WOJCIECH JERZY PULAWSKI

Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences
875 Howard Street, San Francisco, California 94103 Phone: 415-321-8313 FAX: 415-321-8640
e-mail wpulawski@calacademy.org

PERSONAL DATA

Birth Date: 22 November 1931
Birth Place: Bielsk Podlaski, Poland
Family status: married, no children
Nationality: born Polish, permanently in USA since 13 Feb 1981, permanent residency status received
       28 July 1983, naturalized American 11 June 1991.

EDUCATION AND DEGREES RECEIVED

Highschool, Zawiercie, Poland, 1946-1950
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Wroclaw University, Poland
       1950-1955 (student); Magister of Biology (June 1955)
       1955-1960 (graduate student); Ph. D. (October 1960)
       Habilitate Doctor (November 1971), a higher scientific degree, equivalent to British D. Sc.)
        Extraordinary (= Associate) Professor, (May 1980), both a scientific degree (based on research),
                and a position.

LINGUISTIC EXPERIENCE

Polish, English, Russian, French, Italian (reading and speaking only), German (reading and speaking only), some rudimentary Arabic.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Wroclaw University, Poland:

Teaching Assistant (October-December 1955).
Adjunct (January 1956 - April 1973).
Assistant Professor (April 1973 - May 1980).
Associate Professor (May 1980 - February 1987).

California Academy of Sciences

Visiting Curator (February 1981 through June 1983).
Assistant Curator (July 1983 through June 1984).
Associate Curator (1 July 1984 through 30 June 1992.
Curator (1 July 1992 to date)
Chairman of the Entomology Department (1 March 1983 - 31 Dec 1987, 1 July - 31 Dec 1993).
Acting Chairman, November 1 through April 30, 1993, Chairman 1 Jul 1993 - 31 Dec 1993).
          Chairman, September 1, 1998 to present

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

Personal collection of Sphecidae (1951-1981), including about 2,000 species and 59 holotypes, resulting from collecting (Poland, Bulgaria, Egypt, Ural Mts., Soviet Middle Asia, Florida, western United States) and trading with museums and individuals worldwide, now donated to the California Academy of Sciences.

Personal library of publications on sphecid wasps, built up in parallel with the collection, includes most publications on Sphecidae since Linnaeus to date.

Natural History Museum, Wroclaw University, Head of the Entomology Section (1965-1981). Duties: mounting specimens, seasonal desinsection, reorganization and integration of various individual collections (mainly Lepidoptera), supervising technicians, loans, participation in budgeting. One of the most important insect collection in Europe, the Gravenhorst collection of Ichneumonidae from the period 1807-1827 was under my supervision (loans of Gravenhorst types and visits of specialists significantly contributed to progress in ichneumonology during 1965-1981).

Academy of Sciences of USSR, Zoological Institute in Leningrad (1967). Upon request of the Entomology Department, I curated the Sphecidae collection before the 1968 International Congress of Entommology held in Moscow, USSR.

California Academy of Sciences (February 1981 to present). Visiting Curator (1981-1983), Assistant Curator (1983-1984), Associate Curator (July 1984-June 1992), Curator (1 July 1992 to date), Chairman of the Entomology Department (1 March 1983 - 31 Dec 1987), Acting Chairman (1 Oct 1992 -1 May 1993). Curatorial duties: supervise and/or participate in the following activities: 1. loans (including maintenance of records and correspondence), 2. collecting new specimens for collection, initiating and supervising exchanges, 3. organization and reorganization of the collection, 4. collection maintenance, 5. participation in budgeting for and purchase of materials and supplies for the department and collection, 6. helping visitors, 7. answer inquiries from the public and scientific communities, 8. writing facility grants.

Canada National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Ontario (14-20 September 1987). Curation of Tachysphex wasps supported by a CanaCol grant.

Bishop Museum (15-18 Nov 1988); sorting to genus 12 drawers of undetermined Larrinae from Oceania, New Guinea, and southeastern Asia; (26-31 August 1996): sorting specimens to genus.

FIELD EXPERIENCE

Australia: Brisbane (3-5 February 1987), Sydney (2-4 April 1987)
Austria: Linz area (few days in July 1965)
Bulgaria: July and August, 1965 (6 weeks), 1966 (3 weeks), 1972 (3 weeks)
Egypt: 27 September 1957 - 15 May 1958, 18 April - 2 June 1993
Ghana: 25 Jan - 12 February 1991
Hawaii: 29 Aug. 1996 (natural forest on Oahu)
India: 10 May - 18 June 1989
Ivory Coast: 5-25 January 1991
Jordan: 13 Apr 1993
Hawaii (Oahu): 19-21 November 1988
Hungary: July 1962 (3 weeks)
Italy: part of 2 month trip (July and August), 1971
Madagascar: 1 Mar - 3 May 1994
Mali: 28 July - 25 August 1991
Mauritania: 13 Oct - 8 Nov 1993
Mexico: Baja California (15-30 March 1984, 6-10 March 1988), continental Mexico
         (20 Aug - 20 Sep 1984)
Namibia: 4 February - 18 March 1990; 13 February - 8 March 1996; 2-15 Dec 1996
Pakistan: 18 June - 22 July 1989
Papua New Guinea: lowlands and mountains of the Madang Province, Port Moresby area
          (5 February - 2 April 1987, 30 April - 23 June 1988)
Poland: extensive collecting in various areas (1951-1981)
Peru: tropical rainforest and coastal desert (24 April - 18 May 1984)
Senegal: 6-27 July 1991
Singapore: 29 April 1988
South Africa: 22 March 1990 (Cape Town); 25-28 March 1990 (Kalahari Gemsbok National Park)
         21 Feb 1995 (Pretoria); 5 Jan - 3 Feb 1996; 21 Dec 1996 - 8 Jan 1997
Thailand: 20-28 April 1988, 5 April - 10 May 1989
Togo: 12-24 February 1991
USA: 1975: Florida (2 weeks in April); western USA (6 weeks in July and August)

1981: California (Borrego Valley, Mt. Shasta area, Sierra Nevada);
1982: western USA to southeastern Texas (6 weeks);
1983: southern California (Borrego Springs, Blythe area; 10 days in March); California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana (22 May to 1 July);
1985: southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas (16 April to 30 May); southern Arizona (10-19 September);
1986: southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma (10 April to 21 May)

USSR:

Turkmenistan (3 weeks in June 1964), Perm area (July 1967),
Leningrad area (1 month in 1968), Alma Ata area (2 weeks in 1976, 2 weeks in 1977),
Dushanbe area in Tajikistan (1 week in 1976, (3 weeks in 1979),
Teberda in northern Caucasus (1 month in 1978).

Zambia: 26 Feb - 10 Apr 1995

Zimbabwe: 17 Jan - 16 Feb, 23-26 Feb 1995; 17 Dec 1995 - 3 Jan 1996; 29 Nov - 2 Dec 1996.

RESEARCH IN FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS
(homeland: Poland before 1981, USA after 1980)

Australia: Australian Museum, Sydney (24 June 1988)

Austria: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna (1958: 3 days; 1965: 1 week; 1968: few days; 1971: 3 days)

Belgium:

Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles: 9 Nov 1993
Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux: 10 Nov 1993
Musée Royal d'Afrique Central, Tervuren: 9 Nov 1993

Canada: Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (14-20 September 1987)

Egypt: Société Entomologique d'Egypte (1957-1958: many visits)

France: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (1968:3 days; 1975: 1 week; 25-28 February 1991, 26 August 1991; 12 Nov 1993; 4-6 May 1994; 14 Apr 1995)Pret

Germany:

Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalde (1970: 2 weeks; 1973: 1 week);
Senckenbergische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates, Frankfurt: 3 February 1990;
Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staaten, Münich (24-26 July 1989);
Zoologische Staatssamlung Dresden, (1973: 1 week)
Zoologisches Museum Berlin (1967: 1 day; 1970: 2 days; 1973: 2 days);

Great Britain:

British Museum (Natural History), London (1974: 6 weeks, 1975: 3 days; 11-13 February 1981;
27-29 July 1989; 11-12 April 1990); 2-4 June 1993; 12 Apr and 14-15 Dec 1995; 26 Nov 1996.
Oxford University Museum (March 1974: 2 days)

Holland:

Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden (1967: 1 week)
Zoologisch Museum Amsterdam (1967: 1 day)

Hungary: Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum, Budapest (July 1962: 10 days)

Italy (1971):

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova (2 days);
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano (2 days);
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Venezia (2 days); Università Cattolica di Piacenza,
       Istituto di Entomologia (ca 1 month);
Università di Napoli, Istituto e Museo di Zoologia (1 day);
Università degli Studi di Napoli, Istituto di Entomologia Agraria, Portici (ca 10 days);
Università di Torino, Museo di Zoologia (1 day)

Namibia:

State Museum Windhoek (15 March 1990),
The National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek (12 February 1996)

Poland: many institutions but particularly:

Institute of Systematic and Experimental Zoology, Cracow (1951-1981)
Institute of Zoology, Warsaw (many visits during 1951-1981)

South Africa:

South African Museum, Cape Town (19-21 March 1990); 5-9 February and 18 December 1996
Transvaal Museum Pretoria (30 March - 9 April 1990; 17-22 Feb 1995; 4 Jan 1996

Switzerland:

Entomologisches Institut der ETH, Zurich (1968: 2 days);
Musée Zoologique, Lausanne (1958: 3 days; 1968: 4 weeks);
Muséum d'Historie Naturelle, Genève (1968: 1 day)

USA:

Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 25-31 Sept. 1996.
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (July 1975: 1 day);
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. (1974-1975: one year fellowship;
        1984: 20-27 May; 1987: 1-13 September 1987, short term Smithsonian fellowship);
        9-11 Dec 1992 (visit).
State University of New York, Department of Environmental Sciences and Forestry,
        Syracuse, New York 1975: 2 days);
University of California, Davis, Department of Entomology (1975: 2 weeks)

USSR:

Paleontological Institute, Moscow (1979-1980: 1 and 2 days, respectively);
Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg (1961: 6 weeks; 1963-1964: 9.5 months;
       1967-1968: 3 months; 1968-1971, 1973-1974, 1976-1980: 1 to 2 months yearly);
Zoological Museum, Moscow University, Moscow (1961: 3 days; 1969-1980: 1 or 2 days
       most years)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Course on the Biology of Hymenoptera, Wroclaw University (1962-1980)

Major Professor and adviser to a graduate student, Jan Klimaszewski (1975-1977)

Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Commitee for Michael A. Prentice, Department of Entomology, University of California Berkeley, appointed 27 Jan 1993.

Member of Degree of Master Dissertation Committee for Raina L. Takumi, Department of Entomology, University of California Berkeley, appointed 13 Apr 1994.

MEMBERSHIPS AND FUNCTIONS IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

Polish Entomological Society, 1949 to present. Editor of Polskie
Pismo Entomologiczne (Non-Applied section), 1963-1975; Chief Editor, 1978-1981
Polish Zoological Society, 1950 to present
Entomological Society of Washington, 1975 to present
Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 1981 to present. Treasurer: December 1981
      through December 1989. Membership Committee member, 1991-1995. President: 1996
International Society of Hymenopterologists, 1986 to present
Subject Editor (Aculeate Hymenoptera) for the Journal of Hymenoptera Research since August 1995.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Seminar and Lectures

Poland: One or two lectures yearly during 1952-1980, mainly for staff of Zoolo gical Institute, Wroclaw University, and members of Polish Entomological Society, but also for other societies and groups. Examples: Evolution of behavior in Hymenoptera, in Italian (for an amateur naturalist society, Piacenza, Italy (1971); Evolution of Tachysphex wasps, at a meeting of Polish Entomological Society, Wroclaw (1972); My stay in USA (a selection of facts on American science, technology, life-style, geography, cultural differences, my own research, etc.), in Zoological Institute, Wroclaw University (1976);
Evolution of behavior in Hymenoptera, at the Christensen Research Institute, Madang, and at the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, April 1987;
A fosssil Pison from Baltic amber, at the Christensen Research Institute, Madang (June 1988).
Collecting wasps in Africa, a Brown Bag Lunch talk to CAS staff, 12 November 1991; an upgraded version presented at the monthly meeting of the Pacific Coast Entomological Society on 17 January 1992.
Collecting Wasps in Asia and Africa, an improved version of previous talk, for the the Pacific Coast Entomological Society monthly meeting of 17 January 1992.
A revision of world Gastrosericus, a seminar for CAS curators on 29 October 1992.
Same talk, for the Pacific Coast Entomological Society monthly meeting of 22 November 1992.
Continental Drift, a lecture to the Academy-sponsored Travel Dynamics tour on the Read Sea (aboard of "Aurora"), April 1993
Amber, a lecture to the Academy-sponsored Special Expeditions tour on the Baltic Sea (aboard "Polaris"), 9 June 1994
My involvment with Solidarity, a lecture to the Academy-sponsored Special Expeditions tour on the Baltic Sea (aboard "Polaris"), 9 June 1994
Biological evolution of Hymenoptera. Presidential address to Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 15 November 1996.

Majors Scientific Meetings Attended

XIII. International Congress of Entomology, Moscow, USSR, 1968
XVIII. International Congress of Entomology, Vancouver, Canada, 3-9 July 1988.
Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Reno, Nevada, 8-11 Dec 1991
Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland, 6-9 1992
        (talk: A revision of the World Gastrosericuspresented at the Meeting of the International
        Hymenoptera Society).
Third Quadriannual Conference of the International Society of Hymenopterists, Davis, California,
        13-16 August 1995; organized and chaired a meeting of sphecid workers.
XV Willi Hennig Society Meeting in Cape Town (15-20 December 1996) and presented a lecture
        "The sphecid wasp genus Gastrosericus: a worldwide revision and its ramifications."

Consultations:

Consultations on Hymenoptea given to persons who came to Wroclaw for , mainly from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany. Most outstanding visitors: 1. Dr. G. Gordh, University of California Riverside, in 1978, to discuss a project on microsculpture in Hymenoptera, and 2. Dr. A. P. Rasnitsyn, Moscow Paleontological Institute, in 1979, to discuss a project on Mesosoic aculeates.
Innumerable consultations to visiting amateurs and visiting during my employment at the Calfiornia Academy of Sciences.

Professorial Review Experience (evaluations of proposed professorial promotions requested by):

University of California Davis, in 1976
University of California Riverside, in 1978,
Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität Berlin in 1979
Institute of Systematic and Experimental Zoology, Cracow, Poland, in 1980
University of California Riverside, September 1984.
Colorado State University, November 1984.
University of California, Berkeley, July 1988.
Foundation for Research Development, Pretoria, South Africa, February 1989.
University of California, Berkeley, August 1994 (proposed Berkeley Citation for a retiring
        entomology Professor, Howell B. Daly.
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, for Byron A. Alexander

Reviews for National Science Foundations:

nineteen grant proposals reviewed since 1987.

Public Service Experience:

Guided tours in Wroclaw Natural History Museum exhibits halls in the 1950s and early
        1960s, both for University students and general public
Leading a CAS tour to Red Sea and Egypt: 9-18 April 1993 (with lecture on continental drift)
Leading a CAS tour to Baltic Sea: 7-18 June 1994 (with lectures on amber and on my
        involvment with Solidarity)
Chairman of the Curators' Forum, California Academy of Sciences, 1 July 1982 to 30 June 1983.
Science in Action, California Academy of Sciences: five presentations

Special Invitations

Participations in commemorative issues of scientific periodicals to outstanding entomologists: J. de Beaumont (Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges., 1981); R. M. Bohart (Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 1983).

Manuscript Referee:

Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne (most papers published during 1954-1981)
Various international periodicals, e.g., Entomologia Scandinavica in 1982and 1990), Monitore Zoologico Italiano in 1989, Journal of Hymenoptera Research since 1993 to date (section editor for Aculeata since 1995).
Various U.S. periodicals (e.g., Great Basin Naturalist, 1983; Entomological News, 1985; Los Angeles County Museum Publications, 1985; Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 1986; University of California Publications in Entomology, 1994).
Miscellaneous manuscripts (some over 800 pages) for American, Austrian, German, Lithuanian, Russian, and Spanish colleagues, 1984-1996, upon their requests.
Publication Committee member, California Academy of Sciences, since 8 March 1985 through 31 December 1996.

Exhibit Experience

Various exhibitions in Natural History Museum, Wroclaw University: Mammals and Birds halls, two entomological exhibits, Osteology (parti cipation in all phases of organization, from discussing general themes to fixing objects on their stands).
Cooperating with CAS Exhibit Department on upgrading the Insect Hall in 1991 and 1992.

GRANTS

Polish Ministry of Higher Education:

6 week field work in Bulgaria, 1965
6 month field work in Egypt, 1957/58
6 weeks in Zoological Institute, Leningrad, Russia, 1961
9 months in Zoological Institute, Leningrad, Russia, 1963/64
3 months in Zoological Institute, Leningrad, Russia, 1966/67

Swiss government:

one month in Musée Zoologique, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1968

Polish Academy of Sciences:

grants in aid of research, 1975-1980, 5-10,000 zlotys per year

Smithsonian Institution:

1 year Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1974/75, $10,000, in competitive award program
Short Term Visit (3-13 September 1987).

California Academy of Sciences:

In-House Research Fund:
twenty grants for current projects from December 1982 to present
Lindsay Travel Fund:
fieldwork in Texas, 1986, $2,500
fieldwork in Thailand and Papua New Guinea, 1988, $2,000
fieldwork in Egypt, 1993, $2,000

National Science Foundation:

Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope and additional light miscrosopic accessories for the California Academy of Sciences, 15 May 1983, $81, 219 (Dr. D.H. Kavanaugh and W.J. Pulawski Co-Principal Investigators).
Support for the Care and Use of the Systematic Collection of the Department of Entomology, a 5 - year grant for the Department of Entomology, CAS starting 15 October1985, $464,000 (W.J. Pulawski Principal Investigator).
Revision of the World species of Gastrosericus wasps, a 4 year grant received 14 April 1988, $40,100.
A Monograph of Tachysphex Wasps of Africa of Africa and Adjacent Xeric Areas", a 3 year grant received 13 Oct 1993 and starting 1 December 1993, $110,000.
CanaCol: a grant of $300 (Canadian) to curate wasps of the genus Tachysphex in Canada National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Ontario (14-20 September 1987).

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND LONG-RANGE GOALS

General Interest:

General aspects of evolution and biogeography
Principles and methods of classification
Morphological and behavioral evolution of Hymenoptera

Research Goals:

Basic monographic revisions on global or continental scale of various genera of Sphecid wasps, particularly in subfamily Larrinae, phylogenetic and zoogeographic implications, refine- ment of family classification

AWARDS AND HONORS

Awards:

Polish Minister of Higher Education, October 1972, award for a revision of Palearctic Tachysphex
Smithsonian Institution, April 1975, certificate of Academic Achievment
Polish Minister of Higher Education, October 1978, award for a revision of Australian Tachysphex Wroclaw University, October 1979, award for research in 1978 Wroclaw University, October 1980, award for research in 1979 Award of Distinction (first place) bestowed by the American Association of Museum for the revision of North American Tachysphexwasps, in 1988.

Honorary Titles:

Korrespondent des Naturhistorischen Museum in Wien (30 April 1976, centennial of the Museum).
Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences (9 July 1984).
As a measure of the worldwide stature, the taxa dedicated to W.J. Pulawski are listed here (Sphecidae if not specified otherwise, species listed chronologically): Pulawskia Pagliano and Scaramozzino, 1990 (Tenthredinidae), Trypoxylon pulawskii Tsuneki, 1956 (Japan), Cryptocheilus pulawskii Priesner, 1960 (Egypt), Dinetus pulawskii de Beaumont, 1960 (Egypt), Euchroeus pulawskii Linsenmaier, 1968 (Turkmenistan), Holopyga pulawskii Linsenmaier, 1968 (Turkmenistan), Aphodiopsis pulawskii Balthasar, 1970 (Ivory Coast), Labochilus pulawskyi Giordani Soika, 1970 (Turkmenistan), Ammophila pulawskiiTsuneki, 1971 (Mongolia), Cerceris pulawskii Tsuneki, 1971 (Mongolia), Cerceris pulawskii Kazenas, 1972 (Kazakh SSR), Nomada pulawskii Tsuneki, 1973 (Japan), Diploplectron pulawskii Kazenas, 1975 (Kazakh SSR), Oxybelus pulawskii Tsuneki, 1972 (Mongolia), Psen pulawskii Kazenas, 1978 (Kazakh SSR), Deinopsis pulawskii Klimaszewski, 1979 (North America), Tiphia pulawskii Krombein, 1982 (Sri Lanka), Aphrostoma pulawskii Slipinski, 1982 (Colydidae, Ivory Coast), Spilomena pulawskii Dolfuss, 1983 (Polish Tatra), Thylactus pulawskii Hua, 1986, (Cerambycidae, China), Pison woji Menke, 1988 (New Guinea), Solierella pulawskii R. Bohart, 1990 (Texas), Megadryinus pulawskii Olmi, 1993 (Dryinidae, Peru).

PUBLICATIONS BY WOJCIECH J. PULAWSKI

  1. Pulawski, W.J. 1954 (1952), Harpactes exiguusHandl. (Sphecidae, Hymenoptera) - gatunek nowy dla Polski i gatunki pokrewne. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 22:101-121.
  2. Pulawski, W.J. 1955 (1953). Astata diversipes , n. sp. (Hym., Sphecid.) une nouvelle espèce de l'Asie du Sud-Ouest. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 23:93-96.
  3. Pulawski, W.J. 1955 (1953). Sur la structure de l'abdomen chez les mâles du genre Crabro F., sous-genre Blepharipus Lep. et. Brul. (Hym., Sphecid.). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 23:103-106.
  4. Pulawski, W.J. 1956 (1955). Les espèces européennes du genre Astata (Hym., Sphecid.). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 25:3-71.
  5. Pulawski, W.J. 1957 (1956). Contribution à la connaissance des espèces paléarctiques du genre Astata(Hym., Sphecid.). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 26:81-88.
  6. Pulawski, W.J. 1958 (1957). Sphecidae (Hymenoptera) récoltés pendant un voyage en Bulgarie. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 27:161-192.
  7. Pulawski, W.J. 1958 (1957). Deux espèces nouvelles du genre Astata (Hym., Sphecidae) de la Hongrie. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 27:194-199.
  8. Pulawski, W.J. 1958. Une espèce paléarctique du genre Diploplectron (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Egypte 42:473-476.
  9. Noskiewicz, J., W. Pulawski, 1958. Klucze do oznaczania owadów Polski. Czesc XXIV. Blonkowki - Hymenoptera. Zeszyt 55-56. Zlotolitki - Chrysididae, Cleptidae. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa. 64 pp.
  10. Pulawski, W.J. 1959. Espèces nouvelles ou peu connues du genre Astata Latr. (Hym., Sphecid.). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 29:359-416.
  11. Noskiewicz, J., W. Pulawski. 1960. Klucze do oznaczania owadów Polski. Czesc XXIV. Blonkówki - Hymenoptera. Zeszyt 67. Grzebaczowate - Sphecidae. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa. 184 pp.
  12. Pulawski, W.J. 1961. Remarques sur les Parapiagetia Kohl d'Egypte (Hym., Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 31:85-92.
  13. Pulawski, W.J. 1961. Sur deux Sphecidae (Hym.) du Liban. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 31:93-96.
  14. Pulawski, W.J. 1962. Miscophus lusitanicusthracius n. ssp. (Hym., Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 27:207-208.
  15. Pulawski, W.J. 1962. Les Tachytes Panz. de la region paléarctique occidentale et centrale (Hym., Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 32:311-475.
  16. Pulawski, W.J. 1963. Klucze do oznaczania owadów Polski. Czesc XXIV. Blonkówki - Hymenoptera. Zeszyt 57-62. Sapygidae, Scoliidae, Tiphiidae, Methocidae, Myrmosidae, Mutillidae. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa. 66 pp.
  17. Pulawski, W.J. 1964. Etudes sur les Sphecidae (Hym.) d'Egypte. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 34:63-155.
  18. Pulawski, W.J. 1965. Diploplectron asiaticum sp. n. (Hym., Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 35:221-224.
  19. Pulawski, W.J. 1965. La structure du premier segment abdominal dans le genre Ammophila K. (Hym., Sphecidae) et ses consequences systématiques. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 35:259-262.
  20. Pulawski, W.J. 1965. Sur la synonymie de certains Sphecidae (Hym.) paléarctiques. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 35:563-578.
  21. Pulawski, W.J. 1967. Klucze do oznaczania owadów Polski. Czesc XXIV. Blonkówki - Hymenoptera. Zeszyt 64-65. Osowate - Vespidae, Masaridae. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa. 84 pp.
  22. Pulawski, W.J. 1967. Hymenoptera from Turkey. - Sphecidae, II (Genera Astata Latreille and Kohl). Bull. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 19:383-410.
  23. Pulawski, W.J. 1967. Solierella nitrariasp. n. (Hym., Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 37:65-68.
  24. Pulawski, W.J. 1967. Ergebnisse der zoologischen Nubien-Expedition 1962. Teil XXXI. Sphecidae (Hymenoptera). Ann. Nathist. Mus. Wien 70:387-388.
  25. Pulawski, W.J. 1968. Miscophus heliophilussp. n. (Hym., Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 37:285-287.
  26. Pulawski, W.J. 1970. Astata (Dryudella) aquitana sp. n. (Hym., Sphecidae. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 40:105-106.
  27. Pulawski, W.J. 1971. Les Tachysphex Kohl (Hym., Sphecidae) de la région paléarctique occidentale et centrale. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Wroclaw. 464 pp.
  28. Pulawski, W.J. 1972. Notes synonymiques sur quatre Sphecidae (Hym.) paléarctiques. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 42:817-820.
  29. Pulawski, W.J. 1973. Les Ammatomus A. Costa (Hym., Sphecidae) de la région paléarctique occidentale et centrale. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 43:273-288.
  30. de Beaumont, J., H. Bytinski-Salz, and W.J. Pulawski. 1973. Sphecidae (Hymen.) of Erez Israel. III. Subfamilies: Astatinae, Larrinae, Trypoxyloninae, Pemphredoninae, Crabroninae, Oxybelinae. Israel J. Entomol. 8:1-26.
  31. Pulawski, W.J. 1974. A revision of the Neotropical Tachysphex (Hym., Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 44:3-102.
  32. Pulawski, W.J. 1974. Sur un Tachysphex et trois Astata (Hym., Sphecidae) de la région paléarctique occidentale. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 44:299-305.
  33. Pulawski, W.J. 1974. Notes sur la biologie de deux Tachysphex rares: T. rugosus Guss. et T. plicosus Costa (Hym., Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 44:715-718.
  34. Pulawski, W.J. 1975 (1974). Synonymical Notes on Larrinae and Astatinae (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). J. Washington Acad. Sci. 64:308-323.
  35. Noskiewicz, J., W. Pulawski. 1974. Fauna slodkowodna Polski. Zeszyt 9. Blonkówki. Hymenoptera. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa. 124 pp.
  36. Pulawski, W.J. 1975. Two new species of Larrinae (Hym., Sphecidae) from Australia and Tunesia. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 45:165-169.
  37. Evans, H.E., R.W. Matthews, W.J. Pulawski. 1976. Notes on the nests and prey of four Australian species of Tachysphex Kohl, with description of a new species, (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). J. Austral. Entomol.Soc. 15:441-445.
  38. Pulawski, W.J. 1977. A synopsis of Tachysphex Kohl (Hym., Sphecidae) of Australia and Oceania. Polskie Pismo Entomol. 47:203-332.
  39. Pulawski, W.J. 1977. A revision of the Old World Parapiagetia Kohl (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 47:601-669.
  40. Pulavskiy, V.V. 1978. Sphecidae, p. 173-279, in Keys to the Identification of Insects of European USSR, Vol. 3, part 1. Nauka, Leningrad (in Russian).
  41. Pulawski, W.J. 1979. A revision of the World Prosopigastra Costa (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 49:3-134.
  42. Pulawski, W.J. 1979. Parapiagetia pubescens, sp. n., and a hitherto unknown female of Parapiagetia subtilis Pulawski (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 49:135-137.
  43. Pulawski, W.J. 1979. Two new synonyms in Transcaspian Sphecidae (Hymenoptera). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 49:303-304.
  44. Pulawski, W.J. 1979. Two new Dienoplus from Turkey (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 49:475-480.
  45. Pulawski, W.J., A.P. Rasnitsyn. 1980. On the taxonomic position of Hoplisus sepultus Cockerell, 1906, from the Lower Oligocene of Colorado (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Polskie Pismo Entomol. 50:393-396.
  46. Pulawski, W.J. 1981. New synonyms in Old World Sphecidae (Hymenoptera). Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 54:363-366.
  47. Pulawski, W.J. 1982. New species of North American Tachysphex wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Proc. California Acad. Sci. 43:27-42.
  48. Pulawski, W.J. 1983. Identification and synonymies of two western Palearctic Cerceris: maculata Radoszkowski and hathor n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Pan-Pacific Entomol. 59:240-245.
  49. Pulawski, W.J. 1984. The status of Trypoxylon figulus (Linnaeus, 1758), medium de Beaumont, 1945, and minus de Beaumont, 1945 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proc. California Acad. Sci. 43:123-140.
  50. Pulawski, W.J. 1985. Harpactus Shuckard, 1837, the valid name for the genus currently called Dienoplus Fox, 1894 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Syst. Entomol. 10:59-63.
  51. Krombein, K.V., and W.J. Pulawski. 1986. Biosystematic studies of Ceylonese wasps, XVI: A Revision of Gastrosericus Spinola (Hymenoptera: Sphecoidea: Larridae). Smiths. Contrib. Zool. No. 436:i-iii, 1-20.
  52. Pulawski, W.J. 1986. Tachyshex peruanus, a new species related to Tachyshex galapagensis Williams (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Pan-Pacific Entomol. 62:95-98.
  53. Pulawski, W.J. 1988. Revision of North American Tachysphex wasps including Central American and Caribbean species (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae. Mem. California Acad. Sci. 10:1-211.
  54. Pulawski, W.J. 1988. Vespa triangulum Fabricius, 1775 (currently Philanthus triangulum, Insecta, Hymenoptera): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 45:34-35.
  55. Antropov, A.V., and W.J. Pulawski. 1989. A new species of Pison from Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Pan Pacific Entomol. 65:312-318.
  56. Pulawski, W.J. 1989. Sericophorus rhinoceros, a new species from New Caledonia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Pan Pacific Entomol. 65:319-321.
  57. Pulawski, W.J. 1989. Pison nogorombu, a new species from Papua New Guinea (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Pan Pacific Entomol. 65:468-475.
  58. Pulawski, W.J. 1991. A new species of Odontosphexfrom Namibia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 93 (4):953-955.
  59. Pulawski, W.J. 1991. A revision of the wasp genus Kohliella (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proc. California Acad. Sci. 47 (10):289-302.
  60. Pulawski, W.J. 1992. World species of the wasp genus Holotachysphex de Beaumont (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 94 (2):223-242.
  61. Pulawski, W.J. 1991. A review of EremiaspheciumKohl, 1897 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Entomofauna 13:397-408.
  62. Pulawski, W.J., and H.K. Court. 1992. A review of the genus Hingstoniola (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Crabroninae). J. Hymenopt. Res. 1:255-260.
  63. Krombein, K.V., and W.J. Pulawski. 1994. Biosystematic studies of Ceylonese wasps, XX: a revision of Tachysphex Kohl, 1883, with notes on other Oriental species (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Larrinae). Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 552:1-106.
  64. Pulawski, W.J. 1994. (Dec.). K. Tsuneki types of Hymenoptera, all Sphecidae, in the California Acad- emy of Sciences entomology collection (as of 28 November 1994). Sphecos 28:27.
  65. Pulawski, W.J. 1995a. (25 Sept.). The wasp genus Tachytella Brauns, 1906 (Hymenoptera: Spheci- dae). J. Hymen. Res. 4:121-136.
  66. Pulawski, W.J. 1995b. (23 Oct.). The wasp genus Gastrosericus Spinola, 1839 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Mem. California Acad. Sci. 18:i-VI, 1-173.
  67. Antropov, A.V., and W.J. Pulawski. 1996 (Aug.). Pison antiquum , a new species from Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). J. Hymenopt. Res. 5:16-21.
  68. Pulawski, W.J. 1997. (20 Oct.). A review of New Guinean Ochleroptera Holmberg 1903 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 6:256-262.
  69. Rasnitsyn, A.P., W.J. Pulawski, and X. Martînez-Delclòs. 1999. (3 May). Cretaeous digger wasps of the new genus Bestiola Pulawski and Rasnitsyn (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Angarosphecinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 8:23-34. [Bestiola, a junior homonym, was renamed Cretobestiola by Pulawski and Rasnitsyn, 2000]
  70. Pulawski, W.J., A.P. Rasnitsyn, D.J. Brothers, and S.B. Archibald. 2000. (5 May). New genera of Angarosphecinae: Cretosphecium from Early Cretaceous of Mongolia and Eosphecium from Early Eocene of Canada (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 9: 34-40.
  71. Pulawski, W.J., and H.K. Court. 2000. (5 May). Cretobestiola, a replacement name for Bestiola Pulawski and Rasnitsyn, 1999 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 9:209. Reprinted under the same title: 2000 (1 Dec.). Acta Geologica Hispanica 35:53.
  72. Menke, A.S., and W.J. Pulawski. 2000 (27 Oct.). A review of the Sphex flavipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecidae: Sphecini). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 9:324-346.
  73. Pulawski, W.J. 2000. (27 Oct.). Didineis massaica, new species, the first Afrotropical member of the genus, and redescription of Didineis nigricans Morice, 1911 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Crabronidae: Bembicinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 9:347-351.
  74. Menke, A.S., and W.J. Pulawski. (8 Oct.). Authorship of the family-group names Palarini and Xenosphecini (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Crabronidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 11:366-367.

 

ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION

  1. Pulawski, W. J. 1997. Bibliography of Sphecidae.
  2. Pulawski, W. J. 1998. Bibliography of Sphecidae.
  3. Pulawski, W. J. 1999. Bibliography of Sphecidae. http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/Entomology_Resources/Hymenoptera/sphecidae/bibliography.pdf
  4. Pulawski, W. J. 2003. Catalog os Sphecidae. http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/Entomology_Resources/Hymenoptera/sphecidae/Genera_and_species_PDF/introduction.htm

 

TRIP REPORTS

Pulawski, W.J. 1980. Soviet Middle Asia. Sphecos 2:7-11.
Pulawski, W.J. 1993. Egypt Revisited. Sphecos 26:10-12.
Pulawski, W.J. 1994. Visiting Madagascar. Sphecos 28:16-18.