Publications

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Journal Articles

“Best food” does not apply to all: quality of nematode diet for development and fitness of their predator textitParasitus sp. (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae)

Authors: Diana Rueda-Ramirez, Alyssa Grogorenz-de, Eric Palevsky, Liliane Ruess.

Published in Pedobiologia, 2025

Bottom-up effects of nematode prey on soil predatory mites (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Authors: Diana Rueda-Ramírez, Anna Narberhaus, Eric Palevsky, Johannes Hallmann, Liliane Ruess.

Published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2023

Soil nematodes as a means of conservation of soil predatory mites for biocontrol

Authors: Diana Rueda-Ramírez, Eric Palevsky, Liliane Ruess.

Published in Agronomy, 2023

Mysteries of Small Worms and How Their Arch Enemies Save Our Food

Authors: Diana Rueda-Ramírez, HU Class.

Published in Frontiers for Young Minds, 2023

An anatomical ontology for the class Collembola (Arthropoda: Hexapoda)

Authors: Luis González, Diana Rueda-Ramírez, Francisco Serna, Andreas Gaigl.

Published in Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2023

In memory of Gary Bauchan: Integrated taxonomy of soil mites in farming systems

Authors: Diana Rueda-Ramírez, Lynn Carta, Joseph Mowery, Gary Bauchan, Ronald Ochoa, Monica Young, Jandir Santos, Eric Palevsky.

Published in Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2022

A new predacious species of textitCosmolaelaps (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from rose greenhouses in the Netherlands with extensive morphological analyses and ontogeny

Authors: Janeth Sierra-Monroy, Karen Muñoz-Cárdenas, Omid Joharchi, Diana Rueda-Ramírez.

Published in Taxonomy, 2022

A Review of prospective biocontrol agents and sustainable soil practices for bulb mite (Acari: Acaridae) management

Authors: Eric Palevsky, Jana Konopická, Diana Rueda-Ramírez, Rostislav Zemek.

Published in Agronomy, 2022

Predation and oviposition rates of textitGaeolaelaps aculeifer and textitParasitus bituberosus (Acari: Laelapidae and Parasitidae) on pre-pupae/pupae of textitThrips tabaci (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

Authors: Mayerly Castro-López, Augusto Ramírez-Godoy, Wilson Martínez, Diana Rueda-Ramírez.

Published in Acarologia, 2021

Predation capacity of phytoseiid mites (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Brazil on eggs of Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae)

Authors: Sofía Jorge, D. Rueda-Ramírez, G. Moraes.

Published in Phytoparasitica, 2021

New species of textitGamasellodes Athias-Henriot and textitZerconopsis Hull (Mesostigmata: Ascidae) from Colombia, with a complement to a recently published key to the world species of textitGamasellodes, and with a key to the world species of textitZerconopsis

Authors: Nora Mesa, Reham Abo-shnaf, Diana Rueda-Ramirez, Luiz De, Gilberto Moraes.

Published in Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2021

Edaphic mesostigmatid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) and thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) in rose cultivation and secondary vegetation areas in the Bogotá plateau, Colombia

Authors: Diana Rueda-Ramírez, Amanda Varela, Everth Ebratt, Gilberto Moraes.

Published in International Journal of Acarology, 2021

Combined releases of soil predatory mites and provisioning of free-living nematodes for the biological control of root-knot nematodes on ‘Micro Tom tomato’

Authors: L.H. Azevedo, M.F.P. Moreira, G.G. Pereira, V. Borges, G.J. Moraes, M.M. Inomoto, M.H. Vicente, M. Siqueira, L.E.P. Peres, D. Rueda-Ramírez, L. Carta, S.L.F. Meyer, J. Mowery, G. Bauchan, R. Ochoa, E. Palevsky.

Published in Biological Control, 2020

textitGaeolaelaps aculeifer (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae), a new alternative for pest management in Colombia

Authors: Diana Rueda-Ramirez, Diana Rios-Malaver, Laura Forero-Tarazona, Augusto Ramírez-Godoy, Amanda Varela, G. Moraes.

Published in Integrated Control of Plant-Feeding Mites. IOBC-WPRS Bulletin, 2020

The scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) collection of the entomological museum “Universidad Nacional Agronomía Bogotá”, and its impact on Colombian coccidology

Authors: Alejandro Caballero, Andrea Ramos-Portilla, Diana Rueda-Ramírez, Erika Vergara-Navarro, Francisco Serna.

Published in Bonn zoological Bulletin, 2020

Free living nematodes as alternative prey for soil predatory mites: An interdisciplinary case study of conservation biological control

Authors: L.H. Azevedo, L.G. Leite, J.G. Chacon-Orozco, M.F.P. Moreira, M.P. Ferreira, L.M. González-Cano, V. Borges, D. Rueda-Ramírez, G.J Moraes, E. Palevsky.

Published in Biological Control, 2019

Biology and predation capacity of textitParasitus bituberosus (Acari: Mesostigmata: Parasitidae) on textitFrankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and free-living nematodes as complementary diet

Authors: Diana Rueda-Ramírez, Diana Rios-Malaver, Amanda Varela-Ramírez, Gilberto Moraes.

Published in Pest Management Science, 2019

Colombian population of the mite textitGaeolaelaps aculeifer as a predator of the thrips textitFrankliniella occidentalis and the possible use of an astigmatid mite as its factitious prey

Authors: Diana Rueda-Ramírez, Diana Rios-Malaver, Amanda Varela-Ramírez, Gilberto Moraes.

Published in Systematic & Applied Acarology, 2018

Spatial distribution, composition and density of the leaflitter edaphofauna in forest and coffee plantation (Montenegro, Colombia)

Authors: D. Rueda-Ramírez, A. Varela.

Published in Acta Biologica Colombiana, 2016

Soil mites of the families Ascidae, Blattisociidae and Melicharidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from mountainous areas of Colombia

Authors: D. Rueda-Ramírez, A. Varela, G.J. Moraes.

Published in Zootaxa, 2016

Mites of the superfamily Rhodacaroidea (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Colombia, with a key for the world species of Desectophis Karg (Ologamasidae)

Authors: D. Rueda-Ramírez, R.C. Castilho, Gilberto Moraes.

Published in Zootaxa, 2013