ROBERT E. ROUGHLEY (1950-2009)TRIBUTE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

摘要

Rob was an authority on water beetles, especially the Dytiscidae, and spent much of his professional life at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He completed his B.Sc. (Agr.) in Entomology in the Department of Environmental Biology at the University of Guelph in 1974. He was part of the cadre of young entomologists, inspired by Dave Pengelly, who emerged from Guelph at about that time. While an undergraduate student, Rob spent two summers at the Agriculture Canada Research Station in Harrow, Ontario,where he worked on insect pathology with Bob Jaques, and with Bill Elliott on aphids on Vegetable crops. It was perhaps during the time he spent with Bill Elliott, and the following summer on Dave Pengelly's field crew to replenish the ravaged Natural History of Insects collection, that Rob became fascinated by taxonomy and systematics. Rob stayed on at Guelph to revise the genus Hydaticus (Dytiscidae) for his M.Sc. (1976), which involved spending some of his time working at the Canadian National Collection in Ottawa. Rob went to the University of Alberta for his Ph.D. under the supervision of George Ball; his thesis research was a revision of the genus Dytiscus, using characters from adults and immature stages. In 1982, even before he defended his Ph.D. thesis, he accepted a faculty position in the Department of Entomology at the University of Manitoba. For the next year, he worked day and night to complete his Ph.D. thesis, which he defended in 1983.