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100 Caterpillars: Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica

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17 new species hiding in 10 long-named gaudy tropical moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae) ⬇️

A Cryptic NewJemadia(Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Pyrrhopygini) from Costa Rica and Panama with a Subtly Distinctive Combination of Blue Rays and White Bands

scientific article published in December 2014

A Sequel to Sanger: amplicon sequencing that scales

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

A distinctive new species of Euglyphis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) from Costa Rica, with a checklist of the Euglyphis known from Costa Rica ⬇️

scientific article published on 9 September 2011

A five-gene molecular phylogeny reveals Parapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to be polyphyletic as currently composed

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

A food plant specialist in Sparganothini: A new genus and species from Costa Rica (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae)

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

A global food plant dataset for wild silkmoths and hawkmoths and its use in documenting polyphagy of their caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea: Saturniidae, Sphingidae)

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins ⬇️

scientific article published in 2023

A key to new world distatrix mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with descriptions of six new reared neotropical species

scientific article

A molecular phylogeny ofEumorpha(Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) and the evolution of anti-predator larval eyespots

scholarly article by FRANCESCA V. PONCE et al published 20 October 2014 in Systematic Entomology

A new genus and new species in the tribe Uramyini (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

A new genus and species of Neotropical gregarious braconine parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of a caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

A new species of Cordyligaster Macquart, reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article

A new species of Opsiphanes Doubleday, [1849] from Costa Rica (Nymphalidae: Morphinae: Brassolini), as revealed by its DNA barcodes and habitus ⬇️

scientific article published in 2012

A new species of Phosocephala Townsend, 1908 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

A new species of Trismegistomya Reinhard (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

A new species of Voria Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

A review of Leucosigma Druce, 1908: a newly discovered case of fern-feeding and descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

scholarly article

A review of the New World species of the parasitoid wasp Iconella (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae)

scientific article

A revision of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with the second mediotergite broadly rectangular from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

A revolutionary protocol to describe understudied hyperdiverse taxa and overcome the taxonomic impediment

article by Sarah Meierotto et al published 25 July 2019 in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift

A species-level taxonomic review and host associations of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with an emphasis on 136 new reared species from Costa Rica and Ecuador

scientific article

A switch to feeding on cycads generates parallel accelerated evolution of toxin tolerance in two clades of<i>Eumaeus</i>caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

scientific article published on 10 February 2021

A synopsis of the genus Ethmia Hübner in Costa Rica: biology, distribution, and description of 22 new species (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Depressariidae, Ethmiinae), with emphasis on the 42 species known from Área de Conservación Guanacaste

scientific article

A tropical horde of counterfeit predator eyes

scientific article

ALABAGRUS ENDERLEIN (HYMENOPTERA, BRACONIDAE, AGATHIDINAE) SPECIES OF COSTA RICA, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON SPECIMENS REARED FROM CATERPILLARS IN AREA DE CONSERVACIÓN GUANACASTE ⬇️

Advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with DNA barcodes

scientific article

Agoutis (Dasyprocta punctata): The Inheritors of Guapinol (Hymenaea courbaril: Leguminosae)

Amino acid discrimination by the nuclear encoded mitochondrial arginyl-tRNA synthetase of the larva of a bruchid beetle (Caryedes brasiliensis) from northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Anurocampa (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae): two new species, systematics and immature stages

scientific article published in 2023

Appendix I. DELTA data matrix, images, and other files to the dichotomous key for Lytopylus of Costa Rica

scientific article published on 24 September 2011

Appendix I. Specimen records (XLS format) of Atteva of the New World.

scientific article published on 20 May 2010

Appendix II. DELTA data matrix, images, and other files to species descriptions for Lytopylus of Costa Rica

scientific article published on 24 September 2011

Appendix III. Interactive key, in IntKey format, to Lytopylus of Costa Rica

scientific article published on 24 September 2011

Aprica: a new genus and life history for the pteridivore Xanthia patula Druce, 1898 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Asturodes Amsel (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae): Three New Species from the Western Hemisphere and Food Plant Records from Area de ConservaciÓn Guanacaste, Costa Rica

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Caterpillars lack a resident gut microbiome

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Contributions of paraecologists and parataxonomists to research, conservation, and social development

scientific article

Corrigendum: Three new species of Trigonospila Pokorny (Diptera: Tachinidae), from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with a key for their identification

scientific article published on 7 October 2015

Cracking Complex Taxonomy of Costa Rican Moths:AnacrusisZeller (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae)

scientific article published in December 2014

Cryptic biodiversity of tropical hesperiid caterpillar-attacking parasitoid wasps: three new species of Creagrura Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cremastinae) from Costa Rica and Perú ⬇️

scientific article published in 2022

Cryptic species within cryptic moths: new species of Dunama Schaus (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) in Costa Rica ⬇️

scientific article published on February 6, 2013

DNA Barcodes Reveal Yet Another New Species ofVenada(Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in Northwestern Costa Rica

scholarly article by John Burns et al published January 2013 in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

DNA barcodes affirm that 16 species of apparently generalist tropical parasitoid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) are not all generalists

scientific article

DNA barcodes and cryptic species of skipper butterflies in the genus Perichares in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica

scientific article

DNA barcodes distinguish species of tropical Lepidoptera

scientific article (publication date: 24 January 2006)

DNA barcodes reveal cryptic host-specificity within the presumed polyphagous members of a genus of parasitoid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)

scientific article

DNA barcodes uncover hidden taxonomic diversity behind the variable wing patterns in the Neotropical butterfly genusZaretis(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae)

scholarly article by Fernando Maia Silva Dias et al published 1 August 2018 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

DNA barcoding and the taxonomy of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae): impacts after 8 years and nearly 20 000 sequences.

scientific article

DNA barcoding the Lepidoptera inventory of a large complex tropical conserved wildland, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article

Description of a new genus and three new species of Erebidae, from Central and South America (Lepidoptera, Arctiinae, Arctiini) ⬇️

Description of a new genus for Euptychia hilara (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

scientific article (publication date: 4 September 2015)

Description of a new species and subspecies of Idalus Walker from Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) ⬇️

scientific article published on February 6, 2013

Descriptions of Four New Species of Struthoscelis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae: Oecophorinae), One from Area De Conservación Guanacaste, Northwestern Costa Rica, Providing the First Known Biology for the Genus, and Discovery of a Novel Wing Mo

scholarly article by Mark A. Metz et al published July 2017 in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Diversity and phylogenetic community structure across elevation during climate change in a family of hyperdiverse neotropical beetles (Staphylinidae)

scientific article published in 2021

Extrapolations from field studies and known faunas converge on dramatically increased estimates of global microgastrine parasitoid wasp species richness (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

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Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections

scientific article

First record of the genus Venanus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) in Mesoamerica, with the description of two new species from Costa Rica

scientific article

Five new species of Vibrissina Rondani (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in Northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

Food plants and life histories of sawflies of the families Argidae and Tenthredinidae (Hymenoptera) in Costa Rica, a supplement

scholarly article by David Smith et al published 25 October 2013 in Journal of Hymenoptera Research

Four new gelechioid species to honor Costa Rica's conservation of wild biodiversity (Lepidoptera)

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica

scientific article published on 27 June 2014

Functional and genetic diversity changes through time in a cloud forest ant assemblage

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Further progress on the phylogeny of Noctuoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) using an expanded gene sample

article

Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns

scientific article

Gypsy moth genome provides insights into flight capability and virus-host interactions

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Hiding Behind Gaudy Looks, a New Central American Species ofPhareas(Hesperiidae: Eudaminae)

Hyperparasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Trigonalidae) reared from dry forest and rain forest caterpillars of Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

scholarly article by David Smith et al published 15 October 2012 in Journal of Hymenoptera Research

Identity of the ailanthus webworm moth (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae), a complex of two species: evidence from DNA barcoding, morphology and ecology

scientific article

Integration of DNA barcoding into an ongoing inventory of complex tropical biodiversity

scientific article

Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Joining inventory by parataxonomists with DNA barcoding of a large complex tropical conserved wildland in northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article

Low-cost agricultural waste accelerates tropical forest regeneration

scientific article published in 2017

Lytopylus Förster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) species from Costa Rica, with an emphasis on specimens reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste

scientific article

Mariapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), a new genus of Neotropical microgastrine parasitoid wasp discovered through biodiversity inventory

scientific article published on 17 July 2012

Massively parallel multiplex DNA sequencing for specimen identification using an Illumina MiSeq platform

scientific article

Migratory birds and the spread of West Nile

scientific article published in February 2003

Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species ⬇️

scientific article published on 2 February 2021

Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenetic analysis with Sanger and next-generation sequencing shows that, in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, the skipper butterfly named Urbanus belli (family Hesperiidae) comprises three morpho

scientific article

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

article

Monotypy Justified: Genitalia and DNA Move Ephyriades eugramma (Mabille) to New Genus Neomorphuncus Burns (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae)

scientific article published on 23 November 2019

New World Orphanostigma Guenée, 1854, including a new species from Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae)

scientific article published in 2024

New distributional, biological and taxonomic information on the genus Eulophinusia Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)

scholarly article published in 2021

New species in Rejectaria Guenée (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Herminiinae) with a focus on the Cyclanthaceae-feeders

scholarly article published in 2022

Next-generation DNA barcoding: using next-generation sequencing to enhance and accelerate DNA barcode capture from single specimens

scientific article

Nine new species of Itaplectops (Diptera: Tachinidae) reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with a key to Itaplectops species

scientific article

Nine new species of Uramya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica, with a key to their identification

scientific article

Nuclear genomes distinguish cryptic species suggested by their DNA barcodes and ecology

scientific article

Of Many Similar Species in the Neotropical GenusPorphyrogenes(Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), a New One, Repeatedly Reared in Costa Rica, is Relatively Distinct

scientific article published in January 2010

On the taxonomy of the erythrina moths Agathodes and Terastia (Crambidae: Spilomelinae): Two different patterns of haplotype divergence and a new species of Terastia ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

Oxynetra: Facies and DNA Barcodes Point to a New Species from Costa Rica (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Pyrrhopygini)

scholarly article by Nick V. Grishin et al published March 2013 in Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society

Polydnavirus gene provides accurate identification of species in the genus<i>Hyposoter</i>(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

scientific article published on 19 February 2015

Pyrosequencing for mini-barcoding of fresh and old museum specimens

scientific article

Reading the complex skipper butterfly fauna of one tropical place

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Review of Apanteles sensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica

scientific article published on 24 February 2014

Review of Lophomyra Schaus, 1911 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae): a new combination and re-descriptions of species newly associated with ferns (Polypodiaceae)

scholarly article

Review of the Neotropical genus Prasmodon (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article

Review of the world species of Exoryza (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with description of five new species

scientific article

Revision of Aphelagathis (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae, Agathidini).

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Revision of Belvosia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) and 33 new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to known North and Mesoamerican species

scientific article published in 2023

Revision of Telothyria van der Wulp (Diptera: Tachinidae) and twenty-five new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to Mesoamerican species

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Revision of the Mesoamerican species of Calolydella Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) and description of twenty-three new species reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 2 February 2018

Revision of the New World species of Houghia Coquillett (Diptera, Tachinidae) reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

scientific article (publication date: 2 September 2014)

Revision of the genera Microplitis and Snellenius (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with a key to all species previously described from Mesoamerica

scientific article published on 20 July 2015

Revision of the genus Promicrogaster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with a key to all species previously described from Mesoamerica

article

Revision of the genus Pseudapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on the species in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article

Revision of the neotropical genus Sendaphne Nixon (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae)

scientific article published on 22 December 2014

Revision of the species of Lytopylus from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae)

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Revison of Coquillett (Diptera: Tachinidae) with description of five new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Seven new species of Spathidexia Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

scientific article

Simultaneous assessment of the macrobiome and microbiome in a bulk sample of tropical arthropods through DNA metasystematics

scientific article

Six in one: cryptic species and a new host record for Olixon Cameron (Rhopalosomatidae, Hymenoptera) revealed by DNA barcoding

scientific article published on 7 May 2024

Six new cryptic species of Xylodonta Becker, 2014 (Notodontidae: Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Spider diversity across an elevation gradient in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Synopsis of New World Sigalphinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with the description of two new species and a key to genera

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator

scientific article

Three New Species of Rectiostoma Becker, 1982 (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Depressariidae) from Area De Conservación Guanacaste, Northwestern Costa Rica

scholarly article by Maria Heikkilä et al published January 2017 in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Three new species in the genus Wilkinsonellus (Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from the Neotropics, and the first host record for the genus

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

Three new species of Ametadoria Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

scientific article

Three new species of Trigonospila Pokorny (Diptera: Tachinidae), from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with a key for their identification

scientific article

To us insectometers, it is clear that insect decline in our Costa Rican tropics is real, so let's be kind to the survivors

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Toward reconstructing the evolution of advanced moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an initial molecular study

scientific article

Twenty-two new species in the genus Hyphantrophaga Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, with a key to the species of Mesoamerica

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Two new reared species of Heteropteron Brullé (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cardiochilinae) from northwest Costa Rica, with the first definitive host records for the genus ⬇️

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Two new species of Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Using DNA-barcoded Malaise trap samples to measure impact of a geothermal energy project on the biodiversity of a Costa Rican old-growth rain forest

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Utility of the DNA barcoding gene fragment for parasitic wasp phylogeny (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea): data release and new measure of taxonomic congruence

scientific article

Varying and unchanging whiteness on the wings of dusk-active and shade-inhabiting Carystoides escalantei butterflies

scientific article

Wedding biodiversity inventory of a large and complex Lepidoptera fauna with DNA barcoding

scientific article (publication date: 29 October 2005)

What happens to the traditional taxonomy when a well-known tropical saturniid moth fauna is DNA barcoded?

article by Daniel H. Janzen et al published 2012 in Invertebrate Systematics

What one genus of showy moths can say about migration, adaptation, and wing pattern

scientific article published on 17 April 2024

When species matches are unavailable are DNA barcodes correctly assigned to higher taxa? An assessment using sphingid moths

scientific article

Wolbachia and DNA barcoding insects: patterns, potential, and problems

scientific article

Addendum to a minimalist revision of Costa Rican Braconidae: 28 new species and 23 host records ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

More discussion of minimalist species descriptions and clarifying some misconceptions contained in Meier et al. 2021

scientific article published on 05 July 2022

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