James B. Whitfield (Dept. of Entomology; University of Arkansas; Fayetteville, AR
72701; USA). Jim has three main projects: phylogenetic relationships among polydnaviruses and the
wasps that carry them (with Stoltz); reclassification of cardiochiline genera with emphasis on New World
fauna; reanalysis of microgastrine phylogeny. He is also rearing several hundred species of oak-feeding
Lepidoptera for parasitoids and continuing some faunistic studies of prairie Braconidae. He would
especially appreciate hearing about availability of abundant reared material of Cotesia spp.,
other than glomerata, congregata, melanoscela, and also LIVE
material of campoplegine genera other than Hyposoter, Olesicampe, Campoletis,
Campoplex, and Venturia. He would also like to see any unusual Neotropical
microgastrines or cardiochilines before the sections on these groups are finished for the Neotropical
manual.
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