Seraina Klopfstein

Berufliche Stationen

Seit 2018
Kuratorin der Entomologie am Naturhistorischen Museum Basel

2015 – 2018
Gruppenleiterin unter einem SNF-Stipendium ('Ambizione') am Naturhistorischen Museum Bern und der Universität Bern

2013 – 2015
Postdoktorandin an der Universität Adelaide in Australien

2010 – 2013
Postdoktorandin am Naturhistorischen Reichsmuseum in Stockholm, Schweden

Wissenschaftliche Interessen

Diversität, Stammesgeschichte und Evolution der Darwin-Wespen (Ichneumonidae). Datieren von Stammbäumen mittels Fossilien. Ko-Evolution und ihr Einfluss auf Diversifikationsmuster.

In Zusammenarbeit mit den Universitäten Basel und Bern bieten wir Masterprojekte in diesen Themenbereichen an.

Publikationen

2022

Viertler A., Baur H., Spasojevic S., Mennecart B., Klopfstein S. (2022): Classifying fossil Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) with geometric morphometrics of fore wings. PLoS ONE 17 (11), e0275570. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275570

Spasojevic T., Broad G.R., Klopfstein S. (2022): Revision of 18 ichneumonid fossil species (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) highlights the need for open nomenclature in palaeontology. Fossil Record 25 (1), 187-212. https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.83034

Klopfstein S. (2022): High diversity of pimpline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimlinae) from the lowermost Eocene Fur Formation (Denmark). Geodiversitas 44 (23), 645-664. https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a23

Meier N., Urfer K., Haraldseide H., Vardal H., Klopfstein S. (2022): Open access in a taxonomic sense: a morphological and molecular guide to Western Palaearctic Dusona (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 91, 83-183. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.91.83318

Santos B., Klopfstein S., Whitfield J.B., Sharanowski B.J. (2022): Many evolutionary roads lead to virus domestication in ichneumonoid parasitoid wasps. Current Opinion in Insect Science 50, 100861.

Viertler A., Klopfstein S., Spasojevic T. (2022): Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in Lower Eocene amber from the Paris basin. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 89, 19-45. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.89.80163

Klopfstein S., Broad G., Urfer K., Vardal H., Haraldseide H. (2022): An interactive key to the European genera of Campopleginae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) and 20 new species for Sweden. Entomologisk Tidskrift 143, 121-156. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369570332_An_interactive_key_to_the_European_genera_of_Campopleginae_Hymenoptera_Ichneumonidae_and_20_new_species_for_Sweden

Meier N., Wacker A., Klopfstein S. (2022): New fossil wasp species from the earliest Eocene Fur Formation has its closest relatives in late Eocene ambers (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pherhombinae). SSB Bulletin 1 (1), https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v1i1.8427

2021

Spasojevic S., Broad G.R., Sääksjärvi I.E., Schwarz M., Ito M., Korenko S., Klopfstein S. (2021): Mind the Outgroup and Bare Branches in Total-Evidence Dating: a Case Study of Pimpliform Darwin Wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Systematic Biology 70 (2), 322-339. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa079

Urfer K., Spasojevic T., Klopfstein S., Baur H., Lasut L., Kropf C. (2021): Incongruent molecular and morphological variation in the crab spider Synema globosum (Araneae, Thomisidae) in Europa. Zookeys 1078: 107-134. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1078.64116

Maletti S., Niehuis O., Mayer C., Sann M., Klopfstein S., (…), Peters R. (2021): Phylogeny, taxonomics, and ovipositor length variation of the Pteromalus albipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59 (2), 349-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12433

Klopfstein S. (2021): The age of insects and the revival of the minimum age tree. Austral Entomology, https://doi.org/10.1111/aen.12478

2020

Johansson N., Klopfstein S. (2020): Revision of the Swedish species of Neoxorides Clément, 1938 (Ichneumonidae: Poemeniinae) with the description of a new species and an illustrated key to species. European Journal of Taxonomy 680. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.680

Ronquist F., Forshage M., Häggqvist S., Karlsson D., (…) Klopfstein S., et al. (2020): Completing Linnaeus’s inventory of the Swedish insect fauna: Only 5,000 species left? PloS one 15(3), e0228561. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228561

2019

Klopfstein S., Santos B.F., Shaw M.R., et al. (2019) : Darwin wasps: a new name heralds renewed efforts to unravel the evolutionary history of Ichneumonidae. Entomological Communications 1, ec01006. https://doi.org/10.37486/2675-1305.ec01006

Klopfstein S., Riedel M., Schwarz M. (2019): Checklist of ichneumonid parasitoid wasps in Switzerland (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae): 470 species new for the country and an appraisal of the alpine diversity. Alpine Entomology 3, 51. https://doi.org/10.3897/alpento.3.31613

Klopfstein, S., Spasojevic, T. (2019): Illustrating phylogenetic placement of fossils using RoguePlots: An example from ichneumonid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) and an extensive morphological matrix. PloS one 14(4), e0212942. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212942

Klopfstein, S., Langille, B., Spasojevic, T., Broad, G.R., Cooper, S.J.B., Austin, A.D., Niehuis, O. (2019): Hybrid capture data unravels a rapid radiation of pimpliform parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimpliformes). Systematic Entomology 44(2), 361-383. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12333

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PROJEKTE UND MUSEUMSAKTIVITÄTEN

Stammbaum und Evolution der Echten Schlupfwespen

Fossile Echte Schlupfwespen und ihre Einordnung im Stammbaum der rezenten Arten

Datieren von genetischen Stammbäumen mittels Fossilien

Artenvielfalt der Echten Schlupfwespen in der Schweiz