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List of works by James B. Whitfield

A New Species ofApantelesFoerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Parasitic of Two Blackberry Leafrollers (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Mexico

article by José Antonio Sánchez-García et al published January 2015 in Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

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

scientific article

A new genus of Cedriini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Hormiinae) from the Brazilian cerrado

scholarly article published in 2021

A new species of Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) reared from the hickory horned devil, Citheronia regalis, and luna moth, Actias luna, in east Texas

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

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

scientific article

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

Ancient rapid radiations of insects: challenges for phylogenetic analysis

scientific article published on January 2008

Andesipolis, a puzzling new genus of cyclostome Braconidae (Hymenoptera) from the Chilean Andes, with descriptions of three new species

scientific article (publication date: 18 February 2004)

Annotated Checklist of the Microgastrinae of North America North of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Aximopsis gabrielae sp. nov.: a gregarious parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) of the skipper Quadrus cerialis (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) feeding on Piper amalago in southern Mexico

scientific article published in 2022

Bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus terrestris) collecting honeydew from the giant willow aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

scientific article

Chromosomal scale assembly of parasitic wasp genome reveals symbiotic virus colonization

scientific article published on 22 January 2021

Competition and brood reduction: testing alternative models of clutch-size evolution in parasitoids

scientific article published on 4 December 2008

Cotesia cassina sp. nov. from southwestern Colombia: a new gregarious microgastrine wasp (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) reared from the pest species Opsiphanes cassina Felder & Felder (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) feeding on Elaeis oil palm trees (Arecaceae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Crop Storage of Pollen and Its Functional Significance in the Solitary Bee, Melissodes rustica (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

article published in 1997

Deciphering ancient rapid radiations

scientific article

Declines and Resilience of Communities of Leaf Chewing Insects on Missouri Oaks Following Spring Frost and Summer Drought

scientific article published in 2019

DiscoVista: interpretable visualizations of gene tree discordance

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Dissecting the ancient rapid radiation of microgastrine wasp genera using additional nuclear genes.

scientific article published on 7 June 2006

Epsilogaster faviolae, a new species of Mendesellinae from Colombia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

scientific article (publication date: 30 May 2002)

Estimating the age of the polydnavirus/braconid wasp symbiosis

scientific article

Evidence for an ichnovirus machinery in parasitoids of coleopteran larvae

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Experimental support for multiple-locus complementary sex determination in the parasitoid Cotesia vestalis

scientific article published on 14 September 2008

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

article

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

scientific article

Fast-evolving homoplastic traits are best for species identification in a group of neotropical wasps

scientific article

Filtered Z-closure supernetworks for extracting and visualizing recurrent signal from incongruent gene trees.

scientific article published in December 2008

First record of miracine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Australia: molecular phylogenetics and morphology reveal multiple new species ⬇️

scientific article published in February 2022

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

scientific article

First record of the genus Wilkinsonellus (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Fiji with description of three new species

scientific article

Fragmentary Gene Sequences Negatively Impact Gene Tree and Species Tree Reconstruction

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species

scientific article

Genetic evidence for three species of rockhopper penguins, Eudyptes chrysocome

article

Genomic and morphological features of a banchine polydnavirus: comparison with bracoviruses and ichnoviruses

scientific article

Insect Systematics as a Central Discipline of Entomology

article by Sydney A Cameron & James B Whitfield published October 2017 in Insect Systematics and Diversity

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 17 July 2012

Natural History of Eryphanis greeneyi (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and Its Enemies, With a Description of a New Species of Braconid Parasitoid and Notes on Its Tachinid Parasitoid

article

Networks: expanding evolutionary thinking ⬇️

scientific article published on June 11, 2013

Orientocardiochiles, a new genus of Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with descriptions of two new species from Malaysia and Vietnam

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Parasitism rate, parasitoid community composition and host specificity on exposed and semi-concealed caterpillars from a tropical rainforest

scientific article

Parasitoids Attacking Larvae of a Recently Introduced Weed Biological Control Agent, Neomusotima conspurcatalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae): Key to Species, Natural History, and Integrative Taxonomy

scientific article

Phylogenetic insights into the evolution of parasitism in hymenoptera

scientific article published on January 2003

Phylogenomics of Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera) and implications for evolution of mode of parasitism and viral endogenization

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Phylogeny of the parasitic microgastroid subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) based on sequence data from seven genes, with an improved time estimate of the origin of the lineage

scientific article

Prasmodon zlotnicki, a new Neotropical species of the genus Prasmodon Nixon (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from Costa Rica, with the first host records for the genus

scientific article (publication date: 8 July 2005)

Reared microgastrine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Yanayacu Biological Station and environs (Napo Province, Ecuador): diversity and host specialization ⬇️

scientific article

Resurrection of Neocardiochiles Szépligeti, 1908 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cardiochilinae) with descriptions of five new species from the Neotropical region

scientific article published on 30 June 2022

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 the Apanteles Species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Attacking Lepidoptera in Bombus ( Fervidobombus ) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Colonies in the New World, with Description of a New Species from South America

scholarly article by James B. Whitfield et al published 1 November 2001 in Annals of the Entomological Society of America

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 New World Genus Venanus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), With a New Key and Descriptions of Three New Reared Neotropical Species

article

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

scientific article

Revision of Khoikhoiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)

scientific article published on 14 September 2009

Revision of the Nearctic Species of Rhysipolis Förster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

scientific article published in 1999

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 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

Shift in temporal and spatial expression of Hox gene explains color mimicry in bees

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Strepsiptera, phylogenomics and the long branch attraction problem

scientific article

Systematics, Biology, and Evolution of Microgastrine Parasitoid Wasps

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

The Doryctinae (Braconidae) of Costa Rica: genera and species of the tribe Heterospilini

scientific article

The Natural History of Moths

scientific article published in 1998

The effects of parathyroid hormone fragments on bone formation and their lack of effects on the initiation of colon carcinogenesis in rats as indicated by preneoplastic aberrant crypt formation ⬇️

scientific article published on October 28, 2003

The wing interference patterns (WIPs) of Parapanteles (Braconidae, Microgastrinae): demonstrating a powerful and accessible tool for species-level identification of small and clear winged insects

scientific article published on 13 November 2023

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

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

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

scientific article

Validation of Distatrix pandora Grinter, 2009 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Microgastrinae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Virology. Making nice with viruses

scientific article

Virus or not? Phylogenetics of polydnaviruses and their wasp carriers

scientific article

Whole Genome Sequence of the Parasitoid Wasp That Harbors an Endogenous Virus Mutualist

scholarly article by Gaelen R Burke published in August 2018

Widespread genome reorganization of an obligate virus mutualist

scientific article

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

scientific article

Larissimus nigricans sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), a new reared species of a rare neotropical genus recovered through biodiversity inventory in Ecuador ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 March 2023

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