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List of works by Robin Kundrata

A New Species of Vetubrachypsectra from Mid-Cretaceous Amber of Northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Brachypsectridae)

scholarly article published in 2022

A New Species ofDima(Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini), with a Checklist and Identification Key to the Chinese Species

scientific article published in October 2018

A new enigmatic lineage of Dascillidae (Coleoptera: Elateriformia) from Eocene Baltic amber described using X-ray microtomography, with notes on Karumiinae morphology and classification

scholarly article published in 2021

A review of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of the Northern Levant, with description of a new species from Syria and a key to Levantine species

scientific article (publication date: 24 January 2014)

A review of the genus Selasia (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in the Palaearctic Region

scientific article (publication date: 24 February 2015)

A revision of Euanoma and Pseudeuanoma (Coleoptera: Drilidae) ⬇️

Additions to the revision of Dima Charpentier, 1825 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini) in the Balkan Peninsula, with the descriptions of five new species

scientific article

Anchored Phylogenomics, Evolution and Systematics of Elateridae: Are All Bioluminescent Elateroidea Derived Click Beetles?

scientific article published in 2021

Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle genera Hapatesus Candѐze, 1863 and Toorongus Neboiss, 1957 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from the Australasian realm

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle tribe Dimini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae)

scientific article published in 2018

Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle tribe Senodoniini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae)

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Author Correction: Hidden diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest: the discovery of Jurasaidae, a new beetle family (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with neotenic females

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Burmogonus gen. nov., a New Click Beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Elaterinae) from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 December 2022

Classification of Omalisidae based on molecular data and morphology, with description of Paradrilinae subfam. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)

scientific article (publication date: 4 February 2015)

Comparative Antennal Morphology of Agriotes (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with Special Reference to the Typology and Possible Functions of Sensilla

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Congruence Between Molecular Data and Morphology: Phylogenetic Position of Senodoniini (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Cretophengodidae, a new Cretaceous beetle family, sheds light on the evolution of bioluminescence ⬇️

scientific article published in 2021

Description of Lacon mertliki sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) from the Hyrcanian forest ecoregion, with a key to the Lacon species of Iran

scientific article published in 2019

Description of Penia mantillerii sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini), with a key to Penia species from Vietnam and nearby areas

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Description of Selasia socotrana sp. nov. (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) from Socotra Island, with notes on S. homhilia ⬇️

scientific article published in 2012

Description of two new species of Dima Charpentier, 1825 from China (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae)

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Dima spicata Schimmel, 1999 (Elateridae: Dimini), a morphologically remarkable species endemic to China

scientific article

Discovery of a new soft-bodied click-beetle genus from Namibia with a unique morphology leads to a modified diagnosis of Drilini (Coleoptera, Elateridae)

scientific article published in 2024

Discovery of a new species of Lacon Laporte (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) endemic to Cyprus, with a modified tarsal morphology

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of Iran

scholarly article published in 2021

First Artematopodidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)

scientific article published on 27 April 2022

Forest leaf litter beetles of Taiwan: first DNA barcodes and first insight into the fauna

scientific article published in 2024

Fossil Genera in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): A Triassic Origin and Jurassic Diversification

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Functional Morphology of the Thorax of the Click Beetle Campsosternus auratus (Coleoptera, Elateridae), with an Emphasis on Its Jumping Mechanism

scientific article published on 01 March 2022

Hidden diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest: the discovery of Jurasaidae, a new beetle family (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with neotenic females

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Hide-and-Seek with Tiny Neotenic Beetles in One of the Hottest Biodiversity Hotspots: Towards an Understanding of the Real Diversity of Jurasaidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

scholarly article published in 2021

Iberobaenia andujari sp. nov., the Third Species of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) from Southern Spain

scientific article

Mastigocoleidae fam. nov., a New Mesozoic Beetle Family and the Early Evolution of Dryopoidea (Coleoptera) ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2022

Molecular Phylogeny and Infraordinal Classification of Zoraptera (Insecta)

scientific article published on 12 January 2020

Molecular and morphological evidence for new genera in the click-beetle subfamily Cardiophorinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) ⬇️

Molecular phylogeny and classification of Chelidurella Verhoeff, stat. restit. (Dermaptera: Forficulidae)

scholarly article published in 2020

Molecular phylogeny reveals the gradual evolutionary transition to soft-bodiedness in click-beetles and identifies sub-Saharan Africa as a cradle of diversity for Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae) ⬇️

scholarly article by Robin Kundrata & Ladislav Bocák published 3 June 2019 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

New minute Drilini species significantly extend the distributions of Lolosia and Microselasia (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in tropical Africa ⬇️

scientific article published in October 2018

New species of <i>Selasia</i> Laporte, 1838 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) from Nepal and Pakistan

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Next step toward a molecular phylogeny of click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae): redefinition of Pityobiinae, with a description of a new subfamily Parablacinae from the Australasian Region

scholarly article by Robin Kundrata et al published 23 November 2015 in Austral Entomology

One less mystery in Coleoptera systematics: the position of Cydistinae (Elateriformia incertae sedis) resolved by multigene phylogenetic analysis ⬇️

article by Robin Kundrata et al published 19 October 2019 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Perforated plates corresponding to integumental glands on the antennae of adult maleDrilus mauritanicusLucas 1849 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini)

scholarly article by Michel J. Faucheux published in January 2015

Platiana cechovskyi sp. nov. from Malaysia, a remarkable new member of Dimini (Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) with strongly serrate antennae

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Position and Relationships of Ripiphoridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) Inferred from Ribosomal and Mitochondrial Molecular Markers

Predator-prey interactions between shell-boring beetle larvae and rock-dwelling land snails

scientific article published in 2014

Ptilodactyla crenatostriata Redtenbacher, 1868 (Coleoptera: Ptilodactylidae) transferred to Phytocerum Costa, Vanin, Lawrence & Ide, 2003 (Coleoptera: Cerophytidae)

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

Review of Dolichostyrax Aurivillius (Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) in Borneo, with descriptions of three new genera and the first case of (ovo)viviparity in the long-horned beetles

scientific article

Revision of the flightless click-beetle genus Dima Charpentier, 1825 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini) in the Balkan Peninsula

scientific article (publication date: 13 January 2017)

Revisiting the Diversity of Euanoma Reitter, 1889 (Coleoptera: Omalisidae), with Descriptions of Four New Species from Turkey

Revisiting the diversity of Ludioctenus Fairmaire (Elateridae: Agrypninae), with description of a new species from Afghanistan, and discussion on the systematic position of Tetrigusina

scientific article published in 2018

Scanning Electron Microscopy Reveals the Antennal Micromorphology of Lamprodila (Palmar) festiva (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), an Invasive Pest of Ornamental Cupressaceae in Western Palaearctic ⬇️

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Selasia dembickyi sp. nov., the first member of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from South East Asia, with the description of S. jenisi sp. nov. from Nepal ⬇️

scientific article published in October 2018

Sinodima jenisi gen. et sp. nov., a new wingless click-beetle from the mountains of Hunan, China (Elateridae: Dendrometrinae: Dimini)

scientific article published in March 2019

Sinopyrophorinae, a new subfamily of Elateridae (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with the first record of a luminous click beetle in Asia and evidence for multiple origins of bioluminescence in Elateridae

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Taxonomic Review of the Himalayan Species ofSelasiaLaporte, 1836 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini)

scientific article published in June 2012

Taxonomic review of Drilus Olivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) from Asia Minor, with descriptions of seven new species and comments on the female antennal morphology in Drilini

scientific article (publication date: 2 September 2015)

Taxonomic revision of the endemic Bornean genera Anexodus Pascoe and Pantilema Aurivillius (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae)

scientific article

The First Ptilodactyla Illiger, 1807 (Coleoptera: Dryopoidea: Ptilodactylidae) Described from Eocene Baltic Amber

scholarly article published in 2021

The Fossil Record of Elateridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): Described Species, Current Problems and Future Prospects

scientific article published in 2021

The GenusDrilus(Elateridae: Agrypninae) in Levant: A New Species, New Records and Updated Key to the Males

scientific article published in September 2015

The comprehensive phylogeny of the superfamily Elateroidea (Coleoptera: Elateriformia).

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

The first Phengodidae fossil (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): Cretocydistus wittmeri gen. et sp. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

scientific article published in 2023

The first mainland European Mesozoic click-beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) revealed by X-ray micro-computed tomography scanning of an Upper Cretaceous amber from Hungary ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2022

The genus Brachypsectra LeConte, 1874 (Coleoptera: Brachypsectridae) in the Palaearctic Region

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

The genus Selasia Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in Sri Lanka

scientific article

The mitochondrial genome of Iberobaenia (Coleoptera: Iberobaeniidae): first rearrangement of protein-coding genes in the beetles

scientific article

The origin and diversity ofDrilusOlivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in Crete based on mitochondrial phylogeny

scientific article published in 2014

The phylogenetic position of Artematopodidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea), with description of the first two Eurypogon species from China

scientific article published on 20 December 2013

The phylogeny and limits of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): is there a common tendency of click beetles to soft-bodiedness and neoteny?

scholarly article by Robin Kundrata published in April 2011

Two new species of Elathous Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Syria

scientific article published on 2 April 2020

Unexpected diversity of Lacon Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in the Levant: revised species concepts, new species, and an identification key

scientific article published on 3 October 2019

Unlocking the mystery of the mid-Cretaceous Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) and modalities in transiting from gymnosperms to angiosperms

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

World catalogue of the genus-group names in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera). Part I: Agrypninae, Campyloxeninae, Hemiopinae, Lissominae, Oestodinae, Parablacinae, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae

scientific article published in 2019

X-ray micro-computed tomography reveals a unique morphology in a new click-beetle (Coleoptera, Elateridae) from the Eocene Baltic amber

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

A new species of Rhagophthalmus Motschulsky, 1854 (Coleoptera, Rhagophthalmidae) from Laos represents the smallest known member of the genus

scientific article published in 2023

Descriptions of two new flightless species of Pseudocsikia Schimmel & Platia (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Dimini) from Taiwan Island, China, with a definition of the formosana species-group

scientific article published on 01 June 2022

Nothotytthonyx, a new genus of Malthininae (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar ⬇️

scientific article

Rhagophthalmidae Olivier, 1907 (Coleoptera, Elateroidea): described genera and species, current problems, and prospects for the bioluminescent and paedomorphic beetle lineage ⬇️

scientific article published in November 2022

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