Publications
2024
Kulossa, M., Oertel, R., & Hundsdoerfer, A. K. (2024) Tigliane metabolites in Hyles frass after feeding experiments with TPA and Euphorbia cyparissias. Chemoecology 3. PDF
2023
2023) Critical re-examination of known purported fossil Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera) PeerJ 11:e16049. PDF
(Hundsdoerfer, A. K., Schell, T., Patzold, F., Wright, C. J., Yoshido, A., Marec, F., Daneck, H., Winkler, S., Greve, C., Podsiadlowski, L., Hiller, M. & Pippel, M. (2023) High-quality haploid genomes corroborate 29 chromosomes and highly conserved synteny of genes in Hyles hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). BMC Genomics, 24: 443. PDF
Fiedler, S., Langner, M., Oertel, R., Giddings Vassão, D., Nitschke, J., Gershenzon, J., & Hundsdoerfer, A. K. (2023) First insights into herbivore-plant interaction of the spurge hawkmoth and Euphorbia cyparissias. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11. PDF
2022
Hundsdoerfer, A. K., Schell, T., Patzold, F., Yoshido, A., Marec, F., Daneck, H., Winkler, S., Greve, C., Hiller, M. & Pippel, M. (2022) High quality genomes corroborate 29 chromosomes of the haploid Hyles (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) karyotype. bioRxiv
Schniebs K., Sitnikova T.Y., Vinarski M.V., Müller A., Khanaev I.V. & Hundsdoerfer A.K. (2022) Morphological and Genetic Variability in Radix auricularia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) of Lake Baikal, Siberia: The Story of An Unfinished Invasion into the Ancient Deepest Lake. Diversity 14, 527. PDF
2021
Patzold, F., Marabuto, E., Daneck, H., O’Neill, M.A., Kitching, I.J., Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2021) The phylogenetics and biogeography of the Central Asian hawkmoths, Hyles hippophaes and H. chamyla: Can mitogenomics and machine learning bring clarity? Diversity, 13, 213. PDF
Daneck, H., Barth, M.B., Geck, M., Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2021) Super cooling point phenotypes and cold resistance in Hyles euphorbiae hawk moths from different climate zones. Diversity,13, 207. PDF
Rubinoff, D., San Jose, M. Anna K. Hundsdoerfer (2021) Cryptic diversity in a vagile Hawaiian moth group suggests complex factors drive diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 155, 1070022020
Hundsdoerfer, A. K., & Kitching, I. J. (2020) Morphological evolution in Hyles Hübner, 1819 hawkmoths (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae): reconstructing the ancestral Hyles habitus. Nota Lepidopterologica, 43, 181.
Schniebs, K., Bössneck, U. & Hundsdoerfer, A. K. (2020) On the identity of Radix peregra (O. F. Müller) (Gastropoda: Basommatophora: Lymnaeidae) in the Azores. Journal of Conchology 43(5): 531-541.
Hundsdoerfer, A. K., & Kitching, I. J. (2020) Ancient incomplete lineage sorting of Hyles and Rhodafra (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 1-10. PDF
Patzold, F., Zilli, A., & Hundsdoerfer, A. K. (2020) Advantages of an easy-to-use DNA extraction method for minimal-destructive analysis of collection specimens. PloS one, 15(7), e0235222. PDF
Britz, R., Hundsdörfer, A. & Fritz, U. (2020) Funding, training, permits—the three big challenges of taxonomy. Megataxa, 001(1), 049-052. PDF
Pippel, M., Jebb, D., Patzold, F., Winkler, S., Hiller, M. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2020) A highly contiguous genome assembly of the bat hawkmoth Hyles vespertilio (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Gigascience, 9(1), 1-10. PDF
2019
Vargas, H. A., & Hundsdoerfer, A. K. (2019) Two new native larval host plants of Hyles annei (Guérin-Méneville, 1839)(Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile following exceptional summer rainfall. Nota Lepidopterologica, 42, 151-156. PDF
Hundsdoerfer, A. K., Lee, K. M., Kitching, I. J., & Mutanen, M. (2019) Genome-wide SNP data reveal an overestimation of species diversity in a group of hawkmoths. Genome Biology and Evolution, 11(8), 2136-2150. PDF
Hundsdoerfer, A. K., Buchwalder, K., O’Neill, M. A., & Dobler, S. (2019) Chemical ecology traits in an adaptive radiation: TPA-sensitivity and detoxification in Hyles and Hippotion (Sphingidae, Lepidoptera) larvae. Chemoecology, 29:35-47. PDF
Schniebs, K., Glöer, P., Vinarski, M.V., Beran, L., & Hundsdoerfer, A. K. (2019) Intraspecific morphological and genetic variability in the Palaearctic freshwater snail Radix ampla (Hartmann, 1821) (Gastropoda: Basommatophora: Lymnaeidae). Journal of Conchology, 43(3), 245-267.
2018
Barth, M. B., Buchwalder, K., Kawahara, A. Y., Zhou, X., Liu, S., Krezdorn, N., Rotter, B., Horres, R. & Hundsdoerfer, A. K. (2018) Functional characterization of the Hyles euphorbiae hawkmoth transcriptome reveals strong expression of phorbol ester detoxification and seasonal cold hardiness genes. Frontiers in Zoology, 15(1), 20. PDF
Schniebs, K., Glöer, P., Quiñonero-Salgado, S., Lopez-Soriano, J., & Hundsdoerfer, A. K. (2018) The first record of Galba cubensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1839)(Mollusca: Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) from open fields of Europe. Folia Malacologica, 26(1), 3-15. PDF
2017
Hundsdörfer, A.K. (2017) In memoriam StD. Heimo Harbich, *3.XI.1941 und †31.I.2017. Atalanta 48: 1-4.
Hundsdoerfer, A. K., Päckert, M., Kehlmaier, C., Strutzenberger, P., & Kitching, I. J. (2017) Museum archives revisited: Central Asiatic hawkmoths reveal exceptionally high late Pliocene species diversification (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). Zoologica Scripta 46(5), 552-570. Early View
Hundsdoerfer, A. K., & Kitching, I. J. (2017) Historic DNA for taxonomy and conservation: A case-study of a century-old Hawaiian hawkmoth type (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). PLoS ONE 12(3), e0173255. PDF
2016
Mende, M. B., Bartel, M., & Hundsdoerfer, A. K. (2016) A comprehensive phylogeography of the Hyles euphorbiae complex (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) indicates a ‘glacial refuge belt’. Scientific Reports, 6. PDF
Schniebs, K., Glöer, P. , Vinarski, M. V. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2016) A barcode pitfall in Palaearctic Stagnicola specimens (Mollusca: Lymnaeidae): Incongruence of mitochondrial genes, a nuclear marker and morphology. North-Western Journal of Zoology 12(2), 239-254.
2015
Schniebs, K., Georgiev, D., Glöer, P., & Hundsdoerfer, A. K. (2015) A molecular genetic evidence of the occurrence of the freshwater snail Radix lagotis (Schrank, 1803)(Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) in Bulgaria. Ecologica Montenegrina, 3, 29-39. PDF
2014
Mende M.B. & Hundsdoerfer A.K. (2014) More evidence for an admixture of the Hyles euphorbiae complex’s main lineages in Mediterranean Europe (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). European Journal of Entomology 111(4), 584–587. PDF
Stuckas, H., Mende, M. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2014) Response to cold acclimation in diapause pupae of Hyles euphorbiae (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae): candidate biomarker identification using proteomics. Insect Molecular Biology 23(4), 444-456. PDF
2013
Korn, M., Rabet, N., Ghate, H.V. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2013) Molecular phylogeny of the Notostraca. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(3), 1159-1171.
Marrone, F., Lo Brutto, S., Hundsdoerfer, A.K. & Arculeo, M. (2013) Overlooked cryptic endemism in copepods: Systematics and natural history of the calanoid subgenus Occidodiaptomus Borutzky 1991 (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evoution 66(1), 190-202. PDF
Mende, M.B. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2013) Mitochondrial lineage sorting in action — historical biogeography of the Hyles euphorbiae complex (Sphingidae, Lepidoptera) in Italy. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13, 83. PDF
Schniebs, K., Glöer, P., Vinarski, M. V. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2013) Intraspecific morphological and genetic variability in the European freshwater snail Radix labiata (Rossmaessler, 1835) (Gastropoda: Basommatophora: Lymnaeidae). Contributions to Zoology 82(1), 55-68. PDF
2012
Fritz, U., Stuckas, H., Vargas-Ramirez, M., Hundsdörfer, A.K., Maran, J., Paeckert, M. (2012) Molecular phylogeny of Central and South American slider turtles: implications for biogeography and systematics (Testudines: Emydidae: Trachemys). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 50(2), 125-136.
Schniebs, K., Gloer, P., Georgiev, D. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2012) First record of Stagnicola montenegrinus Gloer & Pesic, 2009 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) in Bulgaria and its taxonomic relationship to other European lymnaeids based on molecular analysis. North-Western Journal of Zoology 8(1), 164-171.
Vinarski, M.V., Schniebs, K., Gloer, P., Son, M.O. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2012) The steppe relics: taxonomic study on two lymnaeid species endemic to the former USSR (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Lymnaeidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(1), 67-85.
2011
Fritz, U., Branch, W.R., Hofmeyr, M.D., Maran, J., Prokop, H., Schleicher, A., Široký, P., Stuckas, H., Vargas-Ramírez, M., Vences, M. & Hundsdörfer, A.K. (2011) Molecular phylogeny of African hinged and helmeted terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelusios and Pelomedusa). Zoologica Scripta 40(2), 115-125.
Gong, S., Hitschfeld, E., Hundsdörfer, A.K., Auer, M., Wang, F., Zhou, L. & Fritz, U. (2011) Is the horned pitviper Ceratrimeresurus shenlii Liang and Liu, 2003 from China a valid Protobothrops? Amphibia-Reptilia 32, 132-135. PDF
Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Mende, M.B., Kitching, I.J. & Cordellier, M. (2011) Taxonomy, phylogeography and climate relations of the Western Palaearctic spurge hawkmoth (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae, Macroglossinae). Zoologica Scripta 40(4), 403-417.
Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Mende, M.B., Harbich, H., Pittaway, A.R., & Kitching, I.J. (2011) Larval pattern morphotypes in the Western Palaearctic Hyles euphorbiae complex (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae, Macroglossinae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 42, 41-86.
Mende, M.B., Stuckas, H. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2011) Eight new microsatellite loci of the Western Palearctic Hyles euphorbiae complex (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). Annales Zoologici Fennici 48, 142-146. PDF
Schniebs, K., Glöer, P., Vinarski, M.V. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2011) Intraspecific and genetic variability in Radix balthica (Linnaeus 1758) (Gastropoda: Basommatophora: Lymnaeidae) with morphological comparison to other European Radix species. Journal of Conchology 40(6), 657-678. PDF
Vinarski, M.V., Schniebs, K., Glöer, P. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2011) The taxonomic status and phylogenetic relationships of the genus Aenigmomphiscola Kruglov and Starobogatov, 1981 Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Lymnaeidae). Journal of Natural History 45(33-34), 2049–2068.
2010
Fritz, U., Daniels, S.R., Hofmeyr, M.D., González, J., Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Široký, P., Hundsdörfer, A.K. & Stuckas, H. (2010) Mitochondrial phylogeography and subspecies of the wide-ranging sub-Saharan leopard tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis (Testudines: Testudinidae) – a case study for the pitfalls of pseudogenes and GenBank sequences. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 48, 348-359.
Fritz, U., Gong, S., Auer, M., Kuchling, G., Schneeweiss, N. & Hundsdörfer, A.K. (2010) The world’s economically most important chelonians represent a diverse species complex (Testudines: Trionychidae: Pelodiscus). Organisms, Diversity & Evolution, 10, 227-242. PDF
Hundsdoerfer, A.K. & Kitching, I.J. (2010) A method for improving DNA yield from century-plus old specimens of large Lepidoptera while minimizing damage to external and internal abdominal characters. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 68(1), 151-155. PDF
Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Sanetra, M., Corbeil, D. & Stuckas, H. (2010) Eleven hawkmoth microsatellite loci of Canary Island Hyles tithymali (Lepidoptera). Conservation Genetics Resources 2, 241–244.
Korn, M. Green, A.J., Machado, M., García-de-Lomas, J., Cristo, M., Cancela da Fonseca, L., Frisch, D., Pérez-Bote, J.L. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2010) Phylogeny, molecular ecology and taxonomy of southern Iberian lineages of Triops mauritanicus (Crustacea: Notostraca). Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 10(5), 409-440. PDF
2009
Fritz, U., Ayaz, D., Hundsdörfer, A.K., Kotenko, T., Guicking, D., Wink, M., Tok, C. V., Çiçek, K. & Buschbom, J. (2009) Mitochondrial diversity of European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Anatolia and the Ponto-Caspian Region: Multiple old refuges, hotspot of extant diversification and critically endangered endemics. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 9, 100-114. PDF
Fritz, U., Harris, J., Fahd, S., Rouag, R., Graciá Martínez, E., Giménez Casalduero, A., Kalboussi, M., Jdeidi, T., Hundsdörfer, A.K. (2009) Mitochondrial phylogeography of Testudo graeca in the Western Mediterranean: Old complex divergence in North Africa and recent arrival in Europe . Amphibia-Reptilia 30, 63-80. PDF
Fritz; U., Auer; M., Chirikova, M. A., Duysebayeva, T.N., Eremchenko, V.K., Kami, H.G., Kashkarov, R.D., Masroor, R., Pindrani, A.; Široký, P. & Hundsdörfer, A.K. (2009) Mitochondrial phylogeography of the wide-ranging Central Asian steppe tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii Gray, 1844). Amphibia-Reptilia 30, 245-257. PDF
Gong, S., Shi, H., Mo, Y., Auer, M., Vargas-Ramírez, M., Hundsdörfer, A.K. & Fritz, U. (2009) Phylogeography of the endangered black-breasted leaf turtle (Geoemyda spengleri) and conservation implications for other chelonians. Amphibia-Reptilia 30, 57-62. PDF
Hundsdoerfer, A.K. & Wink, M. (2009) Experimental population genetics in insects: inheritance of ISSR-PCR bands in an artificial population. Zootaxa 2231, 40-46. FIRST PAGE PDF
Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Rheinheimer, J. &. Wink, M. (2009) A molecular phylogeny of the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera): Reconstructions from mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. Zoologischer Anzeiger 248, 9-31. PREVIEW
Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Rubinoff, D., Attié, M., Wink, M. & Kitching, I.J. (2009) A revised molecular phylogeny of the globally distributed hawkmoth genus Hyles (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52, 852-865.
Praschag, P., Holloway, R., Georges, A., Päckert, M., Hundsdörfer, A.K. & Fritz, U. (2009) A new subspecies of Batagur affinis (Cantor, 1847), one of the world’s most critically endangered chelonians (Testudines: Geoemydidae). Zootaxa 2232, 57-68. PDF
Praschag, P., Hundsdörfer, A.K. & Fritz, U. (2009) Further specimens and phylogenetic position of the recently described leaf turtle species Cyclemys gemeli (Testudines: Geoemydidae). Zootaxa 2008, 29-37. PDF
2008
Buder, G., Grossmann, C., Hundsdoerfer, A.K. & Klass, K.-D. (2008) A contribution to the phylogeny of the Ciidae and its relationships with other cucujoid and tenebrionoid beetles (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 66, 165-190. PDF
Dimaki, M., Hundsdörfer, A.K. & Fritz, U. (2008) Eastern Mediterranean chameleons (Chamaeleo chamaeleon, Ch. africanus) are distinct. Amphibia-Reptilia 29, 535-540. PDF
Fritz, U., Ayaz, D., Buschbom, J., Kami, H., Mazanaeva, L. F., Aloufi, A. A., Auer, M., Rifai, L., ŠiliĆ, T. & Hundsdörfer, A.K. (2008) Go east: Phylogeographies of Mauremys caspica and M. rivulata – discordance of morphology, mitochondrial and nuclear genomic markers and rare hybridization (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21, 527–540. PDF
Fritz, U., Guicking, D., Auer, M., Sommer, R.S., Wink, M. & Hundsdörfer, A.K. (2008) Diversity of the Southeast Asian leaf turtle genus Cyclemys: how many leaves on its tree of life? Zoologica Scripta 37: 367-390.
2007
Fritz, U., Hundsdörfer, A.K., Siroký, P., Auer, M., Kami, H., Lehmann, J., Mazanaeva, L. F., Türkozan, O. & Wink, M. (2007) Phenotypic plasticity leads to incongruence between morphology-based taxonomy and genetic differentiation in western Palaearctic tortoises (Testudo graeca complex; Testudines, Testudinidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 28, 97-121. PDF
Praschag, P., Hundsdörfer, A.K. & Fritz, U. (2007) Phylogeny and taxonomy of endangered South and Southeast Asian freshwater turtles elucidated by mtDNA sequences variation (Reptilia: Testudines: Batagur, Callagur, Hardella, Kachuga, Pangshura). Zoologica Scripta 36, 429-442.
Praschag, P., Hundsdörfer, A.K., Reza, A.H.M. & Fritz, U. (2007) Genetic evidence for wild-living Aspideretes nigricans and a molecular phylogeny of South Asian softshell turtles (Reptilia: Trionychidae: Aspideretes, Nilssonia) Zoologica Scripta 36, 301-310.
2006
Fritz, U., Auer, M., Bertolero, A., Cheylan, M., Fattizzo, T., Hundsdörfer, A.K., Martín Sampayo, M., Pretus, J., Siroký, P. & Wink, M. (2006) A rangewide phylogeography of Hermann’s tortoise, Testudo hermanni (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae): implications for taxonomy. Zoologica Scripta 5, 531–543.
Harbich, H. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2006) Untersuchungen an einem Hyles Freilandhybriden aus Nord Tunesien (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 116, 99-106.
Hundsdoerfer, A.K. & Wink, M. (2006) Incongruence of morphology and genetic markers in Hyles tithymali (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from the Canary Islands . Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 44, 316–322.
Korn, M. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2006) Cryptic species in the tadpole shrimp Triops granarius (Crustacea: Notostraca). Zootaxa 1257, 57–68. FIRST PAGE PDF
Korn, M., Marrone, F., Pérez-Bote, J.L., Machado, M., Cristo, M., Cancela da Fonseca, L. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2006) Sister species within the Triops cancriformis lineage (Crustacea, Notostraca). Zoologica Scripta 35(4), 301-322.
2005
Hundsdoerfer, A.K. (2005) First record of Hyles dahlii (Geyer, 1827) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) on the African mainland. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 53, 109-110.
Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Kitching, I. J. & Wink, M. (2005) A molecular phylogeny of the hawkmoth genus Hyles (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae, Macroglossinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35, 442-458. PREVIEW
Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Kitching, I. J. & Wink, M. (2005) The morphological variability of Hyles t. tithymali (Boisduval) (Sphingidae: Lepidoptera) caterpillars on the Canary Islands . Entomologische Zeitschrift 115, 29-33.
Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Kitching, I. J. & Wink, M. (2005) The phylogeny of the Hyles-euphorbiae-complex (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae): molecular evidence from sequence data and ISSR-PCR fingerprints. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 5, 173-198. PDF
Hundsdoerfer, A.K. & Wink, M. (2005) New source of genetic polymorphisms in Lepidoptera? Zeitschrift für Naturforschung 60c, 618-624. PDF
Hundsdoerfer, A.K. & Wink, M. (2005) Sequestration of phorbol esters by aposematic larvae of Hyles euphorbiae? Chemoecology 15, 261-267.