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List of works by Niklas Wahlberg

A New Subspecies ofAnthanassa(Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae: Melitaeini) from Southeastern Brazil

scientific article published in June 2015

A complete time-calibrated multi-gene phylogeny of the European butterflies

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

A complete time-calibrated multi-gene phylogeny of the European butterflies

scientific article published on 16 November 2019

A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

A database and checklist of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera) from Colombia

scientific article published on 06 September 2021

A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the vampire moths and their fruit-piercing relatives (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Calpinae).

scientific article

A new extant family of primitive moths from Kangaroo Island, Australia, and its significance for understanding early Lepidoptera evolution

article

A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family level classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera)

Journal article

A new species of Niganda Moore, 1879 from Thailand, with descriptions of variation in male genitalia and female facies of N. radialis Moore (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae, Ceirinae)

scientific article (publication date: 21 October 2015)

A phylogenomic perspective on the relationships of subfamilies in the family Geometridae (Lepidoptera)

scientific article published on 10 May 2023

A simple method for data partitioning based on relative evolutionary rates

scientific article published in 2018

A simple method for data partitioning based on relative evolutionary rates

A simple method for data partitioning based on relative evolutionary rates

A taxonomic study of the caddisfly Oxyethira falcata Morton, 1893 (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) using genital morphology and DNA barcoding

scientific article published on 4 December 2012

Adaptive radiations in butterflies: evolutionary history of the genusErebia(Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

article by Carlos Peña et al published 4 June 2015 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Advances in Geometroidea phylogeny, with characterization of a new family based on Pseudobiston pinratanai (Lepidoptera, Glossata)

scholarly article by Hossein Rajaei et al published 2 March 2015 in Zoologica Scripta

Airborne environmental DNA metabarcoding for the monitoring of terrestrial insects—A proof of concept from the field

scientific article published in 2022

An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)

scientific article published on 31 December 2018

Anomalous areas and awkward ages: alleviating concerns

Biodiversity seen through the perspective of insects: 10 simple rules on methodological choices and experimental design for genomic studies

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

Biogeographic history of the butterfly subtribe Euptychiina (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)

scientific article (publication date: May 2010)

Butterfly dichromatism primarily evolved via Darwin's, not Wallace's, model

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Causes of endemic radiation in the Caribbean: evidence from the historical biogeography and diversification of the butterfly genus Calisto (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Satyrini)

scientific article

Changes in the genus Beana Walker (Beaninae Zahiri & Holloway) with two new species and removing Beana nitida Tams to a new genus Beanoides (gen. nov.)

scientific article

Chromosomal evolution in the South American Nymphalidae

scientific article published on September 2007

Climate-driven diversity dynamics in plants and plant-feeding insects.

scientific article

Colonization of and radiation in South America by butterflies in the subtribe Phyciodina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).

scientific article

Comparative descriptions of the immature stages and ecology of five Finnish melitaeine butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Complete mitochondrial genomes of ancient canids suggest a European origin of domestic dogs

scientific article

Comprehensive gene and taxon coverage elucidates radiation patterns in moths and butterflies

scientific article published on 5 May 2010

Contents of Volume 12

Contents, Volume 13 (2002)

Contents, Volume 14 (2003)

Contents, Volume 15 (2004)

Corrigenda

Cretaceous origin and repeated tertiary diversification of the redefined butterflies

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2012)

Critiquing blind dating: the dangers of over-confident date estimates in comparative genomics

scientific article

Cuban Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), a review based on morphological and DNA data

scientific article published on 13 January 2012

Cultural and climatic changes shape the evolutionary history of the Uralic languages.

scientific article

DNA barcoding and morphology reveal two common species in one: Pimpla molesta stat. rev. separated from P. croceipes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)

scientific article

DNA barcoding of fish larvae reveals uncharacterised biodiversity in tropical peat swamps of New Guinea, Indonesia

scientific article published in 2017

DNA-barcoding clarifies species definitions of Finnish Apatania (Trichoptera: Apataniidae)

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Deceptive single-locus taxonomy and phylogeography: Wolbachia-associated divergence in mitochondrial DNA is not reflected in morphology and nuclear markers in a butterfly species.

scientific article

Diversification of Morpho butterflies (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae): a re-evaluation of morphological characters and new insight from DNA sequence data

scholarly article by Carla M. Penz et al published 12 September 2012 in Systematic Entomology

Diversification of lindsaeoid ferns and phylogenetic uncertainty of early polypod relationships

scientific article published in 2012

Diversity begets diversity: host expansions and the diversification of plant-feeding insects

scientific article

Dynamic populations in a dynamic landscape: the metapopulation structure of the marsh fritillary butterfly

scholarly article by Niklas Wahlberg et al published April 2002 in Ecography

Dynamics of host plant use and species diversity in Polygonia butterflies (Nymphalidae).

scientific article published on March 2006

Editorial

Effects of changing climate on species diversification in tropical forest butterflies of the genusCymothoe(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

article

Effects of methodology and analysis strategy on robustness of pestivirus phylogeny.

scientific article published on 20 October 2009

Elusive ditrysian phylogeny: an account of combining systematized morphology with molecular data (Lepidoptera)

scientific article

Embracing heterogeneity: Building the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics

Embracing heterogeneity: Building the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics

Embracing heterogeneity: Building the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics

Embracing heterogeneity: Building the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics

Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns

scientific article

Euptychia boulleti (Le Cerf) n. comb. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), a rare and endangered butterfly from Southeastern Brazil.

scientific article

Evolution of Hypolimnas butterflies (Nymphalidae): Out-of-Africa origin and Wolbachia-mediated introgression.

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Evolution of the Insects

book review published in August 2006

Evolution within a language: environmental differences contribute to divergence of dialect groups

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Evolutionary history of the recruitment of conserved developmental genes in association to the formation and diversification of a novel trait

scientific article

Expanded molecular phylogeny of the genus Bicyclus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) shows the importance of increased sampling for detecting semi-cryptic species and highlights potentials for future studies

scholarly article by Kwaku Aduse-Poku et al published 17 October 2016 in Systematics and Biodiversity

Exploration of data partitioning in an eight-gene data set: phylogeny of metalmark moths (Lepidoptera, Choreutidae)

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Fourteen complete mitochondrial genomes of butterflies from the genus Lethe (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) with mitogenome-based phylogenetic analysis

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

From the phylogeny of the Satyrinae butterflies to the systematics of Euptychiina (lepidoptera: nymphalidae): history, progress and prospects

scientific article published on January 2011

Genomic outposts serve the phylogenomic pioneers: designing novel nuclear markers for genomic DNA extractions of lepidoptera

scientific article

Higher level phylogeny of Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on DNA sequence data

scientific article

How many genes should a systematist sample? Conflicting insights from a phylogenomic matrix characterized by replicated incongruence

scientific article published in April 2007

Index to genera and species, Volume 13 (2002)

Index to genera and species, Volume 14 (2003)

Index to genera and species, Volume 15 (2004)

Information Dropout Patterns in Restriction Site Associated DNA Phylogenomics and a Comparison with Multilocus Sanger Data in a Species-Rich Moth Genus

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Interrelationships and diversification of Argynnis Fabricius and Speyeria Scudder butterflies

article by Robert S. de Moya et al published October 2017 in Systematic Entomology

Lack of phylogenetic evidence that the Shimen strain is the parental strain of the lapinized Chinese strain (C-strain) vaccine against classical swine fever.

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Major lineages of Nolidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) elucidated by molecular phylogenetics

scholarly article by Reza Zahiri et al published August 2013 in Cladistics

Mesoamerica is a cradle and the Atlantic Forest is a museum of Neotropical butterfly diversity: insights from the evolution and biogeography of Brassolini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

scientific article published on 24 February 2021

Metapopulation structure and movements in five species of checkerspot butterflies

scientific article published on January 2002

Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) larvae in Fennoscandia with description of Cotesia autumnatae Shaw, sp. n.

scientific article published on 2 July 2013

Miocene Climate and Habitat Change Drove Diversification in <i>Bicyclus</i>, Africa’s Largest Radiation of Satyrine Butterflies

scientific article published in 2021

Mitochondrial DNA signature for range-wide populations of Bicyclus anynana suggests a rapid expansion from recent refugia

scientific article

Model Organisms and Model Systems for Ecologists?

article

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of bovine viral diarrhoea virus: a Bayesian approach

scientific article published on 27 June 2007

Molecular phylogenetic and morphological studies on the systematic position ofHeracula discivittareveal a new subfamily of Pseudobistonidae (Lepidoptera: Geometroidea)

scientific article published in January 2019

Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)

scholarly article by Reza Zahiri et al published January 2012 in Systematic Entomology

Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Symbrenthia (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) correlates with the past geography of the Oriental region

scientific article published in 2022

Molecular phylogeny and generic-level taxonomy of the widespread palaeotropical ‘Heteropsis clade’ (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Mycalesina)

scholarly article by Kwaku Aduse-Poku et al published 9 June 2016 in Systematic Entomology

Molecular phylogeny and higher systematics of the metalmark butterflies (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Molecular phylogeny of Lymantriinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Erebidae) inferred from eight gene regions

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Molecular phylogeny of Sterrhinae moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): towards a global classification

scientific article published on 2 June 2020

Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography and diversification patterns of a diverse group of moths (Geometridae: Boarmiini)

scientific article published on 12 May 2021

Molecular systematics of the arctiine tribe Syntomini (Lepidoptera, Erebidae)

scientific article

Molecular systematics of the subfamily Limenitidinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).

scientific article published on 2 February 2018

Morphological variation between populations of the expanding ectoparasitic deer kedLipoptena cervi(Diptera: Hippoboscidae) in Fennoscandia

Morphology versus molecules: resolution of the positions of Nymphalis, Polygonia, and related genera (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

scholarly article by Niklas Wahlberg & Sören Nylin published June 2003 in Cladistics

Morphology, molecules and fritillaries: approaching a stable phylogeny for Argynnini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

scholarly article by Andrew Brower et al published 2006 in Insect Systematics and Evolution

Multilocus species trees show the recent adaptive radiation of the mimetic heliconius butterflies

scientific article

Museomics of a rare taxon: placing Whalleyanidae in the Lepidoptera Tree of Life

scientific article published on 08 July 2021

Natural history and systematic position of Rhetus belphegor (n. comb.) (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae), an endangered butterfly with narrow distribution in Southeast Brazil

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Negative density-distribution relationship in butterflies

scientific article

New Calisto species from Cuba, with insights on the relationships of Cuban and Bahamian taxa (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)

scientific article (publication date: 10 June 2013)

New World geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, taxonomic updates and description of 11 new tribes

scientific article published in 2019

Next generation sequencing of fecal DNA reveals the dietary diversity of the widespread insectivorous predator Daubenton's Bat (Myotis daubentonii) in Southwestern Finland

scientific article

Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2009)

On oscillations and flutterings-A reply to Hamm and Fordyce

scientific article published on 20 April 2016

On the status of the scarce fritillary Euphydryas maturna (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Finland

Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758

journal article

Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

scientific article published on 23 December 2011

Out-of-Africa again: A phylogenetic hypothesis of the genus Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on five gene regions

scientific article (publication date: November 2009)

PCR primers for 30 novel gene regions in the nuclear genomes of Lepidoptera

scientific article (publication date: 8 June 2016)

Pattern of Phylogenetic Relationships among Members of the Tribe Melitaeini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

scholarly article by Niklas Wahlberg & Marie Zimmermann published December 2000 in Cladistics

Paulogramma hydarnis (n. comb.) (Nymphalidae: Biblidinae): Distribution, Systematic Position, and Conservation Status of a Rare and Endangered Butterfly

scientific article

Phylogenetic analysis of Maverick/Polinton giant transposons across organisms

scientific article

Phylogenetic relationships among genera of danaine butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) as implied by morphology and DNA sequences

scholarly article by Andrew V. Z. Brower et al published 25 March 2010 in Systematics and Biodiversity

Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of tribes and genera in the subfamily Nymphalinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

scholarly article by Niklas Wahlberg et al published 27 September 2005 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Phylogenetic relationships of Phyciodes butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): complex mtDNA variation and species delimitations

scholarly article by Niklas Wahlberg et al published April 2003 in Systematic Entomology

Phylogenetic relationships of butterflies of the tribe Acraeini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae) and the evolution of host plant use

scientific article (publication date: February 2008)

Phylogenetic relationships, biogeography and diversification of Coenonymphina butterflies (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae): intercontinental dispersal of a southern Gondwanan group?

scholarly article by Ullasa Kodandaramaiah et al published 21 June 2018 in Systematic Entomology

Phylogenetics and biogeography of a spectacular Old World radiation of butterflies: the subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrini).

scientific article

Phylogenetics of Coenonymphina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) and the problem of rooting rapid radiations

scientific article published on 15 August 2009

Phylogenomic insights into the cambrian explosion, the colonization of land and the evolution of flight in arthropoda

scientific article published on 4 September 2012

Phylogeny and classification of the Phengaris-Maculinea clade (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): total evidence and phylogenetic species concepts

scientific article (publication date: 14 May 2007)

Phylogeny and evolution of pharmacophagy in tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Phylogeny of the Rhizobium-Allorhizobium-Agrobacterium clade supports the delineation of Neorhizobium gen. nov.

scientific article

Phylogeny, classification and evolutionary insights into pestiviruses

scientific article published on 24 January 2009

Phylogeography of the threatened butterfly, the woodland brown Lopinga achine (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae): implications for conservation

article by Ullasa Kodandaramaiah et al published 28 February 2012 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Polyphagy and diversification in tussock moths: Support for the oscillation hypothesis from extreme generalists

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Predator selection on phenotypic variability of cryptic and aposematic moths

scientific article published on 23 February 2024

Prehistorical climate change increased diversification of a group of butterflies

scientific article (publication date: 23 June 2008)

Priors and Posteriors in Bayesian Timing of Divergence Analyses: The Age of Butterflies Revisited

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

PuttingParasemiain its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)

scholarly article by KATJA RÖNKÄ et al published 29 June 2016 in Systematic Entomology

Quantifying the effects of species traits on predation risk in nature: A comparative study of butterfly wing damage

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Rapid diversification and not clade age explains high diversity in neotropical Adelpha butterflies

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2011)

Recently lost connectivity in the Western Palaearctic steppes: the case of a scarce specialist butterfly

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Relationships among the basal lineages of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) based on eight gene regions

article

Reproductive isolation and patterns of genetic differentiation in a cryptic butterfly species complex

scientific article

Reviews: Butterflies of British Columbia, Photographic guide to the butterflies of Britain & Europe, Butterflies of Britain and Ireland mapped

Reviews: The Millenium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland, Insect Populations in Theory and Practice, Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland, Danish Grasshoppers - Animal Life of Denmark

Revised systematics and higher classification of pierid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) based on molecular data

scholarly article by Niklas Wahlberg et al published November 2014 in Zoologica Scripta

Species limits in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): Reconciling classical taxonomy with the multispecies coalescent

article published 29 October 2018

Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers

scientific article

Systematics and evolution of the African butterfly genus Mylothris (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Systematics and evolutionary history of butterflies in the "Taygetis clade" (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Euptychiina): towards a better understanding of Neotropical biogeography

scientific article

Systematics and historical biogeography of the old world butterfly subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

scientific article (publication date: 20 August 2015)

Systematics and origin of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) in the Neotropical region

scientific article

THE PHYLOGENETICS AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF HOST-PLANT SPECIALIZATION IN MELITAEINE BUTTERFLIES (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE)

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Targeted inactivation of the mouse epididymal beta-defensin 41 alters sperm flagellar beat pattern and zona pellucida binding

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Ten genes and two topologies: an exploration of higher relationships in skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae)

scientific article

That awkward age for butterflies: insights from the age of the butterfly subfamily Nymphalinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

scientific article

The (non) accuracy of mitochondrial genomes for family‐level phylogenetics in Erebidae (Lepidoptera)

scientific article published in 2022

The Glanville fritillary genome retains an ancient karyotype and reveals selective chromosomal fusions in Lepidoptera

scientific article

The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

The butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications

scientific article

The emergence of genotypes 3 and 4 hepatitis E virus in swine and humans: a phylogenetic perspective

scientific article published on 7 October 2010

The evolution of female flightlessness among Ennominae of the Holarctic forest zone (Lepidoptera, Geometridae).

scientific article published on February 2010

The evolutionary history of Boloria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): phylogeny, zoogeography and larval–foodplant relationships

scientific article published on 20 December 2010

The evolutionary history of Trichoptera (Insecta): A case of successful adaptation to life in freshwater

The firefly genus Pteroptyx Olivier revisited (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae)

scholarly article by Wan F. A. Jusoh published in August 2018

The identity of the Finnish Osmoderma (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae) population established by COI sequencing

scientific article published on 21 December 2013

The phylogenetic positions of Bhagadatta Moore, 1898, Kumothales Overlaet, 1940 and Harmilla Aurivillius, 1892 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Limenitidinae) based on molecular data

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

Timing and patterns in the taxonomic diversification of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Timing major conflict between mitochondrial and nuclear genes in species relationships of Polygonia butterflies (Nymphalidae: Nymphalini)

scientific article

Toward a Stable Global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) Taxonomy

scholarly article published in 2021

Towards Resolving and Redefining Amphipyrinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae): a Massively Polyphyletic Taxon

article published 26 February 2018

Towards a better understanding of the higher systematics of Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea).

scientific article

Towards resolving and redefining Amphipyrinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae): a massively polyphyletic taxon

scientific article published on 2 March 2019

Towards unravelling Wolbachia global exchange: a contribution from the Bicyclus and Mylothris butterflies in the Afrotropics

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Trait-based functional dietary analysis provides a better insight into the foraging ecology of bats

scientific article published on 28 July 2019

Unprecedented ichneumonid parasitoid wasp diversity in tropical forests

scientific article published on 3 October 2012

Vagility across Vanessa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): mobility in butterfly species does not inhibit the formation and persistence of isolated sister taxa

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Variation of basal EROD activities in ten passerine bird species--relationships with diet and migration status

scientific article

Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million years

article by JULIEN LENEVEU et al published 26 May 2009 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

What causes latitudinal gradients in species diversity? Evolutionary processes and ecological constraints on swallowtail biodiversity

scientific article

What you need is what you eat? Prey selection by the bat Myotis daubentonii

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies

scientific article published on 04 February 2021

‘Species’ from two different butterfly genera combined into one: description of a new genus of Euptychiina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with unusually variable wing pattern

article by André Victor Lucci Freitas et al published April 2016 in Revista Brasileira de Entomologia