Dr. Ralph S. Peters

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2025

• 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

  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

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• 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

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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

• 2024/09

  Salden, T., Müller, B., Japoshvili, G., Hein, N., Ugrelidze, A., Peters, R.S.

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  First records of the Hymenoptera superfamilies and families Mymarommatoidea: Mymarommatidae and Stephanoidea: Stephanidae in Georgia

  Caucasiana, 3

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• 2024/08

  Bartsch, S.B., Vogel, J., Ankermann, A., Mayer, C., Peters, R.S.

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  Protocol for the preparation of Wings and Wing Interference Pattern Imaging from ethanol preserved specimens

• 2024/08

  Vogel, J., Forshage, M., Bartsch, S.B., Ankermann, A., Mayer, C., Falkenhausen, P.v., Rduch, V., Müller, B., Braun, C., Krammer, H., Peters, R.S.

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  Integrative characterisation of the Northwestern European species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae) with the description of three new species

  Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 97

• 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

  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

• 2024/05

  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

• 2024/04

  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

  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

• 2024/03

  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. 

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• 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

• 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

2023

• 2023/11

  Cruaud, A., Rasplus, J., ZHANG, J., Burks, R.A., Delvare, G., Fusu, L., Gumovsky, A., Huber, J., Janšta, P., Mitroiu, M., Noyes, J.S., van Noort, S., Baker, A.J., Böhmová, J., Baur, H., Blaimer, B.B., Brady, S.G., Bubeníková, K., Chartois, M., Copeland, R.S., Dale-Skey, N., Dal Molin, A., Dominguez, C., Gebiola, M., Guerrieri, E., Kresslein, R.L., Krogmann, L., Lemmon, E.M., Murray, E.A., Nidelet, S., Nieves‐Aldrey, J.L., Perry, R.K., Peters, R.S., Polaszek, A., Sauné, L., Torréns, J., Triapitsyn, S.V., Целих, Е.В., Yoder, M., Lemmon, A.R., Woolley, J.B., Heraty, J.M.

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  The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps

  Cladistics, 1, 40

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• 2023/07

  Kilian, I.C., Swenson, S.J., Mengual, X., Gemeinholzer, B., Hamm, A., Wägele, J.W., Peters, R.S.

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  More complex than you think: Taxonomic and temporal patterns of plant–pollinator networks of caraway (Carum carvi L.)

  Molecular ecology, 13, 32

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• 2023/07

  Salden, T., Peters, R.S.

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

  European Journal of Taxonomy, 884

• 2023/05

  Jafari, S., Müller, B., Rulik, B., Rduch, V., Peters, R.S.

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  Another crack in the Dark Taxa wall: a custom DNA barcoding protocol for the species-rich and common Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)

  Biodiversity Data Journal, 11

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• 2023/02

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

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  Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa

  Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 14

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• 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

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2022

• 2022/12

  Burks, R.A., Mitroiu, M., Fusu, L., Heraty, J.M., Janšta, P., Heydon, S.L., Dale-Skey, N., Peters, R.S., Целих, Е.В., Woolley, J.B., van Noort, S., 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/Journal of Hymenoptera research, 94

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• 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

• 2022/10

  Mengual, X., Mayer, C., Burt, T.O., Moran, K.M., Dietz, L., Nottebrock, G., Pauli, T., Young, A.D., Brasseur, M.V., Kukowka, S., Kelso, S., Etzbauer, C., Bot, S., Hauser, M., Jordaens, K., Miranda, G.F.G., Ståhls, G., van Steenis, W., Peters, R.S., Skevington, J.H.

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  Systematics and evolution of predatory flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on exon‐capture sequencing

  2, 48

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2021

• 2021/09

  Albrecht, J., Peters, M.K., Becker, J.N., Behler, C., Claßen, A., Enßlin, A., Ferger, S.W., Gebert, F., Gerschlauer, F., Helbig‐Bonitz, M., Kindeketa, W.J., Kühnel, A., Mayr, A.V., Njovu, H.K., Pabst, H., Pommer, U., Röder, J., Rutten, G., Costa, D.S., Sierra-Cornejo, N., Vogeler, A., Vollstädt, M.G.R., Dulle, H.I., Eardley, C., Howell, K.M., Keller, A., Peters, R.S., Kakengi, V., Hemp, C., Zhang, J., Manning, P., Mueller, T., Bogner, C., Böhning‐Gaese, K., Brandl, R., Hertel, D., Huwe, B., Kiese, R., Kleyer, M., Leuschner, C., Kuzyakov, Y., Nauß, T., Tschapka, M., Fischer, M., Hemp, A., Steffan‐Dewenter, I., Schleuning, M.

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  Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

  Nature ecology & evolution, 12, 5

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• 2021/08

  Ahrens, D., Ahyong, S.T., Ballerio, A., Barclay, M.V.L., Eberle, J., Espeland, M., Huber, B.A., Mengual, X., Pacheco, T.L., Peters, R.S., Rulik, B., Vaz-de-Mello, F.Z., 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

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• 2021/02

  Bayless, K.M., Trautwein, M., Meusemann, K., Shin, S., Petersen, M., Donath, A., Podsiadłowski, L., Mayer, C., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Meier, R., Kutty, S.N., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Yeates, D.K., Wiegmann, B.M.

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  Beyond Drosophila: resolving the rapid radiation of schizophoran flies with phylotranscriptomics

  BMC biology, 1, 19

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• 2021/01

  Pauli, T., Meusemann, K., Kukowka, S., Sann, M., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Oeyen, J.P., Ballesteros, Y., Berg, A., van den Berghe, E., Escalona, H.E., Guglielmino, A., Niehuis, M., Fusu, L., Podsiadłowski, L., Polidori, C., de Rond, J., Rosa, P., Schmitt, T., Strumia, F., Wurdack, M., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., Niehuis, O.

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  Analysis of RNA-Seq, DNA Target Enrichment, and Sanger Nucleotide Sequence Data Resolves Deep Splits in the Phylogeny of Cuckoo Wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae)

  Insect Systematics and Diversity, 1, 5

  https://doi.org/