Johan Liljeblad

TL;DR: The first phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Chalcidoidea based on both morphological and molecular data is presented and several life‐history traits are mapped onto the new phylogeny.

TL;DR: These hypotheses were tested by mapping characters onto a recent estimate of higher cynipid relationships from a morphology‐based analysis of exemplar taxa, controlling for phylogenetic uncertainty using bootstrapping, and results contradict many of the current hypotheses.

TL;DR: The first comprehensive analysis of higher‐level phylogeny of the order Hymenoptera is presented and all currently recognized superfamilies are supported as monophyletic.

TL;DR: The analysis was based on detailed study of the skeletal morphology of adults, resulting in 164 phylogenetically informative characters, complemented with a few biological characters that suggested that the high level of homoplasy is characteristic of the Cynipidae and not the result of the amount of available phylogenetically conservative characters being exhausted.

TL;DR: The first comprehensive molecular and total-evidence analyses of higher-level gall wasp relationships confirm that gall wasps are conservative in their host-plant preferences, and that herb-galling lineages have radiated repeatedly onto the same set of unrelated host plants.