Edgar Frederick Riek

Edgar Frederick Riek (1920-05-01 – 2016-02-09), Australian entomologist, carcinologist, and palaeontologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 29 taxon names authored by Edgar Frederick Riek

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1951

• Riek, E.F. 1951. The freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae) of Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 2(4): 368–388 DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.22.1951.615 . Reference page. 

1952

• Riek, E.F. 1952. Fossil insects from the Tertiary sediments at Dinmore, Queensland. Papers from the Department of Geology, University of Queensland, 4(2): 17–22. Reference page. 

1953

• Riek, E.F. 1953. Fossil mecopteroid insects from the Upper Permian of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2): 55–87. Reference page. 

1955

• Riek, E.F. 1955. The Australian rhipidiine parasites of cockroaches (Coleoptera: Rhipiphoridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 3(1): 71–94. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9550071 . Reference page. 
• Riek, E.F. 1955. The Australian Xiphydriidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta). Australian Journal of Zoology 3(2): 281–285. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9550281 Reference page. 

1962

• Riek, E.F. 1962. The Australian species of Psyllaephagus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), parasites of psyllids (Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 10(4): 684–757. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9620684 Reference page. 

1967

• Riek, E.F. 1967. Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, family Eulophidae, subfamily Elasminae. Australian Journal of Zoology 15(1): 146–199. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9670145 Reference page. 

1968

• Riek, E.F. 1968. On the occurrence of fossil insects in the Mesozoic rocks of Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 27(16): 311–312. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.27.1968.450 .

1973

• Riek, E.F. 1973. Fossil insects from the Upper Permian of Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 21(3): 513–532. hdl: 10520/AJA03040798_650 .

1974

• Riek, E.F. 1974. Upper Triassic insects from the Molteno "Formation", South Africa. Palaeontographia Africana 17: 19–31. PDF. Reference page. 

1975

• Riek, E.F. 1975. A new Strepsipteron from Natal (Insecta: Halictophagidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 22(2): 465–469. hdl: 10520/AJA03040798_628 .
• Riek, E.F. 1975. On the phylogenetic position of Brucheiser argentinus Navás 1927 and description of a second species from Chile (Insecta: Neuroptera). Studies on Neotropical Fauna 10(2): 117–126. DOI: 10.1080/01650527509360487 .

1976

• Riek, E.F. 1976. New Upper Permian insects from Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 22(3): 755–789. hdl: 10520/AJA03040798_613 .
• Riek, E.F. 1976. A new collection of insects from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 22(3): 791–820. DOI: 10520/AJA03040798_608 . Reference page. 
• Riek, E.F. 1976. Neosecoptera, a new insect suborder based on specimen discovered in the Late Carboniferous of Tasmania. Alcheringa 1(2): 227–234. DOI: 10.1080/03115517608619072 .

1977

• Riek, E.F. 1977. The marine caddisfly family Chathamiidae (Trichoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15(4): 405–419. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1976.tb01724.x Reference page. 

1984

• Riek, E.F. & Kukalová-Peck, J. 1984. A new interpretation of dragonfly wing venation based upon early Carboniferous fossils from Argentina (Insecta: Odonatoidea) and basic character states in pterygote wings. Canadian Journal of Zoology 62(6): 1150–1166. DOI: 10.1139/z84-166 . Reference page. 

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 eponym of Edgar Frederick Riek

plus:

• Riekia
• Riekiella
• Riekisura
• Reisia rieki Deregnaucourt, Wappler, Anderson & Béthoux, 2017

References

• Yeates, D. 2016. Edgar Riek OAM 1920-2016. Myrmecia 52(3): 2–7.
• Cohn, H. 2018. Riek, Edgar (1920 - 2016). Encyclopedia of Australian Science.