Staff Spotlight
Dr. Jacqueline Y. Miller
Allyn Curator of Lepidoptera
216 McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
308 Cultural Plaza
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 273-2016
Email: jmiller@flmnh.ufl.edu
Ph. D. Zoology, University of Florida, 1986
FLMNH/McGuire Center Lepidoptera Collection
Research Interests
Systematics, taxonomy, biogeography, biodiversity, and life history of Lepidoptera, especially the Hesperioidea, Nymphalidae, and Castniidae. Current research efforts concentrate on biodiversity inventories and revisionary studies of neotropical taxa, especially endemic genera of the West Indies and the Caribbean basin, focusing on morphological features and integrating molecular, ecological and behavioral studies and observations when applicable. These investigations provide clues and/or supportive data to our understanding of the higher taxonomic categories and the evolutionary history of the Lepidoptera.
Staff
Andrew D. Warren - Lepidoptera Collection Manager
Deborah Matthews Lott - Biological Scientist
Representative Publications
Miller, J. Y. 1994. Behavior of Butterflies as a Means of Conservation: Comparison of Insular and Continental Faunas. Florida Entomologist, 77: 74-84.
Smith, D. S., L. D. Miller, J. Y. Miller. 1994. The Butterflies of the West Indies and Southern Florida. Oxford University Press, x + 264 pp., 33 pls.
Miller, L. D. and J. Y. Miller. 1997. Gondwanan Butterflies: The African-South American Connection. Metamorphosis:42-51.
Debrot, A., J. Y. Miller, B. T. Leysner, and L. D. Miller. 1999. The Butterfly Fauna of Curacao, West Indies:1996 Status and Long-Term Species Turnover. Caribbean Journal of Science 35:184-194.
Miller, J. Y. 2000. Biodiversity of the Castniidae (Lepidoptera) in Mexico. Pp. 527-533 In Biodiversidad taxonomic, y biogeographica de arthropodos de Mexico: Hacia una sintesis de us conocimiento (Vol. II). Jorge Llorente B. et al eds.)
Miller, J. Y. and L. D. Miller. 2001. The biogeography of the West Indian butteflies (Lepidoptera): An application of a Vicarian/Dispersalist Model.Pp. 127-155 In Biogeography of the West Indies, Patterns and Perspectives (C. A. Woods, F. E. Sergile, eds.). 2nd edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL
Miller, J. Y., A. O. DeBrot, L. D. Miller. 2003. Butterflies of Aruba and Bonaire with new species records for Curacao. Caribbean Journal of Science, 39: 170-175.
Austin, G. T., L. D. Miller, and J. Y. Miller. 2007. Taxonomic comments on Pseudolycaena Wallengren (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, 149: 1-22.
Miller, J. Y., J. C. Daniels, and T. C. Emmel. Planning for Tomorrow: The Future of Entomological Investments. 2008. Florida Entomologist, Vol. 91(1): 139-144.
Miller, J. Y. 2008. Studies in the Castniidae. V. Description of a new species of Zegara. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, No. 160: 1-13.
Tennent, W. J., J. Y. Miller, and A. Rawlins. 2010. Distribution of Acrophtalmia chione Felder & Felder, 1867, with descriptions of two new subspecies from eastern Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, No. 162: 1-7
Matthews, D. L., and J. Y. Miller. 2010. Notes on the Cacao plume moth in Honduras and description of the larvae and pupae (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 20 (1): 28-34.