Lars Vilhelmsen

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Lars Vilhelmsen is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Vilhelmsen has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 29 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Lars Vilhelmsen's work include Plant and animal studies (76 papers), Fossil Insects in Amber (74 papers) and Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny (57 papers). Lars Vilhelmsen is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (76 papers), Fossil Insects in Amber (74 papers) and Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny (57 papers). Lars Vilhelmsen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Germany. Lars Vilhelmsen's co-authors include Fredrik Ronquist, Seraina Klopfstein, Susanne Schulmeister, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, Debra L. Murray, Lars Krogmann, Giuseppe Fabrizio Turrisi, István Mikó, Rolf G. Beutel and John M. Heraty and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Lars Vilhelmsen

86 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

2012 620 citations Fredrik Ronquist, Seraina Klopfstein et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lars Vilhelmsen Denmark	25	2.2k	1.0k	453	412	232	91	2.7k
Benjamin Wipfler‍ Germany	25	1.4k 0.6×	887 0.9×	263 0.6×	218 0.5×	150 0.6×	83	1.8k
Susanne Schulmeister United States	14	1.1k 0.5×	601 0.6×	268 0.6×	423 1.0×	253 1.1×	14	1.6k
Xingke Yang China	23	1.3k 0.6×	611 0.6×	386 0.9×	379 0.9×	196 0.8×	191	1.8k
Hervé Jourdan France	25	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	647 1.4×	175 0.4×	156 0.7×	82	2.0k
Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint United States	25	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	362 0.8×	556 1.3×	358 1.5×	81	2.1k
Kelly B. Miller United States	25	1.8k 0.8×	944 0.9×	677 1.5×	578 1.4×	371 1.6×	123	2.4k
Sven Bradler Germany	21	1.1k 0.5×	885 0.9×	138 0.3×	180 0.4×	145 0.6×	39	1.5k
Andrew E. Z. Short United States	19	1.2k 0.5×	495 0.5×	287 0.6×	640 1.6×	97 0.4×	101	1.5k
James K. Liebherr United States	23	1.5k 0.7×	850 0.8×	600 1.3×	754 1.8×	121 0.5×	129	2.1k
Michael G. Branstetter United States	22	1.3k 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	604 1.3×	97 0.2×	181 0.8×	55	1.6k

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Vilhelmsen, Lars, et al.. (2025). Brazilian tropical dry forest in the spotlight: two new species of Ophrynopus Konow, 1897 (Hymenoptera, Orussidae). Zootaxa. 5636(2). 316–326.

Krzemiński, Wiesław, et al.. (2024). Eocene amber provides the first fossil record and bridges distributional gap in the rare genus Robsonomyia (Diptera: Keroplatidae). Scientific Reports. 14(1). 9252–9252. 2 indexed citations

Rasmussen, Finn N., et al.. (2024). First indisputable fossil Ilex (Aquifoliales: Aquifoliaceae) flower found in Baltic amber. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 27730–27730. 1 indexed citations

Blank, Stephan M., Jean‐Luc Boevé, Brant C. Faircloth, et al.. (2024). Phylogenomics and biogeography of sawflies and woodwasps (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 199. 108144–108144. 8 indexed citations

Nargis, Nigar, et al.. (2020). NEWLY RECORDED SPECIES AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF RARELYCOLLECTED TRIBE ADESHINI (BRACONIDAE: BRACONINAE) FROM PAKISTAN. The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences. 30(5). 3 indexed citations

Klopfstein, Seraina, Bernardo F. Santos, Mark Shaw, et al.. (2019). Darwin wasps: a new name heralds renewed efforts to unravel the evolutionary history of Ichneumonidae. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. ec01006–ec01006. 48 indexed citations

Vilhelmsen, Lars. (2016). A new species of Ophrella Middlekauff, 1985 (Hymenoptera, Orussidae) from French Guiana. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 51. 171–185. 1 indexed citations

Blank, Stephan M. & Lars Vilhelmsen. (2016). Two new parasitoid wasp species of the Australasian genus Orussobaius (Hymenoptera: Orussidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 74(1). 83–103. 3 indexed citations

Zimmermann, Dominique & Lars Vilhelmsen. (2016). The sister group of Aculeata (Hymenoptera) - evidence from internal head anatomy, with emphasis on the tentorium. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 74(2). 195–218. 12 indexed citations

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Böcher, Jens, Niels P. Kristensen, Thomas Pape, & Lars Vilhelmsen. (2015). The Greenland entomofauna : an identification manual of insects, spiders and their allies. BRILL eBooks. 18 indexed citations

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Wei, Meicai, et al.. (2014). A new Orussus species from South Korea, and a key to the East Asian Orussidae (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa. 3873(3). 250–8.

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Vilhelmsen, Lars & Dominique Zimmermann. (2014). Baltorussus Total Makeover: Rejuvenation and Sex Change in an Ancient Parasitoid Wasp Lineage. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e98412–e98412. 9 indexed citations

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Klopfstein, Seraina, Lars Vilhelmsen, John M. Heraty, Michael Sharkey, & Fredrik Ronquist. (2013). The Hymenopteran Tree of Life: Evidence from Protein-Coding Genes and Objectively Aligned Ribosomal Data. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e69344–e69344. 105 indexed citations

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Vilhelmsen, Lars. (2011). Head capsule characters in the Hymenoptera and their phylogenetic implications. ZooKeys. 130(130). 343–361. 13 indexed citations

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Mikó, István, Lars Vilhelmsen, Norman F. Johnson, Lubomír Masner, & Zsolt Pénzes. (2007). Skeletomusculature of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea): head and mesosoma. Zootaxa. 1571(1). 131 indexed citations

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Vilhelmsen, Lars & Lars Krogmann. (2006). Skeletal Anatomy of the Mesosoma of Palaeomymar Anomalum (Blood & Kryger, 1922) (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 15. 290–306. 10 indexed citations

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Zaldívar‐Riverón, Alejandro, et al.. (2004). Venom gland and reservoir morphology of the genus Pseudoyelicones van Achterberg, Penteado-Dias & Quicke (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) and implications for relationships. Zoölogische mededelingen. 119–122. 3 indexed citations

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Vilhelmsen, Lars. (2003). Larval anatomy of Orussidae lHymenopterar. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 12(2). 346–354. 10 indexed citations

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Vilhelmsen, Lars. (2003). Flexible ovipositor sheaths in parasitoid Hymenoptera (Insecta). Arthropod Structure & Development. 32(2-3). 277–287. 27 indexed citations

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Vilhelmsen, Lars. (2000). Cervical and prothoracic skeleto-musculature in the basal Hymenoptera (Insecta): Comparative anatomy and phylogenetic implications.. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 239(2). 105–138. 37 indexed citations

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