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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

Fernandez-Triana, J. L., Boudreault, C., Whitfield, J. B., Höcherl, A., Smith, M. A., Hallwachs, W., & Janzen, D. H. (2025). A revision of the parasitoid wasp genus dolichogenidea viereck (Hymenoptera, braconidae) in the neotropical region, with the description of 102 new species. ZooKeys, 1237, 1-250. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1237.141007

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

Whitfield, J. B., Fernandez-Triana, J. L., & Boudreault, C. (2025). Two new Neotropical genera of Miracinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with unusual metasomal morphology. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 98, 509-524. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.98.150254

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

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