My main interest is to study larvae of scarab beetles, mainly their morphology and, when possible, biology. The project on which I am working now is a modest attempt to try to clarify some obscure points of phylogeny within the superfamily Scarabaeoidea based on morphological characters of their immature stages (=larvae). Within this virtually endless general direction, I hope to be able to concentrate on larvae of the families Passalidae, Lucanidae, Geotrupidae, and Scarabaeidae (subfamily Scarabaeinae - dung beetles). All attempts would be made to rear in lab from field collected females still unknown larvae of the genus Glaresis, which now is considered to be the only member of its own family: Glaresidae, the sister-group of the rest of the. I started my work as a member of the University of Pretoria Scarab Research Group in October 2000 and, likely, would be here for a couple years.

Besides scarab larvae, I am interested with immature stages of other beetles, particularly those of the superfamily Staphylinoidea (rove beetles and allies).