Publications by lab members:

Boldface denotes current or former lab members, some shared with the Cameron lab. For Cameron lab publications not listed below, proceed to the Cameron lab page.

Barbosa, P., A. E. Segarra, P. Gross, A. Caldas, K. Ahlstrom, R. W. Carlson, D. C. Ferguson, E. E. Grissell, R. W. Hodges, P. M.. Marsh, R. W. Poole, M. E. Schauff, S. R. Shaw, J. B. Whitfield, & N. E. Woodley. 2001. Differential parasitism of macrolepidopteran herbivores on two deciduous tree species. Ecology 82: 698-704.   (click for PDF)

Cameron, S. A. & J. B. Whitfield. 1996. Use of walking trails by bees. Nature 379:125.   (click for PDF)

S. A. Cameron & J. B. Whitfield. 2002. Book Review - Molecular Evolution: A Phylogenetic Approach. R. D. M. Page and E. C. Holmes. Blackwell Science. ISBN 0-86542-889-1. Systematic Biology 51(3): 536-538.    (click for PDF)

Chen, X., S. A. Belokobylskij, C. van Achterberg & J. B. Whitfield. 2004. Cornutorogas, a new genus with four new species of the subfamily Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Oriental Region. Journal of Natural History 38: 2211-2223.   (click for PDF)

Chen, X., Piao Meihua, J. B. Whitfield & He Junhua. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships within the Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) based on the D2 variable region of 28S ribosomal RNA. Acta Entomologica Sinica 46: 209-217.   (click for PDF)

Chen, X. & J. B. Whitfield. 2003. The discovery of the genus Ecnomios Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China, with description of a new species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105: 348-351.   (click for PDF)

Chen, X. & J. B. Whitfield. 2002. A new species of the rare genus Katytermus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China. Entomological News 113: 239-242.   (click for PDF)

Chen, X., J. B. Whitfield & J. He. 2004. Revision of the subfamily Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China. I. The genera Austerocardiochiles Dangerfield, Austin & Whitfield,  Eurycardiochiles Dangerfield, Austin & Whitfield and Psilommiscus Enderlein.  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106: 35-51. (click for PDF)

Chen, X., J. B. Whitfield & J. He. 2002. The discovery of the genus Gnamptodon Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China, with description of one new species. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 78: 184-187.    (click for PDF)

Chen, X., J. B. Whitfield & J. He. 2002. Discovery of the genus Microtypus Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China, with records of three species. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 75: 333-334.    (click for PDF)

Dangerfield, P. C., A. D. Austin & J. B. Whitfield. 1999. Systematics of the world genera of Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13 : 917-976.   (click for PDF)

Deans, A. R. 2002. Papatuka alamunyiga Deans, a new genus and species of apterous ensign wasp (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) from Kenya. Zootaxa 95: 1-8.   (click for PDF)

Deans, A. R., H. H. Basibuyuk, D. Azar & A. Nel. 2004. Descriptions of two new Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian) ensign wasp genera (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) from Lebanese amber. Cretaceous Research. 25 (4): 509-516.

Deans, A. R. & M. Huben. 2003. Annotated key to the ensign wasp (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) genera of the world with descriptions of three new genera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105: 859-875.   (click for PDF)

Deans, A. R. and J. T. Jennings.  2004.  Evanioidea.  Tree of Life Website: <http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Evanioidea&contgroup=Apocrita>.

Deans, A. R. & L. M. Roth. 2003. Nyctibora acaciana (Blattellidae: Nyctiborinae), a new species of cockroach from Central America that oviposits on ant-acacias. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 129(2): 267-283.   (click for PDF)

Deans, A. R., J. B. Whitfield & D. H. Janzen. 2003. Taxonomy and natural history of the microgastrine genus Alphomelon Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 12: 1-41.   (click for PDF)

Figueroa-De la Rosa, J. I., A. A. Valerio, V. Lopez M., J. B. Whitfield and M. J. Sharkey. 2004. Descriptions of two new species of Epsilogaster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Mendesellinae) from Mexico and Costa Rica.  Pan-Pacific Entomologist  79: 198-206.   (click for PDF)

Gates, M. W., J. M. Heraty, M. E. Schauff, D. L. Wagner, J. B. Whitfield & D. B. Wahl. 2002. Survey of the parasitic Hymenoptera on leafminers in California. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 11: 213-270.   (click for PDF)

Janzen, D. H., A.K. Walker, J. B. Whitfield, G. Delvare, & I. D. Gauld. 2003. Host- specificity and hyperparasitoids of three new species of Costa Rican Microplitis (Braconidae: Microgastrinae), parasitoids of sphingid caterpillars. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 12: 42-76.   (click for PDF)

Jennings, J. T. and A. R. Deans.  2005.  Gasteruptiidae.  Tree of Life Website: <http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Gasteruptiidae&contgroup=Apocrita>. (including subfamily links therein)

Le Corff, J., R. J. Marquis & J. B. Whitfield. 2000. Temporal and spatial variation in the parasitoid community associated with the herbivores that feed on Missouri Quercus. Environmental Entomology 29: 181-194.    (click for PDF)

Lewis, C. N. & J. B. Whitfield. 1999. Braconid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) diversity in forest plots under different silvicultural methods. Environmental Entomology 28: 986-997.   (click for PDF)

Mardulyn, P. & J. B. Whitfield. 1999. Phylogenetic signal in the COI, 16S and 28S genes for inferring relationships among genera of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae); evidence of a high diversification rate in this group of parasitoids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12: 282-294.    (click for PDF)

Michel-Salzat, A. & J. B. Whitfield. 2004. Preliminary evolutionary relationships within the parasitoid wasp genus Cotesia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae): combined analysis of four genes. Systematic Entomology 29: 371–382.   (pdf)

Ruberson, J. R. & J. B. Whitfield. 1996. Facultative egg-larval parasitism of the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) by Cotesia marginiventris (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Florida Entomologist 79: 296-302.   (click for PDF)

Steinkraus, D. C. & J. B. Whitfield. 1994. Chinese caterpillar fungus and world record runners. American Entomologist, Winter 1994: 235-239.  (click for PDF)

Tooker, John F., Andrew R. Deans & Lawrence M. Hanks. 2004. Description of the Antistrophus rufus (Hymenopotera: Cynipidae) species complex, including two new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 13 (1): 125-133. 

Valerio, A. A., J. J. Rodriguez, J. B. Whitfield & D. H. Janzen. 2005. Prasmodon zlotnicki, a new Neotropical species of the genus Prasmodon Nixon (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from Costa Rica, with the first host records for the genus. Zootaxa 1016: 29-38. (pdf)

Valerio, A. A., A. R. Deans & J. B. Whitfield. 2004. Review of the microgastrine braconid wasp genus Exoryza, with description of a new species, E. monocavus, from Central America. Zootaxa 526: 1-11.  (click for pdf)

Valerio, A. A. & J. B. Whitfield. 2000. Taxonomic notes on Costa Rican Mendesellinae (Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae), with description of a new species of Mendesella Whitfield and Mason. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 9: 271-276.   (click for PDF)

Valerio, A. A. & J. B. Whitfield. 2002. Epsilogaster faviolae, a new species of Mendesellinae from Colombia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zootaxa 41: 1-7.  (click for PDF)

Valerio, A. A. & J. B. Whitfield. 2003. A new species of the enigmatic genus Teremys Maso, T. hanniae, from Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zootaxa 364: 1-9.  (click for PDF)

Valerio, A. A. & J. B. Whitfield. 2005. Two new species of the genus Austrocotesia Austin & Dangerfield (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Andean region of South America. Zootaxa 888: 1-11.  (pdf)

Valerio, A. A. & J. B. Whitfield. 2005. Parapanteles rooibos, n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae): the first record of the genus from the African continent. Zootaxa 858: 1-8.  (pdf)

Villalobos, F. & A. A. Valerio 2002. The phylogenetic relationships of the bat genus Sturnira Gray, 1842 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Mammalian Biology 67: 268-275.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 1985. The nearctic species of Deuterixys Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 61: 60-67.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 1990c. Parasitoids, polydnaviruses and endosymbioses. Parasitology Today 6: 381-384.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 1992. The polyphyletic origin of endoparasitism in the cyclostome lineages of Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 17: 273-286.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 1992. Phylogeny of the non-aculeate Apocrita and the evolution of parasitism in the Hymenoptera. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 1: 3-14.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 1994. Mutualistic viruses and the evolution of host ranges in endoparasitoid Hymeniptera. Chaper 9 in: Parasitoid community ecology. Bradford A. Hawkins & William Sheehan (eds.) Oxford University Press, Oxford. (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J.B. 1995. Checklist of the Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in America north of Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 68: 245-262.  (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 1997. Subfamily Microgastrinae. Chapter 29, pp. 333-364 in: Wharton, R. A., P. M. Marsh, and M. J. Sharkey, eds. Identification Manual to the New World Genera of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera). International Society of Hymenopterists Special Publication 1. 439 pp.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 1997. Molecular and morphological data suggest a common origin for the polydnaviruses among braconid wasps. Naturwißenschaften 84: 502-507.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 1998. Phylogeny and evolution of the host/parasitoid relationship in the Hymenoptera. Annual Review of Entomology 43: 129-151.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 1999. Review of: Biogeography, 2nd Edition, James H. Brown and Mark V. Lomolino, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 1998, 560 pp, $64.95, ISBN 0- 87893-073-6. Environmental Entomology 28: 912-913.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 1999. Destructive sampling and information management in molecular systematic research: an entomological perspective. Chapter 18, pp. 301-314 in: Byers, S. and D. Metsger, eds., Managing the Modern Herbarium: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections and Royal Ontario Museum . 384 pp.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 2000. Phylogeny of microgastroid braconid wasps, and what it tells us about polydnavirus evolution. Pp. 97-105 in: Austin, A.D. & M. Dowton (Eds) The Hymenoptera: Evolution, Biodiversity and Biological Control. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. 2002. Estimating the age of the polydnavirus/braconid wasp symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 99: 7508-7513.   (click for PDF)
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Whitfield, J. B. 2003. Phylogenetic insights into the evolution of parasitism in Hymenoptera. In The Evolution of Parasitism - A Phylogenetic Approach, (T. J. Littlewood, ed.) Advances in Parasitology 54: 69-100.    (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. & S. Asgari. 2003. Virus or not? Phylogenetics of polydnaviruses and their wasp carriers. Journal of Insect Physiology 49: 397-405. (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B., A. Benzing & F. Ponce. 2002. Review of the Glyptapanteles species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Microgastrinae) attacking noctuids in field crops in the Neotropical Region, with descriptions of two new species from the Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 11: 152-165.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. & S. A. Cameron. 1998. Hierarchical analysis of variation in the 16S rRNA gene among Hymenoptera. Molecular Biology and Evolution 15: 1728-1743.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B., S. A. Cameron, S. R. Ramirez, K. Roesch, S. Messinger, M. Taylor & D. Cole. 2001. 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. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94: 851-857.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B., W.-Y. Choi, & K.-I. Suh. 2004. Andesipolis, a puzzling new genus of cyclostome Braconidae (Hymenoptera) from the Chilean Andes, with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 438: 1-15.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. & A. R. Deans. 2001. Review of: Describing Species: Practical Taxonomic Procedure for Biologists, Judith E. Winston, Columbia University Press, New York, 1999, 518 pp. ISBN 0-231-06825-5. American Entomologist 47: 189- 190.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. & C. N. Lewis. 2001. Analytical survey of the braconid wasp fauna (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on six midwestern U. S. tallgrass prairies. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94: 230-238.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B., P. Mardulyn, A. D. Austin and M. Dowton. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships among microgastrine braconid wasp genera based on data from the 16S, COI and 28S genes and morphology. Systematic Entomology 27: 337-359.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. & W. R. M. Mason. 1994. Mendesellinae, a new subfamily of braconid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with a review of relationships within the microgastroid assemblage. Systematic Entomology 19: 61-76.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. & M. T- Oltra Moscardo. 2004. Revision of the neotropical species of Deuterixys Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).  Journal of Hymenoptera Research 13 (1): 134-148.  (click for pdf)

Whitfield, J. B., A. A. Valerio, & W.-Y. Choi. 2005. Redescription of Pelicope yuccamica Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), with notes on its unusual biology and relationships.  Journal of Hymenoptera Research 14: 200-205.   (pdf)

Whitfield, J. B. & D.L. Wagner. 1988. Patterns in host ranges within the nearctic species of the parasitoid genus Pholetesor Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Environmental Entomology 17: 608-615.   (click for PDF)

Whitfield, J. B. & D.L. Wagner. 1991. Annotated keys to the genera of Braconidae (Hymenoptera) attacking leafmining Lepidoptera in the Holarctic region. Journal of Natural History 25: 733-754.   (click for PDF)