Rudolf Meier

Rudolf Meier, Danish evolutionary biologist.

Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Dr 4, Block S1A #05-16, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Klass, K.-D. & Meier, R. 2006. A phylogenetic analysis of Dictyoptera (Insecta) based on morphological characters. Entomologische Abhandlungen 63(1–2): 3–50. ResearchGate . Reference page.

Yeates, D.K., Wiegmann, B.M., Courtney, G.W., Meier, R. & Pape, T. 2007. Phylogeny and systematics of Diptera: two decades of progress and prospects. pp. 565–590 In: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W.A. (eds) Linnaeus tercentenary: progress in invertebrate taxonomy. Zootaxa 1668: 1–766. PDF.

Kutty, S.N., Pape, T., Pont, A., Wiegmann, B.M. & Meier, R. 2008. The Muscoidea (Diptera: Calyptratae) are paraphyletic: evidence from four mitochondrial and four nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(2): 639–652. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.012 . Reference page.

Kutty, S.N., Pape, T., Wiegmann, B.M. & Meier, R. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of the Calyptratae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) with an emphasis on the superfamily Oestroidea and the position of Mystacinobiidae and McAlpine's fly. Systematic Entomology 35(4): 614–635. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00536.x . Reference page.

Arifin U., Iskandar, D.T., Bickford, D.P., Brown, R.M., Meier, R. & Kutty, S.N. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Staurois (Anura, Ranidae) based on 16S rRNA sequences. Zootaxa 2744(1): 39–52. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2744.1.3 Reference page.
Beutel, R.G., Friedrich, F., Hörnschemeyer, T., Pohl, H., Hünefeld, F., Beckmann, F., Meier, R., Misof, B., Whiting, M.F. & Vilhelmsen, L. 2010 (Online) 2011 (Print). Morphological and molecular evidence converge upon a robust phylogeny of the megadiverse Holometabola. Cladistics 27(4): 341–355. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00338.x . Reference page.

Ang, Y., Puniamoorthy, J., Pont, A.C., Bartak, M., Blanckenhorn, W.U., Eberhard, W.G., Puniamoorthy, N., Silva, V.C., Munari, L. & Meier, R. 2013. A plea for digital reference collections and other science-based digitization initiatives in taxonomy: Sepsidnet as exemplar: Digital reference collections such as Sepsidnet. Systematic Entomology 38(3): 637–644. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12015 Reference page.
Ang, Y., Wong, L.J. & Meier, R. 2013. Using seemingly unnecessary illustrations to improve the diagnostic usefulness of descriptions in taxonomy–a case study on Perochaeta orientalis (Diptera, Sepsidae). ZooKeys 355: 9–27. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.355.6013 . Reference page.
Lambkin, C.L., Sinclair, B.J., Pape, T., Courtney, G.W., Skevington, J.H., Meier, R., Yeates, D.K., Blagoderov, V. & Wiegmann, B.M. 2013. The phylogenetic relationships among infraorders and superfamilies of Diptera based on morphological evidence. Systematic Entomology 38(1): 164–179. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00652.x .

Ang, Y-C., Rohner, P.T. & Meier, R. 2015. Across the Baltic: a new record for an enigmatic black scavenger fly, Zuskamira inexpectata (Pont, 1987) (Sepsidae) in Finland. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4308. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4308. Reference page.

Zhang, J., Gordon, E.R.L., Forthman, M., Hwang, W.S., Walden, K., Swanson, D.R., Johnson, K.P., Meier, R. & Weirauch, C. 2016. Evolution of the assassin’s arms: insights from a phylogeny of combined transcriptomic and ribosomal DNA data (Heteroptera: Reduvioidea). Scientific Reports 6: 22177. DOI: 10.1038/srep22177 Reference page.

Ang, Y-C., Meier, R., Su, K.F-Y. & Rajaratnam, G. 2017. Hidden in the urban parks of New York City: Themira lohmanus, a new species of Sepsidae described based on morphology, DNA sequences, mating behavior, and reproductive isolation (Sepsidae, Diptera). ZooKeys 698: 95—111. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.698.13411. Reference page.
Tan, M.K., Storozhenko, S.Yu., Hwang, W.S. & Meier, R.. 2017. Integrative taxonomy reveals two sympatric species of the genus Eucriotettix Hebard, 1930 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Zootaxa 4268(3): 377–394. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.3.4. Reference page.
Wong, J., Foo, M., Tan, H.T.W. & Meier, R. 2017. Whitefly predation and extensive mesonotum color polymorphism in an Acletoxenus population from Singapore (Diptera, Drosophilidae). ZooKeys 725: 49–70. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.725.13675. Reference page.

Ramos, K., Meier, R., Nuneza, O. & Grootaert, P. 2018. Two new species of mangrove Dolichopodidae from Bohol Island in the Philippines (Insecta: Diptera) and a checklist of the Dolichopodidae of the Philippines. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66: 268–276. PDF. Reference page.