Una pupa de mariposa se hace pasar por una cabeza de serpiente, una polilla nunca deja su capullo de seda y arena hasta que llega a la edad adulta, las larvas de escarabajo se ocultan en el material de relleno para embalaje biodegradable. ¿Suena un poco como a ciencia ficción? Estas anécdotas de historia natural son reales.
B.A., Biology, magna cum laude, Brooklyn College, 1972
M.A., Biology, Harvard University, 1975
Ph.D., Biology, Harvard University, 1978; Thesis: "A Reexamination of Portlandia (Rubiaceae) and Associated Taxa" (Dr. Richard A. Howard, advisor).
Aiello, Annette, A. 2021. “Jaws: a powerful trunk-girdling longhorn, Trachysomus thomsoni Aurivillius, 1923 (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae: Onciderini) in Panama.” The Coleopterists Bulletin 75(3):531-536.
Aiello, A. & Stucky. B. 2020. "First host plant record for Pacarina (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)." Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 15(1): 77–88. https://doi.org/10.3897/neotropical.15.e49013
Aiello, A. 2019. “Amorphosoma penicillatum (Klug, 1827) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae): A fearless jewel beetle in Panama.” Coleopterists Bulletin 73(4): 1102–1104.
Brashears, J., Aiello, A. & Seymoure, B. 2016. "Cool bands: Wing bands decrease rate of heating, but not equilibrium temperature in Anartia fatima." Journal of Thermal Biology 56:100—108.
Aiello, A., Saltonstall, K., & Young, V. "Brachyplatys vahlii, an introduced bug from Asia: first report in the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera: Plataspididae: Bracyplatidinae)." BioInvasions Record, 5(1):7—12.
Aiello, A. 2015. Tropical caterpillar addiction. In: Dyer, Lee A. and Forister, Matthew L., The lives of lepidopterists. Springer International Publishing, pp.91‑102.
Seymoure, B. & Aiello, A. 2015. "Keeping the band together: evidence for false boundary disruptive coloration in a butterfly." Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28(2015):1618—1624. doi: 10.1111/jeb. 12681
Aiello, A. 2015. "Oncideres Serville Key to Too Few: 34 Species Lost." The Coleopterists Bulletin 69(1):60.
Domínguez Núñez, Edwin & Aiello, A. 2013. "Leaf‑hoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) that probe human skin: a review of the world literature and nineteen new records, from Panama." Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews 6(2013):201-225.
Donald, D., Quintero A., D., Cambra T., R., & Aiello, A. 2008. "Biology of a new Panamanian bagworm moth (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) with predatory larvae, and eggs individually wrapped in setal cases. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 101(4): 689-702.
Van Bael, S.A., Aiello, A., Valderrama, A., Medianero, E., Samaniego, M., & Wright, S.J. 2004. General herbivore outbreak following an El Niño‑related drought in a lowland Panamanian forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 20(6):625‑633.