Reza Zahiri´s list of publications

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In reverse chronological order

  1. Zahiri, R., Lafontaine, J.D., Kitching, I.J., Holloway, J.D., Schmidt, Mutanen, M. & Wahlberg, N. Relationships of the early lineages of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) based on eight gene regions. Manuscript.
  2. Zahiri, R., Lafontaine, J.D., Holloway, J.D., Kitching, I.J., Schmidt, B.C., Kaila, L., & Wahlberg, N. Major lineages of Nolidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) elucidated by molecular phylogenetics. Submitted manuscript to Cladistics.
  3. Zaspel, J.M., Zahiri, R., Hoy, M.A., Janzen, D., Weller, S.J. and Wahlberg, N. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the vampire moths and their fruit-piercing relatives based on molecular data (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Calpinae). Submitted manuscript to Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution.
  4. Yela, J.L. and Zahiri, R. 2011. Phylogenetic overview of Noctuidae sensu lato. Noctuidae Europaeae, Volume 13 Lymantriinae and Arctiinae, including phylogeny and checklist of the quadrifid Noctuoidea of Europe (ed. by Witt, T.J. & Ronkay, L.), pp. 119-124. SvendborgTryk, Svendborg, Denmark, ISBN: 978-87-89430-17-1.
  5. Zahiri, R., J.D. Holloway, I.J. Kitching, D. Lafontaine, M. Mutanen & Wahlberg, N. 2012. Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Systematic Entomology 37, 102–124. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x.
  6. Khaghaninia, S., S. A. Mohammadi, A. M. Srafrazi, K. H. Irani Nejad, R. Zahiri. 2011. Geometric morphometric study on geographic dimorphism of Codling moth Cydia pomonella (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) from North West of Iran. Vestnik zoologii, in press.
  7. van Nieukerken, E. J., Kaila, L., Kitching, I. J., Kristensen, N. P., Lees, D. C., Minet, J., Mitter, C., Mutanen, M., Regier, J. C., Simonsen, T. J., Wahlberg, N., Yen, S.-H., Zahiri, R., Adamski, D., Baixeras, J., Bartsch, D., Bengtsson, B. Å., Brown, J. W., Bucheli, S. R., Davis, D. R., De Prins, J., De Prins, W., Epstein, M. E., Gentili-Poole, P., Gielis, C., Hättenschwiler, P., Hausmann, A., Holloway, J. D., Kallies, A., Karsholt, O., Kawahara, A., Koster, S. J. C., Kozlov, M., Lafontaine, J. D., Lamas, G., Landry, J.-F., Lee, S., Nuss, M., Penz, C., Rota, J., Schmidt, B. C., Schintlmeister, A., Sohn, J. C., Solis, M. A., Tarmann, G. M., Warren, A. D., Weller, S., Yakovlev, R., Zolotuhin, V. & Zwick, A. 2011. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 212–221.
  8. Lutz Lehmann & Reza Zahiri. 2011. Results of a lepidopterological expedition to North and Northwest Iran in summer 2007 with new records for Iran (Lepidoptera). ESPERIANA Buchreihe zur Entomologie 16: 135–165..
  9. Zahiri, R., Kitching, I. J., Lafontaine, J. D., Mutanen, M., Kaila, L., Holloway, J. D. & Wahlberg, N. 2011. A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family-level classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). Zoologica Scripta 40 (2), 158–173.
  10. Khaghaninia, S., S. A. Mohammadi, A. Sarafrazi, K. Hadade Irani Nejad and R. Zahiri. 2011. Thin-Plate Spline Analysis of Diversity in Field Populations of Codling Moth, Cydia pomonella L. (Lep., Tortricidae) in North West of Iran. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology 5(1):35-41.
  11. Zolotuhin, V., and R. Zahiri.. 2010. Two new mountain species of the genus Poecilocampa Stephens 1828 (Lasiocampidae). TINEA 21(2):88–94.
  12. Lehmann, L., D. Stadie & R. Zahiri. 2009. Zum Winteraspekt der Makrolepidopterenfauna Südiran mit Anmerkungen zur Biologie einiger Arten (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea, Papilionoidea, Geometroidea, Noctuoidea). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 30(3):105-119.
  13. Khaghaninia, S., S. A. Mohamadi, A. Sarafrazi, K. Hadade Iraninejad, E. Ebrahimi, S. Alavikia and R. Zahiri. 2008. Geometric morphometric approach on the sexual dimorphism of Cydia pomonella (Lep.: Tortricidae) in the North West of Iran. Journal of Entomological Society of Iran 28 (1): 51-62.
  14. Zahiri, R. & M. Fibiger. 2008. The Plusiinae of Iran (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 36 (143):301-339.
  15. Zolotuhin, V., and R. Zahiri. 2008. The Lasiocampidae of Iran (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 1791:1-52.
  16. Matov, A., R. Zahiri, and J. D. Holloway. 2008. The Heliothinae of Iran (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Zootaxa 1763:1-37.
  17. Fibiger, M., G. Stangelmaier, C. Wieser, and R. Zahiri. 2008. Dichonia jahannamah, a new species from Iran in the subgenus Griposia Tams, 1939 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Xyleninae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 28:121-124.
  18. Müller, G. C., V. D. Kravchenko, T. J. Witt, A. Junnila, J. Mooser, A. Saldaitis, K. Reshöft, P. Ivinskis, R. Zahiri, and W. Speidel. 2008. New Underwing taxa of the group of Catocala lesbia Christoph, 1887 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Acta zoologica Lituanica 18:30-49.
  19. Fibiger, M., and R. Zahiri. 2007. A new species of Gortyna Ochsenheimer, 1816 from Golestan forests of Iran (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 29:215-220.
  20. Fibiger, M., R. Zahiri, and V. Kononenko. 2007. Description of a new species of the Central Palaearctic genus Margelana Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from northeastern Iran. Zootaxa 1503:13-19.
  21. Kitching, I. J., and R. Zahiri. 2007. Taxonomic notes and new records of the Genus Sphingonaepiopsis Wallengren, 1858 (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of Iran. Zootaxa 1610:41-52.
  22. Zahiri, R., B. Plössl, and G. Tarmann. 2007. Ctenoplusia vittata (Wallengren, 1856) (Lep.: Noctuidae: Plusiinae) a new genus and species record for Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 40:115.
  23. Zahiri, R., and M. Fibiger. 2006. A new Amphipoea Billberg, 1820 from northwestern Iran (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Zootaxa 1244:33-39 .
  24. Zahiri, R., A. M. Sarafrazi, L. Salehi, and J. Kunkel. 2006. A geometric morphometric study on populations of Rice Stem Borer, Chilo suppressalis W. (Lep.: Crambidae) in northern Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 38:73-84.
  25. Fibiger, M., and R. Zahiri. 2005. Describe a new species of Noctuidae: Xyleninae: Luperina farsiensis Fibiger & Zahiri, sp. n. In: Zilli, A., Ronkay, L. & Fibiger, M. (ed.). Noctuidae Europaeae. Volume 8 Apameini. pages 68, 196-197, 230, 272, Entomological Press, Sorö.
  26. Dubatolov, V. V., and R. Zahiri. 2005. Tiger-moths of Iran (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Atalanta (Marktleuthen) 36:481-525.

Posters and talks

  1. A preliminary phylogeny of the vampire moths and their fruit-piercing relatives based on molecular data (Noctuidae: Calpinae)
    2. The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (58th, 12-15 December 2010, San Diego, California)
    Jennifer Zaspel, University of Minnesota; Reza Zahiri, University of Turku; Daniel H. Janzen, University of Pennsylvania; Marjorie A. Hoy, University of Florida; Susan J. Weller, University of Minnesota; Niklas Wahlberg, University of Turku

  2. Dispersing the mist: molecular phylogenetics of Noctuoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
    3. The IXth European Congress of Entomology (22-27 August 2010, Budapest, Hungary)
    Zahiri, R., Kitching, I. J., Lafontaine, J. D., Mutanen, M., Kaila, L., Holloway, J. D. & Wahlberg.