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A hymenopterists’ guide to the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology: utility, clarification, and future directions

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A multi-gene phylogeny of Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) results in reinterpretation of the genus and resurrection of Chelaner Emery

scientific article published in 2019

A new fossil evaniid wasp from Eocene Baltic amber, with highly modified compound eyes unique within the Hymenoptera

scholarly article by John T. Jennings et al published 13 September 2017 in Journal of Paleontology

A new genus and twenty new species of Australian jumping plant-lice (Psylloidea: Triozidae) from Eremophila and Myoporum (Scrophulariaceae: Myoporeae)

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A new highly aberrant doryctine wasp, Spathius lubomiri n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae), from Lord Howe Island

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A new species of the enigmatic Australian endemic family Trachypetidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea): Cercobarcon lasallei sp.n.

scientific article published in 2020

A revised phylogeny of macropathine cave crickets (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae) uncovers a paraphyletic Australian fauna

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Across the Indian Ocean: A remarkable example of trans-oceanic dispersal in an austral mygalomorph spider

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An African mygalomorph lineage in temperate Australia: the trapdoor spider genus M oggridgea (Araneae: Migidae) on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

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Arachnology in space and time: novel research on arachnid systematics and biogeography

scholarly article by Gonzalo Giribet & Andrew D. Austin published 2014 in Invertebrate Systematics

Arid zone island hopping: the impact of dispersal on endemism in hydraenid beetles (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) found in isolated desert springs ⬇️

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Assessing the morphological and physiological adaptations of the parasitoid wasp Echthrodesis lamorali for survival in an intertidal environment

Assessment of prey overlap between a native (Polistes humilis) and an introduced (Vespula germanica) social wasp using morphology and phylogenetic analyses of 16S rDNA.

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Bees and white spiders: unravelling the pollination syndrome of Caladenia rigida (Orchidaceae)

scientific article published in 2009

Biogeographic history of subterranean isopods from groundwater calcrete islands in Western Australia

scientific article published in 2017

Biology of Mesostoa kerri (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Mesostoinae), an Endemic Australian Wasp that Causes Stem Galls on Banksia marginata

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Bioluminescence in the ghost fungus Omphalotus nidiformis does not attract potential spore dispersing insects

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Chinese species of egg-parasitoids of the genera Oxyscelio Kieffer, Heptascelio Kieffer and Platyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastridaes.l., Scelioninae)

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Coexistence of minicircular and a highly rearranged mtDNA molecule suggests that recombination shapes mitochondrial genome organization

scientific article published on 11 December 2013

Colony characteristics of Vespula germanica (F.) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in a Mediterranean climate (southern Australia)

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Conservation systematics of the shield-backed trapdoor spiders of the nigrum-group (Mygalomorphae, Idiopidae, Idiosoma): integrative taxonomy reveals a diverse and threatened fauna from south-western Australia

scientific article published in 2018

Corrigendum to : Cryptic diversity down under: defining species in the subterranean amphipod genus Nedsia Barnard & Williams, 1995 (Hadzioidea: Eriopisidae) from the Pilbara, Western Australia ⬇️

Cotesia lasallei Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2020

taxon treatment

Cryptic diversity down under: defining species in the subterranean amphipod genus

scientific article published on 18 February 2022

DNA barcoding of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) using high-throughput methods more than doubles the number of species known for Australia

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

Desert springs: deep phylogeographic structure in an ancient endemic crustacean (Phreatomerus latipes)

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Development and evaluation of a custom bait design based on 469 single-copy protein-coding genes for exon capture of isopods (Philosciidae: Haloniscus)

scientific article published on 17 September 2021

Distribution and diversity of soil microfauna from East Antarctica: assessing the link between biotic and abiotic factors

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Divergent molecular lineages and not-so-cryptic species: the first descriptions of stygobitic chiltoniid amphipods (Talitroidea: Chiltoniidae) from Western Australia

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Diversity and distribution of groundwater fauna in a calcrete aquifer: does sampling method influence the story?

Diversity patterns of subterranean invertebrate fauna in calcretes of the Yilgarn Region, Western Australia

scientific article published in 2018

Environmental factors influencing daily foraging activity of Vespula germanica (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in Mediterranean Australia

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Evidence for speciation underground in diving beetles (Dytiscidae) from a subterranean archipelago

scientific article published on 21 November 2020

Extreme genetic diversity among springtails (Collembola) in subterranean calcretes of arid Australia

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

First record of Aulacidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) from New Caledonia with descriptions of three new species of Aulacus Jurine

First record of miracine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Australia: molecular phylogenetics and morphology reveal multiple new species ⬇️

scientific article published in February 2022

First record of the subfamily Dirrhopinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Australian region, with a discussion of relationships and biology

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First record of the woodwasp family Xiphydriidae from Tasmania with a description of a new species and host record

Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia

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Frequent mitochondrial gene rearrangements at the hymenopteran nad3-nad5 junction

scientific article published in May 2003

HICKMANELLA, A NEW GENUS OF SCELIONIDAE FROM AUSTRALIA (HYMENOPTERA: PROCTOTRUPOIDEA)

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How blind are they? Phototactic responses in stygobiont diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from calcrete aquifers of Western Australia

scientific article published in 2018

Hybrid capture data unravel a rapid radiation of pimpliform parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimpliformes)

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Hyptiogastrites electrinusCockerell, 1917, from Myanmar (Burmese) amber: Redescription and its placement within the Evanioidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera)

scholarly article by John T. Jennings et al published January 2004 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Identification of trophic niches of subterranean diving beetles in a calcrete aquifer by DNA and stable isotope analyses

scholarly article by Tessa M. Bradford published in January 2014

Increased congruence does not necessarily indicate increased phylogenetic accuracy--the behavior of the incongruence length difference test in mixed-model analyses

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Independent colonization and extensive cryptic speciation of freshwater amphipods in the isolated groundwater springs of Australia's Great Artesian Basin

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Insects 'Down Under'- Diversity, endemism and evolution of the Australian insect fauna: examples from select orders

scientific article published on 21 July 2004

Investigating DNA barcoding options for the identification of Caladenia (Orchidaceae) species

scientific article published in 2009

Life history traits and foraging behaviour of<i>Cotesia nonagriae</i>(Olliff) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a newly recognised member of the<i>Cotesia flavipes</i>complex of stemborer parasitoids

scientific article published on 16 February 2010

Massive Parallel Regression: A Précis of Genetic Mechanisms for Vision Loss in Diving Beetles

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Mitochondrial DNA analyses reveal widespread tardigrade diversity in Antarctica

article published in 2015

Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of theCotesia flavipescomplex of parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

scholarly article by Kate A. Muirhead et al published January 2006 in Annales de la Société Entomologique de France

Molecular and morphological phylogenetics of chelonine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with a critical assessment of divergence time estimations

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Molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal a new southern hemisphere oniscidean family (Crustacea : Isopoda) with a unique water transport system

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Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Western Australian troglobitic chthoniid pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones : Chthoniidae) points to multiple independent subterranean clades

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Molecular phylogenetic, morphological and biogeographic evidence for a new genus of parabathynellid crustaceans (Syncarida : Bathynellacea) from groundwater in an ancient southern Australian landscape

scientific article published in 2013

Molecular phylogeny places the enigmatic subfamily Masoninae within the Ichneumonidae, not the Braconidae ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Molecular systematics and biodiversity of oniscidean isopods in the groundwater calcretes of central Western Australia

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Morphological and electrophoretic taxonomy of the Australian eucalypt leaf-blister sawfly genus Phylacteophaga (Hymenoptera: Pergidae): a potential major pest group of eucalypts worldwide

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New species of Australian arid zone chelonine wasps from the genera Phanerotoma and Ascogaster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) informed by the ‘Bush Blitz’ surveys of national reserves

article by Rebecca N. Kittel & Andrew D. Austin published 20 August 2015 in Journal of Natural History

New species of Australian microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) documented through the ‘Bush Blitz’ surveys of national reserves

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

New species of flightless doryctine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) from Australia and New Zealand

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New species of the Australian endemic wasp genus Notosigalphus van Achterberg and Austin (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Flinders Island, Tasmania

scientific article published on 19 April 2002

New species‐group of brachypterous Idris Förster, 1856 s.l. (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l.) from the Oriental region ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Novel use of a micro-computed tomography scanner to trace larvae of wood boring insects

On the proposed designation of Foenus unguiculatus Westwood, 1841 as the type species of Pseudofoenus Kieffer, 1902 (Insecta, Hymenoptera)

scholarly article by R. W. Crosskey et al published 1997 in Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature

Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles: a comparison of surface and subterranean photic niches

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Parallel decay of vision genes in subterranean water beetles

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogenetic placement and description of Ngaliadessus humphreysi gen. et sp. nov., Watts &amp; Villastrigo (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), a subterranean diving beetle from the Ngalia Basin in central Australia ⬇️

scientific article published in August 2023

Phylogenetic reassignment of basal cyclostome braconid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera) with description of a new, enigmatic Afrotropical tribe with a highly anomalous 28S D2 secondary structure ⬇️

article by Donald L. J. Quicke et al published 18 May 2020 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Phylogenetic reconstruction of the wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) using sequences from the 12S rRNA, 28S rRNA, and NADH1 genes: implications for classification, biogeography, and the evolution of web building behavior

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Phylogenetics and genetic diversity of the Cotesia flavipes complex of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), biological control agents of lepidopteran stemborers

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Phylogeny of the parasitic microgastroid subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) based on sequence data from seven genes, with an improved time estimate of the origin of the lineage

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Phylogeography of cave pseudoscorpions in southern Australia

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Phylogeography of the ancient Parabathynellidae (Crustacea:Bathynellacea) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia

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Pilbarana, a new subterranean amphipod genus (Hadzioidea: Eriopisidae) of environmental assessment importance from the Pilbara, Western Australia ⬇️

scientific article published in 2022

Post-Eocene climate change across continental Australia and the diversification of Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae).

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Pseudofoenus Kieffer, 1902 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): Proposed Designation Of Foenus Unguiculatus Westwood, 1841 As The Type Species

scholarly article by Andrew D. Austin et al published 1996 in Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature

Pseudofoenus caledonicus, a new species of hyptiogastrine wasp (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae) from New Caledonia

scholarly article by John T Jennings & Andrew D Austin published November 2005 in Australian Journal of Entomology

Refining trophic dynamics through multi-factor Bayesian mixing models: A case study of subterranean beetles

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Remarkable range extension of the previously monotypic braconid genus Wushenia Zettel (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae), with description of a second species from Australia

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2013)

Revision of Australian Dacnusini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae), Parasitoids of Cyclorrhaphous Diptera

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Revision of Yelicones (Hymenoptera : Braconidae : Rogadinae) from the Australasian region

scholarly article by Donald L. J. Quicke et al published 1998 in Invertebrate Systematics

Rhysacephala masneri n. sp. (Xiphydriidae), the first symphytan wasp recorded from Lord Howe Island

scientific article published on 14 September 2009

Scratching the surface of subterranean biodiversity: Molecular analysis reveals a diverse and previously unknown fauna of Parabathynellidae (Crustacea: Bathynellacea) from the Pilbara, Western Australia

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Simultaneous molecular and morphological analysis of braconid relationships (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae) indicates independent mt-tRNA gene inversions within a single wasp family.

scientific article published in February 2002

Species richness and endemism of baeine wasps (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) in Australia ⬇️

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Stressed out underground?: Illuminating the genomic response to heat stress in surface and subterranean predaceous diving beetles

scientific article published in 2022

Subterranean archipelago in the Australian arid zone: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of amphipods from central Western Australia

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Subterranean archipelago: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of stygobitic isopods (Oniscidea:Haloniscus) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia

scholarly article by Andrew D. Austin published in 2008

Synopsis of Australian chelonine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) with description of two new genera

scientific article published on 13 December 2013

Synopsis of the hymenopteran fauna of Lord Howe Island with a preliminary checklist of species

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2015)

Synopsis of the parasitoid wasp genus Choeras Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from Australasia, with the description of two new species ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 May 2017

Synopsis of the parasitoid wasp genus Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) in Australia, with the description of seven new species

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Systematic revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Glyptapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) for Australia results in a ten-fold increase in species ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2022

Systematic revision of the spider wasp genus Sphictostethus Kohl (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Pepsinae) in Australia with description of nine new species ⬇️

Systematics and biology of the aberrant intertidal parasitoid wasp Echthrodesis lamorali Masner (Hymenoptera : Platygastridae s.l.): a parasitoid of spider eggs

scientific article published in 2014

Systematics and distribution of world hyptiogastrine wasps (Hymenoptera : Gasteruptiidae)

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Systematics and host relationships of Australasian Diolcogaster (Hymenoptera : Braconidae : Microgastrinae)

scholarly article by A. Saeed et al published 1999 in Invertebrate Systematics

Systematics of AustralianAgenioideusAshmead (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) with the first record of a spider wasp parasitizingLatrodectus hasseltiThorell (redback spider)

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Systematics of Haloniscus Chilton, 1920 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae), with description of four new species from threatened Great Artesian Basin springs in South Australia ⬇️

scientific article published in 2019

Systematics of Old World Odontacolus Kieffer s.l. (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.): parasitoids of spider eggs

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Systematics of the Australian spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Blakistonia Hogg (Araneae: Idiopidae)

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Systematics of the Monomorium rothsteini Forel species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a problematic ant group in Australia

scientific article (publication date: 10 December 2014)

Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.), Part I: Indo-Malayan and Palearctic fauna

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.), part II: the Australian and southwest Pacific fauna

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Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.), part III: African fauna

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Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus PhanerotomellaSzépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) for Australia, with descriptions of 18 new species

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Systematics of the parasitoid wasp genus Aulacus Jurine (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Aulacidae) from Australia

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Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae): revealing a remarkable radiation of mygalomorph spiders from the Western Australian arid zone

scholarly article by Robert J. Raven published in 2018

Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape

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Systematics of the world genera of Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera:Braconidae)

scholarly article by P. C. Dangerfield et al published 1999 in Invertebrate Systematics

Systematics, Biology, and Evolution of Microgastrine Parasitoid Wasps

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

THE WOLF SPIDERS OF ARTESIAN SPRINGS IN ARID SOUTH AUSTRALIA, WITH A REVALIDATION OF TETRALYCOSA (ARANEAE, LYCOSIDAE)

scientific article published in August 2006

TWO NEW AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF BRACON F. (HYMENOPTERA: BRACONIDAE) PARASITIC ON PHYLACTEOPHAGA SPP. (HYMENOPTERA: PERGIDAE)

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Taxonomic revision of Bracalba Dodd (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.), a parasitoid wasp genus endemic to Australia

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Taxonomy of Paraplatyarthrus Javidkar and King (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Paraplatyarthridae) with description of five new species from Western Australia, and comments on Australian Trichorhina Budde-Lunde, 1908 (Platyarthridae)

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The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level

article by Rix et al., published in 2017

The Australian endemic woodwasp genusAustrocyrtaRiek (Hymenoptera: Xiphydriidae)

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The aulacid wasp fauna of Western Australia with descriptions of six new species

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The first mitochondrial genome for the wasp superfamily Platygastroidea: the egg parasitoid Trissolcus basalis

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

The genome of the egg parasitoid Trissolcus basalis (Wollaston) (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), a model organism and biocontrol agent of stink bugs

scientific article published on 17 February 2023

The hymenopteran parasitoids of light brown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Australia

scientific article published in May 2006

The hymenopterous parasitoids of eucalypt longicorn beetles, Phoracantha spp. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Australia

scientific article published in June 1994

The introduced English wasp Vespula vulgaris (L.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) newly recorded invading native forests in Tasmania

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The systematics and biology of the spider genusNephila(Araneae�:�Nephilidae) in the Australasian region

scientific article published in 2007

Three new Australian species ofTrioza Foerster (Hemiptera: Triozidae) with a remarkable adaptation to oviposition on articulate branchlets ofAllocasuarina(Casuarinaceae)

scientific article published in February 2013

Three new species of Dolichogenidea Viereck (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Australia with exceptionally long ovipositors

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Trapped in desert springs: phylogeography of Australian desert spring snails

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VIEWPOINT. Is the Australian subterranean fauna uniquely diverse?

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Where have all the spiders gone? The decline of a poorly known invertebrate fauna in the agricultural and arid zones of southern Australia

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Wolbachia infections in Australian ichneumonid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): evidence for adherence to the global equilibrium hypothesis

scientific article published in 2018

eDNA in subterranean ecosystems: Applications, technical aspects, and future prospects

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

Review of Afrotropical sceliotracheline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

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