• Ph.D., Entomology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2013
• M.S., Entomology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2007
• B.S., Science Agriculture, Universidad Agraria La Molina-Peru, 1998

Insect taxonomy and systematics, insect vector of plant diseases and insect host plant resistance.

After receiving a B.S. on studying the biology and morphology of a Lepidoptera moth pest on asparagus from the University Agrarian La Molina, Lagos-Kutz moved to Champaign, Illinois in 2001 to work as intern at the Illinois Natural History Survey under the supervision of John Shaw and Dr. David Voegtlin. Lagos-Kutz became Voegtlin’s entomology graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying the systematics of the genus Aphis (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the USA Midwest. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2013, Lagos-Kutz worked as a postdoc at the USDA unit in Urbana, Illinois under the supervision of USDA emeritus, Dr. Glen Hartman.   

An Interactive Key to Aphis in Midwestern United States of America

US Midwest Suction Trap Network

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Lee H, Hodgson E, Lagos-Kutz DM, Hennessy D. 2025. Soybean Aphid and Changing Pesticide Use in Iowa. 2025. Agricultural Policy Review 2025 (3): 18-21 Available at https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/bf09258a-30df-4fd4-939d-985b693b493b

Lagos-Kutz D, Seiter NJ, Tilmon K, McMechan AJ, Hartman GL, Clough SJ, Molano-Flores B, Crossley MS. 2025. Monitoring Eastern flower thrips and soybean thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and the generalist predator, insidious flower bug (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) in the American Midwest Suction Trap Network, Environmental Entomology, nvaf102, https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaf102

Lagos-Kutz DM, Plasencia I, Dietrich CH, LaForest J, McCornack B, Hodgson E, Villanueva R, Seiter NJ, Clough SJ. 2025. First Report of Corn Leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in the USA Midwest Suction Trap Network. Insecta Mundi. Insecta Mundi 1110:1-10. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2620&context=insectamundi

Thekke-Veetil T, Lagos-Kutz DM, Domier LL, McCoppin NK, Hartman GL, Clough SJ. 2024. Exploring virus diversity in the potato leafhopper (Empoasca fabae), an economically important agricultural pest. Viruses. 16. Article 1305. 

Lagos-Kutz DM, Clark RB, Seiter N, Clough SJ, Hartman GL, Crossley M. 2024. Tracking flight activity of potato leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with the Midwest Suction Trap Network. Environmental Entomology, nvae023. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27167375 

Lagos-Kutz DM, Pawlowski ML, Han J, Hartman GL, Clough S. 2023. Reduction in Productivity of Soybean Plants Infested with Neohyadatothrips variabilis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) With and Without Soybean Vein Necrosis Virus. Phyotparasitica 51: 437-445.

Diers BW, Lagos-Kutz DM, Schultz SJ, Cary T, Wang D, Hartman GL. 2023. Registration of 64 Soybean germplasm lines with all combinations of five soybean aphid resistance genes in two genetic backgrounds. Journal of Plant Registrations 17: 416-425.    

Lagos-Kutz DM, Troutman R, Hartman GL. 2022. New records of invasive aphids (Hemiptera:Aphididae) on garlic mustard in the USA. Insecta Mundi 945:1-5. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/1447/ 

Crossley MS, Lagos-Kutz DM, Davis TS, Eigenbrode SD, Hartman GL, Voegtlin DJ, Snyder WE. 2022. Precipitation change accentuates or reverses temperature effects on aphid dispersal. Ecological Applications 32 (5): e2593. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27167375 

Lagos-Kutz D, DiFonzo C, Hartman GL. 2021. New records of aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on hemp found in the Midwest USA. The Great Lake Entomologist 52: 193-199. https://doi.org/10.22543/0090-0222.2406 

Thekke-Veetil T, Lagos-Kutz D, McCoppin NK, Hartman GL, Ju H, Lim H, Domier LL. 2020. Soybean thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) harbor highly diverse populations of arthropod, fungal and plant viruses. Viruses 12:1376 https://doi.org/10.3390/v12121376

Lagos-Kutz D, Voegtlin DJ, Onstad D, Hogg D, Ragsdale D, Tilmon K, Hodgson E, DiFonzo C, Groves R, Krupke C, LaForest J, Seiter NJ, Duerr E, Bradford B, Hartman GL. 2020. The soybean aphid suction trap network: Sampling the aerobiological “Soup”. American Entomologist 66:48-55. https://doi-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/10.1093/ae/tmaa009 

Lagos-Kutz D, Potter B, DiFonzo C, Russell H, Hartman GL. 2018. Two aphid species, Phorodon cannabis and Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale, identified as potential pests on industrial hemp, Cannabis sativa L., in the US Midwest. Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management 4:180032.  

Keough S., Danielson, J., Marshall, J.M., Lagos-Kutz, D., Voegtlin, D.J., R. Srinivasan, R., Nachappa, P. 2018. Factors affecting population dynamics of thrips vectors of soybean vein necrosis virus. Environmental Entomology 47:734-740.    

Bahlai CA, Schaafsma AW, Lagos DM, Voegtlin DJ, Smith JL, Welsman JA, Xue Y, DiFonzo C, Hallett RH. 2014. Factors inducing migratory forms of soybean aphid and an examination of North American spatial dynamics of this species in the context of migratory behavior. Agriculture and Forest Entomology 16: 240-250.