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Charles University, Faculty of Science: Prague, CZ

2015-10 to present | Assistant professor (Zoology)
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Petr Jansta

Charles University, Faculty of Science: Prague, CZ

2009-10 to 2015-09 | Assistant (Zoology)
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Petr Jansta

Charles University, Faculty of Science: Prague, CZ

2006-10 to 2009-09 | lecturer (Zoology)
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Charles University, Faculty of Science: Prague, CZ

2006-10-01 to 2014-04-22 | Ph.D. (Zoology)
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Petr Jansta

Charles University, Faculty of Science: Prague, CZ

2001-10 to 2006-09 | MSc. (Zoology)
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Works (45)

Megastigmidae

2025-02-28 | Book chapter
Contributors: Jean-Yves Rasplus; Julia Böhmová; Roger A. Burks; José-Luis Nieves-Aldrey; Astrid Cruaud; Petr Janšta
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Natural History of Chalcidoidea

2025-02-28 | Book chapter
Contributors: John M. Heraty; Petr Janšta; Paul Hanson; Jean-Yves Rasplus; Alex Gumovsky; John S. Noyes; James B. Woolley; Gary A.P. Gibson
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Ormyridae

2025-02-28 | Book chapter
Contributors: Paul E. Hanson; Petr Janšta; Ionela-Mădălina Viciriuc; Mircea-Dan Mitroiu; Simon Van Noort; Jean-Yves Rasplus
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Torymidae

2025-02-28 | Book chapter
Contributors: Petr Janšta; Gerard Delvare
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Central European Helconini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae): Distribution, new host records and illustrated key to the species

Journal of Insect Biodiversity
2024-09-13 | Journal article
Contributors: TOMÁŠ HOVORKA; PETR JANŠTA
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Description of two new species of the Torymus advenus species group (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) from Mexico

Zootaxa
2024-09-11 | Journal article
Contributors: AITOR MARTÍNEZ-ROMERO; ALEXIS VERA-ORTIZ; ARMANDO EQUIHUA-MARTÍNEZ; EDITH G. ESTRADA-VENEGAS; DAVID CIBRIÁN TOVAR; PETR JANŠTA; JULI PUJADE- VILLAR
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Redefining Ormyridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with establishment of subfamilies and description of new genera

Systematic Entomology
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Simon van Noort; Mircea‐Dan Mitroiu; Roger Burks; Gary Gibson; Paul Hanson; John Heraty; Petr Janšta; Astrid Cruaud; Jean‐Yves Rasplus
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The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps

Cladistics
2024-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Astrid Cruaud; Jean‐Yves Rasplus; Junxia Zhang; Roger Burks; Gérard Delvare; Lucian Fusu; Alex Gumovsky; John T. Huber; Petr Janšta; Mircea‐Dan Mitroiu et al.
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Erimerinae, a prior name to Microdontomerinae (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) with the description of a new genus and three new species from Iran

Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2024-02-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Hossein Lotfalizadeh; Zohreh Mirzaee; Gholamreza Tavakoli-Korghond; Petr Janšta; Jean-Yves Rasplus
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At the dawn of megadiversity – Protoitidae, a new family of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber

Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2023-10-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Jonah M. UImer; Petr Janšta; Dany Azar; Lars Krogmann
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The ootheca of Libyaspis flavosparsa (Montandon) (Heteroptera: Plataspidae), with a review of ootheca-production in Heteroptera and other Insecta

Zoologischer Anzeiger
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Jitka Vilímová; Christiane Weirauch; Petr Janšta
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From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)

Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2022-12-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Roger Burks; Mircea-Dan Mitroiu; Lucian Fusu; John M. Heraty; Petr Janšta; Steve Heydon; Natalie Dale-Skey Papilloud; Ralph S. Peters; Ekaterina V. Tselikh; James B. Woolley et al.
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The Chalcidoidea bush of life – a massive radiation blurred by mutational saturation

2022-09-13 | Preprint
Contributors: Astrid Cruaud; Jean-Yves Rasplus; Junxia Zhang; Roger Burks; Gérard Delvare; Lucian Fusu; Alex Gumovsky; John T. Huber; Petr Janšta; Mircea-Dan Mitroiu et al.
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Description of two new Australian genera of Megastigmidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with notes on the biology of the genus Bortesia

Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2022-04-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Julie Böhmová; Jean-Yves Rasplus; Gary S. Taylor; Petr Janšta
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Assessing Megastigmus specularis (Hymenoptera: Megastigmidae) infestations in a Fraser fir (Abies fraseri (Pursh) Poir.) clonal seed orchard of the southern Appalachians

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
2020-11-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Lilian P. Matallana-Ramirez; Kelly Goode; Matthew Bertone; Petr Janšta; Roger Burks; Robert Jetton; John Frampton
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Data–rich description of a new genus of praying mantid egg parasitoids, Lasallegrion gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Torymidae: Podagrionini), with a re-examination of Podagrion species of Australia and New Caledonia

Journal of Natural History
2020-03-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Petr Janšta; Gérard Delvare; Hannes Baur; Benjamin Wipfler; Ralph S. Peters
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Description of Torymus lasallei, sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Torymidae), a species with an unusual ovipositor

Journal of Natural History
2020-03-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Kristýna Bubeníková; Juli Pujade-Villar; Petr Janšta
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Reproductive strategy as a major factor determining female body size and fertility of a gregarious parasitoid

Journal of Applied Entomology
2019-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Alena Samková; Jiří Hadrava; Jiří Skuhrovec; Petr Janšta
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Arthropod fauna recorded in flowers of apomictic Taraxacum section Ruderalia

European Journal of Entomology
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84959475594

Contributors: Honek, A.; Martinková, Z.; Skuhrovec, J.; Barták, M.; Bezdek, J.; Bogusch, P.; Hadrava, J.; Hájek, J.; Janšta, P.; Jelínek, J. et al.
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Industrial and post-industrial habitats serve as critical refugia for pioneer species of newly identified arthropod assemblages associated with reed galls

Biodiversity and Conservation
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84963642722

Contributors: Bogusch, P.; Macek, J.; Janšta, P.; Kubík, Š.; Řezáč, M.; Holý, K.; Malenovský, I.; Baňař, P.; Mikát, M.; Astapenková, A. et al.
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Systematics, biology and distribution of Microdontomerus iridis (Picard, 1930), comb. n. (Hymenoptera, Torymidae, Toryminae, Microdontomerini), a parasitoid of Mantodea oothecae

Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84962483715

Contributors: Janšta, P.; Delvare, G.; Krogmann, L.; Schütte, K.; Peters, R.S.
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A contribution to the knowledge of the torymidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from South-Western Iran

Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84948962847

Contributors: Fallahzadeh, M.; Azadi, S.; Janšta, P.
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Fauna Europaea: Hymenoptera - Apocrita (excl. Ichneumonoidea)

Biodiversity Data Journal
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85018196609

Contributors: Mitroiu, M.-D.; Noyes, J.; Cetkovic, A.; Nonveiller, G.; Radchenko, A.; Polaszek, A.; Ronquist, F.; Forshage, M.; Pagliano, G.; Gusenleitner, J. et al.
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First records of Hypolycaena anara Larsen, 1986 from Cameroon (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Shilap-Revista De Lepidopterologia
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000357162700007

Contributors: Tropek, R.; Lestina, D.; Jansta, P.; Brattstroem, O.; Espeland, M.; Safian, Sz.
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First records of hypolycaena anara larsen, 1986 from cameroon (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) | Primer registro de Hypolycaena anara Larsen, 1986 para Camerún (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologia
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84961205177

Contributors: Tropek, R.; Tropek, R.; Lestina, D.; Jansta, P.; Brattström, O.; Espeland, M.; Sáfián, S.Z.
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Insect community on Jurinea cyanoides (Asteraceae), a plant species protected under NATURA 2000

Biologia (Poland)
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84989868273

Contributors: Janšta, P.; Klaudisová, A.; Vilímová, J.; Malenovský, I.
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Phylogeny and historical biogeography of trans-Andean cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae)

Vertebrate Zoology
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84955503497

Contributors: Musilová, Z.; Říčan, O.; Říčanová, Š.; Janšta, P.; Gahura, O.; Novák, J.
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Phylogeny and historical biogeography of trans-Andean cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae)

Vertebrate Zoology
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000367965600004

Contributors: Musilova, Zuzana; Rican, Oldrich; Ricanova, Stepanka; Jansta, Petr; Gahura, Ondrej; Novak, Jindrich
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Specialization of pollination systems of two co-flowering phenotypically generalized Hypericum species (Hypericaceae) in Cameroon

Arthropod-Plant Interactions
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84937759316

Contributors: Bartoš, M.; Tropek, R.; Spitzer, L.; Padyšáková, E.; Janšta, P.; Straka, J.; Tkoč, M.; Janeček, Š.
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Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite markers for Mylothris jacksoni knutsoni (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), an endemic butterfly of the Gulf of Guinea Highlands

Conservation Genetics Resources
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84905665677

Contributors: Zima Jr., J.; Lestina, D.; Jansta, P.; Petru, V.; Tropek, R.
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A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)

Cladistics
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84884411399

Contributors: Heraty, J.M.; Burks, R.A.; Cruaud, A.; Gibson, G.A.P.; Liljeblad, J.; Munro, J.; Rasplus, J..-Y.; Delvare, G.; Janšta, P.; Gumovsky, A. et al.
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Acraea wigginsi occidentalis (Bethune-Baker, 1926), a new butterfly for Nigeria, with remarks on its habitat and known distribution (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologia
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84878735928

Contributors: Tropek, R.; Jansta, P.; Lestina, D.
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Acraea wigginsi occidentalis (Bethune-Baker, 1926), a new butterfly for Nigeria, with remarks on its habitat and known distribution (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Shilap-Revista De Lepidopterologia
2013 | Journal article
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WOS:000316959900012

Contributors: Tropek, R.; Jansta, P.; Lestina, D.
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Description of a new genus, Chileana (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae), with four new species

Zootaxa
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84889588895

Contributors: Janšta, P.; Krížková, B.; Vilímová, J.; Rasplus, J.-Y.
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Description of a new genus, Chileana (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae), with four new species

Zootaxa
2013 | Journal article
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WOS:000328136800004

Contributors: Jansta, Petr; Krizkova, Barbora; Vilimova, Jitka; Rasplus, Jean-Yves
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Description of male of Leucospis insularis (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Leucospidae) with new records and check-list of Chalcidoidea of Socotra Island

Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84872541720

Contributors: Janšta, P.
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Description of male of Leucospis insularis (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Leucospidae) with new records and check-list of Chalcidoidea of Socotra Island

Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2012 | Journal article
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WOS:000313477600039

Contributors: Jansta, Petr
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A molecular phylogeny of the chalcidoidea (hymenoptera)

PLoS ONE
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80455125917

Contributors: Munro, J.B.; Heraty, J.M.; Burks, R.A.; Hawks, D.; Mottern, J.; Cruaud, A.; Rasplus, J.-Y.; Jansta, P.
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Description of a new genus, Boucekinus (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae), with two new species and a discussion of its placement

Zootaxa
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79951536988

Contributors: Janšta, P.; Vilímová, J.; Hanson, P.
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Description of a new genus, Boucekinus (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae), with two new species and a discussion of its placement

Zootaxa
2011 | Journal article
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WOS:000287153100004

Contributors: Jansta, Petr; Vilimova, Jitka; Hanson, Paul
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Immature stages of Euchirinae (Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea): Genera Cheirotonus and Propomacrus with comments on their phylogeny based on larval and adult characters

Invertebrate Systematics
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84855244429

Contributors: Šípek, P.; Janšta, P.; Král, D.
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Apoptosis in the midgut epithelia of insects

Acta Biologica Cracoviensia Series Botanica
2010 | Journal article
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WOS:000283386900026

Contributors: Rost-Roszkowskal, Magdalena M.; Vilimova, Jitka; Jansta, Petr; Chajec, Lukasz; Machida, Ryuichiro; Fukui, Makiko
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Fine structure of the midgut epithelium in two Archaeognatha, Lepismachilis notata and Machilis hrabei (Insecta), in relation to its degeneration and regeneration

Protoplasma
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-78650169528

Contributors: Rost-Roszkowska, M.M.; Jansta, P.; Vilimova, J.
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The horse chestnut leafminer Cameraria ohridella: Chemical control and notes on parasitisation

Plant Protection Science
2007 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-34548331663

Contributors: Kuldová, J.; Hrdý, I.; Janšta, P.
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A new species of eridontomerus with taxonomic and faunistic notes on some other taxa (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae)

Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2006 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-70349510171

Contributors: Janšta, P.; Bouček, Z.
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