF available]
- Barr, N.B., L.A. Ledezma, L. Leblanc, M. San Jose, D. Rubinoff, S.M. Geib, B. Fujita, D.W. Bartels, D. Garza, P. Kerr, M. Hauser & S. Gaimari (2014) Genetics diversity of Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae) on the Hawaiian Islands: Implications for an introduction pathway into California. Journal of Economic Entomology 107 (5): 1946-1958. [open access]
- Fitzgerald SJ, Kerr PH (2014) Revision of Nearctic Phthinia (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Zootaxa 3856 (3): 301–325. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3856.3.1
- Kerr PH (2014) The Megophthalmidia (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) of North America including eight new species. ZooKeys 386: 29–83. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.386.6913
- Kerr PH (2014) The sequoia-loving sprite, a new genus and species of fungus gnat (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) from California. ZooKeys 437: 109–126. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.437.7932
Additional Activities
- 2008-present. Subject editor, Diptera: Sciaroidea. Zootaxa.
- 2007-2008. Subject editor, minor orders. Zootaxa.
- 2005-present. Subject editor, molecular systematics. Pan-Pacific Entomologist.
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Fax: (916) 262-1190
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