Frank-Thorsten Krell

Frank-Thorsten Krell (born 1966), German-U.S. entomologist.

Department of Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205-5798, United States of America.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Krell, F.-T. 1990. Onthophagus statzi nom. nov. für Onthophagus muelleri Statz, 1952 [Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae (Oligozän)]. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 71(1-2): 187. ResearchGate .

Krell, F.-T. 1994. Phylogenetisch-systematische Revision des Genus Temnorhynchus Hope, 1837 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Melolonthidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini). 2. Teil: Bestimmungstabelle, Katalog, Bibliographie, Gazetteer und Material-Listen. Beiträge zur Entomologie 44(1): 83–155. [in German, with English summary and English key] full article (PDF) Reference page.

Krell, F.-T. 1995: Description and systematic position of Temnorhynchus zairensis, spec. nov. from Zaire (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Melolonthidae, Dynastinae, Pentodontini). Spixiana 18(2): 157–164. BHL Reference page.

Krell, F.-T. 1996. Historical biogeography of Temnorhynchus species (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 234: 209–226. full article (PDF) Reference page.

Krell, F.-T. 2000. The fossil record of Mesozoic and Tertiary Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(6): 871–905. DOI: 10.1071/IT00031 .

Krell, F.-T. 2002. On nomenclature and synonymy of Old World Dynastinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Entomologische Blätter 98(1): 37–46. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Krell, F.-T. 2007. Author, date, and type species of Adoretus (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 61(1): 125-126. DOI: 10.1649/952.1 .

Krell, F.-T., Dellacasa, G. & Dellacasa, M. 2011. Auperia Jacquelin-Duval is a Junior Synonym of Euparia Le Peletier De Saint-Fargeau and Serville and Odontolytes Kozhantshikov is the Valid Name for Auperia sensu Stebnicka (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 65(2): 173–176. DOI: 10.1649/072.065.0217 Reference page.
Krell, F-T. & Schawaller, W. 2011. Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). Pp. 535–548 in: T. Harrison (ed.): Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Volume 2: Fossil Hominines and the Associated Fauna. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9962-4_19 . Reference page.

Krell, F.-T. 2012. On nomenclature and synonymy of Trichius rosaceus, T. gallicus, and T. zonatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini). Zootaxa 3278: 61–68. Preview PDF Reference page.
Krell, F.-T. 2012: Electronic publication of new animal names - An interview with Frank-T. Krell, Commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature and Chair of the ICZN ZooBank Committee. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12: 184. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-184 Reference page.

Krell, F.-T. & Angus, R.B. 2014. The identity of Aphodius nodifrons Randall, 1838 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from Maine, United States of America, with designation of the lectotype and handwriting examples. Zootaxa 3827(2): 273–281. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.2.8 Reference page.
Miraldo, A., Krell, F.-T., Smalén, M., Angus, R.B. & Roslin, T. 2014. Making the cryptic visible - resolving the species complex of Aphodius fimetarius (Linnaeus) and Aphodius pedellus (de Geer) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) by three complementary methods. Systematic Entomology 39(3): 531–547. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12079 Reference page.

Cranston, P.S., Krell, F.-T., Walker, K. & Hewes, D. 2015. Wiley's Early View constitutes valid publication for date-sensitive nomenclature. Systematic Entomology 40(1): 2–4. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12119 . Reference page.
Krell, F-T. & Theuerkauf, J. 2015. A new species of the endemic genus Hemicyrthus Reiche (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from New Caledonia, with a revised key. Zootaxa 4048(2): 281–290. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.2.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Krell, F.-T. 2015. A mixed bag: when are early online publications available for nomenclatural purposes? Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(1): 19–32. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v72i1.a14 . ResearchGate.

Krell, F-T. 2018. Zu Verbreitung und Morphologie einiger Onthophagus-Arten der Schweiz (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Alpine Entomology 2: 59–75. DOI: 10.3897/alpento.2.23345 Reference page.
Ballerio A., Krell F.-T., Bezdek A., Frolov A., Huchet, J.-B., Keith D., López-Colón J.-I., Matthews E., Rey A., Vaz De Mello F.Z. 2018. Case 3768 – Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation by giving it precedence over Hybosorus pinguis Westwood, 1845, Hybosorus roei Westwood, 1845 and Hybosorus carolinus LeConte, 1847. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75: 152–164. Reference page.

Kirejtshuk, A.G., Ponomarenko, A.G., Kurochkin, A.S., Alexeev, A.V.(†), Gratshev, V.G.(†), Solodovnikov, A.Yu., Krell, F.-T. & Soriano, C. 2019. The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England. In: The Fauna and Flora of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, UK, Volume 2. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 110(3–4): 405–492. DOI: 10.1017/S1755691018000865 . PDF. [Corrigendum: 110(3–4): 493. DOI: 10.1017/S1755691019000197 .] Reference page.

Krell, F.-T. 2021. Suppressing works of contemporary authors using the Code's publication requirements is neither easy nor advisable. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 78(1): 61–67. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v78.a021 Bioone Reference page.
Krell, F.-T. & Vitali, F. 2021. Attenborough's beauty: exceptional pattern preservation in a frog-legged leaf beetle from the Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Sagrinae). Papers in Palaeontology 7(4): 2101–2112. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1398 . Reference page.

Löbl, I., Klausnitzer, B., Hartmann, M. & Krell, F.-T. 2023. The Silent Extinction of Species and Taxonomists—An Appeal to Science Policymakers and Legislators. Diversity 15(10): 1053. DOI: 10.3390/d15101053 Reference page.