Maria Heikkilä

Maria Heikkilä, entomologist.

Departments of Entomology and Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Heikkilä, M. & Kaila, L. 2010. Reassessment of the enigmatic lepidopteran family Lypusidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea; Gelechioidea). Systematic Entomology 35(1): 71–89. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00483.x Reference page.

Heikkilä, M., Kaila, L., Mutanen, M., Peña, C. & Wahlberg, N. 2011. Cretaceous origin and repeated tertiary diversification of the redefined butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279(1731): 1093–1099. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1430 . Reference page.

Heikkilä, M., Mutanen, M., Kekkonen, M. & Kaila, L. 2014. Morphology reinforces proposed molecular phylogenetic affinities: a revised classification for Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera). Cladistics 30(6): 563–589. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12064 Reference page.

Heikkilä, M., Mutanen, M., Wahlberg, N., Sihvonen, P. & Kaila, L. 2015. Elusive ditrysian phylogeny: an account of combining systematized morphology with molecular data (Lepidoptera). BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:260. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0520-0 Reference page.

Heikkilä, M., Metz, M.A., Hallwachs, W. & Janzen, D.H. 2017. Three New Species of Rectiostoma Becker, 1982 (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Depressariidae) from Area De Conservación Guanacaste, Northwestern Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 119(1): 47–62. DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.119.1.47 Reference page.

Heikkilä, M., Brown, J.W., Baixeras, J., Mey, W. & Kozlov, M.V. 2018. Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 4394(1): 041–060. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2 PDF. Reference page.
Heikkilä, M., Simonsen, T.J. & Solis, M.A. 2018. Reassessment of known fossil Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) with descriptions of the oldest fossil pyraloid and a crambid larva in Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4483(1): 101–127. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.1.4 full article pdf Reference page.

Kaila, L., Nupponen, K., Gorbunov, P.Y., Mutanen, M. & Heikkilä, M. 2020. Ustyurtiidae, a new family of Urodoidea with description of a new genus and two species from Kazakhstan, and discussion on possible affinity of Urodoidea to Schreckensteinioidea (Lepidoptera). Insect Systematics & Evolution 51(3): 444–471. DOI: 10.1163/1876312x-00002209 . Reference page.