Chief Researcher
Budrys, E., Orlovskytė, S., Budrienė, A. 2024. Ecological speciation without morphological differentiation? A new cryptic species of Diodontus Curtis (Hymenoptera, Pemphredonidae) from the centre of Europe. Insects, 15 (2): art. no. 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15020086
Reverté, S., Milicic, M., Acanski, J., Andric, A., Aracil, A., Aubert, M., Balzan, M.V., Bartomeus, I., Bogusch, P., Bosch, J., Budrys, E., Cantú-Salazar, L., Castro, S., Cornalba, M., Demeter, I., Devalez, J., Dorchin, A., Dufrêne, E., Dordevic, A., Fisler, L., Fitzpatrick, U., Flaminio, S., Földesi, R., Gaspar, H., Genoud, D., Geslin, B., Ghisbain, G., Gilbert, F., Gogala, A., Grkovic, A., Heimburg, H., Herrera-Mesías, F., Jacobs, M., Milosavljevic, M.J., Janssen, K., Jensen, J.K., Jesovnik, A., Józan, Z., Karlis, G., Kasparek, M., Kovács-Hostyánszki, A., Kuhlmann, M., Le Divelec, R., Leclercq, N., Likov, L., Litman, J., Ljubomirov, T., Madsen, H.B., Marshall, L., Mazánek, L., Milic, D., Mignot, M., Mudri-Stojnic, S., Müller, A., Nedeljkovic, Z., Nikolic, P., Odegaard, F., Patiny, S., Paukkunen, J., Pennards, G., Pérez-Bañón, C., Perrard, A., Petanidou, T., Pettersson, L.B., Popov, G., Popov, S., Praz, C., Prokhorov, A., Quaranta, M., Radchenko, V.G., Radenkovic, S., Rasmont, P., Rasmussen, C., Reemer, M., Ricarte, A., Risch, S., Roberts, S.P.M., Rojo, S., Ropars, L., Rosa, P., Ruiz, C., Sentil, A., Shparyk, V., Smit, J., Sommaggio, D., Soon, V., Ssymank, A., Ståhls, G., Stavrinides, M., Straka, J., Tarlap, P., Terzo, M., Tomozii, B., Tot, T., van der Ent, L.J., van Steenis, J., van Steenis, W., Varnava, A.I., Vereecken, N.J., Veselic, S., Vesnic, A., Weigand, A., Wisniowski, B., Wood, T.J., Zimmermann, D., Michez, D., Vujic, A. 2023. National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 16 (6): 758–775. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12680
Budrys, E., Orlovskytė, S., Lazauskaitė, M., Budrienė, A. 2023. Ancistrocerus wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) from the Centre of Europe: Phylogeny, cryptic species, neutral and non-neutral markers. Zoologica Scripta, 52 (5): 454-474. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12599
Olszewski, P., Budrys, E., Orlovskytė, S., Wisniowski, B., Ljubomirov, T. 2023. Nesting biology and phylogenetic relationships of the parasitoid-hunting wasp Lindenius pygmaeus armatus (Vander Linden, 1829) (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Scientific Reports, 13 (1): 9664. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36019-1
Olszewski, P., Klejdysz, T., Miesikowski, M., Budrys, E. 2023. Nesting biology of Mimumesa littoralis (Bondroit, 1934) (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in Poland. European Zoological Journal, 90 (1): 313–319. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2023.2197447
Olszewski, P., Bogusch, P., Hebda, G., Budrys, E. 2022. Nesting behaviour and description of mature larva of Lindenius albilabris (Fabricius, 1793) (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). European Zoological Journal, 89 (1): 1040–1048. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2022.2105962
Budrienė, A., Budrys, E., Orlovskytė, S. (2021) A bilateral gynandromorph of Discoelius dufourii (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Zethinae): morphology and mating behaviour. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 81: 23-41. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.81.61550
Skrodenytė-Arbačiauskienė, V., Budrienė, A., Blažytė-Čereškienė, L., Budrys, E. (2019) Illumina-based 16S metagenomic analysis of the indigenous gut microbiota of cavity-nesting bee Megachile centuncularis: a comparison with the cavity-nesting wasp Ancistrocerus antilope. Journal of Apicultural Research. 58 (4): 587-590. https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2019.1614734
Budrys, E., Budrienė, A., Orlovskytė, S., Soon, V. (2019) Two new species of Diodontus (Hymenoptera: Pemphredonidae) from the western Mediterranean and their phylogenetic relationships. Canadian Entomologist. 151 (5): 558-583. https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2019.46
Vaananen, S., Paukkunen, J., Soon, V., Budrys, E. (2018) Occurrence and biology of Pseudogonalos hahnii (Spinola, 1840) (Hymenoptera: Trigonalidae) in Fennoscandia and the Baltic states. Entomologica Fennica. 29 (2): 86-96.
Turčinavičienė J., Radzevičiūtė R., Budrienė A., Budrys E. (2016) Species identification and genetic differentiation of European cavity-nesting wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Pompilidae, Crabronidae) inferred from DNA barcoding data. Mitochondrial DNA. 27 (1): 476-482. https://doi.org/10.3109/19401736.2014.905827
Orlovskytė S., Budrys E., Budrienė A., Radzevičiūtė R., Soon V. (2016) Sibling species in the Chrysis ignita complex: molecular, morphological and trophic differentiation of Baltic species, with a description of two new cryptic species (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae). Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 771-793. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12190
Soon, V., Budrys, E., Orlovskytė, S., Paukkunen, J., Ødegaard, F., Ljubomirov, T., Saarma, U. (2014) Testing the validity of Northern European species in the Chrysis ignita species group (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) with DNA Barcoding. Zootaxa. 3786 (3): 301-330. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3786.3.4
Budrienė, A., Budrys, E., Nevronytė, Ž. (2013) Sexual size dimorphism in the ontogeny of the solitary predatory wasp Symmorphus allobrogus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Comptes rendus biologies. 336 (2): 57–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crvi.2013.03.001
Budrys, E., Budrienė, A. (2012) Adaptability of prey handling effort in relation to prey size in predatory wasps (Hymenoptera: Eumeninae). Annales zoologici Fennici. 49 (1–2): 58–68. https://doi.org/10.5735/086.049.0106