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List of works by Martin Fikáček

A Review of Andotypus and Austrotypus gen. nov., Rygmodine Genera with an Austral Disjunction (Hydrophilidae: Rygmodinae)

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A long-living species of the hydrophiloid beetles: Helophorus sibiricus from the early Miocene deposits of Kartashevo (Siberia, Russia)

scientific article

A new aberrant species of Nipponocercyon from the mountains of southeastern China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)

scientific article (publication date: 8 January 2015)

A new aberrant species of the genus Pacrillum from Nepal (Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae: Megasternini)

scientific article published in 2005

A new genus and two new species of Leiodinae from Chile, with keys to world genera of Sogdini and Leiodinae from Chile and Argentina (Coleoptera: Leiodidae)

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

scholarly article by Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela published in January 2018

A new species of Laccobius Erichson, 1837 (Hydrophilidae, Coleoptera) from the Chinese Himalaya, with comments on taxonomic status of subgenera Glyptolaccobius Gentili, 1989 and Cyclolaccobius Gentili, 1991 and additional faunistic records from China

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A new species of Sphaeridium from northeastern India and Myanmar (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)

scientific article published in 2015

A new species of the genus Cyrtonion (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Megasternini) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

scientific article published in 2008

A review of Elocomosta Hansen with a description of a new species with reduced eyes from China (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae)

scientific article (publication date: 27 July 2016)

A review of Himalcercyon stat. nov., with description of a new species from the Chinese Himalaya and an updated key to Asian genera of Megasternini (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae)

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

A review of Pseudorygmodus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with notes on the classification of the Anacaenini and on distribution of genera endemic to southern South America

scientific article published in 2014

A review of Thysanarthria with description of seven new species and comments on its relationship to Chaetarthria (Hydrophilidae: Chaetarthriini)

scientific article published in October 2019

A review of the Asian species of the Cercyon unipunctatus group (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)

scientific article published in 2017

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

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A review of the New Zealand Berosus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) with descriptions of three new species

article by Matthias Seidel et al published 3 July 2021 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae

A review of the genus Berosus Leach of Cuba (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae)

scientific article published on 28 February 2013

A review of the genus Oosternum Sharp of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)

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A review of the genus Satonius (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Torridincolidae): taxonomic revision, larval morphology, notes on wing polymorphism, and phylogenetic implications

scientific article published in 2008

A review of the omicrine genera Omicrogiton, Mircogioton and Peratogonus of China (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae)

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Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2007, October 4-5, Prague, Czech Republic

scientific article published in 2007

Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2009. October 1–2, Prague, Czech Republic

scientific article published in 2010

Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2011, September 29–30, Prague, Czech Republic

scientific article published in 2011

Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2013 October 3–4, Prague, Czech Republic

scientific article published in 2013

Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2015, October 1−2, Prague, Czech Republic

scientific article published in 2015

An Aquatic Water Scavenger Beetle in Early Miocene Amber from the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scholarly article by Martin Fikáček published in December 2011

An aberrant species of Nipponocercyon from Sichuan, China (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae)

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Biodiversity into your hands - A call for a virtual global natural history 'metacollection'

scientific article (publication date: 17 September 2013)

Biology and morphology of immature stages of banana-associated Protosternum beetles, with comments on the status of Taiwanese endemic P. abnormale (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scientific article published in November 2018

Breaking a Disjunct Distribution: A Review of the Southern Hemisphere GeneraCylorygmusandRelictorygmusgen. nov. (Hydrophilidae: Cylominae)

scientific article published in June 2018

Burmapseudomorphus planus gen. et sp. nov. – a Late Cretaceous stem group member of the specialized Pseudomorphini (Carabidae, Coleoptera) from northern Myanmar

scientific article published in March 2020

Catalogue of the type specimens deposited in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Polyneoptera

scientific article published in 2014

Cercyon hungaricus, a new junior subjective synonym of C. bononiensis (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scientific article (publication date: 18 February 2013)

Chimaerocyon gen. nov., a morphologically aberrant myrmecophilous genus of water scavenger beetle (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)

scientific article (publication date: 23 September 2013)

Clade age and diversification rate variation explain disparity in species richness among water scavenger beetle (Hydrophilidae) lineages

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Contributions to the taxonomy of the genera Pachysternum and Cyrtonion (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae)

scholarly article by Martin Fikáček published in January 2006

Cretocrenis burmanicus , the first Mesozoic amber inclusion of a water scavenger beetle (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scholarly article by Martin Fikáček published in September 2017

Description of a new species of Phaenonotum from eastern Cuba (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)

scientific article published in 2013

Description of immature stages of Laccobius kunashiricus, with a key to genera of the Laccobiini based on larval characters (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scholarly article by Yûsuke N. Minoshima published in July 2017

Diversification of myrmecophilous Clavigeritae beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) and their radiation in New Caledonia

scholarly article published in 2021

Diversification of the greater hydrophilines clade of giant water scavenger beetles dated back to the Middle Eocene (Coleoptera�:�Hydrophilidae�:�Hydrophilina)

scholarly article by Martin Fikáček published in January 2010

Emmidolium excavatum d’Orchymont (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae) confirmed in Africa and the Arabian peninsula

scientific article published in 2007

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

First record of myrmecophily in buprestid beetles: immature stages of Habroloma myrmecophila sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) associated with Oecophylla ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

article published in 2008

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

scientific article published in 2024

Fossil Cymbiodyta from Baltic amber confirms Euro-American ancient distribution of the genus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scientific article published in 2023

Fossil water scavenger beetles of the subtribe Hydrobiusina (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from the Late Oligocene locality of Aix-en-Provence (France)

scientific article published in 2010

Georissus persicus sp. nov. from Iran, with notes on the West-Palaearctic species of the G. laesicollis group (Coleoptera: Georissidae)

scientific article published in 2010

Hemisphaera orientalis New Species, the First Species of Hemisphaera from the Oriental Region (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Chaetarthriini)

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Horelophus walkeri rediscovered: adult morphology and notes on biology (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scientific article published in 2012

India-Madagascar vicariance explains cascade beetle biogeography

scholarly article by Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint et al published 23 February 2016 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Insect Fauna of the Late Miocene Locality of Öhningen (Germany) Less Diverse than Reported: An Example of the Hydrophilid Beetles (Coleoptera)

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Is repeated cypermethrin fumigation dangerous for the mitochondrial DNA in dry insect samples?

scientific article published in October 2018

Larval Morphology and Biology of the New Zealand-Chilean Genera Cylomissus Broun and Anticura Spangler (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Rygmodinae)

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Larval morphology and chaetotaxy of three CaribbeanBerosusLeach, 1817 with revised adult diagnosis ofBerosus undatus(Fabricius, 1792) (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scholarly article by Albert Deler-Hernández published in April 2016

Larval morphology of Yateberosus, a New Caledonian endemic subgenus of Laccobius (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with notes on ‘Berosus-like’ larvae in Hydrophiloidea

scientific article published in 2018

Micro-CT reveals hidden morphology and clarifies the phylogenetic position of Baltic amber water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scientific article (publication date: 17 December 2019)

Modern hydrophilid clades present and widespread in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea: Hydrophilidae)

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Morphological study and taxonomic revision of the genus Nipponocercyon (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)

scientific article published in 2010

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

Morphology of adults and larvae and integrative taxonomy of southern hemisphere genera Tormus and Afrotormus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scientific article published in 2013

Moss-inhabiting flea beetles in the Philippines (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae)

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Multiple origins of the Phaenonotum beetles in the Greater Antilles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): phylogeny, biogeography and systematics

scholarly article by Albert Deler-Hernández et al published 15 December 2017 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

New Mesozoic Water Scavenger Beetles from the Yixian Formation in China (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea)

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New records of the water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae) from the central European Oligocene-Miocene deposits, with a confirmation of the generic attribution ofHydrobiomorpha enspelenseWedmann 2000

Notes on the Australian Anacaenini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): description of male of Phelea breviceps Hansen and unravelling the identity of Crenitis neogallica Gentili

scientific article (publication date: 30 June 2015)

Notes on the seasonal dynamics of the coprophagous Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera) in western Turkey, with first record of Megasternum concinnum for Turkish fauna

scientific article published in 2008

Occurrence of introduced species of the genus Cercyon (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) in the Neotropical Region

scientific article published in 2009

On Wet Rocks with Snorkels: Immature Stages of Tritonus Cascade Beetles with Unusual Modification of Spiracles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Laccobiini)

scholarly article by Martin Fikáček published in March 2017

On the identity of Sternosternus grouvellei Guillebeau, 1894 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae, Phalacridae)

scientific article (publication date: March 2017)

Phylogeny, systematics and rarity assessment of New Zealand endemic Saphydrus beetles and related enigmatic larvae (Coleoptera : Hydrophilidae : Cylominae)

scientific article published in 2020

Protosternini (Coleoptera : Hydrophilidae) corroborated as monophyletic and its larva described for the first time: a review of the myrmecophilous genus Sphaerocetum

scholarly article by Martin Fikáček published in January 2015

Redescription and lectotype designation of Chasmogenus abnormalis (Sharp), with notes on its distribution

scientific article (publication date: 27 July 2016)

Redescriptions and lectotype designations of Central American species of Phaenonotum Sharp (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) based on the type material from the David Sharp collection

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Reliable placement of beetle fossils via phylogenetic analyses – Triassic Leehermania as a case study (Staphylinidae or Myxophaga?)

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Review of Coelostoma of the Indian subcontinent (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) Part 1: Coelostoma s. str. and Holocoelostoma

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Review of Dactylosternum Wollaston, 1854 from China and Japan (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae)

scientific article published on 13 January 2022

Review of the Taiwanese Laccobius Erichson, 1837 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with description of a new species

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

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Review of the genus Coelostoma of Taiwan with description of a new species (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Revision of Mesozoic fossils of the helophorid lineage of the superfamily Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga)

scientific article published in 2012

Taxonomic notes on Laccobius, subgenus Glyptolaccobius, with new records and description of four new species (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scientific article published in 2009

Taxonomic revision of the New World species of the genus Oosternum Sharp (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae) II. The Oosternum convexum species group

scientific article published in 2009

Taxonomic revision of theHydroporus bodemeyerispecies complex (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) with a geometric morphometric analysis of body shape within the group

scholarly article by Jiří Hájek published in June 2010

Taxonomy and biology of the bromeliad-inhabiting genus Lachnodacnum (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)

scientific article published in 2014

Taxonomy, larval morphology and cytogenetics of Lihelophorus, the Tibetan endemic subgenus of Helophorus (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea)

The Hydraenidae of Cuba (Insecta: Coleoptera) III. Description of two new hygropetric species of Hydraena Kugelann

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The Hydrophiloid beetles of Socotra Island (Coleoptera: Georissidae, Hydrophilidae)

scientific article published in 2012

The family Epimetopidae (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea): review of current knowledge, genus-level phylogeny, and taxonomic revision of Eupotemus

scientific article published on 3 February 2021

The genus Cangshanaltica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae): overview, new species, and notes on species complexes

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The genus Laccobius in China: new species and new records (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scientific article (publication date: 28 March 2013)

Two new species and additional faunistic records of Cercyon Leach, 1817 from China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Two new species of Coelostoma Brullé, 1835 from China and additional faunistic records of the genus from the Oriental Region (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae: Coelostomatini)

scientific article (publication date: 15 February 2017)

Two new species of the Epimetopus mendeli species group and notes on its adult and larval morphology (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea: Epimetopidae).

scientific article published in 2011

Under the Cretaceous bark: Fossil evidence for the ancient origin of subcortical lifestyle of clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae)

scientific article published on 28 April 2023

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

World catalogue of the Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera): additions and corrections II (2006–2010)

scientific article published in 2011