Recent Publications
Nalepa C.A. 2012. Wing wear is a poor estimate of age in Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 24: 43-46, doi: 10.3897/jhr.24.2091
Nalepa C.A, T.A. Evans and M. Lenz. 2011. Antennal cropping during colony foundation in termites. ZooKeys 148: 185-196. doi:10.3897/zookeys.148.1854
Thipaksorn A., R. Machida, C. Nalepa and K. Maekawa. 2011. An SEM observation on the crest structure of oothecae of a wood-feeding cockroach, Cryptocercus punctulatus Scudder (Insecta: Blattodea, Cryptocercidae). Proc. Arthropod. Embryol. Soc. Jpn. 46: 19-20.
Maekawa K. and C.A. Nalepa. 2011. Biogeography and Phylogeny of Wood-feeding Cockroaches in the Genus Cryptocercus. Insects 2:354-368; doi:10.3390/insects2030354
Nalepa C.A. and W. Swink. 2011. Hemlock borers collected by the native wasp Cerceris fumipennis in the North Carolina mountains. North Carolina Pest News 26(11): 7-8; 24 June 2011
Nalepa C.A. 2011. Body size and termite evolution. Evol. Biol. 38 (3): 243-257. doi: 10.1007/s11692-011-9121-z
Nalepa C.A. and K.L. Grayson. 2011. Surface activity of the xylophagous cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) based on collections from pitfall traps. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 104(2): 364-368.
Nalepa, C.A. and D.E. Mullins. 2011. Repeated copulation in the wood-feeding cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus does not influence number or development of offspring. J. Ins. Behav. 24: 44-54.
Nalepa, C.A. 2011. Altricial development in wood-feeding cockroaches: The key antecedent of termite eusociality. In D.E. Bignell, Y. Roisin, N. Lo (eds.). Biology of Termites: a Modern Synthesis. Springer, New York, pp. 69-95.
Nalepa C.A. 2010. Cockroaches. In: Breed M.D. and Moore J., (eds.) Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Vol. 1: 281-286, Oxford: Academic Press.
Nalepa C.A. 2010. Elizabeth Anne McMahan: In memorium (1924-2009). Sociobiology 56 (1) 1-6.
Todaka, N., T. Inoue, K. Saita, M. Ohkuma, C.A. Nalepa, M. Lenz, T. Kudo and S. Moriya. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of cellulolytic enzyme genes from representative lineages of termites and a related cockroach. PloS One 5 (1): e8636
Nalepa C.A. 2010. Altricial development in subsocial cockroach ancestors: foundation for the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in termites. Evolution & Development 12: 95-105.
Nalepa C.A. and D.E.Mullins. 2009. Hatching asynchrony, survivorship and development in young colonies of the subsocial cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae). Sociobiology 54(2): 489-508 [abstract]
Ohkuma, M., S. Noda, Y. Hongoh, C. A. Nalepa, and T. Inoue. 2009. Inheritance and diversification of symbiotic trychonymphid flagellates from a common ancestor of termites and the cockroach Cryptocercus. Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 276:239-245.
Nalepa, C.A, K. Maekawa, K. Shimada, Y. Saito, C. Arellano and T. Matsumoto. 2008. Altricial development in subsocial wood-feeding cockroaches. Zoological Science 25: 1190-1198.
Courrent, A., A. Quennedey, C.A. Nalepa, A. Robert, M. Lenz, and C. Bordereau. 2008. The fine structure of colleterial glands in two cockroaches and three termites, including a detailed study of Cryptocercus punctulatus (Blattaria, Cryptocercidae) and Mastotermes darwiniensis (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae). Arthropod Structure & Development 37: 55-66.
Maekawa, K., T. Matsumoto and C.A. Nalepa. 2008. Social biology of the wood-feeding cockroach genus Salganea (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae: Panesthiinae): did ovoviviparity prevent the evolution of eusociality in the lineage? Insectes Sociaux 55 (2): 107-114, doi 10.1007/s00040-008-0997-2
Farine, J.P., K. Maekawa, K. Shimada, C. Everaerts, P. Luykx, R. Brossut and C.A. Nalepa. 2008. The Cryptocercus punctulatus species complex (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) in the Eastern United States: comparison of cuticular hydrocarbons, chromosome number, and DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 950-959.
Klass, K.-D., C.A. Nalepa and N. Lo. 2008. Wood-feeding cockroaches as models for termite evolution (Insecta: Dictyoptera): Cryptocercus vs. Parasphaeria boleiriana. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 809-817.
Nalepa, C.A. 2007. Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in buildings: relationship between body height and crevice size allowing entry. Journal of Economic Entomology 100 (5): 1633-1636.
Nalepa, C.A. 2007. Fly catcher effect in Harmonia axyridis (Pallas)? No attraction to lady beetles images on flight traps. Journal of Entomological Science 42(4): 496-500.
Bell, W. J., L. M. Roth and C. A. Nalepa. 2007. Cockroaches: Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 230 pp.
Lo, N., M.S. Engel, S. Cameron, C.A. Nalepa, G. Tokuda, D. Grimaldi, O. Kitade, K. Krishna, K.-D. Klass, K. Maekawa, T. Miura, and G.J. Thompson. 2007. Save Isoptera. A comment on Inward et al. Biology Letters 3 (5): 562-563.
Nalepa, C.A. and A. Weir. 2007. Infection of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) byHesperomyces virescens (Ascomycetes: Laboulbeniales): role of mating status and aggregation behavior.Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 94: 196-203.
Lo, N., P. Luykx, R. Santoni, T. Beninati, C. Bandi, M. Casiraghi, W.-H. Lu, E.V. Zakharov, and C.A. Nalepa. 2006. Molecular phylogeny of Cryptocercus wood-roaches based on mitochondrial COII and 16S sequences,and chromosome numbers in Palearctic representatives. Zoological Science 23: 393-398.
Noda, S. T. Inoue, Y. Hongoh, M. Kawai, C.A. Nalepa, C. Vongkaluang, T. Kudo and M. Ohkuma. 2006. Identification and characterization of ectosymbionts of distinct lineages in Bacteroidales attached to flagellated protists in the gut of termites and a wood-feeding cockroach. Environmental Microbiology 8 (1): 11-20.
Nalepa, C.A., G.G. Kennedy and C. Brownie. 2005. Role of visual contrast in the alighting behavior of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) at overwintering sites. Environmental Entomology 34(2): 424-431.
Nalepa, C.A. 2005. Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae): dispersal events associated with rainfall. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 141:95-97.
Nalepa, C.A., G.G. Kennedy and C. Brownie. 2004. Orientation of multicolored Asian lady beetles to buildings. American Entomolologist 50(3):174-175.
Lo, N., C. Bandi, H. Watanabe, C. Nalepa and T. Beninati. 2003. Evidence for cocladogenesis between diverse dictyopteran lineages and their intracellular endosymbionts.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 20: 907-13.
Nalepa, C.A.. 2003. Evolution in the genus Cryptocercus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae): no evidence of differential adaptation to hosts or elevation. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 80: 223-233.
Deitz, L.L.,C.A. Nalepa and K.-D. Klass. 2003. Phylogeny of the Dictyoptera re-examined. Entomologische Abhandlungen 61(1): 69-91.
Perry, J. and C.A. Nalepa. 2003. A new mode of parental care in cockroaches. Insectes Sociaux 50: 245-247.
Nalepa, C.A. and K.A. Kidd. 2002. Parasitism of the multicolored Asian lady beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) by Strongygaster triangulifer (Diptera: Tachinidae) in North Carolina. J. Entomol. Sci. 37(1):124-127.
Nalepa, C.A., P. Luykx, L.L. Deitz and K.-D. Klass. 2002. Distribution of karyotypes of the Cryptocercus punctulatus species complex (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) in the Southern Appalachians: relation to habitat and history. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 95(3): 276-287.
Jones, S.C. and C.A. Nalepa. 2002. Survey of the termites (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae, Rhinotermitidae, Termitidae) of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Sociobiology 39(1): 155-163.
Nalepa, C.A., L. Li, W. Lu and J. Lazell. 2001. Rediscovery of the wood-eating cockroach Cryptocercus primarius (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) in China, with notes on ecology and distribution. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 26: 184-190.
Nalepa, C.A., L.R. Miller and M. Lenz. 2001. Flight characteristics of Mastotermes darwiniensis. Insectes Sociaux 48: 144-148.
Nalepa, C.A., D. Bignell and C. Bandi. 2001. Detritivory, coprophagy, and the evolution of digestive mutualisms in Dictyoptera. Insectes Sociaux 48: 194-201.
Nalepa, C. A. 2001. Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) from monadnocks in the Piedmont of North Carolina. J. Entomol. Sci. 36: 329-334.
Meyer, J.R., C.A. Nalepa and C. Devorshak. 2001. A new species of Anicetus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) parasitizing terrapin scale [Mesolecanium nigrofasciatum (Pergande)]. Fla. Entomol. 84(4): 686-690.