Austin Baker

University of California, Riverside — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

9h-index260citations30works3.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny(14), Plant and animal studies(13), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(9), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(8), Fossil Insects in Amber(6)

Publications30 total

Urbanization changes the richness and homogenizes fungal and invertebrate communities in California
2026Open Access
Larval morphology and life history of Eutrichosoma mirabile Ashmead and description of a new species of Eutrichosoma (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
? Addendum to a minimalist revision of Costa Rican Braconidae: 28 new species and 23 host records
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
DNA barcoding of more than one million insect specimens indicates that at least one third of California's insect biodiversity remains undiscovered
2025Open Access
Eutrichosomatidae
CABI eBooks·2025
Eucharitidae
CABI eBooks·2025· 1 cited
Orthoptera-specific target enrichment (OR-TE) probes resolve relationships over broad phylogenetic scales
Scientific Reports·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Orthoptera-specific target enrichment (OR-TE) probes resolve relationships over broad phylogenetic scales
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Drivers of arthropod biodiversity in an urban ecosystem
Scientific Reports·2024· 21 citedOpen Access
The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps
Cladistics·2023· 59 citedOpen Access
Minimalist revision of Mesochorus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Mesochorinae) from Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with 158 new species and host records for 129 species
Revista de Biología Tropical·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
The Chalcidoidea bush of life – a massive radiation blurred by mutational saturation
2022· 50 citedOpen Access
More discussion of minimalist species descriptions and clarifying some misconceptions contained in Meier et al. 2021
ZooKeys·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
Description of Chilearinus Sharkey gen. nov. and status of Nearctic Earinus Wesmael, 1837 (Braconidae, Agathidinae) with the description of new species
ZooKeys·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Anchored phylogenomics and a revised classification of the planidial larva clade of jewel wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
Systematic Entomology·2022· 22 cited
Addendum to a minimalist revision of Costa Rican Braconidae: 28 new species and 23 host records
ZooKeys·2021· 11 citedOpen Access
Resolving the nightmare of the planidial clade!
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)·2021
Response to Zamani et al. (2020): The omission of critical data in the pursuit of “revolutionary” methods to accelerate the description of species
ZooKeys·2021· 26 citedOpen Access
? Addendum to a minimalist revision of Costa Rican Braconidae: 28 new species and 23 host records
Global Biodiversity Information Facility·2021Open Access
New record in the Hawaiian Islands of Orasema minutissima (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae), an ant-parasitic wasp and a potential biocontrol agent against the Little Fire Ant, Wasmannia auropunctata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Conicet·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

John M. Heraty(14), Michael J. Sharkey(6), Ramya Manjunath(6), Paul D. N. Hebert(6), Javier Torréns(5), Sujeevan Ratnasingham(5), Jean–Yves Rasplus(4), Emily Moriarty Lemmon(4), Elizabeth A. Murray(4), Alan R. Lemmon(4), Kathryn McCluskey(4), M. Alex Smith(4), Suresh Naik(4), Jayme E Sones(4), Winnie Hallwachs(4), Daniel H. Janzen(4), Astrid Cruaud(3), Junxia Zhang(3), Robert L. Kresslein(3), Brian V. Brown(3)