Biography

Elijah Talamas is the curator of Hymenoptera at the Florida State Collection of Arthropods. He is a specialist on the taxonomy and systematics of parasitoid wasps in the superfamily Platygastroidea, and work includes species descriptions, phylogenetics, morphology, and paleontology. In the past decade, work has focused on egg parasitoids of invasive stink bugs, conducted in collaboration with multiple biological control communities.

Recent publications:

Talamas EJ, Bremer JS, Moore MR, Bon M-C, Lahey Z, Roberts CG, Combee LA, McGathey N, van Noort S, Timokhov AV, Hougardy E, Hogg B (2021) A maximalist approach to the systematics of a biological control agent: Gryon aetherium Talamas, sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae). In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 323-480. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.72842

Talamas, sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae). In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 323–480.

Talamas E, Popovici O, Shih C, Ren D (2021) Prototeleia Talamas, Popovici, Shih & Ren: A new genus of Platygastridae from Burmese amber. In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 67–80.

Bremer J, van de Kamp T, Talamas EJ (2021) Janzenella theia Bremer & Talamas (Platygastroidea, Janzenellidae): a new species from Baltic amber. In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 223–233.

Mikó I, Raymond M, Talamas E (2021) New family-level characters for Platygastroidea. In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 235–249.

Chen HY, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Valerio AA, Popovici OA, Musetti L, Klompen H, Polaszek A, Masner L, Austin AD, Johnson NF (2021) An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification. Systematic Entomology 46:1088–1113.