David A. Grimaldi

David Alan Grimaldi (born 1957), American entomologist.

• Curator, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, New York, 10024-5192, USA

IPNI standard form: D.Grimaldi

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 35 taxon names authored by David A. Grimaldi

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1991

• Grimaldi, D.A. 1991. Mycetobiine woodgnats (Diptera: Anisopodidae) from the Oligo-Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic, and Old World affinities. American Museum Novitates (3014): 1–24.

1998

• Michener, C.D. & Grimaldi, D.A. 1988. A Trigona from Late Cretaceous amber of New Jersey. American Museum Novitates no. 2917: 1-10.

1999

• Grimaldi, D.A. & Cumming, J.M. 1999. Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 239: 1–124. hdl: 2246/1583 . Reference page. 

2003

• Grimaldi D.A. 2003. A revision of Cretaceous mantises and their relationships, including new taxa (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Mantodea). American Museum Novitates 3412: pp. 1–47 pp., 27 figures, 3 tables. PDF. Reference page. 

2005

• Engel, M.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2005. Primitive new ants in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, New Jersey, and Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 3485: 1–24. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2005)485[0001:PNAICA]2.0.CO;2 Online. Reference page. 

2006

• Amorim, D. de S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2006. Valeseguyidae, a new family of Diptera in the Scatopsoidea, with a new genus in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. Systematic Entomology 31(3): 508–516. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00326.x . PDF. Reference page. 

2007

• Blagoderov, V., Grimaldi, D.A. & Fraser, N.C. 2007. How time flies for flies: Diverse Diptera from the Triassic of Virginia and early radiation of the Order. American Museum Novitates 3572: 39 pp. hdl: 2246/5854 . Reference page. 

2010

• Chatzimanolis, S., Engel, M.S., Newton, A.F. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2010. New ant-like stone beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Cretaceous research 31(1): 77–84. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.009 Reference page. 

2011

• Grimaldi, D.A., Arillo, A., Cumming, J.M. & Hauser, M. 2011. Brachyceran Diptera (Insecta) in Cretaceous ambers, part IV, significant new orthorrhaphous taxa. ZooKeys 148: 293–332. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.148.1809 Reference page. 

2012

• Chatzimanolis, S., Grimaldi, D.A., Engel, M.S. & Fraser, N.C. 2012. Leehermania prorova, the earliest staphyliniform beetle, from the Late Triassic of Virginia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). American Museum Novitates 3761: 1–28. DOI: 10.1206/3761.2 . hdl: 2246/6393 . Reference page. 

2014

• Engel, M.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2014. Whipspiders (Arachnida: Amblypygi) in amber from the Early Eocene and mid-Cretaceous, including maternal care. Novitates paleoentomologicae 9: 1–17. DOI: 10.17161/np.v0i9.4765 Reference page. 
• Parker, J. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2014. Specialized myrmecophily at the ecological dawn of modern ants. Current Biology 24(20): 2428–2434. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.068 Reference page. 

2016

• Barden, P. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2016. Adaptive radiation in socially advanced stem-group ants from the Cretaceous. Current Biology 26: 515–521. DOI: :10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.060. Reference page. 
• Borkent, A. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2016. The Cretaceous Fossil Burmaculex antiquus Confirmed as the Earliest Known Lineage of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Zootaxa 4079(4): 457–466. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4079.4.7 Full article (PDF).Reference page. 

2017

• Barden, P., Herhold, H.W. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2017. A new genus of hell ants from the Cretaceous (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) with a novel head structure. Systematic Entomology 42(4): 837–846. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12253

2018

• Borkent, A., Brown, B.V., Adler, P.H., Amorim, D. de S., Barber, K.N., Bickel, D.J., Boucher, S., Brooks, S.E., Burger, J., Burington, Z.L., Capellari, R.S., Costa, D.N.R., Cumming, J.M., Curler, G., Dick, C.W., Epler, J.H., Fisher, E., Gaimari, S.D., Gelhaus, J., Grimaldi, D.A., Hash, J., Hauser, M., Hippa, H., Ibáñez-Bernal, S., Jaschhof, M., Kameneva, E.P., Kerr, P.H., Korneyev, V., Korytkowski, C.A., Kung, G-A., Kvifte, G.M., Lonsdale, O., Marshal, S.A., Mathis, W.N., Michelsen, V., Naglis, S., Norrbom, A.L., Paiero, S.M., Pape, T., Pereira-Colavite, A., Pollet, M., Rochefort, S., Rung, A., Runyon, J., Savage, J., Silva, V.C., Sinclair, B.J., Skevington, J.H., Stireman, J.O. III, Swann, J., Vilkamaa, P., Wheeler, T., Whitworth, T.L., Wong, M.A., Wood, D.M., Woodley, N.E., Yau, T., Zavortnik, T.J. & Zumbado, M.A. 2018. Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science. Zootaxa 4402(1): 53–90. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4402.1.3. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2019

• Brooks, S.E., Cumming, J.M. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2019. Remarkable new fossil species of Schistostoma Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Microphorinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4624(1): 121–131. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.1.8 Reference page. 

2021

• Wood, H.M., Singh, H. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2021. Another Laurasian connection in the Early Eocene of India: Myrmecarchaea spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae). Zookeys 1071ː 49–61. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1071.72515 Reference page.