Sam W. Heads

Sam W. Heads
Born (1983-04-22) 22 April 1983 (age 43)
Northumberland, England
EducationUniversity of Portsmouth Ph.D, 2009; B.Sc. (Hons), 2004
OccupationsPaleontologist, Entomologist
SpouseTina Louise Heads
Scientific career
WorkplacesUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2009–
University of Portsmouth 2001–2009
Dr David M. Martill (University of Portsmouth)
Other academic advisors
Prof. Dr. Paul A. Selden (University of Kansas)

Sam W. Heads (born 22 April 1983 in Ashington Northumberland, England) is a British palaeontologist, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, as well as a former Officer and Editor-in-Chief at the Orthopterists' Society.

He received his training at the University of Portsmouth where he was awarded a B.Sc. (Hons) in Palaeobiology and Evolution in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Entomology in 2009. Heads is an authority on the taxonomy, systematics and palaeontology of Orthoptera. He is based at the Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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References

  1. ↑ "North East scientist explores 20-million year old world". Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Orthopterists' Society". 140.247.119.138. Archived from the original on 13 August 2006. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  3. ↑ "The Orthopterists' Society". 140.247.119.138. Archived from the original on 13 August 2006. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  4. ↑ "Sam W. Heads, Ph.D., FLS". Retrieved 27 April 2026.
  5. ↑ Heads, Sam W.; Wang, Yinan (May 2013). "First Fossil Record of Melanoplus differentialis (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae)". Entomological News. 123 (1): 33–37. doi:10.3157/021.123.0108. ISSN 0013-872X. S2CID 84197628.
  6. ↑ Heads, Sam W.; Taylor, Steven J.; Krejca, Jean K. (October 2013). "First Record of Scapteriscus abbreviatus from Belize (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae)". Entomological News. 123 (3): 241–244. doi:10.3157/021.123.0311. ISSN 0013-872X. S2CID 86079147.
  7. ↑ Hollier, John; Heads, Sam William (March 2014). "The type specimens of Orthoptera described by American entomologists in the collection of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 121 (1): 63–76. ISSN 0035-418X.
  8. ↑ Barling, Nathan; Heads, Sam W.; Martill, David M. (1 October 2013). "A new parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil: The first Mesozoic Pteromalidae". Cretaceous Research. 45: 258–264. Bibcode:2013CrRes..45..258B. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.05.001. ISSN 0195-6671.
  9. ↑ "An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 5: Grylloidea | Request PDF". ResearchGate. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  10. ↑ Jepson, James E.; Heads, Sam W.; Makarkin, Vladimir N.; Ren, Dong (2013). "New fossil mantidflies (Insecta: Neuroptera: Mantispidae) from the Mesozoic of north-eastern China". Palaeontology. 56 (3): 603–613. Bibcode:2013Palgy..56..603J. doi:10.1111/pala.12005. ISSN 1475-4983. S2CID 55218976.
  11. ↑ Heads, Sam W.; Penney, David; Green, David I. (22 October 2012). "A new fossil cricket of the genus Proanaxipha in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Pentacentrinae)". ZooKeys (229): 111–118. Bibcode:2012ZooK..229..111H. doi:10.3897/zookeys.229.3678. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3494006. PMID 23166475.
  12. ↑ Fuente, Ricardo Pérez-de La; Heads, Sam W.; Hinojosa-Díaz, Ismael A.; Engel, Michael S. (January 2012). "The first record of Protogryllinae from the Jurassic of India (Orthoptera: Protogryllidae)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 85 (1): 53–58. doi:10.2317/JKES111103.1. ISSN 0022-8567. S2CID 83496373.
  13. ↑ "An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type specimens housed in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 1: The Tridactyloidea (Caelifera) | Request PDF". ResearchGate. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  14. ↑ "New mole crickets of the genus Scapteriscus Scudder from Colombia (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae; Scapteriscinae)". ResearchGate. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  15. ↑ Heads, Sam; Taylor, Steven (2 October 2012). "A new species of Ripipteryx from Belize with a key to the species of the Scrofulosa Group (Orthoptera, Ripipterygidae)". ZooKeys (169): 1–8. Bibcode:2012ZooK..169....1H. doi:10.3897/zookeys.169.2531. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3278811. PMID 22371682.
  16. ↑ Heads, Sam; Leuzinger, Léa (26 January 2011). "On the placement of the Cretaceous orthopteran Brauckmannia groeningae from Brazil, with notes on the relationships of Schizodactylidae (Orthoptera, Ensifera)". ZooKeys (77): 17–30. Bibcode:2011ZooK...77...17H. doi:10.3897/zookeys.77.769. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3088056. PMID 21594149.
  17. ↑ Günther, Kurt K. (22 April 2008). "Die Tridactyloidea-Fauna Kolumbiens (Orthoptera, Caelifera) 'The Tridactyloidea of Colombia (Orthoptera, Caelifera)'". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 41 (1): 1–56. doi:10.1002/mmnd.19940410102. ISSN 1435-1951.
  18. ↑ Ricardo., Gómez L. de Guevara (1992). Estudio faunístico y ecológico de los caelifera (orthoptera, insecta) de la Sierra del Taibilla (Albacete). Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. ISBN 84-88255-11-X. OCLC 435378980.
  19. ↑ Heads, Sam W. (2010). "A new species of Ripipteryx from the Ecuadorian Andes (Orthoptera: Tridactyloidea: Ripipterygidae)". Zootaxa. 2476: 23–29. doi:10.5281/zenodo.195303.
  20. ↑ "The first fossil spider cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Phalangopsinae)". Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  21. ↑ Heads, Sam W.; Maehr, Michael D. (20 October 2009). "Proposed conservation of the name Gastrimargus Saussure, 1884 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) threatened by an unused senior homonym". Zootaxa. 2268 (1): 65–68–65–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2268.1.6. ISSN 1175-5334.
  22. ↑ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  23. ↑ Song, Hojun; Amédégnato, Christiane; Cigliano, María Marta; Desutter Grandcolas, Laure; Heads, Sam W.; Huang, Yuan; Otte, Daniel; Whiting, Michael F. (2015). "300 million years of diversification: elucidating the patterns of orthopteran evolution based on comprehensive taxon and gene sampling". Cladistics. 31 (6): 621–651. doi:10.1111/cla.12116. hdl:11336/10677. ISSN 0748-3007. PMID 34753270. S2CID 53702892.
  24. ↑ "The enigmatic Mesozoic insect taxon Chresmodidae (Polyneoptera): New …". archive.ph. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  25. ↑ Heads, Sam; Martill, David; Loveridge, Bob (2008). "Palaeoentomological paradise: the Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil". Antenna, Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society. 32 (2): 91–98. ISSN 0140-1890.
  26. ↑ "New Records of the Slender Ground-hopper Tetrix subulata from Yorkshire (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) - Research Database, The University of York". pure.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  27. ↑ Heads, Sam W.; Taylor, Steve; Swanson, Daniel R.; Thomas, Michael J. (30 January 2015). "Regional biodiversity of terrestrial Heteroptera and Orthoptera in southwestern Illinois". Technical Report Inhs 2015 (04).