Gerasimos Cassis

Gerasimos Cassis, Australian entomologist.

gcassis[at]unsw.edu.au
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2052.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

McDonald, F.J.D. & Cassis, G. 1984. Revision of the Australian Scutelleridae Leach (Hemiptera). Australian journal of zoology 32(4): 537–572. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9840537 Reference page.

Cassis, G & Vanags, L. 2006. Jewel bugs of Australia (Insecta, Heteroptera, Scutelleridae). Denisia 19: 275–398. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Martinez-Cascales, J.I., Cenis, J.L., Cassis, G. & Sanchez, J.A. 2006. Species identity of Macrolophus melanotoma (Costa 1853) and Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur 1839) (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) based on morphological and molecular data and bionomic implications. Insect Systematics & Evolution 37(4): 385–404. DOI: 10.1163/187631206788831470 Reference page.
Sanchez, J.A., Martinez-Cascales, J.I. & Cassis, G. 2006. Description of a new species of Dicyphus Fieber (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Portugal based on morphological and molecular data. Insect Systematics & Evolution 37(3): 281-300. DOI: 10.1163/187631206788838572 Reference page.

Noack, A.E.; Cassis, G.; Rose, H.A. 2011: Systematic revision of Thaumastocoris Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Thaumastocoridae). Zootaxa 3121: 1–60. Preview Reference page.

Cheng, M., Mututantri, A. & Cassis, G. 2012. Myrtlemiris, a new genus and new species of Australian plant bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae): systematics, phylogeny and host associations. Systematic Entomology 37(2): 305–331. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00621.x . Reference page.

Cassis, G.; Symonds, C. 2014: Granitohyoidea calycopeplus gen. nov. and sp. nov: a new plant bug taxon (Heteroptera: Miridae) affiliated with granite outcrops in south-west Western Australia, and its Palearctic affinity and host plant associations. Austral entomology 53(3): 353–362. DOI: 10.1111/aen.12082 Reference page.
Cassis, G.; Symonds, C. 2014: Systematics and host plant associations of a new genus of Acacia-inhabiting plant bugs from arid Australia (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae). Invertebrate systematics 28(5): 522–554. DOI: 10.1071/IS13063 Reference page.
Cassis, G.; Symonds, C.L. 2014: Megadrymus brigalow n.sp. (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Drymini), a diminutive new species of seed bug from semi-evergreen vine thicket of the Queensland Brigalow Belt. Zootaxa 3774(6): 596–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.6.8 Reference page.

Wang, X.J., Liu, G.Q. & Cassids, G. 2015. Revision of Panaetius Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae) from Australia, including the description of two new species and phylogenetic analysis. Austral Entomology 54(4): 445–464. DOI: 10.1111/aen.12154. Reference page.

Cassis, G. 2016. Four new species, first Australian records and review of the Phorticine genus Rhamphocoris, and key to Genera and review of Australian Nabidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nabidae). Entomologia Americana 122(1-2): 169–198. DOI: 10.1664/15-RA-057. Reference page.

Cassis, G., Koenig, P., Symonds, C. & Shofner, R. 2017. Systematics and host plant associations of the Australian lace bug genus Nethersia (Insecta: Heteroptera: Tingidae), including the description of eighteen new species. Insect Systematics & Evolution 48(1): 1–95. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-47052151. Reference page.
Hosseini, R. & Cassis, G. 2017. A remarkable new plant bug genus and species (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Deraeocorinae) from the Australian wet tropics. Zootaxa 4232(1): 123–130. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.1.9. Reference page.

Cassis, G. 2018. Henryhalticus philippinensis gen. et sp. n., a minute halticine from the Philippines (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Orthotylinae). Pp 187–195 In: Wheeler, A.G. Jr. (Ed.) 2018. A Festschrift Recognizing Thomas J. Henry for a Lifetime of Contributions to Heteropteran Systematics. Zookeys 796: 1–408. Reference page. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.796.21240 Reference page.
Chin, Y.W. & Cassis, G. 2018. Description of an enigmatic new genus and new species of Australian Orthotylinae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) associated with the plant genus Eremophila. Zootaxa 4438(3): 491–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.3.4 Reference page.

Cheng, M. & Cassis, G. 2019. Combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of Myrtlemiris, evolution of endosomal spicules, description of two new species and Neomyrtlemiris, gen. nov. (Insecta : Heteroptera : Miridae : Orthotylinae). Invertebrate Systematics 33(5): 719-756. DOI: 10.1071/IS18081 . Reference page.
Cheng, M. & Cassis, G. 2019a. Systematic study of the Australian plant bug genus Xasmasoma, gen. nov. (Insecta : Heteroptera : Miridae : Orthotylinae), including host plant and biogeographic analysis, and description of twelve new species. Invertebrate Systematics 33(1): 1-70. DOI: 10.1071/IS18009 . Reference page.

Zhao, Q., Cassis, G., Zhao, L., He, Y., Zhang, H-F. & Wei, J-F. 2020. The complete mitochondrial genome of Zicrona caerulea (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) and its phylogenetic implications. Zootaxa 4747(3): 547–561. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.3.8. Abstract Reference page.

Nemyatova, A.A. & Cassis, G. 2021. Five new genera of the subfamily Cylapinae (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae) from Australia. ZooKeys, 1012: 95–134. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1012.57172 Reference page.