Publications

Insects

Cervantes, Luis Peredo and J.E. O’Donnell. (In press). A new species of Neopetissius (Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae: Lethaeini). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111(2): 464-469.

Cervantes, Luis Peredo and Harry Brailovsky. 2008. First record of genus Xestocoris (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae: Lethaeini) from Mexico, with description of three new species. Annals of the Entomologiccial Society of America 101(2): 307-313.

Rota, Jadranka. 2008. A new genus and species of metalmark moths (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae) from Costa Rica. Zootaxa 1933: 12-18.

Sanborn, Allen, F., Polly K. Phillips, and Philip Gillis. 2008. The Cicadas of Florida (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) Zootaxa 1916:1-43.

Schaefer, C.W. and J.E. O’Donnell. 2008. A new species of the African genus Nemausus (Hemiptera: Alydidae: Alydinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 110(4): 1059-1067.

Parasites

Healy, Claire J., J.N. Caira, K. Jensen, B.L. Webster and D.T.J. Littlewood. 2009 Proposal for a new tapeworm order, Rhinebothriidea. International Journal of Parasitology. 39: 497-511.

Pickering, M. and J. N. Caira. 2008. Calliobothrium schneiderae n. sp. (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) from the Spotted Estuary Smooth-hound shark, Mustelus lenticulatus, from New Zealand. Comparative Parasitology 75(2): 174-181.

Twohig, M. E., J. N. Caira, and C. A. Fyler. 2008. Two new cestode species from the Dwarf whipray, Himantura walga (Batoidea: Dasyatidae), from Borneo with comments on site and mode of attachment. Journal of Parasitology. 94(5): 1118-1127.

Jensen, K. and J. N. Caira. 2008. A revision of Uncibilocularis Southwell, 1925 (Tetraphyllidea; Onchobothriidae) with the description of four new species. Comparative Parasitology. 75(2): 157-173.

Ruhnke, T. R. and J. N. Caira. 2009. Two new species of Anthobothrium van Beneden 1850 (Tetraphyllidea: Phyllobtohriidae) from carcharhinid sharks, with a redescription of Anthobothrium laciniatum. Systematic Parasitology. 72:217-227.

Ruhnke, T. R. and H. B. Seaman. 2009. Three new species of Anthocephalum Linton 1890 (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) from dasyatid stingrays of the Gulf of California. Systematic Parasitology. 72:81-95.

Ruhnke, T. R. and S. D. Carpenter. 2008. Two new species of Paraorygmatobothrium Ruhnke 1994 (Tetraphyllidea: Phyllobothriidae) from the Smoothhound shark Mustelus mustelus (L.) and the Gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus Günther (Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae). Systematic Parasitology. 71:213-222.

Plants

Capers, R.S., R. Selsky, G.J. Bugbee and J.C. White. 2009. Species richness of both native and invasive aquatic plants influenced by environmental conditions and human activity. Botany 87: 306–314.

Connolly, B.A. 2009. x Sorbaronia fallax (Rosaceae): A new record of an intergeneric hybrid in Connecticut. Rhodora 111: 123–125.

Capers, R. S. 2008. Review of Flora of the Northeast: A Manual of the Vascular Flora of New England and Adjacent New York, D.W. Magee and H.E. Ahles, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst. Plant Science Bulletin 54: 172–173.

Capers. R. S. 2008. Glossostigma cleistanthum text and photographs. Maine Field Guide to Invasive Aquatic Plants. Maine Center for Invasive Aquatic Plants.

Coe, F. G.  2008.  Rama Midwifery in eastern Nicaragua. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 117(1): 136–157.

Coe, F. G.  2008.  Ethnobotany of the Rama of southeastern Nicaragua and Comparisons with Miskitu Plant Lore. Economic Botany 62 (1): 40–59.

Coe, F. G.  2008.  Ethnomedicine of the Rama of southeastern Nicaragua. Journal of Ethnobiology 28(1): 1–38.

Coe, F. G.  2008.  Estudio Etnobotánico de los Garífunas de Nicaragua Oriental. Parte I. Wani 52: 34–60.

Connolly, B. A.  2008. Six new vascular plant taxa for Connecticut. Rhodora 110: 354–358.

Larrain, J., F. Herrera, J. M. Budke & B. Goffinet. 2009. Phylogenetic affinities and conservation status of the Chilean endemic Costesia spongiosa (Gigaspermaceae). The Bryologist 112: 278-286.

Les, D. H., S. W. L. Jacobs, N. Tippery, L. Chen, M. L. Moody and M. Wilstermann. 2008.  Systematics of Vallisneria L. (Hydrocharitaceae Juss.). Systematic Botany 33: 49–65.

Letsch, M. R., G. Muller-Parker, T. Friedl, and L. A. Lewis. Elliptochloris marina n. sp. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta), green symbiont of Anthopleura xanthogrammica and A. elegantissima (Anthozoa, Cnidaria). Journal of Phycology (accepted).

Martine, C. T., S. Leicht-Young, P. Herron and A. Latimer. 2008. Fifteen woody species with potential for invasiveness in New England.  Rhodora 110: 345–353.

Nicotra, A. B., M. J. Cosgrove, A. Cowling, C. D. Schlichting and C. S. Jones. 2008. Leaf shape linked to photosynthetic rates and temperature optima in South African Pelargonium species. Oecologia 154: 625–635.

Tippery, N., D. H. Les, D. J. Padgett and S. W. L. Jacobs. 2008. Generic circumscription in Menyanthaceae: a phylogenetic approach. Systematic Botany 33: 598–612.