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Contact Information

320 Morrill Hall
505 S. Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests

Ecology and phylogeny of parasitoid wasps 

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor Emeritus, Entomology

Recent Publications

Quicke, D. L. J., Fleming, A. J., Wood, D. M., Woodley, N. E., Manjunath, R., Naik, S., Smith, M. A., Sharkey, M. J., Hallwachs, W., Janzen, D. H., Fernández-Triana, J., Whitfield, J. B., Hebert, P. D. N., & Butcher, B. A. (2025). Tachinid Flies (Diptera), Caterpillar Hosts (Lepidoptera) and Their Food Plants, Reared in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Northwestern Costa Rica: Documenting Community Structure with the Aid of DNA Barcodes. Diversity, 17(9), Article 658. https://doi.org/10.3390/d17090658

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

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