 Dave
Edmonds on the Hip-O Ranch,
near Marfa, Presidio County, Texas.
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In
2000 Dave Edmonds retired from his academic position at California
State Polytechnic University-Pomona and relocated to the Big
Bend region of Texas. He and his wife, Teresa, now make their
home in the small town of Marfa, where he continues his work
on the scarabaeine dung beetles. Dave's current projects include
a survey of the scarabaeine fauna of far west Texas and adjacent
regions of the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila and
an update (with Jiri Zidek) of his 1994 revision of the genus
Phanaeus. His post-"retirement" publications
so far include a revision of the phanaeine genus Sulcophanaeus
(2000), the section on phanaeines in the second volume of Atlas
de los Escarabajos de Mexico (2003), a revision of the phanaeine
genus Oxysternon (2004, with Jiri Zidek), a phylogenetic
analysis of the tribe Phanaeini (2004, with Keith Philips and
Clarke Scholtz), and the description of a new species of Phanaeus
(2004). Anticipated projects are a revision of the phanaeine
genus Coprophanaeus, an analysis of the scarabaeine
fauna of the El Chocó region of Colombia (with J. C. Neita and
J. L. Pardo-Locarno), a new treatment of scarabaeine reproductive/nesting
behavior (with Gonzalo Halffter), and (as a break from scarabaeidology)
a geographical history of Presidio County, Texas. Currently
Dave is a professor emeritus at Cal Poly-Pomona and holds courtesy
the positions of Investigador Invitado at the Instituto de Ecología
in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, as well as a Research Associate
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural Histo |
