Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity
3215 Hull Road
Gainesville, Florida 32611-2710
352-273-2018
kawahara@flmnh.ufl.edu
X: @DrAkito and @KawaharaLab
Collections & Programs
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity
Other Affiliations
UF Department of Entomology and Nematology
UF School of Natural Resources and Environment
Education
M.S. & Ph.D. in Entomology, University of Maryland
Research Interests
Insect evolution and diversity, phylogenomics, host-use evolution, biogeography
Publications
Recent Research News
Moths big and small are vanishing from southern U.S. cities
Insects of all stripes are in the midst of a vanishing act, a catastrophic sleight-of-hand occurring so rapidly that scientists…
Akito Kawahara named director of McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
The Florida Museum of Natural History has named Akito Kawahara as the new director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera…
Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America
About 100 million years ago, a group of trendsetting moths started flying during the day rather than at night, taking…
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