Contact Information
505 S. Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Ecology and phylogeny of parasitoid wasps
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, Entomology
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Recent Publications
Koptur, S., Primoli, A. S., Neto, H. F. P., & Whitfield, J. (2024). Pierid Butterflies, Legume Hostplants, and Parasitoids in Urban Areas of Southern Florida. Insects, 15(2), Article 123. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15020123
Whitfield, J. B., & Cameron, S. A. (2024). A remarkable Cornish site for ground-nesting bees and wasps. Biodiversity Data Journal, 12, Article e138021. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e138021
Carrington-Hoekstra, P., Fernandez-Triana, J., Dyer, L. A., & Whitfield, J. (2023). Larissimus nigricans sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), a new reared species of a rare neotropical genus recovered through biodiversity inventory in Ecuador. ZooKeys, 2023(1156), 15-24. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1156.101396
Fernandez-Triana, J. L., Shimbori, E. M., Whitfield, J. B., Penteado-Dias, A. M., Shaw, S. R., Boudreault, C., Sones, J., Perez, K., Brown, A., Manjunath, R., Burns, J. M., Hebert, P. D. N., Smith, M. A., Hallwachs, W., & Janzen, D. H. (2023). A revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Alphomelon Mason with the description of 30 new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys, 2023(1175), 5-162. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1175.105068
Jin, S., Parks, K. S., Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., Dyer, L. A., & Whitfield, J. B. (2023). 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. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 96, 967-982. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.111382