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Publications (46)      

1. Berry, Terry R. & Simon van Noort. 2016 Review of Afrotropical Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), with description of nine new species ZooKeys 640: 103-137.
2. Berry, Terry R. & Simon van Noort. 2020 Revision of the endemic Afrotropical genus Tetractenion (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with an identification key to genera of Banchinae for the region ZooKeys: 49-84.
3. Braet, Yves, Simon van Noort & Rebecca N. Kittel. 2014 New species of the “rare” genera Dentigaster Zettel, 1990 and Odontosphaeropyx Cameron, 1910 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae: Cheloninae) Austral Entomology.
4. Buffington, Matthew L. & Simon van Noort. 2007 A world revision of the Pycnostigminae (Cynipoidea: Figitidae) with descriptions of seven new species. Zootaxa 1392: 1-30.
5. Buffington, Matthew L. & Simon van Noort. 2009 A revision of Anacharoides Cameron, 1904 (Hymenoptera, Figitidae) with a description of a new species ZooKeys 20: 245-274.
6. Buffington, Matthew L. & Simon van Noort. 2012 Revision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea, Liopteridae) ZooKeys 202: 1-154.
7. Burks, Roger, Mircea-Dan Mitroiu, Lucian Fusu, John M. Heraty, Petr Janšta, Steve Heydon, Natalie D.-S. Papilloud, Ralph S. Peters, Ekaterina V. Tselikh, James B. Woolley, Simon van Noort, Hannes Baur, Astrid Cruaud, Christopher Darling, Michael Haas, Paul Hanson, Lars Krogmann & Jean-Yves Rasplus. 2022 From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 94: 13-88.
8. Cruaud, Astrid, Roula Jabbour-Zahab, Gwenaëlle Genson, Finn Kjellberg, Noppol Kobmoo, Simon van Noort, Yang Da-Rong, Peng Yan-Qiong, Rosichon Ubaidillah, Paul Hanson, Otilene Santos-Mattos, Fernando H. A. Farache & Rodrigo A. S. Pereira. 2011 Phylogeny and evolution of life-history strategies in the Sycophaginae non-pollinating fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) BMC Evolutionary Biology 11(178): 15pp.
9. Dal Pos, Davide, Brandon R. Claridge, Erich Diller, Simon van Noort & Filippo Di Giovanni. 2023 Still counting: new records, nomenclatural notes, and three new species of Phaeogenini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) from the Afrotropical region European Journal of Taxonomy 868: 1-71.
10. Hopkins, Tapani, Heikki Roininen, Simon van Noort, Gavin R. Broad, Kari M. Kaunisto & Ilari E. Sääksjärvi. 2019 Extensive sampling and thorough taxonomic assessment of Afrotropical Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) reveals two new species and demonstrates the limitations of previous sampling efforts ZooKeys 878: 33-71.
11. Johnson, Norman & Simon van Noort. 2009 New species of the plesiomorphic genus Nixonia Masner (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae, Scelioninae) from South Africa ZooKeys 20: 31-51.
12. Johnson, Norman, Lubomír Masner, Luciana Musetti, Simon van Noort, K. Rajmohana, D. Christopher Darling, Antonia Guidotti & Andrew Polaszek. 2008 Revision of world species of the genus Heptascelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae) Zootaxa 1776: 1-51.
13. Lahey, Zachary, Simon van Noort, Andrew Polaszek, Lubomír Masner & Norman Johnson. 2019 Revision of the Afrotropical genus Pulchrisolia Szabó (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae: Sceliotrachelinae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 73: 39-71.
14. Maquart, P. O., P. Rousse & Simon van Noort. 2014 Revision of the Afrotropical genus Phorotrophus Saussure, 1892 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae), with descriptions of eight new species African Natural History 10: 57-117.
15. Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, Jean-Yves Rasplus & Simon van Noort. 2024 New genera of Afrotropical Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera: Cerocephalidae, Epichrysomallidae, Pirenidae and Pteromalidae) PeerJ 12: e16798.
16. Olmi, Massimo, Robert S. Copeland & Simon van Noort. 2019 Dryinidae of the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) Zootaxa 4630(1): 1–619.
17. Olmi, Massimo, Simon van Noort & Adalgisa Guglielmino. 2016 Contribution to the knowledge of Afrotropical Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera), with description of new species from Central African Republic and Uganda ZooKeys 578: 45-95.
18. Owen, C. A., J. A. Coetzee & Simon van Noort. 2014 Distributional range of the South African maritime spider-egg parasitoid wasp, Echthrodesis lamorali (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae: Scelioninae) African Invertebrates 55(2): 323–332.
19. Polašek, Ozren, Ikechukwu Onah, Tope Kehinde, Verónica Rojo, Simon van Noort & James M. Carpenter. 2025 Revision of the mainland African species of the Old World social wasp genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville 1831 (Hymenoptera; Vespidae) Zootaxa 5626(1): 001-142.
20. Quicke, Donald L. J., Simon van Noort, Avinjikkattuu P. Ranjith, A. L. L. Friedman, Hans Mejlon & Buntika A. Butcher. 2024 Revision of Trigastrotheca Cameron (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae) with descriptions of 13 new species ZooKeys 1205: 115-167.
21. Reynolds, Terry & Simon van Noort. 2023 Two new species of the genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae) with an updated key to African species Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96: 667-696.
22. Rousse, Pascal & Simon van Noort. 2013 Revision of the Afrotropical Lycorininae (Ichneumonidae; Hymenoptera) with description of a new species from South Africa Zootaxa 3666(2): 252-266.
23. Rousse, Pascal & Simon van Noort. 2014 Belesica madiba and Cremastus tutui (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), two entomological gems from South Africa Zootaxa 3795(2): 161–173.
24. Rousse, Pascal & Simon van Noort. 2014 A review of the Afrotropical Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) with description of five new species European Journal of Taxonomy(91): 1-42.
25. Rousse, Pascal & Simon van Noort. 2014 Afrotropical Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae): an update of Gauld and Mitchell’s revision, including two new species and an interactive matrix identification key ZooKeys 456: 59-73.
Rousse, Pascal & Simon van Noort. 2014 Revision of the Afrotropical Lycorininae (Ichneumonidae; Hymenoptera) II. Three new Lycorina species and additional distribution records Zootaxa 3884(3): 222–234.
Rousse, Pascal & Simon van Noort. 2015 Revision of the Afrotropical species of Pristomerus (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), with descriptions of 31 new species European Journal of Taxonomy(124): 1-129.
Rousse, Pascal, Gavin R. Broad & Simon van Noort. 2016 Review of the genus Genaemirum Heinrich (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) with interactive identification keys to species ZooKeys 636: 77-105.
Rousse, Pascal, Simon van Noort & E. Diller. 2013 Revision of the Afrotropical Phaeogenini (Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species ZooKeys 354: 1-85.
Sharkey, Michael J., Dicky S. Yu, Simon van Noort, Katja Seltmann & Lyubomir Penev. 2009 Revision of the Oriental genera of Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with an emphasis on Thailand and interactive keys to genera published in three different formats ZooKeys 21: 19-54.
Sharkey, Michael J., Simon van Noort & James B. Whitfield. 2009 Revision of Khoikhoiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) ZooKeys 20: 299-348.
Talamas, Elijah J., Jonathan S. Bremer, Matthew R. Moore, Marie-Claude Bon, Zachary Lahey, Cheryl G. Roberts, Lynn A. Combee, Natalie McGathey, Simon van Noort, Alexander V. Timokhov, Evelyne Hougardy & Brian Hogg. 2021 A maximalist approach to the systematics of a biological control agent: Gryon aetherium Talamas, sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 323-480.
Talamas, Elijah J., Norman Johnson, Simon van Noort, Lubomír Masner & Andrew Polaszek. 2009 Revision of world species of the genus Oreiscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Platygastridae) ZooKeys 6: 1-68.
Tortorici, Francesco, Virgilio Caleca, Simon van Noort & Lubomír Masner. 2016 Revision of Afrotropical Dyscritobaeus Perkins, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) Zootaxa 4178(1): 1–59.
van Noort, Simon & Jean-Yves Rasplus. 2005 Revision of the Papua New Guinean fig wasp genus Robertsia Boucek (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Sycoecinae). Zootaxa 929: 1-35.
van Noort, Simon & Matthew L. Buffington. 2013 Revision of the Afrotropical Mayrellinae (Cynipoidea: Liopteridae), with the first record of Paramblynotus from Madagascar Journal of Hymenoptera Research 31: 1-64.
van Noort, Simon, Lubomír Masner, Ovidiu A. Popovici, Alejandro A. Valerio, Charuwat Taekul, Norman Johnson, Nicholas P. Murphy & Andrew D. Austin. 2014 Systematics and biology of the aberrant intertidal parasitoid wasp Echthrodesis lamorali Masner (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l.): a parasitoid of spider eggs Invertebrate Systematics 28: 1-16.
van Noort, Simon, Matthew L. Buffington & Mattias Forshage. 2014 Review of Afrotropical Figitinae (Figitidae, Cynipoidea, Hymenoptera) with the first records of Neralsia and Lonchidia for the region ZooKeys 453: 37-69.
van Noort, Simon, Matthew L. Buffington & Mattias Forshage. 2015 Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera) ZooKeys 493: 1-176.
van Noort, Simon, Mircea-Dan Mitroiu, Roger Burks, Gary Gibson, Paul Hanson, John Heraty, Petr Janšta, Astrid Cruaud & Jean-Yves Rasplus. 2024 Redefining Ormyridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with establishment of subfamilies and description of new genera Systematic Entomology.
van Noort, Simon, Rong Wang & Stephen G. Compton. 2013 Fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae, Pteromalidae) associated with Asian fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) in southern Africa: Asian followers and African colonists African Invertebrates 54(2): 381–400.
van Noort, Simon, Rosali Smith & Julie A. Coetzee. 2021 Identity of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae and Eulophidae) reared from aquatic leaf-mining flies (Diptera, Ephydridae) on invasive Brazilian waterweed Egeria densa in South Africa African invertebrates 62(1): 287-314.
van Noort, Simon, Scott R. Shaw & Robert S. Copeland. 2022 Revision of the endemic African genus Dinapsis (Dinapsini, Megalyridae, Hymenoptera) with description of seven new species ZooKeys 1112: 27-122.
van Noort, Simon, Yan-Qiong Peng & Jean-Yves Rasplus. 2006 First record of the fig wasp genus Diaziella Grandi (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Sycoecinae) from the Asian mainland with description of two new species from China. Zootaxa 1337: 39-59.
van Noort, Simon, Zachary Lahey, Elijah Talamas, Andrew D. Austin, Lubomír Masner, Andrew Polaszek & Norman Johnson. 2021 Review of Afrotropical sceliotracheline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 115-122.
Yoder, Matthew, Alejandro A. Valerio, Andrew Polaszek, Simon van Noort, Lubomír Masner & Norman Johnson. 2014 Monograph of the African species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae), egg-parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) ZooKeys 380: 1-188.
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