About Sam W. Heads
Sam W. Heads (born 22 April 1983 in Northumberland, England) is a British palaeontologist, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, as well as a former Officer and Editor-in-Chief at the Orthopterists' Society. He received his training at the University of Portsmouth where he was awarded a B.Sc. (Hons) in Palaeobiology and Evolution in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Entomology in 2009. Heads is an authority on the taxonomy, systematics and palaeontology of Orthoptera. He is based at the Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. First fossil record of Melanoplus differentialis (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae). First record of Scapteriscus abbreviatus from Belize (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae).
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