Niklas Wahlberg
niklas.wahlberg@utu.fi Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1259-3363 |
Research
I am currently a University Researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Biology, University of Turku. My main area of research is the systematics and evolution of the butterfly family Nymphalidae.
I am currently a University Researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Biology, University of Turku. My main area of research is the systematics and evolution of the butterfly family Nymphalidae.
Publications
- Evolution within a language: environmental differences contribute to divergence of dialect groupsMolecular phylogeny and higher systematics of the metalmark butterflies (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)'Species' from two different butterfly genera combined into one: description of a new genus of Euptychiina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with unusually variable wing pattern (2018)
- BMC Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2018)
- Systematic EntomologyZootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ten genes and two topologies: an exploration of higher relationships in skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae) (2017)
- Marine and Freshwater Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2017)
- Scientific ReportsBMC Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Polyphagy and diversification in tussock moths: Support for the oscillation hypothesis from extreme generalists (2017)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Evolutionary Patterns of Pheromone Diversity in LepidopteraOn oscillations and flutterings - A reply to Hamm and Fordyce (2016) Pheromone Communication in Moths: Evolution, Behaviour, and Application Lofstedt C; Wahlberg N; Millar JG
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Molecular phylogeny and generic-level taxonomy of the widespread palaeotropical "Heteropsis clade' (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Mycalesina) (2016)
- Systematic Entomology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2016)
- Evolution
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - PCR primers for 30 novel gene regions in the nuclear genomes of Lepidoptera (2016)
- ZooKeysRevista Brasileira de Entomologia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Phylogenetic relationships of Acronictinae with discussion of the abdominal courtship brush in Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) (2016)
- Systematic EntomologyPeerJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera) (2016)
- Systematic EntomologyMolecular Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2016)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2016)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - What you need is what you eat? Prey selection by the bat Myotis daubentoniiA new extant family of primitive moths from Kangaroo Island, Australia, and its significance for understanding early Lepidoptera evolution (2016)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Adaptive radiations in butterflies: evolutionary history of the genus Erebia (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) (2015)
- Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Advances in Geometroidea phylogeny, with characterization of a new family based on Pseudobiston pinratanai (Lepidoptera, Glossata) (2015)
- Zoologica Scripta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2015)
- Systematic Entomology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species of Niganda Moore, 1879 from Thailand, with descriptions of variation in male genitalia and female facies of N. radialis Moore (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae, Ceirinae) (2015)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new subspecies of Anthanassa (Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae: Melitaeini) from Southeastern Brazil (2015)
- Journal- Lepidopterists Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Elusive ditrysian phylogeny: an account of combining systematized morphology with molecular data (Lepidoptera) (2015)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



