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Most cited papers in Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution

Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution

What are the most cited papers in Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution?

The most cited paper in Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution is "Ecology and Behavior of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)" (Gábor L. Löveï, KEITH D. SUNDERLAND, 1996), with 1,204 citations. Next come "Family-Group Names In Coleoptera (Insecta)" (1,113) and "A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Beetles Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of a Superradiation" (887).

Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 148 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 Ecology and Behavior of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Gábor L. Löveï, KEITH D. SUNDERLAND · Annual Review of Entomology 1996 1,204
2 Family-Group Names In Coleoptera (Insecta) Patrice Bouchard, Yves Bousquet, Anthony Davies et al. · ZooKeys Open access 4 Apr 2011 1,113
3 A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Beetles Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of a Superradiation Toby Hunt, Johannes Bergsten, Zuzana Levkaničová et al. · Science 20 Dec 2007 887
4 Revisiting the Insect Mitochondrial Molecular Clock: The Mid-Aegean Trench Calibration Anna Papadopoulou, Ioannis P. Anastasiou, Alfried P. Vogler · Molecular Biology and Evolution 18 Feb 2010 878
5 "Inordinate Fondness" Explained: Why Are There So Many Beetles? Brian Dorsey Farrell · Science 24 Jul 1998 849
6 Phylogeny of the Coleoptera Based on Morphological Characters of Adults and Larvae John Francis Lawrence, Adam Ślipiński, Ainsley E. Seago et al. · Annales Zoologici Open access Mar 2011 663
7 The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity Duane D. McKenna et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 18 Nov 2019 641
8 Gold bugs and beyond: a review of iridescence and structural colour mechanisms in beetles (Coleoptera) Ainsley E. Seago, Parrish Brady, Jean‐Pol Vigneron et al. · Journal of The Royal Society Interface Open access 28 Oct 2008 560
9 The beetle tree of life reveals that C oleoptera survived end‐ P ermian mass extinction to diversify during the C retaceous terrestrial revolution Duane D. McKenna et al. · Systematic Entomology Open access 6 Jul 2015 536
10 Evolutionary history of Coleoptera revealed by extensive sampling of genes and species Shao‐Qian Zhang, Liheng Che, Yun Li et al. · Nature Communications Open access 9 Jan 2018 531
11 Age and Paleogeographical Origin of Dominican Amber Manuel Antonio Iturralde-Vinent, R. D. E. MacPhee · Science 27 Sep 1996 527
12 SAMPLING CARABID ASSEMBLAGES WITH PITFALL TRAPS: THE MADNESS AND THE METHOD John R. Spence, Jari K. Niemelä · The Canadian Entomologist Jun 1994 511
13 World‐Wide Species Richness Patterns of Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae): Indicator Taxon for Biodiversity and Conservation Studies David L. Pearson, Fábio Cassola · Conservation Biology Sep 1992 439
14 Some features influencing the efficiency of pitfall traps M. L. Luff · Oecologia Dec 1975 423
15 Phylogeny in cryptic weevils: molecules, morphology and new genera of western Palaearctic Cryptorhynchinae (Coleoptera : Curculionidae) Jonas J. Astrin, Peter E. Stüben · Invertebrate Systematics 3 Dec 2008 366
16 Useful model organisms, indicators, or both? Ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) reflecting environmental conditions Matti Koivula · ZooKeys Open access 20 May 2011 365
17 An ammonite trapped in Burmese amber Tingting Yu, Ulysses Thomson, Lin Mu et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 13 May 2019 359
18 Weevils, weevils, weevils everywhere* Rolf G. Oberprieler, Adriana Elena Marvaldi, Robert S. Anderson · Zootaxa Open access 21 Dec 2007 347
19 EVOLUTION OF THE HIND WING IN COLEOPTERA Jarmila Kukalová-Peck, John Francis Lawrence · The Canadian Entomologist Apr 1993 299
20 Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetics of Weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea): Do Niche Shifts Accompany Diversification? Adriana Elena Marvaldi, Andrea S. Sequeira, Charles W. O’Brien et al. · Systematic Biology Sep 2002 299
21 Digging out the “digging-in effect” of pitfall traps: Influences of depletion and disturbance on catches of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Scott C. Digweed, Cameron R. Currie, Héctor A. Cárcamo et al. · Pedobiologia Open access Nov 1995 298
22 Toughening mechanisms of the elytra of the diabolical ironclad beetle Jesus Rivera, Maryam Sadat Hosseini, David Restrepo et al. · Nature Open access 21 Oct 2020 295
23 Single-copy nuclear genes resolve the phylogeny of the holometabolous insects Brian M. Wiegmann, Michelle Trautwein, Jung‐Wook Kim et al. · BMC Biology Open access 24 Jun 2009 285
24 Carabid beetle assemblages (Coleoptera, Carabidae) across urban-rural gradients: an international comparison Jari K. Niemelä, D. Johan Kotze, Stephen Venn et al. · Landscape Ecology Jul 2002 285
25 Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1860 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the earliest Cenomanian Burmese amber Iwona Kania, Bó Wáng, Jacek Szwedo · Cretaceous Research 30 Apr 2014 284
26 Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles Chenyang Cai, Erik Tihelka, Mattia Giacomelli et al. · Royal Society Open Science Open access Mar 2022 277
27 Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness Thomas Pape, VLADIMIR A. BLAGODEROV, MIKHAIL B. MOSTOVSKI · Zootaxa Open access 23 Dec 2011 276
28 A comprehensive DNA barcode database for Central European beetles with a focus on Germany: adding more than 3500 identified species to BOLD Lars Hendrich, Jérôme Morinière, Gerhard Haszprunar et al. · Molecular Ecology Resources Open access 4 Dec 2014 268
29 Multilocus Species Delimitation in a Complex of Morphologically Conserved Trapdoor Spiders (Mygalomorphae, Antrodiaetidae, Aliatypus) Jordan D. Satler, Bryan C. Carstens, Marshal C. Hedin · Systematic Biology Open access 15 Jun 2013 266
30 Fog-basking behaviour and water collection efficiency in Namib Desert Darkling beetles Thomas Nørgaard, Marie Dacke · Frontiers in Zoology Open access 2010 262
31 Observations on the morphology and classification of weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) with a key to major groups Richard T. Thompson · Journal of Natural History Aug 1992 261
32 Evolution and phylogenetic information content of the ITS-1 region in the tiger beetle Cicindela dorsalis. Alfried P. Vogler, Robert DeSalle · Molecular Biology and Evolution Open access May 1994 260
33 Herbivorous insects: model systems for the comparative study of speciation ecology Daniel J. Funk, Kenneth E. Filchak, Jeffrey L. Feder · Contemporary issues in genetics and evolution Book chapter 2002 257
34 DNA-based species delineation in tropical beetles using mitochondrial and nuclear markers Michael T. Monaghan, Michael Balke, T. Ryan Gregory et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences Open access 12 Sep 2005 248
35 Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. Anders N. Nilsson · Annals of the Entomological Society of America Open access Sep 2001 245
36 EVOLUTION OF SUBTERRANEAN DIVING BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE HYDROPORINI, BIDESSINI) IN THE ARID ZONE OF AUSTRALIA Remko Leys, CHRIS H. S. WATTS, Steven J. Cooper et al. · Evolution Dec 2003 245
37 Building the C oleoptera tree‐of‐life for >8000 species: composition of public DNA data and fit with L innaean classification Ladislav Bocák, Christopher Barton, Alex Crampton‐Platt et al. · Systematic Entomology 10 Oct 2013 245
38 MALE DIMORPHISMS IN BEETLES AND EARWIGS AND THE QUESTION OF DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINTS William G. Eberhard, Edgar E. Gutiérrez · Evolution Feb 1991 241
39 Evaluating nuclear protein-coding genes for phylogenetic utility in beetles Alexander L. Wild, David R. Maddison · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29 May 2008 241
40 Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Yves Bousquet · ZooKeys Open access 28 Nov 2012 225
41 Molecular evolution of a widely-adopted taxonomic marker (COI) across the animal tree of life Mikko Pentinsaari, Heli Salmela, Marko Mutanen et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 13 Oct 2016 223
42 Phylogeny and classification of C ucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily C occinelloidea ( C oleoptera: C ucujiformia) James A. Robertson, Adam Ślipiński, Matthew J. Moulton et al. · Systematic Entomology 6 Aug 2015 222
43 Evolutionary Assembly of the Milkweed Fauna: Cytochrome Oxidase I and the Age of TetraopesBeetles Brian Dorsey Farrell · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Mar 2001 222
44 GENETIC CONSTRAINTS ON MACROEVOLUTION: THE EVOLUTION OF HOST AFFILIATION IN THE LEAF BEETLE GENUS OPHRAELLA Douglas J. Futuyma, Mark C. Keese, Daniel J. Funk · Evolution Oct 1995 220
45 Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness S A Slipinski, Richard A. B. Leschen, John Francis Lawrence · Zootaxa 23 Dec 2011 219
46 Barcoding Beetles: A Regional Survey of 1872 Species Reveals High Identification Success and Unusually Deep Interspecific Divergences Mikko Pentinsaari, Paul D. N. Hebert, Marko Mutanen · PLoS ONE Open access 25 Sep 2014 219
47 Cucurbitacins as kairomones for diabroticite beetles Robert L. Metcalf, Robert A. Metcalf, Ashby M. Rhodes · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Jul 1980 214
48 Global diversity of water beetles (Coleoptera) in freshwater Manfred A. Jäch, Michael Balke · Hydrobiologia 17 Dec 2007 210
49 Dispersal vs. vicariance in the Mediterranean: historical biogeography of the Palearctic Pachydeminae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) Isabel Sanmartín · Journal of Biogeography Open access 25 Nov 2003 209
50 The thoracic morphology of Archostemata and the relationships of the extant suborders of Coleoptera (Hexapoda) Frank Friedrich, Brian Dorsey Farrell, Rolf Georg BEUTEL · Cladistics Open access 28 Nov 2008 209

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