Joseph Parker

Joseph Parker, American entomologist.

Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University, 701 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA.

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Hlaváč, P., Baňař, P. & Parker, J. 2013. The Pselaphinae of Madagascar. II. Redescription of the genus Semiclaviger Wasmann, 1893 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Clavigeritae) and synonymy of the subtribe Radamina Jeannel, 1954. Zootaxa 3736(3): 265–276. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3736.3.4 Reference page.
Parker, J. & Maruyama, M. 2013. Jubogaster towai, a new Neotropical genus and species of Trogastrini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) exhibiting myrmecophily and extreme body enlargement. Zootaxa 3630(2): 369–378. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3630.2.11 Reference page.

Parker, J. 2014. Morphogenia: a new genus of the Neotropical tribe Jubini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from the Brazilian Amazon. ZooKeys 373: 57–66. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.373.6788 Reference page.
Parker, J. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2014. Specialized myrmecophily at the ecological dawn of modern ants. Current Biology 24(20): 2428–2434. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.068 Reference page.

Parker, J. 2016. Myrmecophily in beetles (Coleoptera): Evolutionary patterns and biological mechanisms. Myrmecological news 22: 65–108.
Parker, J. 2016. Emergence of a superradiation: Pselaphine rove beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar and their evolutionary implications. Systematic entomology 41: 541–566.
Yamamoto, S., Maruyama, M. & Parker, J. 2016. Evidence for social parasitism of early insect societies by Cretaceous rove beetles. Nature Communications 7(13658): 1–9. Article Reference page.

Yin, Z-W., Parker, J., Cai, C-Y., Huang, D-Y. & Li, L-Z. 2017 [2018]. A new stem bythinine in Cretaceous Burmese amber and early evolution of specialized predatory behaviour in pselaphine rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16(7): 531–541. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1313790 . Reference page.

Parker, J. & Owens, B.E. 2018. Batriscydmaenus Parker and Owens, New Genus, and Convergent Evolution of a “Reductive” Ecomorph in Socially Symbiotic Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 72(2): 219–229. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-72.2.219 Reference page.