Authors
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Mallik Malipatil MSc (Entomology) (Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi), PhD (University of Queensland)
Dr Mali Malipatil is Principal Research Scientist (Biosystematics) and Curator of Victorian Agricultural Insect Collection, Department of Primary Industries, Knoxfield, Victoria, and has over 38 years of experience in taxonomy and biology of insects, particularly those of agricultural and quarantine significance. His research interests include the taxonomy of hemipteran bugs of the families Reduviidae, Lygaeidae and Miridae, and Liriomyza leafminers and certain groups of scale insects and wasp parasitoids. He has published two identification guides on pest and beneficial insects, and over 75 taxonomic papers in international journals. Prior to joining the DPI in 1989, Dr Malipatil was Senior Curator of Entomology at the Northern Territory Museum in Darwin for 10 years. As a Churchill Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar, he has conducted taxonomic research in several museums in Europe and USA. He has travelled widely within and outside Australia for collecting bugs, and for conducting insect identification training workshops in Southeast Asian countries. He has been the entomology and quality assurance discipline lead of the International Plant Protection Convention's Technical Panel on Diagnostic Protocols since 2007. |
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Peter Ridland MAgrSc (University of Melbourne), PhD (La Trobe University)
Dr Ridland was formerly Section Leader, Invertebrate Sciences (Department of Primary Industries, Knoxfield) and has 38 years experience in agricultural entomology. He has specialized in insect ecology and its application in the development of integrated pest management systems. Since 2000, he has worked extensively with scientists and farmers in Indonesia and East Timor in biological control of leafminers and in integrated pest management training. He led the ACIAR leafminer project in Indonesia [Developing effective pest management strategies for the potato leafminer, Liriomyza huidobrensis, (Blanchard), in Indonesia and Australia (ACIAR CP/2000/090)]. He has published over 20 scientific papers in refereed journals together with 3 book chapters. He was Vice-President of the Australian Entomological Society (June 2000-August 2004), a member of the Steering Committee for the 22nd International Congress of Entomology, Brisbane 2004 and Convener of the 4th International Diamondback Moth Workshop, Melbourne 2001. He has recently worked with Dr Malipatil to conduct insect identification training workshops in Southeast Asian countries. |
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