Kevina Vulinec

Lepidoptera of Fort Indiantown Gap National Guard Training Center, Annville, Pennsylvania (2008)

Betty Ferster, Betsy Ray Leppo, Mark T. Swartz, Kevina Vulinec, Fred Habegger, Andrew Mehring

Eighty-one species of butterflies and two-hundred and thirty-seven species of moths were identified from Fort Indiantown Gap, a National Guard training facility in south-central Pennsylvania. The...

Arboreal Foraging Height in a Common Neotropical Dung Beetle, Canthon subhyalinus Harold (coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (2007)

Kevina Vulinec, David J. Mellow

Arboreal foraging by dung beetles has been reported from tropical rainforests in several regions. In the central Amazon, Brazil, the widespread, arboreal dung beetle Canthon subhyalinus Harold was...

Fragmentation and Alteration of Seed Dispersal Processes: An Initial Evaluation of Dung Beetles, Seed Fate, and Seedling Diversity1 (2003)

Colin A. Chapman, Lauren J. Chapman, Kevina Vulinec, Amy Zanne, Michael J. Lawes

ABSTRACT Given current accelerated trends of tropical land conversion, forest fragments are being incorporated into many conservation programs. For investing in fragments to be a viable conservation...

Biological and Taxonomic Notes on a Rare Phanaeine Dung Beetle, Phanaeus Alvarengai Arnaud (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (2003)

Kevina Vulinec, W. D. Edmonds, David J. Mellow

The rare phanaeine dung beetle Phanaeus alvarengai Arnaud 1984 was described from two specimens. Several recent collections of this species are reported here, along with behavioral observations; this...

Dung Beetle Communities and Seed Dispersal in Primary Forest and Disturbed Land in Amazonia1 (2002)

Kevina Vulinec

Seeds from tropical fruiting trees ingested and defecated on the soil surface by primary dispersers (such as primates) are vulnerable to destruction from rodents, insects, and fungi. Burial by dung...

Ovipositor Length in a Guild of Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Attacking Anastrepha spp. Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Southern Mexico (2001)

John Sivinski, Kevina Vulinec, M. Aluja

In southern Mexico, four native and one introduced species of Opiinae (Braconidae) attack larvae of Anastrepha spp. fruit flies. There is a substantial overlap in the hosts of the parasitoids, and...