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Invertebrate Systematics publishes significant contributions and reviews on the systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of all invertebrate taxa. More

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Invertebrate Systematics
Volume 25 Number 6 2011

 
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Genes, morphology, development and photosynthetic ability support the resurrection of Elysia cornigera (Heterobranchia : Plakobranchoidea) as distinct from the 'solar-powered' sea slug, E. timida 
Patrick J. Krug, Katharina Händeler and Jann Vendetti
pp. 477-489
 
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Cladistic analysis and revision of Piestus Gravenhorst with remarks on related genera (Coleoptera : Staphylinidae : Piestinae) 
Edilson Caron, Cibele S. Ribeiro-Costa and Alfred F. Newton
pp. 490-585
 
  
 


 
The occurrence and phylogenetic implications of wing interference patterns in Cynipoidea (Insecta : Hymenoptera) 
Matthew L. Buffington and Robert J. Sandler
pp. 586-597
 
  
 


   
These articles have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication. They are still in production and have not been edited, so may differ from the final published form.

    IS12010  Accepted 13 May 2012
    Biogeography of the Cantacaderinae StÃ¥l (Insecta: Heteroptera: Tingidae) revisited
    Eric Guilbert
    Abstract


    IS11053  Accepted 30 April 2012
    The first modern solitary Agariciidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) revealed by molecular and microstructural analysis
    Marcelo Kitahara, Jaroslaw Stolarski, Stephen Cairns, Francesca Benzoni, Joel Stake, David Miller
    Abstract


    IS12004  Accepted 30 April 2012
    A new species of Asian buffalo leech (Arhynchobdellida: Hirudinidae), its phylogenetic relationships, and confirmation of human-mediated dispersal of a congener to the Caribbean
    Anna Phillips
    Abstract


    IS11050  Accepted 15 April 2012
    Systematics and biology of the Australian Seed bug genus Megadrymus Gross (Insecta: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Drymini)
    Gerasimos Cassis, Celia Symonds
    Abstract


    IS12001  Accepted 15 March 2012
    Ventrops Crosskey — probably the largest genus of Afrotropical Rhinophoridae (Diptera)
    Pierfilippo Cerretti, Thomas Pape
    Abstract


    IS11044  Accepted 20 February 2012
    Relevance of an Integrative Approach for Taxonomic Revision in Sponge Taxa: Case Study of the Shallow-water Atlanto-Mediterranean Hexadella species (Porifera, Ianthellidae, Verongida)
    Julie Reveillaud, Céline Allewaert, Thierry Pérez, Jean Vacelet, Bernard Banaigs, Ann Vanreusel
    Abstract


    IS11041  Accepted 09 February 2012
    How to make a protostome
    Claus Nielsen
    Abstract


    IS11042  Accepted 05 February 2012
    Taxonomy of the New Zealand limpets of the Cellana strigilis complex (Mollusca: Patellogastropoda: Nacellidae): A morphometric approach supporting genetic results.
    Céline Reisser, Bruce Marshall, Jonathan Gardner
    Abstract


    IS11027  Accepted 02 February 2012
    Explosive radiation of the genus Schizopera in a small subterranean island in Western Australia (Copepoda: Harpacticoida); Unraveling the cases of cryptic speciation, size differentiation, and multiple invasions
    Tomislav Karanovic, Steven Cooper
    Abstract


    IS11043  Accepted 20 January 2012
    Systematic revision, phylogeny and host plant associations of the Australian endemic genus Mcateella Drake (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Piesmatidae).
    Michael Elias, Gerasimos Cassis
    Abstract


    IS11030  Accepted 16 January 2012
    Systematic revision and phylogeny of the Australian mymecomorphic seed bub genus Daerlac signoret (Insecta: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Udeocorini)
    Gerasimos Cassis, Celia Symonds
    Abstract


    IS11033  Accepted 16 January 2012
    Phylogenetic assessment of the Caribbean weevil genus Lachnopus Schoenherr, 1840 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
    Jennifer Girón Duque, Nico Franz
    Abstract


    IS11039  Accepted 02 December 2011
    Systematics of new subsocial and solitary Australasian Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)
    Ingi Agnarsson
    Abstract




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1. Published 30 August 2002
Short-range endemism amongst the Australian fauna: some examples from non-marine environments

M. S. Harvey

2. Published 27 June 2007
Taxonomy and nomenclature of black nerites (Gastropoda : Neritimorpha : Nerita) from the South Pacific

Hamish G. Spencer, Jonathan M. Waters and Thomas E. Eichhorst

3. Published 30 September 2011
The evolutionary and biogeographic history of the armoured harvestmen – Laniatores phylogeny based on ten molecular markers, with the description of two new families of Opiliones (Arachnida)

Prashant P. Sharma and Gonzalo Giribet

4. Published 29 April 2011
Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Rhinorhynchinae (Coleoptera : Nemonychidae)

Guillermo Kuschel and Richard A. B. Leschen

5. Published 29 April 2011
Evolution in the deep sea: a combined analysis of the earliest diverging living chitons (Mollusca : Polyplacophora : Lepidopleurida)

Julia D. Sigwart, Enrico Schwabe, Hiroshi Saito, Sarah Samadi and Gonzalo Giribet

6. Published 17 May 2010
Systematic revision, cladistics and biogeography of the genus Neogutierrezia Martínez (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae) and its phylogenetic placement in Rutelinae based on structural alignment of 28S rDNA sequences

Federico C. Ocampo, Eider Ruiz-Manzanos and Adriana E. Marvaldi

7. Published 29 April 2011
Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of the Brazilian subfamily Sodreaninae (Opiliones : Gonyleptidae)

Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha and Cibele Bragagnolo

8. Published 18 November 2011
The Australian freshwater amphipods Austrochiltonia australis and Austrochiltonia subtenuis (Amphipoda : Talitroidea : Chiltoniidae) confirmed and two new cryptic Tasmanian species revealed using a combined molecular and morphological approach

Rachael A. King and Remko Leys

9. Published 14 February 2012
The puzzle of DNA sequences of Phytoseiidae (Acari : Mesostigmata) in the public GenBank database

Marie-Stéphane Tixier, Fabio Akashi Hernandes, Sabine Guichou and Serge Kreiter

10. Published 22 December 2011
Systematics of the spider genus Neoleptoneta Brignoli, 1972 (Araneae : Leptonetidae) with a discussion of the morphology and relationships for the North American Leptonetidae

Joel Ledford, Pierre Paquin, James Cokendolpher, Josh Campbell and Charles Griswold

11. Published 14 February 2012
New carnivorous sponges (Cladorhizidae : Poecilosclerida : Demospongiae) from off Diego Ramírez Archipelago (south Chile), with comments on taxonomy and biogeography of the family

Daniela A. Lopes, Alejandro Bravo and Eduardo Hajdu

12. Published 7 November 2007
The systematics and biology of the spider genus Nephila (Araneae : Nephilidae) in the Australasian region

Mark S. Harvey, Andrew D. Austin and Mark Adams

13. Published 12 May 2008
Rising from Down Under: developments in subterranean biodiversity in Australia from a groundwater fauna perspective

William F. Humphreys

14. Published 30 September 2011
A new family of Laniatores (Arachnida : Opiliones) from the Afrotropics

Prashant P. Sharma, Carlos E. Prieto and Gonzalo Giribet

15. Published 14 July 2011
Adult and larval associations of the alpine stonefly genus Riekoperla McLellan (Plecoptera : Gripopterygidae) using mitochondrial DNA

J. H. Mynott, J. M. Webb and P. J. Suter

16. Published 14 October 2008
Phylogeny of the SerpulaCrucigeraHydroides clade (Serpulidae : Annelida) using molecular and morphological data: implications for operculum evolution

E. K. Kupriyanova, R. Bastida-Zavala, M. N. Halt, M. S. Y. Lee and G. W. Rouse

17. Published 12 May 2008
Stygofauna biodiversity and endemism in four alluvial aquifers in eastern Australia

P. J. Hancock and A. J. Boulton

18. Published 14 February 2012
Polyphyly and cryptic diversity in the hydrozoan families Lafoeidae and Hebellidae (Cnidaria : Hydrozoa)

Carlos J. Moura, Marina R. Cunha, Filipe M. Porteiro and Alex D. Rogers

19. Published 20 June 2006
Species delimitation and distribution in Aporometra (Crinoidea : Echinodermata): endemic Australian featherstars

Lauren E. Helgen and Greg W. Rouse

20. Published 4 March 2011
Phylogenetic status of four new species of Acanthobothrium (Cestoda : Tetraphyllidea) parasitic on the wedgefish Rhynchobatus laevis (Elasmobranchii : Rhynchobatidae): implications for interpreting host associations

C. A. Fyler and J. N. Caira

21. Published 22 December 2008
Species status and conservation issues of New Zealand's endemic Latrodectus spider species (Araneae : Theridiidae)

Cor J. Vink, Phil J. Sirvid, Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, James W. Griffiths, Pierre Paquin and Adrian M. Paterson

22. Published 21 July 2009
Naming species with no morphological indicators: species status of Galeolaria caespitosa (Annelida : Serpulidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and morphology

Magdalena N. Halt, Elena K. Kupriyanova, Steven J. B. Cooper and Greg W. Rouse

23. Published 14 July 2011
Unidirectional introgression within the genus Dolomedes (Araneae : Pisauridae) in southern New Zealand

Vanessa L. Lattimore, Cor J. Vink, Adrian M. Paterson and Robert H. Cruickshank

24. Published 30 August 2002
Endemism, rarity and vulnerability of marine species along a temperate coastline

T. O'Hara

25. Published 30 September 2011
Phylogeny of Arrhopalites s.l. (Collembola : Symphypleona : Arrhopalitidae): testing the monophyly of the recently erected genera Arrhopalites s.s. and Pygmarrhopalites

Douglas Zeppelini

26. Published 4 March 2011
Insights into the evolutionary history of Indo-Pacific bloodfeeding terrestrial leeches (Hirudinida : Arhynchobdellida : Haemadipisdae)

Elizabeth Borda and Mark E. Siddall

27. Published 29 April 2011
Phylogenetic placement of a new hoplonemertean species commensal on ascidians

Juan Junoy, Sónia C. S. Andrade and Gonzalo Giribet

28. Published 22 December 2011
Barcoding type specimens helps to identify synonyms and an unnamed new species in Eumunida Smith, 1883 (Decapoda : Eumunididae)

Nicolas Puillandre, Enrique Macpherson, Josie Lambourdière, Corinne Cruaud, Marie-Catherine Boisselier-Dubayle and Sarah Samadi

29. Published 25 March 2010
A systematic revision of Goniosomatinae (Arachnida : Opiliones : Gonyleptidae), with a cladistic analysis and biogeographical notes

Márcio Bernardino DaSilva and Pedro Gnaspini

30. Published 22 December 2011
Molecular data sheds light on the classification of long-legged flies (Diptera : Dolichopodidae)

Christoph Germann, Corinne Wimmer and Marco Valerio Bernasconi

31. Published 30 August 2002
Spatial analysis of genetic variation as a rapid assessment tool in the conservation management of narrow-range endemics

S. A. Clark and B. J. Richardson

32. Published 30 September 2011
A phylogenetic analysis of Stenostomum and its neotropical congeners, with a description of a new species from the Peruvian Amazon Basin

Cristina Damborenea, Francisco Brusa, Io Almagro and Carolina Noreña

33. Published 31 December 1999
Australian stingless bees of the genus Trigona (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Anne E. Dollin, Leslie J. Dollin and the late Shôichi F. Sakagami

34. Published 12 May 2008
Biodiversity, functional roles and ecosystem services of groundwater invertebrates

Andrew J. Boulton, Graham D. Fenwick, Peter J. Hancock and Mark S. Harvey

35. Published 29 April 2011
Resolving the phylogenetic position of enigmatic New Guinea and Seychelles Scutigeromorpha (Chilopoda): a molecular and morphological assessment of Ballonemini

Aodhán D. Butler, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Alexander D. Ball and Gonzalo Giribet

36. Published 14 July 2011
A new species of deep-sea Dendronotus Alder & Hancock (Mollusca : Nudibranchia) from California, with an expanded phylogeny of the genus

Carla C. Stout, Nerida G. Wilson and Ángel Valdés

37. Published 30 August 2002
Narrow-range endemicity and conservation status: interpretations for Australian butterflies

T. R. New and D. P. A. Sands

38. Published 14 July 2011
Protecting the innocent: studying short-range endemic taxa enhances conservation outcomes

Mark S. Harvey, Michael G. Rix, Volker W. Framenau, Zoë R. Hamilton, Michael S. Johnson, Roy J. Teale, Garth Humphreys and William F. Humphreys

39. Published 22 December 2011
Immature stages of Euchirinae (Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea): genera Cheirotonus and Propomacrus with comments on their phylogeny based on larval and adult characters

Petr Šípek, Petr Janšta and David Král

40. Published 6 May 2005
Molecular systematics of Australian carrion-breeding blowflies (Diptera : Calliphoridae) based on mitochondrial DNA

J. F. Wallman, R. Leys and K. Hogendoorn

41. Published 30 September 2011
Kaindipsocinae is a sister taxon to the rest of Psocidae (Insecta : Psocodea : 'Psocoptera'

Kazunori Yoshizawa, Emilie Bess and Kevin P. Johnson

42. Published 30 August 2002
Patterns and levels of endemism in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest: evidence from flightless insects

D. K. Yeates, P. Bouchard and G. B. Monteith

43. Published 18 November 2011
Phylogeny of Polycentropodidae Ulmer, 1903 (Trichoptera : Annulipalpia : Psychomyioidea) inferred from larval, pupal and adult characters

Maria Lourdes Chamorro and Ralph W. Holzenthal

44. Published 18 November 2011
Phylogeny of the African ball-rolling dung beetle genus Epirinus Reiche (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Scarabaeinae)

S. Mlambo, C. L. Sole and C. H. Scholtz

45. Published 30 August 2002
Short-range endemism and Australian Psylloidea (Insecta : Hemiptera) in the genera Glycaspis and Acizzia (Psyllidae)

A. L. Yen

46. Published 12 May 2008
Phylogeography of the ancient Parabathynellidae (Crustacea : Bathynellacea) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia

M. T. Guzik, K. M. Abrams, S. J. B. Cooper, W. F. Humphreys, J.-L. Cho and A. D. Austin

47. Published 4 March 2011
Molecular phylogeny of Echinodera and Ruteria (Coleoptera : Curculionidae : Cryptorhynchinae) and the parallel speciation of Canary Island weevils along replicate environmental gradients

Jonas J. Astrin and Peter E. Stüben

48. Published 4 March 2011
Southern hemisphere distributional patterns in plant bugs (Hemiptera : Miridae : Phylinae): Xiphoidellus, gen. nov. from Australia and Ampimpacoris, gen. nov. from Argentina, show transantarctic relationships

Christiane Weirauch and Randall T. Schuh

49. Published 14 February 2012
A collaborative, integrated and electronic future for taxonomy

Norman F. Johnson

50. Published 30 August 2010
A revision of the textricellin spider genus Raveniella (Araneae : Araneoidea : Micropholcommatidae): exploring patterns of phylogeny and biogeography in an Australian biodiversity hotspot

Michael G. Rix, Mark S. Harvey and J. Dale Roberts

51. Published 7 May 2012
Cladistic analysis and revision of Piestus Gravenhorst with remarks on related genera (Coleoptera : Staphylinidae : Piestinae)

Edilson Caron, Cibele S. Ribeiro-Costa and Alfred F. Newton

52. Published 22 December 2011
Integrative taxonomy demonstrates the unexpected synonymy between two predatory mite species: Cydnodromus idaeus and C. picanus (Acari : Phytoseiidae)

Marie-Stéphane Tixier, Haralabos Tsolakis, Salvatore Ragusa, Alix Poinso, Maxime Ferrero, Mireille Okassa and Serge Kreiter

53. Published 31 March 2009
Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of the sand crab families Albuneidae and Blepharipodidae (Crustacea: Anomura: Hippoidea)

Christopher B. Boyko and Alan W. Harvey

54. Published 29 June 2010
Molecular phylogeny of the freshwater prawn genus Macrobrachium (Decapoda, Palaemonidae), with emphasis on the relationships among selected American species

Leonardo G. Pileggi and Fernando L. Mantelatto

55. Published 30 August 2010
Need morphology always be required for new species descriptions?

L. G. Cook, R. D. Edwards, M. D. Crisp and N. B. Hardy

56. Published 18 November 2011
Phylogenetic reappraisal and taxonomic review of the Empis (Coptophlebia) hyalipennis-group (Diptera : Empididae : Empidinae)

Christophe Daugeron, Adrian Plant, Igor Shamshev, Andreas Stark and Patrick Grootaert

57. Published 5 March 2004
A phylogenetic analysis of dung beetles (Scarabaeinae : Scarabaeidae): unrolling an evolutionary history

T. Keith Philips, Etheresia Pretorius and Clarke H. Scholtz

58. Published 31 March 2009
Phylogeny and generic concepts of the parasitoid wasp family Aulacidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea)

Giuseppe F. Turrisi, John T. Jennings and Lars Vilhelmsen

59. Published 14 February 2012
Plumatella trasimenica and Plumatella timwoodi, two new species belonging to the 'repens group' from central Italy (Bryozoa : Phylactolaemata : Plumatellidae)

Maria Illuminata Taticchi, Antonia Concetta Elia, Chiara Todini and Marino Prearo

60. Published 12 May 2008
Short-range endemism in hypogean environments: the pseudoscorpion genera Tyrannochthonius and Lagynochthonius (Pseudoscorpiones : Chthoniidae) in the semiarid zone of Western Australia

Karen L. Edward and Mark S. Harvey

61. Published 13 December 2010
Towards a revision of the Neotropical soldierless termites (Isoptera : Termitidae): redescription of the genus Anoplotermes and description of Longustitermes, gen. nov.

Thomas Bourguignon, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Jan Křeček, Zoltán T. Nagy, Gontran Sonet and Yves Roisin

62. Published 30 August 2002
What makes a narrow-range taxon? Insights from Australian freshwater snails.

W. F. Ponder and D. J. Colgan

63. Published 18 November 2011
Phylogenetic analysis of oligochaete Tubificinae (Annelida : Clitellata) based on mitochondrial sequence data

Ainara Achurra, M. Arantzazu Elejalde and Pilar Rodriguez

64. Published 1 March 1988
Non-camaenid land snails of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, Australia I. Systematics, affinities and ranges

A Solem

65. Published 1 June 1990
A taxonomic revision of species in the freshwater crayfish genus Engaeus Erichson (Decapoda : Parastacidae)

P Horwitz

66. Published 16 December 2009
Phylogeny and evolution of male genitalia within the praying mantis genus Tenodera (Mantodea : Mantidae)

Dana Jensen, Gavin J. Svenson, Hojun Song and Michael F. Whiting

67. Published 25 March 2010
A phylogenetic analysis for the South-east Asian mite harvestman family Stylocellidae (Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) – a combined analysis using morphometric and molecular data

Ronald M. Clouse, Benjamin L. de Bivort and Gonzalo Giribet

68. Published 14 July 2011
Phylogeny and systematics of mammal-associated psoroptidian mites (Acariformes : Astigmata : Psoroptidia) derived from external morphology

Andre V. Bochkov and Sergey V. Mironov

69. Published 29 June 2010
Status of the New Zealand cave weta (Rhaphidophoridae) genera Pachyrhamma, Gymnoplectron and Turbottoplectron

Lorraine D. Cook, Steven A. Trewick, Mary Morgan-Richards and Peter M. Johns

70. Published 14 March 2001
Third-instar larvae of common carrion-breeding blowflies of the genus Calliphora (Diptera : Calliphoridae) in South Australia

J. F. Wallman

71. Published 12 May 2008
Gondwanan groundwater: subterranean connections of Australian phreatoicidean isopods (Crustacea) to India and New Zealand

George D. F. Wilson

72. Published 12 May 2008
Subterranean archipelago: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of stygobitic isopods (Oniscidea : Haloniscus) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia

Steven J. B. Cooper, Kathleen M. Saint, Stefano Taiti, Andrew D. Austin and William F. Humphreys

73. Published 14 March 2001
A phylogenetic analysis of New Zealand giant and tree weta (Orthoptera : Anostostomatidae : Deinacrida and Hemideina) using morphological and genetic characters

Mary Morgan-Richards and George W. Gibbs

74. Published 12 May 2008
Molecular and morphological systematics of hypogean schizomids (Schizomida : Hubbardiidae) in semiarid Australia

Mark S. Harvey, Oliver Berry, Karen L. Edward and Garth Humphreys

75. Published 13 December 2010
The bee genera Haplomelitta and Samba (Hymenoptera : Anthophila : Melittidae): phylogeny, biogeography and host plants

Denis Michez, Connal Eardley, Michael Kuhlmann, Kim Timmermann and Sébastien Patiny

76. Published 29 August 2006
Phylogeny of the Oxycoryninae sensu lato (Coleoptera : Belidae) and evolution of host-plant associations

A. E. Marvaldi, R. G. Oberprieler, C. H. C. Lyal, T. Bradbury and R. S. Anderson

77. Published 27 June 2007
Molecular phylogenetics of the Muscidae (Diptera : Calyptratae): new ideas in a congruence context

Guilherme Schnell e Schuehli, Claudio José Barros de Carvalho and Brian M. Wiegmann

78. Published 18 June 2008
Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the cosmopolitan parasitic wasp subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera : Braconidae)

Alejandro Zaldivar-Riverón, Sergey A. Belokobylskij, Virginia León-Regagnon, Rosa Briceño-G. and Donald L. J. Quicke

79. Published 18 March 2008
A New Zealand species of the trans-Tasman centipede order Craterostigmomorpha (Arthropoda : Chilopoda) corroborated by molecular evidence

Gregory D. Edgecombe and Gonzalo Giribet

80. Published 21 July 2009
Australian pirates: systematics and phylogeny of the Australasian pirate spiders (Araneae : Mimetidae), with a description of the Western Australian fauna

Danilo Harms and Mark S. Harvey


      
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