Aiello, Annette
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute staffAiello, Annette
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute staffLife histories, behavior, and evolution of insects, especially moths and butterflies
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Brooklyn College, New York
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Aiello, Annette. 2023. "Confirmation of Ficus maxima (Moraceae) as a Host Plant for a Spittle Bug, Sphodroscarta (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Aphrophoridae), Reared in the Field in Panama." Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 94, (4) 306–308. https://doi.org/10.2317/0022-8567-94.4.306. 2023
- Weissflog, Anita, Markesteijn, Lars, Aiello, Annette, Healey, John, and Geipel, Inga. 2022. "Do prey shape, time of day, and plant trichomes affect the predation rate on plasticine prey in tropical rainforests?" Biotropica, https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13150. 2022
- Aiello, Annette. 2021. "Jaws: A Powerful Trunk-Girdling Longhorned Beetle, Trachysomus thomsoni Aurivillius, 1923 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Onciderini), in Panama." The Coleopterists Bulletin, 75, (3) 531–536. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-75.3.531. 2021
- Aiello, Annette and Stucky, Brian J. 2020. "First host plant record for Pacarina (Hemiptera, Cicadidae)." Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 15, (1) 77–88. https://doi.org/10.3897/neotropical.15.e49013. 2020
- Aiello, Annette. 2020. "The One-Room Schoolhouse: Good Riddance or Sad Loss?" Life: The Excitement of Biology, 8, (4) 239–241. 2020
- Aiello, Annette. 2019. "Amorphosoma penicillatum (Klug, 1827) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae): A Fearless Jewel Beetle in Panama." The Coleopterists Bulletin, 73, (4) 1102–1104. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-73.4.1102. 2019
- Collins, M., Aiello, Annette, and Scholtens, B. 2019. "Lepidopterists' Society Statement on Collecting Lepidoptera." News of The Lepidopterists' Society, 61, (4) 176–177. 2019
- Aiello, Annette and Young, Victor. 2018. "Hylesia umbrata (Saturniidae: Hemileucinae): A Mystery." Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 72, (1) 35–43. https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.72i1.a4. 2018
- Basset, Yves, Lamarre, Greg P. A., Ratz, Tom, Segar, Simon T., Decaens, Thibaud, Rougerie, Rodolphe, Miller, Scott E., Perez, Filonila, Bobadilla, Ricardo, Lopez, Yacksecari, Ramirez, Jose Alejandro, Aiello, Annette, and Barrios, Hector. 2017. "The Saturniidae of Barro Colorado Island, Panama: A model taxon for studying the long-term effects of climate change?" Ecology and Evolution, 7, (23) 9991–10004. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3515. 2017
- Aiello, Annette, Saltonstall, Kristin, and Young, Victor. 2016. "Brachyplatys vahlii (Fabricius, 1787), an introduced bug from Asia: first report in the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera: Plataspidae: Brachyplatidinae)." BioInvasions Records: International Journal of Field Research on Biological Invasions, 5, (1) 7–12. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2016.5.1.02. 2016
- Brashears, Jake, Aiello, Annette, and Seymoure, Brett M. 2016. "Cool Bands: Wing bands decrease rate of heating, but not equilibrium temperature in Anartia fatima." Journal of thermal biology, 56 100–108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2016.01.007. 2016
- Aiello, Annette. 2015. "Oncideres Serville (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Key to Too Few: 34 Species Lost." The Coleopterists Bulletin, 69, (1) 60. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-69.1.60. 2015
- Raudsepp-Hearne, Ciara, Aiello, Annette, Hussein, Ahmed A., Heller, Maria V., Johns, Timothy, and Capson, Todd L. 2015. "Differential Sequestration of a Cytotoxic Vismione from the Host Plant Vismia baccifera by Periphoba arcaei and Pyrrhopyge thericles." Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41, (9) 816–821. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-015-0614-6. 2015
- Seymoure, Brett M. and Aiello, Annette. 2015. "Keeping the Band Together: Evidence for False Boundary Disruptive Coloration in a Butterfly." Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28, (9) 1618–1624. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12681. 2015
- Basset, Yves, Barrios, Héctor, Segar, Simon, Srygley, Robert B., Aiello, Annette, Warren, Andrew D., Delgado, Francisco, Coronado, James, Lezcano, Jorge, Arizala, Stephany, Rivera, Marleny, Perez, Filonila, Bobadilla, Ricardo, Lopez, Yacksecari, and Ramirez, José Alejandro. 2015. "The Butterflies of Barro Colorado Island, Panama: Local Extinction since the 1930s." PloS One, 10, (8) 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136623. 2015
- Dominguez, Edwin and Aiello, Annette. 2013. "Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) that probe human skin: A review of the world literature and nineteen new records, from Panama." Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, 6, (3) 201–225. https://doi.org/10.1163/18749836-06001064. 2013
- Connahs, Heidi, Aiello, Annette, Van Bael, Sunshine A., and Rodriguez-Castaneda, Genoveva. 2011. "Caterpillar abundance and parasitism in a seasonally dry versus wet tropical forest of Panama." Journal of Tropical Ecology, 27 51–58. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467410000568. 2011
- Aiello, Annette. 2011. "Reflections on viewing Lepidoptera specimens: a mirror device." News of the Lepidopterists' Society, 53, (4) 111. 2011
- Guerrieri, Emilio, Huigens, Martinus E., Estrada, Catalina, Woelke, Jozef B., de Rijk, Marjolein, Fatouros, Nina E., Aiello, Annette, and Noyes, John S. 2010. "Ooencyrtus marcelloi sp. nov.(Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), an egg parasitoid of Heliconiini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) on passion vines (Malpighiales: Passifloraceae) in Central America." Journal of Natural History, 44, (1-2) 81–87. 2010
- Robbins, Robert K., Aiello, Annette, Feinstein, Julie, Berkov, Amy, Caldas, Astrid, Busby, Robert C., and Duarte, Marcelo. 2010. "A tale of two species: detritivory, parapatry, and sexual dimorphism in Lamprospilus collucia and L. orcidia(Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini)." Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, 42 64–73. 2010
- Suutari, Milla, Majaneva, Markus, Fewers, David P., Voirin, Bryson, Aiello, Annette, Friedl, Thomas, Chiarello, Adriano G., and Blomster, Jaanika. 2010. "Molecular evidence for a diverse green algal community growing in the hair of sloths and a specific association with Trichophilus welckeri (Chlorophyta, Ulvophyceae)." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10 86–98. 2010
- Aiello, Annette, Dominguez, Edwin, and Stockwell, Henry P. 2010. "Nothing is Perfect: Biodegradable Packing Material as Food and Transportation for a Museum Pest, Lasioderma Serricorne (F.) (Coleoptera: Anobiidae)." The Coleopterists Bulletin, 64, (3) 256–257. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-64.3.256.12. 2010
- Vigneron, Jean Pol, Simonis, Priscilla, Aiello, Annette, Bay, Annick, Windsor, Donald M., Colomer, Jean-Francois, and Rassart, Marie. 2010. "Reverse color sequence in the diffraction of white light by the wing of the male butterfly Pierella luna (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)." Physical Review E, 82, (2) 021903–021903. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.82.021903. 2010
- Helson, Julie E., Capson, Todd L., Johns, Timothy, Aiello, Annette, and Windsor, Donald M. 2009. "Ecological and evolutionary bioprospecting: using aposemantic insects as guides to rainforest plants active against disease." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 7, (3) 130–134. https://doi.org/10.1890/070189. 2009
- Davis, Donald R., Quintero A., Diomedes, Cambra, T. Roberto A., and Aiello, Annette. 2008. "Biology of a new Panamanian Bagworm Moth (Lepidoptera:Psychidae) with predatory larvae, and eggs individually wrapped in setal cases." Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 101, (4) 689–702. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/101.4.689. 2008
- Helson, Julie E., Capson, Todd L., Johns, Timothy, Aiello, Annette, and Windsor, Donald M. 2008. "Ecological and evolutionary bioprospecting: using aposematic insects as guides to rainforest plants active against disease." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 7, (1) 1–10. 2008
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Chapter
- Aiello, Annette. 2016. "Tropical caterpillar addiction." In The lives of lepidopterists. Dyer, Lee A. and Forister, Matthew L., editors. 91–102. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20457-4_9. 2016
- Santos-Granero, Fernando, Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., Aiello, Annette, Davies, Neil, Pomakowski, Andrew, Silberglied, Robert E., Mallet, James, Herre, Edward Allen, and Jackson, Jeremy B. C. 2007. "La especiación en dos mariposas neotropicales: extensión de la regla de Haldane." In Ecología y evolución en los trópicos. 413–421. Panama: Editora Nova Art. 2007
- Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., Aiello, Annette, Santos-Granero, Fernando, Brown, Keith Spalding, Jr., Herre, Edward Allen, and Jackson, Jeremy B. C. 2007. "Mimetismo por ilusión en la mariposa nocturna de vuelo diurno de dimorfismo sexual, Dyssschema jansonis (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Pericopinae)." In Ecología y evolución en los trópicos. 105–108. Panama: Editora Nova Art. 2007
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Department
