Dr.
Tamara Spasojevic
Curator Hymenoptera
Function:
- Curator of Parasitica Collection
- Research
- Public outreach
Tamara Spasojevics ORCID record:
Past professional experience
2022–2024 Collection Manager and Research Associate Natural History Museum Basel, Switzerland (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Isoptera)
2022–2024 Collection Manager and Research Associate Natural History Museum Basel, Switzerland (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Isoptera)
2021–2023 Postdoctoral
Researcher Natural History Museum Basel and University of Bern, Switzerland Project title: Darwin wasps and the Cretaceous-Paleogene
mass extinction
2019–2021 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation
Smithsonian National
Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, United States
Project title: Deciphering host-related evolutionary patterns
in polysphinctine spider parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)
Education
2015–2018
PhD of Science in Ecology and Evolution University of Bern and Natural History Museum of Bern, Switzerland
Thesis
title: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of pimpliform parasitoid wasps: evidence from fossils, morphology and molecules
2013–2015
MSc in Ecology and Evolution University of Bern and Natural History Museum of Bern, Switzerland
Thesis title: DNA
barcoding of European spiders with emphasis on closely related species from the genus Araniella (Araneae: Araneidae)
2009–2013
Undergraduate studies in general biology University of Belgrade, Serbia.
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tamara-Spasojevic
Peer-Review-Publikationen
Viertler,
A., Urfer, K., Schulz, G., Klopfstein, S., & Spasojevic, T. (2023). Impact of increasing morphological information by
micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber. Swiss J. Palaeontol.,
142(1), 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00294-2
Almeida, E.A., Bossert, S., Danforth, B.N., Porto,
D.S., Freitas, F.V., Davis, C.C., Murray, E.A., Blaimer, B.B., Spasojevic, T., Ströher, P.R., Orr, M.C., Parker, L., Brady,
S.G., Kuhlmann, M., Branstetter, M.G., Pie, M.R. (2023). The evolutionary history of bees in time and space. Current Biology.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.005
Nel, A., Mennecart, B., Spasojevic, T., Viertler, A., Maridet,
O., Costeur, L., Garrouste, R., & Coster, P. (2023). The first fossil representative of the water strider subfamily Ptilomerinae
(Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Gerridae) in the Oligocene paleolake of Murs (southern France) with some palaeoecological considerations.
European journal of taxonomy, 888, pp.124–136. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2235
Viertler, A.,
Baur, H., Spasojevic, T., Mennecart, B., & Klopfstein, S. (2022). Classifying fossil Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
with geometric morphometrics of fore wings. PLOS One, 17(11), e0275570. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275570
Santos,
B. F., Sandoval, M., Spasojevic, T., Giannotta, M. M., & Brady, S. G. (2022). A Parasitoid Puzzle: Phylogenomics, Total-evidence
Dating, and the Role of Gondwanan Vicariance in the Diversification of Labeninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Insect Systematics
and Diversity, 6(5), 3. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixac015
Spasojevic, T., Broad, G. R., & Klopfstein,
S. (2022). Revision of 18 ichneumonid fossil species (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) highlights the need for open nomenclature
in palaeontology. Fossil Record, 25(1), 187–212. https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.83034
Viertler, A., Klopfstein,
S., Jouault, C., & Spasojevic, T. (2022). Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in Lower Eocene amber from the
Paris basin. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 89, 19–45. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.89.80163
Pádua
DG, Sääksjärvi IE, Spasojevic T, Kaunisto KM, Monteiro RF, Oliveira ML (2021) A review of the spider-attacking Polysphincta
dizardi species-group (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae), with descriptions of seven new species from South America.
ZooKeys 1041: 137–165. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1041.65407
Urfer K, Spasojevic T, Klopfstein
S, Baur H, Lasut L, Kropf C (2021) Incongruent molecular and morphological variation in the crab spider Synema globosum (Araneae,
Thomisidae) in Europe. ZooKeys 1078: 107-134. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1078.64116 https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1078.64116
Spasojevic, T., Broad, G. R., Sääksjärvi, I. E., Schwarz, M., Ito, M., Korenko, S., & Klopfstein, S.
(2021). Mind the Outgroup and Bare Branches in Total-Evidence Dating: a Case Study of Pimpliform Darwin Wasps (Hymenoptera,
Ichneumonidae). Systematic Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa079
Klopfstein, S., Santos, B.
F., Shaw, M. R., Alvarado, M., Bennett, A. M., Dal Pos, D., Giannotta, M., Herrera, A.F., Karlsson, D., Khalaim, A. I., Lima,
A. R., Mikó, I., Sääksjärvi, I. E., Shimizu, S., Spasojevic, T., et al. (2019). Darwin wasps: a new name heralds renewed efforts
to unravel the evolutionary history of Ichneumonidae. Entomological Communications, 1(ec010). https://doi.org/10.37486/2675-1305.ec01006
Klopstein, S. & Spasojevic T. (2019) Illustrating phylogenetic placement of fossils using RoguePlots:
An example from ichneumonid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) and an extensive morphological matrix. PLOS One,
14(4), e0212942. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212942
Spasojevic, T., Wedmann, S., & Klopfstein,
S. (2018). Seven remarkable new fossil species of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit.
PLOS One, 13(6), e0197477. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197477
Spasojevic, T., Broad, G. R.,
Bennett, A. M., & Klopfstein, S. (2018). Ichneumonid parasitoid wasps from the Early Eocene Green River Formation: five
new species and a revision of the known fauna (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 92(1), 35–63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0365-5
Klopfstein, S., Langille B., Spasojevic, T., Broad, G.R., Cooper, S., Austin, A., & Niehuis, O. (2018)
Hybrid capture data unravels a rapid radiation of pimpliform parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimpliformes).
Systematic Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12333
Korenko, S., Spasojevic, T., Pekár, S., Walter,
G. H., Korenková, V., Hamouzová, K., Kolá?ová, M., Kysilková, K. & Klopfstein, S. (2018). One generalist or several specialist
species? Wide host range and diverse manipulations of the hosts’ web-building behaviour in the true spider parasitoid Zatypota
kauros (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Insect Conservation and Diversity. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12307
Kopylov,
D. S., Spasojevic, T., & Klopfstein, S. (2018). New ichneumonids (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Eocene Tadushi
Formation, Russian Far East. Zootaxa, 4442(2), 319–330. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4442.2.8
1.
Spasojevic, T., Kropf, C., Nentwig, W. & Lasut, L. (2016) Combining morphology, molecules, and morphometrics: revising
closely related species in the orb-weaving spider genus Araniella (Araneae, Araneidae), Zootaxa. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4111.4.6
Nicht Peer-Review-Publikationen
Germann, C., Borer, M., Burckhardt, D., Charran, M., Coray, A.,
Frick, H., Klopfstein, S., Marques, D.A., Rendón-Mera, D., Spasojevic T., et al. (2022) Sammel-Exkursion auf die Alp Flix
– ein Teambildungsprozess mit Folgen. Jahresbericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubünden 122: 123–134.
Klopfstein,
S., Ryer, R., Coiro, M., & Spasojevic, T. (2019). Mismatch of the morphology model is mostly unproblematic in total-evidence
dating: insights from an extensive simulation study. BioRxiv, 679084.
Lima, R.A., Herrera, F.A., Pos,
D.D., Giannotta, M. & Spasojevic, T. (2019) The rise of Darwin wasps. Hamuli, 10 (2): 1–5.
Spasojevic,
T. (2010) Contribution to the data on spider fauna of Ov?ar-Kablar Gorge. Beležnik Ov?arsko-kablarske klisure 4 (1): 18–21.
Spasojevic, T. (2008) Growth parameters and age structure in the European bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus,
Cyprinidae) population in Pocibrava. Petnica Pappers 64, Petnica Science Center, Valjevo, Serbia.
Darwin wasps (Ichneumonidae), biodiversity discovery, integrative taxonomy and systematics, morphological and molecular phylogenetics,
phylogenetic dating, fossils, host-parasitoid interactions, macroevolution
2023
Zambia (2 weeks)
2022 Sweden (1 week)
2021-2023 Switzerland
2014 Greece (2 weeks)
2009–2013 Serbia
2022 Sweden (1 week)
2021-2023 Switzerland
2014 Greece (2 weeks)
2009–2013 Serbia
2023–present
subject editor for Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2022–present organizer
of Darwin wasp online seminars
2020–present reviewer for: Systematic Biology,
Systematic Entomology, Linnean Journal of Zoological Society, ZooKeys, Journal of Hymenoptera Research and Neotropical
Entomology
2018–present Member of the Society of Systematic Biologists
2018–present Member of International Society of Hymenopterists
2015–present
Member of Swiss Systematic Society
2. zoology
Aspöck Ulrike
associate scientist
Bauernfeind Ernst
associate
scientist
Brojer Michaela
Assistance work in the 2nd Zoology
Bruckner Harald
scientific assistant
Buchner Peter
associate scientist
Camargo Alexssandro
curator diptera
Dollfuss Hermann
associate
scientist
Führer Daniela
Secretary in the 2nd Zoology
Gaal-Haszler Sabine
staff scientist, curator Lepidoptera
Geiser Elisabeth
associate
scientist
Guttenberger Sarah
Project researcher Biodiversitätsfonds (Blatthornkäfer Österreichs)
Hadzibegovic Hana
project researcher Biodiversitätsfonds (Blatthornkäfer Österr
Hecher Christine
associate scientist
Jäch Manfred
associate scientist
Kahrer Andreas
associate scientist
Kerschbaumer-Stöckler Judit
collection assistance department of Entomology
Kirchweger Stefan
associate
scientist
Komarek Albrecht
associate scientist Coleoptera
Laciny Alice
staff scientist
Lödl Martin
associate scientist
Madl Michael
associate scientist Hymenoptera
Plonski Isidor
associate scientist
Rainer
Markus
Project researcher Biodiversitätsfonds (Scarab beetles Austria)
Randolf Susanne
staff scientist, curator NOaS and Insecta Varia
Sá
Menezes Isis
associate scientist
Saadain Sarah
associate
scientist
Schillhammer Harald
staff scientist, curator Coleoptera
Schlüsslmayr Gerhard
associate scientist
Schmid Herbert
associate
scientist
Schoder Sabine
associate scientist
Schuh Rudolf
employee
Seiberl Emily
Project researcher Biodiversitätsfonds (Blatthornkäfer Österreichs)
Seidel Matthias
staff scientist, curator Coleoptera
Shaverdo Helena V.
Collection Manager Coleoptera
Vizek Manuela
collection assistance
Hymenoptera
Wanzenböck Sylvia
Project researcher
Wewalka Günther
associate scientist
Wöss Günther
scientific assistant
Zettel Herbert
head of department, curator Hemiptera
Zimmermann Dominique
staff scientist, curator Hymenoptera