Scientific contributions of Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, 1959 to present

The following list provides citations for 363 scientific contributions, including 13 edited volumes and books, produced by Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn. Naturally, the list presented here is a static representation of Alex’s contributions and we look forward to years of his forthcoming publications to our shared science. Thus, this list only encompasses those papers published as of 1 August 2011. We have published it here so as to bring to the attention of colleagues Alex’s numerous and multifaceted accomplishments, and why he so richly deserves our admiration. In addition, we believe the following list is the most thorough and accurate accounting of his published scientific activities. Given that many of his works are in his native Russian, we believe this list will serve as a tool for directing interested individuals to English translations, where available. In elaborating this list we have taken a detailed approach to cataloguing Alex’s numerous publications, adopting the philosophy that bibliography is a science of its own and provides an accurate description of a work or contribution to a work (e.g., Gaskell 1972). It is with this philosophy in mind that the list was constructed and how to determine what should, or should not, constitute an individual citation, the appropriate form of citation, etc. To the best of our ability we have checked article and serial titles, as well as dates of publication and complete citations against original sources, either from the original series or official reprints. In addition, some serials and edited volumes have been checked against library copies at the University of Kansas (Lawrence) or the Library of Congress (Washington DC). Several of Alex’s contributions appear in special edited issues of otherwise serial publications. These are cited as they appear in the journal series, with the editors and titles of the special issues following in parentheticals.

[1]  Ksenija Dumicic.  Representative Samples , 2011, International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science.

[2]  D. Grimaldi,et al.  Revision of the bizarre Mesozoic scorpionflies in the Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecopteroidea) , 2005 .

[3]  Z. Haichun,et al.  Early Evolution of Apocrita (Insecta, Hymenoptera) as Indicated by New Findings in the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Northeast China , 2010 .

[4]  D. Quicke,et al.  Introduction to Palaeoentomology , 2002 .

[5]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Late Cretaceous Megaspilidae (Hymenoptera) from amber of the Taymyr , 1981 .

[6]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Two new anaxyelid sawflies (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Siricoidea) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China , 2006 .

[7]  D. Quicke,et al.  Morphological, palaeontological and molecular aspects of ichneumonoid phylogeny (Hymenoptera, Insecta) , 1999 .

[8]  A. Rasnitsyn.  Molecular phylogenetics, morphological cladistics, and fossil record , 2010, Entomological Review.

[9]  M. Fitton,et al.  A new, putatively primitive Cretaceous fossil braconid subfamily from New Jersey amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) , 1999 .

[10]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  A comparative analysis of the Baltic and Rovno amber arthropod faunas: representative samples , 2007 .

[11]  Norm Johnson,et al.  On the limits of the family Serphitidae (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea) , 1979 .

[12]  V. Sidorov,et al.  Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences , 1998 .

[13]  Zhang Junfeng,et al.  Pelecinid wasps (Insecta : Hymenoptera : Proctotrupoidea) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China , 2002 .

[14]  F. Ronquist,et al.  Phylogeny of the Hymenoptera: A cladistic reanalysis of Rasnitsyn’s (1988) data , 1999 .

[15]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  New Early Cretaceous hymenopterous insects (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from Sierra del Montsec (Spain) , 2000 .

[16]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Two New Species of Aculeate Hymenopterans (Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Middle Eocene of the United States , 1999 .

[17]  A. Rasnitsyn.  Conceptual issues in phylogeny, taxonomy, and nomenclature , 1996 .

[18]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  New Genera and Species of Maimetshidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea s.l.) from the Turonian of Botswana, with Comments on the Status of the Family , 2009 .

[19]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Identity of Prosepididontus calpterys Handlirsch 1920 (Insecta: Grylloblattida: Geinitziidae) , 2000 .

[20]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  New and little-known grylloblattids of the family Geinitziidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Triassic and Jurassic of Europe, Asia, and South Africa , 2009 .

[21]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Wasps (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Early Cretaceous of Spain , 2000 .

[22]  D. Quicke,et al.  A basal chalcidoid (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from the earliest Cretaceous or latest Jurassic of Mongolia , 2004 .

[23]  P. Gaskell,et al.  A new introduction to bibliography , 1972 .

[24]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Permian Insects of the Vorkuta Group in the Pechora Basin, and Their Stratigraphic Implications , 2005 .

[25]  A. Rasnitsyn.  Tertiary sawflies of the tribe Xyelini (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera: Xyelidae) and their relationship to the Mesozoic and modern faunas , 1995, Contributions in science.

[26]  B. D. Burks,et al.  Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). , 1981 .

[27]  X. Delclòs,et al.  A New Family of Ceraphronoid Wasps from Early Cretaceous Álava Amber, Spain , 2010 .

[28]  A. V. Gorokhov,et al.  History of Insects , 2002, Springer Netherlands.

[29]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Some ichneumonids (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) from the Upper Mesozoic of China and Mongolia , 2003 .

[30]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  A review of the family Protembiidae (Insecta: Eoblattida , 2012 .

[31]  O. A. Melnikov,et al.  Zur Metamerie des Arthropoden-Kopfes: Das Acron. , 1984 .

[32]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  The first Late Cretaceous ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from southern Africa, with comments on the origin of the Myrmicinae , 2004 .

[33]  S. B. Archibald,et al.  New Genera of Angarosphecinae: Cretosphecium from Early Cretaceous of Mongolia and Eosphecium from Early Eocene of Canada (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) , 2000 .

[34]  A. Ross,et al.  Ancient fig wasps indicate at least 34 Myr of stasis in their mutualism with fig trees , 2010, Biology Letters.

[35]  M. Engel,et al.  A Honey Bee from the Miocene of Nevada and the Biogeography of Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apini) , 2009 .

[36]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Revision of rock fossils of Dryinidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) , 2010 .

[37]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Pollen eaters and pollen morphology: co-evolution through the Permian and Mesozoic , 2007 .

[38]  A. Rasnitsyn.  On the discussion of the wing venation of (Archae)Orthoptera (Insecta) , 2007 .

[39]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Plant-Arthropod Interactions in the Early Angiosperm History: Evidence from the Cretaceous of Israel , 2008 .

[40]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  New Eoblattida (Insecta) from the Permian of Russia , 2011 .

[41]  Zhang Junfeng,et al.  Two ephialtitid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Ephialtitoidea) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China , 2002 .

[42]  A. Rasnitsyn.  Archaeoscoliinaec an extinct subfamily of scoliid wasps lInsectac Vespida e Hymenopterac Scoliidaer , 1993 .

[43]  David R. Smith,et al.  Studies toward a World Catalog of Symphyta (Hymenoptera). , 2009 .

[44]  A. Rasnitsyn.  The problem of species revisited , 2007 .

[45]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  On Some Tertiary Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) from Colorado , 1972 .

[46]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Middle Jurassic Praeaulacidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) of Inner Mongolia and Kazakhstan , 2008 .

[47]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Nevaniinae subfam. n., a new fossil taxon (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Praeaulacidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou in Inner Mongolia, China, , 2007 .

[48]  D. Quicke,et al.  Morphology and Sensilla of the Orbicula, a Sclerite Between the Tarsal Claws, in the Hymenoptera , 2000 .

[49]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Pollen morphotypes from the intestine of a Permian booklouse , 1999 .

[50]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  New extinct taxa of Pelecinidae sensu lato (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) in the Laiyang Formation, Shandong, China , 2006 .

[51]  Robin J. Wootton.  Form And Function Of Insect Wings, The Evolution Of Biological Structures , 2000 .

[52]  A. Rasnitsyn.  New genus and two new species of the Lower Cretaceous Digger Wasp from Spain (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Angarosphecinae) , 2000 .

[53]  A. Rasnitsyn.  New hymenopteran insects (Insecta: Vespida) from the lower or middle Jurassic of India , 2008, Paleontological Journal.

[54]  E. Vrba.  Species and speciation , 1987 .

[55]  X. Delclòs,et al.  First record of anaxyelid woodwasps (Hymenoptera: Anaxyelidae) in Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber , 2008 .

[56]  A. Rasnitsyn.  Taxonomy and morphology of Dasyleptus Brongniart, 1885, with description of a new species (Insecta: Machilida: Dasyleptidae) , 2000 .

[57]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  New Cretaceous Scoliidae (Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain and Brazil , 1999 .

[58]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  A new family, Daohugoidae fam. N., of siricomorph hymenopteran (Hymenoptera = Vespida) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou in Inner Mongolia (China) , 2004 .

[59]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  New pollen morphotype from gut compression of a Cretaceous insect, and its bearing on palynomorphological evolution and palaeoecology , 2003 .

[60]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Composition and age of the Daohugou hymenopteran (Insecta, Hymenoptera = Vespida) assemblage from Inner Mongolia, China , 2004 .

[61]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Ants (Insecta: Vespida: Formicidae) in the upper Eocene amber of central and Eastern Europe , 2009 .

[62]  M. Sharkey,et al.  New Eoichneumonidae from Early Cretaceous of Siberia and Mongolia (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) , 1988 .

[63]  A. Rasnitsyn.  Ontology of evolution and methodology of taxonomy , 2006 .

[64]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Some hatchet wasps (Hymenoptera, Evaniidae) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China , 2007 .

[65]  M. West-Eberhard.  Catalog of hymenoptera in America North of Mexico , 1981, Insectes Sociaux.

[66]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Pelecinid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea) from the Cretaceous of Russia and Mongolia , 2004 .

[67]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Classopollis in the guts of Jurassic insects , 1997 .

[68]  Zhang Junfeng,et al.  The oldest known scoliid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Scoliidae) from the Jehol biota of western Liaoning, China , 2002 .

[69]  A. Nel,et al.  Palaeoentomology, a young old field of science , 2010 .

[70]  Y. Hirashima.  Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico , 1980 .

[71]  S. B. Archibald,et al.  Ecology and Distribution of Cenozoic Eomeropidae (Mecoptera), and a New Species of Eomerope Cockerell from the Early Eocene McAbee Locality, British Columbia, Canada , 2005 .

[72]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  The First Documented Occurrence of Phyllophagy in Pre-Cretaceous Insects : Leaf Tissues in the Gut of Upper Jurassic Insects from Southern Kazakhstan , 2022 .

[73]  M. Fitton,et al.  The limits of the family Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) and a new genus from Lebanese Amberamber , 2002 .

[74]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Part II. Fossil Insects In The Cretaceous Mangrove Facies Of Southern Negev, Israel , 2010 .

[75]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America , 2002 .

[76]  A. Rasnitsyn.  An Outline of Evolution of the Hymenopterous Insects (Order Vespida) , 1988 .

[77]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  The identity of phryssonotus burmiticus (Cockerell, 1917) (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, synxenidae) in cretaceous amber from Myanmar , 2004 .

[78]  A. Rasnitsyn.  Problem of the basal dichotomy of the winged insects , 1998 .

[79]  A. Rasnitsyn.  A modified paranotal theory of insect wing origin , 1981, Journal of morphology.

[80]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Pollen in the guts of Permian insects: first evidence of pollinivory and its evolutionary significance , 1996 .

[81]  A. Rasnitsyn.  Diversity of Hymenoptera and other insects in the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) deposits at Orapa, Botswana: a preliminary review , 2003 .

[82]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  To the memory of M. A. Kozlov (1936–2006) , 2007, Entomological Review.

[83]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Minute members of Baissinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae) from the upper Mesozoic of China and limits of the genus Manlaya Rasnitsyn, 1980 , 2004 .

[84]  D. Quicke,et al.  Superorder Gryllidea Laicharting, 1781 (= Orthopteroidea Handlirsch, 1903) , 2002 .

[85]  A. Rasnitsyn.  Two new hymenopteran fossils from the mid-Cretaceous of southern Africa (Hymenoptera: Jurapriidae, Evaniidae) , 2007 .

[86]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  Bizarre fossil insects: web‐spinning sawflies of the genus Ferganolyda (Vespida, Pamphilioidea) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China , 2006 .

[87]  A. Rasnitsyn.  On the skimming hypothesis of the origin of insect flight , 2003 .

[88]  A. Rasnitsyn.  Testing cladograms by fossil record: the ghost range test , 2000 .

[89]  A. Heckert.  Instar sizes and growth in the Middle Permian monuran Dasyleptus brongniarti (Insecta: Machilida: Dasyleptidae) , 2010 .

[90]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  The First Gondwanan Epimastax from the Lopingian of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Insecta: Palaeomanteida = Miomoptera: Permosialidae) , 2011 .

[91]  A. Rasnitsyn,et al.  The first Praesiricidae (Hymenoptera) from Northeast China , 2010 .

[92]  Wojciech J Pulawski.  Comments On Article 74.7.3 Of The Code (Requirement For An Express Statement Of The Taxonomic Purpose Of A Lectotype Designation), Including A Proposal That It Should Be Revoked , 2001 .

[93]  D. Vasilenko,et al.  Fossil ovipositions of dragonflies: Review and interpretation , 2007 .

[94]  A. Ross,et al.  Wasps (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Purbeck and Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England and their biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental significance , 1998 .

[95]  C. Labandeira,et al.  A Probable Pollination Mode Before Angiosperms: Eurasian, Long-Proboscid Scorpionflies , 2009, Science.

[96]  C. Michener,et al.  Miocene fossil bumble bee from the Soviet Far East with comments on the chronology and distribution of fossil bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) , 1991 .

[97]  D. Quicke,et al.  The oldest fossil insect sensilla , 2001 .

[98]  A. Rasnitsyn.  STRASHILA INCREDIBILIS, A NEW ENIGMATIC MECOPTEROID INSECT WITH POSSIBLE SIPHONAPTERAN AFFINITIES FROM THE UPPER JURASSIC OF SIBERIA , 1992 .

[99]  A. Rasnitsyn.  New Xyelidae (Hymenoptera) from the Mesozoic of Asia , 1967 .

[100]  Virendrakumar Gupta,et al.  Studies on the Hymenoptera : a collection of articles on Hymenoptera commemorating the 70th birthday of Henry K. Townes , 1983 .