Publications

Publications relying on LLAMA specimens or otherwise supported by the LLAMA grant

61 publications total

Sokolov I. M., Kavanaugh D. H. 2014. The integripennis species group of Geocharidius Jeannel, 1963 (Carabidae, Bembidiini, Anillina) from Nuclear Central America: a taxonomic review with notes about biogeography and speciation. ZooKeys 443: 61–118. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.443.7880

Sokolov I. M. 2013. A new genus and eight new species of the subtribe Anillina (Carabidae, Trechinae, Bembidiini) from Mexico, with a cladistic analysis and some notes on the evolution of the genus. ZooKeys 352: 51–92. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.352.6052

Collins, N., E. van den Berghe, and L. Carson. 2014. Two new species of Neoxabea, three new species of Oecanthus, and documentation of two other species in Nicaragua (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 140:163-184.

Luna-Cozar, J., R. S. Anderson, R. W. Jones, and J. L. León-Cortés. 2014. A taxonomic monograph of the genus Tylodinus Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae: Tylodina) of Chiapas, Mexico. Zootaxa 3788:1-63.

Veijalainen, A., I. E. Sääksjärvi, H. Tuomisto, G. R. Broad, S. Bordera, and R. Jussila. 2014. Altitudinal trends in species richness and diversity of Mesoamerican parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Insect Conservation and Diversity. doi: 10.1111/icad.12073

Mayorga, C. & Cervantes, L. 2014. The genus Amnestus Dallas (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae: Amnestinae) in Mexico, with the description of eleven new species from Chiapas. Zootaxa 3779: 401–432. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3779.4.1

Veijalainen, A., G. R. Broad, and I. E. Sääksjärvi. 2014. Twenty seven new species of Orthocentrus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Orthocentrinae) with a key to the Neotropical species of the genus. Zootaxa 3768:201-252.

Luk, S. P. and S. A. Marshall. 2014. A revision of the New World genus Aptilotella Duda (Sphaeroceridae: Limosininae). Zootaxa 3761:1-156.

Boudinot, B. E., T. P. Sumnicht, and R. M. M. Adams. 2013. Central American ants of the genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): six new species and keys to workers and males. Zootaxa 3732:1-82.

Vahtera, V., Edgecombe, G. D., and G. Giribet. 2013. Phylogenetics of scolopendromorph centipedes: can denser taxon sampling improve an artificial classification? Invertebrate Systematics 27:578-602.

Giribet, G., and G. D. Edgecombe. 2013. Stable phylogenetic patterns in scutigeromorph centipedes (Myriapoda : Chilopoda : Scutigeromorpha): dating the diversification of an ancient lineage of terrestrial arthropods. Invertebrate Systematics 27:485-501.

Bennett, A. M. R., I. E. Sääksjärvi, and G. R. Broad. 2013. Revision of the New World species of Erythrodolius (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Sisyrostolinae), with a key to the world species. Zootaxa 3702:425-436.

Longino, J. T. 2013. A review of the Central American and Caribbean species of the ant genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf, 1961 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to New World species. Zootaxa 3693:101-151.

Longino, J. T. 2013. A revision of the ant genus Octostruma Forel 1912 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa 3699:1-61.

Boudinot, B. E. 2013. The male genitalia of ants: musculature, homology, and functional morphology (Aculeata, Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 30:29-49.

Anderson, R. S., and A. E. Marvaldi. 2013. Finding unexpected beetles in odd places: Archicorynus kuscheli Anderson and Marvaldi, a new genus and species representing a new tribe, Archicorynini, of Oxycoryninae (Coleoptera: Belidae) from Nicaragua. Coleopterists Bulletin 67: 61-71.

Branstetter, M. 2013. Revision of the Middle American clade of the ant genus Stenamma Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae). ZooKeys 295:1-277.

Murienne J, Benavides LR, Prendini L, Hormiga G, Giribet G. 2013. Forest refugia in Western and Central Africa as 'museums' of Mesozoic biodiversity. Biology Letters 9:20120932.

Longino, J. T., and B. Boudinot. 2013. New species of Central American Rhopalothrix Mayr, 1870 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa 3616:301-324. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.4.1

Veijalainen, A., I. E. Sääksjärvi, T. L. Erwin, I. C. Gómez, and J. T. Longino. 2013. Subfamily composition of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) from western Amazonia: insights into diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps. Insect Conservation and Diversity 6:28-37. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00185.x

Edgecombe GD, Vahtera V, Stock SR, et al. 2012. A scolopocryptopid centipede (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) from Mexican amber: synchrotron microtomography and phylogenetic placement using a combined morphological and molecular data set. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166:768-786.

Branstetter, M. G., and L. Sáenz. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala, Pages 221-268 in E. B. Cano, and J. C. Schuster, eds. Biodiversidad de Guatemala, Vol. 2. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala.

Longino, J. T. 2012. A review of the ant genus Adelomyrmex Emery 1897 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Central America. Zootaxa 3456:1-35.

Sharma, P. P., and G. Giribet. 2012. Out of the Neotropics: late Cretaceous colonization of Australasia by American arthropods. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 279:3501-3509.

Branstetter, M. G. 2012. Origin and diversification of the cryptic ant genus Stenamma Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), inferred from multilocus molecular data, biogeography and natural history. Systematic Entomology 37:478-496. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00624.x

Linzmeier, A. M. & A. S. Konstantinov. 2012. A new genus of leaf litter inhabiting Neotropical Monoplatina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini). Zootaxa 3260:19-32.

Platnik, N. I. & N. Dupérré. 2012. The goblin spider genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae). Part 1. American Museum Novitates 3730:1-64.

Veijalainen, A., N. Wahlberg, G. R. Broad, T. L. Erwin, J. T. Longino, and I. E. Sääksjärvi. 2012. Unprecedented ichneumonid parasitoid wasp diversity in tropical forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279:4694-4698. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1664

Colwell, R. K., A. Chao, N. J. Gotelli, S. Lin, C. X. Mao, R. L. Chazdon, and J. T. Longino. 2012. Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation, and comparison of assemblages. Journal of Plant Ecology 5:3-21.

LaPolla, J.S., R.J. Kallal and S.G. Brady. 2012. A new ant genus from the Greater Antilles and Central America, Zatania (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), exemplifies the utility of male and molecular character systems. Systematic Entomology 37:200-214.

Borowiec, M. L., and J. T. Longino. 2011. Three new species and reassessment of the rare Neotropical ant genus Leptanilloides (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Leptanilloidinae). Zookeys 133:19-48.

Broad, G. R., I.. E. Sääksjärvi, A. Veijalainen, D. G. Notton. 2011. Three new genera of Banchinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Central and South America. Journal of Natural History 45:1311-1329.

Fitzpatrick, MC; Sanders, NJ; Ferrier, S; Longino, JT; Weiser, MD; Dunn, R, et al. 2011. Forecasting the future of biodiversity: a test of single- and multi-species models for ants in North America. Ecography 34:836-847.

Sharma, P. P., G. Giribet. 2011. The evolutionary and biogeographic history of the armoured harvestmen – Laniatores phylogeny based on ten molecular markers, with the description of two new families of Opiliones (Arachnida). Invertebrate Systematics 25:106-142.

Veijalainen, A., G. Broad, N. Wahlberg, J. Longino, and I. Sääksjärvi. 2011. DNA barcoding and morphology reveal two common species in one: Pimpla molesta stat. rev. separated from P. croceipes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). ZooKeys 124:59-70.

Longino, J. T. and R. K. Colwell. 2011. Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient. Ecosphere 2:art29. [pdf]

Esteban Duran, J. R., A. Santos-Silva. 2011. A new species of Echthistatus Pascoe, 1862 and considerations on synonymy of Edechthistatus Monné, 2006 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research 2011 9(1), 100-107.

Laurance, W. F., et al. 2011. Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota. Biological Conservation 144:548-557.

Anderson, R. S. 2010. A taxonomic monograph of the Middle American leaf-litter inhabiting weevil genus Theognete Champion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Molytinae; Lymantini). Zootaxa 2548:1-127. [contact author for pdf]

Brailovsky, H., and E. Barrera. 2010. New genus, two new species and a new record of Mexican Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae). Entomological News 121:217-224.

Brailovsky, H. 2010. A new genus and two new species of Antillocorini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrminae) from Mexico and Guatemala. Zootaxa 2717:62-68.

Koch, M., G. D. Edgecombe, and R. M. Shelley. 2010. Anatomy of Ectonocryptoides (Scolopocryptopidae: Ectonocryptopinae) and the phylogeny of blind Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda). International Journal of Myriapodology 3:51-81.

Longino, J. T. 2010. A taxonomic review of the ant genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Central America. Zootaxa 2720:35-58.

Longino, J. T. 2010. Biodiversity mapping: the ‘John Gould’ component of tropical biology. Biotropica 42:543-545.

McNett, K., J. Longino, P. Barriga, O. Vargas, K. Phillips, and C. L. Sagers. 2010. Stable isotope investigation of a cryptic ant-plant association: Myrmelachista flavocotea (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and Ocotea spp. (Lauraceae). Insectes Sociaux 57:67-72.

Platnick, N. I. & N. Duperre. 2010. The goblin spider genus Scaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 332:1-156.

Weiser, M. D., et al. 2010. Canopy and litter ant assemblages share similar climate-species density relationships. Biology Letters 6:769-772.

Brailovsky, H. 2009. Longinischus ornatus, a new genus and new species of Ozophorini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae) from Guatemala. Zootaxa 2292:65-68.

Brailovsky, H. and L. Cervantes P. 2009. New genus and three new species of leaf-litter-inhabiting Ozophorini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 102:959-963.

Branstetter, M. G. 2009. The ant genus Stenamma Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) redefined, with a description of a new genus Propodilobus. Zootaxa 2221:41-57.

Longino, J. T. 2009. Additions to the taxonomy of New World Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2181:1-90.

Quinet, Y., R. Hamidi, M. X. Ruiz-Gonzalez, J.-C. de Biseau, and J. T. Longino. 2009. Crematogaster pygmaea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), a highly polygynous and polydomous Crematogaster from northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 2075:45-54.

Kumar, A., J. T. Longino, R. K. Colwell, and S. O'Donnell. 2009. Elevational patterns of diversity and abundance of eusocial paper wasps (Vespidae) in Costa Rica. Biotropica 41:338-346.

Longino, J. T., D. J. Cox. 2009. Pheidole bilimeki reconsidered (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1985:34–42.

Astrin, J. J., and P. E. Stüben. 2008. Phylogeny in cryptic weevils: molecules, morphology and new genera of western Palaearctic Cryptorhynchinae (Coleoptera : Curculionidae). Invertebrate Systematics 22:503–522.

Colwell, R. K., G. Brehm, C. L. Cardelus, A. C. Gilman, and J. T. Longino. 2008. Global warming, elevational range shifts, and lowland biotic attrition in the wet tropics. Science 322:258-261.

Herrera, H., J. T. Longino. 2008. New records of introduced ants (Hymenoptera; Formicidae) in the Galapagos Islands. Galapagos Research 65:16-19.

Adams, R. M. M., and J. T. Longino. 2007. Nesting biology of the arboreal fungus-growing ant Cyphomyrmex cornutus and behavioral interactions with the social-parasitic ant Megalomyrmex mondabora. Insectes Sociaux 54:136-143.

Longino, J. T. 2007. A taxonomic review of the genus Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica and a global revision of the aurita group. Zootaxa 1491:1-63.

Longino, J. T., and F. Fernández C. 2007. A taxonomic review of the genus Wasmannia. Pages 271-289 in R. R. Snelling, B. L. Fisher, and P. S. Ward, editors. Advances In Ant Systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage To E. O. Wilson – 50 Years Of Contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80.

Dunn, R. R., N. J. Sanders, M. C. Fitzpatrick, E. Laurent, J.-P. Lessard, D. Agosti, A. N. Andersen, C. Bruhl, X. Cerda, A. M. Ellison, B. L. Fisher, H. Gibb, N. J. Gotelli, A. Gove, B. Guenard, M. Janda, M. Kaspari, J. T. Longino, J. Majer, T. P. McGlynn, S. B. Menke, C. L. Parr, S. M. Philpott, M. Pfeiffer, J. Retana, A. V. Suarez, and H. L. Vasconcelos. 2007. Global ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) biodiversity and biogeography – a new database and its possibilities. Myrmecological News 10:77-83.