Michael F. Whiting

Michael Frank Whiting, U.S. entomologist.

Brigham Young University, Provo, United States of America.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 6 taxon names authored by Michael F. Whiting

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1991

• Whiting, M.F. 1991. New species of Sialis from southern California (Megaloptera: Sialidae). The Great Basin Naturalist 51(4): 411–413. BHL Reference page. 

1997

• Whiting, M.F., Carpenter, J.C., Wheeler, Q.D. & Wheeler, W.C. 1997. The Strepsiptera Problem: Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insect Orders Inferred from 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA Sequences and Morphology. Systematic Biology 46(1): 1–68. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/46.1.1 . DOI: 10.2307/2413635, JSTOR . Reference page. 

1998

• Whiting, M.F. 1998. Long-Branch Distraction and the Strepsiptera. Systematic Biology 47(1): 134–138. DOI: 10.1080/106351598261076 .

2001

• Wheeler, W.C., Whiting, M., Wheeler, Q.D. & Carpenter, J.M. 2001. The phylogeny of the extant hexapod orders. Cladistics 17(2): 113–169. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2001.tb00115.x . Reference page. 

2002

• Whiting, M.F. 2002. Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders: molecular evidence. Zoologica Scripta 31(1): 3–15. DOI: 10.1046/j.0300-3256.2001.00093.x .
• Whiting, M.F. 2002. Mecoptera is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera. Zoologica Scripta 31(1): 93–104. DOI: 10.1046/j.0300-3256.2001.00095.x .

2004

• Cameron, S.L., Miller, K.B., D'Haese, C.A., Whiting, M.F., Barker, S.C. 2004. Mitochondrial genome data alone are not enough to unambiguously resolve the relationships of Entognatha, Insecta and Crustacea sensu lato (Arthropoda). Cladistics 20(6): 534–557. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00040.x . Reference page. 

2005

• Terry, M.D. & Whiting, M.F. 2005. Mantophasmatodea and phylogeny of the lower neopterous insects. Cladistics 21(3): 240–257. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00062.x . Reference page. 

2007

• Miller, K.B., Bergsten, J. & Whiting, M.F. 2007. Phylogeny and classification of diving beetles in the tribe Cybistrini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Dytiscinae). Zoologica Scripta 36(1): 41–59. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00254.x . Reference page. 

2008

• Whiting, M.F., Whiting, A.S., Hastriter, M.W. & Dittmar, K. 2008. A molecular phylogeny of fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera): origins and host associations. Cladistics, 24(5): 677–707. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00211.x PDF. Reference page. 

2009

• Cameron, S.L., Sullivan, J., Song, H., Miller, K.B. & Whiting, M.F. 2009. A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of the Neuropterida (lace-wings, alderflies and snakeflies) and their relationship to the other holometabolous insect orders. Zoologica Scripta 38(6): 575–590. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00392.x . Reference page. 

2010

• Lord, N.P., Hartley, C.S., Lawrence, J.F., McHugh, J.V., Whiting, M.F. & Miller, K.B. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of the minute brown scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae), and recognition of a new beetle family, Akalyptoischiidae, fam. n. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Systematic Entomology 35(4): 753–763. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00532.x PDF. Reference page. 

2011

• Beutel, R.G., Friedrich, F., Hörnschemeyer, T., Pohl, H., Hünefeld, F., Beckmann, F., Meier, R., Misof, B., Whiting, M.F. & Vilhelmsen, L. 2010 (Online) 2011 (Print). Morphological and molecular evidence converge upon a robust phylogeny of the megadiverse Holometabola. Cladistics 27(4): 341–355. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00338.x . Reference page. 

2012

• Robertson, J.A., Ślipiński, A., Hiatt, K., Miller, K.B., Whiting, M.F. & McHugh, J.V. 2012 (Online) 2013 (Print). Molecules, morphology, and minute hooded beetles: a phylogenetic study with implications for the evolution and classification of Corylophidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Systematic Entomology 38(1): 209–232. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00655.x Reference page. 
• Terry, M.D. & Whiting, M.F. 2012. Zorotypus novobritannicus n. sp., the first species of the order Zoraptera (Zorotypidae) from the Australasian Ecozone. Zootaxa 3260: 1–25. Preview. Reference page. 

2014

• Bradler, S., Robertson, J.A. & Whiting, M.F. 2014. A molecular phylogeny of Phasmatodea with emphasis on Necrosciinae, the most species-rich subfamily of stick insects. Systematic Entomology 39(2): 205–222. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12055 . Reference page. 
• Cline, A.R., Smith, T.R., Miller, K., Moulton, M., Whiting, M. & Audisio, P. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of Nitidulidae: assessment of subfamilial and tribal classification and formalization of the family Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Systematic Entomology 39(4): 758–772. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12084 . PDF. Reference page. 

2015

• McElrath, T.C., Robertson, J.A., Thomas, M.C., Osborne, J., Miller, K.B., McHugh, J.V. & Whiting, M.F. 2015. A molecular phylogenetic study of Cucujidae s.l. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Systematic Entomology 40(4): 705–718. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12133 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Robertson, J.A., Ślipiński, A., Moulton, M., Shockley, F.W., Giorgi, J.A., Lord, N.P., McKenna, D.D., Tomaszewska, W., Forrester, J., Miller, K.B., Whiting, M.F. & McHugh, J.V. 2015. Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Systematic Entomology 40(4): 745–778. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12138 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

2017

• Hastriter, M.W., Miller, K.B., Svenson, G.J., Martin, G.J. & Whiting, M.F. 2017. New record of a phoretic flea associated with earwigs (Dermaptera, Arixeniidae) and a redescription of the bat flea Lagaropsylla signata (Siphonaptera, Ischnopsyllidae). ZooKeys 657: 67—79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.657.11095 Reference page. 

2018

• Robertson, J.A., Bradler, S. & Whiting, M.F. 2018. Evolution of Oviposition Techniques in Stick and Leaf Insects (Phasmatodea). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6: 216. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00216 . Reference page. 

2023

• Cumming, R.T., Le Tirant, S., Linde. J.B., Solan, M.E., Foley, E.M., Eulin, E.C., Lavado, R., Whiting, M.F., Bradler, S. & Bank, S. 2023. On seven undescribed leaf insect species revealed within the recent “Tree of Leaves” (Phasmatodea, Phylliidae). ZooKeys 1173ː 145–229. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1173.104413 Reference page.