James Kenneth Liebherr

Dr. James Kenneth Liebherr, U.S. entomologist.

• Cornell University, Ithaca, United States of America

[email protected]

(List may be incomplete)

• 145 taxon names authored by James Kenneth Liebherr

(List may be incomplete)

• 1983: Larval description of Calybe (Ega) sallei (Chevrolat) with a preliminary assessment of lachnophorine affinities (Carabidae: Lachnophorini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 37(3): 254–260. JSTOR Reference page. 

• 1985: Revision of the platynine carabid genus Tanystoma Motschulsky (Coleoptera). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 93(4): 1182–1211. JSTOR Reference page. 
• ; Kavanaugh, D.H. 1985: Ovoviviparity in carabid beetles of the genus Pseudomorpha (Insecta: Coleoptera). Journal of natural history 19(6): 1079–1086. DOI: 10.1080/00222938500770681 Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• 1986. Barylaus, New Genus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Endemic to the West Indies with Old World Affinities. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 94(1): 83–97. BHL Reference page. 

• 1989: Tanystoma diabolica new species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini) from Baja California and its biogeographic significance. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 97(2): 173–186. JSTOR Reference page. 

• 1990. A new tribal placement for the Australasian genera Homethes and Aeolodermus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Odacanthini). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 66(4): 312–321. BHL. Reference page. 

• 1994. Identification of New World Agonum, Review of the Mexican Fauna, and Description of Incagonum, New Genus, from South America (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 102(1): 1–55. BHL Reference page. 

• & Zimmerman, E.C. 1998. Cladistic analysis, phylogeny and biogeography of the Hawaiian Platynini (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Systematic Entomology 23: 137–172. Reference page. 

• & Zimmerman, E.C. 2000. Insects of Hawaii, volume 16:. Hawaiian Carabidae (Coleoptera), Part 1: Introduction and tribe Platynini. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 504 pp. ISBN 0-8248-2356-7. Google books Reference page. 

• Zimmerman, E.C. & 2001. Insects of Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 206 pp. ISBN 0-8248-2427-X Reference page. 

• , Nishida, G.M., Zimmerman, E.C. & Bousquet, Y. 2004. Metromenus Sharp, 1884 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Dyscolus palmae Blackburn, 1877 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 61(2), 90. Reference page. 

• 2005: Platynini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Vanuatu: Miocene diversification on the Melanesian Arc. Invertebrate systematics 19(4): 263–295. DOI: 10.1071/IS04032 Reference page. 
• 2005: New species of Mecyclothorax (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Psydrini) from Polipoli, Maui define an area of endemism on Halacakala Volcano, Hawaii. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 113: 97–128.

• 2006: Hawaiian Blackburnia beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Platynini): Patterns of specialization with implications for conservation. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie 15: 57–62. Abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• 2006: Taxonomic revision of the Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Psydrini) of Molokai, Hawaii and recognition of areas of endemism on Kamakou Volcano. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 114: 179–281.
• ; Short, A.E.Z. 2006: Blackburnia riparia, new species (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Platynini): a novel element in the Hawaiian riparian insect fauna. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 114(1-2): 1–16. DOI: 10.1664/0028-7199(2006)114[1:BRNSCC]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 

• 2008. Taxonomic revision of Hawaiian Bembidion Latreille (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini) with a discussion of their reductive and derivative evolutionary specializations. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 77: 31–78. Reference page. 
• 2008. Taxonomic revision of Mecyclothorax Sharp (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of Hawaii Island: abundant genitalic variation in a nascent island radiation. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 55: 19–78. DOI: 10.1002/mmnd.200800004
• 2008. Mecyclothorax kavanaughi sp. n. (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the Finisterre Range, Papua New Guinea. Tijdschrift voor entomologie 151: 147–154. ISSN: 0040–7496 Abstract

• & Marris, J.W.M. 2009. Revision of the New Zealand species of Mecyclothorax Sharp (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Psydrinae, Mecyclothoracini) and the consequent removal of several species to Meonochilus gen. n. (Psydrinae, Meonini). New Zealand Entomologist 32(1): 5–22. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.2009.9722172 . Reference page. 

• & Krushelnycky, P.D. 2011. Mecyclothorax palikea sp.n. from the Waianae Range, Oahu, and the biogeographical history of Hawaii's M. flavomarginatus species group (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Moriomorphini). Insect Systematics & Evolution 42(4): 365–384. DOI: 10.1163/187631211X608718 Reference page. 
• Liebherr, J.K. 2011. Cladistic assessment of subtribal affinities within the tribe Moriomorphini with description of Rossjoycea glacialis, gen. n. and sp. n. from the South Island, and revision of Meonochilus Liebherr and Marris from the North Island, New Zealand (Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 147: 277–335. ISBN 978-954-642-614-7 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.147.1898 Reference page. 
• , Marris, J.W.M., Emberson, R.M., Syrett, P. & Roig-juñent, S. 2011. Orthoglymma wangapeka gen.n., sp.n. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini): a newly discovered relict from the Buller Terrane, north-western South Island, New Zealand, corroborates a general pattern of Gondwanan endemism. Systematic Entomology 36(3): 395–414. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00569.x . Reference page. 
• 2011. The Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Moriomorphini) of West Maui, Hawaii: taxonomy, biogeography, and conservation. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 58: 15–76. DOI: 10.1002/mmnd.201100005

• Seldon, D.S., Leschen, R.A.B. & 2012. A new species of Mecodema (Carabidae: Broscini) from Northland, New Zealand, with notes on a newly observed structure within the female genitalia. New Zealand Entomologist 35(1): 39–50. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.2012.649707 . Reference page. 
• 2012: The first precinctive Carabidae from Moorea, Society Islands: new Mecyclothorax spp. (Coleoptera) from the summit of Mont Tohiea. ZooKeys 224: 37–80. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.224.3675 Reference page. 
• 2012: New Mecyclothorax spp. (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) define Mont Mauru, eastern Tahiti Nui, as a distinct area of endemism. ZooKeys 227: 63–99. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.227.3797 Reference page. 

• 2013: The Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) of Tahiti, Society Islands. ZooKeys 322: 1–170. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.322.5492 Reference page. 
• & Maddison, D.R. 2013. Colonisation of the Pacific by Bembidion beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae), with description of Bembidion tahitiense, sp. nov. from Tahiti, French Polynesia. Invertebrate Systematics 27(4): 439–449. DOI: 10.1071/IS13003 Reference page. 

• Liebherr, J.K. 2015. The Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) of Haleakala-, Maui: Keystone of a hyperdiverse Hawaiian radiation. ZooKeys 544: 1–407. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.544.6074 Full article Reference page. 

• 2016. Cyphocoleus Chaudoir (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Odacanthini): taxonomic revision, phylogenetic relationships, and the Cenozoic history of New Caledonia. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 63(2): 211–270. DOI: 10.3897/dez.63.10241 Reference page. 

• Liebherr, J.K. 2017. Bryanites graeffii sp. n. (Coleoptera, Carabidae): museum rediscovery of a relict species from Samoa. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(1): 1–11. DOI: 10.3897/zse.93.10802. Reference page. 

• 2018. Cladistic classification of Mecyclothorax Sharp (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) and taxonomic revision of the New Caledonian subgenus Phacothorax Jeannel. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 65(1): 1–63. DOI: 10.3897/dez.65.21000 Reference page. 
• Liebherr, J.K. 2018. Taxonomic review of Australian Mecyclothorax Sharp (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) with special emphasis on the M. lophoides (Chaudoir) species complex. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65(2): 177–224. DOI: 10.3897/dez.65.27424 Reference page. 

• 2019. Revision of Tropopterus Solier: A disjunct South American component of the Australo-Pacific Moriomorphini (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 66(2): 147–177. DOI: 10.3897/dez.66.38022 . Reference page. 

• 2020. Sporades jaechi sp. nov. with comments on classification of the New Caledonian genus Sporades Fauvel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechini, Trechodina). ZooKeys, 908: 123–136. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.908.48707 Reference page. 

• Liebherr, J.K. 2021. Hawaiian Paratachys Casey (Coleoptera, Carabidae): small beetles of sodden summits, stony streams, and stygian voids. Pp 229–268 In Spence, J.R., Casale, A., Assmann, T., & Penev, L. (eds.). Systematic Zoology and Biodiversity Science: A tribute to Terry Erwin (1940-2020). ZooKeys 1044: 1–1042. Reference page.  DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1044.59674 Reference page. 
• & Ivie, M.A. 2021. Two New Platynus Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini) from Nevis and St. Kitts, Lesser Antilles. The Coleopterists Bulletin 75(1): 59-74. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.59. . Reference page. 
• , Porch, N., Shaw, M., Sinclair, B.E. & Maddison, D.R. 2021. Systematic revision of the trans-Bassian moriomorphine genus Theprisa Moore (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Pp 339–373 In Spence, J.R., Casale, A., Assmann, T., & Penev, L. (eds.). Systematic Zoology and Biodiversity Science: A tribute to Terry Erwin (1940-2020). ZooKeys 1044: 1–1042. Reference page.  DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335 Reference page. 
• Spence, J.R., Casale, A., Assmann, T., & Penev, L. (eds.). Systematic Zoology and Biodiversity Science: A tribute to Terry Erwin (1940-2020). ZooKeys 1044: 1–1042. Reference page. 

• Profile at Cornell University