EDUCATION

2017 – 2019
MSc in Biological Sciences (Entomology), Federal University of Paraná (Curitiba, Brazil): ‘Unexpected richness of genus Mitrapsylla (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Psyllidae) in Brazil’

2008 – 2016
BSc in Biology, National University of Colombia, (Bogotá, Colombia): ‘The jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea) from Colombia’

CAREER

2019 – 2020
Research support professional at the National Collection of Insects (Colección Taxonómica Nacional de Insectos) “Luis María Murillo”, AGROSAVIA (Mosquera, Colombia)

2016
Research assistant at the Entomological Museum UNAB, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)

2013
Undergraduate teaching assistant for the course ‘Entomology’ at the National University of Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Diversity, phylogeny and evolution of psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)

PUBLICATIONS

Rendón-Mera, Diana Isabel; Burckhardt, Daniel; Cavichioli, Rodney R.; Queiroz, Dalva L. Taxonomy and host-plant relationships of the psyllid genus Mitrapsylla (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Psyllidae) in Brazil. Zootaxa 4887(1):001–100.

Martins, André L.; Domahovski, Alexandre C.; Rendón-Mera, Diana Isabel. Sexual association and cicadellid hosts of Dryinidae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea): description of five new species from Brazil and a synopsis of the interaction with Gyponini (Hemiptera, Membracoidea). Insect Systematics & Evolution, 1–34.

Mejdalani, Gabriel; Domahovski, Alexandre C.; Rendón-Mera, Diana I.; Cavichioli, Rodney R. 2019. Tretogonia Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Proconiini): two new species from South Brazil and a description of T. dentalis Emmrich, 1988. European Journal of Taxonomy, 513: 1–14.

Cavichioli, Rodney R.; Rendón-Mera, Diana I.; Domahovski, Alexandre C.; Mejdalani, Gabriel. 2018. Three new Brazilian species of the sharpshooter genus Geitogonalia Young (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini). Zootaxa, 4531 (4), 578–588.

Rendón-Mera, Diana Isabel; Serna, Francisco; Burckhardt, Daniel. 2017. Generic synopsis of the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea) from Colombia. Zootaxa, 4350 (3), 436–468.