Dr.Bonnie Blaimer

Kirchner, M., Bertone, M., Blaimer, B.B., Youngsteadt, E. (2023). Colony Structure and Redescription of Males in the Rarely Collected Arboreal Ant, Aphaenogaster mariae Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 125(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.125.1.77

Almeida, E.A., Bossert, S., Danforth, B.N., Porto, D.S., Freitas, F.V., Davis, C.C., Murray, E.A., Blaimer, B.B., Spasojevic, T., Ströher, P.R., Orr, M.C., Packer, L., Brady, S.G., Kuhlmann, M., Branstetter, M.G., Pie, M.R. (2023). The evolutionary history of bees in time and space. Current Biology, 33(16), 3409-3422.e6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.005

æ Cruaud, A., Rasplus, J., Zhang, J., Burks, R., Delvare, G., Fusu, L., Gumovsky, A., Huber, J.T., Janšta, P., Mitroiu, M., Noyes, J.S., Van Noort, S., Baker, A., Böhmová, J., Baur, H., Blaimer, B.B., Brady, S.G., Bubeníková, K., Chartois, M., Copeland, R.S., Dale‐Skey Papilloud, N., Dal Molin, A., Dominguez, C., Gebiola, M., Guerrieri, E., Kresslein, R.L., Krogmann, L., Lemmon, E., Murray, E.A., Nidelet, S., Nieves‐Aldrey, J.L., Perry, R.K., Peters, R.S., Polaszek, A., Sauné, L., Torréns, J., Triapitsyn, S., Tselikh, E.V., Yoder, M., Lemmon, A.R., Woolley, J.B., Heraty, J.M. (2023). The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps. Cladistics, 40(1), 34-63. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12561

æ Blaimer, B.B., Santos, B.F., Cruaud, A., Gates, M.W., Kula, R.R., Mikó, I., Rasplus, J.Y., Smith, D.R., Talamas, E.J., Brady, S.G., Buffington, M.L. (2023). Key innovations and the diversification of Hymenoptera. Nature Communications, 14(1), 1212. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36868-4

Mbanyana, N., Blaimer, B.B., Le Roux, J.J., Van Noort, S., Brady, S.G., Wossler, T.C. (2024). Out of the desert: Paleoclimatic changes drove the diversification of arid-adapted Ocymyrmex ants in southern Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 191, 107977. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107977

æ Kirchner, M., Sorenson, C., Blaimer, B.B., Youngsteadt, E. (2024). Reaching new heights: Arboreal ant diversity in a North American temperate forest ecosystem. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 18(1), 95-106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12788

æ Ward, P., Fisher, B., Wernegreen, J., Blaimer, B. (2025). Evolutionary history, novel lineages and symbiont coevolution in the ant tribe Camponotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology, 50(3), 646-676. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12678

æ Doré, M., Borowiec, M., Branstetter, M., Camacho, G., Fisher, B., Longino, J., Ward, P., Blaimer, B. (2025). Evolutionary history of ponerine ants highlights how the timing of dispersal events shapes modern biodiversity. Nature Communications, 16(1), 8297. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63709-3

Zhang, Y., Delvare, G., Blaimer, B., Cruaud, A., Rasplus, J., Brady, S., Gates, M. (2025). Phasing in and out of phytophagy: Phylogeny and evolution of the family Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) based on Ultraconserved Elements. Systematic Entomology, 50(4), 780-793. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12682

æ Mbanyana, N., Duffy, G.A., Janion-Scheepers, C., Van Noort, S., Blaimer, B.B., Le Roux, J.J., Wossler, T.C. (2025). Some like it hot: physiological responses of hot-rod ants (Hymeno ptera: Formicidae) and their interactions with past and future climate change. Myrmecological news, 35, 249-263. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_035:249

æ Camacho, G., Loss, A., Fisher, B., Blaimer, B. (2025). A zoogeographic model for the evolution of diversity and endemism in Madagascar. Ecography. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.07661

æ Fisher, B.L., Branstetter, M.G., Blaimer, B.B., Borowiec, M.L., Camacho, G.P., Doré, M., Ward, P.S., Longino, J.T. (2025). A genus-level classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys, 1264, 281-349. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1264.173399

æ Aimé, E., Benavides, L.R., Blaimer, B.B., Espeland, M., Kergoat, G.J., Owen, C.L., Toussaint, E.F.A., Weirauch, C. (2025). [Editorial:] Developing Systematic Entomology and expanding its scope. Systematic Entomology, 50(4), 677-678. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12692