| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end‐Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution | Systematic Entomology | 2015 | 435 |
| 2 | The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) | Systematic Entomology | 2015 | 328 |
| 3 | Integrative taxonomy, or iterative taxonomy? | Systematic Entomology | 2011 | 254 |
| 4 | A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of Diptera: whole genome sequence data accurately resolve relationships over broad timescales with high precision | Systematic Entomology | 2007 | 231 |
| 5 | Phylogenetic relevance of the genital sclerites of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola) | Systematic Entomology | 2008 | 209 |
| 6 | How to sequence and annotate insect mitochondrial genomes for systematic and comparative genomics research | Systematic Entomology | 2014 | 206 |
| 7 | Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata) | Systematic Entomology | 2014 | 203 |
| 8 | Function, homology and terminology in insect wings | Systematic Entomology | 1979 | 197 |
| 9 | Building the Coleoptera tree‐of‐life for >8000 species: composition of public DNA data and fit with Linnaean classification | Systematic Entomology | 2014 | 195 |
| 10 | Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) | Systematic Entomology | 2012 | 187 |
| 11 | Review of the Order Strepsiptera | Systematic Entomology | 1989 | 183 |
| 12 | Synonymization of key pest species within the Bactrocera dorsalis species complex (Diptera: Tephritidae): taxonomic changes based on a review of 20 years of integrative morphological, molecular, cytogenetic, behavioural and chemoecological data | Systematic Entomology | 2015 | 175 |
| 13 | On wings of lace: phylogeny and Bayesian divergence time estimates of Neuropterida (Insecta) based on morphological and molecular data | Systematic Entomology | 2010 | 174 |
| 14 | Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia) | Systematic Entomology | 2015 | 171 |
| 15 | Cladistic analysis of Neuroptera and their systematic position within Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola: Neuropterida: Neuroptera) | Systematic Entomology | 2001 | 167 |
| 16 | Phylogeny and classification of the Culicidae (Diptera) | Systematic Entomology | 1998 | 166 |
| 17 | Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total‐evidence analysis | Systematic Entomology | 2009 | 164 |
| 18 | The phylogenetic relationships and natural classificition of the Vespoidea (Hymenptera) | Systematic Entomology | 1982 | 163 |
| 19 | The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants | Systematic Entomology | 2005 | 161 |
| 20 | Cladistic analysis of Reduviidae (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) based on morphological characters | Systematic Entomology | 2008 | 161 |
| 21 | The internal phylogeny of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) | Systematic Entomology | 1992 | 154 |
| 22 | Higher‐level phylogeny of the insect order Hemiptera: is Auchenorrhyncha really paraphyletic? | Systematic Entomology | 2012 | 152 |
| 23 | Molecular phylogeny of the Calyptratae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) with an emphasis on the superfamily Oestroidea and the position of Mystacinobiidae and McAlpine's fly | Systematic Entomology | 2010 | 151 |
| 24 | Phylogeny of carabid beetles as inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA (Coleoptera: Carabidae) | Systematic Entomology | 1999 | 147 |
| 25 | Phylogeny and evolution of Staphyliniformia and Scarabaeiformia: forest litter as a stepping stone for diversification of nonphytophagous beetles | Systematic Entomology | 2015 | 147 |
| 26 | A phylogenetic analysis of the fungus‐growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini) based on morphological characters of the larvae | Systematic Entomology | 1995 | 145 |
| 27 | Phylogeny and early evolution of the Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera) | Systematic Entomology | 1995 | 140 |
| 28 | Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships of Odonata | Systematic Entomology | 2003 | 139 |
| 29 | Phylogenetics and temporal diversification of the earliest true flies (Insecta: Diptera) based on multiple nuclear genes | Systematic Entomology | 2008 | 138 |
| 30 | Evolution of lacewings and allied orders using anchored phylogenomics (Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Raphidioptera) | Systematic Entomology | 2018 | 133 |
| 31 | The peril of dating beetles | Systematic Entomology | 2017 | 132 |
| 32 | A phylogenetic analysis of higher-level gall wasp relationships (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) | Systematic Entomology | 1998 | 130 |
| 33 | Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator | Systematic Entomology | 2004 | 126 |
| 34 | A phylogenetic reconstruction of the Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera) based on the D2 variable region of 28S ribosomal RNA | Systematic Entomology | 1998 | 124 |
| 35 | Molecular phylogeny, evolution and classification of the Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera) | Systematic Entomology | 2013 | 122 |
| 36 | Systematics and evolution of the cutworm moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): evidence from two protein-coding nuclear genes | Systematic Entomology | 2005 | 121 |
| 37 | When phylogenetic assumptions are violated: base compositional heterogeneity and among-site rate variation in beetle mitochondrial phylogenomics | Systematic Entomology | 2010 | 121 |
| 38 | Phylogeny of Anophelinae (Diptera: Culicidae) based on nuclear ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequences | Systematic Entomology | 2002 | 120 |
| 39 | Proposals for a stable classification of the Phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) | Systematic Entomology | 1977 | 119 |
| 40 | Chromosome numbers in the Aphididae and their taxonomic significance | Systematic Entomology | 1980 | 118 |
| 41 | Phylogenomics — principles, opportunities and pitfalls of big‐data phylogenetics | Systematic Entomology | 2020 | 118 |
| 42 | Molecular phylogenetics of Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), based on multiple nuclear genes, and implications for classification | Systematic Entomology | 2011 | 116 |
| 43 | Systematic relationships in the soft ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae) | Systematic Entomology | 1993 | 111 |
| 44 | Paraphyly of Homoptera and Auchenorrhyncha inferred from 18S rDNA nucleotide sequences | Systematic Entomology | 1995 | 110 |
| 45 | Phylogeny of the Neuropterida: a first molecular approach | Systematic Entomology | 2004 | 110 |
| 46 | Revised classification of the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea) based on combined molecular and morphological data | Systematic Entomology | 2009 | 110 |
| 47 | A molecular phylogeny of the Odonata (Insecta) | Systematic Entomology | 2010 | 110 |
| 48 | The implications of function on the origin and homologies of the dipterous wing | Systematic Entomology | 1989 | 106 |
| 49 | Phylogeny of Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), with a reclassification of Eulophinae and the recognition that Elasmidae are derived eulophids | Systematic Entomology | 2000 | 106 |
| 50 | A molecular phylogeny of the genusApissuggests that the Giant Honey Bee of the Philippines,A. breviligulaMaa, and the Plains Honey Bee of southern India,A. indicaFabricius, are valid species | Systematic Entomology | 2010 | 106 |
