Dr. Richard L. Brown

Dr. Richard L. Brown

Title

  • Giles Distinguished Professor

Contact Information

rlb7@msstate.edu

Overview

Education

  • Cornell University, Doctor of Philosophy (PHD), Entomology
  • University of Arkansas, Master of Science (MS), Entomology
  • University of Arkansas, Bachelor of Science (BS), Zoology

Publications

Year Publications
2021

MacGown, J. A., Hill, J., Brown, R. L. 2021. An Annotated List of the Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Mississippi. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 147(1):133-155.

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2019

Riggins, J. J., Chupp, A. D., Formby, J. P., Dearing, N. A., Bares, H. M., Brown, R. L., Oten, K. F. 2019. Impacts of laurel wilt disease on arthropod herbivores of North American Lauraceae. Biological Invasions 21:493-503.

2018

Brown, R. L., Brown, J. W. 2018. Revised status of Epinotia cupressi Heinrich and descriptions of two new species of Epinotia Hubner, [1825], from the western U.S.A. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae). . Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington 120:675-686.

2017

Seltman, K., Cobb, N., Gall, L., Bartlett, C., Basham, M., Belancourt, L., Bills, C., Brandt, B., Brown, R. L., Bundy, C., Caterino, M., Chapman, C., Cognato, A., Colby, J., Cook, S., Daly, K., Dyer, L., Franz, N., Gelhaus, J., Grinter, C., Harp, C., Hawkins, R., Heydon, S., Hill, G., Huber, S., Johnson, N., Kawahara, A., Kimsey, L., Kondratieff, B., Krell, F., LeBlanc, L., Lee, S., Marshall, C., McCabe, L., McHugh, J., Menard, K., Opler, P., Palffy-Muhoray, N., Pardikes, N., Peterson, M., Pierce, N., Poremski, A., D.S. Sikes, D., Weintraub, J., Wikle, D., Zaspel, J., Zolnerowich, G. 2017. LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network. . Zootaxa 4247:73-77.

2017

Schachat, S., Brown, R. L. 2017. Wing patterns of ditrysian moths (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) include variants and violations of predictive models. Austral Entomology

2016

Woolfolk, S., Stokes, C. E., Watson, C., Brown, R. L., Baird, R. E. 2016. Bacteria Associated with Red Imported Fire Ants (Solenopsis invicta) from Mounds in Mississippi. Southeastern Naturalist 15(1):83-101.

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2016

Jaeger, C. M., Brown, R. L. 2016. Descriptions of males of Rhopobota tungurahuana Razowski & Pelz and Ancylis ecuadorica Razowski & Wotusiak (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) with new distributional records from Venezuela. . Transactions American Entomological Society 142:35-40.

2016

Schachat, S. R., Brown, R. L. 2016. Forewing color pattern in Micropterigidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera): homologies between contrast boundaries, and a revised hypothesis for the origin of symmetry systems. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16(116):25.

2016

Woolfolk, S., Stokes, C. E., Watson, C., Baker, G. T., Brown, R. L., Baird, R. E. 2016. Fungi associated with solenopsis invicta buren (Red Imported Fire Ant, Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from mounds in Mississippi. Southeastern Naturalist 15(2):220-234.

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2015

Schachat, S. R., Brown, R. L. 2015. Color pattern on the forewing of Micropterix (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae): insights into the evolution of wing pattern and wing venation in moths. . PLoS ONE 10.

2015

Wright, D. J., Brown, R. L. 2015. Review of the Eucosma refusana (Walker) species group with descriptions of two new species and discussion of biogeographic influences on species distributions. . Journal Lepidopterists' Society

2013

MacGown, J. A., Richter, H., Brown, R. L. 2013. Notes and New Distributional Records of Invasive Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Southeastern United States. Midsouth Entomologist 6(2):104-120.

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2010

MacGown, J. A., Hill, J. G., Brown, R. L. 2010. Dispersal of the exotic Brachymyrmex patagonicus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the United States. Proceedings: Imported Fire Ant Conference

2010

Hill, J., Brown, R. L. 2010. The ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna of Black Belt prairie remnants in Alabama and Mississippi. Southeastern Naturalist 9(1):73–84.

2008

Hill, J., Summerville, K. S., Brown, R. L. 2008. Habitat associations of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a heterogeneous Mississippi landscape. Environmental Entomology 37(2):453–463.

2007

MacGown, J. A., Brown, R. L., Hill, J. G., Layton, M. B. 2007. Carpenter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Camponotus) of Mississippi. Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 1158:28.

2006

MacGown, J. A., Brown, R. L. 2006. Observations on the High Diversity of Native Ant Species Coexisting with Imported Fire Ants at a Microspatial Scale in Mississippi. Southeastern Naturalist 5(4):573–586.

2006

MacGown, J. A., Brown, R. L. 2006. Survey of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Tombigbee National Forest in Mississippi. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 79(4):325–340.

2006

MacGown, J. A., Brown, R. L. 2006. A survey of the Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Tombigbee National Forest, Tombigbee Unit, Mississippi Report# 2004-01. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 79(4):325-340.

2005

MacGown, J. A., Brown, R. L., Hill, J. G. 2005. An annotated list of the Pyramica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dacetini) of Mississippi. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 78(3):285–289.

2005

MacGown, J., Brown, R. L., Hill, J. 2005. JOURNAL or THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 78 (3), 2005, Pp-285—289 An Annotated List of the Pyramica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dacetini) of Mississippi.

Extension Publications

Year Publications
2021

MacGown, J. A., Brown, R. L., Hill, J. 2021. Exotic Ants of Mississippi. Mississippi State Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station

Graduate Students

    Awards & Honors

    • R.E. Snodgrass Memorial Research Award
      Entomological Society of America
    • Giles Distinguished Professor
      Mississippi State University