Marc E. Epstein

Marc E. Epstein (born 1955), U.S. entomologist.

• California Department of Food and Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832, USA.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 34 taxon names authored by Marc E. Epstein

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2000

• Corrales, J.F. & Epstein, M.E. 2000. New species in the New World Natada complex (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 48(2-3): 591-604. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2003

• Epstein, M.E. & Brown, J.W. 2003. Early stages of the enigmatic Prodidactis mystica (Meyrick) with comments on its new family assignment (Lepidoptera: Prodidactidae). Zootaxa 247: 1–16. Abstract & excerpt Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2004

• Epstein, M.E. & Corrales, J.F. 2004. Twenty-five new species of Costa Rican Limacodidae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea). Zootaxa 701: 1–86. Abstract & excerpt PDF. Reference page. 

2011

• van Nieukerken, E.J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I.J., Kristensen, N.P., Lees, D.C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J.C., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B.A., Brown, J.W., Bucheli, S.R., Davis, D.R., de Prins, J., de Prins, W., Epstein, M.C., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J.D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A.Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M.V., Lafontaine, J.D., Lamas, G., Landry, J-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K-T., Penz, C.M., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B.C., Sohn, J-C., Solis, M.A., Tarmann, G.M., Warren, A.D., Weller, S., Yaklovlev, R.V., Zolotuhin, V.V. & Zwick, A. 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 

2019

• Sohn, J.C. & Epstein, M.E. 2019. Atemelia casimiroae sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea: Praydidae): A new pest species on white sapote (Casimiroa edulis) in California, United States, reveals unique morphology of spinneret and ventral eversible gland. Zoologischer Anzeiger 279: 52–58. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2019.01.001 . Reference page. 

2024

• van Nieukerken, E.J., Davis, D.R., Swain, S.V. & Epstein, M.E. 2024. A new North American species of Etainia (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae), feeding on Arbutus and Arctostaphylos species (Ericaceae). ZooKeys 1193: 195–218. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1193.116982 Reference page. 

External links

• Staff page