Rolf Georg Beutel

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• 36 taxon names authored by Rolf Georg Beutel

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• 1 eponym of Rolf Georg Beutel

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• Beutel, R.G. & Roughley, R.E. 1987. On the systematic position of the genus Notomicrus Sharp (Hydradephaga: Coleoptera). Canadian Journal of Zoology 65(8): 1898–1905. DOI: 10.1139/z87-290  . Reference page. 

• Beutel, R.G.; Haas, F. 2000: Phylogenetic relationships of the suborders of Coleoptera (Insecta). Cladistics, 16: 103–141.

• Ribera, I., Beutel, R.G., Balke, M. & Vogler, A.P. 2002. Discovery of Aspidytidae, a new family of aquatic Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 269: 2351–2356. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2157  . PDF. Reference page. 

• Balke, M., Ribera, I. & Beutel, R.G. 2003. Aspidytidae: on the discovery of a new beetle family: detailed morphological analysis, description of a second species, and key to fossil and extant adephagan families (Coleoptera). Pp. 53–66. in Jäch, M.A. & Ji, L. (eds.) Water beetles of China. Volume 3. Zoologisch - Botanische Gesellschaft, Vienna. PDF. Reference page. 
• Beutel, R.G.; Haas, F. 2003: Basal splitting events in Coleoptera. Pp. 160-161 in: Klass, K.D. (ed.) Proceedings of the 1st Dresden meeting on insect phylogeny: “Phylogenetic relationships within the insect orders” (Dresden, September 19–21, 2003). Entomologische Abhandlungen, 61: 119–172.[1]

• Beutel, R.G.; Leschen, R.A.B. (volume eds.) 2005: Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 1: Morphology and systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110171309 DOI: 10.1515/9783110904550
• Pohl, H. & Beutel, R.G. 2005. The phylogeny of Strepsiptera (Hexapoda). Cladistics 21(4): 328–374. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00074.x  . Reference page. 
• Pohl, H., Beutel, R.G. & Kinzelbach, R. 2005. Protoxenidae fam. nov. (Insecta, Strepsiptera) from Baltic amber – a 'missing link' in strepsipteran phylogeny. Zoologica Scripta 34(1): 57–69. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00173.x  . Reference page. 

• Beutel, R.G., Ge, S.-Q. & Hörnschemeyer, T. 2007 (Online) 2008 (Print). On the head morphology of Tetraphalerus, the phylogeny of Archostemata and the basal branching events in Coleoptera. Cladistics 24(3): 270–298. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00186.x  . Reference page. 
• Pohl, H. & Beutel, R.G. 2008. The evolution of Strepsiptera (Hexapoda). Zoology 111: 318–338. DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2007.06.008

• Bravo, F., Pohl, H., Silva-Neto, A. & Beutel, R.G. 2009. Bahiaxenidae, a "living fossil" and a new family of Strepsiptera (Hexapoda) discovered in Brazil. Cladistics 25(6): 614–623. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00264.x  . Reference page. 

• Dressler, C. & Beutel, R.G. 2010. The morphology and evolution of the adult head of Adephaga (Insecta: Coleoptera). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 68(2): 239–287. PDF. Reference page. 
• Ge, S.-Q., Friedrich, F. & Beutel, R.G. 2010. On the systematic position and taxonomic rank of the extinct myxophagan †Haplochelus (Coleoptera). Insect Systematics & Evolution 41(4): 329–338. DOI: 10.1163/187631210X537385  . Reference page. 

• Ge, S.-Q., Daccordi, M., Beutel, R.G., Li, W.-Z., Yang, X.-K. 2011. Revision of the chrysomeline genera Potaninia, Suinzona and Taipinus (Coleoptera) from eastern Asia, with a biogeographic scenario for the Hengduan Mountain region in south-western China. Systematic Entomology 36(4): 644–671. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00581.x  . Reference page. 
• Ge, S.-Q., Hörnschemeyer, T., Friedrich, F. & Beutel, R.G. 2011. Is Crowsoniella relicta really a cucujiform beetle? Systematic Entomology 36(1): 175–179. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00552.x  . ResearchGate  . Reference page. 

• Beutel, R.G., Wang, B., Tan, J.-J., Ge, S.-Q., Ren, D. & Yang, X-K. 2012. On the phylogeny and evolution of Mesozoic and extant lineages of Adephaga (Coleoptera, Insecta). Cladistics 29(2): 147–165. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00420.x Reference page. 
• Ge, S.-Q., Daccordi, M., Beutel, R.G., Ren, J., Cui, J.-Z., Li, W.-Z. & Yang, X.-K. 2012. Revision of the Eastern Asian genera Ambrostoma Motschulsky and Parambrostoma Chen (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae). Systematic Entomology 37(2): 332–345. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00618.x  . Reference page. 
• Kukalová-Peck, J. & Beutel, R.G. 2012. Is the Carboniferous †Adiphlebia lacoana really the "oldest beetle"? Critical reassessment and description of a new Permian beetle family. European Journal of Entomology 109(4): 633–645. DOI: 10.14411/eje.2012.075  . [Erratum: 2013. 110(1): 180. DOI: 10.14411/eje.2013.027  .] Reference page. 
• Pohl, H., Niehuis, O., Gloyna, K., Misof, B. & Beutel, R.G. 2012: A new species of Mengenilla (Insecta, Strepsiptera) from Tunisia. ZooKeys 198: 79–101. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.198.2334  . Reference page. 

• Hörnschemeyer, T., Haug, J.T., Bethoux, O., Beutel, R.G., Charbonnier, S., Hegna, T.A., Koch, M., Rust, J., Wedmann, S., Bradler, S. & Willmann, R. 2013. Is Strudiella a Devonian insect?.Nature 494(7437): E3–E4. DOI: 10.1038/nature11887  . Reference page. 
• Hua, Y., Ge, S.-Q., Beutel, R.G., Zhang, Y., Cui, J.-Z. & Yang, X.-K. 2013. The larvae of Altica koreana (Ogloblin) and A. viridicyanea (Baly) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini). Zootaxa 3694(5): 461–470. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.5.4  . Reference page. 
• Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Beutel, R.G. & Newton, A.F. 2013: A possible larva of Lepicerus inaequalis Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Lepiceridae) from Panama. Zootaxa 3701(3): 393–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.3.8 Reference page. 
• Mashimo, Y., Yoshizawa, K., Engel, M.S., Idris, A.G., Dallai, R., Beutel, R.G. & Machida, R. 2013. Zorotypus in Peninsular Malaysia (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae), with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 3717(4): 498–514. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3717.4.4 Reference page. 
• Pohl, H. & Beutel, R.G. 2013. The Strepsiptera-Odyssey: the history of the systematic placement of an enigmatic parasitic insect order. Entomologia 1(1): e4. DOI: 10.4081/entomologia.2013.e4  .

• Leschen, R.A.B. & Beutel, R.G. (volume eds.) 2014. Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera Volume 3: Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-027446-2 DOI: 10.1515/9783110274462 Reference page. 
• Mashimo, Y., Matsumura, Y., Machida, R., Dallai, R., Gottardo, M., Yoshizawa, K., Friedrich, F., Wipfler, B. & Beutel, R.G. 2014. 100 years Zoraptera—a phantom in insect evolution and the history of its investigation. Insect Systematics & Evolution 45(4): 371–393. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-45012110 Reference page. 
• Matsumura, Y., Yao, I., Beutel, R.G. & Yoshizawa, K. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of the leaf beetle subfamily Criocerinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and the correlated evolution of reproductive organs. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 72(2): 95–110. PDF. Reference page. 
• Misof, B., Liu, S., Meusemann, K., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Mayer, C., Frandsen, P.B., Ware, J., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Petersen, M., Izquierdo-Carrasco, F., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Aberer, A.J., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H., Bartel, D., Blanke, A., Berger, S., Böhm, A., Buckley, T.R., Calcott, B., Chen, J., Friedrich, F., Fukui, M., Fujita, M., Greve, C., Grobe, P., Gu, S., Huang, Y., Jermiin, L.S., Kawahara, A.Y., Krogmann, L., Kubiak, M., Lanfear, R., Letsch, H., Li, Y., Li, Z., Li, J., Lu, H., Machida, R., Mashimo, Y., Kapli, P., McKenna, D.D., Meng, G., Nakagaki, Y., Navarrete-Heredia, J.L., Ott, M., Ou, Y., Pass, G., Podsiadlowski, L., Pohl, H., Reumont, B.M. von, Schütte, K., Sekiya, K., Shimizu, S., Slipinski, A., Stamatakis, A., Song, W., Su, X., Szucsich, N.U., Tan, M., Tan, X., Tang, M., Tang, J., Timelthaler, G., Tomizuka, S., Trautwein, M., Tong, X., Uchifune, T., Walzl, M.G., Wiegmann, B.M., Wilbrandt, J., Wipfler, B., Wong, T.K.F., Wu, Q., Wu, G., Xie, Y., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Yeates, D.K., Yoshizawa, K., Zhang, Q., Zhang, R., Zhang, W., Zhang, Y., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhou, L., Ziesmann, T., Zou, S., Li, Y., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Yang, H., Wang, J., Wang, J., Kjer, K.M. & Zhou, X. 2014. Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. Science 346(6210): 763–767. DOI: 10.1126/science.1257570 Reference page. 
• Wipfler, B., Bai, M., Schoville, S., Dallai, R., Uchifune, T., Machida, R., Cui, Y. & Beutel, R.G. 2014. Ice Crawlers (Grylloblattodea) – the history of the investigation of a highly unusual group of insects. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 2(2): 1–25. DOI: 10.12976/jib/2014.2.2  . Reference page. 
• Yavorskaya, M.I., Leschen, R.A.B., Polilov, A.A. & Beutel, R.G. 2014. Unique rostrate larvae and basidiomycophagy in the beetle family Corylophidae. Arthropod Structure & Development 43(2): 153–162. DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2013.11.001  . Reference page. 

• Jałoszyński, P., Matsumura, Y. & Beutel, R.G. 2015. Evolution of a giant intromittent organ in Scydmaeninae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): Functional morphology of the male postabdomen in Mastigini. Arthropod Structure & Development 44(1): 77–98. DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2014.09.006   Reference page. 

• Bai, M., Beutel, R.G., Klass, K.D., Zhang, W., Yang, X. & Wipfler, B. 2016. †Alienoptera — A new insect order in the roach–mantodean twilight zone. Gondwana Research 39: 317–326. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.02.002  . Reference page. 
• Kjer, K.M., Simon, C., Yavorskaya, M. & Beutel, R.G. 2016. Progress, pitfalls and parallel universes: a history of insect phylogenetics. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 13(121): 20160363. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0363  . Reference page. 
• Pohl, H. & Beutel, R.G. 2016. †Kinzelbachilla ellenbergeri – a new ancestral species, genus and family of Strepsiptera (Insecta). Systematic Entomology 41: 287–297. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12158  . ResearchGate  . Reference page. 
• Toussaint, E.F.A., Beutel, R.G., Morinière, J., Jia, F., Xu, S., Michat, M.C., Zhou, X., Bilton, D.T., Ribera, I., Hájek, J. & Balke, M. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of the highly disjunct cliff water beetles from South Africa and China (Coleoptera: Aspidytidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(3): 537–546. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12332  . Reference page. 

• Yan, E.V., Beutel, R.G. & Ponomarenko, A.G. 2017 (online) [2018 (print)]. †Peltosynidae, a new beetle family from the Middle–Late Triassic of Kyrgyzstan: its affinities with Polyphaga (Insecta, Coleoptera) and the groundplan of this megadiverse suborder. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16(6): 515–530. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1313789  . ResearchGate  . Reference page. 
• Yan, E.V., Beutel, R.G. & Ponomarenko, A.G. 2017. Ademosynidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): A new concept for a coleopteran key taxon and its phylogenetic affinities to the extant suborders. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.2.31A: 1–22. DOI: 10.26879/739  . Reference page. 
• Yan, E.V., Lawrence, J.F., Beattie, R. & Beutel, R.G. 2017 (Print 2018). At the dawn of the great rise: †Ponomarenkia belmonthensis (Insecta: Coleoptera), a remarkable new Late Permian beetle from the Southern Hemisphere. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16(7): 611–619. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1343259  . ResearchGate  . Reference page. 

• Bai, M., Beutel, R.G., Zhang, W., Wang, S., Hörnig, M., Gröhn, C., Yan, E., Yang, X. & Wipfler, B. 2018. A new Cretaceous insect with a unique cephalo-thoracic scissor device. Current Biology 28(3): 438–443. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.031  . Reference page. 
• Mashimo, Y., Matsumura, Y., Beutel, R.G., Njoroge, L. & Machida, R. 2018. A remarkable new species of Zoraptera, Zorotypus asymmetristernum sp. n., from Kenya (Insecta, Zoraptera, Zorotypidae). Zootaxa 4388(3): 407–416. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.6 Reference page. 
• Mashimo, Y., Müller, P., Pohl, H. & Beutel, R.G. 2018. The “hairy beast”—Zorotypus hirsutus sp. n., an unusual new species of Zoraptera (Insecta) from Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4508(4): 562–568. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4508.4.4   Reference page. 
• Yan, E.V., Beutel, R.G., Beattie, R. & Lawrence, J.F. 2018. [Ponomarenkium gen. nov., a replacement name for the stem group beetle Ponomarenkia Yan et al., 2017 (Insecta: Coleoptera)]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2018(2): 110. (in Russian). [English translation: Paleontological Journal 52(2): 220. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030118020156  .] Reference page. 
• Yan, E.V., Beutel, R.G. & Lawrence, J.F. 2018. Whirling in the late Permian: ancestral Gyrinidae show early radiation of beetles before Permian-Triassic mass extinction. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 33. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1139-8  . Reference page. 

• Beutel, R.G., Prokop, J., Müller, P. & Pohl, H. 2019. †Bittacopsocus—a new bizarre genus of †Permopsocida (Insecta) from Burmese Cretaceous amber. Zootaxa 4576(2): 357–366. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.2.9   Reference page. 
• Beutel, R.G., Yan, E.V. & Kukalová-Peck, J. 2019. Is †Skleroptera (†Stephanastus) an order in the stemgroup of Coleopterida (Insecta)? Insect Systematics & Evolution 50(5): 670–678. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002187  . Reference page. 
• Fikáček, M., Beutel, R.G., Cai, C-Y., Lawrence, J.F., Newton, A.F., Solodovnikov, A.Yu., Ślipiński, A., Thayer, M.K. & Yamamoto, S. 2019. Reliable placement of beetle fossils via phylogenetic analyses – Triassic Leehermania as a case study (Staphylinidae or Myxophaga?). Systematic Entomology 45(1): 175–187; online supplements. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12386   Reference page. 
• Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Beutel, R.G. & Newton, A.F. 2019. Lepicerus larva still unknown: a correction (Coleoptera: Lepiceridae, Phalacridae). Zootaxa 4545(3): 441–442. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.3.8   Reference page. 
• Mashimo, Y., Müller, P. & Beutel, R.G. 2019. Zorotypus pecten, a new species of Zoraptera (Insecta) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4651(3): 565–577. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4651.3.9  . Plazi. Reference page. 

• Beutel, R.G., Liu, Z., Fikáček, M., Ren, D., Pang, H. & Ślipiński, 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104274  . Reference page. 
• Jałoszyński, P., Luo, X-Z. & Beutel, R.G. 2020. Profound head modifications in Claviger testaceus (Pselaphinae, Staphylinidae, Coleoptera) facilitate integration into communities of ants. Journal of morphology (Online edition). DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21232   Reference page. 
• Jałoszyński, P., Luo, X.-Z., Hammel, J.U., Yamamoto, S. & Beutel, R.G. 2020. The mid-Cretaceous †Lepiceratus gen. nov. and the evolution of the relict beetle family Lepiceridae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Myxophaga). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18(13): 1127–1140. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2020.1747561  . Reference page. 
• Pohl, H., Wipfler, B., Boudinot, B. & Beutel, R.G. 2020 (Online) 2021 (Print). On the value of Burmese amber for understanding insect evolution: Insights from †Heterobathmilla – an exceptional stem group genus of Strepsiptera (Insecta). Cladistics 37(2): 211–229. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12433  . Reference page. 
• Yan, E.V., Beutel, R.G., Lawrence, J.F., Yavorskaya, M.I., Hörnschemeyer, T., Pohl, H., Vassilenko, D.V., Bashkuev, A.S. & Ponomarenko, A.G. 2020. Archaeomalthus-(Coleoptera, Archostemata) a ‘ghost adult’ of Micromalthidae from Upper Permian deposits of Siberia? Historical Biology 32(8): 1019–1027. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1561672  . Plazi. Reference page. 

• Qvarnström, M., Fikáček, M., Wernström, J.V., Huld, S., Beutel, R.G., Arriaga-Varela, E., Ahlberg, P.E. & Niedźwiedzki, G. 2021. Exceptionally preserved beetles in a Triassic coprolite of putative dinosauriform origin. Current Biology 31(15): 3374–3381.e5. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.015  . Reference page. 

• Benda, D., Pohl, H., Nakase, Y., Beutel, R. & Straka, J. 2022. A generic classification of Xenidae (Strepsiptera) based on the morphology of the female cephalothorax and male cephalotheca with a preliminary checklist of species. Zookeys 1093ː 1–134. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1093.72339   Reference page. 
• Boudinot, B.E., Yan, E.V., Prokop, J., Luo, X.-Z. & Beutel, R.G. 2023 (Online 2022). Permian parallelisms: reanalysis of †Tshekardocoleidae sheds light on the earliest evolution of the Coleoptera. Systematic Entomology 48(1): 69–96. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12562  . Reference page. 
• Boudinot, B.E., Fikáček, M., Lieberman, Z.E., Kusy, D., Bocak, L., Mckenna, D.D. & Beutel, R.G. 2023 (Online 2022). Systematic bias and the phylogeny of Coleoptera—A response to Cai et al. (2022) following the responses to Cai et al. (2020). Systematic Entomology 48(2): 223–232. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12570  . ResearchGate  . Reference page. 
• Fikáček, M., Yamamoto, S., Matsumoto, K., Beutel, R.G. & Maddison, D.R. 2022. Phylogeny and systematics of Sphaeriusidae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga): minute living fossils with underestimated past and present-day diversity. Systematic Entomology 48(2): 233–249. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12571  . Reference page. 

• Matsumura, Y., Maruyama, M., Ntonifor, N.N. & Beutel, R.G. 2023. A new species of Zoraptera, Zorotypus komatsui sp. nov. from Cameroon and a redescription of Zorotypus vinsoni Paulian, 1951 (Polyneoptera, Zoraptera). ZooKeys 1178ː 39–59. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1178.108276   Reference page. 

• Boudinot, B.E., Bock, B.L., Weingardt, M., Tröger, D., Batelka, J., Li, D., Richter, A., Pohl, H., Moosdorf, O.T.D., Jandausch, K., Hammel, J.U. & Beutel, R.G. 2024. Et latet et lucet: Discoveries from the Phyletisches Museum amber and copal collection in Jena, Germany. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71(1): 111–176. DOI: 10.3897/dez.71.112433  . Reference page. 

• Prof. Dr. Rolf Beutel. 2018. Institut für Zoologie und Evolutionsforschung, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.