David Charles Foster Rentz

David Charles Foster Rentz, Australian entomologist.

Adjunct Professor, School of Marine Biological Sciences, James Cook University Smithfield, Queensland, Australia 4870.

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Rentz, D.C.F. 1978. New species and records of western Orthoptera (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae; Acrididae; Tettigoniidae; Stenopelmatidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 54(2): 81–97. BHL. Reference page.

Rentz, D.C.F. & Cameron, H.M. 1983. Catalogue of Australian Cockroaches. CSIRO Australia. Division of Entomology Technical Paper 21: 1-37. DOI: 10.25919/3qw2-h034 Reference page.

Rentz, D.C.F. 1988: The orthopteroid insects of Norfolk Island, with descriptions and records of some related species from Lord Howe Island, South Pacific. Invertebrate taxonomy 2(8): 1013-1077. DOI: 10.1071/IT9881013 Reference page.
Rentz, D.C.F. 1988a. The shield-backed katydids of Southern Africa: their taxonomy, ecology and relationships to the faunas of Australia and S. America (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae). Invertebrate taxonomy 2(2): 223–335. DOI: 10.1071/IT9881013. Reference page.

Rentz, D.C.F. & John, B. 1989. Studies in Australian Gryllacrididae: Taxonomy, biology, ecology and cytology. Invertebrate taxonomy, 3(8): 1053-1210. DOI: 10.1071/IT9891053 Reference page.

Rentz, D.C.F. 1993. Tettigoniidae of Australia Volume 2: Austrosaginae, Zaprochilinae and Phasmodinae. CSIRO, Australia. Reference page.

Rentz, D.C.F. 2001. A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia: Listroscelidinae, Tympanophorinae, Meconematinae and Microtettigoniinae. 3: 001-536. Reference page.

Rentz D.C.F., 2009. Nomenclatural changes in Australian Tettigoniidae. Zootaxa, 2221: 67–68. Abstract & excerpt.

Naskrecki, P. & Rentz, D.C.F. 2010. Studies in the orthopteran fauna of Melanesia: new katydids of the tribe Agraeciini from Papua New Guinea (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae). Zootaxa 2664: 1–35. Preview. Reference page.
Rentz, D.C.F., Su, Y.N., Ueshima, N. & Robinson, M. 2010. Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: Australian agraeciine katydids, two new genera from northern Australia (Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Agraeciini). Zootaxa 2417: 1–39. Preview Reference page.

Rentz, D.C.F., Su, Y.N. & Ueshima, N. 2012. Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: new genera and species from North Queensland (Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Armadillagraeciini trib. nov. and Agraeciini; Listroscelidinae; Requenini). Zootaxa 3173: 1–36. Preview Reference page.

Rentz, D. 2014. A guide to the cockroaches of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. Preview on Google books Reference page.

Rentz, D.C.F. 2015. A range extension for an Australian katydid, Zaprochilus australis (Tettigoniidae; Zaprochilinae). Zootaxa 4057(4): 583–584. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.4.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Rentz, D.C.F., Su, Y.N. & Ueshima, N. 2015. Studies in Australian Katydids: A Review of the Australian Snub-nosed Sylvan katydids (Tettigoniidae; Pseudophyllinae; Simoderini). Zootaxa 3946(1): 1–54. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.1.1. Preview Reference page.

Rentz, D.C.F., Su, Y.N., Ueshima, N. & Wilson, G.W. 2016. Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: A review of the Australian katydids of the genus Goodangarkia (Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae; Agraeciini; Liarina). Zootaxa 4136(1): 71–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.1.3. Reference page.

Rentz, D. 2017. Sound production in an Australian cockroach, Megazosteria patula (Walker) (Blattodea: Blattidae: Polyzosteriinae). Zootaxa 4231(4): 567–568. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.4.5. Reference page.
Vandergast, A.G., Weissman, D.B., Wood, D.A., Rentz, D.C.F., Bazelet, C.S. & Ueshima, N. 2017. Tackling an intractable problem: Can greater taxon sampling help resolve relationships within the Stenopelmatoidea (Orthoptera: Ensifera)? Zootaxa 4291(1): 1–33. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.1.1. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. 2018. Changes in the nomenclature of three Australian crickets. Zootaxa 4410(2): 390–392. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.9 Reference page.
Rentz, D.C.F., Su, Y.N. & Béthoux, O. 2018. A new Raspy Cricket from the northern Australian Rainforests (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae). Zootaxa 4514(1): 41–52. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.1.3 Reference page.

Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. 2019. Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: Three New Species of Agraeciini From North-eastern Australia Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Agraeciini. Zootaxa 4623(2): 283–305. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.2.4. Reference page.

Skejo, J., Connors, M., Hendriksen, M., Lambert, N., Chong, G., McMaster, I., Monaghan, N., Rentz, D.C.F., Richter, R., Rose, K. & Franjević, D. 2020. Online social media tells a story of Anaselina, Paraselina, and Selivinga (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae), rare Australian pygmy grasshoppers. ZooKeys, 948: 107–119. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.948.52910 Reference page.