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Mercedes Delfinado

Mercedes D. Delfinado (born 16 January 1933) is a Filipino acarologist. She is a specialist in bee mites, and published widely on insects of south-east Asia. For over twenty years, she was a Chief Editor for the International Journal of Acarology. Multiple species were named in her honour. In 1962, Delfinado was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mercedes Delfinado
Born (1933-01-16) 16 January 1933 (age 91) [1]
Cabuyao, Laguna, Philippine Islands
NationalityFilipino
CitizenshipUnited States American
Alma materCornell University
University of Hawaiʻi
Known forThe study of bee mites
SpouseEdward W. Baker
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship

Biography edit

Delfinado was born in Cabuyao, Laguna on 16 January, 1933. She graduated with an Master of Science degree in entomology from Cornell University in 1960.[2][1] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 for her work on organisimic biology and ecology.[3] In 1966, she graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi with a PhD in acarology.[1] While there, she co-prepared a catalogue of Philippine diptera.[4][5] She married Edward W. Baker, also an acarologist, with whom she worked at the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Systematic Entomology Laboratory in Beltsville, building the collection there, and in 1999 expanding the premises to accommodate more researchers.[6]

While at the USDA, Delfinado specialised in the study of bees at the Beneficial Insects Laboratory.[7][8][9] This included the identification of the honey bee mite Acarapsis woodi and she was the first to report the presence of Melittiphis alvearius in the United States.[10] Heavily involved with the International Journal of Acarology, she was a Chief Editor for over twenty years until her retirement in 1999.[11] She and her husband retired to the Philippines,[12] and she established a research fellowship on mite taxonomy in his honour.[13]

Eponymous species edit

 
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Selected publications edit

  • Smiley, Robert L., W. Baker Edward, and Mercedes Delfinado Baker. "New species of Hypoaspis (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from the nest of a stingless bee in Malaysia (Hymenoptera: Meliponinae, Apidae)." Anales del Instituto de Biología serie Zoología 67.002 (1996).[18]
  • Delfinado-Baker, Mercedes, and Christine YS Peng. "Varroa jacobsoni and Tropilaelaps clareae: A perspective of life history and why Asian bee-mites preferred European honey bees." American bee journal (USA) (1995).
  • Delfinado, Mercedes D., and Edward W. Baker. "Varroidae, a new family of mites on honey bees (Mesostigmata: Acarina)." Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences (1974): 4–10.[19]
  • Delfinado, Mercedes O. "New species of shore flies from Hong Kong and Taiwan (Diptera: Canaceidae)." Oriental Insects 5.1 (1971): 117–123.[20]
  • Mercedes D. Delfinado, Notes on Philippine Black Flies (Diptera : Simuliidae), Journal of Medical Entomology, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1 May 1969, Pages 199–207[21]
  • Delfinado, Mercedes D. "Mites of the honeybee in South-East Asia." Journal of Apicultural Research 2.2 (1963): 113–114.[22]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Congress, The Library of. "Delfinado, Mercedes D. (Mercedes Delfino), 1933- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  2. ^ Appropriations, United States Congress House Committee on (1960). Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1961: The Judiciary, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  3. ^ "Mercedes D. Delfinado". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  4. ^ History, American Museum of Natural. The ... Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History.
  5. ^ Gagne, Raymond J. "A review of Felt’s Philippine genera and species of Cecidomyiidae (Diptera)." Pacific Insects 11.3-4 (1969): 561-570.
  6. ^ "Acarology news, national and international meetings". International Journal of Acarology. 25 (4): 342–343. 1999-12-01. doi:10.1080/01647959908684174. ISSN 0164-7954.
  7. ^ a b Corpuz-Raros, L.A. (1998-12-01). "Twelve new species and one new record of cheyletidae (Acari) from the Philippines". International Journal of Acarology. 24 (4): 259–290. doi:10.1080/01647959808683594. ISSN 0164-7954.
  8. ^ Houck, Marilyn A. (2012-12-06). Mites: Ecological and Evolutionary Analyses of Life-History Patterns. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4615-2389-5.
  9. ^ Lindquist, Evert E. (1989-03-24). "The Bee Situation: Africanized Honey Bees and Bee Mites". Science. 243 (4898): 1618–1619. doi:10.1126/science.243.4898.1618-a. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17847267. S2CID 5802172.
  10. ^ 110 years of biological control research and development in the United States Department of Agriculture : 1883-1993. National Agricultural Library U. S. Department of Agriculture. [Beltsville, MD?] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service ; Springfield, VA : Available from National Technical Information Service. 2000.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  11. ^ "Acarology news, national and international meetings". International Journal of Acarology. 25 (3): 239. 1999-09-01. doi:10.1080/01647959908684159. ISSN 0164-7954. S2CID 214653869.
  12. ^ "Acarology news, national and international meetings". International Journal of Acarology. 26 (3): 293. 2000-09-01. doi:10.1080/01647950008684202. ISSN 0164-7954. S2CID 214650513.
  13. ^ "Acarology news, national and international meetings". International Journal of Acarology. 23 (2): 143. 1997-06-01. doi:10.1080/01647959708683112. ISSN 0164-7954.
  14. ^ Baisas, Francisco Edlagan (1972). The Mosquito Fauna of Subic Bay Naval Reservation, Republic of the Philippines. Headquarters, First Medical Service Wing (PACAF).
  15. ^ Wirth, Willis Wagner; Hubert, Alexander A. (1989). The Culicoides of Southeast Asia (Diptera:Ceratopogonidae). American Entomological Institute. ISBN 978-1-56665-043-4.
  16. ^ C P Alexander (1973). New exotic crane-flies (Tipulidae: Diptera). Part XXIII.
  17. ^ A Hill; K L Deahl (1978). 2 New Species Of Tarsonemus (Acari Tarsonemidae) Associated With Commercial Mushroom Production.
  18. ^ Smiley, Robert L.; Edward, W. Baker; Baker, Mercedes Delfinado (1996). "New species of Hypoaspis (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from the nest of a stingless bee in Malaysia (Hymenoptera: Meliponinae, Apidae)". Anales del Instituto de Biología serie Zoología (in Spanish). 67 (2). ISSN 0368-8720.
  19. ^ Delfinado, M. D.; Baker, E. W. (1974). "Varroidae, A New Family of Mites on Honey Bees (Mesostigmata: Acarina)". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 64 (1): 4–10. ISSN 0043-0439. JSTOR 24535743.
  20. ^ Delfinado, Mercedes O. (1971-01-01). "New species of shore flies from Hong Kong and Taiwan (Diptera : Canaceidae)". Oriental Insects. 5 (1): 117–123. doi:10.1080/00305316.1971.10433997. ISSN 0030-5316.
  21. ^ Delfinado, Mercedes (1969). "Notes on Philippine Black Flies (Diptera : Simuliidae)". Journal of Medical Entomology. pp. 199–207. doi:10.1093/jmedent/6.2.199. PMID 5807862. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  22. ^ Delfinado, Mercedes D. (1963-01-01). "Mites of the Honeybee in South-East Asia". Journal of Apicultural Research. 2 (2): 113–114. doi:10.1080/00218839.1963.11100070. ISSN 0021-8839.
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