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photo of a notodontid moth
Magulacra notodontoides

Patricia Gentili-Poole, Deputy Collections Manager

  • Phone:   202-633-1046
  • Fax:   202-786-3141
  • E-mail Address:   gentilip@si.edu
  • USPS Address:
    Smithsonian Institution
    PO Box 37012, MRC 105, Rm. E-522
    Washington, DC 20013-7012
  • Public Carrier Address:
    Smithsonian Institution
    National Museum of Natural History
    10th & Constitution NW
    Washington, DC 20560-0105
  • Education:
    BS in Zoology and PhD in Zoology, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Patricia Gentili-Poole

Duties and Interests:

A Museum Specialist since 1997, duties include the management of the Lepidoptera Collection with responsibility for the day-to-day operations of assigned projects, serves as contact for 16 families of Macro-Lepidoptera, and has a major involvement in the Lepidoptera e-types project.

Research interests include the systematics of the Cossoidea.

Publications:

DAVIS, D.R., P. GENTILI-POOLE and C. MITTER. 2008. A revision of the Cossulinae of Costa Rica and cladistic analysis of the world species (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154: 222-277.

GENTILI, P. 2004. Hepialidae pp: 4-6. Cossoidea pp: 91-93 In: Pastrana, J. A. Los Lepidópteros argentinos. Sus plantas hospedadoras y otros sustratos alimenticios. Braun, K.; G. Logarzo; H. A. Cordo & O. R. Di Iorio (coordinadores). Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, Buenos Aires. viii + 334 pp.

DAVIS, D.R. & P. GENTILI 2003. Andesianidae, a new family of monotrysian moths (Lepidoptera: Andesianoidea) from austral South America. Inv.Syst., 17:15-26.

SOLIS, M.A. & P. GENTILI 2000. A new species of Omiodes Guenée from South America (Pyraloidea: Crambidae). Jnl.Lep.Soc., 54(2):72-75.

EDWARDS, E.D., P. GENTILI, M. HORAK, N.P. KRISTENSEN & E.S. NIELSEN 1999. The Cossoid/Sesioid Assemblage pp:181-197 in: N.P.Kristensen (ed.) Handbook of Zoology. Vol.4 (Insecta) Lepidoptera.

GENTILI, P. & M.A. SOLIS 1998. Checklist and key of the New World species of Omiodes Guenée with descriptions of four new Costa Rican species (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Ent.scand., 28:471-492.

POOLE, R.W. & P. GENTILI (eds.) 1996-1997. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A Check List of the Insects of North America. 4 Volumes and 1 CD-ROM. Entomological Information Services. Rockville. 3,494 pp.

GENTILI, P. 1995. Revisión Sistemática del género Acousmaticus Butler, 1882 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Acta Ent.Chilena, 19:21-29.

GENTILI, P. 1989[1986]. Revisión Sistemática de los Cossidae (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia) de la Patagonia Andina. Rev.Soc.Ent.Arg., 45(1-3):3-75.

GENTILI, M. & P. GENTILI 1988. Lista comentada de los insectos asociados a las especies sudamericanas del género Nothofagus. Monogr.Acad.Nac.Cs.Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de Buenos Aires, 4:85-106.

GENTILI, P. 1988. Análisis de la distribución geográfica de Cossidae (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia) de la Patagonia Andina. Rev.Chil.Hist.Nat., 61:191-198.

GENTILI, P. 1983. Summary, in: The Ghost Moths of Southern South America (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) by E.S.Nielsen & G.Robinson. Entomonograph, 4:114-127, 186-187.

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