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Dr. Ralph S. Peters

  • Head of Section Hymenoptera

Clas M. Naumann-Bau
Adenauerallee 160
53113 Bonn

Phone: +49 228 9122 290
E-Mail: r.peters@leibniz-lib.de

Projects

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    2025

  • 2025/11

    Lehmitz, R., Hohberg, K., Husemann, M., Peters, R.S., Scheunemann, N., Bálint, M., Balke, M., Bieberich, J., Bista, I., Borsch, T., Bourlat, S.J., Bussmann, R.W., Damm, U., Dey, L., Flocco, C.G., Grossart, H., Haase, P., Höfer, H., Krashevska, V., Krogmann, L., Lücking, R., Arbizu, P.M., Meier, R., Mengual, X., Mercado-Salas, N.F., Moore, J.M., Orr, M.C., Otte, V., Overmann, J., Pauls, S.U., Pereira, R.J., Peters, J., Potapov, A., Printzen, C., Raub, F., Raupach, M.J., Rduch, V., Retter, A., von Reumont, B.M., Rossel, S., Schmelz, R.M., Schmitt, T., Scholler, M., Stolle, E., Thines, M., Vasilita, C., Wesener, T., Zahiri, R., Zaitsev, A., Zimmermann, J., Żyła, D., Misof, B., Tockner, K.

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    Unknown Germany - An integrative biodiversity discovery program

    npj Biodiversity, 1, 4

  • 2025/10

    Vogel, J., Martin, J., Forshage, M., Salden, T., Staverløkk, A., Verheyde, F., Nordlander, G., Herz, A., Peters, R.S.

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    The Leptopilina Förster, 1869 of the Western Palearctic, and an updated list of the world species (Hymenoptera, Figitidae, Eucoilinae)

    Journal of Hymenoptera Research/Journal of Hymenoptera research, 98

  • 2025/05

    Peters, R.

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    Hymenoptera evolution: A long and winding road

    Current Biology, 9, 35

  • 2025/02

    Peters, R.S., Gibson, G.A.

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    Ooderidae

  • 2025/01

    Kilian, I.C., Kirse, A., Peters, R.S., Bourlat, S.J., Fonseca, V.G., Wägele, W.J., Hamm, A., Mengual, X.

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    Maximizing Identification Precision of Hymenoptera and Brachycera (Diptera) With a Non‐Destructive Metabarcoding Approach

    Ecology and Evolution, 1, 15

  • 2025/01

    Guinet, B., Vogel, J., Kacem Haddj El Mrabet, N., Peters, R., Hrcek, J., Buffington, M.L., Varaldi, J.

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    Dating the origin of a viral domestication event in parasitoid wasps attacking Diptera

    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2039, 292

  • 2024

  • 2024/11

    Verheyde, F., Peeters, T., De Ketelaere, A., Vogel, J., Peters, R., Ferrer-Suay, M.

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    Een beknopte inleiding tot de haarbandwespen (Hymenoptera: Figitidae)

    Entomologische berichten, 5, 84

  • 2024/10

    Peters, R., Rduch, V.

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    German Barcode of Life, Entdeckung und Beschreibung neuer Arten

  • 2024/08

    Rduch, V., Dey, L., Ghazaryan, A., Husemann, M., Iankoshvili, G., Krammer, H., Lambrecht, M., Marabuto, E., Mengual, X., Müller, B., Peters, R., Rulik, B., Salden, T., Silva-Brandao, K.L., Espeland, M., Thormann, J., Töpfer, T., Weiss, C., Zyla, D., Hein, N.

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    Exkursion in den Kaukasus: Der CaBOL BioBlitz 2022 in Armenien und Georgien

  • 2024/05

    Vogel, J., Peters, R.S., Selfa, J., Ferrer-Suay, M.

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    Characterising the north-western European species of Phaenoglyphis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) with novel insights from DNA barcode data

    Biodiversity Data Journal, 12

  • 2024/05

    Rehberger, S., Vogel, J., Müller, B., Vasilita, C., Krogmann, L., Schmidt, S., Peters, R.S.

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    The obligate fig-pollinator family Agaonidae in Germany (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)

    Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1, 71

  • 2024/04

    Dietz, L., Eberle, J., Mayer, C., Kukowka, S., Bohacz, C., Baur, H., Espeland, M., Huber, B., Hutter, C., Mengual, X., Peters, R., Vences, M., Wesener, T., Willmott, K., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Ahrens, D.

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    Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa (vol 14, pg 543, 2023)

    Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4, 15

  • 2024/03

    Meusemann, K., Scherber, C., Rduch, V., Peters, R.

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    Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity. (2024). 10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science 2024 (Version 1). Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. 

  • 2024/03

    Gilgenbach, C., Vehof, J., Wipfler, B., Peters, R.S.

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    Small wasps, big muscles: Fore and hind leg modifications in chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)

    Arthropod Structure & Development, 79

  • 2024/00

    GUINET, B., Vogel, J., Peters, R.S., Hrcek, J., Buffington, M., Varaldi, J.

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    Dating the origin of a viral domestication event in parasitoid wasps attacking Diptera

    bioRxiv

  • 2024/00

    Vogel, J., Sauren, J., Peters, R.S.

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    New evidence on the identity of the European Helorus species (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Heloridae)

    Biodiversity Data Journal, 12

  • 2023

  • 2023/07

    Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species

    European Journal of Taxonomy, 884

  • 2023/00

    Martin, J., Vogel, J., Peters, R.S., Herz, A.

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    First record of Leptopilina japonica Novković & Kimura, 2011 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) in Germany, a parasitoid of the Spotted Wing Drosophila Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura …

    Journal of Applied Entomology, 147

  • 2022

  • 2022/12

    Burks, R., Mitroiu, M., Fusu, L., Heraty, J.M., Janšta, P., Heydon, S., Papilloud, N.D., Peters, R.S., Tselikh, E.V., Woolley, J.B., Noort, S.v., Baur, H., Cruaud, A., Darling, C., Haas, M., Hanson, P., Krogmann, L., Rasplus, J.

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    From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)

    Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 94

  • 2021

  • 2021/08

    Ahrens, D., Ahyong, S.T., Ballerio, A., Barclay, M.V., Eberle, J., Espeland, M., Huber, B.A., Mengual, X., Pacheco, T.L., Peters, R.S., RULIK, B., Vaz-De-Mello, F., Wesener, T., Krell, F.

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    Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses?—A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021)

    Zootaxa, 2, 5027

  • 2021/02

    Bandyan, S.K., Peters, R.S., Kadir, N.B., Ferrer-Suay, M., Kirchner, W.H.

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    A survey of aphid parasitoids and hyperparasitoids (Hymenoptera) on six crops in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 81

  • 2021/00

    Braun, C., Peters, R.S.

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    Twelve new species of Dipara Walker, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Diparinae) from Kenya, with a key to the Afrotropical species

    ZooKeys, 1067

  • 2020

  • 2020/03

    Janšta, P., Delvare, G., Baur, H., Wipfler, B., Peters, R.S.

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    Data–rich description of a new genus of praying mantid egg parasitoids, Lasallegrion gen. n.(Hymenoptera: Torymidae: Podagrionini), with a re-examination of Podagrion species …

    Journal of Natural History, 9-12, 54

  • 2020/00

    Hausmann, A., Krogmann, L., Peters, R.S., Rduch, V., Schmidt, S.

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    GBOL III: Dark taxa: Researchers launch new BIOSCAN project that aims to illuminate thousands of new insect species on Germany's doorstep

    Barcode bulletin, 10

  • 2020/00

    Rduch, V., Peters, R.S.

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    GBOL III: Dark Taxa–die dritte Phase der German Barcode of Life Initiative hat begonnen

    Koenigiana, 2, 14

  • 2018

  • 2018/04

    Werner, J., Peters, R.S.

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    Taxonomic revision of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae), with description of ten new species

    Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 63

  • 2018/00

    Weber, M., Klimsa, E., Reder, G., Peters, R.S.

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    Reliability, completeness and improvement of our knowledge on Germany’s parasitoid wasp fauna - a case study in Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)

    Bonn zoological Bulletin, 2, 67

  • 2016

  • 2016/00

    Schwarz, N., Hamm, A., Mengual, X., Peters, R.S.

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    Examining Plant-Pollinator Networks in Agriculture

    Barcode bulletin

  • 2014

  • 2014/00

    Kubiak, M., Stotzem, H.C., Schütte, K., Peters, R.S.

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    A commented historic inventory of the caddisfly fauna (Trichoptera) of the fen complex "Eppendorfer Moor" in Northern Germany, based on material collected by G. Ulmer 1896–1907

    Lauterbornia, 77

  • 2014/00

    Peters, R.

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    First record of the parasitoid wasp Tachinaephagus zealandicus Ashmead, 1904 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae) in Germany

    Bonn zoological Bulletin, 63

  • 2014/00

    NIEHUIS, A.B.v.M., PETERS, R.S.

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    Der Verwechselte Fanghaft (Mantispa aphavexelte U. ASPÖCK et H. ASPÖCK, 1994) in Rheinland-Pfalz nachgewiesen (Neuroptera: Mantispidae)

    Fauna Flora Rheinland-Pfalz, 12

  • 2012

  • 2012/06

    Hartig, G., Peters, R.S., Borner, J., Etzbauer, C., Misof, B., Niehuis, O.

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    Oligonucleotide primers for targeted amplification of single-copy nuclear genes in apocritan Hymenoptera

    PloS one, 6, 7

  • 2011

  • 2011/10

    Peters, R.S.

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    Two ways of finding a host: A specialist and a generalist parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)

    European Journal of Entomology, 4, 108

  • 2011/07

    Peters, R.S., Baur, H.

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    A revision of the Dibrachys cavus species complex (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)

    Zootaxa, 1, 2937

  • 2011/00

    ABRAHAM, R., PETERS, R.S.

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    The Leucospidae (Hym. Chalcidoidea) of the Zoologisches Museum Hamburg

    Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 185, 15

  • 2010

  • 2010/04

    Peters, R.S.

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    Host range and offspring quantities in natural populations of Nasonia vitripennis (Walker, 1836) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae)

    Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 1, 19

  • 2010/02

    Peters, R., Abraham, R.

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    The food web of parasitoid wasps and their non-phytophagous fly hosts in birds' nests (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, and Diptera: Cyclorrhapha)

    Journal of Natural History, 9-10, 44

  • 2010/00

    KUBIAK, M., PETERS, R.S.

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    New and remarkable records of tyrphophilic caddisfly species (Insecta, Trichoptera) from Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (Northern Germany)

    Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 15

  • 2009

  • 2009/00

    PETERS, R.S.

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    New habitat and host records and notes on the life history of Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae (RONDANI, 1875)

    Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 106

  • 2009/00

    PETERS, R.S., ABRAHAM, R.

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    A wind tunnel olfactometer of novel design: Testing the response to substrate volatiles on a vertical gauze screen

    Entomol. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Hamburg, 15

  • 2008

  • 2008/00

    Abraham, R., Peters, R.S.

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    Nistkästen als Lebensraum für Insekten, besonders Fliegen und ihre Schlupfwespen

    Vogelwarte, 46

  • 2008/00

    PETERS, R.S.

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    Abundance and phenology of two species of earwig parasitoids in Northern Germany (Diptera: Tachinidae)

    Studia dipterologica, 1/2, 15

  • 2006

  • 2006/00

    Peters, R.

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    Interaktionen zwischen Wirten und Parasitoiden: Nahrungsnetzstruktur, Wirtsspektren und Wirtsfindung am Beispiel der Arten aus Vogelnestern (Insecta: Diptera: Cyclorrhapha und …

  • 2004

  • 2004/12

    Peters, R., Abraham, R.

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    Interactions Between Parasitoid Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) and Diptera: Cyclorrhapha in Nests of Cavity-nesting Birds

    Entomologia Generalis

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