Submitted,
accepted, in press:
- Minoshima Y. N., Liu H.-C. & Fikacek M. (submitted) Description of larva of hygropetric Agraphydrus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae).
Published scientific
papers and book chapters:
(Diacritics omitted in the list below, see
the PDFs for correct spelling of Czech names and titles.)
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Seidel M., Sýkora V., Leschen R. A. B., Clarkson B. & Fikáček M. (2021, early view)
Ancient relicts or recent immigrants? Different dating strategies alter
diversification scenarios of New Zealand aquatic beetles (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Berosus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107241
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Seidel M., Sýkora V., Leschen R. A. B. & Fikáček M. (2021) A review of the New Zealand Berosus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) with descriptions of three new species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 61: 243-252. Link to the paper.
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Damaąka A., Konstantinov A., Lee C.-F., Ruan Y.-Y., Mohagan D. J., Fikacek M. (2021, early view) Molecular phylogeny of moss-inhabiting flea beetles from the Chabria group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini) reveals multiple colonizations and radiations in Taiwan. Systematic Entomology, https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12502
- Qvarnström M., Fikáček M.,
Wernström J. V., Huld S., Beutel R. G., Arriaga-Varela E., Ahlberg P.
E. & NiedĽwiedzki G. (2021) Exceptionally preserved beetles in a Triassic coprolite of
putative dinosauriform origin. Current Biology Link to the paper
- Arriaga-Varela E., Sykora
V. & Fikacek M. (2021) Molecular
phylogeny of Megasternini terrestrial water scavenger beetles
(Hydrophilidae) reveals repeated continental interchange during
Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Systematic Entomology https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12476
- Liu, H.-C. & Fikacek M. (2021) Review of the Taiwanese Laccobius
Erichson, 1837 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with description of a new
species. Zootaxa, 4963(3):587-599. Link to the paper.
- Liu H.-C., Ma C.-H. &
Fikacek M. (2021) Water scavenger beetles of Kinmen County, Taiwan (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Taiwan Journal of Biodiversity 23(1): 39-62. Link to the paper.
- Hlavac P., Parker J.,
Maruyama M. & Fikacek M. (2021) Diversification of
myrmecophilous Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
and their radiation in New Caledonia. Systematic Entomology 46(2): 422-452. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12469
- Fikacek M, Matsumoto K.,
Perkins P., Prokin A., Sazhnev A., Litovkin S., Jäch M. A. (2021)
The family Epimetopidae (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea): review of current
knowledge, genus-level phylogeny, and taxonomic revision of Eupotemus. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
61(1): 1-34. https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2021.001
- Archangelsky M.,
Martínez-Román N. R. & Fikacek M. (2020) Larval
chaetotaxy and morphology are highly homoplastic yet phylogenetically
informative in Hydrobiusini water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae). Zoological Journal
of the Linnean Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa050
- Fikacek M., Zhao Q., Kobe
I. N. & Grebennikov V. (2020). Kruia rediscovered:
phylogeny, larval morphology, and biology of an enigmatic hydrophilid
beetle from western Africa (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 78(3):
427–444. Link
to the paper.
- Rodriguez G., Fikacek M.,
Minoshima Y. N., Archangelsky M. & Torres P.L.M. (2020) Going
underwater: multiple origin and functional morphology of
piercing-sucking feeding and tracheal system adaptations in water
scavenger beetle larvae (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa132 Link
to the paper
- Angus R. B., Sadilek D.,
Shaarawi F., Dollimore H., Liu H.-C., Seidel M., Sykora V. &
Fikacek M. (2020) Karyotypes of the water scavenger beetles
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): new data and review of published records.Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa105. Link to the paper
- Damaska A. F., Mohagan D.
J. & Fikacek M. (2020): Moss-inhabiting flea beetles in the
Philippines (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). ZooKeys 960: 125-142. Link to the paper.
- Arriaga-Varela E., Brunke
A., Girón J. C., Szawaryn K., Bruthansová J. & Fikacek M. (2020) Micro-CT
reveals hidden morphology and clarifies the phylogenetic position of
Baltic amber water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Historical Biology https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1699921
- Link
to the paper
- Sheth S., Ghate H. &
Fikacek M. (2020) Review of Coelostoma
of the Indian subcontinent (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) Part 1: Coelostoma s.str. and Holocoelostoma. European Journal of
Taxonomy 690: 1-32. Link
to the paper
- Jia F.-L., Liang Z.-L.
& Fikacek M. (2020) A review of Himalcercyon
stat. nov., with description of a new species from
Chinese Himalaya and an updated key
to Asian genera of Megasternini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 67(1): 35–49. - Link to the paper
- Fikacek M., Hu F.-S.,
Aston P., Jia F.-L., Liang W.-R., Liu H.-S. & Minoshima Y. N.
(2020) Comparative morphology of immature stages and adults of Hydroscapha from Taiwan, with
description of a new species from Hong-Kong (Coleoptera: Myxophaga:
Hydroscaphidae). Raffles Journal of
Zoology 68:334-349. - Link
to the paper.
- Seidel M., Minoshima Y.
N., Leschen R. A. B. & Fikacek M. (2020) Phylogeny,
systematics and rarity assessment of New Zealand endemic Saphydrus
beetles and related enigmatic larvae (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae:
Cylominae). Invertebrate Systematics
34(3): 260-292. - Link to the paper.
- Liu H.-C., Hu F.-S. &
Fikáček M. (2020) Review of the genus Coelostoma of Taiwan with
description of a new species (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60(1): 155-162. - Link to the paper
- Beutel R.G., Ribera I.,
Fikacek M., Vasilikopoulos A., Misof B. & Balke M. (2020) The
morphological evolution of the Adephaga (Coleoptera). Systematic Entomology 45(2): 378-395. - Link
to the paper.
- Beutel R.G., Liu Z.,
Fikacek M., Ren D., Pang H. & Slipinski A. (2020) Burmapseudomorphus planus
gen. et sp. nov. – a Late Cretaceous stem group member of the
specialized Pseudomorphini (Carabidae, Coleoptera) from northern
Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 107(104274):
1-7. - Link
to the paper
- Fikacek
M., Beutel R. G., Cai C., Lawrence J. F., Newton A. F., Solodovnikov
A., Slipinski A., Thayer M. K. & Yamamoto S. (2020): Reliable
placement of beetle fossils via phylogenetic analysis - Triassic Leehermania as a case study
(Staphylinidae or Myxophaga?). Systematic
Entomology 45: 175-187.
Link
to the paper
- Fikacek M., Skale A. &
Jia F.-L. (2019) Rediscovery of Coelostoma thienemanni (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae): the first record from continental Asia and correction
of its subgeneric assignment. Journal
of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series 188: 89–94. Link
to the paper.
- Jia F.-L., Chen J.-H.
& Fikacek M. (2019) 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. ZooKeys 889: 65-80. - LInk to the paper.
- Fikacek M. (2019) 16. Superfamily
Hydrophiloidea Leach, 1815. Pp. 249-250. In: ¦lipiński A. &
Lawrence J. (eds.) Australian
Beetles. Volume 2. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga (part).
CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, 765 pp. - Link
to GoogleBooks
- Fikacek M. (2019) 17. Georissidae Castelnau,
1840. Pp. 251-257. In: ¦lipiński A. & Lawrence J. (eds.) Australian Beetles. Volume 2.
Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga (part). CSIRO
Publishing, Clayton, 765 pp. - Link
to GoogleBooks
- Fikacek M. (2019) 18. Hydrochidae Thomson,
1859. Pp. 258-264. In: ¦lipiński A. & Lawrence J. (eds.) Australian Beetles. Volume 2.
Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga (part). CSIRO
Publishing, Clayton, 765 pp. - Link
to GoogleBooks
- Fikacek M. (2019) 19. Spercheidae Erichson,
1837. Pp. 265-270. In: ¦lipiński A. & Lawrence J. (eds.) Australian Beetles. Volume 2.
Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga (part). CSIRO
Publishing, Clayton, 765 pp. - Link
to GoogleBooks
- Fikacek M. (2019) 20. Hydrophilidae Leach,
1815. Pp. 271-337. In: ¦lipiński A. & Lawrence J. (eds.) Australian Beetles. Volume 2.
Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga (part). CSIRO
Publishing, Clayton, 765 pp. - Link
to GoogleBooks
- Arriaga-Varela E.,
Cortés-Aguilar J. & Fikacek M. (2019) Water scavenger
beetles in rotten cacti: a review of Agna
with the description of a new species from Mexico (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Revista
Mexicana de Biodiversidad 90(e902856):
1-12. Link
to the paper
- Fikacek M. & Liu H.-C.
(2019) A review of Thysanarthria
with description of seven new species and comments on
its relationships to Chaetarthria (Hydrophilidae:
Chaetarthriini). Acta Entomologica
Musei Nationalis Pragae 59(1):
229-252. Link
to the paper
- Fikacek M. (2019) Neotropical
leaf litter beetle genus Motonerus (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae): new species, distribution data and description of third
instar larva. Neotropical Entomology 48(5): 788-808. Link
to the paper
- Arriaga-Varela E.,
Tomaszewska W. & Fikacek M. (2019) A new genus of
Endomychinae (Coleoptera: Endomychidae) from the Neotropics with
unusual mouthparts. Neotropical
Entomology 48(2): 290-301.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-018-0635-2
- Jia F.-L., Liang Z.-L.,
Ryndevich S. K. & Fikacek M. (2019) Two new species and
additional faunistic records of Cercyon
Leach, 1817 from China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 4565(4): 501-514. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4565.4.4
- Vondracek D., Tkoc Michal,
Fikacek Martin (2018) Is repeated cypermethrin fumigation
dangerous for the mitochondrial DNA in dry insect samples? Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58(2): 609-614. Link
to the paper.
- Fikacek M., Liang W.-R., Hsiao Y., Jia
F.-L. & Vondracek D. (2018): Biology
and morphology of immature stages of banana-associated Protosternum
beetles, with comments on the status of Taiwanese endemic P. abnormale
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zoologischer
Anzeiger 277: 85-100. Link to the paper Link
to the paper web page
- Szczepanski W. T.,
Vondracek D., Seidel M., Wardhaugh C. & Fikacek M. (2018): High
diversity of Cetiocyon beetles
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) along an elevational gradient on Mt.
Wilhelm, New Guinea, with new records from the Bird´s Head Peninsula. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny
76(2): 323-347. Link
to the paper.
- Fikacek M., Minoshima Y. & Jäch M. A. (2018):
Larval morphology of Yateberosus, a New.Caledonian
endemic genus of Laccobius (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae), with notes on ‘Berosus-like’ larvae in Hydrophiloidea. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58(1): 195-206. Link to the paper.
- Seidel M., Minoshima Y. N., Arriaga-Varela
E. & Fikacek M. (2018): Breaking a disjunct distribution: a
review of the southern hemisphere genera Cylorygmus and Relictorygmus gen. nov.
(Hydrophilidae: Cylominae). Annales
Zoologici 68(2): 375-402.
Link
to the paper.
- Minoshima Y. N., Seidel
M., Wood J. R., Leschen R. A B., Gunter M. & Fikacek M. (2018): Morphology
and biology of the flower-visiting water scavenger beetle genus Rygmodus (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae). Entomological Science
21(4): 363-384. Link
to the paper Self-archiving version
- Arriaga-Varela E., Wong
S.-Y., Kirejtshuk A. & Fikacek M. (2018): Review of the
flower-inhabiting water scavenger beetle genus Cycreon (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae), with descriptions of new species and comments on its
biology. Deutsche Entomologische
Zeitschrift 65(1): 99-115. Link to the paper.
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Deler-Hernández A., Sykora V., Seidel M.,
Cala-Riquelme F., Fikacek M. (2018):
Multiple origins of the Phaenonotum beetles in the Greater Antilles
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): phylogeny, biogeography and systematics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
183: 97-120. Link
to the paper.
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Arriaga-Varela E., Seidel M. & Fikacek
M. (2018)
A new genus of coprophagous water scavenger beetle from Africa
(Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae, Megasternini) with a
discussion on the Cercyon subgenus Acycreon. African Invertebrates 59(1): 1-23. Link
to the paper.
- Ryndevich S. K.. Jia F.-L. & Fikacek M.
(2017)
A review of the Asian species of the Cercyon unipunctatus group
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Acta Entomologica Musei
Nationalis Pragae 57(2):
535-576. Link to the
paper.
- Minoshima
Y. N., Iwata Y., Fikáček M. & Hayashi M. (2017)
Description of immature stages of Laccobius kunashiricus, with a key to
genera of the Laccobiini based on larval characters (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57: 97-119. Link to the paper.
- Newton
A. F., ©vec Z. & Fikáček M. (2017)
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). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57: 121-140. Link to the paper -
Erratum
- Arriaga-Varela
E., Seidel M., Deler-Hernández A., Senderov V. & Fikacek M. (2017) A
review of Cercyon Leach
(Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae) of the Greater Antilles. ZooKeys 681: 39-93. Link
to the paper.
- Fikacek
M., Minoshima Y. N., Komarek A., Short A. E. Z., Huang D., Cai C.-Y.
(2017) Cretocrenis burmanicus,
the first Mesozoic amber inclusion of a water scavenger beetle
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Cretaceous
Research 77: 49-55. Link
to the paper.
- Deler-Hernandez
A., Fikacek M., Delgado J. (2017) The Hydraenidae of Cuba
(Insecta: Coleoptera) III. Description of two new hygropetric species
of Hydraena Kugelann. Zootaxa 4250(5): 434-446. Link
to the paper.
- Fikacek
M., Gustafson G. T., Short A. E. Z. (2017) On wet rocks with
snorkels: immature stages of Tritonus
cascade beetles with unusual modification of spiracles
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Laccobiini). Annales Zoologici 67(1): 91-107. Link
to the paper.
- Fikacek
M. & Gimmel M. L. (2017) On the identity of Sternosternus
grouvellei Guillebeau, 1894 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae, Phalacridae). Zootaxa 4237(3): 578-582. Link
to paper
- Jia
F.-L., Lin R-C., Chan E., Skale A. & Fikacek M (2017) Two
new species of Coelostoma Brulle,
1835 from China and additional faunistic records of the genus from the
Oriental Region (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae:
Coelostomatini). Zootaxa 4232(1): 113-122.
- Toussaint
E. A. F., Seidel M., Arriaga-Varela E., Hájek J., Král D., Sekerka L.,
Short A. E. Z. & Fikáček M. (2017) The peril of dating
beetles. Systematic Entomology 42(1): 1-10 DOI: 10.1111/syen.12198. Link to the paper.
- Krell
F. T., Klimeą P., Rocha L. A., Fikacek M. & Miller S. E. (2016) Preserve
specimens for reproducibility. Nature
539: 168. Link to the paper.
- Bhubaneshwari
Devi M., Sandhyarani Devi O., Fikacek M., Minoshima Y. &
Wanghengbam L. (2016) Redescription and lectotype designation
of Chasmogenus abnormalis (Sharp)
with notes on its distribution. Zootaxa
4144(2):
296-300. Link to
the paper.
- Lin
R., Jia F. & Fikacek M. (2016) A review of Elocomosta Hansen with a
description of a new species with reduced eyes from China (Coleoptera,
Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). ZooKeys
607: 80-92. Link to the
paper.
- Seidel
M., Arriaga-Varela E. & Fikacek M. (2016) Establishment
of Cylominae Zaitzev, 1908 as a valid name for the subfamily Rygmodinae
Orchymont, 1916 with an updated list of genera (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae). Acta Entomologica
Musei Nationalis Pragae 56(1):
159-165. Download
PDF.
- Angus
R. B., Jia F.-L., Chen Z., Zhang Y., Vondráček D. & Fikacek M.
(2016) Taxonomy, larval morphology and cytogenetics of Lihelophorus, the Tibetan endemic
subgenus of Helophorus (Coleoptera:
Hydrophiloidea). Acta Entomologica
Musei Nationalis Pragae 56(1):
109-148. Download
PDF.
- Deler-Hernández
A. & Fikacek M. (2016) Larval morphology and chaetotaxy of
three Caribbean Berosus Leach,
1817 with revised adult diagnosis of Berosus
undatus (Fabricius, 1792) (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Aquatic Insects 37(2): 99-113. Link
to the paper.
- Minoshima
Y., Fikacek M. & Ohara M. (2016) Distribution of a
conspicuous terrestrial hydrophilid beetle Cercyon lineolatus (Motschulsky)
(Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). Elytra (Tokyo), New Series 6(1): 165-169. Download PDF.
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Deler-Hernández A. &
Fikacek M. (2016) Redescriptions
and lectotype designations of Central American species of Phaenonotum
Sharp (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) based on the type material from the
David Sharp collection. ZooKeys 579: 83-98. Link to the
paper.
- Toussaint E.F.A., Fikacek
M. & Short A. E. Z. (2016) India-Madagascar vicariance
explains cascade beetle biogeography. Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society 118(4):
982-991. Link
to the paper.
- Fikacek M. & Kropacek
D. (2015) A new species of Sphaeridium
from northeastern India and Myanmar (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Acta
Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55: 673-680. Download
PDF
- Minoshima Y. N., Fikacek
M., Gunter N. & Leschen R. A. B. (2015): Larval morphology
and biology of the New Zealand-Chilean genera Cylomissus Broun and Anticura Spangler (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Rygmodinae). Coleopterists
Bulletin 69(4): 687-712. Link to
the paper
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Fikacek M., Angus R.B., Gentili
E., Jia F.-L., Minoshima Y.N., Prokin A., Przewozny M. & Ryndevich
S.K. (2015)
Helophoridae, Georissidae, Hydrochidae, Epimetopidae, Spercheidae,
Hydrophilidae. Pp. 1, 25-76 In: Löbl I. & Löbl D. (eds.) Catalogue
of Palaearctic Coleoptera, volume 2. Revised and updated version.
Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Brill, Leiden-Boston, 1702 pp.
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Jia F.-L., Lin R.-C., Li B.-J.
& Fikacek M. (2015) A review of omicrine genera Omicrogiton, Mircogioton and Peratogonus of China (Coleoptera,
Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). ZooKeys
511: 96-116. Download
PDF
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Fikacek M. & Watts C. H. S.
(2015): Notes on Australian Anacaenini (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae): description of male Phelea breviceps Hansen
and unravelling the identity of Crenitis neogallica Gentili.
Zootaxa 427-434. Link to the paper
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Gentili E. &
Fikacek M. (2015) A new CW Mediterranean species of Laccobius
(Dimorpholaccobius): L. (D.) fresnedai sp. n.(Coleoptera,
Hydrophilidae). Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 14(60):
99-106.
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Fikacek M., Maruyama
M., Komatsu T., von Beeren C., Vondracek D. & Short A. E. Z.
(2015): Protosternini
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) corroborated as monophyletic and its larva
described for the first time: a review of the myrmecophilous genus Sphaerocetum.
Invertebrate Systematics 29(1) 23-36. Link to the paper
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Fikacek M., Jia
F.-L. & Ryndevich S. K. (2015): A new aberrant species of
Nipponocercyon from mountains of southeastern China (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa 3904(4): 572-580. See the
abstract
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Fikacek M., Minoshima Y. & Newton
A. F. (2014): A review of Andotypus and Austrotypus
gen. nov., rygmodine genera with austral disjunct
distribution (Hydrophilidae: Rygmodinae). Annales Zoologici
64(4): 557-596. Link to
the paper
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Jia F.-L., Aston P. &
Fikacek M. (2014): Review of the Chinese
species of the genus Coelostoma Brullé, 1835 (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa 3887(3): 354-376 . See the
abstract.
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Lokkos A., Boukal M. & Fikacek M.
(2014): The hydrophilid beetle Pachysternum capense (Mulsant,
1844) (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) became a world-wide adventive
species: a summary of distribution with new records from Europe,
Australia and South America. North-West Journal of Zoology 10(2):
333-336.
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Fikacek M. & Vondracek D. (2014):
A review of Pseudorygmodus (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae), with notes on the classification of the Anacaenini and
on distribution of genera endemic to southern South America. Acta
Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54(2): 497-514.
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Albertoni F. F. & Fikacek M.
(2014): A new bromeliad-inhabiting species of Omicrus Sharp
from South Brazil. Spixiana 37(1): 111-122.
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Bloom D. D., Fikacek M. & Short
A. E. Z. (2014): Clade
age and diversification rate variation explain disparity in species
richness among water scavenger beetle (Hydrophilidae) lineages. PLOS
One 9(6): e98430, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098430. Link
to the paper - Download
PDF
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Deler-Hernandez A., Cala-Riquelme F.
& Fikacek M. (2014): A review of the genus Oosternum
Sharp of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Deutsche
Entomologische Zeitschrift 61: 43-63. Download
PDF
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Machackova L. & Fikacek M. (2014):
Catalogue of the type specimens desposited in the Department of
Entomology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Polyneopteran
orders. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54: 399-450. Download PDF
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Clarkson B., Albertoni F. &
Fikacek M. (2014): Taxonomy and biology of the
bromeliad-inhabiting genus Lachnodacnum (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis
Pragae 54: 157-194. Download
PDF
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Fikacek M., Prokin A., Yan E. Yue Y.,
Wang B., Ren D. & Beattie R. (2014): Modern hydrophilid clades
present and widespread in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous
(Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea: Hydrophilidae). Zoological Journal of the
Linnean Society 170: 710-734. Link
to the paper
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Jia F.-L., Fikáček M. & Song
K.-Q. (2013): Hemisphaera
orientalis new species, the first species of Hemisphaera from the
Oriental Region (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Chaetarthriini). Journal
of the Kansas Entomological Society 86: 301-306. Link to the
paper.
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Deler-Hernandez A.,
Cala-Riquelme F. & Fikacek M. (2013): Description of a new
species of Phaenonotum from eastern Cuba (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis
Pragae 53: 615-622. Download PDF.
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Ryndevich S. K. & Fikacek M.
(2013): Faunistic and zoogeographic notes on hydrophiloid
beetles from the Palaearctic region. Vestnik BarDU, Seriya
Biologicheskiye Nauki Selskokhozyaistvennye Nauki 1: 32-37. Download PDF
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Balke M., Schmidt S., Hausmann
A., Toussaint E. F. A., Bergsten J., Buffington M., Häuser C. L.,
Kroupa A., Hagedorn G., Riedel A., Polaszek A., Ubaidillah R., Krogmann
L., Zwick A., Fikacek M., Hajek J., Michat M. C., Dietrich C., La Salle
J., Mantle B., Ng P. K. L. & Hobern D. (2013): Biodiversity
into your hands - A call for a virtual global natural history
‘metacollection’. Frontiers in Zoology 10: 55
(http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/10/1/55). Link to the
paper.
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Fikacek M.,
Maruyama M., Vondracek D. & Short A. E. Z. (2013): Chimaerocyon
gen. nov., a morphologically aberrant myrmecophilous genus of water
scavenger beetle (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa
3716: 277-288. Abstract
(PDF)
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Short A. E. Z. & Fikacek
M.(2013): Molecular Phylogeny, Evolution, and Classification of
the Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera). Systematic Entomology 38:
723-752. Link
to the paper
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Fikacek M., Minoshima Y.,
Vondracek D., Gunter N., Leschen R.A.B. (2013): Morphology of
adults and larvae and integrative taxonomy of Gondwanan genera Tormus
and Afrotormus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Acta Entomologica
Musei Nationalis Pragae 53: 75-126. Download PDF.
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Fikacek M. & Schmied H. (2013): Insect
fauna of the Late Miocene locality of Öhningen (Germany) less diverse
than reported: an example of the hydrophilid beetles (Coleoptera).
Journal of Paleontology 87(3): 427–443. Abstract (PDF)
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Jia F.-L., Gentili E. & Fikacek
M. (2013): The genus Laccobius in China: new species and new
records (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 3635: 402-418. Abstract
(PDF)
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Deler-Hernandez A., Fikacek M. &
Cala-Riquelme F. (2013): A review of the genus Berosus Leach
of Cuba. Zookeys 273: 73–106. Download
PDF.
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Fikacek M. & Rocchi S. (2013): Cercyon
hungaricus, a new junior subjective synonym of C. bononiensis
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 3616:
95-98. Abstract (PDF).
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Fikacek M., Delgado J. A. &
Gentili E. (2012): The Hydrophiloid beetles of the Socotra
Island (Coleoptera: Georissidae, Hydrophilidae). Acta Entomologica
Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (supplementum 2): 107-130. Download PDF
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Boukal
D. S., Fikacek M., Hajek J., Konvicka O., Krivan V., Sejkora R.,
Skalicky S., Straka M., Sychra J. & Travnicek D. (2012): New
and interesting records of water beetles from the Czech Republic
(Coleoptera: Sphaeriusidae, Dytiscidae, Helophoridae, Hydrophilidae,
Georissidae, Hydraenidae, Scirtidae, Elmidae, Dryopidae, Limnichidae,
Heteroceridae). Klapalekiana 48: 1-21.
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Fikacek M., Ryndevich S. K.
& Jia F.-L. (2012): An aberrant species of Nipponocercyon
from Sichuan, China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). ZooKeys
214: 13-27.
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Fikacek M., Prokin A. A., Angus R.
B., Ponomarenko A. G., Yue Y., Ren D. & Prokop J.(2012): Phylogeny
and the fossil record of the Helophoridae reveal Jurassic origin of
modern hydrophiloid lineages (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Systematic
Entomology 37: 420-447. Abstract
(PDF)
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Fikacek M., Prokin A. A., Angus R.
B., Ponomarenko A. G., Yue Y., Ren D. & Prokop J. (2012): Revision
of Mesozoic fossils of the helophorid lineage of the superfamily
Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Acta Entomologica Musei
Nationalis Pragae 52: 89–127. Download PDF
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Fikacek M., Leschen R. A. B, Newton
A.F. & Gunter N. (2012): Horelophus walkeri rediscovered:
adult morphology and notes on biology (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Acta
Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52: 129–146. Download PDF
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Fikacek M. (2012): A new
species of leaf-litter inhabiting Georissus from Borneo
(Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea: Georissidae). Zootaxa 3316: 63–68.
Abstract
(PDF).
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Fikacek M., Jia F.-L. & Prokin A.
(2012): Review of the Asian species of the genus Pachysternum (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa 3219: 1-53.
Abstract (PDF)
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Litovkin S.V. & Fikacek M.(2011):
New records of Georissus costatus Laporte de
Castelnau, 1840 (Coleoptera: Georissidae) from Russia. Russian
Entomological Journal 20(4): 383-385. Download
PDF
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Fikacek M. & Engel M. S. (2011): An
aquatic water scavenger beetle in Early Miocene amber from the
Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Annales Zoologici
61(4): 621-628. Download PDF
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Fikacek M. & Jia F.-L. (2011): On
the identity of Anchorosternum sinense (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Megasternini). Zootaxa 3121: 66-68. Download PDF
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Fikacek M., Barclay, M. & Perkins
P. (2011): Two new species of the Epimetopus mendeli species
group and notes on its adult and larval morphology (Coleoptera:
Hydrophiloidea: Epimetopidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis
Pragae 51: 477-504. Download PDF
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Jia F.-L., Fikacek M. & Ryndevich
S. (2011): Taxonomic notes on Chinese Cercyon species: a
new species, new synonyms and new faunistic records (Coleoptera,
Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa 3090: 41-56. Abstract (PDF)
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Fikacek M., Prokin A. & Angus R.
B.(2011): A long-living species of the hydrophiloid beetles: Helophorus
sibiricus from the early Miocene deposits of Kartashevo (Siberia,
Russia). Zookeys 130: 239-254. Download
PDF (5.3 MB)
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Hajek J., Yoshitomi H., Fikacek M.,
Hayashi M. & Jia F.-L. (2011): Two new species of Satonius
Endrödy-Younga from China and notes on the wing polymorphism of
Japanese S. kurosawai (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Torridincolidae).
Zootaxa 3016: 51-62. Abstract (PDF)
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Short A. E. Z. & Fikacek M.
(2011): World catalogue of the Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera):
additions and corrections II (2006-2010). Acta Entomologica Musei
Nationalis Pragae 51(1): 83-122. Download
PDF (300 kB)
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Fikacek M., Prokop J. & Nel A.
(2010): Fossil water scavenger beetles of the subtribe
Hydrobiusina (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from the Upper Oligocene
locality of Aix-en-Provence. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis
Pragae 50: 445-458. Download PDF (370
kB) – Data
matrix (TNT format)
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Fikacek M. & Short A. E. Z.
(2010): Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the genus Cetiocyon
and its discovery in the Neotropical region (Insecta: Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 68(3):
309-329. Download
PDF (900 kb) – Data
matrix 1 (discrete characters only, Nexus format) –
Data matrix 2 (all characters, TNT format)
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Fikacek M. (2010): Sphaerocetum
gen. n., a new genus of the Protosternini from Peninsular
Malaysia (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa
2601: 28–36. Abstract
(PDF)
- Fikacek M. (2010): HYDROPHILIDAE: Sphaeridiinae
(Coleoptera). In: Jäch M. A. & Balke M. (eds.):
Water Beetles of New Caledonia, volume 1. Monographs
of Coleoptera
3: 323-364. Download
PDF (1.6 MB)
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Fikacek M. (2010):
HYDROPHILIDAE: The genus Kanala Balfour-Browne (Coleoptera).
In: Jäch M. A. & Balke M.
(eds.): Water Beetles of New Caledonia, volume 1. Monographs of Coleoptera
3: 365-394.
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PDF (2.0 MB)
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Fikacek M. (2010):
HYDROPHILIDAE: The genus Chaetarthria Stephens
– description of a new species from New Caledonia and notes
on C. nigerrima (Blackburn)
from Australia (Coleoptera).
In: Jäch M. A. & Balke M.
(eds.): Water Beetles of New Caledonia, volume 1. Monographs of Coleoptera
3: 263-269.
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PDF (583 kB)
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Fikacek M., Schmied H.
& Prokop J. (2010): Fossil
hydrophilid beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) of the Late Oligocene
Rott Formation (Germany).
Acta Geologica Sinica 84 (4): 732-750
Abstract
(PDF)
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Fikacek
M.
&
Short, A. E. Z. (2010):
A revision of the Neotropical
genus Sacosternum
Hansen (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa
2538:1-37.
Abstract
(PDF) – Data matrix
(TNT format)
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Prokin A., Ren D. & Fikacek M. (2010):
New Mesozoic
water scavenger beetles from the Yixian Formation in China (Coleoptera,
Hydrophiloidea).
Annales Zoologici 60(29: 173-179.
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PDF (2.4 MB)
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Fikacek
M.
& Falamarzi Sh. (2010): Georissus
persicus
sp. nov. from Iran, with notes on the West-Palaearctic
species of the G. laesicollis group (Coleoptera: Georissidae).
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50:
107-116.
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(357 kB)
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Hoshina H.
& Fikacek M. (2010): Morphological
study and taxonomic revision of the genus Nipponocercyon Sato
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Acta Entomologica Musei
Nationalis Pragae 50: 117-130. Download PDF (449 kB)
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Hajek J.
& Fikacek M. (2010):
Taxonomic revision of the Hydroporus bodemeyeri
species complex (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) with a geometric morphometric
analysis of body shape within the group. Journal of Natural
History 44 (27-28): 1631-1657.
Abstract
(PDF).
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Fikacek M., Wedmann S.
& Schmied H. (2010):
Diversification of the
greater hydrophilines clade of giant water
scavenger beetles dated back to the Middle Eocene
(Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilina). Invertebrate
Systematics 24: 9-22.
Abstract
(PDF)
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Fikacek
M., Gentili E. & Short A. E. Z. (2010):
Order Coleoptera, family Hydrophilidae. In: van Harten, A. (ed.): Arthropod
fauna of the UAE, volume 3.
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PDF (1.0 MB)
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Fikacek
M. (2009):
The occurrence of introduced species of the genus Cercyon (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae) in the Neotropical region. Revista de la Sociedad
Entomológica Argentina 68 (3-4): 351-357.
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PDF(390 kB)
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Fikacek
M., Boukal M., Lokkos A., Kraus Z. & Krivan V. (2009):
First records of Cercyon
hungaricus Endrody-Younga, 1967 from Slovakia, notes on its
distribution and biology, and fixation of its type specimens
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae).
Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae Biologicae (Brno) 94: 73-80.
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PDF (350 kB)
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Gentili E. &
Fikacek M. (2009):
Taxonomic notes on Laccobius, subgenus Glyptolaccobius,
with new records and description of
four
new species (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae).
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49(2):
607-623.
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PDF (420 kB)
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Fikacek
M.
& Sipkova
H. (2009): New Asian Hydroscapha,
with comments on male-female association of co-occuring species
(Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae).
Zootaxa
2286: 31-48.
Abstract
(PDF)
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Fikacek
M. (2009):
Taxonomic
revision of New World species of the genus Oosternum Sharp.
III. A new species of O. aequinoctiale species group from
Costa Rica (Hydrophilidae:
Sphaeridiinae: Megasternini).
Koleopterologische Rundschau 79: 179-187.
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PDF (3.6 MB)
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Fikacek M.
& Hebauer F. (2009):
Taxonomic
revision of
New World
species of the
genus Oosternum Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae:
Sphaeridiinae)
II. The
O. convexum
species group.
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49(1):
103-117.
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PDF (960 kB)
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Fikacek M. &
Travnicek D. (2009): Georissidae of the
United Arab Emirates. Pp.145-148. In: van Harten, A. (ed.): Arthropod
fauna of the UAE, volume 2.
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PDF (200 kB)
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Fikacek M. (2009):
Order Coleoptera. Family
Helophoridae. Pp. 142-144. In: van Harten, A. (ed.): Arthropod
fauna of the UAE, volume 2.
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PDF (160 kB)
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Fikacek M., Hebauer
F.
& Hansen M. (2009):
Taxonomic
revision of
New World
species of the
genus Oosternum Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae:
Sphaeridiinae) I.
Definition of species
groups and revision of
O. aequinoctiale
species group.
Zootaxa 2054: 1-37.
Abstract (PDF)
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Hajek
J.
& Fikacek M. (2008):
A review of the genus Satonius
(Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Torridincolidae): taxonomic
revision, larval morphology, notes on wing polymorphism, and
phylogenetic implications. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis
Pragae 48: 655-676.
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(540 kB)
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Fikacek M.,
Archangelsky M. & Torres P. M. (2008):
Primary chaetotaxy
of the
larval head capsule and head
appendages of the Hydrophilidae (Insecta:
Coleoptera) based on larvae of the
genus Hydrobius Leach.
Zootaxa 1874: 16-34.
Abstract (PDF)
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Fikacek
M. (2008):
A new species of the genus Cyrtonion
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Megasternini) from the Democratic Republic
of the Congo. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48:
27-35. Download PDF
(200 kB)
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Bily S., Fikacek M.
& Sipek P. (2008): First
record of myrmecophily in buprestid beetles: immature stages of Habroloma
myrmecophila
sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) associated with
Oecophylla ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Systematic & Evolution
39: 121-131.
Abstract
(PDF)
Ant
interactions video (3.3 MB)
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Boukal D. S., Boukal
M., Fikacek M., Hajek J., Klecka J., Skalicky S., Stastny J. & Trávnicek D. (2008): Katalog vodních
brouků České republiky. Catalogue of water beetles of the Czech
Republic (Coleoptera: Sphaeriusidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae,
Hygrobiidae, Dytiscidae, Helophoridae, Georissidae, Hydrochidae,
Spercheidae, Hydrophilidae, Hydraenidae, Scirtidae, Elmidae, Dryopidae,
Limnichidae, Heteroceridae, Psephenidae). Klapalekiana 43
(2007)(Supplementum): 1-289. Download PDF (1.8 MB)
Corrections
to the Catalogue (112 kB)
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Anlas S. , Fikacek
M. &
Tezcan S. (2008): Notes on the seasonal dynamics of the coprophagous
Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera) in western Turkey, with first record of Megasternum
concinnum for Turkish fauna.
Linzer Biologische Beiträge 40(1): 409-417.
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PDF (1.6 MB)
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Fikacek M., Hajek J.
& Prokop J. (2008):
New records of the water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae,
Hydrophilidae) from the central European Oligocene-Miocene deposits,
with a confirmation of the generic attribution of Hydrobiomorpha
enspelense Wedmann 2000.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (n.s.)
44(2): 187-199.
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PDF (1.1 MB)
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Prokop J. &
Fikacek M. (2007): Early Oligocene insect fauna from
Seifhennersdorf (Saxony, Germany). Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae,
series B - Historia Naturalis
63 (2-4): 205-213
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Fikacek M. (2007):
Emmidolium
excavatum
Orchymont
(Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae) confirmed in Africa and the Arabian
peninsula.
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47:
117-122.
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PDF (250 kB)
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Fikacek M. &
Angus R. B. (2006):
Helophorus (Thaumhelophorus) inexpectatus ANGUS, 1995 – description of
male genitalia and notes on morphological variability and bionomy
(Coleoptera: Helophoridae). Koleopterologische Rundschau
76: 277-282. Download
PDF (460 kB)
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Fikacek M. & Short, A. E. Z. (2006): A revision of
the Neotropical genus Motonerus Hansen (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae:
Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa 1268: 1-38.
Abstract
(PDF)
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Fikacek M. (2006):
Primary
chaetotaxy of the larval head of the hydrophiloid beetles (Coleoptera:
Hydrophiloidea). Unpubl. MSc. Thesis, Department of Zoology, Faculty of
Natural Science, Charles University in Prague, 221 pp.
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Fikacek M. (2006):
Contributions to the taxonomy of the genera Pachysternum and Cyrtonion
(Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). Biologia 61(2):
149-157.
Abstract
(PDF)
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Fikacek M. (2006):
Taxonomic status of Cercyon alpinus, C. exorabilis, C. strandi and C.
tatricus and notes on their biology (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae:
Sphaeridiinae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien
107 B (2005): 145-164.
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PDF (1.5 MB)
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Fikacek M. &
Boukal D. S. (2005): Review of LÖBL I. & SMETANA A. (eds.)
2004: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 2.
Hydrophiloidea – Histeroidea – Staphylinoidea. Klapalekiana
41:88-90.
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PDF (129 kB)
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Travnicek D.,
Fikacek M. & Boukal M. (2005): Hydrophiloidea (vodomilove).
Pp. 422-424. In: Farkac J., Kral D. & Skorpik M. (eds.): Cervený
seznam ohrozenych druhu Ceské republiky
[Red list of threatened species in the Czech
Republic]. Agentura ochrany prirody a krajiny
Ceske republiky, Praha.
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PDF (446 kB)
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Travnicek D., Hajek
J. & Fikacek M. (2005):
Vodní brouci rybníku v CHKO Zdarske vrchy [Water Beetles of the Ponds
in the Zdarske vrchy PLA](Coleoptera: Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae,
Dytiscidae, Helophoridae, Hydrochidae, Spercheidae, Hydrophilidae,
Hydraenidae).Acta rerum naturalium 1:117-125.
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PDF (551 kB)
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Fikacek M. &
Hebauer, F. (2005): A new aberrant species of the genus Pacrillum
from Nepal (Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae: Megasternini). Acta
Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45: 59-64.
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PDF (890 kB)
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Fikacek M. (2005):
Taxonomic revision of the Cercyon (Arcocercyon) dieganus species group
(Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Bulletin de l´Institute
Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 75: 79-102.
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(1.4 MB)
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Archangelsky M.
& Fikacek M. (2004):
Description of the egg case and larva of Anacaena and a revision of the
knowledge of Anacaenini larvae and their relationships (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilinae).
European Journal of Entomology 101(4): 629-636.
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PDF (219 kB)
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Fikacek M. &
Boukal M. (2004):
Pachysternum capense, a new genus and species for Europe, and updated
key to genera and subgenera of European Sphaeridiinae (Coleoptera:
Hydrophilidae). Klapalekiana 40:1-12.
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(700 kB)
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Boukal D.S., Fikacek
M., Hajek J., Stastny J. & Travnicek D. (2003): Water Beetles
of the Novohradské hory Mts. Pp. 163-174. In: Papacek M. (Ed.): Biodiverzita
a prirodni podminky Novohradských hor II. Jihoceská Univerzita a
Entomologický ustav AV CR, Ceske Budejovice. 221 pp.
Download PDF (820 kB)
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Fikacek M. (2003):
Commented Review of Immature Stages of World
Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera: Staphyniformia). Unpubl. Bsc. Thesis.
Department of Zoology, Charles University, Praha. 127 pp. (in English)
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Boukal D. S., Boukal
M., Fikacek M., Stastny J. & Travnicek D. (2002):
Predbezny seznam vodnich brouku Novohradskych hor (Coleoptera:
Haliplidae, Gyrinidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae, Hydraenidae,
Helophoridae, Spercheidae, Hydrophilidae, Scirtidae, Elmidae). Pp.
237-240 In: Papacek M. (Ed.): Biodiverzita a prírodni podminky
Novohradskych hor. Jihoceská Univerzita a Entomologicky ustav AV
CR, Ceske Budejovice. 285 pp.
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(216 kB).
Online publications
Abstracts of
organized conferences
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Fikacek M.,
Skuhrovec J.
& Sipek P. (eds.):
Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2007, October 4-5, Prague,
Czech Republic. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47:
287-306.
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Fikacek M.,
Skuhrovec J.
& Sipek P. (eds): Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2009, October
1-2, Prague, Czech Republic. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis
Pragae 50: 321-340.
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Fikacek M.,
Skuhrovec J.
& Sipek P. (eds): Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2011, September
29-30, Prague, Czech Republic. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis
Pragae 51: 731-756.
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Fikacek M.,
Skuhrovec J. & Sipek P. (eds): Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2013, October
3-4, Prague, Czech Republic. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis
Pragae 53: 891-910. Download PDF.
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Fikacek M.,
Skuhrovec J. & Sipek P. (eds): Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2013, October
3-4, Prague, Czech Republic. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis
Pragae 53: 891-910. Download PDF.
- Fikacek
M., Skuhrovec J. & Sipek P. (eds): Abstracts of the
Immature Beetles Meeting 2015
October 1−2, Prague, Czech Republic. Acta
Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55: 859-880. Download PDF
Posters:
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Fikacek M.,
Archangelsky M. & Torres, P. M. (2006): Primary chaetotaxy of larval
head of the Hydrophiloid beetles. VIIIth European Congress of
Entomology, Izmir, Turkey, September 17-22, 2006
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Fikacek M., Hajek J.
& Prokop J. (2007): New records of the water beetles
(Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae) from the central European
Oligocene-Miocene fauna. FossilX3 Congress, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava,
Spain, May 4-9 2007.
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Fikacek M., Short A.
E. Z., Wedmann S.
& Prokop J. (2008): Phylogenetic
analysis of recent giant water scavenger beetles allows the
character-based study of the fossil record of the group. XXIII.
International Congress of Entomology, Durban, Republic of South Africa,
July 6-12, 2008.
Abstract
(PDF, 13 kB)
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Fikacek M., Prokin
A., Angus R. B., Ponomarenko A., Yue Y., Ren D. &
Prokop J. (2011): Living fossils among aquatic
beetles: fossil record and phylogeny of the Helophoridae (Coleoptera:
Hydrophiloidea). 5th Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny, September
23-25, 2011.
Oral
presentations
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Fikacek M. (2006):
Head chaetotaxy of the hydrophiloid beetles: highly adaptive or
phylogenetically informative? Immature Beetles Meeting, Praha, Czech
Republic, November 3, 2006
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Sipek M., Fikacek M. & Bily
S. (2006): First record of myrmecophyly in buprestid beetles: a
field observation. VIIIth European Congress of Entomology, Izmir,
Turkey, September 17-22, 2006
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Fikacek M. (2007): Larvae
of small hydrophiloid families Spercheidae, Hydrochidae and
Epimetopidae: troublemakers in phylogenetic studies. pp. 297-298. In:
Fikáček M., Skuhrovec J.
& ©ípek P. (eds.): Abstracts
of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2007, October 4-5, Prague, Czech
Republic. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47:
287-306.
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Fikacek M. (2008): Studies
in and out of water (An outline of recently solved projects). CETAF
meeting, National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, April 9, 2008
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Fikacek M. & Wedmann S. (2008): Hydrophilid beetles
of Grube Messel (Middle Eocene). 5. Bonner Paläoentomologen-Treffen,
19.-21. September 2008, Steinmann Institut für Paläontologie,
University of Bonn.
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Fikacek M. (2008): Fossil
record of the Hydropholoidea: state of the knowledge and needs for
future studies. SYNTHESYS guests conference, 18th November 2008, Museum
d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
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Fikacek M. (2009):
Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera) in an out of
water (an outline of solved projects). SYNTHESYS guest presentation,
6th February 2009, Zoological Museum of the Copenhagen University,
Denmark.
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Fikacek M. & Hajek J. (2009): Biology and larval morphology of the genus Satonius (Coleoptera:
Myxophaga: Torridincolidae). Immature Beetles Meeting 2009, , October
1-2 2009, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Bily S., Fikacek M.
& Sipek P. (2009):
First record of myrmecophily in buprestid beetles:
immature stages of Habroloma myrmecophila sp. nov.
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae) associated with Oecophylla ants.
Immature Beetles Meeting 2009, , October 1-2 2009, Charles University
in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Fikacek M. (2010): Myths
and reality about the fossil beetles: the story how the ladybird has
became a hydrophilid. Presentation at the exchange day of the Czech
Entomological Society, 6.February 2010, Prague (in Czech).
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Fikacek M. (2010): Terrestrial
hydrophilids - beautiful life of the outsiders. 25th Staphylinid
Meeting, May 14, 2010, Zoological Museum of the University of
Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Fikacek M. & Prokin A. (2010): Fossil record of the
hydrophiloid beetles
(Coleoptera: Polyphaga): preliminary results of the
revision. 5th international conference on fossil insects, arthropods
and amber, August 20-25, 2010, Beijing, China &
Institute of Entomology, Life Science School, Sun
Yat-sen University, August 29, 2010.
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Fikacek M. (2010): Terrestrial
hydrophilids: aquatic beetles outside of water. Institute of
Entomology, Life Science School, Sun Yat-sen University, August 29, 2010
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Fikacek M., Jia
F.L., Hajek J., Short A. E. Z. & Yoshitomi
H. (2011): Myxophaga: a suborder of minute aquatic beetles.
Institute of Entomology, Life Science School, Sun Yat-sen University, April 2011.
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Fikacek M., Prokin
A., Angus R. B., Ponomarenko A., Yue Y., Ren D. &
Prokop J. (2011):
Living fossils among aquatic beetles: fossil record and the phylogeny
of the Helophoridae. 5th Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny, Dresden,
Germany, September 23-25, 2011.
Abstract - Poster
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Fikacek M., Prokin
A., Schmied H., Bergmann A., Ponomarenko A. &
Prokop J. (2011):
Fossil hydrophilid larvae: what are they good for? Immature Beetles
Meeting 2011, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, September
29-30, 2011.
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Fikacek M. (2012): Paleoentomologia.
La historia de los insectos. Museo Tomas Romay, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba,
June 29, 2012.
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Fikacek M. (2013): Za devatero
horami a před milióny let... Věřit či nevěřit fosíliím hmyzu a
paleoentomologům? [Should we believe insect fossils and
paleontologists?] Biologické čtvrtky ve Viničné. Charles University in
Prague, Czech Republic, 21st March 2013. Link
on Youtube (in Czech only).
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Fikacek M. (2013): Aquatic
Beetles. Fluorescent Night [get-together of high school students
interested in biology]. Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic,
5th May 2013.
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Deler-Hernandez A., Fikacek M.
& Cala-Riquelme F: Revision del genero Berosus de
Cuba (Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Hydrophilidae). XVII. Congreso
Mesoamericano de Biologia y Conservacion, VIII Simposio de Zoologia, La
Habana, Cuba, 16-20th September 2013.
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Short A.E.Z. & Fikacek M:
Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera:
Hydrophiloidea) inferred from a multi-gene dataset. 6th Dresden Meeting
on Insect Phylogeny, Dresden, Germany, 27-29th September 2013.
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Angus R.B., Fikáček M., Jia F.,
Vondráček D., Chen Z.-N. & Zhang Y.:
Egg cocoons, larvae and chromosomes of Lihelophorus Zaitzev
(Helophoridae). Immature Beetles Meeting 2013, Prague, Czech Republic,
3-4th October 2013.
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Fikáček
M., Minoshima Y., Vondráček D., Gunter N. & Leschen R. A. B.:
Suprising morphological diversity of New Zealand hydrophilid larvae: a
preliminary report. Immature Beetles Meeting 2013, Prague, Czech
Republic, 3-4th October 2013.
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Fikacek
M., Gustafson G. T., Minoshima Y. N., Angus R. B., Vondráček D., Short
A. E. Z., Jäch M. A. & Jia F.-L.: Usual and unusual ways of
breathing in hydrophiloid larvae (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea): are
textbooks wrong? Immature Beetles
Meeting 2017, Prague, Czech Republic, 5-6 October 2017.
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Fikáček
M., Beutel R. G., Cai Ch.-Y., Lawrence J. F., Newton A. F.,
Solodovnikov A., ¦lipinski A., Thayer M. K. & Yamamoto S. (2019) Testing
the placement of beetle fossils via topology- constrained phylogenetic
analysis. Dresden Meeting of Insect
Phylogeny, Dresden, Germany, 22 September 2019.
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Fikáček M., Minoshima Y. N., Seidel M.
& Leschen R. A. B. (2019) Larvae without adults: the case
of enigmatic New Zealand hydrophilid larvae. Immature Beetles Meeting 2019,
Prague, Czech Republic, 3-4 October 2019.
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Fikáček
M. (2019) Why do we need old fossils to understand modern
beetles? 40th Annual Meeting of
Taiwan Entomological Society, Xitou, October 19-20.
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Hu
F.-S. & Fikáček M. (2019) First insights into Taiwanese
leaf litter beetles using DNA barcoding: high local diversity partly
hidden in larvae. 40th Annual
Meeting of Taiwan Entomological Society, Xitou, October 19-20.
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