PUBLICATIONS

• Wharton, R. A. 2002. Revision of the Australian Alysiini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Invertebrate Systematics 16: 7-105.
  
  
• Kimani-Njogu, S. W. and R. A. Wharton. 2002. Two new species of Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) attacking fruit-infesting Tephritidae (Diptera) in western Kenya. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 104: 79-90.
  
  
• Wharton, R. A. and C. van Achterberg. 2000. Family group names in Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). J. Hym. Res. 9: 254-270.
  
  
• Wharton, R. A. 2000. Can braconid classification be restructured to facilitate protrayal of relationships? In: Austin and Dowton, editors. Hymenoptera Evolution, biodiversity, and biological control. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia, pp. 143-153.
  
  
• Delfin G., H. and R. A. Wharton. 2000. Historical review of the genera Aleiodes and Rogas in Mexico, with a redescription of Aleidoes cameronii (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Pan-Pac. Ent. 76: 58-70.
  
  
• Wharton, R. A. 1999. A review of the Old World genus Fopius Wharton (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Opiinae), with description of two new species reared from fruit-infesting Tephritidae (Diptera). J. Hym. Res. 8: 48-64.

PUBLICATIONS BY PEET STUDENTS

Published or in press

• Fontal-Cazalla, F. M., M. L. Buffington, G. Nordlander, J. Liljeblad, P. Ros-Farre, J. L. Nieves-Aldrey, J. Pujade-Villar, and F. Ronquist. 2002. Phylogeny of the Eucoilinae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae). Cladistics 18: 154-199.
  
  
• Buffington, M. 2002. The description of Aegeseucoela Buffington, new name, with notes on the status of Gronotoma Foerster. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.


• Yoder, M. and R. A. Wharton. 2002 Nomenclature of African Psilini (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) and status of Coptera robustior a parasitoid of Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae). Canadian Entomologist 134: 561-576.
  
  
• Mercado, I. and R. A. Wharton. Mexican Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), including a preliminary assessment of species groups in Toxoneuron Say and Retusigaster Dangerfield, Austin and Whitfield. Journal of Natural History.

Submitted for publication

• Kula, R. R. Morphological variation in Opius Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with an emphasis on Nearctic species in the subgenus Gastrosema Fischer. Journal of Hymenoptera Research.
  
  
• Ronquist, F., M. Buffington, and F. Fontal-Cazala. Chapter 10. The cynipoid families. In: Hansen, P. and I. D. Gauld (eds.). The Hymenoptera of South America (Spanish Version).


• Yoder, M., A Revision of the North American species of Entomacis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) (Can. Ent.)

THESES

• BUFFINGTON, M. 2000. The phylogeny and classification of the Gronotoma group (s. l.) of genera (Hymenoptera: Eucoilinae: Figitidae). MS, TAMU.
  
  
• KULA, R. R. 2001. Revision of the Nearctic species in Opius (Gastrosema) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Opiinae).
  
  
• YODER, M. J. 2002. A revision of the North American species of Entomacis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) with a preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the worldwide species.

• Number of new taxa described: 2 genera, 2 subgenera, 54 species 
  
  
• Number of taxa redescribed: 2 genera, 10 species

DIGITAL DISSEMINATION (DATABASES, WEB PAGES etc.)

• Our PEET home page (these pages)
  
  Project details, images, systematics utilities, selected references, links,  and other information of use to those interested in Parasitic Hymenoptera.
  


• Opiine Databases
  
  Full citations for all known taxonomic literature to Opiinae, including many obscure references.  Also includes most non-taxonomic literature in which opiines are mentioned (e. g., general biology, hosts, behavior, biological control). The species taxonomy database is now on-line. It includes information on original citation, types, taxonomic history, hosts, and distributions.
  
  
• Parasitoids of Fruit-Infesting Tephritidae
  
  An digital identification guide to identification of the parasitiods of fruit-infesting tephritidae. The project includes more than 200 hi-resolution digital images, a key, and more than 50 terminal pages.
  
  
• mtrx
  
  A relational database in Micrsoft Access™ capable of managing morphological characters, terminals, and groups thereof. Unlimited numbers of matricies consisting of individual or grouped data may be stored.  Data may be exported for analysis in Nexus format.
  
  
• Digitally Imaging Parasitic Hymenoptera
  
  A method-based set of web-pages describing some of the techniques used to digitially image small insects.
  
  
• MORPHBANK
  
  This is an image database initiated by PEET collaborator Fredrik Ronquist at Uppsala, Sweden. PEET contributions to the database (primarily by student Matthew Buffington) are acknowedged on the MORPHBANK website.
  


• Encarsia (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) database
  
  This is a species-level database for the genus Encarsia, compiled by Jim Woolley as one of our first PEET products. Developed primarily to assist researchers in biological control of pests. Woolley receives frequent requests for identification of species in this genus, as well as information on hosts, etc. Data on hosts and species distributions are important features of the database.