Frank
Hovore in his lab.
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Frank T. Hovore passed away unexpectedly in September 2006
from a heart attack while collecting in Ecuador. He passed
away doing one of the things he loved best: collecting beetles
in the tropics. He was known as the preeminent Pleocoma (rain
beetle) specialist in the world. His Coleoptera research interests
were the ecology, taxonomic diversity, and distribution of
Cerambycidae, with recent study and survey emphasis upon the
faunas of Central (Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama) and South
America (French Guiana, Ecuador), and the biology, ecology,
and systematics of the genus Pleocoma (Pleocomidae). Good
bye and good hunting, Frank. |
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PUBLICATIONS:
PLEOCOMA PAPERS
Hovore, F.T. 1971. A new Pleocoma from southern
California with notes on additional species. Pan Pacific
Entomol. 47: 193 -201.
Hovore, F.T. 1972. Three new sympatric Pleocoma
from the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
Bull. Southern Calif. Acad. Sciences 71: 69 -80.
Hovore, F.T. 1977. New synonymy and status changes
in the genus Pleocoma LeConte. Coleop. Bull.31:
229 - 238.
Hovore, F.T. 1977. A review of the taxonomic and distributional
relationships of Pleocoma hoppingi Fall and Pleocoma
rubiginosa Hovore. Coleop. Bull. 31: 319 - 327.
Hovore, F.T. 1979. Rain Beetles: Small things wet
and wonderful. Terra Magazine 17: 10 - 14.
Hovore, F.T. 1981. Notes on Pleocoma LeConte,
Part 1. Scarabaeus 3: 1 - 2.
Hovore, F.T. 1981. Notes on Pleocoma LeConte,
Part 2. Scarabaeus 5: 1 - 3.
Hovore, F.T. 1999 et seq. American Beetles, Family Pleocomidae.
Internet publication, available at
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Pleocomidae/PleocomidaeO.htm
Hovore, F.T. 2002. Family 28. Pleocomidae LeConte 1861, pp. 20
- 22. In American Beetles, Vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through
Curculionoidea. Arnett, R.H.II et al, CRC Press, Boca Raton,
Florida. 861 pp.
Hovore, F.T. 2002. Taxonomic Review and Catalogue
of the genus Pleocoma LeConte. prob. in Occ. Papers
of the Cons. Coleop., in prep.
OTHER COLEOPTERA PAPERS
Hovore, F.T. & E.F. Giesbert 1974. Two new species
of Cerambycidae from southern California. Pan Pacific Entomol.,
50(2): 139 - 144.
Giesbert, E.F. & F.T. Hovore 1976. Records and
descriptions of some southwestern Cerambycidae. Coleopterists
Bull., 30(1): 95 - 99.
Hovore, F.T. & E.F. Giesbert 1976. Notes on the
ecology and distribution of western Cerambycidae. Coleop.
Bull., 30(4): 349 - 360.
Hovore, F.T., R.L. Penrose & E.F. Giesbert 1978.
Notes on North American Cerambycidae. Entomol. News, 89(2
& 3): 95 - 100.
Skiles, D.D. & F.T. Hovore 1978. Biology of
Leptura pacifica (Linsley). Coleop. Bull., 32(2): 107 - 112.
Hovore, F.T. & J.A. Chemsak 1979. A review of
the Mexican and Central American species of the genus Obrium
Dejean. Coleop. Bull., 34(1): 31 - 54.
Turnbow, R.H. jr., & F.T. Hovore 1979. Notes on
Cerambycidae from the southeastern United States. Entomol.
News, 90(5): 219 - 229.
Hovore, F.T. 1979. A new subspecies of Megacheuma
brevipennis (LeConte) from southeastern California.
Coleop. Bull., 33(4): 459 -463.
Hovore, F.T. 1980. A new genus and species of Cerambycidae
from southern Texas. Coleop. Bull., 34(1): 115 - 119.
Hovore, F.T. 1981. Two new species of Prionus
(Homaesthesis) from the southwestern United States, with
notes on other species. Coleop. Bull., 35(4): 453 - 457.
Hovore, F.T. & R.L. Penrose 1982. Notes on Cerambycidae
coinhabiting girdles of Oncideres pustulata LeConte.
Southwestern Naturalist, 27(1): 23 - 27.
Hovore, F.T. & R.H. Turnbow, jr. 1983. A new species
of Prionus (Homaesthesis) from the Monahans sandhills
of western Texas. Entomol. News,
95(1): 1 - 4.
Hovore, F.T. & W.H. Tyson 1983. A new species
of Lepturges from southern Texas. Coleop. Bull., 37(4):
349 - 352.
Hovore, F.T. 1983. Taxonomic and biological observations
on southwestern Cerambycidae. Coleop. Bull., 37(4): 379
- 387.
Rice, M.E., R.H. Turnbow, jr. & F.T. Hovore 1985.
Biological and distributional observations on Cerambycidae from
the southwestern United States. Coleop. Bull., 39(1): 18
- 24.
Hovore, F.T. 1987. A new genus and species of Cerambycidae
from Costa Rica. Pan-Pacific Entomol., 63(2): 151-154.
MacKay, W.P., J.C. Zak & F.T. Hovore 1987. Cerambycid
beetles of the northern Chihuahuan Desert (south-central New Mexico).
Coleop. Bull., 41(4): 361-369.
Hovore, F.T., R.L. Penrose & R.W. Neck 1987.
The Cerambycidae, or longhorned beetles, of southern Texas: a
faunal survey. Proc. Calif. Acad Sciences, 44(13): 283-344,
20 figs.
Hovore, F.T. 1987. A review of the genus Coleomethia
Linsley. Wasmann Journ. Biol., 45(1/2): 6-15.
Chemsak, J.A., E.G. Linsley & F.T. Hovore 1988.
A concentration site for Cerambycidae in Jalisco, Mexico.
Pan-Pacific Entomol., 64(3): 291-295.
Hovore, F.T. 1989. Additions to the cerambycid beetle
fauna of Baja California, Mexico: records and descriptions.
Wasmann Journ. Biol., 46(1-2): 1 - 29.
Hovore, F.T. 1990. Records and descriptions of Costa
Rican Cerambycidae, part 1: the Turrialba Valley. Insecta
Mundi, 3(4): 249 - 260.
Hovore, F.T. & E.F. Giesbert 1990. The genus Pronuba
in Central America. Revista Brasiliera Entomol., 34(4): 789-794.
Doyen, J.T. & F.T. Hovore 1991. Notes on two Pacific
coastal species of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera). Pan-Pacific
Entomol., 67(3): 226-227.
Hovore, F.T. 1991. INBio: by biologists, for biologists;
Commentary, in American Entomol., Vol. 37(3): 157-158.
Hovore, F.T. 1992 A new genus and species of flightless
longhorned beetle from Central America. Insecta Mundi, 6(1): 37
- 41.
Maes, J-M., A. Allen, M.A. Monné & F.T. Hovore 1994.
Catalogo de los Cerambycidae de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguese
de Entomol., 1994 (27): 1 - 68.
Hovore, F.T. 1995. Book review, Checklist of the Cerambycidae...
, and catalogue of the Cerambycidae... . Coleop. Bull.,
49(2): 173 - 174.
Hovore, F.T. 1998. Two new species of Central American
Lagocheirus Dejean. Occ. Papers of the Cons. Coleop.,
Vol. 2 (1): 1 - 5.
Hovore, F.T., and J.D. McCarty. 1998. Records and
descriptions of Mexican and Central American species of Polyrhaphis
Audinet-Serville. Occ. Papers of the Cons. Coleop., Vol.
2 (1): 6 - 15.
Giesbert, E.F. & F.T. Hovore. 1998. Descriptions
and synonymies in the North American Lepturini. Occ. Papers of
the Cons. Coleop., Vol. 2 (1): 16 - 23.
Hovore, F.T. 1998. Review of the genus Sangaris
Dalman for Central America. Occ. Papers of the Cons. Coleop.,
Vol. 2 (1): 65 - 74.
Hovore, F.T. & E.F. Giesbert. 1998. New species
and records of Agapanthiini from Mexico and Central America. Occ.
Papers of the Cons. Coleop., Vol. 2 (1): 77 - 81.
Hovore, F.T. 2000. "Longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae
and Disteniidae) of Monteverde", in: "Monteverde, ecology
and conservation of a tropical cloud forest", Nadkarni, N.M.
and N.T. Wheelwright, eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 573 pp.
Chemsak, J. A. and F.T. Hovore. 2002. New Mexican and Central
American species of Acanthoderini (Lamiinae) with notes on others,
Parts 1 & 2. Les Cahiers Magellanes, No. 15: 1 - 32, 17 figs;
No. 16: 1 - 26, 15 figs.
Toledo V.H., F.A. Noguera, J.A. Chemsak, F.T. Hovore and E.F.
Giesbert. 2002. The cerambycid fauna of the tropical dry forest
of "El Aguacero," Chiapas, Mexico. Coleopterists Bulletin
56: 515 - 532.
Micheli, J. and F.T. Hovore. 2003. New synonymies and distributional
records for Caribbean Cerambycidae. Coleopterists Bulletin 57:
1 - 4. |
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