Publications: James M. Carpenter
Publications: James M. Carpenter
Scientific Articles
Alcock, J., J. M. Carpenter, G. C. Eickwort, A. W. Hook, J. W. Krispyn and R. W. Matthews. 1979. Observations on the mating behavior of the empidid fly Rhamphomyia pectoris (Diptera). Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 14(4): 351-354.
Eickwort, G. C., R. W. Matthews and J. M. Carpenter. 1981. Observations on the nesting behavior of Megachile rubi and M. texana with a discussion of the significance of soil nesting in the evolution of megachilid bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 54(3): 557-570.
Carpenter, J. M. 1982. The phylogenetic relationships and natural classification of the Vespoidea (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 7: 11-38.
Carpenter, J. M. 1982. Vespoidea, Masaridae, Eumenidae, Vespidae. In Parker, S. (ed.), Taxonomy and Classification of Living Organisms: 676-677. McGraw-Hill Co., New York.
Carpenter, J. M. and K. G. Ross. 1984. Colony composition in four species of Polistinae from Suriname, with a description of the larva of Brachygastra scutellaris (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche 91: 237-250.
Carpenter, J. M. and J. M. Cumming. 1985. A character analysis of the North American potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Eumeninae). Journal of Natural History 19: 877-916.
Carpenter, J. M. 1986. Cladistics of the Chrysidoidea (Hymenoptera). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 94: 303-330.
Carpenter, J. M. 1986. The genus Pachodynerus in North America (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Eumeninae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 83: 572-577.
Carpenter, J. M. 1986. A synonymic generic checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche 93: 61-90.
Carpenter, J. M. 1987. The identity of Odynerus scudderi Cameron and O? bradleyi Cameron (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Eumeninae). Psyche 94: 77-80.
Carpenter, J. M. 1987. On “The evolutionary genetics of social wasps” and the phylogeny of the Vespinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 34: 58-64.
Carpenter, J. M. 1987. Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Vespinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Systematic Entomology 12: 413-431.
Carpenter, J. M. 1987. A review of the subspecies concept in the eumenine genus Zeta (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche 94: 253-259.
Carpenter, J. M. 1988. The phylogenetic system of the Stenogastrinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 96: 140-175.
Carpenter, J. M. and M. C. Day. 1988. Nomenclatural notes on Polistinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Proceedings of the Washington Entomological Society 90: 323-328.
Carpenter, J. M. 1988. Choosing among equally parsimonious cladograms. Cladistics 4: 291-296.
Carpenter, J. M. and J. W. Wenzel. 1988. A new species and nest type of Mischocyttarus from Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae), with descriptions of nests of three related species. Psyche 95: 89-99.
Carpenter, J. M. 1988. The phylogenetic system of the Gayellini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Masarinae). Psyche 95: 211-241.
Carpenter, J. M. 1989. Testing scenarios: Wasp social behavior. Cladistics 5: 131-144.
Carpenter, J. M. and J. W. Wenzel. 1989. Synonymy of the genera Protopolybia and Pseudochartergus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae). Psyche 96: 177-186.
Carpenter, J. M. and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1990. Mesozoic Vespidae. Psyche 97: 1-20.
Vecht, J. van der and J. M. Carpenter. 1990. A catalog of the genera of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera). Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 260: 3-62.
Carpenter, J. M. 1990. Of genetic distances and social wasps. Systematic Zoology 39: 391-397.
Ross, K. G. and J. M. Carpenter. 1991. Phylogenetic analysis and the evolution of queen number in eusocial Hymenoptera. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 4: 117-130.
Carpenter, J. M. 1991. Phylogenetic relationships and the origin of social behavior in the Vespidae. In Ross, K. G. and R. W. Matthews (eds.), The Social Biology of Wasps: 7-32. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
Ross, K. G. and J. M. Carpenter. 1991. Population genetic structure, relatedness, and breeding systems in social wasps. In Ross, K. G. and R. W. Matthews (eds.), The Social Biology of Wasps: 451-479. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
Carpenter, J. M. and J. van der Vecht. 1991. A study of the Vespidae described by William J. Fox (Insecta: Hymenoptera), with assessment of taxonomic implications. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 60: 211-241.
Thorne, B. L. and J. M. Carpenter. 1992. Phylogeny of the Dictyoptera. Systematic Entomology 17: 253-268.
Carpenter, J. M. 1992. Random cladistics. Cladistics 8: 147-153.
Carpenter, J. M. 1992. Distances, assumptions and social wasps. Cladistics 8: 155-160.
Carpenter, J. M. 1993. Biogeographic patterns in the Vespidae (Hymenoptera): Two views of Africa and South America. In Goldblatt, P. (ed.), Biological Relationships between Africa and South America: 139-155. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Brothers, D. J. and J. M. Carpenter. 1993. Phylogeny of Aculeata: Chrysidoidea and Vespoidea (Hymenoptera). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2: 227-304.
Carpenter, J. M., J. E. Strassmann, S. Turillazzi, C. R. Hughes, C. R. Solís and R. Cervo. 1993. Phylogenetic relationships among paper wasp social parasites and their hosts (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae). Cladistics 9: 129-146.
Nixon, K. C. and J. M. Carpenter. 1993. On outgroups. Cladistics 9: 413-426.
Wenzel, J. W. and J. M. Carpenter. 1994. Comparing methods: Adaptive traits and tests of adaptation. In Eggleton, P. and R. I. Vane-Wright (eds.), Phylogenetics and Ecology: 79-101. Academic Press, London.
Turillazzi, S., E. Francescato, A. Baldini Tosti and J. M. Carpenter. 1994. A sharp castal difference in Polybioides tabidus (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 41: 327-330.
Morrone, J. J. and J. M. Carpenter. 1994. In search of a method for cladistic biogeography: An empirical comparison of component analysis, Brooks Parsimony analysis, and three-area statements. Cladistics 10: 99-153.
Carpenter, J. M. 1994. Successive weighting, reliability and evidence. Cladistics 10: 215-220.
Chavarría, G. and J. M. Carpenter. 1994. “Total evidence” and the evolution of highly social bees. Cladistics 10: 229-258.
West-Eberhard, M. J., J. M. Carpenter and P. E. Hanson. 1995. The vespid wasps (Vespidae). In Hanson, P. and I. Gauld, (eds.), The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica: 561-587. The Natural History Museum, London.
Silveira, O. T. and J. M. Carpenter. 1995. Protopolybia bituberculata, a new neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Polistinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 103: 48-54.
Silveira, O. T. and J. M. Carpenter. 1995. A new species of Agelaia Lepeletier from Brazilian Amazonia (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 103: 69-72.
Carpenter, J. M. 1996. Phylogeny and biogeography of Polistes. In Turillazzi, S. and M. J. West-Eberhard (eds.), Natural History and Evolution of Paper-Wasps: 18-57. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Allard, M. W. and J. M. Carpenter. 1996. A rational choice for character weighting in parsimony analyses of eutherian mammal orders. In Nei, M. and N. Takahata (eds.), Current Topics on Molecular Evolution: 53-60. Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, and Graduate School for Advanced Studies, Hayama.
Farris, J. S., M. Källersjö, V. A. Albert, M. Allard, A. Anderberg, B. Bowditch, C. Bult, J. M. Carpenter, T. M. Crowe, J. De Laet, K Fitzhugh, D. Frost, P. Goloboff, C. J. Humphries, U. Jondelius, D.Judd, P. O. Karis, D. Lipscomb, M. Luckow, D. Mindell, J. Muona, K. Nixon, W. Presch, O. Seberg, M. E. Siddall, L. Struwe, A. Tehler, J. Wenzel, Q. Wheeler and W. Wheeler. 1996 (1995). Explanation. Cladistics 11: 211-218.
Carpenter, J. M., J. W. Wenzel and J. Kojima. 1996. Synonymy of the genus Occipitalia Richards, 1978, with Clypearia Saussure, 1854 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 5: 157-165.
Judd, T. M. and J. M. Carpenter. 1996. Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) found in Michigan. Great Lakes Entomologist 29: 45-46.
Carpenter, J. M. 1996. Distributional checklist of the species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini). American Museum Novitates 3188: 1-39.
Carpenter, J. M. 1996. Generic classification of the Australian pollen wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Masarinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 69 (4), supplement: 384-400.
Carpenter, J. M. 1996. Uninformative bootstrapping. Cladistics 12: 177-181.
Allard, M. W. and J. M. Carpenter. 1996. On weighting and congruence. Cladistics 12: 183-198.
Nixon, K. C. and J. M. Carpenter. 1996. On simultaneous analysis. Cladistics 12: 221-241.
Whiting, M. F., J. M. Carpenter, Q. D. Wheeler and W. C. Wheeler. 1997. The Strepsiptera problem: Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology. Systematic Biology 46: 1-68.
Kojima, J. and J. M. Carpenter. 1997. Catalog of species in the polistine tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates 3199: 1-96.
Nixon, K. C. and J. M. Carpenter. 1997 (1996). On consensus, collapsibility and clade concordance. Cladistics 12: 305-321.
Carpenter, J. M. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships among European Polistes and the evolution of social parasitism (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 173: 135-161.
Carpenter, J. M. and J. Kojima. 1997 (1996). Checklist of the subfamily Stenogastrinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 104: 21-36.
Carpenter, J. M. and D. A. Grimaldi. 1997. Social wasps in amber. American Museum Novitates 3203: 1-7.
Carpenter, J. M. 1997. A note on the names of paper wasp tribes (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 1: 15-16.
Carpenter, J. M. and J. Kojima. 1997. Checklist of the species in the subfamily Vespinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 1: 51-92.
Grimaldi, D., D. Agosti and J. M. Carpenter. 1997. New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships. American Museum Novitates 3208: 1-43.
Kojima, J. and J. M. Carpenter. 1997. Taxonomic note and nest description of an Australian paper wasp, Polistes variabilis (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 3: 117-122.
Agosti, D., D. A. Grimaldi and J. M. Carpenter. 1998. The oldest known ants. Nature 391: 447.
Dejean, A., B. Corbara and J. M. Carpenter. 1998. Nesting site selection by wasps in the Guianese rain forest. Insectes Sociaux 45: 33-41.
Carpenter, J. M., P. A. Goloboff and J. S. Farris. 1998. PTP is meaningless, T-PTP is contradictory: A reply to Trueman. Cladistics 14: 105-116.
Smethurst, M. E. and J. M. Carpenter. 1998 (1997). A new species of Metapolybia Ducke from Central America (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 105: 180-185.
Kojima, J., John W. Wenzel and J. M. Carpenter. 1998. The types of Icaria galimatia de Saussure, 1853, and I. ignobilis de Saussure, 1890, with establishment of their synonymy (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science 1: 393-401.
Kojima, J. and J. M. Carpenter. 1998. The type of Icaria xanthura de Saussure, 1854, a species of the neotropical polistine genus Charterginus Fox, with a note on the development of the “parategula” in Charterginus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomological Science 1: 417-421.
Carpenter, J. M. 1999. Taxonomic notes on paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae). American Museum Novitates 3259: 1-44.
Amarante, S. T. P., C. R. F. Brandão and J. M. Carpenter. 1999. A new species of Embolemus Westwood from the Mata Atlântica of Brazil (Hymenoptera: Embolemidae). American Museum Novitates 3266: 1-7.
Allard, M. W., J. S. Farris and J. M. Carpenter. 1999. Congruence among mammalian mitochondrial genes. Cladistics 15: 75-84.
Carpenter, J. M. and J. W. Wenzel. 1999. The relative abundance of swarm-founding social wasps in the Congo Basin (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Polistinae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 3: 9-14.
Carpenter, J. M. 1999. What do we know about chrysidoid relationships? Zoologica Scripta 28: 215-231.
Carpenter, J. M. and W. C. Wheeler. 1999. Towards simultaneous analysis of morphological and molecular data in Hymenoptera. Zoologica Scripta 28: 251-260.
Carpenter, J. M. and W. Wheeler. 1999. Cladistica numérica, análisis simultáneo y filogenia de hexápodos. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 26, Volumen Monográfico: 333-346.
Carpenter, J. M. and C. K. Starr. 2000. A new genus of hover wasps from Southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Stenogastrinae). American Museum Novitates 3291: 1-12.
Carpenter, J. M., J. Kojima and J. W. Wenzel. 2000. Polybia, paraphyly and polistine phylogeny. American Museum Novitates 3298: 1-24.
Nixon, K. C. and J. M. Carpenter. 2000. On the other “phylogenetic systematics.” Cladistics 16: 298-318.
Carpenter, J. M. 2000. A vespid wasp from New Jersey Cretaceous amber. In Grimaldi, D. (ed.), Studies on Fossils in Amber, with Particular Reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey: 333-337. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
Garcete-Barrett, B. R. and J. M. Carpenter. 2000. A note on the taxonomy of the genus Ceramiopsis Zavattari (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Masarinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 108: 181-186.
Carpenter, J. M. 2001. New generic synonymy in Stenogastrinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 5: 27-30.
Nixon, K. C., J. M. Carpenter and S. J. Borgardt. 2001. Beyond NEXUS: Universal cladistic data objects. Cladistics 17 (1), supplement: 53-59.
Carpenter, J. M. 2001. Checklist of species of the subfamily Masarinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates 3325: 1-39.
Wheeler, W. C., M. Whiting, Q. D. Wheeler and J. M. Carpenter. 2001. The phylogeny of the extant hexapod orders. Cladistics 17: 113-169.
Carpenter, J. M., B. Corbara and A. Dejean. 2001. Protopolybia duckei du Buysson, a valid species, not a synonym of Protopolybia emortualis (de Saussure). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 109: 179-181.
Farris, J. S., A. G. Kluge and J. M. Carpenter. 2001. Popper and likelihood versus “Popper*”. Systematic Biology 50: 438-444.
Wheeler, W. C., M. Whiting, Q. D. Wheeler and J. M. Carpenter. 2001. Erratum. Cladistics 17: 403-404.
Carpenter, J. M. and J. Kojima. 2002. Correction to the nomenclature in the genus Dolichovespula (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Vespinae). Entomological Science 5: 389-390.
Schulmeister, S., W. C. Wheeler and J. M. Carpenter. 2002. Simultaneous analysis of the basal lineages of Hymenoptera (Insecta) using sensitivity analysis. Cladistics 18: 455-484.
Nguyen, P. L. T. and J. M. Carpenter. 2002. Vespidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera) I. Vespinae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 110: 199-211.
Carpenter, J. M. and J. Kojima. 2002. A new species of paper wasp from Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 110: 212-223.
Carpenter, J. M. 2003. On “Molecular Phylogeny of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) and the Evolution of Sociality in Wasps.” American Museum Novitates 3389: 1-20.
Carpenter, J. M. 2003 (2002). Return to the subspecies concept in the genus Zeta (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Eumeninae ). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay 14 (1-2): 19-24.
Carpenter, J. M. and B. R. Garcete-Barrett. 2003 (2002). A key to the neotropical genera of Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay 14 (1-2): 52-73.
Carpenter, J. M. 2003. A new species of pollen wasp from Egypt (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Masarinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76: 143-146.
Carpenter, J. M. 2003. Critique of pure folly. Botanical Review 69: 79-92.
Nixon, K. C., J. M. Carpenter and D. W. Stevenson. 2003. The PhyloCode is fatally flawed, and the “Linnaean” system can easily be fixed. Botanical Review 69: 111-120.
Carpenter, J. M. and P. L. T. Nguyen. 2003. Keys to the genera of social wasps of South-East Asia. Entomological Science 6:183-192.
Dubatolov, V., J. Kojima, J. M. Carpenter and A. Lvovsky. 2003. Subspecies of Vespa crabro in two different papers by Birula in 1925. Entomological Science 6: 215-216.
Carpenter, J. M., F. S. do Nascimento, S. Mateus,F. B. Noll and J. Kojima. 2004. A revision of the genus Asteloeca (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae). American Museum Novitates 3427: 1-12.
Arévalo, E., Y. Zhu, J. M. Carpenter and J. E. Strassmann. 2004. The phylogeny of the social wasp subfamily Polistinae: evidence from microsatellite flanking sequences, mitochondrial COI sequence, and morphological characters. BioMed Central Evolutionary Biology 4: 8.
Carpenter, J. M. and S. Mateus. 2004. Males of Nectarinella Bequaert (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 48 (3): 297-302.
Hunt, J. H. and J. M. Carpenter. 2004. Intra-specific nest form variation in some neotropical swarm-founding wasps of the genus Parachartergus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77 (4): 448-456.
Carpenter, J. M. 2004. Ancistroceroides de Saussure, a potter wasp genus new for the United States, with a new key to the genera of Eumeninae of America north of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77 (4): 721-741.
Carpenter, J. M. 2004. Synonymy of the genus Marimbonda Richards, 1978, with Leipomeles Möbius, 1856 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae), and a new key to the genera of paper wasps of the New World. American Museum Novitates 3465: 1-16.
Giribet, G., G. D. Edgecombe, J. M. Carpenter, C. A. d’Haese and W. C. Wheeler. 2004. Is Ellipura monophyletic? A combined analysis of basal hexapod relationships with emphasis on the origin of insects. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 4: 319-340.
Nguyen, L. P. T., F. Saito, J. Kojima and J. M. Carpenter. 2005. [An annotated distributional checklist of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Viet Nam. In: Proceedings of the First National Conference on Ecology and Biological Resources, Ha Noi, May 17, 2005: 129-137. Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi. [In Vietnamese with English summary.]
Carpenter, J. M. and B. R. Garcete-Barrett. 2005. Revision of the genus Parazumia de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Eumeninae). Folia Entomologica Mexicana 44 (Supplemento 1): 21-34.
Carpenter, J. M. and E. P. Perera. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among yellowjackets and the evolution of social parasitism. American Museum Novitates 3507: 1-19.
Nguyen, L. P. T., J. Kojima, F. Saito and J. M. Carpenter. 2006. Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Vietnam 3: Synoptic key to the Vietnamese species of the polistine genus Ropalidia, with notes on taxonomy and distribtution. Entomological Science 9 (1): 93-107.
Nguyen, L. P. T., F. Saito, J. Kojima and J. M. Carpenter. 2006. Vespidae of Viet Nam (Insecta: Hymenoptera) 2.Taxonomic notes on Vespinae. Zoological Science 23: 95-104.
Sarmiento, C. E. and J. M. Carpenter. 2006. Familia Vespidae. In Fernández, F. and M. J. Sharkey (eds.), Introducción a los Hymenoptera de la Región Neotropical: 539-556. Sociedad Colombiana de Entomología y Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.
Saito, F., L. P. T. Nguyen, J. M. Carpenter and J. Kojima. 2006. A new Eustenogater species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Stenogastrinae), the first hover wasp known to overwinter on the nest. American Museum Novitates 3534: 1-11.
Carpenter, J. M., B. R. Garcete-Barrett and M. G. Hermes. 2006. Catalog of the Neotropical Masarinae. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 50 (3): 335-340.
West-Eberhard, M. J., J. M. Carpenter and P. E. Hanson. 2006. Familia Vespidae. In Hanson, P. E. and I. D. Gauld, Hymenoptera de la Región Neotropical. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 77: 617-644.
Pickett, K. M., J. M. Carpenter and W. C. Wheeler. 2006. Systematics of Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with a phylogenetic consideration of Hamilton's haplodiploidy hypothesis, Annales Zoologici Fennici 43: 390-406.
Andena, S. R., F. B. Noll and J. M. Carpenter. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of the Neotropical social wasps of the genus Angiopolybia Araujo, 1946 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Epiponini). Zootaxa 1427: 57-64.
Andena, S. R., F. B. Noll, J. M. Carpenter and R. Zucchi. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of the Neotropical Pseudopolybia de Saussure, 1863, with description of the male genitalia of Pseudopolybia vespiceps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Epiponini). American Museum Novitates 3586: 1-11.
Goloboff, P. A., J. M. Carpenter, J. Salvador Arias and Daniel R. Miranda Esquivel. 2008. Weighting against homoplasy improves phylogenetic analysis of morphological data sets. Cladistics 24: 758-773.
Carpenter, J. M. 2008. Review of the Hawaiian Vespidae (Hymenoptera). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 99: 1-18.
Ebrahimi, E. and J. M. Carpenter. 2008. Catalog of the vespid wasps of Iran (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Zootaxa 1785: 1-42.
Dvořák, L. and J. M. Carpenter. 2008. The first record of the paper wasp Polistes smithii neavei von Schulthess, 1921, from the Middle East (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae), with notes on the social wasp fauna of Yemen. Zoology in the Middle East 44: 119-120.
Carpenter, J. M. and L. S. Kimsey. 2009. The genus Euparagia Cresson (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Euparagiinae). American Museum Novitates 3643: 1-11.
Corbara, B., J. M. Carpenter, R. Céréghino, M. Leponce, M. Gibernau and A. Dejean. 2009. Diversity and nest site selection of social wasps along Guianese forest edges: assessing the influence of arboreal ants. Comptes rendus Biologies 332: 470-479.
Andena, S. R., F. B. Noll and J. M. Carpenter. 2009. Cladistic analysis of Charterginus Fox, 1898 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Epiponini). A neotropical genus of social wasps. Journal of Natural History 43 (19-20): 1183-1193.
Andena, S. R., J. M. Carpenter and F. B. Noll. 2009. A phylogenetic analysis of Synoeca de Saussure, 1852, a neotropical genus of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini). Entomologica Americana 115 (1): 81-89.
Carpenter, J. M., J. H. Hunt and J. E. Strassmann. 2009. Mischocyttarus mexicanus cubicola: Major extension of its range to Texas (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomologica Americana 115 (1): 95-96.
Carpenter, J. M., J. Gusenleitner and M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part I: Introduction, Key to Genera, Genera Aethiopicodynerus GUSENLEITNER 1997 to Cyrtolabulus van der VECHT 1969. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (1): 513-638.
Andena, S. R., J. M. Carpenter and K. M. Pickett. 2009. Phylogenetic analysis of species of the neotropical social wasp genus Epipona Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini). Zookeys 20: 385-398.
Carpenter, J. M. and A. R. Davidson. 2009. Rediscovery of the Australian pollen wasp Metaparagia doddi (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Masarinae). American Museum Novitates 3664: 1-6.
Carpenter, J. M. 2009.Vespula rufosignata Eck, a synonym of Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae). Boletín Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 45: 292.
Carpenter, J. M. and M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Vespidae of the Malagasy Subregion (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (2): 1871-1935.
Pickett, K. M., J. M. Carpenter and A. Dejean. 2009. “Basal” but not primitive: the nest of Apoica arborea de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae). Zoosystema 31 (4): 945-948.
Dejean, A., J. M. Carpenter, M. Gibernau, M. Leponce and B. Corbara. 2010. Nest relocation and high mortality rate in a Neotropical social wasp: Impact of an exceptionally rainy La Niña year. Comptes rendus Biologies 333: 35-40.
Safarek, G., O. Jovanovic, M. Vences, H. Kurrer, J. M. Carpenter and R. Dolch. 2010. Wasp predation on Malagasy frog egg clutches. Salamandra 46 (1):53-54.
Pickett, K. M. and J. M. Carpenter. 2010. Simultaneous analysis and the origin of eusociality in the Vespidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 68 (1): 3-33.
West-Eberhard, M. J., J. M. Carpenter, L. F. F. Gelin and F. B. Noll. 2010. Chartergellus golfitensis West-Eberhard: a new species of Neotropical swarm-founding wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) with notes on the taxonomy of Chartergellus zonatus Spinola. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 19 (1): 84-93.
Carpenter, J. M. and T. R. Glare. 2010. Misidentification of Vespula alascensis as V. vulgaris in North America (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Vespinae). American Museum Novitates 3690: 1-7.
Dvořák, L. and J. M. Carpenter. 2010. New records of vespid wasps from Yemen with synonymy in Belonogaster (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae and Eumeninae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 561-563.
Popular Articles, Reviews and Abstracts
Carpenter, J. M. 1983. Contemporary cladistics. [Review of Funk, V. A. and D. R. Brooks (eds.), Advances in Cladistics (New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, 1981).] Journal of the New York Entomological Society 9: 188-192.
Menke, A. S. and J. Carpenter. 1984. Nuclearbombus, new subgenus (or how to eliminate bumblebee subgenera and learn to love the Bombus). Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada 16: 130.
Carpenter, J. M. 1985. The clock of evolution needs repair. Natural History 94(6): 6.
Carpenter, J. M. 1985. Field guide for the Australian amateur. [Review of Goode, J., Insects of Australia (Angus & Robertson Publ., London, 1984).] Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America 31: 45-46.
Carpenter, J. M. 1986. A mushrooming of coevolutionary studies. [Review of Wheeler, Q. D. and M. Blackwell (eds.), Fungus-Insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution (Columbia University Press, New York, 1984).] Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America 32: 111-114.
Carpenter, J. M. 1986. Robust cladistification. Cladistics 2: 187-194.
Carpenter, J. M. 1987. A report on the Society for the Study of Evolution Workshop “Computer programs for inferring phylogenies.” Cladistics 3: 52-55.
Carpenter, J. M. 1987. Cladistics of cladists. Cladistics 3: 363-375.
Carpenter, J. M. 1987. Cladistic biogeography. [Review of Humphries, C. J. and L. R. Parenti, Cladistic Biogeography (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986).] Cladistics 3: 384-386.
Carpenter, J. M. 1989. Editorial: DNA hybridization. Cladistics 5: 1.
Carpenter, J. M. 1989. Flashing wings, slashing stings. [Review of Gauld, I. and B. Bolton (eds.), The Hymenoptera (British Museum (Natural History), London, 1988).] Cladistics 5: 315-317.
Carpenter, J. M. 1989. Wing venation, rhopalosomatids and spider wasps. [Review of Day, M. C., Spider Wasps (R. Ent. Soc. Lond., London, 1988).] Cladistics 5: 317-319.
Carpenter, J. M. 1992. Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim. [Review of Brooks, D. R. and D. A. McLennan, Phylogeny, Ecology and Behavior (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991).] Cladistics 8: 100-102.
Carpenter, J. M. 1992. Comparing Methods. [Review of Harvey, P. H. and M. D. Pagel, The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991).] Cladistics 8: 191-195.
Carpenter, J. M. 1994. [Review of Itô, Y., Behaviour and Social Evolution of Wasps: The Communal Aggregation Hypothesis (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993).] Journal of the New York Entomological Society 102: 387-389.
Brooks, D. R., D. A. McLennan, J. M. Carpenter, S. G. Weller and J. A. Coddington. 1995. Systematics, ecology, and behavior. Bioscience 45 (10): 687-695.
Carpenter, J. M. and K. C. Nixon. 1997. Abstract: On consensus, collapsibility and clade concordance. Cladistics 13: 167.
Schmidt, J. O., A. E. Eno and J. M. Carpenter. 1999. Are we as toxinologists overlooking vouchers? Toxicon 38: 321-322.
Carpenter, J. M. 2002. Abstract: A critique of pure folly. Cladistics 18: 219.
Nixon, K. C. and J. M. Carpenter. 2002. Abstract: Morphological data and identification. Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of International Union for the Study of Social Insects: 88. Hokkaido University, Sapporo.
Carpenter, J. M. and E. P. Perera. 2002. Abstract: Phylogenetic Relationships among Yellowjackets and the Evolution of Social Parasitism (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae). Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of International Union for the Study of Social Insects: 153. Hokkaido University, Sapporo.
Carpenter, J. M. 2003. Iquitos Peru. Natural History 112 (4A): 79.
Polaszek, A., E. O. Wilson and J. M. Carpenter. 2004. Long live Linnaeus. New Scientist 184 (2469): 22.
Carpenter, J. M. 2005. Editorial. Cladistics 21: 1.
Carpenter, J. M. 2006. Editorial. Cladistics 22: 101.
Carpenter, J. M. 2010. Abstract: Assembling the Tree of Life for Hymenoptera. Cladistics 26: 205.
Other Electronic Media
Marques, O. M., J. M. Carpenter and A. Raw. 2000. Bibliografia sobre gêneros de Vespidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Vespoidea) registrados no Brasil. http://www.oton.hpg.ig.com.br/Bibvespa.htm; also available on CD-ROM.
Carpenter, J. M. and O. M. Marques. 2001. Contribuicão ao estudo dos vespídeos do Brasil. (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Vespoidea, Vespidae). Versão 1.0. Universidade Federal da Bahia Publicações Digitais 2.





