Varpu Vahtera

Varpu Vahtera, Finnish myriapodologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Vahtera, V., Muona, J. & Lawrence, J.F. 2009. Phylogeny of the Thylacosterninae (Coleoptera, Elateridae). Cladistics 25(2): 147–160. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00239.x . Reference page.

Vahtera, V., Edgecombe, G.D. & Giribet, G. 2013. Phylogenetics of scolopendromorph centipedes: can denser taxon sampling improve an artificial classification? Invertebrate Systematics 27(5): 578–602. DOI: 10.1071/IS13035 . Reference page.

Edgecombe, G.D., Vahtera, V., Giribet, G. & Kaunisto, P. 2015. Species limits and phylogeography of Newportia (Scolopendromorpha) and implications for widespread morphospecies. Zookeys 510: 65–77. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.510.8573 Full article. Reference page.
Vahtera, V., Muona, J., Linna, A. & Sääksjärvi, I.E. 2015. Nine genera of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) new to Peru, with a key to Peruvian genera. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4493. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4493. Reference page.

Logunov, D.V. & Vahtera, V. 2017. Description of a new species of Vinathela Ono, 2000 (Araneae: Mesothelae: Liphistiidae), based on morphological and molecular characters. Arachnology 17(5): 229-237. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2017.17.5.229. . Reference page.
Weijola, V., Kraus, F., Vahtera, V., Lindqvist, C. & Donnellan, S.C. 2017. Reinstatement of Varanus douarrha Lesson, 1830 as a valid species with comments on the zoogeography of monitor lizards (Squamata:Varanidae) in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Australian Journal of Zoology 64(6): 434-451. DOI: 10.1071/ZO16038 Reference page.

Vahtera, V., Stoev, P. & Akkari, N. 2020. Five million years in the darkness: A new troglomorphic species of Cryptops Leach, 1814 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) from Movile Cave, Romania. ZooKeys 1004: 1–26. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1004.58537 Reference page.
Short, M., Vahtera, V., Wegener, T. & Golovatch, S.I. 2020. The millipede family Polyxenidae (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) in the faunas of the Crimean Peninsula and Caucasus, with notes on other European Polyxenidae. Zootaxa 4772(2): 306–332. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.2.4 Reference page.
Schileyko, A.A., Vahtera, V. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2020. An overview of the extant genera and subgenera of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda): A new identification key and updated diagnoses. Zootaxa 4825(1):1–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4825.1.1 Reference page.
Weijola, V., Vahtera, V., Koch, A., Schmitz, A. & Kraus, F. 2020. Taxonomy of Micronesian monitors (Reptilia: Squamata: Varanus): endemic status of new species argues for caution in pursuing eradication plans. Royal Society Open Science 7: 200092. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.200092 Reference page.

Ganske, A.S., Vahtera, V., Dányi, L., Edgecombe, G.D. & Akkari, N. 2021. Phylogeny of Lithobiidae Newport, 1844, with emphasis on the megadiverse genus Lithobius Leach, 1814 (Myriapoda, Chilopoda). Cladistics 37(2): 162–184. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12431 Reference page.

Kraus, F., Vahtera, V. & Weijola, V. 2022. Lepidodactylus browni (Squamata, Gekkonidae) Placed in the Synonymy of L. orientalis. Journal of Herpetology 56(1): 137–145. DOI: 10.1670/21-010 Reference page.

Kraus, F., Vahtera, V. & Weijola, V. 2023. A new species of Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 5296(4): 525–539. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5296.4.2 Reference page.