
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
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
Sharkey, M. J., Baker, A., McCluskey, K., Smith, A., Naik, S., Ratnasingham, S., Manjunath, R., Perez, K., Sones, J., D’souza, M., Jacques, B. S., Hajibabaei, M., Whitfield, J., Arias, D., Solis, A., Metz, M., Burns, J., Zuñiga, R., Phillips-Rodriguez, E., ... Janzen, D. (2023). Minimalist revision of Mesochorus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Mesochorinae) from Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with 158 new species and host records for 129 species. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 71, Article e53316. https://doi.org/10.15517/rev.biol.trop..v71iS2.56316
Smith, M. A., Warne, C., Pare, K., Dolson, S., Loewen, E., Jones, K., McPhee, M., Stitt, L., Janke, L., Smith, R. M., Coatsworth, H., Loureiro, A. M. M. C., Solis, A., Viquez, C. F., Rodriguez, J., Fernandez-Triana, J., Sharkey, M. J., Whitfield, J., Masís, A., ... Janzen, D. H. (2023). Communities of Small Terrestrial Arthropods Change Rapidly Along a Costa Rican Elevation Gradient. In Neotropical Gradients and their Analysis (pp. 255-307). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22848-3_10
Campos-Moreno, D. F., Gates, M. W., Zhang, Y. M., Pérez-Lachaud, G., Dyer, L. A., Whitfield, J. B., & Pozo, C. (2022). Aximopsis gabrielae sp. nov. a gregarious parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) of the skipper Quadrus cerialis (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) feeding on Piper amalago in southern Mexico. Journal of Natural History, 56(1-4), 173-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2022.2025940