Matthew J Medeiros

 
 

My research focuses on:

  1. 1. Biogeography of cave and alpine Hawaiian Lepidoptera

  2. 2. Phylogenetics of cave and alpine Hawaiian Lepidoptera

  3. 3. Ecological correlates of insect flightlessness

  4. 4. Taxonomy of Thyrocopa (Lepidoptera: Xyloryctidae) and Schrankia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

  5. 5. Biomechanics of jumping in Thyrocopa (Lepidoptera: Xyloryctidae)

  6. 6. Taxonomy of Hyposmocoma (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae)


 

Research Interests


Ph.D., UC Berkeley.


The Landon School

and

The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

matt.j.medeiros@gmail.com


photo by B. Ploger