PAUL K. LAGO
Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
The University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
TEL: (662) 915-7472
FAX: (662) 915-5144
email:plago@olemiss.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., 1977, North Dakota State University, M.A., 1971, Bemidji State University, B.A., 1969, Bemidji State University
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:
Entomology, insect taxonomy, primarily of the Coleoptera (Scarabaeidae and Carabidae), Trichoptera (Curvipalpia) and Neuroptera, faunistic studies of freshwater insects of Mississippi, insect - plant associations.
RESEARCH SUPPORT:
Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. Sverdrup, Inc. Lockheed (NASA). Tetra Tech.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Lago, P.K. and S. Testa, III. 2000. The terrestrial Hemiptera and auchenorrhynchous Homoptera of Point Clear Island and surrounding marshlands, Hancock County, Mississippi. J. Mississippi Acad. Sci. 45: 184-193.
Lago, P.K. 1997 New state records for scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from North Dakota and Minnesota. Entomological News. 108: 311-312
Lago, P.K. and S. Testa III. 1994. The Aquatic Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera) of Mississippi. Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experimental Station Technical Bulletin 193. 71p.
Lago, P.K. and J. Goddard. 1993. Identification of medically important arthropods. Laboratory Medicine. 24(5): 298-305.
Harris, S.C., P.E. O'Neil and P.K. Lago. 1991. Caddisflies of Alabama. Geol. Sur. Alabama, Bull. 142. 442p.
Lago, P.K. 1991. A survey of arthropods associated with gopher tortoise burrows in Mississippi. Entomol. News 102:1-13.
Lago, P.K. and S.C. Harris. 1990. An annotated list of the Rhyacophiloidea and Integripalpia (Trichoptera) of Alabama. Entomological News 101: 57-66.
Lago, P.K. and S. Testa. 1989. Records of owlflies (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae) from Mississippi, with a key to species. Entomological News 100: 11-17.
Lago, P.K. and S.C. Harris. 1987. The Chimarra (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae) of eastern North America with descriptions of three new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 95: 225-251.
Lago, P.K. and M.O. Mann. 1987. Survey of the Coleoptera associated with flowers of wild carrot (Daucus carota L.) (Apiaceae) in northern Mississippi. Coleopterist's Bulletin 41: 1- 8.