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Dr. Shen-Horn YEN
Present address:
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SE7 5BD, UKTel: +44 2075942370
Permanent address:
No.11, Alley 10, Lane 93, Shin-Nan Rd., Sect.1, Chung-Ho City, Taipei Hsien 235, TAIWAN

My e-newspaper about Lepidopterology: http://mypaper5.ttimes.com.tw/user/zygamann1/index.html (Traditional Chinese only)
My forum on Systematic Biology: http://tw.club.yahoo.com/clubs/Systbioforum/ (Traditional Chinese only)

Curriculum vitae

Born in November of 1971 in Tainan City of Taiwan.
B.Sc. of Department of Entomology, National Chung-Hsing University (Taichung, Taiwan).
M.Sc. of Institute of Biological Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
Thesis: Phylogenetic analyses of the major lineages of Nymphulinae and Musotiminae, with taxonomic revision on Taiwanese fauna (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae s.l.)
Now as Ph.D. student of Department of Biology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London. (Supervisors: Dr. Donald Quicke, Imperial College and Dr. Gaden Robinson, British Museum (Natural History)).
Thesis: Phylogenetic reconstruction of Chalcosiinae (Zygaenidae) of the world, with systematic revision on tribal and generic levels.
Major interests in Lepidoptera: phylogeny/evolution/biology/systematics of:
Primitive families: Micropterigidae, Paleosetidae, Neopseustidae
Monotrysian families: Adelidae
Lower ditrysian family groups: Zygaenoidea s.l. (especially Chalcosiinae, Procridinae and Phaudidae of Oriental/Indo-Australian Regions), Pyralidae s.l. (especially Acentropinae (=Nymphulinae) of Asia and Indo-Pacifics), Hyblaeidae, Thyrididae (Strigulininae)
Higher ditrysian family groups: Uraniidae (Epipleminae), Epicopeiidae, Callidulidae, Arctiidae (Syntominae), hybridization zone of Nymphalidae (Danainae) and Lycaenidae (Polymmatinae) along the archipelagos from the southwestern islands of Japan via Taiwan to the north of the Philippines.
Awards: on 9th January 2004 Dr. Shen-Horn YEN received the 5th R.J.H. Hintelmann Wissenschaftspreis für Zoologische Systematik for his thesis "Phylogenetic analyses of the major lineages of Nymphulinae and Musotiminae, with taxonomic revision on Taiwanese fauna (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae s.l.)". The award was presented in a ceremonial act in Zoologische Staatssammlung München organized by the museum's management and the "Freunde der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München e. V Society".

Present projects other than PhD's thesis:
  1. Morphology/Systematics of Phaudidae stat. nov. (with Dr. Clas M. Naumann and Dr. Harald Faenger, ZFMK, Germany)
  2. Revision on Zygaenidae (Chalcosiinae) of Sundaland (Borneo & Sumatra) (with Dr. Gerhard M. Tarmann, TLFA, Austria).
  3. Survey of Zygaenidae from Indo-Chinese Peninsula (with Mr. Thomas Witt, Munich, Germany)
  4. Revision on Artona-Clelea assemblage of Asia (Zygaenidae) (with Dr. Kostantin Efetov, Ukraine and Dr. Gerhard Tarmann, TLFA, Austria).
  5. Revision on "Herimba" flavilinea group (Thyrididae, Strigulininae) (with Dr. Dieter Stuening, ZFMK, Germany).
  6. An overall revision on Oriental/Indo-Australian Acentropinae and Musotiminae (with Dr. Wolfgang Speidel and Dr. Wolfram Mey, ZMHB, Germany)
  7. Revision on Nymphicula (Acentropinae) from Taiwan and its adjacent islets (with Dr. David Agassiz, Kenya).
  8. Revision on Atossa-Schistometra complex (Epicopeiidae) (with Dr. Dieter Stuening, ZFMK, Germany).
  9. Revision on Epipleminae of Asia (with Dr. Jeremy Holloway, NHM, UK, Dr. Hiroshi Inoue, Saitama, Japan, and Mr. Yong-Jeh Chen, NTU, Taiwan).
  10. Systematic position on Loepa species from Taiwan (Saturniidae) (with Dr. Wolfgang Naessig, SNG, Germany).
  11. Revision of Pterogonia Swinhoe, 1891 (Noctuidae) (with Mr. Yi-Bin Fang, TFRI, Taiwan).
  12. Handbook of insect species of CITES list (with Dr. Ping-Shih Yang, NTU, Taiwan).


Projects in propose:
  1. Population genetics and evolutionary trends of Idea leuconoe clara-complex (Danainae) based on morphometrical and molecular approaches (with Dr. Frank Yu-Feng Hsu, NTNU, Taiwan).
  2. Hibernating ecology of Agalopini (Zygaenidae, Chalcosiinae) in the Palaearctic Asia.
  3. Ecology of Primitive moths in Taiwan and adjacent areas
  4. Systematics of Syntominae of Taiwan and China (Arctiidae) (with Mr. Shih-Wei Loh, NTU, Taiwan)
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