Benjamin Wipfler

Benjamin Wipfler, German entomologist and evolutionary biologist.

• Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Bonn, Germany
• Entomology Group, Institut für Spezielle Zoologie and Evolutionsbiologie, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Erbertstr. 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
• Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Box 92, Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China

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• 5 taxon names authored by Benjamin Wipfler

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• , Pohl, H. & Predel, R. 2012. Two new genera and two new species of Mantophasmatodea (Insecta, Polyneoptera) from Namibia. ZooKeys 166: 75–98. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.166.1802 . Reference page. 

• Mashimo, Y., Matsumura, Y., Machida, R., Dallai, R., Gottardo, M., Yoshizawa, K., Friedrich, F., & Beutel, R.G. 2014. 100 years Zoraptera—a phantom in insect evolution and the history of its investigation. Insect Systematics & Evolution 45(4): 371–393. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-45012110 Reference page. 
• Misof, B., Liu, S., Meusemann, K., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Frandsen, P.B., Ware, J., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Petersen, M., Izquierdo-Carrasco, F., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Aberer, A.J., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H., Bartel, D., Blanke, A., Berger, S., Böhm, A., Buckley, T.R., Calcott, B., Chen, J., Friedrich, F., Fukui, M., Fujita, M., Greve, C., Grobe, P., Gu, S., Huang, Y., Jermiin, L.S., Kawahara, A.Y., Krogmann, L., Kubiak, M., Lanfear, R., Letsch, H., Li, Y., Li, Z.-Y., Li, J., Lu, H., Machida, R., Mashimo, Y., Kapli, P., McKenna, D.D., Meng, G., Nakagaki, Y., Navarrete-Heredia, J.L., Ott, M., Ou, Y., Pass, G., Podsiadlowski, L., Pohl, H., Reumont, B.M. von, Schütte, K., Sekiya, K., Shimizu, S., Slipinski, A., Stamatakis, A., Song, W., Su, X., Szucsich, N.U., Tan, M., Tan, X., Tang, M., Tang, J., Timelthaler, G., Tomizuka, S., Trautwein, M., Tong, X., Uchifune, T., Walzl, M.G., Wiegmann, B.M., Wilbrandt, J., , Wong, T.K.F., Wu, Q., Wu, G., Xie, Y., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Yeates, D.K., Yoshizawa, K., Zhang, Q., Zhang, R., Zhang, W., Zhang, Y., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhou, L., Ziesmann, T., Zou, S., Li, Y., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Yang, H.-M., Wang, J., Wang, J., Kjer, K.M. & Zhou, X. 2014. Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. Science 346(6210): 763–767. DOI: 10.1126/science.1257570 . Reference page. 
• & Pass, G. 2014. Antennal heart morphology supports relationship of Zoraptera with polyneopteran insects. Systematic Entomology 39(4): 800–805. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12088 Reference page. 
• , Bai, M., Schoville, S., Dallai, R., Uchifune, T., Machida, R., Cui, Y. & Beutel, R.G. 2014. Ice Crawlers (Grylloblattodea) – the history of the investigation of a highly unusual group of insects. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 2(2): 1–25. DOI: 10.12976/jib/2014.2.2 . Reference page. 

• Bai, M., Beutel, R.G., Klass, K.D., Zhang, W., Yang, X. & 2016. †Alienoptera — A new insect order in the roach–mantodean twilight zone. Gondwana Research 39: 317–326. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.02.002 . Reference page. 

• Bai, M., Beutel, R.G., Zhang, W., Wang, S., Hörnig, M., Gröhn, C., Yan, E., Yang, X. & 2018. A new Cretaceous insect with a unique cephalo-thoracic scissor device. Current Biology 28(3): 438–443. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.031 . Reference page. 
• , Theska, T. & Predel, R. 2018. Mantophasmatodea from the Richtersveld in South Africa with description of two new genera and species. ZooKeys 746: 137–160. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.746.14885. Reference page. 

• Schillo, D., , Undap, N., Papu, A., Böhringer, N., Eisenbarth, J-H., Kaligis, F., Bara, R., Schäberle, T.F., König, G.M. & Wägele, H. 2019. Description of a new Moridilla species from North Sulawesi, Indonesia (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Aeolidioidea)—based on MicroCT, histological and molecular analyses. Zootaxa 4652(2): 265–295. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.2.3 pdf Reference page. 
• Simon, S., Letsch, H., Bank, S., Buckley, T.R., Donath, A., Liu, S., Machida, R., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Podsiadlowski, L., Zhou, X., & Bradler, S. 2019. Old world and new world Phasmatodea: phylogenomics resolve the evolutionary history of stick and leaf insects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 345. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00345 . Reference page. 

• Pohl, H., , Boudinot, B. & Beutel, R.G. 2020 (Online) 2021 (Print). On the value of Burmese amber for understanding insect evolution: Insights from †Heterobathmilla – an exceptional stem group genus of Strepsiptera (Insecta). Cladistics 37(2): 211–229. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12433 . Reference page. 

• Koppetsch, T., Nečas, P. & 2021. A new chameleon of the Trioceros affinis species complex (Squamata, Chamaeleonidae) from Ethiopia. Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(1): 161–179. DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.57297 Reference page. 
• Monadjem, A., Richards, L.R., Decher, J., Hutterer, R., Mamba, M.L., Guyton, J., Naskrecki, P., Markotter, W., , Kropff, A.S. & Dalton, D.L. [2020] 2021. A phylogeny for African Pipistrellus species with the description of a new species from West Africa (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(2): 548–574. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa068 Reference page. 

• Pacheco, T.L., , Monné, M.L. & Ahrens, D. 2022. The genus Symmela Erichson, 1835 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini): taxonomy and phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Natural History 56 (9–12): 607–705. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2084649 . Reference page. 
• Pacheco, T.L., , Monné, M.L. & Ahrens, D. 2022. The genus Raysymmela Saylor, 1947 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae, Sericini): taxonomy and phylogenetic analysis. Insect Systematics and Evolution 53(4): 400–441. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-bja10031 . Reference page. 

• Cui, Y., Bardin, J., , Demers-Potvin, A., Bai, M., Tong, Y.-J., Chen, G.N., Chen, H., Zhao, Z.-Y., Ren, D. & Béthoux, O. 2024. A winged relative of ice-crawlers in amber bridges the cryptic extant Xenonomia and a rich fossil record. Insect Science 31(5): 1645–1656. DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.13338 . Reference page. 

• Burriel-Carranza, B., Koppetsch, T., Tabares, J., Talavera, A., Mochales-Riaño, G., Estarellas, M., , Els, J., Simó-Riudalbas, M., Adams, D., Al Saadi, S., Garcia-Porta, J., Tamar, K., Šmíd, J. & Carranza, S. 2025. Cryptic speciation in arid mountains: An integrative revision of the Pristurus rupestris species complex (Squamata, Sphaerodactylidae) from Arabia based on morphological, genetic and genomic data, with the description of four new species. PLOS ONE 20(2): e0315000. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0315000 Reference page. 

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