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

Christer Hansson; M. Alex Smith; Daniel H. Janzen; Winnie Hallwachs

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Michael J. Sharkey, Erika M. Tucker, Austin Baker, M. Alex Smith, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Ramya Manjunath, Paul Hebert, Winnie Hallwachs, Daniel Janzen (2022)
More discussion of minimalist species descriptions and clarifying some misconceptions contained in Meier et al. 2021. ZooKeys 1110: 135.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1110.85491

Juliana A. Yalemar, Walter T. Nagamine, Renato C. Bautista, Dexter Y. Cho, Larry M. Nakahara, Mohsen M. Ramadan (2024)
Aroplectrus dimerus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), Ectoparasitoid of the Nettle Caterpillar, Oxyplax pallivitta (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae): Evaluation in the Hawaiian Islands. Life 14: 509.

DOI: 10.3390/life14040509

Erinn P. Fagan‐Jeffries, Melina M. Miles, Tareva‐Chine C. Atkin‐Zaldivar, Andy G. Howe, Siva Subramaniam, Donna M. Chambers, Frezzel Praise J. Tadle, Saleh M. Adnan, Verni Sivasubramaniam, Alice Woodward (2024)
Hymenopteran parasitoids of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)) in Australia, with the description of five new species in the families Braconidae and Eulophidae. Austral Entomology 63: 136.

DOI: 10.1111/aen.12682

ZOYA A. YEFREMOVA, ROBERT S. COPELAND (2023)
African Platyplectrus Ferrière (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Kenya, with description of nine new species. Zootaxa 5360: 355.

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.2

Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Vlad Dincă (2016)
DNA barcoding the Lepidoptera inventory of a large complex tropical conserved wildland, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica. Genome 59: 641.

DOI: 10.1139/gen-2016-0005

Priscilla Farina, Stefano Bedini, Barbara Conti (2022)
Multiple Functions of Malpighian Tubules in Insects: A Review. Insects 13: 1001.

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Ryan K Perry, John M Heraty, István Mikó (2019)
A Tale of Two Setae: How Morphology and ITS2 Help Delimit a Cryptic Species Complex in Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Insect Systematics and Diversity 3: .

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Michael J. Raupach, Adriana E. Radulovici (2015)
Looking back on a decade of barcoding crustaceans. ZooKeys 539: 53.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.539.6530

Priscila Elena Hanisch, Pablo D. Lavinia, Andrew V. Suarez, Darío Alejandro Lijtmaer, Maurice Leponce, Carolina Ivon Paris, Pablo Luis Tubaro (2017)
Mind the gap! Integrating taxonomic approaches to assess ant diversity at the southern extreme of the Atlantic Forest. Ecology and Evolution 7: 10451.

DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3549

Thanushi Eagalle, M. Alex Smith, Peter G. Kevan (2017)
Diversity of parasitoid and parasitic wasps across a latitudinal gradient: Using public DNA records to work within a taxonomic impediment. FACETS 2: 937.

DOI: 10.1139/facets-2016-0061

Jose L. Fernandez-Triana, James B. Whitfield, M. Alex Smith, Robert Kula, Winnie Hallwachs, Daniel Janzen (2015)
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. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 62: 137.

DOI: 10.3897/dez.62.5276

Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs (2021)
To us insectometers, it is clear that insect decline in our Costa Rican tropics is real, so let’s be kind to the survivors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: .

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2002546117

Lucía Teresa Fuentes Guardiola, Oswaldo García Martínez, Sergio René Sánchez Peña, Jorge Corrales Reynaga (2017)
Géneros de eulophidae (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA) presentes en el cultivo de naranjo en el estado de Morelos, México. ACTA ZOOLÓGICA MEXICANA (N.S.) 33: 350.

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Subhajit Pal, Swarnali Bhattacharya, Tapamay Dhar, Ankita Gupta, Arunava Ghosh, Sandip Debnath, Nikhitha Gangavarapu, Prajna Pati, Nilanjana Chaudhuri, Hirak Chatterjee, Sabita Kumar Senapati, Prateek Madhab Bhattacharya, Mahesh Kumar Gathala, Alison M. Laing (2024)
Hymenopteran parasitoid complex and fall armyworm: a case study in eastern India. Scientific Reports 14: .

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Martin Šigut, Martin Kostovčík, Hana Šigutová, Jiří Hulcr, Pavel Drozd, Jan Hrček, Mehrdad Hajibabaei (2017)
Performance of DNA metabarcoding, standard barcoding, and morphological approach in the identification of host–parasitoid interactions. PLOS ONE 12: e0187803.

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V. E. Gokhman (2018)
Integrative Taxonomy and Its Implications for Species-Level Systematics of Parasitoid Hymenoptera. Entomological Review 98: 834.

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P. Abhisree, A. P. Ranjith, M. Nasser, Gérard Delvare (2021)
A review of the biology of Neochalcis Kirby (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) with a new host and biological data for N. breviceps (Masi). Journal of Natural History 55: 1769.

DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1965237

Michael J. Sharkey, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Eric G. Chapman, M. Alex Smith, Tanya Dapkey, Allison Brown, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Suresh Naik, Ramya Manjunath, Kate Perez, Megan Milton, Paul Hebert, Scott R. Shaw, Rebecca N. Kittel, M. Alma Solis, Mark A. Metz, Paul Z. Goldstein, John W. Brown, Donald L. J. Quicke, C. van Achterberg, Brian V. Brown, John M. Burns (2021)
Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species. ZooKeys 1013: 1.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1013.55600