Rafał Ruta

Dr. Rafal Ruta, Polish Coleopterist.

• Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionaty Taxonomy (DBET), Zoological Institute, Wroclaw University, Przybyszewskiego 63/77; 51148 Wroclaw POLAND
• scirtes[at]biol.uni.wroc.pl

Taxon names authored

• 33 taxon names authored by Rafal Ruta

Publications

2007

• Ruta, R., 2007. Scirtidae of India and Sri Lanka. Part 1. The chlorizans-group of Cyphon PAYKULL, 1799 (Insecta: Coleoptera). Genus 17 (2): 323–350.
• Ruta, R., 2007. Scirtidae of India and Sri Lanka. Part 2. Remarks on genera Scirtes Illiger and Ora CLARK (Insecta: Coleoptera). Genus 17 (4): 751–757.

2008

• Ruta, R., 2008. Redescriptions of Scirtes sericeus WATERHOUSE, 1880, bona species and Scirtes aequalis WATERHOUSE, 1880 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Genus 19, 2: 191–199.
• Ruta, R. 2008: Contribution to the knowledge of Seychellois Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea). Zootaxa, 1913: 49–68. Abstract & excerpt

2009

• Ruta, R. 2009: Revision of Scirtidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) described by Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky. Zootaxa, 2210: 26–50. Abstract & excerpt
• Ruta, R. 2009: A redescription of Prionocyphon grandis (Pic, 1934) comb. nov. (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Genus, 20(1): 67–70. PDF
• Ruta, R., 2009. Scirtidae of India and Sri Lanka. Part 3. Status of Cyphon pictus var. ceylonicus Pic, 1918 with description of a related species (Insecta: Coleoptera). Genus 20, 3: 403–409.
• Ruta, R., 2009. Brachycyphon Fairmaire, 1896, a neglected genus of Afrotropical Scirtidae (Coleoptera). Ann. Zool. 59, 4: 621–628.

2010

• Ruta, R. 2010: Two new species of Prionocyphon Redtenbacher from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Scirtidae), with notes on Prionocyphon, Mescirtes Motschulsky and Prionoscirtes Champion from East and Southeast Asia. Zootaxa, 2402: 52–60. Preview
• Ruta, R. 2010: Revision of the genus Calvarium Pic, 1918 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Part 1. Redescription of the genus and catalogue of described taxa. Annales zoologici, 60(3): 341–350. ISSN: 0003-4541 DOI: 10.3161/000345410X535343
• Ruta, R.; Yoshitomi, H. 2010: Scirtidae: The genus Scirtes Illiger (Coleoptera). pp. 403–438 in: Jäch, M.A. & Balke, M. (eds.): Water beetles of New Caledonia (part 1). Monographs on Coleoptera, 3. ISSN: 1027-8869
• Ruta, R.; Yoshitomi, H. 2010: Revision of the genus Exochomoscirtes Pic (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae). Zootaxa, 2598: 1–80. Preview
• Yoshitomi, H.; Ruta, R. 2010: Scirtidae: Checklist of the taxa recorded from Melanesia (Moluccas to Fiji) (Coleoptera). pp. 401–402 in: Jäch, M.A. & Balke, M. (eds.): Water beetles of New Caledonia (part 1). Monographs on Coleoptera, 3. ISSN: 1027-8869
• Yoshitomi, H.; Ruta, R. 2010: Revision of the Scirtes flavoguttatus species-group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae). Zootaxa, 2467: 1–74. Preview

2011

• Ruta, R. 2011: Two new species and new records of Exochomoscirtes Pic (Coleoptera, Scirtidae). Japanese journal of systematic entomology, 17(2): ?-? [not seen]
• Ruta, R.; Thorpe, S.; Yoshitomi, H. 2011: Stenocyphon neozealandicus, a new species from New Zealand of a previously monotypic subfamily from Chile (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Stenocyphoninae). Zootaxa, 3113: 65–68. [Publication date: '29 Nov. 2011', sourced from first page of article] Preview

2014

• Ruta, R., Kiałka, A. & Yoshitomi, H. 2014. A supplement to the revision of the Scirtes flavoguttatus species-group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae). Zootaxa 3902(1): 1–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3902.1.1. . Reference page. 

2016

• Ruta, R. 2016. Anticyphon gen. nov., a new genus of Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) inhabiting high altitude Andean cloud forests and páramo formation. Zootaxa 4175(4): 301–318. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.4.1. Reference page. 
• Ruta, R. & Libonatti, M.L. 2016. Redescriptions of Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) described by Carl Henrik Boheman (1796–1868) with notes on Scirtes adustus diversenotatus Pic, 1930. Zootaxa 4072(2): 203–216. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.2.4. Reference page. 

2017

• Kiałka, A. & Ruta, R. 2017. An illustrated catalogue of the New Zealand marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Zootaxa 4366(1): 1–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4366.1.1. Reference page. 

2018

• Kiałka, A. & Ruta, R. 2018. Meatopida gen. nov., a new genus to accommodate two species originally described in Atopida White, 1846 (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Scirtidae). Zootaxa 4382(2): 242–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.2.2 Reference page. 
• Ruta, R. & Yoshitomi, H. 2018. Description of females of Chilarboreus Ruta, 2011 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae). Zootaxa 4388(2): 265–274. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.2.8 Reference page. 

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