| Unrelated helpers in a social insect DC Queller, F Zacchi, R Cervo, S Turillazzi, MT Henshaw, LA Santorelli, ... Nature 405 (6788), 784, 2000 | 261 | 2000 |
| Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) invading North America: some hypotheses for its rapid spread R Cervo, F Zacchi, S Turillazzi Insectes Sociaux 47 (2), 155-157, 2000 | 106 | 2000 |
| Phylogenetic relationships among paper wasp social parasites and their hosts (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae) JM Carpenter, JE Strassmann, S Turillazzi, CR Hughes, CR Solı́s, ... Cladistics 9 (2), 129-146, 1993 | 90 | 1993 |
| Polistes wasps and their social parasites: an overview R Cervo Annales Zoologici Fennici, 531-549, 2006 | 89 | 2006 |
| Genetic relatedness in primitively eusocial wasps JE Strassmann, CR Hughes, DC Queller, S Turillazzi, R Cervo, SK Davis, ... Nature 342 (6247), 268, 1989 | 88 | 1989 |
| On status badges and quality signals in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus: body size, facial colour patterns and hierarchical rank R Cervo, L Dapporto, L Beani, JE Strassmann, S Turillazzi Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1639), 1189-1196, 2008 | 85 | 2008 |
| Social parasitism and its evolution in Polistes R Cervo Natural history and evolution of paper wasps, 1996 | 77 | 1996 |
| Recognition of social parasites as nest-mates: adoption of colony-specific host cuticular odours by the paper wasp parasite Polistes sulcifer MF Sledge, FR Dani, R Cervo, L Dapporto, S Turillazzi Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2001 | 73 | 2001 |
| Social hackers: integration in the host chemical recognition system by a paper wasp social parasite S Turillazzi, MF Sledge, FR Dani, R Cervo, A Massolo, L Fondelli Naturwissenschaften 87 (4), 172-176, 2000 | 67 | 2000 |
| Social parasites in polistine wasps are monophyletic: implications for sympatric speciation M Choudhary, JE Strassmann, DC Queller, S Turillazzi, R Cervo Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 1994 | 64 | 1994 |
| Invasion of the Nest of Polistes dominulus by the Social Parasite Sulcopolistes sulcifer (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)1 S Turillazzi, R Cervo, I Cavallari Ethology 84 (1), 47-59, 1990 | 54 | 1990 |
| An overview on the natural enemies of Rhynchophorus palm weevils, with focus on R. ferrugineus G Mazza, V Francardi, S Simoni, C Benvenuti, R Cervo, JR Faleiro, ... Biological Control 77, 83-92, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Effects of the diet on the microbiota of the red palm weevil (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae) M Montagna, B Chouaia, G Mazza, EM Prosdocimi, E Crotti, V Mereghetti, ... PLoS One 10 (1), e0117439, 2015 | 45 | 2015 |
| The cost of queen loss in the social wasp Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) JE Strassmann, A Fortunato, R Cervo, S Turillazzi, JM Damon, DC Queller Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77 (4), 343-355, 2004 | 44 | 2004 |
| Nonaggressive usurpation of the nest ofPolistes biglumis bimaculatus by the social parasiteSulcopolistes atrimandibularis (Hymenoptera Vespidae) R Cervo, MC Lorenzi, S Turillazzi Insectes Sociaux 37 (4), 333-347, 1990 | 43 | 1990 |
| Nest exchange experiments in Polistes gallicus (L.)(Hymenoptera Vespidae) R Cervo, S Turillazzi Ethology Ecology & Evolution 1 (2), 185-193, 1989 | 43 | 1989 |
| A quantitative threshold for nest-mate recognition in a paper social wasp A Cini, L Gioli, R Cervo Biology letters 5 (4), 459-461, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| Dynamics of chemical mimicry in the social parasite wasp Polistes semenowi (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) MC Lorenzi, R Cervo, F Zacchi, S Turillazzi, AG Bagnères Parasitology 129 (5), 643-651, 2004 | 40 | 2004 |
| Behaviour in usurpers and late joiners ofPolistes biglumis bimaculatus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) R Cervo, MC Lorenzi Insectes Sociaux 43 (3), 255-266, 1996 | 36 | 1996 |
| The queen is not a pacemaker in the small-colony wasps Polistes instabilis and P. dominulus S Jha, RG Casey-Ford, JS Pedersen, TG Platt, R Cervo, DC Queller, ... Animal Behaviour 71 (5), 1197-1203, 2006 | 34 | 2006 |
