Alejandro A. Valerio

Alejandro A. Valerio, Costa Rican and U.S. entomologist

The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States of America
Central American Institute of Biological Research and Conservation (CIBRC). P.O. Box 2398-2050 San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Valerio, A.A. & Whitfield, J.B. 2002. Epsilogaster faviolae, a new species of Mendesellinae from Colombia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Zootaxa 41: 1–7. Abstract & excerpt PDF Reference page.

Valerio, A.A., Deans, A.R. & Whitfield, J.B. 2004. Review of the microgastrine braconid wasp genus Exoryza, with description of a new species, E. monocavus, from Central America. Zootaxa 526: 1–11. Abstract & excerpt . Reference page.

Yoder, M.J., Valerio, A.A., Polaszek, A., Masner, L. & Johnson, N.F. 2009: Revision of Scelio pulchripennis-group species (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae). In: Johnson, N.F. (ed.) Advances in the systematics of Hymenoptera. Festschrift in honour of Lubomír Masner. ZooKeys 20: 53–118. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.20.205 . Reference page.

Taekul, C., Valerio, A.A., Austin, A.D., Klompen, H., Johnson, N.F. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of telenomine egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l.: Telenominae): evolution of host shifts and implications for classification. Systematic Entomology 39(1): 24-35. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12032 Reference page.
Valerio, A.A., Austin, A.D., Masner, L. & Johnson, N.F. 2013: Systematics of Old World Odontacolus Kieffer s.l. (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.): parasitoids of spider eggs. ZooKeys 314: 1-151. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.314.3475 Reference page.

Yoder, M.J., Valerio, A.A., Polaszek, A., van Noort, S., Masner, L. & Johnson, N.F. 2014. Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1–188. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.380.5755 Reference page.

Valerio, A.A. & Shaw, S.R. 2015. Thirteen new Costa Rican species belonging to the genus Triraphis Ruthe (Braconidae: Rogadinae) with their host records. Zootaxa 3904(4): 501–540. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.4.2 Reference page.
Valerio, A.A. & Whitfield, J.B. 2015: Taxonomic review of the genus Hypomicrogaster Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), with descriptions of 40 new species. Zootaxa 3979(1): 1–98. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3979.1.1. Preview (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77557-737-9 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-738-6 (Online edition) Reference page.

Valerio, A.A. 2016. New species of Evaniodini (Braconidae: Doryctinae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4137(3): 425–431. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.3.9. Reference page.

Talamas, E.J., Thompson, J., Cutler, A., Schoenberger, S.F., Cuminale, A., Jung, T., Johnson, N.F., Valerio, A.A., Smith, A.B., Haltermann, V., Alvarez, E., Schwantes, C., Blewer, C., Bodenreider, C., Salzberg, A., Luo, P., Meislin, D. & Buffington, M.L. 2017. An online photographic catalog of primary types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Pp 187–224 In Talamas, E.J. & Buffington, M.L. (eds.) 2017. Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56: 1–276. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/jhr.56.10774 Reference page.

Chen, H-Y., Talamas, E.J., Valerio, A.A., Masner, L., Johnson, N.F. 2018. Revision of the World species of the genus Chromoteleia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae). ZooKeys 778: 1–95. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.778.25775 Reference page.