Publications

 

Timmermans M.J.T.N., Dodsworth S., Culverwell, C.L., L. Bocak, L., Ahrens, D., Littlewood, D.T.J., Pons, J., Vogler, A.P. (2010) Why barcode? High-throughput multiplex sequencing of mitochondrial genomes for molecular systematics. Nucleic Acids Research, 2010: 1-14.

 

Keith D., Rössner, E. & Ahrens, D. (2010) Zur Identität von Triodontella alni (Blanchard, 1850) und Serica luteipes Fairmaire, 1881 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Sericini). Entomologische Zeitschrift 120: 103-107.

 

Rössner, E., Scheuern, J. & Ahrens, D. (2010) Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) medius (Kugelann, 1792)-a good western palaearctic species in the Onthophagus vacca complex (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini). Zootaxa 2629: 1-28.

 

Ahrens, D., GC, Y.D., P. Lago, Nagel, P. (2009) Seasonal fluctuation, phenology and turnover of chafer assemblages - insight to the structural plasticity of insect communities in tropical farmland (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Agricultural and Forest Entomology 11: 265-274.

 

Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2009) New species of Sericini from the Eastern Himalaya and Tibet (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae): 249-284.In: Hartmann, M. and Weipert, M. (Eds.): Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya III. Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt e.V., Erfurt.

 

Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2009) A review on the genus Gynaecoserica Brenske, 1897 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini). Journal of Natural History 43: 1505-1584.

 

Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2009) A new species of Hyposerica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini) from Mauritius Island. Zootaxa 2208: 65-68.

 

Ahrens, D. & Ribera, I. (2009): Inferring speciation modes in a clade of Iberian chafers from rates of morphological evolution in different character systems. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 234.

 

Ahrens, D. (2009): A cladistic analysis reveals the occurrence of Taiwanoserica in Sichuan (China) with description of four new species (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.) 45(3): 285-296.

 

Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2008): A taxonomic revision of the Malagasy genus Emphania Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini).- Zoosystema 30(4): 917-927.

 

Ahrens, D. & Vogler, A. P. (2008) Towards the phylogeny of chafers (Sericini): analysis of alignment-variable sequences and the evolution of segment numbers in the antennal club. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 783-798.

 

Ahrens, D. & Lago, P.K. (2008) Directed asymmetry reversal of male copulatory organs revisited in chafer beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) - implications on left-right polarity determination in insect terminalia. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 46 (2): 110-117.

 

Hunt, T., J. Bergsten, Z. Levkanicova, A. Papadopoulou, O. St John, R. Wild, P.M. Hammond, D. Ahrens, M. Balke, M.S. Caterino, J. Gómez-Zurita, I. Ribera, T.G. Barraclough, M. Bocakova, L. Bocak, A.P. Vogler (2007) A comprehensive phylogeny of beetles reveals the evolutionary origins of a superradiation. Science 318: 1913-1916.

 

Ahrens, D., Monaghan, M. T. & Vogler, A. P. (2007): DNA-based taxonomy for associating adults and larvae in multi-species assemblages of chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44(1): 436-449.

 

Ahrens, D. (2007): Beetle evolution in the Asian highlands: insight from a phylogeny of the scarabaeid subgenus Serica (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Systematic Entomology 32: 450-476.

 

Ahrens, D. (2007): Cladistic analysis of Sericania (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae: Sericini) - implications on the evolution of the xerophilous fauna of the Himalaya. European Journal of Entomology 104: 517-530.

 

Ahrens, D. (2007): Type species designations of Afrotropical Ablaberini and Sericini genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Zootaxa 1496: 53-62.

 

Ahrens, D. (2007): Taxonomic changes and an updated catalogue for the Palaearctic Sericini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Zootaxa 1504: 1-51.

 

Ahrens, D. (2006): The phylogeny of the genus Lasioserica inferred from adult morphology - implications on the evolution of montane fauna of the South Asian orogenic belt (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 44(1): 34-53.

 

Ahrens, D. (2006): The phylogeny of Sericini and their position within the Scarabaeidae based on morphological characters (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Systematic Entomology 31: 113-144.

 

Ahrens, D. (2006): Cladistic analysis of Maladera ( Omaladera): implications on taxonomy, evolution and biogeography of the Himalayan species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 6: 1-16.

 

Ahrens, D. (2006): Phylogenetic analysis of Anomalophylla Reitter, 1887 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae: Sericini). Insect Systematics and Evolution 37: 1-16.

 

Ahrens, D. (2006): Evolution of Asian 'lowland' taxa and Alpine-Himalayan Tertiary orogenic belt - Insight from a preliminary cladistic analysis of Maladera ( Cycloserica) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini). Zoologischer Anzeiger 244: 193-203.

 

Ahrens, D. (2006): Revision und phylogenetische Analyse der Gattung Pachyserica Brenske, 1897 (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Sericini). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 113 (3): 487-557.

 

Ahrens, D. (2005): The diversification of the endemic Himalayan monsoon-season beetles genus Calloserica inferred from a cladistic analysis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini). Invertebrate Systematics 19: 217-230.

 

Ahrens, D. (2005): Taxonomic revision of the genus Anomalophylla Reitter, 1887 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae: Sericini). Zootaxa 1076: 1-62.

 

Ahrens, D. (2005): Description of the two new Microserica species from Laos and Thailand (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini). Zootaxa 1064: 31-37.

 

Ahrens, D. (2005): A preliminary cladistic analysis of Nipponoserica, with implications on phylogenetic relationships among sericine chafers (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 3(3): 265-279.

 

 

Book Chapters and Monographs 

 

Ahrens, D. (2006): Sericinae: 229-248. In: Löbl, I. & A. Smetana [Eds.]: The Catalogue of the Order Coleoptera of the Palaearctic Region. Apollo Books.

 

Ahrens, D. (2005): A taxonomic review on the Serica (s. str.) MacLeay, 1819 species of Asiatic mainland (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini). Nova Supplementa Entomologica 18: 1-163.

 

Ahrens, D. (2004): Monographie der Sericini des Himalaya (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Dissertation.de - Verlag im Internet GmbH, Berlin, 534pp.

 

Rössner, E. & Ahrens, D. (2004): Taxonomie und Chorologie der Gattung Omaloplia Schoenherr, 1817 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Sericini). Dissertation.de - Verlag im Internet GmbH, Berlin, 153pp.

 

Ahrens, D., Assing, V., Bellmann, A., Bellstedt, R., Eisinger, D., Esser, J., Frank, J., Geider, R., Gürlich, S., Hartmann, M., Klausnitzer, B., Klinger, R., Köhler, F., Konzelmann, E., Möller, G., Schmidt, L., Schnitter, P., Spitzenberg, D., Sprick, P., Terlutter, H. (1998): Verzeichnis der Käfer Deutschlands.- Entomofauna Germanica. Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte, Beiheft 4, Dresden: 185pp.

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