New Caledonia has generally been considered a continental island, the biota of which
largely dates back to Gondwanan times owing to its geological origin and the presence of …

The article focuses on the current state-of-the-art conditions of water beetle systematics,
including description of water beetle taxa, their evolutionary relationships and their use as …

Beetles occur in most terrestrial and freshwater habitats and a few occupy marine
environments. The most common life‐cycle type in beetles is holometaboly. More …

The first comprehensive book in more than a century to reveal the diversity and natural
history of diving beetles. Among the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, there is …

Background The demand for scientific biodiversity data is increasing, but taxonomic
expertise is often limited or not available. DNA sequencing is a potential remedy to …

Aim The biogeographical patterns and drivers of diversity on oceanic islands in the tropical
South Pacific (TSP) are synthesized. We use published studies to determine present …

The biologically and geologically extremely diverse archipelagos of Wallacea, Australasia
and Oceania have long stimulated ecologists and evolutionary biologists. Yet, few molecular …

Dytiscidae is the most diverse family of beetles in which both adults and larvae are aquatic,
with examples of extreme morphological and ecological adaptations. Despite continuous …

For a long time, New Caledonia was considered a continental island, a fragment of
Gondwana harbouring old clades that originated by vicariance and so were thought to be …

A comprehensive higher‐level phylogeny of diving beetles (D ytiscidae) based on larval
characters is presented. Larval morphology and chaetotaxy of a broad range of genera and …