Hymenoptera

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In the Hymenoptera section, additional to the Hymenoptera, the following collections of organisms are curated: Heteroptera, "Homoptera", Orthopteroidea (includes Mantodea, Blattodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, and Saltatoria) and Phthiraptera. At present the collection includes ca. 160,000 individuals of ca. 15,500 taxa. The section house collections (or parts of it) of Wilhelm Aerts, Dietrich Bornhalm, Johannes Gallasch, Sigfrid Ingrisch, A. Jacobi, Heinrich Klockenhoff, Richard Meinertzhagen, Rene Oberthür, August Reichensperger, R. Roesler, A. Schoop, Josef Szijj and in addition those of the Zoo Cologne and of the former Fuhlrott Museum Wuppertal.

Staff

Scientist, permanent position

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

Head of Hymenoptera Section, Curator, Deputy Head of Department Arthropoda, Editor-in-chief Bonn zoological Bulletin

Tel: +49 228 9122-290

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: r.peters [at] leibniz-lib.de

Technical or laboratory assistant

Dirk Rohwedder

Technical Assitant

E-Mail: d.rohwedder [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

Postdoc

Dr. Sergio Leonardo Avila Calero

Tel: +49 228 9122-412

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E-Mail: s.avila-calero [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

Ph.D. student

Kristýna Bubeníková

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E-Mail: kristy.bubenikova [at] gmail.com

Samin Jafari

PhD Student

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E-Mail: s.jafari [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

Tobias Salden

Tel: +49 228 9122-321

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E-Mail: t.salden [at] leibniz-lib.de

Jonathan Vogel

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E-Mail: j.vogel [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

MSc or Diploma Candidate

Anne Ankermann

MSc student

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E-Mail: sbananke [at] uni-bonn.de

Inci Livia Baez

MSc student

E-Mail: inci.livia.baez [at] gmail.com

Christoph Braun

Tel: +49 228 9122-321

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E-Mail: christoph_braun [at] outlook.com

Alumni

Former students

Andreas Paffenholz

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E-Mail: andreas-paffenholz [at] outlook.de

Projects

2022

BGE - Biodiversity Genomics Europe

Project lead:

Astrid Böhne

Funding:

European Union

CellGen

The CellGen project is composed of two main parts. The first part investigates whether cell cultures accumulate mutations with progressive number of passages. One of the advantages of cell culture is to provide best quality of DNA/RNA and metaphases. Hence, we expect that cell culture will experience a renaissance in the light of high throughput sequencing techniques. However, it is still not clear how the number of passages (i.e., the number of times cells are transferred from vessel to vessel) can affect genetic and chromosomal composition.

Project lead:

Dr. Camilla Bruno Di Nizo

2020

GBOL III: Dark Taxa

The BMBF-funded GBOL, the German Barcode of Life initiative, has been run successfully over the last eight years. It delivered an operative DNA barcode reference library for German animals, fungi and plants. However, a significant proportion of insect taxa has so far been excluded from GBOL and merely all biodiversity research, because no or only very insufficient expertise and information are available that allow to get a grip on them. They are called “Dark Taxa”.

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

2019

Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea

The parasitoid wasp superfamily Ceraphronoidea - with two families Ceraphronidae and Megaspilidae - is considered one of the less species-rich superfamilies of the often megadiverse parasitoid wasps (only ca. 600 species described worldwide). However, we hypothesize that the species diversity of the group is severely underestimated. To shed some light on the true diversity of Ceraphronoidea, we study the species of selected localities of subsaharan Africa, mostly from Kenya and Tanzania.

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

The chalcidoid megaradiation

Chalcidoidea are one of the species-rich groups of parasitoid waps. They show a remarkable diversity in outer appearance and life history and can be found often in high abundance in nearly all terrestrial ecosystems around the world. The evolution of the Chalcidoidea, however, is still unsuffficiently understood. Also, the current classification is not based on natural groups and needs to be revised.

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

Funding:

National Science Foundation

2018

Establishing a standardized and universally applicable set of nuclear-encoded markers for genome-wide multi-locus species delimitation of metazoans

Methods for delimiting species based on multi-gene nucleotide information are well established and provide the means to complement the classical COI barcoding approach, whose limitations are well known. Our research project aims at establishing a standardized set of single-copy nuclear-encoded markers for genome-wide multi-locus species delimitation by exploiting comparative genomic data and applying target DNA enrichment. Candidate markers are so-called Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (USCOs).

Project lead:

Dr. Dirk Ahrens

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Cell banking at the LIB Biobank

ZFMK Biobank archives viable cell material for research and ex-situ conservation.

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

Plant-pollinator networks in agro-ecosystems

Pollination is crucial for maintaining angiosperm biodiversity and represents one of the most important ecosystem services. With the increasing threats of massive insect decline, studying pollination and associated networks has become more important than ever. In this study, we target the plant-pollinator networks of two important crops (caraway and apple) using a combination of traditional methods with DNA barcoding and metabarcoding.

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. J. Wolfgang Wägele

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

The phylogeny and evolution of Torymus

Within the genus Torymus (Chalcidoidea: Torymidae), very diverse parasitoid strategies and adaptations to its hosts have evolved. Its larvae are ectoparasitoids and attack mostly larvae of various gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) and gall midges (Cecidomyiidae). We study the coevolution of the genus Torymus and its hosts and target the question what kind of host shifts occurred during the evolution of the group. For this, we reconstruct the first phylogenomic tree for the the genus Torymus.

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

2017

GGBC: Assessment, Monitoring and Management of Caucasian Biodiversity

A Georgian-German initiative to explore and barcode the biodiversity of the Caucasus area

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

2014

The phylogeny of Holometabola

The Holometabola are the insects with complete metamorphosis (larva, pupa, adult) and comprise > 60% of the described animal species. The project aims at solving the open questions in the phylogeny of the group, in order to get a better understanding of t

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Taxonomy of jewel wasps …

Chalcidoidea are a very species rich group of parasitoid wasps. Many representatives are very small, and the taxonomy of many groups is not well-studied. In this project we conduct taxonomic studies, especially in the family Pteromalidae.

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

2012

The phylogeny of Hymenopterans

Hymenoptera are a mega-diverse order of endopterygote insects and encompass more than 120,000 described species.

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

Trichopteran morphology in…

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Expedition for the rainforest…

Expedition to the tropical lowland rainforest to collect material (insects, tree trunks, lianas, interviews) for the new rainforest exhibition.

Project lead:

Dr. Thomas Gerken

Funding:

Alexander-Koenig-Society e.V.

1KITE: The evolution of the insects

Insects are one of the most species-rich groups of metazoan organisms. They play a pivotal role in most non-marine ecosystems and many insect species are of enormous economical and medical importance. Unraveling the evolution of insects is essential for understanding how life in terrestrial and limnic environments evolved. The 1KITE (1K Insect Transcriptome Evolution) project aims to study the transcriptomes (that is the entirety of expressed genes) of 1,000 insect species encompassing all recognized insect orders. For each species, so-called ESTs (Expressed Sequence Tags) will be produced…

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

2011

GBOL- German Barcode of Life

"German Barcode of Life" ( GBOL ) is a project sponsored by the BMBF and includes the creation of inventories for the gentic characterization of the animals, fungi and plants of germany, using DNA-Barcodes.

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. J. Wolfgang Wägele

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

2010

The evolution of…

We try to reconstruct a robust backbone tree of holometabolous insects based on extensive transcriptome/genome data. With our transcriptome data we cover all orders within these group of insects and optimize the procedures of tree inference based on these data. Additionally, Rolf Beutel's group is providing extensive 3D morphological data of head, thorax and abdominal structures. Together we are working on the most extensive morphological and molecular data addressing the above mentioned phylogenetic questions. Within this project we have also started to specifically address the "Strepsiptera…

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2008

WGL-Aquanet Network of…

Funding:

Leibniz Association

Publications

Published in

2018

Werner, J., Peters, R.S. (2018): Taxonomic revision of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae), with description of ten new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 63, 73. https://jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=12754

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Rakitov, R., Moysa, A.A., Kopylov, A.T., Moshkovskii, S.A., Peters, R.S., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Dietrich, C.H., Johnson, K.P., Podsiadlowski, L., Walden, K.KO. (2018): Brochosomins and other novel proteins from brochosomes of leafhoppers (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadellidae). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 94, 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2018.01.001

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Weber, M., Klimsa, E., Reder, G., Peters, R.S. (2018): Reliability, completeness and improvement of our knowledge on Germany’s parasitoid wasp fauna - a case study in Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Bonn zoological Bulletin 67(2), 101-107

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Johnson, K.P., Dietrich, C.H., Friedrich, F., Beutel, R.G., Wipfler, B., Peters, R.S., Allen, J.M., Petersen, M., Donath, A., Walden, K.K.O., Kozlov, A.M., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Meusemann, K., Vasilikopoulos, A., Waterhouse, R.M., Cameron, S.L., Weirauch, C., Swanson, D.R., Percy, D.M., Hardy, N.B., Terry, I., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Robertson, H.M., Yoshizawa, K., (2018): Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 201815820.

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2017

Dalíková, M., Zrzavá, M., Hladová, I., Nguyen, P., Šonský, I., Flegrová, M., Kubíčková, S., Voleníková, A., Kawahara, A.Y., Peters, R.S., Marec, F. (2017): New Insights into the Evolution of the W Chromosome in Lepidoptera. Journal of Heredity. 108(7), 709-719. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esx063

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Bank, S., Sann, M., Mayer, C., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Kozlov, A., Petersen, M., Krogmann, L., Meier, R., Rosa, P., Schmitt, T., Wurdack, M., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., Niehuis, O., (2017): Transcriptome and target DNA enrichment sequence data provide new insights into the phylogeny of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata: Vespidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 116, 213–226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.08.020

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Li, Y., Zhang, R., Liu, S., Donath, A., Peters, R.S., Ware, J., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Pfrender, M.E., Zhou, X. (2017): The molecular evolutionary dynamics of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) genes in Hymenoptera. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1), 269. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1111-z

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Petersen, M., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Dowling, D., Liu, S., Peters, R.S., Podsiadlowski, L., Vasilikopoulos, A., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Niehuis, O. (2017): Orthograph: a versatile tool for mapping coding nucleotide sequences to clusters of orthologous genes. BMC Bioinformatics. 18(1), 111. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-017-1529-8

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Dowling, D., Pauli, T., Donath, A., Meusemann, K., Podsiadlowski, L., Petersen, M., Peters, R.S., Mayer, C., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Niehuis, O. (2017): Phylogenetic Origin and Diversification of RNAi Pathway Genes in Insects. Genome Biology and Evolution 8(12), 3784-3793. doi:10.1093/gbe/evw281

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Peters, R.S., Krogmann, L., Mayer, C., Donath, A., Gunkel, S., Meusemann, K., Kozlov, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Petersen, M., Lanfear, R., Diez, P.A., Heraty, J., Kjer, K.M., Klopfstein, S., Meier, R., Polidori, C., Schmitt, T., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Misof, B., Niehuis, O. (2017): Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera. Current Biology. 27, 1013–1018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.027

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Rulik, B., Eberle, J., von der Mark, L., Thormann, J., Jung, M., Köhler, F., Apfel, W., Weigel, A., Kopetz, A., Köhler, J., Fritzlar, F., Hartmann, M., Hadulla, K., Schmidt, J., Hörren, T., Krebs, D., Theves, F., Eulitz, U., Skale, A., Rohwedder, D., Kleeberg, A., Astrin, J. J., Geiger, M. F., Wägele, W. J., Grobe, P. & Ahrens, D. (2017): Using taxonomic consistency with semi-automated data pre-processing for high quality DNA barcodes. - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(12): 1878-1887. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12824

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Links:

MEE: 10.1111/2041-210X.12824 [Full Text]
German Barcode of Life

2016

Peters, M.K., Hemp, A., Appelhans, T., Behler, C., Classen, A., Detsch, F., Ensslin, A., Ferger, S.W., Frederiksen, S.B., Gebert, F., Haas, M., Helbig-Bonitz, M., Hemp, C., Kindeketa, W.J., Mwangomo, E., Ngereza, C., Otte, I., Röder, J., Rutten, G., Schellenberger Costa, D., Tardanico, J., Zancolli, G., Deckert, J., Eardley, C.D., Peters, R.S., Rödel, M.-O., Schleuning, M., Ssymank, A., Kakengi, V., Zhang, J., Böhning-Gaese, K., Brandl, R., Kalko, E.K.V., Kleyer, M., Nauss, T., Tschapka, M., Fischer, M., Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2016): Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level. Nature Communications. 7. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13736

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Pauli, T., Vedder, L., Dowling, D., Petersen, M., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Peters, R.S., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Heger, P., Wiehe, T., Hering, L., Mayer, G., Misof, B., Niehuis, O. (2016): Transcriptomic data from panarthropods shed new light on the evolution of insulator binding proteins in insects. BMC Genomics 17, 861. doi:10.1186/s12864-016-3205-1

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Janšta, P., Delvare, G., Krogmann, L., Schütte, K., Peters, R.S. (2016): Systematics, biology and distribution of Microdontomerus iridis (Picard, 1930), comb. n. (Hymenoptera, Torymidae, Toryminae, Microdontomerini), a parasitoid of Mantodea oothecae. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 48:1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/JHR.48.7470

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Schwarz, N., Hamm, A., Mengual, X., Peters, R. 2016. Examining plant-pollinator networks in agriculture. Barcode Bulletin 7(3), 17–18.

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Links:

http://biodiversitygenomics.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/iBOL-Barcode-Bul…

Mayer, C., Sann, M., Donath, A., Meixner, M., Podsiadlowski, L., Peters, R.S., Petersen, M., Meusemann, K., Liere, K., Wägele, J.-W., Misof, B., Bleidorn, C., Ohl, M., Niehuis, O. (2016): BaitFisher: A software package for multispecies target DNA enrichment probe design. Molecular Biology and Evolution doi:10.1093/molbev/msw056

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2015

Bläser, M., Krogmann, L., Peters, R.S. (2015): Two new fossil genera and species of Cerocephalinae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae), including the first record from the Eocene. ZooKeys 545:89-100. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.545.6470

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Kjer KM, Ware JL, Rust J, Wappler T, Lanfear R, Jermiin LS, Zhou X, Aspöck H, Aspöck U, Beutel RG, Blanke A, Donath A, Flouri T, Frandsen PB, Kapli P, Kawahara AY, Letsch H, Mayer C, McKenna DD, Meusemann K, Niehuis O, Peters RS, Wiegmann BM, Yeates DK, von Reumont BM, Stamatakis A, Misof B. (2015): INSECT PHYLOGENOMICS. Response to Comment on "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution". – Science 349: 487.

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2014

Niehuis, M., Blanke, A., Peters, R. S. 2014. Der Verwechselte Fanghaft (Mantispa aphavexelte U. Aspöck et H. Aspöck, 1994) in Rheinland-Pfalz nachgewiesen (Neuroptera: Mantispidae). Fauna Flora Rheinland-Pfalz 12 (4): 1393-1402.

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Bernhard Misof, Shanlin Liu, Karen Meusemann, Ralph S. Peters, Alexander Donath, Christoph Mayer, Paul B. Frandsen, Jessica Ware, Tomáš Flouri, Rolf G. Beutel, Oliver Niehuis, Malte Petersen, Fernando Izquierdo-Carrasco, Torsten Wappler, Jes Rust, Andre J. Aberer, Ulrike Aspöck, Horst Aspöck, Daniela Bartel, Alexander Blanke, Simon Berger, Alexander Böhm, Thomas R. Buckley, Brett Calcott, Junqing Chen, Frank Friedrich, Makiko Fukui, Mari Fujita, Carola Greve, Peter Grobe, Shengchang Gu, Ying Huang, Lars S. Jermiin, Akito Y. Kawahara, Lars Krogmann, Martin Kubiak, Robert Lanfear, Harald Letsch, Yiyuan Li, Zhenyu Li, Jiguang Li, Haorong Lu, Ryuichiro Machida, Yuta Mashimo, Pashalia Kapli, Duane D. McKenna, Guanliang Meng, Yasutaka Nakagaki, José Luis Navarrete-Heredia, Michael Ott, Yanxiang Ou, Günther Pass, Lars Podsiadlowski, Hans Pohl, Björn M. von Reumont, Kai Schütte, Kaoru Sekiya, Shota Shimizu, Adam Slipinski, Alexandros Stamatakis, Wenhui Song, Xu Su, Nikolaus U. Szucsich, Meihua Tan, Xuemei Tan, Min Tang, Jingbo Tang, Gerald Timelthaler, Shigekazu Tomizuka, Michelle Trautwein, Xiaoli Tong, Toshiki Uchifune, Manfred G. Walzl, Brian M. Wiegmann, Jeanne Wilbrandt, Benjamin Wipfler, Thomas K. F. Wong, Qiong Wu, Gengxiong Wu, Yinlong Xie, Shenzhou Yang, Qing Yang, David K. Yeates, Kazunori Yoshizawa, Qing Zhang, Rui Zhang, Wenwei Zhang, Yunhui Zhang, Jing Zhao, Chengran Zhou, Lili Zhou, Tanja Ziesmann, Shijie Zou, Yingrui Li, Xun Xu, Yong Zhang, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Jun Wang, Karl M. Kjer, Xin Zhou (2014): Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. - Science 346 ( 6210): 763-767.

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Deputy Head of Department Arthropoda

Editor-in-chief Bonn zoological Bulletin

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+49 228 9122-212

r.peters [at] leibniz-lib.de

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