Cynthia Chan

Cynthia has a background in heteropteran (true bug) taxonomy and over eight years of experience working in natural history collections in Sydney. She joined the Australian Museum in 2023 as a Technical Officer in Mammalogy conducting inventory and rehousing of microbats and rodents. Cynthia is now working in the Entomology department, curating beetles in preparation for digitisation. As a Digitising Technical Officer, she also produces high-resolution composited images of type specimens that illustrate diagnostic features critical for species description and systematic research.

• Bachelor of Science, Honours (First Class) in Taxonomy and Systematics, University of New South Wales. Thesis: “Taxonomy of the plant bug tribe Saturniomirini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea: a phylogenetic analysis, and the description of one new genus and ten new species”.

• Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) National Taxonomy Research Grant Program (NTRGP)

• Reid C, Chan C. 2025. Two new Trogossitidae from Oceanic Islands in the Southwestern Pacific (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Annales Zoologici (Warszawa) 75(1): 353-368. https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.1.015
• Chan C, Cassis G. 2019. Taxonomy of the plant bug tribe Saturniomirini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea: a phylogenetic analysis, and the description of one new genus and ten new species. Insect Systematics & Evolution 51:5, 889–999. https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00001012