Robert J. Kallal

Robert J. Kallal, US arachnologist

Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

LaPolla, J.S., Kallal, R.J. & Brady, S.G. 2012. A new ant genus from the Greater Antilles and Central America, Zatania (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), exemplifies the utility of male and molecular character systems. Systematic Entomology 37(1): 200–214. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00605.x Reference page.

Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2016. Redescription of the Jamaican orb-weaving spider Chrysometa pecki Levi, 1986 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae), including the first description of the male. Zootaxa 4066(1): 95–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.1.11. Reference page.

Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2018. An expanded molecular phylogeny of metaine spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of new taxa from Taiwan and the Philippines. Invertebrate Systematics 32(2): 400-422. DOI: 10.1071/IS17058. Reference page.
Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2018. Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian leaf-curling orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae: Zygiellinae), with a comparative analysis of retreat evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184: 1055–1141. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly014 Reference page.

Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2019. Evolution of the male palp morphology of the orb-weaver hunting spider Chorizopes (Araneae : Araneidae) revisited on a new phylogeny of Araneidae, and description of a third species from Madagascar. Invertebrate Systematics 33(2): 473-487. DOI: 10.1071/IS18061. Reference page.
LaPolla, J.S. & Kallal, R.J. 2019. Nylanderia of the World Part III: Nylanderia in the West Indies. Zootaxa 4658(3): 401–451. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4658.3.1 Reference page.

Alvarez-Padilla, F., Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2020. Taxonomy and phylogenetics of Nanometinae and other Australasian orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 438: 1-107. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.438.1.1. . Reference page.
Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2020. Phylogenetic placement of the stone-nest orb-weaving spider Nemoscolus Simon, 1895 (Araneae : Araneidae) and the description of the first species from Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 34(8): 893-905. DOI: 10.1071/IS20035. Reference page.