Scholtens

Brian Scholtens

Professor

Education

M.S., Ph.D. - University of Michigan
B.A. - Central College

Research Interests

Plant-insect interactions and the faunistics and systematics of the Lepidoptera.

Courses Taught

BIOL 112: Evolution, Form and Function of Organisms
BIOL 152: Honors Biology
BIOL 211: Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation Biology
BIOL 338: Entomology

Honors & Awards

President, The Lepidopterists’ Society 2017-2019
President, South Carolina Entomological Society 2015-2016

Selected Publications

Scholtens, B. G. and J. Hayden. In press. Pyralidae, in G. Pohl (ed.), Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, north of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Hayden, J. and B. G. Scholtens. In press. Crambidae, in G. Pohl (ed.), Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, north of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Durden, L. A., J. A. Hyatt, B. G. Scholtens, and J. K. Adams. 2020. Butterfly biodiversity on Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA. Southeastern Naturalist 19: 90-102.

Jolls, C. L., J. N. Inkster, B. G. Scholtens, P. Vitt and K. Havens. 2019. An endemic plant and the plant-insect visitor network of a dune ecosystem. Global Ecology and Conservation 18 e00603: 1-11.

Culin, J. D., B. G. Scholtens and J. A. Snyder.  2018. Moth (Lepidoptera) diversity of Congaree National Park. Southeastern Naturalist 17 (Monograph 11): 1-78.

Scholtens, B. G. and M. Sabourin. 2016. Moths of the Douglas Lake region (Emmet and Cheboygan Counties), Michigan: VII. Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). Great Lakes Entomol. 49: 59-77.

Scholtens, B. G. and M. A. Solis. 2015. Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America north of America. Zookeys 535: 1-136.

Roe, A. D., T. J. Simonsen, B. G. Scholtens, F. A. H. Sperling, and S. J. Weller. 2015. Phycitinae phylogeny based on two genes, with implications for morphological trait evolution and Heinrich’s tribal classification (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). J. Lepid. Soc. 69: 157-172.

Solis, M. A., E. D. Cashatt, and B. G. Scholtens. 2013. New North American Chrysauginae (Pyralidae) described by E. D. Cashatt. Zookeys 344: 55-71.

Streby, H. M., S. M. Peterson, B. G. Scholtens, A. P. Monroe, and D. E. Andersen.  2013.  The ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) as a model for testing food value theory. Amer. Midl. Nat. 169: 214-220.