Insect Systematics and Diversity

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1. Álvarez-Parra, Sergio, Michael S. Engel, Enrique Peñalver & Dany Azar. 2024 The aculeate wasp family Sierolomorphidae (Hymenoptera) in the Early Cretaceous. Insect Systematics and Diversity 8(4): 1-11.
2. Amorim, Dalton De S. & Brian V. Brown. 2020 Urban Scatopsidae (Diptera) of Los Angeles, California, USA. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
3. Anderson, Robert S. 2018 A revision of the weevil genus Phyxelis Schoenherr 1843 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Entiminae; Tropiphorini) in North America. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
4. Balukjian, Brad. 2024 USING INTEGRATIVE TAXONOMY TO DELIMIT SPECIES IN THE PLANT BUG GENUS PSEUDOLOXOPS (HEMIPTERA: MIRIDAE) IN FRENCH POLYNESIA. Insect Systematics and Diversity 8.
5. Bond, Jason E., Chris A. Hamilton, Rebecca L. Godwin, Joel Ledford & James Starrett. 2020 Phylogeny, Evolution and Biogeography of the North American Trapdoor Spider Family Euctenizidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) and the Discovery of a New “Endangered Living Fossil” Along California’s Central Coast. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
6. Boppré, Michael, Juan Grados, Michel Laguerre & Julio Monzón. 2020 Vanewrightia gen. nov. ‒ a Highly Variable Taxon of Neotropical Ctenuchina (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini) Revealed by Behavioral Traits. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
7. Bossert, Silas, Robert S. Copeland, Trevor J. L. Sless, Michael G. Branstetter, Jessica P. Gillung, Seán G. Brady, Bryan N. Danforth, Jana Policarová & Jakub Straka. 2020 Phylogenomic and morphological reevaluation of the bee tribes Biastini, Neolarrini, and Townsendiellini (Hymenoptera: Apidae) with description of three new species of Schwarzia. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
8. Branstetter, Michael G. & John T. Longino. 2022 UCE phylogenomics of New World Cryptopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) elucidates genus boundaries, species boundaries, and the vicariant history of a temperate-tropical disjunction. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
9. Brown, Brian V., Christine Hayes, John M. Hash & Paul T. Smith. 2018 Molecular Phylogeny of the Ant-Decapitating Flies, Genus Apocephalus Coquillett (Diptera: Phoridae). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
10. Brown, Brian V., Emily Hartop & Maria A. Wong. 2022 Sixteen in one: white-belted Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from the New World challenge species concepts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(3).
11. Burks, Roger A., Lars Krogmann & John M. Heraty. 2018 Simultaneous discovery of new extant and fossil genera of Herbertiinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
12. Burks, Roger A., Lars Krogmann & John M. Heraty. 2019 Chrysolampine wasps (Chalcidoidea: Perilampidae sensu lato) from Baltic Amber. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
13. Camacho, Gabriela P., Weslly Franco, Michael G. Branstetter, Marcio R. Pie, John T. Longino, Ted Schultz & Rodrigo M. Feitosa. 2022 UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among ectaheteromorph ants (Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): a new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
14. Caterino, Michael S. & Curt W. Harden. 2024 A review of Appalachian Dasycerus Brongniart, and the recognition of cryptic diversity within Dasycerus carolinensis Horn (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 8(2): 5.
15. Chien, Iris & John Heraty. 2018 Come and gone: Description of a new species of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera) attacking Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Texas. Insect Systematics and Diversity 2(1).
16. Dew, Rebecca M., Mark I. Stevens & Michael P. Schwarz. 2018 Taxonomy of the Australian allodapine bee genus Exoneurella (Apidae: Xylocopinae: Allodapini) and description of a new Exoneurella species. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
17. Eliassen, Jonas M. & Bjarte H. Jordal. 2021 Integrated taxonomic revision of Afrotropical Xyleborinus (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) reveals high diversity after recent colonization of Madagascar. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
18. Ferreira, Vinicius S. & Michael A. Ivie. 2022 Lessons from a Museum’s Cabinet: DNA barcoding and Collections-based Life Stage Associations Reveals a Hidden Diversity in the Puerto Rican Bank Paedomorphic Lycidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Leptolycini). Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(3): 2-36.
19. Ferreira, Vinicius S., Oliver Keller & Marc A. Branham. 2020 Multilocus Phylogeny Support the Non-Bioluminescent Firefly Chespirito as a New Subfamily in the Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
20. Freitas, Felipe V., Michael G. Branstetter, Vinicius H. Franceschini-Santos, Achik Dorchin, Karen W. Wright, Margarita M. López-Uribe, Fernando A. Silveira, Eduardo A. B. Almeida & Terry L. Griswold. 2023 UCE phylogenomics, biogeography, and classification of long-horned bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Eucerini), with insights on using specimens with extremely degraded DNA. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7.
21. Freitas, Felipe V., Michael G. Branstetter, Vinicius H. Franceschini-Santos, Achik Dorchin, Karen W. Wright, Margarita M. López-Uribe, Terry Griswold, Fernando A. Silveira & Eduardo A. B. Almeida. 2023 UCE phylogenomics, biogeography, and classification of long-horned bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Eucerini), with insights on using specimens with extremely degraded DNA. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7.
22. Gearner, Olivia M., Marcin J. Kamiński, Kojun Kanda, Kali Swichtenberg & Aaron D. Smith. 2021 Discovery of new genera challenges the subtribal classification of tok-tok beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Sepidiini). Insect Systematics and Diversity 5(2).
23. Gomez, Demian F., James Skelton, M. Sedonia Steininger, Richard Stouthamer, Paul F. Rugman-Jones, Wisut Sittichaya, Robert J. Rabaglia & Jiri Hulcr. 2018 Species delineation within the Euwallacea fornicatus complex revealed by morphometric and phylogenetic analyses. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
24. Hinojosa, Joan C., Janos P. Tóth, Yeray Monasterio, Luis Sánchez Mesa, M. G. Muñoz Sariot, Ruth Escobés Jiménez & Roger Vila. 2022 Integrative taxonomy reveals a new Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) butterfly species widely distributed in the Iberian Peninsula. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(2).
25. Hita-Garcia, Francisco, Ziv Lieberman, Tracy L. Audisio, Cong Liu & Evan P. Economo. 2019 Revision of the highly-specialized ant genus Discothyrea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropics with x-ray microtomography and 3D cybertaxonomy. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Hulbert, Daniel, Morgan D. Jackson, Glen Hood & James Smith. 2018 Description of a new Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae) species in the tabellaria species group. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Johnson, Andrew J., Jiri Hulcr, Miloš Knížek, Thomas H. Atkinson, Michail Y. Mandelshtam, Sarah M. Smith, Anthony I. Cognato, Sangwook Park, Li You & Bjarte H. Jordal. 2020 Revision of the bark beetle genera within the former Cryphalini (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Johnston, Nikolas P., James F. Wallman & Thomas Pape. 2020 Integrative Taxonomy of Australian Metopia (Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae) Reveals a New Species and Challenges Traditional Phylogeny. Insect Systematics and Diversity 4(6(5)): 1-13.
Keegan, Kevin, Jadranka Rota, Reza Zahiri, A. Zilli, Niklas Wahlberg, B. C. Schmidt, J. D. Lafontaine, Paul Z. Goldstein & David L. Wagner. 2021 Towards a Stable Global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) Taxonomy. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Lhomme, Patrick, Sarah D. Williams, Guillaume Ghisbain, Baptiste Martinet, Maxence Gérard & Heather H. Hines. 2021 Diversification pattern of the widespread Holarctic cuckoo bumble bee Bombus flavidus (Hymenoptera : Apidae) : The East Side Story. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Longino, John T. & Michael G. Branstetter. 2020 Phylogenomic species delimitation, taxonomy, and "bird guide" identification for the Neotropical ant genus Rasopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Longino, John T. & Michael G. Branstetter. 2021 Integrating UCE phylogenomics with traditional taxonomy reveals a trove of New World Syscia species (Formicidae, Dorylinae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 5(2): 1–51.
Martin, Gavin J., Kathrin F. Stanger-Hall, Marc A. Branham, Luiz F. L. Da Silveira, Sarah E. Lower, David W. Hall, Xue-Yan Li, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily M. Lemmon & Seth M. Bybee. 2019 Higher-level phylogeny and reclassification of Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Masonick, Paul. 2019 Description of a bizarre new genus and species of ambush bugs from the Dominican Republic (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Phymatinae). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Means, Jackson C., Derek A. Hennen, Tsutomu Tanabe & Paul E. Marek. 2021 Phylogenetic systematics of the millipede family Xystodesmidae. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Metzler, Eric H. & Carolin Scott-Tracey. 2019 The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 12; the description of Sympistis sierrablanca Metzler and Scott-Tracey, sp. n. (Noctuidae: Oncocnemidinae) another white species from the gypsum dunes. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Mikó, István, Carolyn Trietsch, Thomas van de Kamp, Lubomír Masner, Jonah M. Ulmer, Matthew Yoder, Marcus Zuber, Emily Sandall, Tilo Baumbach & Andrew R. Deans. 2018 Revision of Trassedia (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae), an evolutionary relict with an unusual distribution. Insect Systematics and Diversity 2(6).
Monjaraz-Ruedas, R., Oscar F. Francke & Lorenzo Prendini. 2022 World travelers: Parthenogenesis and ecological tolerance enable multiple colonization events by the widespread short-tailed whipscorpion, Stenochrus portoricensis (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Montanaro, Giulio, Vasily V. Grebennikov, Michele Rossini, Alessandro Grapputo, Enrico Ruzzier & Sergei Tarasov. 2024 Microallopatric speciation in the relict dung beetle genus Grebennikovius (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in the Eastern Arc Mountains. Insect Systematics and Diversity 8(2): 18.
Moulton, John K., Douglas C. Currie & Douglas A. Craig. 2018 A new genus, Ectemnoides, for seven species of Australian Gondwanan Simuliidae (Diptera). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Mugleston, Joseph, Michael Naegle, Hojun Song & Michael F. Whiting. 2018 A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera) Reveals Extensive Ecomorph Convergence and Widespread Taxonomic Incongruence. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Nakahara, Shinichi, Maryzender Rodríguez, Kaylin Kleckner, Thalia Corahua-Espinoza, Rafael Tejeira, Marianne Espeland, Mirna M. Casagrande, Eduardo P. Barbosa, Joseph See, Geoffrey R. Gallice, Gerardo Lamas & Keith R. Willmott. 2022 Systematic revision of a new butterfly genus Cisandina Nakahara & Espeland, n. gen., with descriptions of three new taxa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 6: 1-30.
Nakahara, Shinichi, Pavel Matos Maravi, Keith R. Willmott, Eduardo P. Barbosa, Gerardo Lamas & André V. L. Freitas. 2019 Two new species of Taygetina Forster, 1964, with a possible case of “juxta loss” in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Ortiz-Acevedo, Elena, Dayana Bonfantti, Mirna M. Casagrande, Olaf H. H. Mielke, Marianne Espeland & Keith R. Willmott. 2017 Using molecules and morphology to unravel the systematics of Neotropical preponine butterflies (Lepidoptera: Charaxinae: Preponini). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Osborn, Rachel K., Sarah M. Smith & Anthony I. Cognato. 2022 New xyleborine (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) genus with an Afrotropical-Neotropical distribution. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(4).
Owens, Brittany, Richard A. B. Leschen & Christopher Carlton. 2019 The Pselaphini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) of the subantarctic and Chatham Islands of New Zealand; description of five species and one genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 3(5): 1-14.
Oyama, Nozomu, Haruyoshi Maeda, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, Kenji Shinoda, Humio Takahashi & Olivier Béthoux. 2025 Evolutionary changes in archaic sawfly (Hymenoptera: Xyelidae) sawflies ovipositor shape revealed by early fossils. Insect Systematics and Diversity 9(1): 1-19.
Perry, Ryan K. & John M. Heraty. 2019 A tale of two setae: how morphology and ITS2 help delimit a cryptic species complex in Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Pyrcz, Tomasz W., Keith R. Willmott, Dorota Lachowska-Cierlik, Artur Mrozek, Klaudia Florczyk, Oscar Mahecha-Jiménez & Marianne Espeland. 2023 Phylogeny and systematics of the "Pronophila clade", with two new genera to resolve the formerly polyphyletic genus Pseudomaniola (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(5): 1-20.
Richter, Adrian, Brendon E. Boudinot, Shȗhei Yamamoto, Julian Katzke & Rolf G. Beutel. 2022 The First Reconstruction of the Head Anatomy of a Cretaceous Insect, †Gerontoformica gracilis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and the Early Evolution of Ants. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(5): 4.
Samacá-Sáenz, Ernesto, Scott P. Egan & Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón. 2020 Species diversity in the braconid wasp genus Allorhogas (Doryctinae) associated with cynipid galls on live oaks (Quercus: Fagaceae) using natural history, phylogenetics and morphology. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Sarnat, Eli M., Francisco H. Garcia, Kenneth Dudley, Cong Liu, Georg Fischer & Evan P. Economo. 2019 Ready Species One: exploring the use of augmented reality to enhance systematic biology with a revision of Fijian Strumigenys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Skvarla, Michael, Gary L. Miller, Gary Bauchan, Matthew Lewis, Robert Foottit & Eric Maw. 2018 Taxonomy and natural history of cattail aphids, Rhopalosiphum enigmae Hottes & Frison, 1931 (Hemiptera: Aphidomorpha: Aphididae), including a new synonymy and notes on ant and parasitoid associates of Rhopalosiphum. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Smith, Sarah M. & Anthony I. Cognato. 2022 New non-native pseudocryptic Cyclorhipidion species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini) found in the United States as revealed in a multigene phylogeny. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Soon, Villu, Ruth F. Castillo-Cajas, Niklas Johansson, Juho Paukkunen, Paolo Rosa, Frode Ødegaard, Thomas Schmitt & Oliver Niehuis. 2021 Cuticular hydrocarbon profile analyses help clarify the species identity of dry-mounted cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), including type material, and reveal evidence for a cryptic species. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
South, Eric J., Rachel K. Skinner, R. E. DeWalt, Mark A. Davis, Kevin P. Johnson, Valentina A. Teslenko, Jonathan J. Lee, Rachel L. Malison, Jeong M. Hwang, Yeon J. Bae & Luke W. Myers. 2021 A new family of stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera), Kathroperlidae, fam. n., with a phylogenomic analysis of the Paraperlinae (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity.
St Laurent, Ryan A., Ana P. S. Carvalho & Akito Y. Kawahara. 2019 Two new species of Psychocampa and a possible case of visual mimicry in the sack-bearer moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea). Insect Systematics and Diversity 3(2): 1-9.
St Laurent, Ryan A., Paul Z. Goldstein, James S. Miller, Amanda Markee, Hermann S. Staude, Akito Y. Kawahara, Scott E. Miller & Robert K. Robbins. 2023 Phylogenetic systematics, diversification, and biogeography of Cerurinae (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) and a description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(2): 1-25.
Straka, Jakub, Daniel Benda, Jana Policarová, Alena Astapenková, Thomas J. Wood & Silas Bossert. 2024 A phylogenomic monograph of West-Palearctic Nomada (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 8.
Ward, Philip S. & Michael G. Branstetter. 2022 Species paraphyly and social parasitism: phylogenomics, morphology, and geography clarify the evolution of the Pseudomyrmex elongatulus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a Mesoamerican ant clade. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Yoshizawa, Kazunori, Yuri M. Marusik, Izumi Yao & Charles Lienhard. 2020 Systematic Position of the Enigmatic Psocid Family Lesneiidae (Insecta: Psocodea: Psocomorpha), with Description of Two New Species. Insect Systematics and Diversity.
Zheng, Yuchen, Fumio Hayashi, Benjamin W. Price & Xingyue Liu. 2022 Unveiling the evolutionary history of a puzzling antlion genus Gatzara Navás (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Dendroleontinae) based on systematic revision, molecular phylogenetics, and biogeographic inference. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(3): 1-22.
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