David Grimaldi (entomologist)


David A. Grimaldi is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect systematics, paleontology, and evolutionary biology.
Dr. Grimaldi is also an adjunct professor at Cornell University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York.
Aside from numerous papers in some of the leading scientific journals, Grimaldi is author of Amber: Window to the Past, and of Evolution of the Insects with co-author Michael S. Engel.

Honors and awards

Some of Dr. Grimaldi's scientific honors include:
The following are a few of the numerous species that have been proposed in honor of Dr. Grimaldi:
  1. Halitheres grimaldii Giribet & Dunlop
  2. Palaeoburmesebuthus grimaldii Lourenço
  3. Ambradolon grimaldii Metz
  4. Cubanoptila grimaldii Wichard
  5. Ctenoplectrella grimaldii Engel
  6. Afrarchaea grimaldii Penney
  7. Plectromerus grimaldii Nearns & Branham
  8. Glabellula grimaldii Evenhuis
  9. Euliphora grimaldii Arillo & Mostovski
  10. Phyloblatta grimaldii Vršanský
  11. Glyptotermes grimaldii Engel & Krishna
  12. Burmadactylus grimaldii Heads
  13. Grimaldinia Popov & Heiss