Julian Bueno Villegas
Predoctoral Fellow
The Field Museum of Natural History
Department of Zoology - Insects
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605
jbueno@fieldmuseum.org

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Education:

B. S. Universidad Veracruzana (Veracruz, Mexico)

Doctoral Student, Systematic Program, Instituto de Ecologia, A. C. (Xalapa, Veracruz). Currently enrolled

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Research Interests:

I am interested in the systematics and biogeography of the millipede order Polydesmida, specifically the families Sphaeriodesmidae, Xystodesmidae, Rhachodesmidae and Chelodesmidae.

My doctoral research has as its primary focus the phylogeny and biogeography of the Sphaeriodesmus genus. This genus is distributed from north of Mexico to Panama, and is also found on the Caribbean Islands of Cuba and Jamaica. I am particularly interested in learning about what major vicariant events have shaped the phylogenetic relationships among its species. I am using both morphological and molecular characters to examine Sphaeriodesmus phylogeny.

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Publications:

Bueno-Villegas, J. 1996. Estudio faunistico de los diplopodos del suelo en la estacion de biologia tropical Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. Tesis.

Bueno-Villegas, J. & Rojas, F. P. 1999. Fauna de milpies (Arthropoda: Diplopoda) edaficos de una selva alta de Los Tuxtlas, Ver. Mexico. Acta Zool. Mex. (n.s.), 76: 59-83.

Bueno-Villegas, J. In press. Los Diplopodos del suelo en la selva alta de los Tuxtlas.