By Professor Gerry Cassis

Journal articles

McLean DJ; Cassis G; Herberstein ME, 2024, 'Morphological ant mimics: constrained to imperfection?', Biology Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0330

Shofner R; Cassis G, 2024, 'Phylogenetics and taxonomy of the Indo-Australian genus Ulonemia sensu Drake (Hemiptera: Tingidae), with the recognition of new genera and species collected from Proteaceae in Australia', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 200, pp. 360 - 425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad080

McMah A; Cassis G, 2024, 'Ant mimicry in Australian plant bugs: a new genus (Heteroptera: Miridae: Austromirini: Carenotus gen. nov.), eight new species, myrmecomorphic traits, host plants and distribution', Invertebrate Systematics, 38, pp. is23013 - null, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/is23013

Cassis G; Monteith GB; Postle A, 2023, 'Hiding among the palms: the remarkable discovery of a new palm bug genus and species (Insecta: Heteroptera: Thaumastocoridae: Xylastodorinae) from remote Norfolk Island; systematics, natural history, palm specialism and biogeography', Invertebrate Systematics, 37, pp. 702 - 740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS23040

Cassis G; Monteith GB; Postle A, 2023, 'Hiding Amongst the Palms: the Remarkable Discovery of a New Palm Bug Genus and Species (Insecta: Heteroptera: Thaumastocoridae: Xylastodorinae) from Remote Norfolk Island; its Systematics, Natural History, Palm Specialism and Biogeography', Invertebrate Systematics, 37, pp. 702 - 740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/is23040

Shofner R; Sherwin W; Reid C; Runagall-McNaull A; Cassis G; Laffan S, 2023, 'Genetic diversity of a flightless dung beetle appears unaffected by wildfire', Journal of Insect Conservation, 27, pp. 795 - 803, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00499-3

Taszakowski A; Masłowski A; Cassis G, 2023, 'Chimairacoris flavipes sp. nov., (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae) from New Caledonia', Zootaxa, 5315, pp. 567 - 574, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5315.6.4

Kim J; Cassis G; Jung S, 2023, 'Phylogenetic analysis of the predatory plant bug subfamily Deraeocorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) based on molecular and morphological data', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 197, pp. 246 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac061

Salini S; Kment P; Cassis G, 2023, 'Rehabilitation of mormoschema (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae): Generic status restituted and tribal placement revised', Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 63, pp. 397 - 412, http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2023.025

Tatarnic NJ; Cassis G, 2022, 'Turrana ejuncida, a new species of Acanthocorini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae) from Cape Range, Western Australia, with discussion of its systematic position and host plant associations', Zootaxa, 5092, pp. 85 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5092.1.4

Cassis G; Shofner R; Laffan S; Cheng M, 2022, 'Impact of Black Summer 2019/20 Wildfires on True Bug Priority Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in the Northeast Forests of New South Wales', Australian Zoologist, 42, pp. 352 - 385, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.032

Namyatova AA; Cassis G, 2022, 'Review of Australian Cylapinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) with key to genera and descriptions of new species', Insect Systematics and Evolution, 8, pp. 1 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-bja10032

Reid C; Runagall-McNaull A; Cassis G; Laffan S, 2022, 'The impact of the 2019-2020 wildfires on beetles (Coleoptera) in the forests of north-eastern New South Wales', Australian Zoologist, 42, pp. 462 - 478, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.030

Namyatova AA; Schwartz MD; Cassis G, 2021, 'Determining the position of Diomocoris, Micromimetus and Taylorilygus in the Lygus- complex based on molecular data and first records of Diomocoris and Micromimetus from Australia, including four new species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae: Mirinae)', Invertebrate Systematics, 35, pp. 90 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS20015

Namyatova AA; Cassis G, 2021, 'Five new genera of the subfamily cylapinae (Insecta, heteroptera, miridae) from Australia', ZooKeys, 2021, pp. 95 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1012.57172

Bein B; Ebach MC; Laffan SW; Murphy DJ; Cassis G, 2020, 'Quantifying vertebrate zoogeographical regions of Australia using geospatial turnover in the species composition of mammals, birds, reptiles and terrestrial amphibians', Zootaxa, 4802, pp. 61 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.4

Zhao Q; Cassis G; Zhao L; He Y; Zhang H; Wei J, 2020, 'The complete mitochondrial genome of Zicrona caerulea (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) and its phylogenetic implications', Zootaxa, 4747, pp. 547 - 561, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4747.3.8

Chan C; Cassis G, 2020, 'Taxonomy of the plant bug tribe Saturniomirini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea: A phylogenetic analysis, and the description of one new genus and ten new species', Insect Systematics and Evolution, 51, pp. 889 - 999, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00001012

Murphy DJ; Ebach MC; Miller JT; Laffan SW; Cassis G; Ung V; Thornhill AH; Kerr N; Tursky ML, 2019, 'Do phytogeographic patterns reveal biomes or biotic regions?', Cladistics, 35, pp. 654 - 670, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12381

McLean DJ; Cassis G; Kikuchi DW; Giribet G; Herberstein ME, 2019, 'Insincere flattery? Understanding the evolution of imperfect deceptive mimicry', Quarterly Review of Biology, 94, pp. 395 - 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/706769

Namyatova AA; Cassis G, 2019, 'Total-evidence phylogeny of the Rhinomirini, taxonomic review of its subgroupings (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) and description of new Australian taxa', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 187, pp. 1196 - 1252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz058

Namyatova AA; Cassis G, 2019, 'First record of the subfamily Psallopinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) from Australia and discussion of its systematic position and diagnostic characters', Austral Entomology, 58, pp. 156 - 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aen.12350

Weirauch C; Schuh RT; Cassis G; Wheeler WC, 2019, 'Revisiting habitat and lifestyle transitions in Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera): insights from a combined morphological and molecular phylogeny', Cladistics, 35, pp. 67 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12233

Lo N; Montagu A; Noack A; Nahrung H; Wei H; Eldridge M; Gray KA; Rose HA; Cassis G; Johnson RN; Lawson S, 2019, 'Population genetics of the Australian eucalypt pest Thaumastocoris peregrinus: evidence for a recent invasion of Sydney', Journal of Pest Science, 92, pp. 201 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10340-018-0995-8

Cheng M; Cassis G, 2019, 'Combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of Myrtlemiris, evolution of endosomal spicules, description of two new species and Neomyrtlemiris, gen. nov. (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae)', Invertebrate Systematics, 33, pp. 719 - 756, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS18081

Namyatova AA; Contos P; Cassis G, 2019, 'New species, taxonomy, phylogeny, and distribution of the tropical tribe Bothriomirini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae)', Insect Systematics and Evolution, 50, pp. 83 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002179

Cheng M; Cassis G, 2019, 'Systematic study of the Australian plant bug genus Xasmasoma, gen. nov. (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae), including host plant and biogeographic analysis, and description of twelve new species', Invertebrate Systematics, 33, pp. 1 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS18009

Cassis G; Symonds C; Branson L, 2019, 'Systematics and species radiation of the sheoak lace bug genus Epimixia Kirkaldy (Insecta: Heteroptera: Tingidae) in Australia, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea', Invertebrate Systematics, 33, pp. 277 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS18040

Hosseini R; Cassis G, 2019, 'Systematics of the plant bug tribe Hyaliodini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Deraeocorinae) from Australia and New Caledonia: Phylogenetic analysis and discussion of deraeocorine relationships, and four new genera and thirteen new species', Insect Systematics and Evolution, 50, pp. 445 - 582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00002185

Sanchez JA; Cassis G, 2018, 'Towards solving the taxonomic impasse of the biocontrol plant bug subgenus Dicyphus (Dicyphus) (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) using molecular, morphometric and morphological partitions', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 184, pp. 330 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zly005

Chin YW; Cassis G, 2018, 'Description of an enigmatic new genus and new species of Australian Orthotylinae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) associated with the plant genus Eremophila', Zootaxa, 4438, pp. 491 - 500, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4438.3.4

Symonds CL; Cassis G, 2018, 'Systematics and Analysis of the Radiation of Orthotylini Plant Bugs Associated with Callitroid Conifers in Australia: Description of Five New Genera and 32 New Species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae)', Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2018-June, pp. 1 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090-422.1.1

Cassis G; Hodgins M; Weir TA; Tatarnic NJ, 2018, 'Phylogenetic reclassification and genitalic morphology of the small water strider genus Nesidovelia Andersen & Weir and allied Microveliinae (Hemiptera:Veliidae)', Austral Entomology, 57, pp. 92 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aen.12273

Konstantinov FV; Namyatova AA; Cassis G, 2018, 'A synopsis of the bryocorine tribes (Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae): Key, diagnoses, hosts and distributional patterns', Invertebrate Systematics, 32, pp. 864 - 889, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS17087

Cassis G, 2018, 'Henryhalticus philippinensis gen. et sp. n., a minute halticine from the Philippines (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Orthotylinae)', ZooKeys, 2018, pp. 187 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.796.21240

Chin YW; Cassis G, 2018, 'Systematics and host-plant associations of the Palassocoris complex (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae), a monophyletic suprageneric group of long-headed Australian Orthotylini, and the description of five new genera and 10 new species', Invertebrate Systematics, 32, pp. 703 - 757, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS17078

Cassis G, 2017, 'Conservation Biology: A Walking Stick's Redux on Lord Howe Island', Current Biology, 27, pp. R1120 - R1122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.026

Weiler L; Barão KR; Cassis G; Grazia J, 2017, 'Morphology of the external scent efferent system of Neotropical shield bugs (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae: Pachycorinae)', Zoomorphology, 136, pp. 29 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00435-016-0330-y

Hosseini R; Cassis G, 2017, 'A remarkable new plant bug genus and species (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Deraocorinae) from the Australian wet tropics', Zootaxa, 4232, pp. 123 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4232.1.9

Cassis G; Koenig P; Symonds C; Shofner R, 2017, 'Systematics and host plant associations of the Australian lace bug genus Nethersia (Insecta: Heteroptera: Tingidae), including the description of eighteen new species', Insect Systematics and Evolution, 48, pp. 1 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-47052151

Namyatova AA; Cassis G, 2016, 'Revision of the staphylinoid and ground-dwelling genus carvalhoma slater & gross (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) of Australia', European Journal of Taxonomy, 2016, pp. 1 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.253

Cassis G; Cheng M; Tatarnic N, 2016, 'Flattened plant bugs of the Pandanus-inhabiting genus Frontimiris (Heteroptera: Miridae) and Pandanus spiralis–heteropteran associations in the East Kimberley', Austral Entomology, 55, pp. 371 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aen.12199

Namyatova AA; Cassis G, 2016, 'Review of the seven new species of Isometopinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) in Australia and discussion of distribution and host plant associations of the subfamily on a worldwide basis', Austral Entomology, 55, pp. 392 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aen.12202

Namyatova AA; Cassis G, 2016, 'Revision and phylogeny of the fern-inhabiting genus felisacus distant (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae)', Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2016-June, pp. 1 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090-403.1.1

Cassis G, 2016, 'Four new species, first Australian records and review of the Phorticine genus Rhamphocoris, and key to Genera and review of Australian Nabidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nabidae)', Entomologica Americana, 122, pp. 169 - 198, http://dx.doi.org/10.1664/15-RA-057

Namyatova A; Cassis G, 2016, 'A remarkable new genus and six new species of fern-inhabiting plant bugs endemic to the Society Islands (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Filicicoris gen. nov.)', Insect Systematics and Evolution, 47, pp. 285 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-47032144

Namyatova AA; Konstantinov FV; Cassis G, 2016, 'Phylogeny and systematics of the subfamily Bryocorinae based on morphology with emphasis on the tribe Dicyphini sensu Schuh, 1976', Systematic Entomology, 41, pp. 3 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/syen.12140

Cassis G; Symonds C, 2016, 'Plant bugs, plant interactions and the radiation of a species rich clade in south-Western Australia: Naranjakotta, gen. nov. and eighteen new species (Insecta:Heteroptera:Miridae:Orthotylinae)', Invertebrate Systematics, 30, pp. 95 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS15011

Namyatova AA; Cassis G, 2016, 'Systematic revision and phylogeny of the plant bug tribe Monaloniini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) of the world', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 176, pp. 36 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12311

Wang XJ; Liu GQ; Cassis G, 2015, 'Revision of Panaetius Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae) from Australia, including the description of two new species and phylogenetic analysis', Austral Entomology, 54, pp. 445 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aen.12154

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