CONTACT

114 Long Hall, Box 340315
Department of Entomology, Soils, and Plant Sciences
Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0315
Phone: (864) 656-5044
FAX: (864) 656-5069
E-mail: padler@clemson.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

My research is focused on the behavior, ecology, cytogenetics, systematics, and management of insects that affect the health and welfare of humans, domestic animals, and wildlife. Current research projects include the behavioral ecology of aquatic and terrestrial arthropods, global and local biodiversity assessments of biting flies, cytogenetic analyses of black flies, taxonomic revisions and phylogenies of black flies, host-parasite interactions, economic-impact assessments of black flies, and the role of insect-borne diseases in human history.

EDUCATION

B.S. (1976) Biology. Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA
M.S. (1979) Zoology. Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Ph.D. (1983) Entomology. Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

ADLER, P. H., J. J. Becnel & B. Moser. 2000. Molecular characterization and taxonomy of a new species of Caudosporidae (Microsporidia) from black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae), with host-derived relationships of the North American caudosporids. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 75: 133-143.

ADLER, P. H. & B. Belqat. 2001. Cytotaxonomy of the Prosimulium hirtipes species group (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Morocco. Journal of Insect Systematics and Evolution 32: 411-418.

ADLER, P. H. & E. A. Kachvoryan. 2001. Cytogenetics of the Holarctic black fly Simulium noelleri (Diptera: Simuliidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 1972-1979.

Hamada, N., J. W. McCreadie & P. H. ADLER. 2002. Species richness and spatial distributions of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in streams of Central Amazonia, Brazil. Freshwater Biology 47: 31-40.

Brockhouse, C. L. & P. H. ADLER. 2002. Cytogenetics of laboratory colonies of Simulium vittatum cytospecies IS-7 (Diptera: Simuliidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 39: 293-297.

ADLER, P. H. & J. W. McCreadie. 2002. Black flies (Simuliidae). Pp. 185-202. In G. Mullen & L. Durden (eds.). Medical and Veterinary Entomology. Academic Press, NY.

ADLER, P. H. & W. Wills. 2003. Legacy of death: the history of arthropod-borne human diseases in South Carolina. American Entomologist 49: 216-228. [feature article].

Duncan, G., P. H. ADLER, K. P. Pruess & T. O. Powers. 2004. Molecular differentiation of two sibling species of the black fly Simulium vittatum (Diptera: Simuliidae) based on random amplified polymorphic DNA. Genome 47: 373-379.

Malmqvist, B., D. Strasevicius, O. Hellberg, P. H. ADLER & S. Bensch. 2004. Vertebrate host specificity of wild-caught blackflies revealed by mitochondrial DNA in blood. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biology Letters 271: S152-S155.

Malmqvist, B., P. H. ADLER, K. Kuusela, R. W. Merritt & R. S. Wotton. 2004. Black flies in the boreal biome, key organisms in both terrestrial and aquatic environments: a review. Écoscience 11: 187-200.

Malmqvist, B., P. H. ADLER & D. Strasevicius. 2004. Testing hypotheses on egg number and size in blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Journal of Vector Ecology 29: 248-256.

ADLER, P. H. & B. Malmqvist. 2004. Predation on black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) by the carnivorous plant Pinguicula vulgaris (Lentibulariaceae) in northern Sweden. Entomologica Fennica 15: 124-128.

ADLER, P. H., D. C. Currie & D. M. Wood. 2004. The Black Flies (Simuliidae) of North America. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. xv + 941 pp. + 24 color plates.

ADLER, P. H., D. J. Giberson & L. A. Purcell. 2005. Insular black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of North America: tests of colonization hypotheses. Journal of Biogeography 32: 211-220.

McCreadie, J. W., C. E. Beard & P. H. ADLER. 2005. Context-dependent symbiosis between black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) and trichomycete fungi (Harpellales: Legeriomycetaceae). Oikos 108: 362-370.

Werner, D. & P. H. ADLER. 2005. A faunistic review of the black flies (Simuliidae, Diptera) of the federal state of Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Abhandlungen und Berichte für Naturkunde 27: 205-245.

McCreadie, J. W., P. H. ADLER & N. Hamada. 2005. Patterns of species richness for blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. Ecological Entomology 30: 201-209.

ADLER, P. H. 2005. Black flies, the Simuliidae. Pp. 127-140. In W. C. Marquardt (ed.). Biology of Disease Vectors, 2nd edition. Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

Nelder, M. P., P. H. ADLER & E. A. Kachvoryan. 2005. Do gut symbiotes reflect the endemism of their host black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the Caucasus of Armenia? Journal of Biogeography 32: 1333-1341.

McCreadie, J. W. & P. H. ADLER. 2006. Ecoregions as predictors of lotic assemblages of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Ecography. 29: 603-613.

Nelder, M. P., C. E. Beard, P. H. ADLER, S.-K. Kim & J. W. McCreadie. 2006. Harpellales (Zygomycota: Trichomycetes) associated with black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae): world review and synthesis of their ecology and taxonomy. Fungal Diversity 22: 121-169.

Finn, D. S. & P. H. ADLER. 2006. Population genetic structure of a rare high-elevation black fly, Metacnephia coloradensis, occupying lake outlet streams. Freshwater Biology 51:2240-2251. PDF

Green, T. B., S. White, S. Rao, P. P. C. Mertens, P. H. ADLER & J. J. Becnel. 2007. Biological and molecular studies of a cypovirus from the black fly Simulium ubiquitum (Diptera: SImuliidae). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 95:26-32.

ADLER, P. H., D. Roach, W. K. Reeves, J. P. Flanagan, M. E. Morrow & J. E. Toepfer. 2007. Attacks on the endangered Attwater's Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) by black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) infected with an avian blood parasite. Journal of Vector Ecology 32:309-312.

Currie, D. C. & P. H. ADLER. 2008. Global diversity of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:469-475.

Xia, Y., A. Gower, P. H. ADLER, J. VanDyk, G. Kennedy & R. Stinner. 2008. Entomology Digital Library (EntDigiL). American Entomologist 54:10-13.

ADLER, P. H. & D. C. Currie. 2008. Simuliidae. Pp. 825-845. In R. W. Merritt, K. W. Cummins & M. B. Berg (eds.). An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America, 4th edition. Kendal/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa.

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