Catherine Sole Explained

Catherine Lynne Sole
Birth Date:January 1978
Workplaces:University of Pretoria
Alma Mater:BSc (University of Pretoria)BSc (honours) Entomology (University of Pretoria) PhD Entomology (University of Pretoria)

Catherine Lynne Sole is a South African entomologist. She leads the Invertebrate Biosystematics and Conservation Group (IBCG) in the department of zoology and entomology at the University of Pretoria.[1] [2]

Sole completed her PhD in entomology in 2005, followed by post docs in Prof Scholtz’s group and she was appointed in 2013 as a senior lecturer in the department, promoted to associate professor in 2016 and to full professor in 2023. Sole has contributed significantly to the understanding of scarabaeoid (dung beetle) and nemopterid (lacewing) systematics at both a local and international level.[3] Sole is one of the African coordinators of the CGSG – Conservation Genetics specialist group,[4] which provides advice on genetic policy and management for the IUCN. Sole is as well associated with the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI).

Research interests

Her general research interest and approach is driven by the power of molecular techniques in testing evolutionary processes at various levels: population, species, and higher taxa; finding common evolutionary patterns in different taxa that reflect landscape and phylogenetic changes; and linking them to climatic, biogeographic and geological changes. Sole has presented at national and international conferences, one of which was an invited presentation for International Congress of Entomology, ICE2012 in South Korea.[5] Sole is also the Chair of ICE 2008, a spin-off of the ICE 2008 in South Africa,[6] promoting entomology in Africa.

Sole serves on the editorial board for Scientific Reports[7]  and Frontiers in Insect Science.[8]

Sole has over 80 publications,[9] received a rating form the NRF[10] and has contributed two book chapters in ‘Honeybees of Asia’ and a single chapter in the book, “Bat evolution, ecology and conservation”; published by Springer.

The beetle Macroderes soleiana (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) is named after Sole “in recognition of her leadership and her molecular work on the African dung beetles, lacewings and Baboon spiders”.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UP University of Pretoria . 2023-08-11 . www.up.ac.za.
  2. Web site: Prof Catherine Sole - Staff Profile University of Pretoria . 2023-08-12 . www.up.ac.za.
  3. Web site: ORCID . 2023-08-11 . orcid.org.
  4. Web site: Who We Are - . 2023-11-20 . en-US.
  5. Web site: [//edunabi.com/~ice2012/download/Scientific_Program_for_ICE_2012_2012-1-10ver.pdf Program of ICE 2012 ]. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230826154540///http://edunabi.com/~ice2012/download/Scientific_Program_for_ICE_2012_2012-1-10ver.pdf . 26 August 2023.
  6. Rostrum ESSA . Rostrum: Newsletter of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa . 2004 . 64.
  7. Web site: Editors Scientific Reports . 2023-08-11 . www.nature.com . en.
  8. Web site: Loop Catherine Sole . 2023-08-11 . loop.frontiersin.org.
  9. Web site: Research Gate Catherine L. Sole . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230610092642/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine-Sole . 10 June 2023 . Research Gate.
  10. Web site: Current rated researchers . National Research Foundation of South Africa.
  11. Abdalla . Ishtiag H. . Deschodt . Christian M. . Scholtz . Clarke H. . Sole . Catherine L. . 2018-10-23 . An update to the taxonomy of the genus Macroderes Westwood 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with descriptions of new species from South Africa . Zootaxa . 4504 . 1 . 41–75 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.1.3 . 30486035 . 54121694 . 1175-5334.