Below are selected publications. Citation statistics are accurate as of March 2026. Details on all publications can be found on Google Scholar.
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3724-4610, ResearchGate Profile
2026
Bethin, J., Hayden, J.E., Plotkin, D., Martinez, J.I., Pierson, T.L., Kawahara, A.Y. A phylogeny of the aquatic moth subfamily Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Systematic Entomology 51(1): e70027. doi: 10.1111/syen.70027
Couch, C.D., Masonick, P., Plotkin, D., Li, X., Breinholt, J.W., Rougerie, R., Barber, J.R., Kitching, I., Kawahara, A.Y. The evolution of proboscis length and feeding behaviour in hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Royal Society Open Science 13(3): 251697. doi: 10.1098/rsos.251697
Foquet, B., Eccles, L.E., Markee, A., Triant, D.A., Frandsen, P.B., Stoppel, W.L., Kawahara, A.Y. Evolution of highly repetitive silk genes in the Luna moth, Actias luna. Genome Biology and Evolution 18(3): evag036. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evag036
Wright, C.J., Shirey, V.M., Condamine, F.L., Hill, J.K., Pierce, N E., Wahlberg, N., Kawahara, A.Y. Evolution, genomics and conservation of butterflies and moths. Nature Reviews Biodiversity 2: 186-203. doi: 10.1038/s44358-025-00128-8
2025
Awad, J., Brar, G., Cadwalader, C., Dillard, D., Esposito, L.A., Evans, E., Grozinger, C., Fisher, K.E., Kawahara, A.Y.,…Winton, R. Defining the decline: a glossary relevant to insect decline. Journal of Insect Science 25(3): ieaf048. doi: 10.1093/jisesa/ieaf048
DePiazza, G., Campo, R.J., Bethin, J., Plotkin, D., Kawahara, A.Y., Foquet, B. Life history descriptions of two aquatic Florida moth species (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Florida Entomologist 108(1): 20250008. doi: 10.1515/flaent-2025-0008
Eccles, L.E., Foquet, B., Markee, A., Liwang, R.L., Basso, K.B., Kawahara, A.Y., Stoppel, W.L. Morphological and compositional basis of silk fiber function in Actias luna. Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2025: 1-27. doi: 10.1039/D5TB01008J
Kaminsky, L., Huber, S., Deuel, T., Tran, N.V., Howard, E.J., Leopold, A., Priyadarshini, A., Plotkin, D., Kawahara, A.Y. A digitization workflow of dry-pinned collections of Lepidoptera. ZooKeys 1264: 73-93. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1264.134756
Kawahara, A.Y., Masonick, P., Rivera, P., Barber, J.R. Spreading methods that preserve three-dimensional features of Lepidoptera wings. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 79(4): 296-299. doi: 10.18473/lepi.79i4.a7
Leong, J.V., Matos‐Maraví, P., Núñez, R., Nunes, R., Liang, W., Braby, M.F., Doleck, T., … Kawahara, A.Y., Pierce, N.E., Lohman, D.J. Around the world in 26 million years: Diversification and biogeography of pantropical grass‐yellow Eurema butterflies (Pieridae: Coliadinae). Journal of Biogeography 52(5): e15107. doi: 10.1111/jbi.15107 | Cited by 8
Pinkert, S., Farwig, N., Kawahara, A.Y., Jetz, W. Global hotspots of butterfly diversity are threatened in a warming world. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9: 789-800. doi: 10.1038/s41559-025-02664-0 | Cited by 21
Plotkin, D., Breinholt, J.W., Kawahara, A.Y. A target capture‐based phylogeny of emerald moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae) provides new insights into tribal‐level classification. Systematic Entomology 50(4): 920-939. doi: 10.1111/syen.12689 | Cited by 1
Rubin, J.J., Campbell, C.J., Carvalho, A.P.S., St Laurent, R.A., Crespo, G.I., Pierson, T.L., Guralnick, R., Kawahara, A.Y. Strong bat predation and weak environmental constraints predict longer moth tails. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292(2046): 20242824. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2824 | Cited by 3
Toussaint, E.F., Condamine, F.L., Carvalho, A.P.S., Plotkin, D.M., Ellis, E.A., Dexter, K.M., Earl, C., … Pierce, N.E., Lohman, D.J., Kawahara, A.Y. Global climate cooling spurred skipper butterfly diversification. Systematic Biology 74(4). doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syaf029 | Cited by 3
Triant, D.A., Pirro, S., Kawahara, A.Y., Daniels, J.C. The complete genome of three at-risk Florida butterflies: Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri, Eumaeus atala and Heraclides ponceana. Biodiversity Genomes: 10-56179. doi: 10.56179/001c.144799
Weng, Y.M., Martinez, J.I., Markee, A., Plotkin, D., Sondhi, Y., Mongue, A.J., Frandsen, P.B., Kawahara, A.Y. Gene family evolution suggests correlated dietary adaptations in butterflies and moths. Genome Biology and Evolution 17(9): evaf156. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evaf156 | Cited by 2
Carvalho, A.P.S., Owens, H.L., St Laurent, R.A., Earl, C., Dexter, K.M., Messcher, R.L., Willmott, K.R., Aduse-Poku, K., … Kawahara, A.Y., Lohman, D.J. Comprehensive phylogeny of Pieridae butterflies reveals strong correlation between diversification and temperature. iScience 27(4): 109336. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109336 | Cited by 7
Frandsen, P.B., Holzenthal, R.W., Espeland, M., Breinholt, J., Thomas Thorpe, J.A., Simon, S., Kawahara, A.Y., Plotkin, D., Hotaling, S., … Zhou, X. Phylogenomics recovers multiple origins of portable case making in caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera), nature’s underwater architects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291(2026): 20240514. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0514 | Cited by 23
Gough, H.M., Rubin, J.J., Kawahara, A.Y., Barber, J.R. Tiger beetles produce anti-bat ultrasound and are probable Batesian moth mimics. Biology Letters 20(5): 20230610. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0610 | Cited by 2
Heckenhauer, J., Plotkin, D., Martinez, J.I., Bethin, J., Pauls, S.U., Frandsen, P.B., Kawahara, A.Y. Genomic resources of aquatic Lepidoptera, Elophila obliteralis and Hyposmocoma kahamanoa, reveal similarities with Trichoptera in amino acid composition of major silk genes. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 14(9): jkae093. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkae093 | Cited by 5
Kawahara, A.Y., Sondhi, Y., Theobald, J. High-speed video of a flying ghost moth, Phassus n-signatus (Hepialidae) reveals slight forewing-hindwing out-of-phase flapping. The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 78(4): 266-268. doi: 10.18473/lepi.78i4.a6
Li, X., Breinholt, J.B., Martinez, J.I., Keegan, K., Ellis, E.A., Homziak, N.T., Zwick, A., Storer, C.G., McKenna, D., Kawahara, A.Y. Large-scale genomic data reveal the phylogeny and evolution of owlet moths (Noctuoidea). Cladistics 40: 21-33. doi: 10.1111/cla.12559 | Cited by 14
Lopez-Cacacho, I., de Bem Oliveira, I., Markee, A., Dowdy, N.J., Kawahara, A.Y. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in tiger moths: trends and knowledge gaps. Chemoecology 34(4): 163-173. doi: 10.1007/s00049-024-00411-8 | Cited by 1
Markee, A., Godfrey, R.K., Frandsen, P.B., Weng, Y.M., Triant, D.A., Kawahara, A.Y. De novo long-read genome assembly and annotation of the Luna moth (Actias luna) fully resolves repeat-rich silk genes. Genome Biology and Evolution 16(7): evae148. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evae148 | Cited by 5
Shashank, P.R., Parker, B.M., Rananaware, S.R., Plotkin, D., Couch, C., Yang, L.G., Nguyen, L.T., Prasannakumar, N.R., Braswell, W.E., Jain, P.L., Kawahara, A.Y. CRISPR-based diagnostics detects invasive insect pests. Molecular Ecology Resources 24: e13881. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13881 | Cited by 23
Singh, R.P., Weng, Y.M., Sondhi, Y., Plotkin, D., Frandsen, P.B., Kawahara, A.Y. Genome assembly of a nocturnal butterfly (Macrosoma leucophasiata) reveals convergent adaptation of visual genes. Communications Biology 7(1): 1664. doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-07124-2 | Cited by 1
Skojec, C., Earl, C., Couch, C.D., Masonick, P., Kawahara, A.Y. Phylogeny and divergence time estimation of Io moths and relatives (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Automeris). PeerJ 12: e17365. doi: 10.7717/peerj.17365 | Cited by 3
Skojec, C., Godfrey, R.K., Kawahara, A.Y. Long read genome assembly of Automeris io (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) an emerging model for the evolution of deimatic displays. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics: jkad292. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad292 | Cited by 3
Sondhi, Y., Messcher, R.L., Bellantuono, A.J., Storer, C.G., Cinel, S.D., Godfrey, R.K., Mongue, A.J., Weng, Y.M., … Theobald, J.C., Kawahara, A.Y. Day–night gene expression reveals circadian gene disco as a candidate for diel-niche evolution in moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291(2029): 20240591. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0591
Weng, Y.M., Lopez-Cacacho, I., Foquet, B., Martinez, J.I., Plotkin, D., Sourakov, A., Frandsen, P.B., Kawahara, A.Y. A near chromosome-level genome assembly of a ghost moth (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae). Scientific Data 11(1): 1139. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03783-2 | Cited by 1
Weng, Y.M., Shashank, P.R., Godfrey, R.K., Plotkin, D., Parker, B.M., Wist, T., Kawahara, A.Y. Evolutionary genomics of three agricultural pest moths reveals rapid evolution of host adaptation and immune-related genes. GigaScience 13: giad103. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giad103 | Cited by 7
Barve, T.V., Godfrey, R.K., Storer, C.G., Kawahara, A.Y. Larval and pupal silk variation in the Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella): the impact of overcrowding and temperature. The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 77(2): 116-121. doi: 10.18473/lepi.77i2.a5 | Cited by 5
Currea, J.P., Sondhi, Y., Kawahara, A.Y., Theobald, J. Measuring compound eye optics with microscope and MicroCT images. Communications Biology 6(1): 246. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04575-x | Cited by 36
Frandsen, P.B., Hotaling, S., Powell, A., Heckenhauer, J., Kawahara, A.Y., Baker, R.H., Hayashi, C.Y., Ríos-Touma, B., Holzenthal, R., Pauls, S.U., Stewart, R.J. Allelic resolution of insect and spider silk genes reveals hidden genetic diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 120(18): e2221528120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2221528120 | Cited by 21
Godfrey, R.K., Britton, S.E., Mishra, S., Goldberg, J.K., Kawahara, A.Y. A high-quality, long-read genome assembly of the whitelined sphinx moth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae: Hyles lineata) shows highly conserved melanin synthesis pathway genes. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 13(6): jkad090. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad090 | Cited by 3
Homziak, N.T., Storer, C.G., Gall, L.F., Borth, R.J., Kawahara, A.Y. Phylogenomics resolves major relationships of Catocala underwing moths. Systematic Entomology 48(4): 633-643. doi: 10.1111/syen.12595 | Cited by 6
Kawahara, A.Y., Martinez, J.I., Plotkin, D., Markee, A., Butterwort, V., Couch, C.D., Toussaint, E.F. Mezcal worm in a bottle: DNA evidence suggests a single moth species. PeerJ 11: e14948. doi: 10.7717/peerj.14948 | Cited by 4
Kawahara, A.Y., Storer, C., Carvalho, A.P.S., Plotkin, D.M., Condamine, F.L., Braga, M.P., Ellis, E.A., St Laurent, R.A., Li, X., Barve, V., et al. A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 903-913. doi: 10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9 | Cited by 211
Rubin, J.J., Kawahara, A.Y. A framework for understanding post-detection deception in predator–prey interactions. PeerJ 11: e15389. 10.7717/peerj.15389 | Cited by 1
Rubin, J.J., Kawahara, A.Y. Sexual selection does not drive hindwing tail elaboration in a moon moth, Actias luna. Behavioral Ecology 34(3): 488-494. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arad019 | Cited by 10
Rubin, J.J., Martin, N.W., Sieving, K.E., Kawahara, A.Y. Testing bird-driven diurnal trade-offs of the moon moth’s anti-bat tail. Biology Letters 19(2): 20220428. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0428 | Cited by 6
St Laurent, R.A., Goldstein, P.Z., Miller, J.S., Markee, A., Staude, H.S., Kawahara, A.Y., Miller, S.E., Robbins, R.K. Phylogenetic systematics, diversification, and biogeography of Cerurinae (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) and a description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(2): 3. doi: 10.1093/isd/ixad004 | Cited by 15
Tunström, K., Woronik, A., Hanly, J.J., Rastas, P., Chichvarkhin, A., Warren, A.D., Kawahara, A.Y., Schoville, S.D., Ficarrotta, V., Porter, A.H., et al. Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy. Science Advances 9(12): eabq3713. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abq371 | Cited by 22
Barber, J.R, Plotkin, D., Rubin, J.J., Homziak, N.T., Leavell, B.C., Houlihan, P.R., Miner, K.A., Breinholt, J.W., Quirk-Royal, B., Padrón, P.S., Nunez, M., Kawahara, A.Y. Anti-bat ultrasound production in moths is globally and phylogenetically widespread. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 119: e2117485119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2117485119 | Cited by 44
Butterwort, V., Dansby, H., Zink, F.A., Tembrock, L.R., Gilligan, T.M., Godoy, A., Braswell, W.E., Kawahara, A.Y. A DNA extraction method for insects from sticky traps: targeting a low abundance pest, Phthorimaea absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), in mixed species communities. Journal of Economic Entomology 115(3): 844-851. doi: 10.1093/jee/toac046 | Cited by 25
Hamilton, C.A., Winiger, N., Rubin, J.J., Breinholt, J., Rougerie, R., Kitching, I.J., Barber, J.R., Kawahara, A.Y. Hidden phylogenomic signal helps elucidate arsenurine silkmoth phylogeny and the evolution of body size and wing shape trade-offs. Systematic Biology 71(4): 859-874. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syab090 | Cited by 17
Hendrick, L.K., Somjee, U., Rubin, J.J., Kawahara, A.Y. A review of false heads in lycaenid butterflies. The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 76(2): 140-148. doi: 10.18473/lepi.76i2.a6 | Cited by 18
Kawahara, A.Y., Storer, C.G., Markee, A., Heckenhauer, J., Powell, A., Plotkin, D., Hotaling, S., Cleland, T.P., Dikow, R.B., Dikow, T., Kuranishi, R.B., Messcher, R., Pauls, S.U., Stewart, R.J., Tojo, K., Frandsen, P.B. Long-read HiFi sequencing correctly assembles repetitive heavy fibroin silk genes in new moth and caddisfly genomes. Gigabyte 2022: 1-14. doi: 10.46471/gigabyte.64 | Cited by 31
Li, X., Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R., Ballesteros-Mejia, L., Markee, A., Haxaire, J., Rougerie, R., Kitching, I.J., Kawahara, A.Y. A diversification relay race from Caribbean-Mesoamerica to the Andes: historical biogeography of Xylophanes hawkmoths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20212435. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2435 | Cited by 13
Li, X., St Laurent, R., Earl, C., Doorenweerd, C., van Nieukerken, E.J., Davis, D., Johns, C.J., Kawakita, A., Kobayashi, S., Zwick, A., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Ohshima, I., Kawahara, A.Y. Phylogeny of gracillariid leaf-mining moths: evolution of larval behaviour inferred from phylogenomic and Sanger data. Cladistics 38: 277-300. doi: 10.1111/cla.12490 | Cited by 35
Mongue, A.J., Kawahara, A.Y. Population differentiation and structural variation in the Manduca sexta genome across the United States. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics 12(5): jkac047. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac047 | Cited by 10
Nunes, R., Storer, C.G., Doleck, T., Kawahara, A.Y., Pierce, N., Lohman, D.J. Predictors of sequence capture in a large-scale anchored phylogenomics project. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 1-16. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.943361 | Cited by 13
Shirey, V., Larsen, E., Doherty, A., Kim, C.A., Al-Sulaiman, F.T.,…Kawahara, A.Y., Guralnick, R., Pierce, N.E., Lohman, D.J., Ries, L. LepTraits 1.0 A globally comprehensive dataset of butterfly traits. Scientific Data 9(1): 382. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01473-5 | Cited by 70
Sondhi, Y., Jo, N.J., Alpizar, B., Markee, A., Dansby, H.E., Currea, J.P., Fabian, S.T., Ruiz, C., Barredo, E., Allen, P., DeGennaro, M., Kawahara, A.Y., Theobald, J.C. Portable locomotion activity monitor (pLAM): A cost-effective setup for robust activity tracking in small animals. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13(4): 805-812. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13809 | Cited by 10
Toussaint, E.F.A., Braby, M.F., Müller, C.J., Petrie, E.A., Kawahara, A.Y. Molecular phylogeny, systematics and generic classification of the butterfly subfamily Trapezitinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Hesperiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195(4): 1407-1421. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab086 | Cited by 14
Toussaint, E.F.A., Braby, M.F., Müller, C.J., Dexter, K.M., Storer, C., Lohman, D.J., Kawahara, A.Y. Explosive Cenozoic radiation and diversity-dependent diversification dynamics shaped the evolution of Australian skipper butterflies. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society 1(1): kzac001. doi: 10.1093/evolinnean/kzac001 | Cited by 8
Aiello, B., Sikandar, U.B., Kimball, K.C., Minoguchi, H., Hamilton, C.A., Kawahara, A.Y., Sponberg, S. The evolution of two distinct aerodynamic mechanisms of moth flight. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18: 20210632. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2021.0632 | Cited by 30
Aiello, B., Tan, M., Sikandar, U.B., Alvey, A.J., Bhinderwala, B., Kimball, K.C., Barber, J.R., Hamilton, C.A., Kawahara, A.Y., Sponberg, S. 2021. Adaptive shifts underlie the divergence in wing morphology in bombycoid moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20210677. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0677 | Cited by 30
Carvalho, A.P.S., St Laurent, R.A.,Toussaint, E.F.A, Storer, C., Dexter, K., Aduse-Poku, K., Kawahara, A.Y. Is sexual conflict a driver of speciation? A case study with a tribe of brush-footed butterflies. Systematic Biology 70(3): 413-420. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa070 | Cited by 13
Chazot, N., Condamine, F., Dudas, G., Pena, C. Matos-Maravi, P., Freitas, A.V.L., Willmott, K.R., Elias, M., Warren, A., Aduse-Poku, K., Lohman, D.J., Penz, C.M., DeVries, P., Kodandaramaiah, U., Fric, Z.F., Nylin, S., Muller, C., Wheat, C., Kawahara, A.Y., Silva-Brandao, K.L., Lamas, G., Zubek, A., Ortiz-Acevedo, E., Vila, R., Vane-Wright, R.I., Mullen, S.P., Jiggins, C.D., Slamova, I., Wahlberg, N. The latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae): conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories. Nature Communications 12: 5717. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25906-8 | Cited by 99
Earl, C., Belitz, M.W., Laffan, S.W., Barve, V., Barve, N., Soltis, D.E., Allen, J.M., Soltis, P.S., Mishler, B.D., Kawahara, A.Y., Guralnick, R.P. Spatial phylogenetics of butterflies in relation to environmental drivers and angiosperm diversity across North America. iScience 24(4): 102239. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102239 | Cited by 43
Ellis, E.A., Storer, C.G., Kawahara, A.Y. De novo genome assemblies of butterflies. GigaScience 10(6): giab041. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giab041 | Cited by 39
Evangelista, D.A., Simon, S., Wilson, M.M., Kohli, M.K., Ware, J.L., Kawahara, A.Y., Wipfler, B., Bethoux, O., Grandcolas, P., Legendre, F. Phylogenetic synecdoche demonstrates optimality of subsampling and improves recovery of the Blaberoidea phylogeny. Assessing support for Blaberoidea phylogeny suggests optimal locus quality. Systematic Entomology 46: 157-171. doi: 10.1111/syen.12454 | Cited by 32
Fischer, E., Cobb, N., Kawahara, A.Y., Zaspel, J., Cognato, A. Decline of amateur Lepidoptera collectors threatens the future of Big Data science. BioScience 71(4): 396-404. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biaa152 | Cited by 27
Gomes, D.G.E., Toth, C.A., Bateman, C.C., Francis, C.D., Kawahara, A.Y., Barber, J.R. Experimental river noise alters arthropod abundance. Oikos 130(11): 2001-2014. doi: 10.1111/oik.08499 | Cited by 9
Hill, G., Kawahara, A.Y., Daniels, J.C., Bateman, C., Scheffers, B. Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study. Biological Reviews 96(5): 2113-2126. doi: 10.1111/brv.12746 | Cited by 262
Kawahara, A.Y., Reeves, L.E., Barber, J.R., Black, S. Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(2): e2002547117. doi: 10.1073/pnas.200254711 | Cited by 112
Kobayashi, S., Johns, C.A., Kawahara, A.Y. Revision of the Hawaiian endemic leaf-mining moth genus Philodoria Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): its conservation status, host plants and descriptions of thirteen new species. Zootaxa 4944(1): 1-175. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4944.1.1 | Cited by 6
Li, X., Ellis, E., Plotkin, D., Imada, Y., Yago, M., Heckenhauer, J., Cleland, T., Dikow, R., Dikow, T., Storer, C.G., Kawahara, A.Y., Frandsen, P. 2021. First annotated genome of a mandibulate moth, Neomicropteryx cornuta, generated using PacBio HiFi sequencing. Genome Biology and Evolution 13(10): evab229. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evab229 | Cited by 12
Markee, A., Dansby, H., Messcher, R., Hernandez, E., Kawahara, A.Y., Storer, C.G. “Frass in the Class”: A model for fostering interest in the natural world through insect rearing in the classroom. American Entomologist 67(3): 24-29. doi: 10.1093/ae/tmab042 | Cited by 4
Shirey, V., Carvalho, A.P.S., Kawahara, A.Y. Early evidence for sexually dimorphic, ultraviolet eyespots in Parnassius smintheus, Doubleday [1847]. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 75(3): 215-217. doi: 10.18473/lepi.75i3.a8 | Cited by 1
Sondhi, Y., Ellis, E.A.,Theobald, J., Bybee, S., Kawahara, A.Y. Light environment drives evolution of color vision genes in butterflies and moths. Communications Biology 4(1): 1-11. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01688-z | Cited by 67
St Laurent, R.A., Carvalho, A.P.S., Earl, C., Kawahara, A.Y. Food plant shifts drive the diversification of Sack-bearer moths. American Naturalist 198(5): E170-E184. doi: 10.1086/716661 | Cited by 11
Toussaint, M.F.A., Chiba, H., Yago, M., Dexter, K., Warren, A.D., Storer, C., Lohman, D., Kawahara, A.Y. Afrotropics on the wing: Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of awl and policeman skippers. Systematic Entomology 46(1): 172-185. doi: 10.1111/syen.12455 | Cited by 20
Valencia-Montoya, W.A., Quental, T. B., Tonini, R., Filipe, J., Talavera, G., Crall, J., Lamas, G., Busby, R. C., Carvalho, A.P.S., Morais, A.B., Oliveira, N., Romanowski, H.P., Liénard, M.A., Salzman, S., Whitaker, M.R.L., Kawahara, A.Y., Lohman, D., Robbins, R., Pierce, N. Evolutionary tradeoffs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20202512. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2512 | Cited by 18
Yang, Z., Plotkin, D., Landry, J.-F., Storer, C., Kawahara, A.Y. Revisiting the evolution of Ostrinia moths with phylogenomics (Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Pyraustinae). Systematic Entomology 46(4): 827-838. doi: 10.1111/syen.12491 | Cited by 18
Braby, M., Espeland, M., Muller, C., Eastwood, R., Lohman, D., Kawahara, A.Y., Maunsell, S., Pierce, N. Molecular phylogeny of the tribe Candalidini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): systematics, diversification and evolutionary history. Systematic Biology 45(3): 703-722. doi: 10.1111/syen.12432.
Cinel, S., Hahn, D.A. Kawahara, A.Y. Predator-induced insect stress responses in insects: A review. Journal of Insect Physiology 122: 104039. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2020.104039128.
Gough, H.M., Allen, J.M., Toussaint, E.F.A.,Storer, C.G., Kawahara, A.Y. Transcriptomics illuminate the phylogenetic backbone of tiger beetles. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 129: 740-751. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz195.
Owens, H.L., Lewis, D.S., Condamine, F.L., Kawahara, A.Y.,Guralnick, R.G. Comparative phylogenetics of shape and size evolution in Papilio butterfly wings. Systematic Biology 69(5): 813-819. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa029.
Plotkin, D., Kawahara, A.Y. Review of recent taxonomic changes to the emerald moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae). Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e52190. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e52190.
St Laurent, R.A., Mielke, C.G.C., Herbin, D., Dexter, K.M., Kawahara, A.Y. A new target capture phylogeny elucidates the systematics evolution of wing coupling in sack-bearer moths. Systematic Entomology 45(3): 653-669. doi: 10.1111/syen.12421.
St Laurent, R.A.,Reeves, L., Kawahara, A.Y. Cicinnus chambersi: A new species of sack-bearer moth from southeastern Arizona, USA. Zookeys 931: 49-71. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.931.50203.
Carvalho, A.P.S., Mota, L.L., Kawahara, A.Y. Intersexual ‘arms race’ and the evolution of the sphragis in Pteronymia butterflies. Insect Systematics and Diversity 3(1): 3. doi:10.1093/isd/ixy021.
Cobb, N.S., Gall, L., Zaspel, J.M., Dowdy, N., McCabe, L.M., Kawahara, A.Y., Assessment of North American arthropod collections: prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research. PeerJ 7: e8086. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8086.
De Prins, J., Arevalo-Maldonado, H.E., Davis, D.R., Kawahara, A.Y., Landry, B., Vargas, H.A., Davis, M.M., Brito, R., Foechezato, J., Ohshima, I., Lees, D.C., Moreira, G.R.P. An illustrated catalogue of the Neotropical Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) with new data on primary types. Zootaxa 4575(1): 1-110. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4575.1.1.
Halbritter, D., Storer, C.G., Daniels, J., Kawahara, A.Y. Phylogeography and population genetics of pine butterflies: Sky islands increase genetic divergence. Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.1002/ece3.5793.
Hamilton, C.A., St Laurent, R.A., Dexter, K., Kitching, I.J., Breinholt, J.W., Zwick, A., Timmermans, M.J.T.N., Barber, J.R., Kawahara, A.Y. Phylogenomics reveals major diversification rate shifts in the evolution of silk moths and relatives. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19: 182.
Homziak, N., Breinholt, J.W., Storer, C., Branham, M., Kawahara, A.Y. Anchored hybrid enrichment phylogenomics resolves the backbone of erebine moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 131: 99-105. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.038.
Kawahara, A.Y., Plotkin, D., Espeland, M., Meusemann, K., Toussaint, E.F.A., Donath, A., Gimnich, F., Frandsen, P.B., Zwick, A., dos Reis, M., Barber, J.R., Peters, R.S., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Mayer, C., Podsiadlowski, L., Storer, C., Misof, B., Breinholt, J.W. 2019. Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 116: 22657-22663. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1907847116. (F2000 Prime Nominated Paper)
Pacioretty, M.T., Martinez, P., Cinto Mejia, E., Reinhardt, K., Barber, J.R., deGraaff, M.-A., Kawahara, A.Y., Aho, K. Experimental exclusion of insectivorous predators results in no responses across multiple trophic levels in a water-limited, sagebrush-steppe ecosystem. J. Arid Env 160: 74-81. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.09.01.
St Laurent, R.A., Carvalho, A.P.S., Kawahara, A.Y. New species and a possible case of mimicry in the sack-bearer moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea). Insect Systematics and Diversity 3(2) 1-9. doi: 10.1093/isd/ixz003.
St Laurent, R.A., Kawahara, A.Y. Reclassification of the sack-bearer moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae). ZooKeys 815:1-114. (Monograph). doi:10.3897/zookeys.815.27335.
Stucky, B.J., Balhoff, J., Barve, N., Barve, V., Brenskelle, L., Brush, M., Dahlem, G., Gilbert, J., Kawahara, A.Y., Keller, O., Lucky, A., Mayhew, P.J. Plotkin, D., Seltmann, K.C. Talamas, E., Vaidya, G., Walls, R.L., Yoder, M. Zhang, G., Guralnick, R. Developing a vocabulary and ontology for modeling insect natural history data. Biodiversity Data Journal 7:e33303. doi:10.3897/BDJ.7.e33303
Timmermans, M.J.T.N., Daghmoumi, S.M., Glass, D., Hamilton, C.A., Kawahara, A.Y., Kitching, I.J. 2019. Phylogeny of the hawkmoth tribe Ambulycini: mitogenomes from museum specimens resolve major relationships. Insect Systematics and Diversity (accepted, 7 Nov. 2019).
Toussaint, E.F.A., Vila, R., Yago, M., Chiba, H., Warren, A.D., Aduse-Poku, K., Storer, C., Dexter, K.M., Maruyama, K., Lohman, D.J., Kawahara, A.Y. 2019. Out of the Orient: Post‐Tethyan transoceanic and trans‐Arabian routes fostered the spread of Baorini skippers in the Afrotropics. Systematic Entomology 44(4): 926-938. doi: 10.1111/syen.12365.
Barth, M.B., Buchwalder, K., Kawahara, A.Y., Zhou, X., Liu, S., Krezdorn, N., Rotter, B., Horres, R., Hundsdoerfer, A.K. Functional characterization of the Hyles euphorbiae hawkmoth transcriptome reveals strong expression of phorbol ester detoxification and seasonal cold hardiness genes. Frontiers in Zoology 15:18. | PDF
Breinholt, J.W., Lemmon, A., Lemmon, E., Xiao, L., Earl, C., Kawahara, A.Y. Resolving relationships among the megadiverse butterflies and moths with a novel pipeline for Anchored Phylogenomics. Systematic Biology 67(1):78-93. | Cited by 22 | PDF
Cinel, S., Kawahara, A.Y. Predator-induced insect stress responses: A mechanistic review of taxon- and sensory-specific biases. Journal of Insect Physiology (Accepted).
Espeland, M., Breinholt, J.W., Willmott, K.R., Warren, A.D., Vila, R., Toussaint, E.F.A., Maunsell, S.C., Aduse-Poku, K., Talavera, G., Eastwood, R., Jarzyna, M., Reis, L., Guralnick, R., Lohman, D.J., Pierce, N.E., Kawahara, A.Y. A comprehensive and dated phylogenomic analysis of butterflies. Current Biology 28(5): 770–778. | Cited by 9 | Media Article | PDF
Gough, H., Duran, D., Kawahara, A.Y., Toussaint, E.F.A. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). Systematic Entomology | PDF
Johns, C.A., Toussaint, E.F.A., Breinholt, J.W., Kawahara, A.Y. Origin and macroevolution of micro-moths on sunken Hawaiian islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 285:20181047. | PDF | Documentary Film
Jusino, M.A., Banik, M.T., Palmer, J.M., Wray, A.K., Xiao, L., Pelton E., Barber, J.R., Kawahara, A.Y., Gratton, C., Peery, M.Z., Lindner, D.L. An improved method for utilizing high-throughput amplicon sequencing to determine the diets of insectivorous animals. Molecular Ecology Resources | PDF
Kawahara, A.Y., Breinholt, J.W., Espeland, M., Storer, C. Plotkin, D., Dexter, K.M., Toussaint, E.F.A., St Laurent, R.A., Brehm, G., Vargas, S., Forero, D., Pierce, N.E., Lohman, D.J. Phylogenetics of moth-like butterflies (Papilionoidea: Hedylidae) based on a new 13-locus target capture probe set. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127:600-605. | Cited by 1 | PDF
Kawahara, A.Y., Plotkin, D., Hamilton, C., Gough, H., St. Laurent, R., Owens, R., Homziak, N.T., Barber, J.R. Diel behavior in moths and butterflies: A synthesis of data illuminates the evolution of temporal activity. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 18:13-27. | Cited by 4 | Video Link | PDF
Kawahara, A.Y., Toussaint, E.F.A. Conservation note on the status of the rare endemic Marquesan snout butterfly, Libythea collenettei. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 50:25–34. | PDF
Kitching, I.J., Rougerie, R., Zwick, A., Hamilton, C.A., St. Laurent R.A., Naumann, S., Mejia, L.B., Kawahara, A.Y. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. | PDF
Kobayashi, S., Johns, C.A., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Doorenweerd, C., Kawakita, A., Ohshima, I., Lees, D.C., Hanabergh, S., Kawahara, A.Y. Hawaiian Philodoria (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Ornixolinae) leaf mining moths on Myrsine (Primulaceae): two new species and biological data. ZooKeys 773:109-141. | PDF
Reeves, L.E., Holderman, C.J., Blosser, E.M., Gillett-Kaufman, J.L., Kawahara, A.Y., Kaufman, P.E., Burkett-Cadena, N.D. Identification of Uranotaenia sapphirina as a specialist of annelids broadens known mosquito host use patterns. Communications Biology 1: 92. | PDF
Rubin, J.J.*, Hamilton, C.A.*, McClure, C.J.W., Chadwell, B.A, Kawahara, A.Y.**, Barber, J.R.** The evolution of anti-bat sensory illusions in moths. Science Advances 4(7): eaar7428. *shared first author, **shared senior author. | Science Daily | IFLS Article | National Geographic | PDF
Scott Chiavlo, C.S., Chiavlo, P., Holland, J.D., Anderson, T., Breinholt, J.W., Kawahara, A.Y., Zhou, X., Liu, S., Zaspel, J.M. A phylogenomic analysis of lichen-feeding tiger moths uncovers evolutionary origins of host chemical sequestration. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 121: 23-34. | PDF
St Laurent R.A., Hamilton, C.A., Kawahara, A.Y. Museum specimens provide phylogenomic data to resolve relationships of sack-bearer moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae). Systematic Entomology. | Cited by 2 | PDF | FLMNH Video
Toussaint, E.F.A., Breinholt, J.W., Earl, C., Warren, A.D., Brower, A.V.Z., Yago, M., Dexter, K.M., Espeland, M., Pierce, N.E., Lohman, D.J., Kawahara, A.Y. Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 101. | Cited by 84 | PDF
Triant, D.A., Cinel, S., Kawahara, A.Y. Lepidoptera genomes: current knowledge, gaps and future directions. Current Opinions in Insect Science 25: 99-105. | Cited by 67 | PDF
Bunkley, J., McClure, C., Fancis, C.D., Kawahara, A.Y., Barber, J.R. Anthropogenic noise differentially affects arthropod family abundances. Ecology and Evolution 7(9): 2977–2985. | PDF | Cited by 97
Carvalho, A.P.S., Orr, A.G., Kawahara, A.Y. A review of the occurrence and diversity of the sphragis in butterflies. ZooKeys 694: 41-70. | Cited by 24 | PDF
Dalíková, M., Zrzavá, M., Hladová, Nguyen, I.P., Šonský, I., Flegrová, M., Kubíčková, S., Voleníkova, A., Kawahara, A.Y., Peters, R.S., Marec, F. New insights into the evolution of W chromosome in Lepidoptera. Journal of Heredity 108(7): 709-719. | PDF | Cited by 73
Earl, C., Guralnick, R.P., Kawahara, A.Y. Digest: Imperfect convergence in butterfly wing patterns. Evolution 71(4): 1118–1119. | PDF | Cited by 1
Kawahara, A.Y., Plotkin, D., Ohshima, I., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Houlihan, P., Breinholt, J.W., Kawakita, A., Xiao, L., Regier, J.C., Davis, D.R., Kumata, T., Sohn, J-C., De Prins, J., Mitter, C. A molecular phylogeny and revised higher-level classification for the leaf-mining moth family Gracillariidae and its implications for larval host use evolution. Systematic Entomology 42: 60–81. | Cited by 106 | PDF
Owens, H., Lewis, D., Dupuis, J., Clamens, A.-L., Sperling, F., Kawahara, A.Y., Guralnick, R., Condamine, F. The latitudinal diversity gradient in New World swallowtail butterflies is caused by contrasting patterns of out-of- and into-the-tropics dispersal. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26(12): 1447-1458. | Cited by 28 | PDF
Seltmann, K.C., et al. (Kawahara one of 47 authors) LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network. Zootaxa 4247(1): 73-77. | Cited by 37 | PDF
St. Laurent, R.A., Wagner, D.L., Reeves, L.E., Kawahara A.Y. 2017. Notes on the larva and natural history of Lacosoma arizonicum Dyar (Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with new host and parasitoid records. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 71(3): 177-181. PDF | Cited by 7
Ahmed, M.Z., Breinholt, J.W., Kawahara, A.Y. Evidence for horizontal transmission of Wolbachia with partial evidence for lateral gene transfer to lepidopteran hosts. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 118. | Cited by 177 | PDF
Bura, V., Kawahara, A.Y., Yack, J.E. A comparative analysis of sonic defences in Bombycoidea caterpillars. Scientific Reports 6: 31469. | Cited by 29 | PDF
Cho, S., Epstein, S.W., Mitter, K., Hamilton, C.A., Plotkin, D., Mitter, C., Kawahara, A.Y. Preserving and vouchering butterflies and moths for large-scale museum-based molecular research. PeerJ 4: e2160. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2160 | Cited by 31 | PDF
Homziak, N., Breinholt, J., Kawahara, A.Y. A historical review of the classification of Erebinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae). Zootaxa 4189(3): 563. | Cited by 13 | PDF
Johns, C.J. Moore, M.R., Kawahara, A.Y. Molecular phylogeny, revised higher classification, and implications for the conservation of the endangered Hawaiian leaf-mining moths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae: Philodoria). Pacific Science 70(3): 361-372. | Cited by 8 | PDF
Reeves, L.E., Holderman, C.J., Gillett-Kaufman, J.L, Kawahara, A.Y., Kaufman, P.E. Maintenance of host DNA integrity in field-preserved mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) blood meals for identification by DNA barcoding. Parasites and Vectors 9(1): 503. | Cited by 68 | PDF
Zhong, M.*, Hill, G.M., Gomez, J.-P., Plotkin, D., Barber, J.R., Kawahara, A.Y. Quantifying wing shape and size of saturniid moths with geometric morphometrics. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 70(2): 99-107. doi: 10.18473/lepi.70i2.a4 *High-school student first author. | Cited by 19
Barber, J., Leavell, B.C., Keener, A.L., Breinholt, J.W., Chadwell, B.A., McClure, C.J.W., Hill, G.M., Kawahara, A.Y. Moth tails divert bat attack: Evolution of acoustic deflection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS) 112(9): 2812–2816. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1421926112 PDF | National Geographic | Science | ScienceNews | New York Times | Cited by 117
Kawahara, A.Y., Barber, J.R. Tempo and mode of anti-bat ultrasound and jamming in the diverse hawkmoth radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS) 112(20): 6407-6412. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1416679112 PDF | Phys.org | Gizmodo | Gainesville Sun | Cited by 90
Hossie, T.J., Skelhorn, J., Breinholt, J.W., Kawahara, A.Y., Sherratt, T.N. Body size affects the evolution of eyespots in caterpillars. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS): 112(21): 6664-6669. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1415121112 PDF | Blog | Cited by 76
Kjer, K.M., et al. (Kawahara, A.Y. one of co-authors). Response to Comment on “Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution” Science 349(6247): 487. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa7136 | Cited by 121
Lewis, D., Nakahara, S., Sperling, F., Cotton, A., Kawahara, A.Y., Condamine, F. Role of Caribbean Islands in the diversification and biogeography of Neotropical Heraclides swallowtails. Cladistics 31(3): 291-314. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12092 PDF | Cited by 32
Ponce, F.V., Breinholt, J.W. , Hossie, T., Barber, J.R., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Kawahara, A.Y. A molecular phylogeny of Eumorpha (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) and the evolution of anti-predator larval eyespots. Systematic Entomology 40(2):401-408. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12111 PDF | Cited by 16
Regier, J.C., Mitter, C., Kristensen, N.P., Davis, D.R., van Nieukerken, E.J., Rota, J., Simonsen, T.J., Mitter, K.T., Kawahara, A.Y., Yen, S.-H., Cummings, M.P., Zwick, A. A molecular phylogeny for the oldest (nonditrysian) lineages of extant Lepidoptera, with implications for classification, comparative morphology and life-history evolution. Systematic Entomology. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12129 PDF | Cited by 146
Ahmed MZ, Araujo-Jnr EV, Welch JJ, Kawahara, AY. Wolbachia in butterflies and moths: geographical structure in infection frequency. Frontiers in Zoology 12:16. doi:10.1186/s12983-015-0107-z PDF | Cited by 120
Sohn, J.-C., Regier, J.C., Mitter, C., Adamski, D., Landry, J.-F., Heikkilä, M., Park, K.-T., Harrison, T., Mitter, K., Zwick, A., Kawahara, A.Y., Cho, S., Cummings, M.P., Schmitz, P. Phylogeny and feeding trait evolution of the mega-diverse Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera): new insight from 19 nuclear genes. Systematic Entomology doi: 10.1111/syen.12143 PDF | Cited by 72
Sourakov, A., Plotkin, D., Kawahara, A.Y., Xiao, L., Hallwachs, W., Janzen, D. On the taxonomy of erythrina moths Agathodes and Terastia (Crambidae: Pyraustinae: Spilomelini): Two different patterns of haplotype divergence and two new species. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 25(2): 80-97. | Cited by 13
Swaddle J, Francis CD, Barber JR, Cooper CB, Kyba CCM, Dominoni D, Shannon G, Aschehoug E, Goodwin SE, Kawahara AY, Luther D, Spoelstra K, Voss M, Longcore T. A framework to assess evolutionary responses to anthropogenic light and sound. Trends Ecology and Evolution (TREE) doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.009 PDF | Cited by 395
GIGA Community of Scientists. The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance: Developing community resources to study diverse invertebrate genomes. Journal of Heredity 105(1):1-18. PDF | AAAS | FIU News | Cited by 88
Kawahara, A.Y., Breinholt, J.W. Phylogenomics provides strong evidence for relationships of butterflies and moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 281: 20140970. PDF | Nature World News | Phys.org | Cited by 259
Misof, B. et al. (Kawahara, A.Y. one of co-authors). Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. Science 346(6210): 763-767. DOI: 10.1126/science.1257570 PDF | Phys.org | Nature World News | Science Daily 
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Johns, C.A., Tangalin, N., Bustamente, K., Kawahara, A.Y. Evidence of an undescribed, extinct Philodoria species (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from Hawaiian Hesperomannia herbarium specimens. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 46: 55-57. | Cited by 7 | PDF
Lees, D.C.*, Kawahara, A.Y.*, Rougerie, R., Ohshima, I., Kawakita, A., O. Bouteleux, DePrins, J., Lopez-Vaamonde, C. DNA barcoding reveals a largely unknown fauna of Gracillariidae leaf-mining moths in the Neotropics. Molecular Ecology Resources 14: 286-296. PDF | Cited by 67 | *equal contribution
Lee, G.-E., Hayden, J., Kawahara, A.Y. External egg morphology of the Hawaiian dancing moth, Dryadaula terpsichorella. Journal of Natural History 48: 969–974. PDF | Cited by 5
Pomerantz, A.F., Hoy, M.A., Kawahara, A.Y. Molecular characterization and evolutionary insights into potential sex-determination genes in the western orchard predatory mite Metaseiulus occidentalis (Chelicerata: Arachnida: Acari: Phytoseiidae). Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. DOI:10.1080/07391102.2014.941402. PDF | Cited by 23
Barber, J.R., Kawahara, A.Y. Hawkmoths produce anti-bat ultrasound. Biology Letters 9(4): 20130161. PDF | CBS News | Nature News | National Geographic | Cited by 77
Breinholt, J.W., Kawahara, A.Y. Phylotranscriptomics: Saturated third codon positions radically influence the estimation of trees based on next-gen data. Genome Biology and Evolution 5(11): 2082–2092. PDF | Cited by 125
Kawahara, A.Y., Rubinoff, D. Convergent evolution of morphology and habitat use in the explosive Hawaiian fancy case caterpillar radiation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26(8):1763-73. PDF | Cited by 20
Kawahara, A.Y., Breinholt, J.W., Ponce, F.V., Haxaire, J., Xiao, L., Lamarre, G.P.A., Rubinoff, D., Kitching, I.J. Evolution of Manduca sexta hornworms and relatives: Biogeographical analysis reveals an ancestral diversification in Central America. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68(3): 381–386. PDF | Cited by 37
Kawahara, A.Y., Jones, M., Jia, Q., Lapointe, S.L., Stansly, P.A.. A synthetic pheromone for Phyllocnistis citrella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) attracts multiple leafminer species. Florida Entomologist 96(3): 1213-1216. | Cited by 6 | PDF
Kawahara, A.Y. Systematic revision and review of the extant and fossil snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae). Zootaxa 3631: 1-74. PDF | Cited by 12
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 | Cited by 368
De Prins, J., Kawahara, A.Y. Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Zootaxa 3594: 1-283. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3594.1.1 | Cited by 45
Kawahara, A.Y. Getting established in academia. Science 336(6086): 1233. doi: 10.1126/science.1224386 | Cited by 0
Kawahara, A.Y., Rubinoff, D. Three new species of Fancy Case caterpillars from threatened forests of Hawaii (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae: Hyposmocoma). ZooKeys 170: 1-20. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.170.1428 | Cited by 12
Kawahara, A.Y., Ortiz-Acevedo, E., Marshall, C.J. External morphology of adult Libythea celtis (Laicharting [1782]) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Zoological Science 29: 463–475. doi: 10.2108/zsj.29.463 | Cited by 10
Kawahara, A.Y., Pyle, R.M. An appreciation for the natural world through collecting, owning and observing insects. Chapter 6 (pp. 138-152), In (Lemelin, R.H. ed.) The Management of Insects in Recreation and Tourism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. PDF | Cited by 29
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. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2011.01490.x | Cited by 3
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. doi: 10.2984/66.1.2 | Cited by 12
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. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syr079 | Cited by 103
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 | Cited by 67
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 | Cited by 3
Kawahara, A.Y. “Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Lepidoptera” (Contemporary Topics in Entomology Series) Florida Entomologist 94(1): 119-120. doi: 10.1653/024.094.0119 | Cited by 1
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. doi: 10.18473/lepi.v65i2.a6 | Cited by 2
Mitter, K.T., Larsen, T.B., Collins, S., Vande Weghe, G., De Prins, J., De Prins, W., Sfian, S., Zakharov, E., Hawthorne, D.J., 2011. Kawahara, A.Y., Regier, J.C. The butterfly subfamily Pseudopontiinae is notmonobasic: marked genetic diversity and morphology reveal three new species of Pseudopontia (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Systematic Entomology 36(1): 139-163. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00549.x | Cited by 37
van 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 | Cited by 1201
Kawahara, A.Y., Sohn, J.-C., De Prins, J., Cho, S. Five species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) new to Korea. Entomological Research 40: 131-135. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-5967.2010.00268.x | Cited by 13
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 | Cited by 82
De Prins, J., Kawahara, A.Y. On the taxonomic history of Phyllocnistis Zeller 1848 (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 32: 113-121. PDF | Cited by 15
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 | Cited by 165
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 | Cited by 29
Kawahara, A.Y., Nishida, K., 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. PDF | Cited by 41
Kawahara, A.Y., Saito, M. The current state of the Butterfly Society of Japan. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society 51(4): 128. PDF
Kawahara, A.Y. “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. doi: 10.4289/0013-8797-111.4.911
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 | Cited by 379
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., Zwick, A. 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. | Cited by 75
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. PDF
Kawahara, A.Y. Thirty-foot telescopic nets, bug-collecting videogames, and beetle pets: Entomology in modern Japan. American Entomologist 53(3): 160-172. doi: 10.1093/ae/53.3.160 | Cited by 38
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. | Cited by 14
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. doi: 10.18984/lepid.57.1_13 | Cited by 12
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. doi: 10.18984/lepid.57.3_265 | Cited by 11
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 | Cited by 9
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. doi: 10.2317/0511.15.1 | Cited by 6
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. PDF | Cited by 22