Akito Yuji Kawahara
Akito Yuji Kawahara, Entomologist, USA.
- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
- (formerly) Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, 4112 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, MD 20742 USA
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Publications
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2009
edit- Kawahara, A.Y., Nishida, K. & Davis, D.R., 2009: Systematics, host plants, and life histories of three new Phyllocnistis species from the central highlands of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Phyllocnistinae). Zookeys 27: 7–30. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.27.250. Reference page.
2011
edit- Kawahara, A.Y., Ohshima, I., Kawakita, A.W., Regier, J.C., Mitter, C., Cummings, M.P., Davis, D.R., Wagner, D.L., de Prins, J. & Lopez-Vaamonde, C. 2011. Increased gene sampling strengthens support for higher-level groups within leaf-mining moths and relatives (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 182. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-182 Reference page.
- van Nieukerken, E.J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I.J., Kristensen, N.P., Lees, D.C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J.C., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B.A., Brown, J.W., Bucheli, S.R., Davis, D.R., de Prins, J., de Prins, W., Epstein, M.C., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J.D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A.Y., Koster, S., Kozlov, M.V., Lafontaine, J.D., Lamas, G., Landry, J-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Park, K-T., Penz, C.M., Rota, J., Schintlmeister, A., Schmidt, B.C., Sohn, J-C., Solis, M.A., Tarmann, G.M., Warren, A.D., Weller, S., Yaklovlev, R.V., Zolotuhin, V.V. & Zwick, A. 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 212–221 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. PDF. Reference page.
2012
edit- De Prins, J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2012. Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Zootaxa 3594: 1–283. Preview PDF Reference page.
2013
edit- Kawahara, A.Y. 2013. Systematic revision and review of the extant and fossil snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae). Zootaxa 3631(1): 001–074. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3631.1.1 Preview. Reference page.
- De Prins, J., De Prins, W., de Coninck, E., Kawahara, A.Y., Milton, M.A. & Hebert, P.D.N. 2013. Taxonomic history and invasion biology of two Phyllonorycter leaf miners (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with links to taxonomic and molecular datasets. Zootaxa 3709(4): 341–362. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.4.3 Reference page.
2014
edit- Kawahara, A.Y. & Breinholt, J.W. 2014. Phylogenomics provides strong evidence for relationships of butterflies and moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281(1788): 20140970. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0970 . Reference page.
- Misof, B., Liu, S., Meusemann, K., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Frandsen, P.B., Ware, J., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Petersen, M., Izquierdo-Carrasco, F., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Aberer, A.J., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H., Bartel, D., Blanke, A., Berger, S., Böhm, A., Buckley, T.R., Calcott, B., Chen, J., Friedrich, F., Fukui, M., Fujita, M., Greve, C., Grobe, P., Gu, S., Huang, Y., Jermiin, L.S., Kawahara, A.Y., Krogmann, L., Kubiak, M., Lanfear, R., Letsch, H., Li, Y., Li, Z., Li, J., Lu, H., Machida, R., Mashimo, Y., Kapli, P., McKenna, D.D., Meng, G., Nakagaki, Y., Navarrete-Heredia, J.L., Ott, M., Ou, Y., Pass, G., Podsiadlowski, L., Pohl, H., Reumont, B.M. von, Schütte, K., Sekiya, K., Shimizu, S., Slipinski, A., Stamatakis, A., Song, W., Su, X., Szucsich, N.U., Tan, M., Tan, X., Tang, M., Tang, J., Timelthaler, G., Tomizuka, S., Trautwein, M., Tong, X., Uchifune, T., Walzl, M.G., Wiegmann, B.M., Wilbrandt, J., Wipfler, B., Wong, T.K.F., Wu, Q., Wu, G., Xie, Y., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Yeates, D.K., Yoshizawa, K., Zhang, Q., Zhang, R., Zhang, W., Zhang, Y., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhou, L., Ziesmann, T., Zou, S., Li, Y., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Yang, H., Wang, J., Wang, J., Kjer, K.M. & Zhou, X. 2014. Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. Science 346(6210): 763–767. DOI: 10.1126/science.1257570 . Reference page.
2015
edit- Sourakov, A., Plotkin, D., Kawahara, A.Y., Xiao, L., Hallwachs, W. & Janzen, D.H. 2015. On the taxonomy of the erythrina moths Agathodes and Terastia (Crambidae: Spilomelinae): Two different patterns of haplotype divergence and a new species of Terastia. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 25(2): 80–97. Reference page.
2016
edit- Homziak, N.T., Breinholt, J.W. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2016. A historical review of the classification of Erebinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae). Zootaxa 4189(3): 516–542. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4189.3.4. Reference page.
2017
edit- Carvalho, A.P.S., Orr, A.G. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2017. A review of the occurrence and diversity of the sphragis in butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). ZooKeys 694: 41–70. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.694.13097 Reference page.
- Kawahara, A.Y., Plotkin, D., Ohshima, I., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Houlihan, P.R., Breinholt, J.W., Kawakita, A., Xiao, L., Regier, J.C., Davis, D.R., Kumata, T., Sohn, J.C., de Prins, J. & Mitter, C. 2017. A molecular phylogeny and revised higher-level classification for the leaf-mining moth family Gracillariidae and its implications for larval host-use evolution. Systematic Entomology 42, 60–81. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12210 Reference page.
- Seltmann, K.C., Cobb, N.S., Gall, L.F., Bartlett, C.R., Basham, M.A., Betancourt, I., Bills, C. Brandt, B., Brown, R.L., Bundy, C., Caterino, M.S., Chapman, C., Cognato, A.I., Colby, J., Cook, S.P., Daly, K.M., Dyer, L.A., Franz, N.M., Gelhaus, J.K., Grinter, C.C., Harp, C.E., Hawkins, R.L., Heydon, S.L., Hill, G.M., Huber, S., Johnson, N.F., Kawahara, A.Y., Kimsey, L.S., Kondratieff, B.C., Krell, F.T., Leblanc, L., Lee, S., Marshall, C.L., Mccabe, L.M., McHugh, J.V., Menard, K.L., Opler, P.A., Palffy-Muhoray, N., Pardikes, N., Peterson, M.A., Pierce, N.E., Poremski, A., Sikes, D.S., Weintraub, J.D., Wikle, D.L., Zaspel, J.M. & Zolnerowich, G. 2017. LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network. Zootaxa 4247(1): 73–77. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.10 PDF. Reference page.
2018
edit- Espeland, M., Breinholt, J.W., Willmott, K.R., Warren, A.D., Vila, R., Toussaint, E.F.A., Maunsell, S.C., Aduse-Poku, K., Talavera, G., Eastwood, R.G., Jarzyna, M.A., Guralnick, R., Lohman, D.J., Pierce, N.E. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies. Current Biology 28(5): 770–778. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.061 Reference page.
- Kitching, I.J., Rougerie, R., Zwick, A., Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Naumann, S., Mejia, L.B. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236. Reference page.
- Kobayashi, S., Johns, C.A., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Doorenweerd, C., Kawakita, A., Ohshima, I., Lees, D.C., Hanabergh, S. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. Hawaiian Philodoria (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Ornixolinae) leaf mining moths on Myrsine (Primulaceae): two new species and biological data. ZooKeys 773: 109–141. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.773.21690 Reference page.
- St Laurent, R.A., Hamilton, C.A. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. Museum specimens provide phylogenomic data to resolve relationships of sack‐bearer moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae). Systematic Entomology 43(4): 729–761. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12301 Reference page.
- Toussaint, E.F.A., Breinholt, J.W., Earl, C., Warren, A.D., Brower, A.V.Z., Yago, M., Dexter, K.M., Espeland, M., Pierce, N.E., Lohman, D.J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 101. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1216-z Reference page.
2019
edit- Homziak, N.T., Breinholt, J.W., Branham, M.A., Storer, C.G. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2019. Anchored hybrid enrichment phylogenomics resolves the backbone of erebine moths. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 131: 99–105. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.038 Reference page.
- St Laurent, R.A. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2019. Reclassification of the Sack-bearer Moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae). Zookeys, 815: 1–114. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.815.27335 Reference page.
- Toussaint, E.F.A., Vila, R., Yago, M., Chiba, H., Warren, A.D., Aduse-Poku, K., Storer, C., Dexter, K.M., Maruyama, K., Lohman, D.J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2019. Out of the Orient: Post-Tethyan transoceanic and trans-Arabian routes fostered the spread of Baorini skippers in the Afrotropics. Systematic Entomology 44(4): 926–938. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12365 Reference page.
2020
edit- Plotkin, D. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2020. Review of recent taxonomic changes to the emerald moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae). Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e52190. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e52190. Reference page.
- St Laurent, R.A., Herbin, D. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2020. Revision of Roelofa Schaus, 1928 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae, Roelofinae) with a description of a new species. Zootaxa 4877(3): 505–538. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4877.3.6. . Reference page.
2021
edit- Kobayashi, S., Johns, C.A. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2021. Revision of the Hawaiian endemic leaf-mining moth genus Philodoria Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): its conservation status, host plants and descriptions of thirteen new species. Zootaxa 4944(1): 001–175. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4944.1.1. . Reference page.
2023
edit- St Laurent, R.A., Goldstein, P.Z., Miller, J.S., Markee, A., Staude, H.S., Kawahara, A.Y., Miller, S.E. & Robbins, R.K. 2023. Phylogenetic systematics, diversification, and biogeography of Cerurinae (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) and a description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(2): 1–25. DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixad004 Reference page.