Dr David Stuart Seldon
MSc Biology; Graduate Diploma of Secondary Teaching
Distinctions/Honours
2017 Vice Chancellor's Excellence Award for Excellence in Environmental Sustainability
https://www.sciencestaff.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news/news-2015/2015/09/green-literacy.html
Responsibilities
Course Coordinator BIOSCI 102 Plants, Microbes & Society
Tertiary Foundation Certificate Biology Tutor BIOSCI 94F and 95F
Course Coordinator BIOSCI 94F Foundation Biology I
Areas of expertise
Pure and Applied Entomology
Taxonomy and Systematics of Carabidae (Coleoptera)
Insect Ecology
Committees/Professional groups/Services
Hauturu (Little Barrier Island) Trust Science Advisory Board member
Department of Conservation, Coleoptera Threatened List Advisory Group
Fellow of the Linnean Society
Member of the Coleopterist's Society
Member of the New Zealand Entomological Society
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Seldon, D. S., & Holwell, G. (2019). Monteremita gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Carabidae), a new genus of ground beetle from New Caledonia. AUSTRAL ENTOMOLOGY, 58 (4), 724-728. 10.1111/aen.12422
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/52421
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Greg Holwell - Seldon F L S, D. S., & Buckley, T. R. (2019). The genus Mecodema Blanchard 1853 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini) from the North Island, New Zealand. Zootaxa, 4598 (1)10.11646/zootaxa.4598.1.1
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/48512
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Thomas Buckley - Veale, A. J., de Lange, P., Buckley, T. R., Cracknell, M., Hohaia, H., Parry, K., ... Tawiri, K. (2019). Using te reo Māori and ta re Moriori in taxonomy. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 43 (3)10.20417/nzjecol.43.30
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Thomas Buckley - Seldon, D. S. (2015). A unique species of Mecodema (Carabidae: Broscini) from the Hawke's Bay region, New Zealand, with implications for North–South Island zoogeography. New Zealand Entomologist, 38 (1), 28-35. 10.1080/00779962.2014.936105
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/24914 - Seldon, D. S., Leschen, R. A. B., & Liebherr, J. K. (2012). A new species of Mecodema (Carabidae: Broscini) from Northland, New Zealand, with notes on a newly observed structure within the female genitalia. NEW ZEALAND ENTOMOLOGIST, 35 (1), 39-50. 10.1080/00779962.2012.649707
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/12885
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Contact details
- +64 9 923 4929
- +64.9.923.4929
- d.seldon@auckland.ac.nz
- Media Contact
Primary office location
BIOLOGY BUILDING - Bldg 106
Level 1, Room 111C
5 SYMONDS ST
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand