Margaret K. Thayer

Margaret Kathryn Thayer, U.S. entomologist.

Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA

Eponyms

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Newton, A.F. & Thayer, M.K. 1992. Current classification and family-group names in Staphyliniformia (Coleoptera). Fieldiana: Zoology (new series) (67): iv + 92 p. BHL PDF Reference page.

Newton, A.F. & Thayer, M.K. 1995. Protopselaphinae new subfamily for Protopselaphus new genus from Malaysia, with a phylogenetic analysis and review of the Omaliine Group of Staphylinidae including Pselaphidae (Coleoptera), pp. 219–320. In: Pakaluk, J. & S. A. Ślipiński (eds.). Biology, phylogeny, and classification of Coleoptera: Papers celebrating the 80th birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warszawa. x + 1092 pp. in 2 vols. Reference page.

Thayer, M.K. 1997. Proglypholoma aenigma gen. et sp. nov., Glypholoma spp. nov. and new records, and a phylogenetic analysis of Glypholomatinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Annales zoologici 47(1/2): 157–174.

Cai, C-Y., Huang, D-Y., Thayer, M.K. & Newton, A.F. 2012. Glypholomatine rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): a southern hemisphere Recent group recorded from the Middle Jurassic of China. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 85(3): 239–244. DOI: 10.2317/JKES120531.1 Reference page.
Thayer, M.K., Newton, A.F. & Chatzimanolis, S. 2012. Prosolierius, a new mid-Cretaceous genus of Solieriinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with three new species from Burmese amber. Cretaceous research 34: 124–134. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2011.10.010 Reference page.

Cai, C-Y., Thayer, M.K., Huang, D-Y., Wang, X-D. & Newton, A.F. 2013. A basal oxyteline rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China: Oldest record for the tribe Euphaniini. Comptes Rendus Palevol 12(3): 159–163. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2013.02.002 Reference page.

Cai, C.-Y., Thayer, M.K., Engel, M.S., Newton, A.F., Ortega-Blanco, J., Wang, B,, Wang, X.-D. & Huang, D.-Y. 2014. Early origin of parental care in Mesozoic carrion beetles. PNAS 111(39): 14170–14174. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412280111 Reference page.
McKenna, D.D., Farrell, B.D., Caterino, M.S., Farnum, C.W., Hawks, D.C., Maddison, D.R., Seago, A.E., Short, A.E.Z., Newton, A.F. & Thayer, M.K. 2014 (Online) 2015 (Print). Phylogeny and evolution of Staphyliniformia and Scarabaeiformia: forest litter as a stepping stone for diversification of nonphytophagous beetles. Systematic Entomology 40(1): 35–60. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12093 Reference page.
Peris, D., Thayer, M.K. & Néraudeau, D. 2014. Oldest Omaliini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) discovered in the opaque Cretaceous amber of Charentes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 107(5): 902–910. DOI: 10.1603/AN14047 Reference page.

Cai, C-Y., Newton, A.F., Thayer, M.K., Leschen, R.A.B. & Huang, D-Y. 2016. Specialized proteinine rove beetles shed light on insect-fungal associations in the Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 283 (20161439): 1-8; online supplement (4 pp.). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1439 . Reference page.

Cai, C-Y., Lü, L., Caron, E., Bortoluzzi, S., Newton, A.F., Thayer, M.K. & Huang, D-Y. 2017 [2016]. First piestine rove beetle in Eocene Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Piestinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 89 (4): 345-357. Reference page.

Cai, C-Y., Thayer, M.K., Newton, A.F., Yin, Z-W. & Huang, D-Y. 2018. A new genus of dasycerine rove beetles from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber and its phylogenetic implications (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Cretaceous Research 84: 431–436. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.12.004 Reference page.

Cai, C-Y., Wang, Y-L., Lü, L., Yin, Z-W., Thayer, M.K., Newton, A.F. & Zhou, Y-L. 2019. Congruence of morphological and molecular phylogenies of the rove beetle subfamily Staphylininae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Scientific Reports 9, 15137 (2019): 1–11. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51408-1 Reference page.
Fikáček, M., Beutel, R.G., Cai, C-Y., Lawrence, J.F., Newton, A.F., Solodovnikov, A.Yu., Ślipiński, A., Thayer, M.K. & Yamamoto, S. 2019. Reliable placement of beetle fossils via phylogenetic analyses – Triassic Leehermania as a case study (Staphylinidae or Myxophaga?). Systematic Entomology 45(1): 175–187; online supplements. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12386 Reference page.
Kim, T-K., Song, J-H., Thayer, M.K. & Ahn, K-J. 2019. Molecular phylogeny of Omaliinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) and its implications for evolution of atypically long elytra in rove beetles. Systematic Entomology 45(1): 20–32; online supplements. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12372 Reference page.

Tihelka, E., Thayer, M.K., Newton, A.F. & Cai, C-Y. 2020. New Data, Old Story: Molecular Data Illuminate the Tribal Relationships among Rove Beetles of the Subfamily Staphylininae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Insects 11(3), 164: 1–12. DOI: 10.3390/insects11030164 Reference page.
Yin, Z-W., Lü, L., Yamamoto, S., Thayer, M.K., Newton, A.F. & Cai, C-Y. 2020. Dasycerine rove beetles: Cretaceous diversification, phylogeny and historical biogeography (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae). Cladistics 37(2): 185–210. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12430 Reference page.

Sikes, D.S., Thayer, M.K. & Newton, A.F. 2024. Large carrion and burying beetles evolved from Staphylinidae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Silphinae): a review of the evidence. ZooKeys 1200: 159–182. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1200.122835 Reference page.