AUSBILDUNG

2017 – 2019
Master of Sciene in Biologie (Entomology), Staatliche Universität Paraná (Curitiba, Brazil): ‘Unexpected richness of genus Mitrapsylla (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Psyllidae) in Brazil’

2008 – 2016
Master of Sciene in Biologie, Nationale Universität Kolumbien (Bogotá, Colombia): ‘The jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea) from Colombia’

BERUFLICHE STATIONEN

2019 – 2020
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Nationale Insektensammlung (Colección Taxonómica Nacional de Insectos) “Luis María Murillo”, AGROSAVIA (Mosquera, Colombia)

2016
Forschungsasstistentin Entomolgische Museum UNAB, Nationale Universität Kolumbien (Bogotá, Colombia)

2013
Lehrassistentin Kurs ‘Entomologie’ Nationale Universität Kolumbien (Bogotá, Colombia)

WISSENSCHAFTLICHE INTERESSEN

Diversität, Phylogenie und Evolution der Psylliden (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)

PUBLIKATIONEN

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.