Peter Malcolm Johns

Peter Malcolm Johns, New Zealander entomologist.

Research Fellow, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Johns, P.M. 1964. Insects of Campbell Island. Chilopoda, Diplopoda (preliminary note on the Myriapoda of the New Zealand subantarctic islands). Pacific Insects Monograph 7: 170–172. Full article on BUGZ. Reference page.

Johns, P.M. 1974: Arthropoda of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand (1) Coleoptera: Carabidae Southern New Zealand, Patagonian, and Falkland Islands insular Carabidae. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 4(3): 283–302. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.1974.10419396 Reference page.

Johns, P.M. 1975: Trichoceridae of the southern islands of New Zealand (Diptera: Nematocera). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 5(4): 493–497. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.1975.10419365 Reference page.

Johns, P.M. 1980: Ground beetles (Carabidae) of Arthurs Pass National Park. Mauri Ora 8: 55–67. Full article (PDF) BUGZ Reference page.

Johns, P.M. 1997. The Gondwanaland weta: family Anostostomatidae (formerly in Stenopelmatidae, Henicidae or Mimnermidae): nomenclatural problems, world checklist, new genera and species. Journal of Orthoptera research, (6): 125–138. DOI: 10.2307/3503546 JSTOR . Reference page.

Jones, H.D., Johns, P.M. & Winsor, L. 1998. The proposed synonymy of Parakontikia ventrolineata (Dendy, 1892) and Kontikia mexicana (Hyman, 1939): what is a penis papilla? Hydrobiologia 383(1–3): 91–96. DOI: 10.1023/A:1003478218873 Reference page.
Nicholls, D.C., Urquhart, E.M., Ward, J.B. & Johns, P.M. 1998. A list of insect primary types held in Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 12 (2): 1–43. [Publication date: 'December 1998', sourced from first page of article]

Johns, P.M. 2003. New species of Holcaspis and others of conservation interest, and a species guide (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Records of the Canterbury Museum 17: 7–16. Reference page.

Johns, P.M. 2005: Field guide to South Island carabid beetles of conservation interest (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Department of Conservation, Christchurch. [not seen] Reference page.

Johns, P.M. 2007. New genera and species of rare New Zealand endemic carabids. (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Privately published: Christchurch, New Zealand. PDF. Reference page.

Johns, P.M., Newman, L.J., Holleman, J.J., Dawson, E.W., Sterrer, W., Allison, F.R., Diggles, B.K., Andrews, J.R.H., Hine, P.M., McKenna, P.B. Poulin, R. 2009. 5. Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes. pp. 102–128 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Korsós, Z. & Johns, P.M. 2009. Introduction to the taxonomy of Iulomorphidae of New Zealand, with descriptions of two new species of Eumastigonus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Epinannolenidea). Zootaxa 2065: 1–24. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

Johns, P.M. 2010: Migadopini (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Migadopinae) of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 24: 39–63. full volume (PDF) Reference page.
Johns, P.M. 2010: 7. Phylum Arthropoda Myriapoda: centipedes, millipedes, pauropods, and symphylans. Pp. 90-97 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page. Reference page.
Macfarlane, R.P., Maddison, P.A., Andrew, I.G., Berry, J.A., Johns, P.M., Hoare, R.J.B., Larivière, M.-C., Greenslade, P., Henderson, R.C., Smithers, C.N., Palma, R.L., Ward, J.B., Pilgrim, R.L.C., Towns, D.R., McLellan, I., Teulon, D.A.J., Hitchings, T.R., Eastop, V.F., Martin, N.A., Fletcher, M.J., Stufkens, M.A.W., Dale, P.J., Burckhardt, D., Buckley, T.R. & Trewick, S.A. 2010. Phylum Arthropoda subphylum Hexapoda: Protura, springtails, Diplura, and insects. Pp. 233–467 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page. PDF. Reference page.

Buckley, T.R., Palma, R.L., Johns, P.M., Gleeson, D.M., Heath, A.C.G., Hitchmough, R.A. & Stringer, I.A.N. [Error for Ian Stringer] 2012. The conservation status of small or less well known groups of New Zealand terrestrial invertebrates. New Zealand Entomologist 35(2): 137–143. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.2012.686319 . Reference page.

Fuller, L., Johns, P.M. & Ewers, R.M. 2013. Assessment of protected area coverage of threatened ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae): a new analysis for New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 37(2): 184–192. PDF. Reference page.

Hemp, C. & Johns, P.M. 2015. Libanasa kilomeni, a new species of East African Lutosinae (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). Zootaxa 4032(4): 435–443. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4032.4.8 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Johns, P.M. & Hemp, C. 2015. Redescription of Libanasa brachyura Karny, 1928. (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae: ?Lutosinae) from Tanzania and problems at the subfamily level. Zootaxa 3946(1): 113–124. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.1.5 Preview (PDF). Reference page.