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43. Mirić M, Efetov KA, Tarmann GM, Chiocchio A, Heikkilä M, Wagner DL, Rota J. in press. First comprehensive higher-level phylogeny of Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera) including estimated ages of the major lineages and a review of known zygaenid fossils. Systematic Entomology. (doi: 10.1111/syen.12634)

42. Segar ST, Re Jorge L, Nicholls L, Basset Y, Rota J, Kaman O, Sisol M, Gewa B, Dahl C, Butterill P, Mezzomo P, Miller SE, Weiblen G, Salminen J-P, Novotny V and Volf M. 2024. Species swarms and their caterpillar colonisers: phylogeny and polyphenols determine host plant specificity in New Guinean Lepidoptera. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1308608. (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1308608)

41. Li M, Runemark A, Hernandez J, Rota J, Bygebjerg R, Brydegaard M. 2023. Discrimination of hover fly species and sexes by wing interference signals. Advanced Science 10, 2304657. (doi: 10.1002/advs.202304657)

40. Zahiri R, Holloway JD, Rota J, Schmidt BC, Pellinen MJ, Kitching IJ, Miller SE, Wahlberg N. 2023. Evolutionary history of Euteliidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Systematic Entomology 48: 445–462. (doi: 10.1111/syen.12587)

39. Li M, Runemark A, Guilcher N, Hernandez J, Rota J, Brydegaard M. 2022. Insect Identification Based on Spectral Fringes Produced by Clear Wings. Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 29(4): 7200208. doi: 10.1109/JSTQE.2022.3218218

38. Månefjord H, Li M, Brackmann C, Reistad N, Runemark A, Rota J, Anderson B, Zoueu JT, Merdasa A, Brydegaard M. 2022. A biophotonic platform for quantitative analysis in the spatial, spectral, polarimetric, and goniometric domains. Review of Scientific Instruments 93: 113709. doi: 10.1063/5.0095133

37. Li M, Seinsche C, Jansson S, Hernandez J, Rota J, Warrant E, Brydegaard M. 2022. Potential for identification of wild night-flying moths by remote infrared microscopy. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19(191): 20220256. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0256

36. Rota J, Twort V, Chiocchio A, Peña C, Wheat CW, Kaila L, Wahlberg N.  2022. The unresolved phylogenomic tree of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera): assessing the potential causes and consequences. Systematic Entomology: early view. doi: 10.1111/syen.12545

35. Syrjänen K, Maurits L, Leino U, Honkola T, Rota J, Vesakoski O. Crouching TIGER, Hidden Structure: Exploring the nature of linguistic data using TIGER rates. 2021. Journal of Language Evolution: 1-21 (advance access). doi: 10.1093/jole/lzab004

34. Keegan KL, Rota J, Zahiri R, Zilli A, Wahlberg N, Schmidt FC, J. Lafontaine D, Goldstein PZ, Wagner DL. 2021. Towards a Stable Global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) Taxonomy. Insect Systematics and Diversity 5(3): 1; 1-24. doi: 10.1093/isd/ixab005

33. Falck P, Karsholt O, Rota J. 2020. A new species of Anthophila Haworth, 1811 with variable male genitalia from the Canary Islands (Spain) (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae). SHILAP 48(192): 671–681.

32. Wagner DL, Keegan KL, Nall BB, Bugh VG, Rota J. 2019. A tale of two caterpillars, and reclassification of Cerathosia Smith and Cydosia Duncan [& Westwood] (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 73(1): 1–4. doi: 10.18473/lepi.73i1.a1

31. Rota J, Malm T, Chazot N, Peña C, Wahlberg N. 2018. A simple method for data partitioning based on relative evolutionary rates. PeerJ: 6:e5498. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5498

30. Volf M, Segar ST, Miller SE, Isua B, Sisol M, Aubona G, Šimek P, Moos M, Laitila J, Kim J, Zima Jr J, Rota J, Weiblen GD, Wossa S, Salminen J-P, Basset Y, Novotny V. 2018. Community structure of insect herbivores is driven by conservatism, escalation and divergence of defensive traits in Ficus. Ecology Letters 21: 83–92. doi: 10.1111/ele.12875

29. Gripenberg S, Rota J, Kim J, Wright SJ, Garwood NC, Fricke EC, Zalamea PC, Salminen J-P. 2018. Distribution of polyphenols in seeds in a diverse tropical plant community. Journal of Ecology 106: 87–100. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12814

28. Wahlberg N, Peña C, Ahola M, Wheat CW, Rota J. 2016. PCR primers for 30 novel gene regions in the nuclear genomes of Lepidoptera. ZooKeys 596: 129–141. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.596.8399

27. Quicke DLJ, Belokobylskij SA, Smith MA, Rota J, Hrcek J, Butcher BA. 2016. A new genus of Rhysipoline wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with modified wing venation from Africa and Papua New Guinea, parasitoid on Choreutidae (Lepidoptera). Annales Zoologici 66: 173–192. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.2.003

26. Papakostas S, Michaloudi E, Proios K, Brehm M, Verhage L, Rota J, Peña C, Stamou G, Pritchard VL, Fontaneto D, Declerck SAJ. 2016. Integrative Taxonomy Recognizes Evolutionary Units Despite Rampant Hybridization: Evidence from a Rotifer Cryptic Species Complex. Systematic Biology 65: 508-524. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syw016

25. Rota J, Peña C, Miller SE. 2016. The importance of long-distance dispersal in small insects: historical biogeography of metalmark moths (Lepidoptera, Choreutidae). Journal of Biogeography 43: 1254–1265. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12721

24. Rota J, Zacharczenko BV, Wahlberg N, Zahiri R, Schmidt BC, Wagner DL. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of Acronictinae with discussion of the abdominal courtship brush in Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). Systematic Entomology 41: 416–429. doi: 10.1111/syen.12162

23. Regier JC, Mitter C, Kristensen NP, Davis DR, van Nieukerken EJ, Rota J, Simonsen TJ, Mitter KT, Kawahara AY, Yen S-H, Cummings MP, Zwick A. 2015. A molecular phylogeny for the oldest (non-ditrysian) lineages of extant Lepidoptera, with implications for classification, comparative morphology and life history evolution. Systematic Entomology 40: 671-704. doi: 10.1111/syen.12129

22. Edger PP, Heidel-Fischer HM, Bekaert M, Rota J, Glöckner G, Platts AE, Heckel DG, Der J, Wafula E, Tang M, Hofberger JA, Smithson A, Hall JC, Blanchette M, Bureau TE, Wright SI, dePamphilis CW, Schranz ME, Barker MS, Conant GC, Wahlberg N, Vogel H, Pires JC, Wheat CW. 2015. The butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: 8362–8366. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1503926112

21. Kristensen NP, Hilton DJ, Kallies A, Milla L, Rota J, Wahlberg N, Wilcox SA, Glatz RV, Young DA, Cocking G, Edwards T, Gibbs GW, Halsey M. 2015. A new extant family of primitive moths from Kangaroo Island, Australia and its significance for understanding early Lepidoptera evolution (Insecta). Systematic Entomology 40: 5-16. doi: 10.1111/syen.12115

20. Wahlberg N, Rota J, Braby MF, Pierce NE, Wheat CW. 2014. New insights into the systematics and higher classification of pierid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) based on eight genes. Zoologica Scripta 43: 641-650. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12075

19. Tóth J, Bereczki J, Varga Z, Rota J, Sramkó G, Wahlberg N. 2014. Relationships within the Melitaea phoebe species group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): new insights from molecular and morphometric information. Systematic Entomology 39: 749-757. doi: 10.1111/syen.12083

18. Rota J, Aguiar AMF, Karsholt O. 2014. Choreutidae of Madeira: review of the known species and the description of the male of Anthophila threnodes (Walsingham, 1910). Nota Lepidopterologica 37: 91-103. doi: 10.3897/nl.37.7928

17. Kristensen NP, Rota J, Fischer S. 2014. Notable plesiomorphies and notable specializations: head structure of the primitive ‘tongue moth’ Acanthopteroctetes unifascia (Lepidoptera: Acanthopteroctetidae). Journal of Morphology 275: 153-172. doi:10.1002/jmor.20205

16. Rota J, Miller SE. 2013. A new genus of metalmark moths (Lepidoptera, Choreutidae) with Afrotropical and Australasian distribution. ZooKeys 355: 29-47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.355.6158.

15. Rota J, Wahlberg N. 2012. Exploration of data partitioning in an eight-gene dataset: phylogeny of metalmark moths (Lepidoptera, Choreutidae). Zoologica Scripta 41: 536-546. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00551.x

14. Lam WHY, Rota J, Brown JW. 2011. A preliminary list of leaf-roller moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) of Virginia with comments on spatial and temporal distribution. Banisteria 38: 3-38.

13. van Nieukerken EJ, Kaila L, Kitching IJ, Kristensen NP, Lees DC, Minet J, Mitter C, Mutanen M, Regier JC, Simonsen TJ, Wahlberg N, Yen S-H, Zahiri R, Adamski D, Baixeras J, Bartsch D, Bengtsson BÅ, Brown JW, Bucheli SR, Davis DR, De Prins J, De Prins W, Epstein ME, Gentili-Poole P, Gielis C, Hättenschwiler P, Hausmann A, Holloway JD, Kallies A, Karsholt O, Kawahara A, Koster SJC, Kozlov M, Lafontaine JD, Lamas G, Landry J-F, Lee S, Nuss M, Park KT, Penz C, Rota J, Schmidt BC, Schintlmeister A, Sohn JC, Solis MA, Tarmann GM, Warren AD, Weller S, Yakovlev RV, Zolotuhin VV,  Zwick A. 2011. Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.), Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 212-221.

12. Rota J, Kristensen NP. 2011. Note on taxonomic history, thoraco-abdominal articulation, and current placement of Millieriidae (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 3032: 65-68.

11. Monsalve S, Dombroskie JJ, Lam WHY, Rota J, Brown JW. 2011. Variation in the female frenulum in Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). Part 3. Tortricinae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 113: 335-370. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.113.3.335

10. Rota J. 2011. Data Partitioning in Bayesian Analysis: Molecular Phylogenetics of Metalmark Moths (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae). Systematic Entomology 36: 317-329. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00563.x

9. Brown JW, Segura R, Santiago-Jimenez Q, Rota J, Heard TA. 2011. Leaf-roller moths (Tortricidae) reared from the invasive weed Mexican palo verde (Parkinsonia aculeata), with comments on their host specificity, biology, and geographic distribution. Journal of Insect Science 11 (7): 1-17.

8. Rota J, Yang A, Brown JW. 2009. Variation in the female frenulum in Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). Part 2. Olethreutinae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111: 826–866. doi:10.4289/0013-8797-111.4.826

7. Rota J, Brown JW. 2009. A new genus and species of Grapholitini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from Florida, U.S.A. ZooKeys 23: 39–46. doi:10.3897/zookeys.23.213

6. Rota J. 2008. A new genus and new species of metalmark moths (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae) from Costa Rica. Zootaxa 1933: 12–18.

5. Rota J. 2008. Immature Stages of Metalmark Moths from the Genus Brenthia Clemens (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae): Morphology and Life History Notes. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 62: 121–129.

4. Rota J, Wagner DL. 2008. Wormholes, sensory nets, and hypertrophied tactile setae: the extraordinary defence strategies of Brenthia caterpillars. Animal Behaviour 76: 1709–1713. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.06.024

3. Wagner DL, Rota J, McCabe TL. 2008. Larva of Abablemma Nye (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hypenodinae) with notes on lichenivory and algivory in Macrolepidoptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 101: 40–52. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2008)101[40:LOANWN]2.0.CO;2

2. Rota J, Wagner DL. 2006. Predator Mimicry: Metalmark Moths Mimic Their Jumping Spider Predators. PLoS ONE 1(1): e45. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000045

1. Rota J. 2005. Larval and pupal descriptions of the Neotropical choreutid genera Rhobonda Walker and Zodia Heppner (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98: 37–47. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2005)098[0037:LAPDOT]2.0.CO;2

2. Pohl GR & Nanz SR (eds.) 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. xiv + 580 pages. Published in 2023 by the Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. Rota J: Chapters 30. Millieriidae and 35. Choreutidae.

1. Rajaei H, Aarvik L, Arnscheid WR, Baldizzone G, Bartsch D, Bengtsson BÅ, Bidzilya O, Buchner P, Buchsbaum U, Buszko J, Dubatolov VV, Erlacher S, Esfandiari M, de Freina JJ, Gaedike R, Gyulai P, Hausmann A, Haxaire J, Hobern D, Hofmann A, Ignatev N, Kaila L, Kallies A, Keil T, Kiss A, Kitching IJ, Kun A, László GM, Leraut G, Mally R, Matov A, Meineke J-U, Melichar T, Mey W, Mironov V, Müller B, Naderi A, Nässig WA, Naumann S, Nazari V, van Nieukerken EJ, Nuss M, Pöll N, Prozorov AM, Rabieh MM, László Rákosy L, Rindoš M, Rota J, Rougerie R, Schintlmeister A, Shirvani A, Sihvonen P, Simonsen TJ, Sinev SY, Skou P, Sobczyk T, Sohn J-C, Tabell J, Tarmann G, Tokár Z, Trusch R, Varga Z, Volynkin AV, Wanke D, Yakovlev RV, Zahiri R, Zehzad P, Zeller HC, Zolotuhin VV, Karsholt O. 2023. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Iran. Integrative Systematics 6 (Special Issue): 121–459. (doi: 10.18476/2023.997558.7)

Rota J. 2011. A sheep in wolf’s clothing. Dyr i natur og museum, The Magazine of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen 2011 (2): 24–27. [In Danish, translated by Lars B. Vilhelmsen]

Wagner DL, Rota J. 2006. Evasive prey mimicry in a tropical tortricid? News of the Lepidopterists’ Society 48 (4): 115.

Rota J. 2000. Flying flowers and jewels. EuroCity, Croatian Railroads Travel Magazine, Zagreb 2000 (3): 48–53. [In Croatian and German]

Rota J. 1999. Butterflies of Paklenica National Park. Croatian Natural History Society Journal Priroda, Zagreb 89 (868): 26–27. [In Croatian]

Rota J. 2007. Morphology, Systematics, and Behavior of the Family Choreutidae (Lepidoptera). Doctoral Dissertation, University of Connecticut, pp. 113.

Rota J. 2003. Choreutidae (Lepidoptera) of La Selva Biological Station (Costa Rica): Taxonomy, Ultrastructure of Immature Stages, and Life History. Masters Thesis, University of Connecticut, pp. 160.

Rota J. 1998. Butterflies of Paklenica National Park. Diploma Thesis, University of Zagreb, pp. 83.

1. Rota J, Twort V, Chiocchio A, Peña C, Wheat CW, Kaila L, Wahlberg N. 2021. The unresolved phylogenomic tree of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera): assessing the potential causes and consequences. BioRxiv: 10.1101/2021.04.09.439156.

Rota J. 210 species pages for metalmark moths (Choreutidae) (Choreutidae Scratchpads) for the Encyclopedia of Life.

Wagner DL, Rota J, et al. Moths of La Selva Web Site.