Michael Caterino

John and Suzanne Morse Chair of Arthropod Biodiversity
Professor
Plant and Environmental Sciences Department

Office: E254 Poole Ag. Center
Phone: 864-656-3105

Email: mcateri@clemson.edu
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/site/caterinolab/

Educational Background

Ph.D. Entomology
University of California, Berkeley 1998

B.S. Biology
University of Mississippi 1992

Courses Taught

Insect Taxonomy (ENT4150/6150) - offered odd spring semesters
Immature Insects (ENT8080) - offered odd fall semesters
Systematics & Biodiversity (ENT4200/6200) - offered even spring semesters
Conservation Genetics - offered irregularly
Creative Inquiry - Insects of the Clemson Forest - offered irregularly
Creative Inquiry - Insect Ambassadors - offered irregularly

Profile

My research involves a range of questions on beetle biology, including speciation, taxonomy, faunistics, and deep phylogenetic relationships. While my primary specialty is the systematics of beetles in the family Histeridae, my intraspecific and faunistic work has covered much of the range of beetle diversity.

I am interested in making sense of beetles' overwhelming diversity, examining a variety of factors, environmental, geological, and ecological, that have influenced their diversification over a range of spatial and temporal scales, particularly in southern Appalachia.

Beyond exploring scientific questions, I am dedicated to sharing my fascination with the wonders of insect diversity with as broad an audience as possible, and hold onto the hope that a love and appreciation for nature will enable us to conserve a substantial portion of it.

Publications

Recuero, E. and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Molecular diversity of Diplura in southern High Appalachian leaf litter. BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL 12(3125162): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e125162

Recuero E., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Hidden diversity in eastern North America: The genus Ligidium (Oniscidea, Ligiidae) in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA XX:1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12661

Haberski, A., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. A review of nearctic Lathrobium (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), with revision and descriptions of new micropterous species from the mountains of the southeastern U.S. ZOOKEYS 1198: 193-277. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1198.118355

Caterino, M.S. and Harden, C.W. 2024. A review of Appalachian Dasycerus Horn, and the recognition of cryptic diversity within Dasycerus carolinensis (Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae). INSECT SYSTEMATICS & DIVERSITY 8(2, ixae009): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixae009

Wooden, P.L.S., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Trechus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Appalachia: a phylogenetic insight into the history of high elevation leaf litter communities. DIVERSITY.16(4) 212: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16040212

Recuero E., Etzler, F.E., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Most soil and litter arthropods are unidentifiable based on current DNA barcode reference libraries. CURRENT ZOOLOGY. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoad051

Caterino, M.S. and Recuero, E. 2024. Overcoming life-stage-centric biases illuminates arthropod diversity, systematics, and biology. SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY 49(3): 345-354. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12624

Recuero, E. and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Molecular diversity of Pseudoscorpiones in southern High Appalachian leaf litter. BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL 12(e115928): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e115928.

Harden C.W., Davidson, R.L., Malabad, T.E., Caterino, M.S., and Maddison, D.R. 2024. Phylogenetic systematics of the enigmatic genus Horologion Valentine, with description of a new species from Bath County, Virginia (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae: Horologionini). SUBTERRANEAN BIOLOGY 48: 1-49. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.48.114404

Caterino, M.S. and Recuero E. 2024. Shedding light on dark taxa in high Appalachian leaf litter – assessing patterns of endemicity using large scale, voucher-based barcoding. INSECT CONSERVATION & DIVERSITY 17(1): 16-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12697

Caterino, M.S. 2023. A new, flightless species of Medon (Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from high Appalachia, with intraspecific phylogeographic analysis and description of its associated larva. THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 77(4): 507-523. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-77.4.507

Caterino, M.S., Arey, N.C. 2023. Limited phylogeographic structure in a flightless, Appalachian chalcidoid wasp, Dipara trilineatus (Yoshimoto) (Hymenoptera: Diparidae), with reassessment of the male of the species. JOURNAL OF HYMENOPTERA RESEARCH 96: 1061-1072. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.115001

Caterino, M.S. and Recuero, E. 2023. Molecular diversity of Protura in southern High Appalachian leaf litter. BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL 11(e113342): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e113342

Caterino, M.S., and Yamamoto, S. 2023. New onthophiline fossil species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Onthophilinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 77(3): 432-438. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-77.3.432

Yamamoto, S. and Caterino, M.S. 2023. A remarkable new fossil species of Amplectister with peculiar hindleg modifications (Coleoptera: Histeridae): further evidence for myrmecophily in Cretaceous clown beetles. PALAEOWORLD 32(3): 481-489. doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2022.09.010

Kucuk, R.A., Campbell, B.J., Lyon, N., Shelby, E., and Caterino, M.S. 2023. Gut bacteria of adult and larval Cotinis nitida Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) demonstrate community differences according to life stage and gut region. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY 14 (1185661): 1-16. 10.3389/FMICB.2023.1185661

Recuero, E. and Caterino, M.S. 2023. A second species of the pill millipede genus Nearctomeris Wesener, 2013, from the Great Smoky Mountains, USA. ZOOKEYS 1166: 333-349. 10.3897/zookeys.1166.103516

Gimmel, M.L., Johnston, M.A. and Caterino, M.S. 2023. Annotated checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of the California Channel Islands. PeerJ 11 (e14793): 1-326. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14793

Young, K., Tsalickis, A., Sheehan, T.N., Klepzig, K.D., Caterino, M.S., and Hartshorn, J.A. 2023. Dung beetle community composition in the presence and absence of mesopredators in a longleaf pine forest. SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST 22(1): 78-90.

Caterino, M.S. 2022. First report of the Euconnus Thomson subgenus Cladoconnus Reitter in the New World, represented by thirteen new Appalachian species. ZOOKEYS 1137:133-175. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1137.97068

Caterino, M.S. and L.M.Vásquez-Vélez. 2022. A new species of Prespelea Park (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 76(4): 589-594. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-76.4.589

Dukes C.D., Janssens F., Recuero E., and Caterino, M.S. 2022. Specific and intraspecific diversity of Symphypleona and Neelipleona (Hexapoda: Collembola) in southern high Appalachia (USA). DIVERSITY 14(847): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14100847

Caterino, M.S. and A.K. Tishechkin. 2022. A new genus and species of histerid beetle from western México showing a remarkable sexual mesotibial dimorphism (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Histerinae: Exosternini). THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 76(3): 357-363. (HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1649/0010-065X-76.3.357)

Jiang, R., Caterino, M.S., and Chen, X.-S. 2022. Discovery of the genus Anapleus Horn, 1873 from Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Histeridae). INSECTS 13 (746): 1-7. (https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13080746)

Traylor, C.R., M.S. Caterino, M.D. Ulyshen, M.L. Ferro, and J.V. McHugh. 2022. Assessing the old-growth dependency of two saproxylic beetle species in the southern Appalachian Mountains. INSECT SYSTEMATICS & DIVERSITY 6(3): 1-13. (doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixac012)

Caterino, M.S. and Harden, C.W. 2022. Unseeing and unseen: On the distribution, morphology, and larva of one of North America’s rarest histerid beetles, Geocolus caecus Wenzel (Coleoptera: Histeridae). THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 76(2): 191-205.

Harden, C.W., Caterino, M.S. and T.E. Malabad. 2022. Trechus obtusus Erichson, a palearctic species recently established in the Appalachian region of the southeastern United States. THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 76(1): 61-69. (doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-76.1.61)

Caterino, M.S. 2021. New fossil histerid species from Cretaceous Burmese amber. THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 75(1): 211-221. (doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.211)

Dégallier, N., Kovarik, P.W. Tishechkin, A.K. and Caterino, M.S. 2021. Coleoptera Histeridae de Guyane. XIII. Nouvelles additions au catalogue et description de 4 genres nouveaux et 19 espèces nouvelles (Haeteriinae ; Tribalinae). ACOREP-France : Coléoptères de Guyane. Tome XIII: 99-147.

Megna, Y., Lamoth-Mayet, Y., Caterino, M.S., and Lackner T. 2021. First West Indies records of Phelister completus Schmidt, 1893, with notes on other Cuban species (Coleoptera, Histeridae, Histerinae). CHECK LIST 17(1): 39-44. (doi: 10.15560/17.1.39)

Caterino, M.S. and A.K. Tishechkin. 2020. Recognition and revision of the Phelister blairi group (Histeridae: Histerinae: Exosternini). ZOOKEYS 1001: 1-154. (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1001.58447)

Arriagada, G. and Caterino, M.S. 2020. Nueva posición taxonómica para Euspilotus wenzeli (Mazur, 1984)(Coleoptera: Histeridae). BOLETÍN DEL MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL, CHILE 69(1): 77-85.

Zhou, Y.-L., Slipinski, S.A., Ren, D., and Caterino, M.S. 2020. Phylogeny and evolution of the Mesozoic and extant lineages of Histeridae (Coleoptera), with a discovery of a new subfamily Antigracilinae from the Lower Cretaceous. CLADISTICS 36(5): 521-539. (https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12418)

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