Ronald M. Clouse

Ronald M. Clouse, American entomologist.

Giribet Laboratory.
Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Harvard University.

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Clouse, R.M. 1995. The importance of gall size for sea daisy gall midge parasitoids. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc., 68: 184–188.
Clouse, R.M. 1995. Nest usurpation and intercolonial cannibalism in the paper wasp, Mischocyttarus mexicanus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc., 68: 67–73.
Clouse, R.M. 1997. Are lone paper wasp foundresses mainly the result of sister mortality? Florida Scientist 60(4): 265–274.
Clouse, R.M., B. Ferster & M.A. Deyrup. 1997. Observations of insects associated with an infestation of sand pine (Pinus clausa) by the aphid Cinara pinivora. Florida Scientist, 60(2): 89–93.
Meshaka, W.E., Jr., R.M. Clouse, B.P. Butterfield, J.B. Hauge. 1997. The Cuban green anole, Anolis porcatus: a new anole established in Florida. Herpetological Review., 28(2): 101–102.
Clouse, R.M. 1997. Burying behavior in an Indo-Pacific sea cucumber, Bohadschia marmorata: a circadian, not circatidal rhythm. Micronesica, 30(2): 245–257.
Clouse, R.M. 1997. End-plate spicules in Bohadschia marmorata (Jaeger) (Holothuroidea: Holothuriidae). Micronesica, 30(1): 187–192.
Clouse, R.M. 1999. Leaf-Litter Inhabitants of a Brazilian Pepper Stand in Everglades National Park. Florida Entomologist, 82(3): 388–403.
Clouse, R.M. 2001. Some Effects of Group Size on Output of Beginning Nests of the Florida Paper Wasp, Mischocyttarus mexicanus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Florida Entomologist, 84(3): 418–425.

Clouse, R., D. Janies & A.M. Kerr. 2005. Resurrection of Bohadschia bivittata from B. marmorata (Holothuroidea: Holothuriidae) based on behavioral, morphological, and mitochondrial DNA evidence. Zoology, 108(1): 27–39.
Kerr, A.M., D.A. Janies, R.M. Clouse, Y. Samyn, J. Kuszak & J. Kim. 2005. Molecular Phylogeny of Coral-Reef Sea Cucumbers (Holothuriidae: Aspidochirotida) Based on 16S Mitochondrial Ribosomal DNA Sequence. Marine Biotechnology, 7(1): 53–60.

Clouse, R.M. 2007. New ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Micronesia. Zootaxa, 1475: 1–19.
Clouse, R.M. 2007. The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Micronesia. Micronesica., 39(2): 171–296.
Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., Benavides, L.R., Sharma, P., Schwendinger, P.J., Karunarathna, I., Rahmadi, C. & Giribet, G. 2007. Biogeography of the World: a case study from cyphophthalmid Opiliones, a globally distributed group of arachnids. Journal of Biogeography.
Clouse, R.M. & Giribet, G. 2007. Across Lydekker's Line—first report of mite harvestmen (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Stylocellidae) from New Guinea. Invertebrate Systematics 21: 207-227. Reference page.

Clouse, R.M., de Bivort, B.L. & Giribet, G. 2010. A phylogenetic analysis for the South-east Asian mite harvestman family Stylocellidae (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) - a combined analysis using morphometric and molecular data. Invertebrate systematics 23(6): 515–529. DOI: 10.1071/IS09044 Reference page.
de Bivort, B.L., Clouse, R.M. & Giribet, G. 2010. A morphometrics-based phylogeny of the temperate Gondwanan mite harvestmen (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48(4): 294–309. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00562.x Reference page.
de Bivort, B.L. & Giribet, G. 2010. A systematic revision of the South African Pettalidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) based on a combined analysis of discrete and continuous morphological characters with the description of seven new species. Invertebrate Systematics 24(4): 371–406. DOI: 10.1071/IS10015 Reference page.

de Bivort, B.L., Clouse, R.M. & Giribet, G. 2012. A cladistic reconstruction of the ancestral mite harvestman (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi): portrait of a Paleozoic detritivore. Cladistics 28(6): 582–597. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00407.x . Reference page.
Clouse, R.M. 2012. The lineages of Stylocellidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi). Zootaxa 3595: 1–34. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3595.1.1 PDF Reference page.
Clouse, R.M. & Schwendinger 2012. Leptopsalis foveolata sp. n., a new species of Stylocellidae from Thailand that displays a novel morphological feature in the suborder Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 119(4): 529–546. Reference page.
Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P., Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., de Bivort, B.L., Dimitrov, D.. Kawauchi, G.Y., Murienne, J.Y. & Schwendinger, P.J., 2012. Evolutionary and biogeographical history of an ancient and global group of arachnids (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) with a new taxonomic arrangement. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 92–130. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01774.x . Reference page.
Sharma, P.P., Buenavente, P.A.C., Clouse, R.M., Diesmos, A.C. & Giribet, G. 2012. Forgotten gods: Zalmoxidae of the Philippines and Borneo (Opiliones: Laniatores). Zootaxa 3280: 29–55. Preview Reference page.

Clouse, R.M., Janda, M., Blanchard, B., Sharma, P., Hoffmann, B.D., Andersen, A.N., Czekanski-Moir, J.E., Krushelnycky, P., Rabeling, C., Wilson, E.O., Economo, E.P., Sarnat, E.M., General, D.M., Alpert, G.D. & Wheeler, W.C. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of Indo-Pacific carpenter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse source areas. Cladistics 31(4): 424–437. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12099 . Reference page.
Clouse, R.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2014: Descriptions of two new, cryptic species of Metasiro (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Neogoveidae) from South Carolina, USA, including a discussion of mitochondrial mutation rates. Zootaxa 3814(2): 177–201. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.2.2. Preview (PDF). Reference page.

Schmidt, S.M., Perry A. C. Buenavente, Blatchley, D.D., Diesmos, A.C., Diesmos, M.L., General, D.E.M., Mohagan, A.B., Mohagan, D.J., Clouse, R.M. & Sharma, P.P. 2019. A new species of Tithaeidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) from Mindanao reveals contemporaneous colonisation of the Philippines by Sunda Shelf opiliofauna. 33(1): 237–251 Invertebrate Systematics 33: 237–251. DOI: 10.1071/IS18057 . Reference page.

Schmidt, S.M., Clouse, R.M. & Sharma, P.P. 2020. A new Miopsalis from Mindanao supports a biogeographic umbilicus between Borneo and the southern Philippines (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Stylocellidae). Zootaxa 4779(3): 379–390. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.6 Reference page.