Rafał Ruta

Dr. Rafał Ruta, Polish Coleopterist.

Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy (DBET), Zoological Institute, Wroclaw University, Przybyszewskiego 63/77; 51148 Wroclaw POLAND
scirtes[at]biol.uni.wroc.pl

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Ruta, R., 2007. Scirtidae of India and Sri Lanka. Part 1. The chlorizans-group of Cyphon PAYKULL, 1799 (Insecta: Coleoptera). Genus 17 (2): 323–350.
Ruta, R., 2007. Scirtidae of India and Sri Lanka. Part 2. Remarks on genera Scirtes Illiger and Ora CLARK (Insecta: Coleoptera). Genus 17 (4): 751–757.

Ruta, R., 2008. Redescriptions of Scirtes sericeus WATERHOUSE, 1880, bona species and Scirtes aequalis WATERHOUSE, 1880 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Genus 19, 2: 191–199.
Ruta, R. 2008: Contribution to the knowledge of Seychellois Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea). Zootaxa, 1913: 49–68. Abstract & excerpt

Ruta, R. 2009: Revision of Scirtidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) described by Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky. Zootaxa, 2210: 26–50. Abstract & excerpt
Ruta, R. 2009: A redescription of Prionocyphon grandis (Pic, 1934) comb. nov. (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Genus, 20(1): 67–70. PDF
Ruta, R., 2009. Scirtidae of India and Sri Lanka. Part 3. Status of Cyphon pictus var. ceylonicus Pic, 1918 with description of a related species (Insecta: Coleoptera). Genus 20, 3: 403–409.
Ruta, R., 2009. Brachycyphon Fairmaire, 1896, a neglected genus of Afrotropical Scirtidae (Coleoptera). Ann. Zool. 59, 4: 621–628.

Ruta, R. 2010. Two new species of Prionocyphon Redtenbacher from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Scirtidae), with notes on Prionocyphon, Mescirtes Motschulsky and Prionoscirtes Champion from East and Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 2402: 52–60. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2402.1.2 Reference page.
Ruta, R. 2010: Revision of the genus Calvarium Pic, 1918 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Part 1. Redescription of the genus and catalogue of described taxa. Annales zoologici, 60(3): 341–350. ISSN: 0003-4541 DOI: 10.3161/000345410X535343
Ruta, R.; Yoshitomi, H. 2010: Scirtidae: The genus Scirtes Illiger (Coleoptera). pp. 403–438 in: Jäch, M.A. & Balke, M. (eds.): Water beetles of New Caledonia (part 1). Monographs on Coleoptera, 3. ISSN: 1027-8869
Ruta, R. & Yoshitomi, H. 2010. Revision of the genus Exochomoscirtes Pic (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae). Zootaxa 2598: 1–80. Preview Reference page.
Yoshitomi, H.; Ruta, R. 2010: Scirtidae: Checklist of the taxa recorded from Melanesia (Moluccas to Fiji) (Coleoptera). pp. 401–402 in: Jäch, M.A. & Balke, M. (eds.): Water beetles of New Caledonia (part 1). Monographs on Coleoptera, 3. ISSN: 1027-8869
Yoshitomi, H. & Ruta, R. 2010. Revision of the Scirtes flavoguttatus species-group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae). Zootaxa 2467: 1–74. Preview Reference page.

Ruta, R. 2011. A new species of Exochomoscirtes Pic from Thailand (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Genus 22(1): 23-28. full article (PDF) Reference page.
Ruta, R. 2011. Two new species and new records of Exochomoscirtes Pic (Coleoptera, Scirtidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 17(2): 421–427. Reference page.
Ruta, R., Thorpe, S. & Yoshitomi, H. 2011. Stenocyphon neozealandicus, a new species from New Zealand of a previously monotypic subfamily from Chile (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Stenocyphoninae). Zootaxa 3113: 65–68. Preview Reference page.

Jałoszyński, P., Wanat, M., Kubisz, D., Ruta, R. & Konwerski, S. 2013. A synopsis of the family Aderidae in Poland (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea). Genus 24(2): 199–216. PDF. Reference page.
Libonatti, M.L. & Ruta, R. 2013. Review of the Argentinean species of Pseudomicrocara Armstrong (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Zootaxa 3718(2): 137–157. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3718.2.3 Reference page.
Ruta, R. 2013. Review of Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) described by Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808). Zootaxa 3646(1): 51–67. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3646.1.4 Reference page.
Ruta, R., Yoshitomi, H. & Klausnitzer, B. 2013. Review of the genus Dermestocyphon (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53(1): 253–285. PDF Reference page.
Zwick, P., Klausnitzer, B. & Ruta, R. 2013. Contacyphon Gozis, 1886 removed from synonymy (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) to accommodate species so far combined with the invalid name, Cyphon Paykull, 1799. Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 109: 337–353. Reference page.

Ruta, R., Kiałka, A. & Yoshitomi, H. 2014. A supplement to the revision of the Scirtes flavoguttatus species-group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae). Zootaxa 3902(1): 1–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3902.1.1. . Reference page.
Ruta, R. 2014. Revision of African Mescirtes Motschulsky, 1863 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). African Entomology 22(1): 180-190. DOI: 10.4001/003.022.0129 Reference page.
Ruta, R. 2014. A new species, new records, and notes on biology of New Caledonian Scirtes Illiger (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 206: 191–200. Reference page.

Ruta, R. 2016. Anticyphon gen. nov., a new genus of Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) inhabiting high altitude Andean cloud forests and páramo formation. Zootaxa 4175(4): 301–318. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.4.1. Reference page.
Ruta, R. & Libonatti, M.L. 2016. Redescriptions of Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) described by Carl Henrik Boheman (1796–1868) with notes on Scirtes adustus diversenotatus Pic, 1930. Zootaxa 4072(2): 203–216. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.2.4. Reference page.

Kiałka, A. & Ruta, R. 2017. An illustrated catalogue of the New Zealand marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Zootaxa 4366(1): 1–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4366.1.1. Reference page.

Kiałka, A. & Ruta, R. 2018. Meatopida gen. nov., a new genus to accommodate two species originally described in Atopida White, 1846 (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Scirtidae). Zootaxa 4382(2): 242–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.2.2 Reference page.
Ruta, R. & Yoshitomi, H. 2018. Description of females of Chilarboreus Ruta, 2011 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae). Zootaxa 4388(2): 265–274. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.2.8 Reference page.

Ruta, R. 2019. Calvariopsis gen. nov., a new genus of Neotropical Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea). Zootaxa 4604(1): 1–41. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.1 Reference page.

Ruta, R. 2020. A new species of Daploeuros Watts (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Zootaxa 4728(3): 334–340. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.3.2 Reference page.
Ruta, R. 2020. An overview of Scirtidae (Coleoptera) described by Antoine Joseph Jean Solier (1792–1851). Zootaxa 4767(4): 563–577. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4767.4.6 Reference page.

Kiałka, A. & Ruta, R. 2022. Revision of Atopida White, 1846 (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Scirtidae). Zootaxa 5174(4): 401–443. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.4.6. . Reference page.