Robert A. Cannings

Robert A. Cannings, Canadian entomologist

• Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC, Canada

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 taxon names authored by Robert A. Cannings

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2017

• McKnight, T.A. & Cannings, R.A. 2017. Description and phylogenetic classification of Stackelberginia cerberus sp. nov. (Diptera: Asilidae), comprising the first record of this genus from the Nearctic. Zootaxa 4306(4): 567–579. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.7. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2019

• Cannings, R.A. 2019. Odonata of Canada. Pp 227–241 In Langor, D.W. & Sheffield, C.S. (eds.). The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods. ZooKeys 819: 520 pp. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.819.25780 Reference page. 

2020

• McKnight, T.A. & Cannings, R.A. 2020. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Lasiopogon (Diptera: Asilidae) and a taxonomic revision of the bivittatus section. Zootaxa 4835(1): 1–115. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4835.1.1 Reference page. 

2021

• Archibald, S.B., Cannings, R.A., Erickson, R.J., Bybee, S.M. & Mathewes, R.W. 2021. The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America. Zootaxa 4934(1): 1–133. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4934.1.1 . Reference page. 

2024

• Cannings, R.A., Klymko, J., Catling, P.M., Savard, M., Lemelin, G., Jones, C.D., Cannings, S.G. & Savard, R.-J. 2024. The Dragonflies and Damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) of Canada: species list, geographical distribution, status, and conservation ranks. Zootaxa 5410(1): 1–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5410.1.1 . Reference page.