David A. Grimaldi (born September 22, 1957) is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the
American Museum of Natural History
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in
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. He received his graduate training at
Cornell University
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, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect systematics, paleontology, and evolutionary biology.
Grimaldi is also an adjunct professor at
Cornell University
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,
Columbia University
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, and the
City University of New York
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.
Aside from numerous papers in scientific journals, Grimaldi is author of ''Amber: Window to the Past'', and of ''Evolution of the Insects'' (2005) with co-author
Michael S. Engel.
Honors and awards
Some of Grimaldi's scientific honors include:
* Thomas Say Award,
Entomological Society of America
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, 2007
Eponymy
The following is a selection of taxa that have been named for Grimaldi:
*''Afrarchaea grimaldii'' Penney (a fossil archaeid
spider
Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...
in Burmese amber)
*''Ambradolon grimaldii'' Metz (a fossil therevid fly in Dominican amber)
*''Burmadactylus grimaldii''
Heads (a fossil pygmy mole cricket in Burmese amber)
*''Ctenoplectrella grimaldii''
Engel (a fossil
bee in Baltic amber)
*''Cubanoptila grimaldii'' Wichard (a fossil
caddisfly
The caddisflies (order Trichoptera) are a group of insects with aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults. There are approximately 14,500 described species, most of which can be divided into the suborders Integripalpia and Annulipalpia on the basis ...
in Dominican amber)
*''Euliphora grimaldii'' Arillo & Mostovski (a fossil
phorid fly in Spanish amber)
*''Glabellula grimaldii'' Evenhuis (a fossil
Mythicomyiidae in Dominican amber)
*''Glyptotermes grimaldii''
Engel & Krishna (a fossil drywood
termite
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in Dominican amber)
*''Grimaldinia'' Popov & Heiss (a genus of fossil leptosaldine shore bugs in Burmese amber)
*''Halitheres grimaldii'' Giribet & Dunlop (a fossil
harvestman
The Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) are an order of arachnids,
colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters, harvest spiders, or daddy longlegs (see below). , over 6,650 species of harvestmen have been discovered worldwide, although the total n ...
in Burmese amber)
*''Palaeoburmesebuthus grimaldii'' Lourenço (a fossil
scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the Order (biology), order Scorpiones. They have eight legs and are easily recognized by a pair of Chela (organ), grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward cur ...
in Burmese amber)
*''Phyloblatta grimaldii'' Vršanský (a fossil
roach from the Triassic of Virginia)
*''Plectromerus grimaldii'' Nearns & Branham (a fossil long-horn
beetle
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in Dominican amber)
References
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Curriculum Vitae (short version)
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