Gavin J. Svenson

Gavin J. Svenson, U.S. entomologist.

Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval Drive, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Svenson, G.J. & Whiting, M.F. 2004. Phylogeny of Mantodea based on molecular data: evolution of a charismatic predator. Systematic Entomology 29(3): 342–352.

Bell, A.J., Svenson, G.J. & Cryan, J.R. 2014. The phylogeny and revised classification of Machaerotidae, the tube-making spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cercopoidea). Systematic Entomology 39(3): 474–485. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12066 Reference page.
Svenson, G.J. 2014. The type material of Mantodea (praying mantises) deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA. ZooKeys 433: 31–75. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.433.7054 Reference page.

Svenson, G.J., Hardy, N.B., Wightman, H.M.C. & Wieland, F. 2015. Of flowers and twigs: phylogenetic revision of the plant-mimicking praying mantises (Mantodea: Empusidae and Hymenopodidae) with a new suprageneric classification. Systematic Entomology 40: 789–834. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12134 Reference page.
Tedrow, R., Nathan, K., Richard, N. & Svenson, G.J. 2015. A survey of the praying mantises of Rwanda, including new records (Insecta, Mantodea). Zootaxa 4027(1): 67–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.1.3 Preview (PDF). Reference page.

Brannoch, S.K. & Svenson, G.J. 2016. A new genus and species (Cornucollis gen. n. masoalensis sp. n.) of praying mantis from northern Madagascar (Mantodea, Iridopterygidae, Tropidomantinae). ZooKeys 556: 65–81. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.556.6906. Reference page.
Brannoch, S.K. & Svenson, G.J. 2016. Leveraging female genitalic characters for generic and species delimitation in Nilomantis Werner, 1907 and Ilomantis Giglio-Tos, 1915 (Mantodea, Nilomantinae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 47(3): 209–244. DOI: 10.1163/1876312x-47032141 . Reference page.

Brannoch, S.K., Wieland, F., Rivera, J., Klass, K-D., Béthoux, O. & Svenson, G.J. 2017. Manual of praying mantis morphology, nomenclature, and practices (Insecta, Mantodea). ZooKeys 696: 1—100. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.696.12542. Reference page.
Hastriter, M.W., Miller, K.B., Svenson, G.J., Martin, G.J. & Whiting, M.F. 2017. New record of a phoretic flea associated with earwigs (Dermaptera, Arixeniidae) and a redescription of the bat flea Lagaropsylla signata (Siphonaptera, Ischnopsyllidae). ZooKeys 657: 67—79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.657.11095 Reference page.
Rodrigues, H.M., Rivera, J., Reid, N. & Svenson, G.J. 2017. An elusive Neotropical giant, Hondurantemna chespiritoi gen. n. & sp. n. (Antemninae, Mantidae): a new lineage of mantises exhibiting an ontogenetic change in cryptic strategy. ZooKeys 680: 73–104. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.680.11162 Reference page.