Staff Profile - Zhi-Qiang Zhang

Zhi-Qiang Zhang

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Phone: 09 574 4100

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Qualifications

BSc Zoology, Fudan University, China
PhD entomology, Cornell University, USA

Roles

·         Researcher & Curator (Acari), New Zealand Arthropod Collection

·         Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London

·         Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

·         International Executive Member, International Congress of Acarology

·         President, Systematic & Applied Acarology Society

·         Chief editor, Zootaxa

Research areas

·         Systematics and ecology of mites (see Acari systematics research at NZAC)

·         Predator-prey and parasite-host interaction

·         Biocontrol and pest management

·         Life history evolution

·         Science editing and publishing

Recent publications (from a total of over 200 published between 1987-2010)

 

Zhang, Z.-Q., Hong, X.-Y. & Fan, Q.-H. (eds). 2010. Xin Jie-Liu Centenary: Progress in Chinese Acarology. Zoosymposia 4. Magnolia Press, Auckland, 345 pp.

 

Zhang, Z.-Q. 2010.  Reviving descriptive taxonomy after 250 years: promising signs from a mega-journal in taxonomy. In: Polaszek, A. (ed), Systema Naturae 250—The Linnaean Ark. Taylor & Francis, pp. 95-107.

 

Xue, X.-F. & Zhang, Z.-Q. 2009. Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) in Southeast Asia: a synopsis of 104 genera, with an illustrated key to genera and checklist of species. Zootaxa 2257, 1-128.

 

Zhang, Z.Q. 2008. Contributing to the progress of descriptive taxonomy.  Zootaxa, 1968: 65-68

 

Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W.A. (Eds.) 2007. Linnaeus Tercentenary: Progress in Invertebrate Taxonomy. Zootaxa, 1668: 1-766.

 

Zhang, Z.-Q. & Fan, Q.-H. 2007. Allotanaupodidae, a new family of early derivative Parasitengona (Acari: Prostigmata). Zootaxa, 1517: 1-52. (Abstract).

Fan, Q.-H. & Zhang, Z.-Q. 2007. Tyrophagus (Acari: Astigmata: Acaridae). Fauna of New Zealand 56. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, 291 pp.

Fan, Q.-H. & Zhang, Z.-Q. 2005. Raphignathoidea (Acari: Prostigmata). Fauna of New Zealand Number 52. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, 400 pp.

Fan, Q.-H. & Zhang, Z.-Q. 2004. Revision of Rhizoglyphus Claparède (Acari: Acaridae) of Australasia and Oceania. Systematic & Applied Acarology Society, London. 374 pp.

Zhang, Z.-Q. 2003. Mites of Greenhouses: Identification, Biology and Control. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK , xii + 244 pp.  View selected pages from google books

Zhang, Z.-Q. & Rhode, B.E. 2003. A faunistic summary of acarine diversity in New Zealand . Systematic & Applied Acarology 8: 75-84

Lin, J.-Z. & Z.-Q. Zhang, 2002. Tarsonemidae of the World: Key to Genera, Geographical Distribution, Systematic Catalogue & Annotated Bibliograhy. Systematic & Applied Acarology Society, London, 440 pp. Table of contents

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