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An der Schwelle zur Kunst - wie wissenschaftliche Bildgebung versteckte Schönheiten offenbart

Ganske A-S, Akkari N
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Krems/Wien
JOURNAL: Das Naturhistorische, Herbst 2018, UNIVERSUM-Magazin

The thoracic anatomy of workers of Myrmecia nicrocincta and evolutionary transformations in Formicidae (Hymenoptera)

Liu, S.-P., Richter, A. & Beutel R.G.
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny
VOLUME/ISSUE: Submitted

A new flightless marine species of Chironomidae – ancestry, adaptations and taxonomic implications

Qi, X., Lin, X. –L., Ekrem, T., Beutel, R.G., Song, Ch., Orlov, I., Chen, Ch.-T. & Wang, X.-H.
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: Zoologica Scripta
VOLUME/ISSUE: Submitted

Water scavenger beetles in rotten cacti: a review of Agna with the description of a new species from Mexico (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)

Arriaga-Varela E., Cortés-Aguilar J. & Fikacek M
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Elsevier
JOURNAL: Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad

Automated Taxonomic Identification of Insects with Expert-Level Accuracy Using Effective Feature Transfer from Convolutional Networks

Valan M., Makonyi K., Maki A., Vondracek D. and Ronquist F.
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: Systematic Biology

Establishment of Cylominae Zaitzev, 1908 as a valid name for the subfamily Rygmodinae Orchymont, 1916 with an updated list of genera (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae).

Seidel M., Arriaga-Varela E. & Fikacek M.
YEAR: 2016
JOURNAL: Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
VOLUME/ISSUE: 56(1)
PAGES: 159-165

New records of 'Melanostoma fumivenosum' Doesburg (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of the male

Burt, Trevor O and Mengual, Ximo
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: Australian Entomologist
VOLUME/ISSUE: 45 (2)
PAGES: 209-216

Biodiversity seen through the perspective of insects: 10 simple rules on methodological choices, common challenges, and experimental design for genomic studies

Matos-Maraví P., Duarte Ritter C., Barnes C. J., Nielsen M., Olsson U., Wahlberg N., Marquina D., Sääksjärvi I. & Antonelli A.
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: PeerJ Preprints
VOLUME/ISSUE: 6
PAGES: e26661v2

New avatars for Myriapods: Complete 3D morphology of type specimens transcends conventional species description (Myriapoda, Chilopoda)

Akkari N, Ganske A-S, Komerički A, Metscher B
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: PLOS
JOURNAL: PLOS One
VOLUME/ISSUE: 13(7)
PAGES: e0200158

The peristomatic structures as a source of systematic characters in the genus Lithobius Leach, 1814 (Myriapoda, Chilopoda). In: Stoev P, Edgecombe GD (Eds)

Ganske A-S, Edgecombe GD, Akkari N
YEAR: 2018
PROCEEDINGS TITLE: Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Myriapodology, Krabi, Thailand
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Pensoft Publishers
JOURNAL: ZooKeys
VOLUME/ISSUE: 741
PAGES: 49-75

A review of the Cercyon Leach (Coleoptera,Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae) of the Greater Antilles

Arriaga-Varela E., Seidel M., Deler-Hernández A., Senderov V. & Fikácek, M.
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: ZooKeys
VOLUME/ISSUE: 681
PAGES: 39-93

A revision of the Oriental species of Bolitogyrus Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae)

Brunke AJ
YEAR: 2017
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Pensoft Publishers
JOURNAL: ZooKeys
VOLUME/ISSUE: 664
PAGES: 1-97

Systematic and biogeographic review of the Staphylinini rove beetles of Lord Howe Island with description of new species and taxonomic changes (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae).

Jenkins Shaw J. & Solodovnikov A.
YEAR: 2016
JOURNAL: ZooKeys
VOLUME/ISSUE: 638
PAGES: 1-25

OpenBiodiv Poster: an Implementation of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph

Senderov V, Georgiev T, Agosti D, Catapano T, Sautter G, Ó Tuama É, Franz N, Simov K, Stoev P, Penev L
YEAR: 2017
PROCEEDINGS TITLE: Proceedings of TDWG
VOLUME/ISSUE: 1
PAGES: e20246

OpenBiodiv Computer Demo: an Implementation of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph

Senderov V, Georgiev T, Agosti D, Catapano T, Sautter G, Ó Tuama É, Franz N, Simov K, Stoev P, Penev L
YEAR: 2017
PROCEEDINGS TITLE: Proceedings of TDWG
VOLUME/ISSUE: 1
PAGES: e20193

OpenBiodiv: an Implementaion of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph

Senderov V, Georgiev T, Agosti D, Catapano T, Sautter G, Ó Tuama É, Franz N, Simov K, Stoev P, Penev L
YEAR: 2017
PROCEEDINGS TITLE: Proceedings of TDWG
VOLUME/ISSUE: 1
PAGES: e20084

Origin and diversification of hoverflies: a revision of the genera Asarkina and Allobaccha – A BIG4 Consortium PhD project

Burt, T. O. & Ximo Mengual
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) Journal

ARPHA-BioDiv: A toolbox for scholarly publication and dissemination of biodiversity data based on the ARPHA Publishing Platform

Lyubomir Penev, Teodor Georgiev, Peter Geshev, Seyhan Demirov, Viktor Senderov, Iliyana Kuzmova, Iva Kostadinova, Slavena Peneva, Pavel Stoev
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) Journal
VOLUME/ISSUE: 3

Strategies and guidelines for scholarly publishing of biodiversity data

Lyubomir Penev, Daniel Mietchen, Vishwas Shravan Chavan, Gregor Hagedorn, Vincent Stuart Smith, David Shotton, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Pavel Stoev, Quentin John Groom, David Remsen, Scott C. Edmunds
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) Journal
VOLUME/ISSUE: 3

Online direct import of specimen records into manuscripts and automatic creation of data papersfrom biological databases

Senderov V., Georgiev T. & Penev L.
YEAR: 2016
JOURNAL: Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) Journal

EMODnet Workshop on mechanisms and guidelines to mobilise historical data into biogeographic databases

Faulwetter S, Pafilis E, Fanini L, Bailly N, Agosti D, Arvanitidis C, Boicenco L, Catapano T, Claus S, Dekeyzer S, Georgiev T, Legaki A, Mavraki D, Oulas A, Papastefanou G, Penev L, Sautter G, Schigel D, Senderov V, Teaca A, Tsompanou M
YEAR: 2016
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Pensoft Publishers
JOURNAL: Research Ideas and Outcomes
VOLUME/ISSUE: 2
PAGES: e10445

Review of the flower-inhabiting water scavenger beetle genus Cycreon (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae), with descriptions of new species and comments on its biology

Arriaga-Varela E, Wong SY, Kirejtshuk A, Fikácek M
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Pensoft Publishers
JOURNAL: Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
VOLUME/ISSUE: 65(1)
PAGES: 99-115

The Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management (eco-)System: Tools and Services for Extraction, Mobilization, Handling and Re-use of Data from the Published Literature

Penev L, Agosti D, Georgiev T, Senderov V, Sautter G, Catapano T, Stoev P
YEAR: 2018
PROCEEDINGS TITLE: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
VOLUME/ISSUE: 2
PAGES: e25748

Two centipedes new to the fauna of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) and notes on the Lithobiomorpha of the island (Chilopoda, Myriapoda)

Akkari N, Ganske
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Pensoft Publishers
JOURNAL: Biodiversity Data Journal
VOLUME/ISSUE: 6
PAGES: e26746

Species Conservation Profiles compliant with the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Cardoso P., Stoev P., Georgiev T., Senderov V., & Penev L.
YEAR: 2016
JOURNAL: Biodiversity Data Journal 4

A new genus of coprophagous water scavenger beetle from Africa (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae, Megasternini) with a discussion on the Cercyon subgenus Acycreon

Arriaga-Varela E, Seidel M, Fikáček M
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Pensoft Publishers
JOURNAL: African Invertebrates
VOLUME/ISSUE: 59(1)
PAGES: 1-23

Breaking a Disjunct Distribution: A Review of the Southern Hemisphere Genera Cylorygmus and Relictorygmus gen. nov. (Hydrophilidae: Cylominae)

Seidel M., Minoshima Y. N., Arriaga-Varela E. & Fikacek M.
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Museum and Institute of Zoology (Polish Academy of Sciences) (Poland)
JOURNAL: Annales Zoologici
VOLUME/ISSUE: 68 (2)
PAGES: 375-402

Investigation of the mandibular structures and evaluation of their phylogenetic significance in the genus Lithobius (Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae)

Ganske, A., Edgecombe, G.D. & Akkari, N.
YEAR: 2017
PROCEEDINGS TITLE: 17th International Congress of Myriapodology, Krabi, Thailand
JOURNAL: ResearchGate

OpenBiodiv-O: ontology of the OpenBiodiv knowledge management system

Viktor Senderov, Kiril Simov, Nico Franz, Pavel Stoev, Terry Catapano, Donat Agosti, Guido Sautter, Robert A. Morris and Lyubomir Penev
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: Journal of Biomedical Semantics
VOLUME/ISSUE: 9:5

Whirling in the late Permian: ancestral Gyrinidae show early radiation of beetles before Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Yan, E.V., Beutel, R.G. & Lawrence, J F.
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: BMC Evolutionary Biology

On the thoracic anatomy of the Madagascan Heterogyrus milloti and the phylogeny of Gyrinidae (Coleoptera)

Beutel, R.G., Yan, E., Yavorskaya, M., Büsse, S., Gorb, S. & Wipfler, B.
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: Systematic Entomology

The phylogeny of Coleopterida (Hexapoda) – morphological characters and molecular phylogenies

Beutel, R.G., Pohl, H.W., Yan, E.V., Anton, E., Liu, S.-P., Slipinski, A., McKenna, D. & Friedrich, F.
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: Systematic Entomology
VOLUME/ISSUE: Early View

The past and the present through phylogenetic analysis: the rove beetle tribe Othiini now and 99 Ma

J.L. Kypke, A. Solodovnikov, A. Brunke, S. Yamamoto, D. Zyla
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
JOURNAL: Systematic Entomology

New data, same story: phylogenomics does not support Syrphoidea (Diptera: Syrphidae, Pipunculidae)

Pauli, T. Burt, T.O., Meusemann, K., Bayless, K., Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Kozlov, A., Vasilikopoulos, A., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Yeates, D., Misof, B., Peters, R.S. and Mengual, X.
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: Systematic Entomology
VOLUME/ISSUE: 43 (3)
PAGES: 447-459

The peril of dating beetles

Toussaint E. F. A., Seidel M., Arriaga-Varela E., Hájek J., Král D., Sekerka L., Short A. E. Z. and Fikáček M.
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: Systematic Entomology
VOLUME/ISSUE: 42
PAGES: 1-10

The unique locomotor apparatus of whirligig beetles of the tribe Orectochilini (Gyrinidae, Coleoptera)

Liu, S.-P., Wipfler, B. & Beutel, R. G
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Morphology and biology of the flower-visiting water scavenger beetle genus Rygmodus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Minoshima Y. N., Seidel M., Wood J. R., Leschen R. A B., Gunter M. & Fikacek M.
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Wiley
JOURNAL: Entomological Science
VOLUME/ISSUE: 21(4)
PAGES: 363-384

Total evidence phylogeny of the hyper-diverse Philonthina rove beetles with implications for classification of the tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Chani-Posse M.R., Brunke, A.J., Chatzimanolis, S., Schillhammer, H. & Solodovnikov, A.
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: Cladistics
PAGES: 1-40

New mitochondrial primers for metabarcoding of insects, designed and evaluated using in silico methods

Marquina D., Andersson A. F. & Ronquist F.
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Wiley-Blackwell
JOURNAL: Molecular Ecology Resources
VOLUME/ISSUE: Early view

The thoracic anatomy of the swift lousefly Crataerina pallida (Diptera)—functional implications and character evolution in Hippoboscoidea

Liu, S.-P., Friedrich, F., Büsse, S., Petersen, D., Gorb., S. & Beutel, R.G.
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

The first fossil rove beetle from the middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation (North America) provides evidence for ancient Eocene relicts within the hyperdiverse Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)

Brunke A., Schillhammer H. & Chatzimanolis S.
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

A spectacular new genus of Staphylinini rove beetle from the Tropical Andes and its phylogenetic assessment (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Jenkins Shaw, J., Żyła, D. & Solodovnikov, A.
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: Invertebrate Systematics
VOLUME/ISSUE: 31 (6)
PAGES: 713-722

The thoracic morphology of cave-dwelling and free-living ground beetles from China (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae)

Luo, X.-Zh., Wipfler, B., Ribera, I., Liang, H.-B., Tian M.-Y., Ge, S.-Q. & Beutel, R.G.
YEAR: 2018
JOURNAL: Arthropod Structure & Development

Comparative thoracic anatomy of the wild type and wingless (wg1cn1) mutant of Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera)

Fabian, B., Schneeberg, K. & Beutel, R.G.
YEAR: 2016
PUBLISHER/PLACE: Elsevier
JOURNAL: Arthropod Structure & Development
VOLUME/ISSUE: 45(6)
PAGES: 611-636

The thoracic anatomy of the male and female winter moth Nyssiodes lefuarius (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) and evolutionary changes in the thorax of moths and butterflies

Liu, S.-P., Wipfler, B., Niitsu, S. & Beutel, R. G
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: Organisms Diversity & Evolution
VOLUME/ISSUE: 17(3)
PAGES: 565–594

Morphology of the mandibles and the first maxillae in the family Lithobiidae (Myriapoda, Chilopoda), with remarks on their phylogenetic significance

Ganske A-S, Edgecombe GD, Akkari N
YEAR: 2018
PUBLISHER/PLACE: John Wiley & Sons
JOURNAL: Journal of Morphology

The remarkable Australian rove beetle genus Myotyphlus: its cryptic diversity and significance for exploring mutualism among insects and mammals (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Solodovnikov A. & Jenkins Shaw J.
YEAR: 2016
JOURNAL: Austral Entomology

The Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System in Scholarly Publishing

Senderov V. & Penev L.
YEAR: 2016
JOURNAL: Research Ideas & Outcomes (RIO) Journal

Clidicostigus gen. nov., the first Mesozoic genus of Mastigini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Cenomanian Burmese amber.

Jałoszynski P., Brunke A., Metscher B. , Zhang W. & Bai, M.
YEAR: 2017
JOURNAL: Cretaceous Research