Publications
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Barber, J.R., Kawahara, A.Y. 2013. Hawkmoths produce anti-bat ultrasound. Biology Letters. Kawahara, A.Y., Rubinoff, D. 2013. Convergent evolution of morphology and habitat use in the explosive Hawaiian fancy case caterpillar radiation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Lee, G.-E., Hayden, J.E., Kawahara, A.Y. External egg morphology of the Hawaiian Dancing Moth, Dryadaula terpsichorella. Journal of Natural History. |
| 2013 | Regier, J.C., Mitter, C., Zwick, A., Bazinet, A.L., Cummings, M.P., Kawahara, A.Y. et al. A large-scale, higher-level, molecular phylogenetic study of the insect order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). PLoS ONE 8(3): e58568. PDF
Kawahara, A.Y., Breinholt, J.W., Ponce, F.V., Haxaire, J., Xiao, L., Lamarre, G.P.A., Rubinoff, D., Kitching, I.J. 2013. Evolution of Manduca sexta hornworms and relatives: Biogeographical analysis reveals an ancestral diversification in Central America. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 68: 381–386. PDF Kawahara, A.Y. 2013. Systematic revision and review of the extant and fossil snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae) Zootaxa 3631: 1-74. |
| 2012 | Kawahara, A.Y. 2012. Getting established in academia. Science 336 (6086): 1233. (Review).
Kawahara, A.Y., Rubinoff, D. Three new species of Fancy Case caterpillars from threatened forests of Hawaii (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae: Hyposmocoma). ZooKeys 170: 1-20. PDF De Prins, J., Kawahara, A.Y., 2012. Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Zootaxa 3594, 1-283. Higher-Res Figure 3. Supplementary Table 1. PDF Rubinoff, D., San Jose, M., Kawahara, A.Y. Phylogenetics and species status of Hawaii’s endangered Blackburn’s Sphinx Moth, Manduca blackburni (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Pacific Science 66(1): 31-41. Breinholt, J.W., M. Porter, and K.A. Crandall. Testing phylogenetic hypotheses of the subgenera of the freshwater crayfish genus Cambarus (Decapoda: Cambaridae). PLoS ONE 7(9): e46105. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046105 Kawahara, A.Y., Ortiz-Acevedo, E., Marshall, C.J. External morphology of adult Libythea celtis (Laicharting [1782]) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Zoological Science 29: 463–475. PDF Kawahara, A.Y., Emmel, T.C., Miller, J.Y., Warren, A.D. A new institution devoted to Insect Science: The Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity. Insect Science 19(3): 426–428. |
| 2011 | Kawahara, A.Y., Ohshima, I., Kawakita, A., Regier, J.C., Mitter, C., Cummings, M.P., Davis, D.R., Wagner, D.L., De Prins, J., Lopez-Vaamonde, C. Increased gene sampling strengthens support for higher-level groups within leaf-mining moths and relatives (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:182. DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-11-182. PDF
Cho, S., Zwick, A., Regier, J.C, Mitter, C., Cummings, M.P., Yao, J., Du, Z., Zhao, H., Kawahara, A.Y., Weller, S., Davis, D.R., Baixeras, J., Brown, J.W., Parr, S. Can deliberately incomplete gene sample augmentation improve a phylogeny estimate for the advanced moths and butterflies (Hexapoda: Lepidoptera)? Systematic Biology 60(6):782–796. PDF Mitter, K.T., Larsen, T.B., Collins, S., Vande Weghe, G., De Prins, J., De Prins, W., Sfian, S., Zakharov, E., Hawthorne, D.J., Kawahara, A.Y., Regier, J.C., Genetic evidence for multiple cryptic species of Pseudopontia (Pieridae: Pseudopontiinae). Systematic Entomology 36(1): 139-163. PDF Nieukerken, E.J. et al. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.), Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 212–221. (Kawahara one of 51 authors). PDF Pérez-Losada, M., Breinholt, J.W., Porto, P.G., Aira, M., and J. Dominguez. An earthworm riddle: systematics and phylogeography of the Spanish lumbricid Postandrilus. PLoS ONE 6(11): e28153. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028153 Breinholt, J.W., P. Moler, and K.A. Crandall. Population structure of two crayfish with diverse physiological requirements. In C. Held, A. Wegener, S. Koenemann, and C. D. Schubart, eds. Phylogeography and Population Genetics in Crustacea (Crustacean Issues 19). CRC Press, Florida. Pérez-Losada, M., Bloch, R, Breinholt, J.W., Pfenninger, M., and J. Dominguez. Phylogenetic analysis of the earthworm genus Aporrectodea Örley, 1885 (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) using DNA barcodes. European Journal of Soil Biology. doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2011.10.003 Kawahara, A.Y., Tangalin, N., Rubinoff, D. Life-history notes on the fern-mining endemic Hyposmocoma (Euperissus) trivitella Swezey 1913 (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae) from Kauai and a report of associated parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 43: 9-12. PDF Kawahara, A.Y. Review of Goldsmith, M.R. and Marec F. (eds) “Genetics and Molecular Biology of Lepidoptera.” Florida Entomologist 94(1): 119-120. PDF Kawahara, A.Y., Nishida, K., Rubinoff, D. The behavior of the Hawaiian dancing moth, Dryadaula terpischorella (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 65(2): 133-135. |
| 2010 | Scott, J., Kawahara, A.Y., Skevington, J., Yen, S.-H., Sami, A., Smith, M., Yack, J. The evolutionary origins of ritualized acoustic signals in caterpillars. Nature Communications 1: 4. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1002 PDF
Kawahara, A.Y., Sohn, J.-C., De Prins, J., Cho, S. Taxonomic report of five leaf-mining moths new to Korea (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Entomological Research 40: 131-135. DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5967.2010.00268.x |
| 2009 | Kawahara, A.Y., Mignault, A.A., Regier, J.C., Kitching, I.J., Mitter, C. Phylogeny and biogeography of hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae): evidence from five nuclear genes. PLoS ONE 4(5): e5719. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005719 PDF
Kawahara, A.Y. Phylogeny of snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae): combining evidence from the morphology of extant, fossil, and recently extinct taxa. Cladistics 25: 1-19. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00251.x PDF Regier, J.C., Zwick, A., Cummings, M.P., Kawahara, A.Y., Cho, S., Weller, S.J., Roe, A.D., Baixeras-Almela, J., Brown, J.W., Parr, C.S., Davis, D.R., Epstein, M.E., Hallwachs, W., Hausmann, A., Janzen, D.H., Kitching, I.J., Solis, M.A., Yen, S.-H., Bazinet, A., Mitter, C. Toward reconstructing the evolution of advanced moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an initial molecular study. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 280. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-280 PDF Roe, A.D., Weller, S.J., Baixeras, J., Brown, J., Cummings, M.P., Davis, D., Kawahara, A.Y., Parr, C., Regier, J.C., Rubinoff, D., Simonsen, T.J., Wahlberg, N., and A. Zwick. Evolutionary Framework for Lepidoptera Model Systems. pp. 1-24 In Goldsmith, M. & F. Marec (eds.), Genetics and Molecular Biology of Lepidoptera. CRC Press, Boca Raton. Kawahara, A.Y., Nishida, K., and Davis, D.R. Systematics, host plants, and life histories of three new Phyllocnistis species from the highlands of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Phyllocnistinae). ZooKeys 27:7-30. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.27.250 Breinholt, J., M. Préze-Losada, and K.A. Crandall. 2009. The Timing of the Diversification of the Freshwater Crayfishes.Pp. 305-318 in J. W. Martin, K. A. Crandall, and D. L. Felder, eds. Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics (Crustacean Issues 18). CRC Press, Florida. Kawahara, A.Y., Saito, M. The current state of the Butterfly Society of Japan. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society 51(4): 128. De Prins, J., Kawahara, A.Y. On the taxonomic history of Phyllocnistis Zeller 1848 (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 32: 27-35. PDF Rubinoff, D.R., Osborne, K.H., Kawahara, A.Y. Synonymization of the euphonious Arctonotus lucidus (Sphingidae) based on recent DNA evidence. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 63(4): 233-235. Kawahara, A.Y. Review of The Hawk Moths of North America: A Natural History of the Sphingidae of the United States and Canada by James P. Tuttle. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111(4): 911-912. |
| 2007 | Kawahara, A.Y.. Thirty-foot telescopic nets, bug-collecting videogames, and beetle pets: Entomology in modern Japan. American Entomologist 53(3): 160-172. PDF
Root, H.T., Kawahara, A.Y., Norton, R.A. Anachipteria sacculifera n. sp. (Acari: Oribatida: Achipteriidae) from arboreal lichens in New York State. Acarologia 157 (3-4): 187-195. |
| 2006 | Kawahara, A.Y. The biology of the snout butterflies (Nymphalidae: Libytheinae), Part 1: Libythea Fabricius. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 57(1): 13-33. PDF
Kawahara, A.Y. The biology of the snout butterflies (Nymphalidae: Libytheinae), Part 2: Libytheana Michener. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 57(3): 265-277. PDF Kawahara, A.Y., Adamski, D. Taxonomic and behavioral studies of a new dancing Beltheca Busck from Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108(2): 253-260. PDF Kawahara, A.Y., Winkler, I., Hsu, W.W. New host records of the ectoparasitic biting midge Forcipomyia pectinunguis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) on adult geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 79(3): 297-300. PDF Kawahara, A.Y., Dirig, R. Nectar source records for Libytheana carinenta (Nymphalidae: Libytheinae). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 60(4): 101-105. PDF |
| 2005 | Ylla, J., Peigler, R.S., Kawahara, A.Y. Cladistic analysis of moon moths using morphology, molecules and behaviour: Actias Leach, 1815; Argema Wallengren, 1858; Graellsia Grote, 1896 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). SHILAP Revista Lepidopterologica 33(131): 299-317. |
| 2004 | Dirig, R., Kawahara, A.Y. The Brazilian Skipper (Calpodes ethlius, Hesperiidae) in West Virginia. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society 46(1): 22, 31.
Kawahara, A.Y. Lepidoptera of Mt. Shirao: A survey from 1998-1999. Journal of the Entomological Society of Shizuoka (Suruga No Konchu) 205: 5714-5716. |
| 2003 | Kawahara, A.Y. Behavioral observations of Libytheana carinenta Cramer. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society 45: front cover + 107-108, 127.
Kawahara, A.Y. Rediscovery of Libythea collenettei Poulton & Riley in the Marquesas, and a description of the male. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 57: 81-85. PDF |