PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES and CHAPTERS in BOOKS: 2014 B. Boussau, J. A. Delgado, F. Collantes, L. Beani, I. J. Stewart, J. A. Cameron, J. B. Whitfield, J. S. Johnston, P. W. H. Holland, D. Bachtrog, J. Kathirithamby & J. P. Huelsenbeck. Strepsiptera phylogenomics and the long branch attraction. PLoS One (in press). J. Kathirithamby & M. S. Engel. A revised key to the living and fossil families of Strepsiptera with the description of a new family Cretostylopidae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society (in press). J. Delgado, R. Askew, F. Collantes & J. Kathirithamby. Superparasitism of Eoxenos laboulbenei De Peyerimhoff (Strepsiptera: Insecta) by Idiomacromerus gregarius (Silvestri) (Hymenoptera :Chalcidoidae): a new record in southern Spain. Journal of Natural History 14: 347-1357. http://dx.doi.org/10.10800/00222933.2013.8622578. D. F. Erezyilmaz, A. Hayward, Yan Huang, J. Paps, Z. Acs, J. A. Delgado, F. Collantes & J. Kathirithamby. Expression of the pupal determinant, broad during metamorphic and neotenic development of the strepsipteran, Xenos vesparum Rossi. PloS One 9 e93614. http://dx.doi:101371/journal.pone.0093614. Y. Nakase, M. Kato & J. Kathirithamby. Description of a male cephalotheca of Myrmecolax sp. (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) in a Camponotus sp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Thailand. Japanese Journal of Systenmatic Entomology 20: 17-20. 2013 J. B. Nardi, J. A. Delgado, F. Collantes, L. A. Miller, C. M. Bee, J. Kathirithamby. Sperm Cells of a Primitive Strepsipteran. Insects Special Issue 4: 463-475. http://dx.doi:103390/insects4030463. 2012 J. Kathirithamby, D. P. McMahon, G. M. Anober-Lantican,, V. Ocompo. An unusual occurrence of multiparasitism by two genera of Strepsiptera (Insecta) in a mango leafhopper Idioscopus clypealis (Lethierry) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in the Philippines. Zootaxa 3268: 16-28. J. Kathirithamby. Strepsiptera, In, Os Insetos do Brasil. Diversidade e Taxonomia. Capitulo 41, pg. 45-52. J. A. Rafael, G. A. R. Melo, C. J. B. De Carvalho, S. A. Casari, & R. Constantino (ed). Holos Edirora Ltda ME. J. Kathirithamby, G. K. Lechner, D. P. McMahon, A. L. Bryson & J. S. Johnston. A free ride and lunch: Stylopization in the solitary hunting wasp, Ammophila sp. (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Paraxenos lugubris Pierce (Strepsiptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 114(4): 464-475. 2011 A. Hayward, D. P. McMahon & J. Kathirithamby. Cryptic diversity and female host specificity in a parasitoid where the sexes utilize hosts from separate orders. Molecular Ecology 20: 1508-1528. D. P. McMahon, A. Hayward & J. Kathirithamby. Strepsiptera. Current Biology. 21: K271-272. D. P. McMahon, A, Hayward & J. Kathirithamby. The first molecular phylogeny of Strepsiptera (Insecta) reveals an early burst of molecular evolution correlated with the transition to endoparasitism. PLoS ONE 6(6): 1-7. J. Kathirithamby. [Global Strepsiptera database]. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 26th October 2011 (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). Digital resource at http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Reading, UK. 2010 J. Kathirithamby, A. Hayward, D. McMahon, R. Andreazze, H. Tadeu de Almeida Andrade, R. S. Ferreira & D. Fresneau. Conspecifics of a sexually dimorphic, heterotrophic heteronomous species of Strepsiptera (Insecta) are matched by molecular characterization. Systematic Entomology 35: 234-242. J. Kathirithamby, J. L. Hatting & D. P. McMahon. First host record and description of female Halictophagus calcaratus Pasteels (Strepsiptera: Insecta) from South Africa. African Entomology 18(2): 322-327. 2009 J. Kathirithamby. Host- parasitoid associations in Strepsiptera. Annual Review of Entomology 54: 227-249. J. Kathirithamby, S. J. Taylor & J. T. Longion. New host record for Caenocholax fenyesi sensu lato (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) from Costa Rica. Pan Pacific Entomologist: 85:22-24. D. P. McMahon, A. Hayward & J. Kathirithamby. Mitochondrial genome of Mengenilla australiensis (Strepsiptera). BMC Genomics 10: 603. 2008 J. Kathirithamby. Strepsiptera. In, Encyclopaedia of Insects. Vol. 19: 3594-3598. Springer Science. J. Kathirithamby & H. Henderickx. First record of the Strepsiptera genus Caenocholax in Baltic amber with escription of a new species. Phegea 36: 149-152. J. Kathirithamby. Strepsiptera (Insecta) of Mexico – A Review. Vedalia 12(2) (2005): 103-118. 2007 J. Kathirithamby, S. J. Taylor, E. Valenzuela, J. Gómez & J. F. Barrera. A light-trapped ant, Dolichoderus bispinosus, (Formicidae) with evidence of stylopization by male Caenocholax fenyesi waloffi (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae). Entomological News 118: 279-282. J. Kathirithamby. Strepsiptera (In) Biology Catalogue http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan J. Kathirithamby, J. J. Gillespie, E. Jimenez-Guri, A. I. Cognato & J. S. Johnston. High nucleotide divergence in a dimorphic parasite with disparate hosts. Zootaxa 639: 59-68. J. Kathirithamby, R. Lareau & S. J. Taylor. New state record and northeastern range extension for Caenocholax fenyesi sensu lato (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae). Florida Entomologist 90(4): 762. J. Kathirithamby. Sir Richard Southwood, FRS – an appreciation of his vision. Entomologists Monthly Magazine 143: 242-244. 2006 J. Kathirithamby & D. P. Hughes. Descriptions and biological notes of the first species of Xenos (Strepsiptera: Stylopidae) parasitic in Polistes carnifex F. (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Mexico. Zootaxa 1104: 35-45. J. Kathirithamby. Partial List of Strepsiptera species. Tree of Life Project. http://tolweb.org/notes/?note id=2978. F. Bonneton, F. G. Brunet, J. Kathirithamby & V. Laudet. The rapid divergence of the ecdysone receptor is a synapomorphy for Mecopterida that clarifies the Strepsiptera problem. Insect Molecular Biology 15(3): 351- 362. 2005 D. Grimaldi, J. Kathirithamby & V. Schawaroch. Strepsiptera and triungula in Cretaceous amber. Insect Systematics and Evolution Group 1, 36: 1-20. D. P. Hughes & J. Kathirithamby. Cost of strepsipteran macroparasitism for immature wasps: Does sociality modulate virulence? Oikos 110(3): 428-434. J. Kathirithamby & S. Taylor. A new species of Halictophagus (Strepsiptera) from Texas and a check list of Strepsiptera from the USA and Canada. Zootaxa 1056: 1-18. J. Kathirithamby. Further homage to Santa Rosalia: discovery at last of the elusive females of a species of Myrmecolacidae (Strepsiptera: Insecta). In, Narrow Roads of Gene Land. Collected papers by W. D. Hamilton, Vol. III, Ed. M. Ridley pp. 117-134. Oxford University Press. J. Kathirithamby. How Wallace and Dampier faced Tsunamis at sea. Correspondence to Editor. Nature 438: 282 J. Gillespie, C. McKenna, R. Gutell, J. S. Johnston, J. Kathirithamby & A. Cognato. Assessing the odd secondary structural properties of nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA sequences (18S) of the twisted-wing parasites (Insecta: Strepsiptera). Insect Molecular Biology 14(6): 625-643. 2004 J. Kathirithamby & J. S. Johnston. The discovery after 94 years of the elusive female of a myrmecolacid (Strepsiptera), and the cryptic species of Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce sensu lato. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B (Suppl. 3) 271 (1): S5-S8. D. P. Hughes, P. Pamilo & J. Kathirithamby. Horizontal transmission of Wolbachia by strepsipteran endoparasites? A response to Noda et al. 2001. Molecular Ecology 13(2): 507-509. G. Moya-Roygoza, J. Kathirithamby & K. J. Larsen. Dry season parasitoids of the corn leafhopper (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Canadian Entomologist 136 (1): 119-127. D. P. Hughes, J. Kathirithamby, S. Turillazzi & L. Beani. Social wasps desert the colony and aggregate outside if parasitized: parasite manipulation? Behavioral Ecology 15(6): 1037-1043. R. Dallai, P. Lupetti, F. Giusti, D. Mercati, E. Paccagnini, S. Turillazzi, L. Beani & J. Kathirithamby. Fine structure of the Nassonow’s gland in the neotenic, endoparasitic female of Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Strepsiptera, Insecta). Tissue & Cell 36(1): 211-220. J. S. Johnston, L. D. Ross, L. Beani, D. P. Hughes & J. Kathirithamby. Tiny genomes and endoreduplication in Strepsiptera. Insect Molecular Biology 13(6): 581-585. D. P. Hughes, J. Kathirithamby & L. Beani. Prevalence of the parasite Strepsiptera in adult Polistes wasps: field collections and literature overview. Ethology, Ecology and Evolution 16: 363-375. 2003 D. P. Hughes, L. Beani, S. Turillazzi & J. Kathirithamby. Prevalence of the parasite in Polistes as detected by dissection of immatures. Insectes Sociaux 50: 62-68. D. P. Hughes, G. Moya-Raygoza & J. Kathirithamby. The first record among Dolichoderinae (Formicidae) of parasitism by Strepsiptera. Insectes Sociaux 50: 148-150. J. Kathirithamby. Strepsiptera. Stylopidia. The Tree of Life Web Project. http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Stylopidia&contgroup=Strepsiptera J. Kathirithamby. Strepsiptera: Host relations. Tree of Life Web project. http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/hexapoda/strepsiptera/stylohosts.html R. Dallai, L. Beani, J. Kathirithamby, P. Lupetti & B. A. Afzelius. New findings on sperm utrastructure of Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Strepsiptera, Insecta). Tissue & Cell 35(1): 19-27. J. Kathirithamby, L. D. Ross & J. S. Johnston. Masquerading as self? Endoparasitic Strepsiptera enclose themselves in host-derived epidermal “bag”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100(13): 7655-7659. 2002 J. Kathirithamby & D. P. Hughes. Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae)