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: 8794.
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 480519. 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: 3638.
Wenzel, J. W. 1992a. Extreme queen-worker dimorphism in Ropalidia ignobilis, a smallcolony 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: 393401
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: 408415.
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: 387389.
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 PreDarwinians. 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.
Henderson G., and K. M. Pickett, 2000. "Paper Wasps" IN ESA Handbook of
household and structural insect pests.
Noda, S. C. M., S. N. Shima, and F. B. Noll. 2003. Morphological and physiological caste
differences in Synoeca cyanea (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Epiponini) according to the
ontogenetic development of the colonies. Sociobiology 41: 547-570.
Pickett, K. M. 2003. A new species of social wasp in the genus Apoica Lepeletier
(Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 105 (3):
592-598.
Song, H. 2004. Post-adult emergence development of genitalic structures in Schistocerca
Stal and Locusta L. (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 106(1),
181-191.
Song, H. 2004. Revision of the Alutacea Group of genus Schistocerca (Orthoptera:
Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae), Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 97 (3): 420-436
Song, H. 2004. On the origin of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal)
(Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae) Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. Biol.
Sci.
271: 1641-1648.
Song, H. and S. R. Bucheli. 2009. Comparison of phylogenetic signal between male
genitalia and non-genital characters in insect systmatics. Cladistics 25: 1-13.
Bucheli, S.R. 2009. Annotated review and discussion of phylogenetically important
characters for families and subfamilies of Gelechioidea (Insecta:
Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 2261: 1-22.