Wenzel, J. W. 1987A . Male Reproductive Behavior and Mandibular Glands in Polistes Major

Publications:

Wenzel, J. W. 1987a. Male reproductive behavior and mandibular glands in Polistes major (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 34: 44-57.

Wenzel, J. W. 1987b. Ropalidia formosa, a nearly solitary paper wasp from Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). J. Kansas Entomological Society 60: 549-556.

Wenzel, J. W. 1987c. Quantitative analysis of variation in Polistes nest architecture. Page 143, In J. Eder and H. Rembold, eds., Chemistry and Biology of Social Insects, Verlag J. Peperny, Munich. [Abstract]

Smith, B. H. & J. W. Wenzel. 1988. Pheromonal covariation and kinship in social bee Lasioglossum zephyrum Hymenoptera: Halictidae). J. Chemical Ecology 14: 87-94.

Carpenter, J. M. & J. W. Wenzel. 1988. A new species and nest type of Mischocyttarus from Costa Rica, with descriptions of nests of three related species. Psyche 95: 89-99.

Wenzel, J. W. 1989. Endogenous factors, external cues and eccentric construction in Polistes annularis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). J. Insect Behavior 2: 679-699.

Carpenter, J. M. & J. W. Wenzel. 1989. Synonymy of the genera Protopolybia and Psuedochartergus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Psyche 96: 177-186.

Wenzel, J. W. 1990a. A social wasp's nest from the Cretaceous period, Utah, USA, and its biogeographical significance. Psyche 97: 21-29.

Wenzel, J. W. 1990b. Nest design and secondary functions of social insect architecture. Page 657-658. In G. K. Veeresh, B. Mallik and C. A. Viraktamath, eds., Social Insects and The Environment, Oxford & IBH Publ. Co., New Delhi. [Abstract]

Espelie, K. E. , J. W. Wenzel, & G. Chang. 1990. Surface lipids of the social wasp Polistes metricus Say and of its nest and nest pedicel and their relation to nestmate recognition. J. Chemical Ecology 16: 2229-2241.

Wenzel, J. W. 1991. The evolution of nest architecture in the social vespids. Pages 480-519. In K. G. Ross and R. W. Matthews, eds., Social Biology of Wasps, Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca.

Wenzel, J. W., & J. Pickering. 1991. Cooperative foraging, productivity, and the central limit theorem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 88: 36-38.

Wenzel, J. W. 1992a. Extreme queen-worker dimorphism in Ropalidia ignobilis, a small-colony wasp (Hymenoptera:Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 38: 31-43.

Wenzel, J. W. 1992b. What do you get if you cross a cladist with a behavioral ecologist? Cladistics 8: 97-102. [Book review]

Wenzel, J. W. 1992c. Les nids de guêpes sociale d'interêt historique conservés au MNHN Paris. [The social wasp nests of historical interest preserved in the MNHN, Paris.] Revue Française d'Entomologie (N.S.) 14: 1-11.

Wenzel, J. W. 1992d. Behavioral homology and phylogeny. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 23: 261-281.

Wenzel, J. W. 1993. Application of the biogenetic law to behavioral ontogeny: a test using nest architecture in paper wasps. J. Evolutionary Biology 6: 229-247

Stubblefield, J. W., J. Seger, J. W. Wenzel, & M. M. Heisler. 1993. Temporal, spatial, sex-ratio and body-size heterogeneity of prey species taken by the beewolf Philanthus sanbornii (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B 339: 397-423.

Wenzel, J. W., & J. M. Carpenter. 1994. Comparing methods: Adaptive traits and tests of adaptation. Pages 79-101. In P. Eggleton and R. Vane-Wright, eds., Phylogenetics in Ecology. Harcourt Brace & Co., London.

Wenzel, J. W. 1994. Colony-level homeostasis in nest architecture of Polistes. Page 293. In A. Lenoir, G. Arnold, and M. Lepage, eds., Les Insectes Sociaux. Publications Université Paris Nord. [Abstract].

Miller, J. S., & J. W. Wenzel. 1995. Ecological characters and phylogenetic inference in the study of insects. Annual Review of Entomology 40: 389-415.

Karsai, I., & J. W. Wenzel. 1995. Nests built on the dorsum of conspecifics in Polistes: the value of anomolous behavior. Animal Behaviour 50: 1429-1431.

Farris, J. S., M. Kallersjo, V. A. Albert, M. Allard, A. Anderberg, B. Bowditch, C. Bult, J. M. Carpenter, T. M. Crowe, J. De Laet, K Fitzhugh, D. Frost, P. Goloboff, C. J. Humphries, U. Jondelius, D.Judd, P. O. Karis, D. Lipscomb, M. Luckow, D. Mindell, J. Muona, K. Nixon, W. Presch, O. Seberg, M. E. Siddall, L. Struwe, A. Tehler, J. Wenzel, Q. Wheeler and W. Wheeler. 1995. Explanation. Cladistics 11: 211-218

Wenzel, J. W. 1996. Learning, behaviour programs, and higher-level rules in nest construction of Polistes. Pages 58-74. In S. Turillazzi and M. J. West-Eberhard, eds., Natural History and Evolution of Paper Wasps. Oxford Press, Oxford.

Carpenter, J. M., J. W. Wenzel, & J. Kojima. 1996. Synonymy of the genus Occipitalia Richards, 1978, with Clypearia de Saussure 1854 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 5: 157-165.

Karsai, I., Z Pénzes, & J. W. Wenzel. 1996. Dynamics of colony development in Polistes dominulus: a modeling approach. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 39: 97-105.

Wenzel, J. W. 1997. When is a phylogenetic test good enough? Memoires du Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle (Paris) 173: 31-45.

Wenzel, J. W. 1998. A generic key to the nests of hornets, yellowjackets and paper wasps world-wide (Vespidae: Vespinae, Polistinae). American Museum Novitates #3224, 1-39.

Karsai, I., and J. W. Wenzel. 1998. Individual- and colony-level flexibility, productivity, and organization of work as consequences of colony size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 95: 8665-8669

Kojima, J., J. W. Wenzel, J. M. Carpenter. 1998. The types of Icaria galimatia de Saussure 1853 and I. ignobilis de Saussure, 1990, with establishment of their synonymy (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Entomological Science 1: 393-401

Wenzel, J. W., and M. E. Siddall. 1999. Noise. Cladistics 14: 51-64.

Blackledge, T. A, and J. W. Wenzel. 1999. Do stabilimenta in orb webs attract prey or defend spiders? Behavioural Ecology 10: 372-376.

Carpenter, J. M., and J. W. Wenzel. 1999. The relative abundance of swarm-founding social wasps in the Congo Basin (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Polistinae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 3: 9-14.

Karsai, I., and J. W. Wenzel. 2000. Organization and regulation of nest construction behavior in Metapolybia wasps. Journal of Insect Behavior: 13: 111-140.

Carpenter, J. M., J. -I. Kojima and J. W. Wenzel. 2000. Polybia, paraphyly, and polistine phylogeny. American Museum Novitates 3298. 24pp.

Blackledge, T. A, and J. W. Wenzel. 2000. The evolution of cryptic spider silk: A behavioral test. Behavioural Ecology 11: 142-145.

Pickett, K. M, A. McHenry, and J. W. Wenzel. 2000. Nestmate recognition in the absence of a pheromone. Insectes Sociaux 47: 212-219.

Pickett, K. M, and J. W. Wenzel. 2000. High productivity in haplometrotic colonies of the introduced paper wasp Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae). J. New York Entomol. Soc.: 108: 314-325

Blackledge, T.A. and J.W. Wenzel. 2001. State-determined foraging decisions and web architecture in the spider Dictyna volucripes (Araneae, Dictynidae). Ethol. Ecol. Evol. 13: 105-113

Blackledge, T.A. and J.W. Wenzel. 2001. Silk mediated defense in an orb-web spider against predatory mud dauber wasps. Behaviour. 138: 155-172.

Pickett, K.M., Osborne, D.M., Wahl, D., and Wenzel, J.W. 2001. An enormous nest of Vespula squamosa from Florida, the largest social wasp nest reported from North America, with notes on colony cycle and reproduction. J. NY Ent. Soc. 109: 408-415.

Branham, M.A. and J.W. Wenzel. 2001. The Evolution of Bioluminescence in

Canthariods (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Florida Ent. 84: 565-586.

Simmons, M.P., C.P. Randle, J.V. Freudenstein, and J.W. Wenzel. 2002. Limitations of relative apparent synapomorphy analysis (RASA) for measuring phylogenetic signal. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19(1):14-23.

Wenzel, J. W. 2002. The role of the Willi Hennig Society in Systematics. Cladistics 18: 1-3.

Bucheli, S.R., J. -F. Landry, and J. W. Wenzel. 2002. Larval case architecture and implications for host plant associations in North American Coleophora (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae). Cladistics 18: 71-93.

Wenzel, J. W. 2002. Phylogenetic analysis: The basic method. Pages 4- 30, in R. DeSalle, G. Giribet, and W.Wheeler, eds., Techniques in Molecular Systematics, Birkhäuser, Basel.

Branham, M.A., R.A. Broadley, and J.W. Wenzel. 2003. Bioluminescence in insects. Pp. 33-36 In: Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2003. McGraw-Hill Publishers, New York

Branham, M.A. and J.W. Wenzel. 2003. The Origin of Photic Behavior and the Evolution of Sexual Communication in Fireflies (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Cladistics 19: 1-22.

Freudenstein, J. V., K. M. Pickett, M. P. Simmons, and J.W. Wenzel. 2003. From basepairs to birdsongs: phenotypic data in the age of genomics. Cladisitcs 19: 333-348.

Wenzel, J.W. 2003. A user's guide to the tree of life. Cladistics 19: 376-378. [Book Review].

Wenzel, J.W. 2004. Why I Teach Introductory Courses. Pages 21-28 In: Talking About Teaching. Ohio State University Academy of Teaching.

Wenzel, J.W., K. C. Nixon, and G. Cuccodoro, 2004. Dites non au Phylocode! Bulletin de la Societé Française de Systématique 31: 19-23.

Pickett, K. M. and J. W. Wenzel. 2004. Phylogenetic analysis of the New World Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) using morphology and molecules. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 77: 742-760.

Noll, F. B., J. W. Wenzel, and R. Zucchi. 2004. Evolution of caste in Neotropical swarm-founding wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Epiponini). ). American Museum Novitates #3467, 1-24.

Pickett, K. M., S. R. Rissing, and J. W. Wenzel. 2005. Iconoclasts of Evolution: Haeckel, Behe and Wells and the ontogeny of a fraud. American Biology Teacher 67:270-277.

Bucheli, S.R., and J. W. Wenzel. 2005. Gelechioidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) systematics: A reexamination using combined morphology and mitochondrial DNA data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35: 380-394.

Pickett, K. M., G. L. Tolman, W.C. Wheeler, and J. W. Wenzel. 2005. Parsimony overcomes statistical inconsistency with the addition of more data from the same gene. Cladistics (21) 438-445 .

Bucheli, S.R., D. Horn, and J. W. Wenzel. 2006. Biodiversity of Gelechioidea (microlepidoptera): Sampling to assess a re-established Appalachian forest in Ohio based on gelechioid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Biodiversity and Conservation 15: 503-516.

Naug, D., and J. Wenzel. 2006. Constraints on foraging success due to resource ecology limit colony productivity in social insects. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60: 62-68.

Abdul-Salim, K., M. Daly, J.V. Freudenstein and J.W. Wenzel. 2006. Report on the Ohio State University workshops in phylogenetic methods. Cladistics 22: 387-389.

Wenzel, J.W. and F.B. Noll. 2006. Dados comportamentais na era da genômica [Behavioral data in the era of genomics]. Etologia 8: 63-69.

Pickett, K. M., and J. W. Wenzel. 2007. Revision and cladistic analysis of the nocturnal wasp genus Apoica Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini). American Museum Novitates #3562, 1-30.

Raczkowski, J. R. and J. W. Wenzel. 2007. Biodiversity studies and their foundation in taxonomic scholarship. Bio Science 57: 974-979.

Noll, F. B., and J. W. Wenzel. 2008.Caste in the swarming wasps: "Queenless" societies in highly social insects. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93: 509-522.

Wenzel, J. W. 2008. Alien Invaders: Introduced Species And Their Environmental Impact. 32pp. Museum of Biological Diversity, Ohio State University.

Song, H., and J. W. Wenzel. 2008. Mosaic pattern of genital divergence in three populations of Schistocerca lineata Scudder, 1899 (Orthoptera: Acrididae; Cyrtacanthacridinae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94: 289-301.

Song, H., and J. W. Wenzel. 2008. Phylogeny of bird-grasshopper subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and the evolution of locust phase polyphenism. Cladistics 24: 515- 542.

Wenzel, J. W., and G. M. Luque. 2008. Parsimony cluster analysis in successional ecology. Cladistics 24: 746-757.

Gilligan, T., and J. W. Wenzel. 2008. Extreme intraspecific variation in Hystrichophora genitalia Questioning the lock-and-key hypothesis (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Annales Zoologici Fennici 45: 465-477.

Wenzel, J. W. 2008. Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture

Quarterly Review of Biology 83: 320-321. (Book Review).

Blackledge T.A., N. Scharff, J. Coddington, T. Szüts, J.Wenzel, C. Hayashi, I. Agnarsson. 2009. Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA): 106: 5229-5234

Mynhardt, G, and J. W. Wenzel. 2009. Voyages of Discovery: Exploration of Plants and Animals Through Space and Time. 32pp. Museum of Biological Diversity, Ohio State University.

Wenzel, J. W., and P. DeWitt, 2009. The Struggles and the Glory of the Pre-Darwinians. 52pp. Museum of Biological Diversity, Ohio State University.

Felippotti, G.T., G. M. Tanaka Junior, F. B. Noll, and J. W. Wenzel, 2009. Discrete dimorphism among castes of the bald faced hornet Dolichovespula maculata (Hymenoptera: Vespicae) in different phases of the colony cycle. J Natural History, 43: 2481-2490.

Caesar, R. M., and J. W. Wenzel, 2009 A Phylogenetic Test of Classical Species Groups in Argia (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Entomologica Americana 115: 97-108.

Mynhardt, G, and J. W. Wenzel. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of the myrmecophilous Cremastocheilus Knoch (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae), based on external adult morphology. Zookeys 34: 129-140.

Oliveira, O.A.L., F. B. Noll, and J. W. Wenzel, 2010. Foraging behavior and colony cycle of Agelaia vicina (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Epiponini). J. Hymenoptera Research 19: 4-11.

Wenzel, J. W. 2010. Les charactèrs comportementaux sont de très bons indicateurs de phylogenie. (Behavioral characters are good indicators of phylogeny) Biosystema (Paris) (in press).

Wenzel, J. W. 2010. Stepping into the light: review of "Biological Systematics - Principles and Applications" second edition by Randall T. Schuh and Andrew V. Z. Brower. BioEssays (in press).

Papers published by students through my service as advisor:

Archangelsky, M., 1997. Studies on the Biology, Ecology, & Systematics of the Immature Stages of New World Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera: Staphiliniformia). Bull. Ohio Biological Survey, vol. 12. 207pp.

Archangelsky, M., 1998. Phylogeny of Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera: Staphyliniformia) using characters from adult and preimaginal stages. Systematic Entomology 23: 9-24

Archangelsky, M., and M. A. Branham, 1998. Description of the preimaginal stages of Pyractomena borealis (Randall, 1838)(Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and notes on its biology. Entomological Society of Washington 100: 421-430.

Archangelsky, M., and M. A. Branham, 2001. Description of the last instar and pupa of Pyropygia nigricans (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Photonini), and comparison with larvae of other Photonini genera. Canadian Ent. 133:1-10.

Baio, M. V., F. B. Noll, and R. Zucchi. 2003. Shape differences rather than size differences between castes in the Neotropical swarm-founding wasp Metapolybia docilis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Epiponini). BMC Evolutionary Biology [www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/3/10]

Blackledge, T. A., 1998. Stabilimentum variation and foraging success in Argiope aurantia and Argiope trifasciata (Araneae, Araneidae). Journal of Zoology, London. 246:21-27.

Blackledge, T. A., 1998. Signal conflict in spider webs driven by predators and prey. Proc. R. Soc. London B 265: 1991-1996.

Blackledge, T.A. and K.M. Pickett. 2000. Predatory interactions between mud-dauber wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) and Argiope (Araneae: Araneidae) in an experimental setting. Journal of Arachnology 28:211-216.

Branham, M. A., and M. Archangelsky. 2000. Description of the last larval instar and pupa of Lucidota atra (G. A. Oliver 1790) (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), with a discussion of abdominal segment homology across life stages. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 102: 869-877.