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  1. Attracted to feed, not to be fed upon – on the biology of Toxomerus basalis (Walker, 1836), the kleptoparasitic ‘sundew flower fly’ (Diptera: Syrphidae)

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    PhD Santos Rojo

  2. Development cycle of a potential biocontrol agent: the American hoverfly, Eupeodes americanus , and comparison with the commercial biocontrol agent Aphidoletes aphidimyza

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, February 2022, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  3. Age-stage two-sex life table analysis of Eristalinus aeneus (Diptera, Syrphidae) reared with two different larval media

    Article • Bulletin of Entomological Research, November 2021, Cambridge University Press

    PhD Santos Rojo

  4. Effect of cold storage on the pupal development of two pollinators, Eristalinus aeneus and Eristalis tenax

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, November 2021, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  5. Description of the Third-Stage Larva and Puparium of Platycheirus (Carposcalis) chalconota (Philippi) (Diptera: Syrphidae) with New Information About the Trophic Interactions and Larval Habitats

    Article • Neotropical Entomology, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Santos Rojo

  6. Life cycle, population parameters, and predation rate of the hover fly Eupeodes corollae fed on the aphid Myzus persicae

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, August 2021, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  7. Revision of the Afrotropical genus Fainia Zumpt, 1958, with notes on the morphology of Rhiniidae subfamilies (Diptera, Oestroidea)

    Article • ZooKeys, April 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    PhD Santos Rojo

  8. Review of Synthesiomyia nudiseta (Diptera: Muscidae) as a useful tool in forensic entomology

    Article • International Journal of Legal Medicine, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Santos Rojo

  9. An in‐depth study of the larval head skeleton and the external feeding structures related with the ingestion of food particles by the eristaline flower flies Eristalis tenax and Eristalinus aeneus

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, September 2020, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  10. Intra‐puparial development in the hoverflies Eristalinus aeneus and Eristalis tenax (Diptera: Syrphidae)

    Article • Journal of Morphology, September 2020, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  11. Description of the preimaginal stages of the golden native dronefly from Australia, Eristalinus punctulatus (Macquart, 1847) (Diptera: Syrphidae)

    Article • Austral Entomology, September 2020, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  12. <p><strong>Three new hoverfly species from Greece (Diptera: Syrphidae)</strong></p>

    Article • Zootaxa, August 2020, Magnolia Press

    PhD Santos Rojo

  13. The Merodon planifacies subgroup (Diptera, Syrphidae): Congruence of molecular and morphometric evidences reveal new taxa in Drakensberg mountains valleys (Republic of South Africa)

    Article • Zoologischer Anzeiger, July 2020, Elsevier

    PhD Santos Rojo

  14. Insects as feed: house fly or black soldier fly?

    Article • Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, June 2020, Wageningen Academic Publishers

    PhD Santos Rojo

  15. The puzzling mitochondrial phylogeography of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens), the commercially most important insect protein species

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Santos Rojo

  16. Revision of the Merodon serrulatus group (Diptera, Syrphidae)

    Article • ZooKeys, February 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    PhD Santos Rojo

  17. A world review of reported myiases caused by flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae), including the first case of human myiasis from Palpada scutellaris (Fabricius, 1805)

    Article • Parasitology Research, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Santos Rojo

  18. Systematic position and composition of Merodon nigritarsis and M. avidus groups (Diptera, Syrphidae) with a description of four new hoverflies species

    Article • Contributions to Zoology, November 2019, Brill

    PhD Santos Rojo

  19. Demography and population parameters of two species of eristaline flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae, Eristalini)

    Article • Journal of Applied Entomology, November 2019, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  20. New information about the pre-imaginal morphology of genus Graptomyza (Diptera, Syrphidae, Volucellini): description of third-instar larva and re-description of puparium of G. signata (Walker, 1860)

    Article • African Invertebrates, February 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    PhD Santos Rojo

  21. Predatory behavior of Synthesiomyia nudiseta larvae (Diptera: Muscidae) on several necrophagous blowfly species (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

    Article • International Journal of Legal Medicine, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Santos Rojo

  22. Molecular phylogenetics of the predatory lineage of flower fliesEupeodes-Scaeva(Diptera: Syrphidae), with the description of the Neotropical genusAustroscaevagen. nov.

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, April 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    PhD Santos Rojo

  23. Review of the Merodon albifasciatus Macquart species complex (Diptera: Syrphidae): the nomenclatural type located and its provenance discussed

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2018, Magnolia Press

    PhD Santos Rojo

  24. Aspectos biológicos de Pseudodoros clavatus (Fabricius) (Diptera: Syrphidae) alimentado con el áfido de las leguminosas Aphis craccivora Koch (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

    Article • Idesia (Arica), January 2018, SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica (CONICYT)

    PhD Santos Rojo

  25. Life table and predation rates of the syrphid fly Allograpta exotica , a control agent of the cowpea aphid Aphis craccivora

    Article • Biological Control, December 2017, Elsevier

    PhD Santos Rojo

  26. Micromorphology of egg and larva of Eristalis fratercula, with an updated key of Eristalis species with known third instar larvae (Diptera: Syrphidae)

    Article • Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, July 2017, National Museum, Czech Republic

    PhD Santos Rojo

  27. Checklist and distribution maps of the blow flies of Venezuela (Diptera, Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellidae)

    Article • ZooKeys, January 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    PhD Santos Rojo

  28. Where Is My Food? Brazilian Flower Fly Steals Prey from Carnivorous Sundews in a Newly Discovered Plant-Animal Interaction

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2016, PLOS

    PhD Santos Rojo

  29. Phylogeographic patterns of Merodon hoverflies in the Eastern Mediterranean region: revealing connections and barriers

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2016, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  30. Biogeographical patterns of the genusMerodonMeigen, 1803 (Diptera: Syrphidae) in islands of the eastern Mediterranean and adjacent mainland

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, February 2016, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  31. <em>Brachyopa</em> <em>minima</em> (Diptera: Syrphidae), a new species from Greece with notes on the biodiversity and conservation of the genus <em>Brachyopa</em> Meigen in the Northern Aegean Islands

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2016, Magnolia Press

    PhD Santos Rojo

  32. The European Food Safety Authority scientific opinion on a risk profile related to production and consumption of insects as food and feed

    Article • Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, December 2015, Wageningen Academic Publishers

    PhD Santos Rojo

  33. Protecting the environment through insect farming as a means to produce protein for use as livestock, poultry, and aquaculture feed

    Article • Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, December 2015, Wageningen Academic Publishers

    PhD Santos Rojo

  34. Pig manure treatment with housefly (Musca domestica) rearing – an environmental life cycle assessment

    Article • Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, August 2015, Wageningen Academic Publishers

    PhD Santos Rojo

  35. Conversion of organic wastes into fly larval biomass: bottlenecks and challenges

    Article • Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, August 2015, Wageningen Academic Publishers

    PhD Santos Rojo

  36. Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic ranking of pipizine flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with implications for the evolution of aphidophagy

    Article • Cladistics, January 2015, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  37. Biology of Rhembobius quadrispinus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): Pupal parasitoid of saprophagous species of syrphids (Diptera: Syrphidae)

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, July 2014, Biology Centre, AS CR

    PhD Santos Rojo

  38. Introducing improvements in the mass rearing of the housefly: biological, morphometric and genetic characterization of laboratory strains

    Article • Bulletin of Entomological Research, May 2014, Cambridge University Press

    PhD Santos Rojo

  39. Shift in Phenotypic Variation Coupled With Rapid Loss of Genetic Diversity in Captive Populations of Eristalis tenax (Diptera: Syrphidae): Consequences for Rearing and Potential Commercial Use

    Article • Journal of Economic Entomology, April 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PhD Santos Rojo

  40. Identification of the most common predatory hoverflies of Mediterranean vegetable crops and their parasitism using multiplex PCR

    Article • Journal of Pest Science, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nuria Agusti, PhD Santos Rojo

  41. Phenotypic variation of the housefly, Musca domestica: amounts and patterns of wing shape asymmetry in wild populations and laboratory colonies

    Article • Bulletin of Entomological Research, August 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jasmina Ludoški, PhD Santos Rojo

  42. The effects of larval diet on adult life-history traits of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, July 2013, Biology Centre, AS CR

    PhD Santos Rojo

  43. SEM studies on immature stages of the drone flies (diptera, syrphidae):Eristalis similis(Fallen, 1817) andEristalis tenax(Linnaeus, 1758)

    Article • Microscopy Research and Technique, June 2013, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  44. First record of Fannia leucosticta (Meigen) (Diptera: Fanniidae) breeding in human corpses

    Article • Forensic Science International, June 2013, Elsevier

    PhD Santos Rojo

  45. Preimaginal morphology of the genera Salpingogaster Schiner, 1868 and Eosalpingogaster Hull, 1949 (Diptera: Syrphidae), with its systematic implications

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2013, Magnolia Press

    PhD Santos Rojo

  46. Investigating plant—pollinator relationships in the Aegean: the approaches of the project POL-AEGIS (The pollinators of the Aegean archipelago: diversity and threats)

    Article • Journal of Apicultural Research, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    PhD Santos Rojo

  47. Larval morphology, development and forensic importance ofSynthesiomyia nudiseta(Diptera: Muscidae) in Europe: a rare species or just overlooked?

    Article • Bulletin of Entomological Research, August 2012, Cambridge University Press

    PhD Santos Rojo

  48. Insects for biodiesel production

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, August 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro, PhD Santos Rojo

  49. Biodegradation of Pig Manure by the Housefly, Musca domestica: A Viable Ecological Strategy for Pig Manure Management

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2012, PLOS

    PhD Santos Rojo

  50. Is the mega-diverse genus Ocyptamus (Diptera, Syrphidae) monophyletic? Evidence from molecular characters including the secondary structure of 28S rRNA

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, January 2012, Elsevier

    PhD Santos Rojo

  51. Effect of the size of the pupae, adult diet, oviposition substrate and adult population density on egg production in Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae)

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, October 2011, Biology Centre, AS CR

    PhD Santos Rojo

  52. First record of Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) on human corpses in Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Forensic Science International, March 2011, Elsevier

    PhD Santos Rojo

  53. Three new cryptic species of the genus Merodon Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the island of Lesvos (Greece)

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2011, Magnolia Press

    PhD Santos Rojo

  54. Diptera of forensic importance in the Iberian Peninsula: larval identification key

    Article • Medical and Veterinary Entomology, June 2010, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  55. COI barcodes for identification of Merodon hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) of Lesvos Island, Greece

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, October 2009, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  56. A conspectus of the flower fly genus Allograpta (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new subgenus and species

    Article • Zootaxa, August 2009, Magnolia Press

    PhD Santos Rojo

  57. Molecular phylogeny of Allograpta (Diptera, Syrphidae) reveals diversity of lineages and non-monophyly of phytophagous taxa

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, December 2008, Elsevier

    PhD Santos Rojo

  58. First phylogeny of predatory flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae, Syrphinae) using mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S rRNA genes: conflict and congruence with the current tribal classification

    Article • Cladistics, August 2008, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  59. Systematics and phylogeny of the tribe Paragini (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on molecular and morphological characters

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, March 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PhD Santos Rojo

  60. Geographic origin affects larval competitive ability in European populations of the blow fly, Lucilia sericata

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, February 2007, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  61. Two new species of the genus Merodon Meigen 1803 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the island of Lesvos (Greece), in the eastern Mediterranean

    Article • Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S ), January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    PhD Santos Rojo

  62. Intraguild predation between syrphids and mirids: who is the prey? Who is the predator?

    Article • BioControl, September 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Santos Rojo

  63. Taxonomy of the genera Scaeva, Simosyrphus and Ischiodon (Diptera: Syrphidae): Descriptions of immature stages and status of taxa

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, July 2006, Biology Centre, AS CR

    PhD Santos Rojo

  64. Testing molecular barcodes: Invariant mitochondrial DNA sequences vs the larval and adult morphology of West Palaearctic Pandasyopthalmus species (Diptera: Syrphidae: Paragini)

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, April 2006, Biology Centre, AS CR

    PhD Santos Rojo

  65. Comparative morphology of early stages of two Mediterranean Sarcophaga Meigen, 1826 (Diptera; Sarcophagidae) and a review of the feeding habits of Palaearctic species

    Article • Micron, February 2006, Elsevier

    PhD Santos Rojo

  66. Taxonomy of European Eristalinus (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on larval morphology and molecular data

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, September 2003, Biology Centre, AS CR

    PhD Santos Rojo

  67. Annual and spatial activity of dung flies and carrion in a Mediterranean holm-oak pasture ecosystem

    Article • Medical and Veterinary Entomology, March 2000, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  68. Syrphid predators (Dipt.: Syrphidae) of gall forming aphids (Hom.: Aphididae) in mediterranean areas: implications for biological control of fruit trees pests

    Article • Entomophaga, June 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Santos Rojo

  69. Fitness of the hover flies Episyrphus balteatus and Eupeodes corollae faced with limited larval prey

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, October 1996, Wiley

    PhD Santos Rojo

  70. Paragus hyalopteri n. sp. an aphidophagous hoverfly (Dipt.: Syrphidae) attacking the mealy plum aphid (Hom.: Aphididae)

    Article • Entomophaga, March 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Santos Rojo