Publications

PREPRINTS

  • Rubin J, Campbell CJ, Carvalho APS, St Laurent RA, Crespo GI, Pierson TL, Guralnick RP, Kawahara AY. Macroevolutionary Constraint and Selection on Anti-Bat Moth Tails. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.05.590753

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

2025

  • St Laurent RA, Goldstein PZ, Prada-Lara L, Schintlmeister A, Miller SE, Miller J, Robbins RK. Phylogenomics of Prominent Moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae): A Subfamily-Level Reclassification. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 657: 1–133. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.28912337
  • Prada-Lara L, St Laurent RA, Weller S, Fagua G. Nystaleinae moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae): A morphological review of the subfamily. Zootaxa 5622 (1): 1–67. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5622.1.1

2024

  • Prada-Lara L, St Laurent RA, Rodríguez MA, Fagua G. Nocturnal delivery: First record of orchid pollinia (Orchidales: Orchidaceae) on prominent moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae). Revista Chilena de Entomología 50 (4): 609-615. https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.50.4.24.02
  • Mulvaney LRJ, St Laurent RA, László GM, Schintlmeister A. Integrative taxonomic revision of the Cerurina-Afrocerura genus-pair (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Notodontidae, Cerurinae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 8(5): 1–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixae029
  • Sondhi Y, Messcher RL, Bellantuano AJ, Storer CG, Cinel SD, Godfrey RK, Mongue AJ, Weng Y-M, Glass D, St Laurent RA, Hamilton CA, Earl C, Brislawn CJ, Kitching IJ, Bybee SM, Theobald JC, Kawahara AY. Day-night gene expression reveals circadian gene disco as a candidate for diel-niche evolution in moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291: 20240591. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0591
  • Carvalho APS, Owens HL, St Laurent RA (+25 authors). Comprehensive phylogeny of Pieridae butterflies reveals strong correlation between diversification and temperature. iScience 27(4): 109336. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109336
  • St Laurent RA, Carvalho APS, Orlandin E, Carneiro E. The life histories of Americerura (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae, Cerurinae) from southern Brazil, with the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History 57 (45–48): 2039–2082. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2282624
  • St Laurent RA, Goldstein PZ, Miller SE, Robbins RK. Hiding in Plain Sight: Phylogenomics Reveals a New Branch on the Noctuoidea Tree of Life. Systematic Entomology 49:258–278 doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12614

2023

  • St Laurent RA, Goldstein PZ, Robbins RK. A new genus of Heterocampinae (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae) from Central and South America. Insect Systematics and Evolution online: 1–11; doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-bja10053
  • Orlandin E, St Laurent RA, Piovesan M, Hallwachs W, Chacón I, Janzen D, Carneiro E. Anurocampa (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae): two new species, systematics and immature stages. Zootaxa 5306(4): 401–426; doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5306.4.1
  • Kawahara AY, Storer C, Carvalho APS, Plotkin DM, Condamine F, Braga MP, Ellis EA, St Laurent RA (+80 authors). A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9
  • Prada-Lara L, **Jiménez-Bolívar AC, St Laurent RA. Prominent moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) of Colombia. Zootaxa 5284(3): 401–444. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5284.3.1
  • St Laurent RA, Goldstein PZ, Miller JS, Markee A, Staude H, Kawahara AY, Miller SE, Robbins RK. Phylogenetic systematics, diversification, and biogeography of Cerurinae (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) and a description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(2): 1–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixad004
  • Prada-Lara L, *Jiménez-Bolívar AC, St Laurent RA. A new species of Polypoetes Druce, 1885 (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) from Colombia, with confirmation of a new host plant for the Dioptinae. Revista Chilena de Entomología 49(1): 101–107. doi: https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.49.1.23.12

2022

  • St Laurent RA, Carvalho APS, Romanowski HP. Notes on the immature stages of Almeidella corrupta (Schaus, 1913) (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae, Ceratocampinae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 32(2): 79–86. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7246167
  • Li X, St Laurent R, Earl C, Doorenweerd C, van Nieukerken EJ, Davis DR, Johns CA, Kawakita A, Kobayashi S, Zwick A, Lopez-Vaamonde C, Ohshima I, Kawahara AY. Phylogeny of gracillariid leaf-mining moths: Evolution of larval behaviour inferred from integrated phylogenomic and Sanger data. Cladistics 28: 277–300. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12490
  • Li X, Hamilton CA, St Laurent RA, Ballesteros-Mejia L, Markee A, Haxaire J, Rougerie R, Kitching IJ, Kawahara AY. A diversification relay race from Caribbean-Mesoamerica to the Andes: historical biogeography of Xylophanes hawkmoths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20212435. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2435

2021

  • Mielke CGC, St Laurent RA. Description of the females of Eacles callopteris Rothschild, Bathyphlebia aglia C. & R. Felder and B. aglioides Naumann, Brosch & Wenczel from Colombia and Peru (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Ceratocampinae). Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, N.F. 42 (4): 181–184.
  • Jiménez-Bolívar AC, Prada-Lara L, St Laurent RA, Rougerie R. The Wild Silkmoths (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea: Saturniidae) of Colombia: a database of occurrence points and taxonomic checklist. Zootaxa 5081 (2): 151–202. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5081.2.1
  • Carvalho APS, St Laurent RA, Romanowski HP. The Bombycoidea and Mimallonoidea (Lepidoptera) of a research station in the grasslands of Southern Brazil. Zootaxa 5048 (1): 118–126. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5048.1.6
  • St Laurent RA, Carvalho APS, Earl C, Kawahara AY. Food plant shifts drive the diversification of Sack-bearer moths. The American Naturalist198 (5): E170–E184. doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/716661
  • Prada-Lara L, St Laurent RA. Hidden treasures: Mimallonidae (Lepidoptera) from the Museo Javeriano de Historia Natural, with descriptions of the female of Bedosiallo moengus (Schaus, 1928), and a new species of Gonogramma Boisduval, 1872. Revista Chilena de Entomología 47 (3): 501-511.
  • Carvalho APS, St Laurent RA, Toussaint EFA, Storer C, Dexter KM, Aduse-Poku K, Kawahara AY. Is Sexual Conflict a Driver of Speciation? A Case Study With a Tribe of Brush-footed Butterflies. Systematic Biology 70 (3): 413–420. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa070

2020

  • Mielke CGC, St Laurent RA, Rougerie R, Nässig WA. Notes on Adeloneivaia Travassos: the identity of A. catharina (Bouvier) and the descriptions of female A. bahiana Brechlin & Meister and A. minuta (Bouvier) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Ceratocampinae). Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, N.F. 41 (3/4): 131–137.
  • St Laurent RA, Herbin D, Kawahara AY. Revision of Roelofa Schaus, 1928 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae, Roelofinae) with a description of a new species. Zootaxa 4877 (3): 505–538. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4877.3.6
  • Mielke CGC, St Laurent RA. Description of the females of Automeris lauroia Oiticica, 1965 and Molippa pearsoni Lemaire, 1982 from Brazil (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Hemileucinae, Hemileucini). Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, N.F. 40(3/4): 217–219.
  • St Laurent RA, Becker VO. A new species of Cicinnus Blanchard (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae, Cicinninae) from the mangrove ecoregions of Brazil. Zootaxa 4786 (3): 425–430. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4786.3.8
  • St Laurent RA, Reeves LE, Kawahara AY. Cicinnus chambersi: a new species of sack-bearer moth (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae, Cicinninae) from southeastern Arizona, USA. ZooKeys 931: 49–71. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.931.50203
  • St Laurent RA, Becker VO. New genus and species of Mimalloninae (Lepidoptera: Mimallonidae), with updated distributional and phenological data for Tostallo albescens (Jones). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 122(1): 172–183. doi: https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.122.1.172
  • St Laurent RA, Mielke CGC, Herbin D, Dexter KM, Kawahara AY. A new target capture phylogeny elucidates the systematics and evolution of wing coupling in sack-bearer moths. Systematic Entomology 45(3): 653–669. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12421

2019

  • Hamilton CA, St Laurent RA, Dexter K, Kitching IJ, Breinholt JW, Zwick A, Timmermans M, Barber JR, Kawahara AY. Phylogenomics resolves major relationships and reveals significant diversification rate shifts in the evolution of silk moths and relatives. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19(18): 1–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1505-1
  • St Laurent RA, Giusti A. Revision of Zaphanta Dyar, 1910 (Lepidoptera: Mimallonidae: Zaphantinae), with descriptions of nine new species. Journal of Natural History 53(19–20): 1209–1246. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2019.1634772
  • St Laurent RA. Three new species of Psychocampa Grote and Robinson (Mimallonidae, Cicinninae, Psychocampini) and the description of the female of P. kohlli Herbin. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 29(1): 1–11. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2647560
  • St Laurent RA, Carvalho APS, Kawahara AY. Two new species of Psychocampa and a possible case of visual mimicry in the Sack-bearer Moths (Lepidoptera: Mimallonoidea). Insect Systematics and Diversity 3(2): 3; 1–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixz003
  • St Laurent RA, Mielke CGC. New species of Procinnus Herbin and Micrallo St Laurent and C. Mielke (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae, Druenticinae) from the Brazilian Cerrado. Zootaxa 4571(1): 111–124. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4571.1.7
  • St Laurent RA, Kawahara AY. Reclassification of the Sack-bearer Moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae). ZooKeys 815: 1–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.815.27335

2018

  • St Laurent RA, Giusti A, Mielke CGC. The identity of Cicinnus orthane Blanchard, 1852 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae), type species of Cicinnus Blanchard, 1852. Zootaxa 4450(2): 275–285. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4450.2.6
  • Kawahara AY, Breinholt JW, Espeland M, Storer C, Plotkin D, Dexter KM, Toussaint EFA, St Laurent RA, Brehm G, Vargas S, Forero D, Pierce NE, Lohman DJ. Phylogenetics of moth-like butterflies (Papilionoidea: Hedylidae) based on a new 13-locus target capture probe set. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 600–605. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.002
  • Kawahara AY, Plotkin D, Hamilton CA, Gough H, St Laurent RA, Owens H, Homziak NT, Barber JR. Diel behavior in moths and butterflies: a synthesis of data illuminates the evolution of temporal activity. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 18: 13–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-017-0350-6
  • St Laurent RA, Mielke CGC. A new species of Lacosoma (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) from Southern Brazil, and a new combination. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 28(1): 19–24.
  • St Laurent RA, Hamilton CA, Kawahara AY. Museum specimens provide phylogenomic data to resolve relationships of sack-bearer moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae). Systematic Entomology 43: 729–761. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/syen.12301
  • St Laurent RA, McCabe TL, Malm T. Revision of the genus Aleyda Schaus, 1928 with the description of one new species (Lepidoptera: Mimallonidae).SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 46(181): 157–167.
  • Kitching IJ, Rougerie R, Zwick A, Hamilton CA, St Laurent RA, Naumann S, Ballesteros Mejia L, Kawahara AY. A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e22236. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236

2017

  • St Laurent RA, Giusti A, Herbin D. Revision of the genus Biterolfa Schaus, 1928 (Mimallonoidea: Mimallonidae) with the descriptions of two new species. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 27(2): 86–95.
  • Sourakov A, St Laurent RA, Dexter K, Doll C. Experimental evidence for polyphenism in Automeris io (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) in north Florida. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 27(2): 117–119.
  • St Laurent RA, Wagner DL, Reeves LE, Kawahara AY. Notes on the larva and natural history of Lacosoma arizonicum Dyar (Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with new host and parasitoid records. The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 71(3): 177–181.
  • St Laurent RA. Notes on Mimallonidae (Lepidoptera: Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) of the Neotropical Pacific coast, with the descriptions of two new species of Cicinnus Blanchard, 1852. Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, N.F. 38(1): 23–27.
  • St Laurent RA, Herbin D, Mielke CGC. Revision of the genus Reinmara Schaus, 1928 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with the descriptions of four new species from South America. ZooKeys 677: 97–129. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.677.12435
  • St Laurent RA, Carvalho APS. A new genus of Andean Mimallonidae (Mimallonoidea), with the descriptions of four new species. The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 71(2): 92–108.
  • St Laurent RA, Cock MT. Annotated list of Mimallonidae (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea) from Trinidad and Tobago, with the description of a new species of Cicinnus Blanchard, 1852 and taxonomic notes. Zootaxa 4268(1): 053–070. doi: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4268.1.3
  • St Laurent RA, McCabe T. The identity of Arhodia egenaria Walker, 1866 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) and a new synonym of Cicinnus melsheimeri (Harris, 1841). Zootaxa 4254 (3): 379–381. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4254.3.7
  • St Laurent RA, Carvalho APS. Report of diurnal activity in Mimallonoidea with notes on the sexual behavior of Lacosoma chiridota Grote, 1864. The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 71(1): 12–15.
  • St Laurent RA, Herbin D, & Mielke CGC. Revision of the genus Tarema Schaus, 1896 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with the description of a new species from southeastern Brazil. ZooKeys 646: 119–137. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.646.10897
  • St Laurent RA, Herbin D. Revision of the genus Vanenga Schaus, 1928 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 644: 89–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.644.10705

2016

  • St Laurent RA. Revisions of the genera Lurama Schaus, 1928 and Ulmara Schaus, 1928 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with the descriptions of three new Ulmara species and a new genus. ZooKeys 611: 57–92. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.611.9058
  • St Laurent RA. Updated distributional data for Citheronia sepulcralis Grote & Robinson, 1865 (Saturniidae: Ceratocampinae), with a new host plant record. The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 70(1): 9–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.70i1.a3
  • St Laurent RA, McCabe T. The Mimallonidae (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea) of the Caribbean Basin, with the descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 4084(4): 557–571. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4084.4.6
  • St Laurent RA, Mielke CGC. Three new genera of Neotropical Mimallonidae (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with descriptions of three new species. ZooKeys 566: 117–143. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.566.7344
  • St Laurent RA, Dombroskie JJ. Revision of the genus Menevia Schaus, 1928 (Lepidoptera,Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with the description of 11 new species. ZooKeys 566: 31–116. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.566.6982

2015 

  • St Laurent RA, Mielke CGC, & Naumann S. Notes on the genus Eacles Hübner, [1819] in Brazil with descriptions of the females of Eacles bertrandi Lemaire, 1981 and Eacles mayi Schaus, 1905 (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Ceratocampinae). Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, N.F. 36(4): 196–207.
  • St Laurent RA, Dombroskie JJ. Revision of the genus Eadmuna Schaus, 1928 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae) with a description of a new species from French Guiana. ZooKeys 494: 51–68. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.494.9208

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

2023

  • St Laurent RA. 78. Mimallonidae. In: Pohl G, Nanz, S., editors. Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Bakersfield, California: The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. pp. 274
  • St Laurent RA. 82. Apatelodidae. In: Pohl G, Nanz, S., editors. Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Bakersfield, California: The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. pp. 280.
  • St Laurent RA. 83. Bombycidae. In:Pohl G, Nanz, S., editors. Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Bakersfield, California: The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. pp. 281.
  • St Laurent RA. 84. Saturniidae. In:Pohl G, Nanz, S., editors. Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Bakersfield, California: The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. pp. 282–285
  • St Laurent RA, Kitching IJ. 85. Sphingidae. In: Pohl G, Nanz, S., editors. Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Bakersfield, California: The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. pp. 286–292.
  • Schmidt BC, St Laurent RA. 89. Notodontidae. In: Pohl G, Nanz, S., editors. Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Bakersfield, California: The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. pp. 331­–336.