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PUBLICATIONS:
1. Ratcliffe, Brett
C. and Robert J. Luedtke. 1969. A comparison of silphids taken
from covered and uncovered carrion (Coleoptera: Silphidae).
Coleop. Bull. 23(4): 103-105.
2. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1970. Collecting slime flux feeding Coleoptera
in Japan. Ent. News 81: 255-256.
3. ______. 1972. The natural history of Necrodes surinamensis
(Fabr.) (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Trans. American Ent. Soc. 98:
359-410.
4. ______. 1974. New distribution records for eleven species
of Phyllophaga (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Ent. News
85(3): 72-75.
5. ______. 1976. A revision of the genus Strategus
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bull. Univ. Nebraska St. Mus. 10(3):
93-204, 176 figs.
6. ______. 1976. Notes on the biology of Euphoriaspis hirtipes
(Horn) with a description of the larva and pupa (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae). Coleop. Bull. 30(3): 217-225.
7. Pike, K.S., R.L. Rivers, B.C. Ratcliffe, C.Y. Oseto and Z.B.
Mayo. 1976. A world bibliography of the genus Cyclocephala
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Univ. Nebraska Agr. Exp. Sta. Misc.
Publ. 32: 1-32.
8. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1977. A case of tarantula induced vesicular
dermatitis. J. Med. Ent.13(6): 745-747.
9. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1977. A description of the larva and
pupa of Osmoderma subplanata Casey and Cremastocheilus
wheeleri LeConte (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). J. Kansas
Ent. Soc. 50(3): 363-370.
10. ______. 1977. Four new species of Neotropical Cyclocephalini
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Acta Amazonica 7(3): 429-434.
11. ______. 1978. The systematic entomology collections of Brazil's
National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA). Bull. Ent.
Soc. Amer. 24(1): 62.
12. ______. 1978. As coleções de entomologia sistematica do
Instituto Naçional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA-Manaus). Ciencia
e Cultura 30(5): 627-628.
13. ______. 1978. A review of the genus Argyripa (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae). Systematic Entomology 3: 371-378.
14. ______. 1978. A new species of Trox from the Amazon
Basin with new distribution records for Central American Trox
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Acta Amazonica 8(2): 299-302.
15. ______. 1978. New species of Stenocrates from Brazil
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Acta Amazonica 8(3): 489-495.
16. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Norman D. Penny. 1978. Catalogo
dos tipos de invertebrados depositados nas coleções entomologicas
do INPA-Manaus. Acta Amazonica 8(4): 689-697.
17a. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and J.A. Fagerstrom. 1980. Invertebrate
Lebensspuren of Holocene floodplains: their morphology, origin
and paleoecological significance. J. Paleontology 54(3): 614-630.
17b. ______. 1983. Reprinted IN Sarjeant, William A.S. (Ed.),
Terrestrial Trace Fossils. Benchmark Papers in Geology 76, p.
251-267. Hutchinson Ross Publ. Co., Stroudsburg, Pa.
18. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Fortuné Chalumeau. 1980. Strategus
syphax (Fabr.): A description of the third instar larva
and pupa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleop. Bull.
34(1): 85-93.
19. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1981. New species of Coprini (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) taken from the pelage of three toed
sloths (Bradypus tridactylus L.) in central Amazonia
with a commentary on scarab-sloth relationships. Coleop. Bull.
34(4): 337-350.
20. ______. 1981. The fourth Hylobothynus: spanning
the Amazonian gap (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleop.
Bull. 35(3): 303-306.
21. ______. 1981. New species and distribution records of Surutu
from Amazonian Brazil (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae).
Coleop. Bull. 35(1): 107-112.
22. ______. 1981. A redescription of Trichillum hirsutum
Boucomont with notes on other interesting Brazilian Scarabaeinae
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) . Acta Amazonica 11(1): 183-186.
23. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1981. Barutus hartmanni, a
new genus and species from Panama with a key to the New World
genera of Pentodontini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae).
Coleop. Bull. 35(4): 463-472.
24. ______. 1981. Xyloryctes jamaicensis (Drury) in
Nebraska. Scarabaeus No. 4: 8.
25. ______. 1982. American Oryctini: Strategus verrilli
Ratcliffe rediscovered and described, and new records and comments
for other Strategus and Hispanioryctes (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleop. Bull. 36(2): 352-357.
26. ______. 1983. Trox hamatus Robinson (Troginae)
using a Canthon (Scarabaeinae) brood ball and new records
of North American Trox (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae).
Trans. Nebraska Acad. Sci. 11: 53-55.
27. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and R.-P. Dechambre. 1983. New combinations,
synonymy and distribution records for Neotropical Pentodontini
and Oryctini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleop.
Bull. 37: 267-272.
28. Morón, Miguel and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1984. Description
of the larva and pupa of Argyripa lansbergei (Sallé)
with new distributional records for the genus and a key to New
World Gymnetini larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae).
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 86: 760-768.
29. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1984. A review of the Penichrolucaninae
with analyses of phylogeny and biogeography and description
of a second New World species from the Amazon Basin (Coleoptera:
Lucanidae). Quaest. Ent. 20: 60-87.
30. ______. 1985. The Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Scarabaeus
No. 11: 1-3.
31. Penny, Norman D. and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1985. Entomological
collections and human resources in Brazil. ASC Newsletter 13:
21-24.
32. Boos, Julius and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1985. A new subspecies
of Inca clathrata (Olivier) from Trinidad, West Indies,
and range extensions for Inca clathrata sommeri
Westwood (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Trichiinae). Coleopt. Bull.
39: 381-389.
33. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1985. God
is, forsooth, a scarab: a rebuttal to Acorn's repugnant carabid
hypothesis. Biologie und Naturwissenschaften der
Kafer 3: 9-19.
34. ______. 1986. New Species of Dyscinetus from the
West Indies and South America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae).
Coleopt. Bull. 40: 75-80.
35. Bown, Thomas M. and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1988. The origin
of Chubutolithes Ihering, ichnofossils from the Eocene
and Oligocene of Chubut Province, Argentina. J. Paleont. 62:
163-167.
36. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1988. New species and distributions
of Neotropical Phileurini and a new phileurine from Burma (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleopt. Bull. 42: 43-55.
37. ______. 1988. A new species of Aphodius (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from Nebraska. Trans. Nebr. Acad.
Sci. 16: 87-89.
38. Deloya, A.C. and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1988. A synopsis of
the genus Cotinis in Mexico with description of three
new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Acta Zool.
Mexicana No. 28: 1-52.
39. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Mary Liz Jameson. 1989. A synopsis
of the genus Areoda (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae).
Coleop. Bull. 43: 135-144.
40. Morón, Miguel and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1989. A synopsis of
the American Goliathini with description of a new Neoscelis
from Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Coleop.
Bull. 43: 339-348.
41. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and George Clark. 1989. Observations
on the tunnel morphology of Heterocerus brunneus Melsh.
(Coleoptera: Heteroceridae) and the paleoecological significance
of insect traces. J. Paleont. 63: 228-232.
42. Ratcliffe, Brett C. (ed.). 1989. University of Nebraska
State Museum. ASC Newsletter 17: 1, 3, 10-12.
43. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Mary Liz Jameson. 1989. A new species
of Pelidnota (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae)
from Panama. Coleop. Bull. 43: 259-262.
44. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1989. A case of gynandromorphy in Golofa
tersander (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Coleop. Bull. 43:
256-258.
45. ______. 1989. Corrections and clarifications to Endrödi's
"The Dynastinae of the World." Coleop. Bull. 43: 275-278.
46. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and L. Delgado. 1990. New species and
notes of Cyclocephala from Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Dynastinae). Fol. Ent. Mexicana No. 80: 41-57.
47. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1990. The significance of scarab beetles
in the ethnoentomology of non-industrial, indigenous peoples.
Proc. I Internat. Congr. Ethnobiology, Belem, Brazil, vol. 1:
159-185.
48. Morón, Miguel and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1990. Descriptions
of Strategus larvae with a new key to species based
on the larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Elytron
4: 53-66.
49. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1990. Prairie scarabs. The Nebraska
perspective. American Ent. 36: 28-35.
50. Howden, H.F. and B.C. Ratcliffe. 1990. An unusual new species
of Trigonopeltastes Burmeister from Chiapas, Mexico
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Trichiinae). Canadian Ent.122: 1-4.
51. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1990. An unusual method of pattern disruption
in an Amazonian scarab beetle. Bol. Mus. Paraense Emilio Goeldi,
Ser. Zool. 6: 109-113.
52. ______. 1991. The Passalidae and Lucanidae (Insecta: Coleoptera)
of Nebraska. Great Plains Research 1: 249-282.
53. ______. 1992. Two new species of Cyclocephala from
Arizona and Mexico and a note on melanistic C. melanocephala
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleop. Bull. 46: 250-255.
54. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Cuauhtemoc Deloya. 1992. The biogeography
and phylogeny of Hologymnetis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Cetoniinae) with a revision of the genus. Coleop. Bull. 45:
161-202.
55. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1992. Nine new species and 11 country
records of Cyclocephala (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Dynastinae) from Panama and Costa Rica. Coleop. Bull. 46: 216-235.
56. ______. 1992. A new species of Ancognatha from
Panama (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleop. Bull.
46: 256-259.
57. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Mary Liz Jameson. 1992. New Nebraska
occurrences of the endangered American burying beetle (Coleoptera:
Silphidae). Coleop. Bull. 46: 421-425.
58. Ratcliffe, Brett C., Mary Liz Jameson, and Terry Taylor.
1992. Two remarkable new species of Plusiotis (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from Mexico and Central America. Insecta
Mundi 6: 1-5.
59. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1992. New species and country records
of Brazilian Cyclocephala (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Dynastinae). Tidsch. voor Ent. 136: 179-190.
60. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Charles L. Messenger. 1992. Vial
support system for fluid collections, pp. 213-214. IN, C. Rose
and A.R. de Torres (eds.), Storage of Natural History Collections:
Ideas and Practical Solutions. Soc. Preserv. Nat. Hist. Colls.,
Pittsburgh, PA.
61. Jameson, Mary Liz, Brett C. Ratcliffe and Miguel M. Morón.
1994. A synopsis of the Neotropical genus Calomacraspis
Bates with a key to larvae of the American genera of Rutelini
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae). Ann. Ent. Soc. America
87: 43-58.
62. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1994. Orizabus subaziro, a
new species from Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae).
Coleop. Bull. 48: 91-93.
63. ______. 1995. American burying beetle. Nebraska's Threatened
and Endangered Species insert in NEBRASKAland Mag. 73, 6 pp.
64. Maes, Jean-Michel and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1996. Scarabaeidae
nuevos para la fauna de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia
34: 17-18.
65. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Miguel A. Morón. 1997. Capítulo
3. Dynastinae, pp. 53-98. In Morón, Miguel A., Brett C. Ratcliffe,
and Cuauhtemoc Deloya, Atlas de los Escarabajos de Mexico (Coleoptera:
Lamellicornia). Vol. 1. Familia Melolonthidae. CONABIO and Sociedad
Mexicana de Entomologia, Mexico. 280 pp.
66. Maes, Jean-Michel, Brett C. Ratcliffe, and Mary Liz Jameson.
1997. Fauna entomologica de la Reserva Natural BOSAWAS, Nicaragua.
XI. Escarabajos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) nuevos para la fauna
de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraduense de Entomologia 39: 41-45.
67. Morón, Miguel A. and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1997. New tribal
placement of the genus Coscinocephalus Prell 1936,with
description of the larva, pupa, and adult of a new species from
Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Dynastinae). Journal of the
New York Entomological Society 104: 48-61.
68. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1998. An unusual new unicorn species
of Copris from Nicaragua (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae,
Coprini. Coleopterists Bulletin 52: 93-96.
69. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1998. Insects., pp. 143-154. In Bleed,
A. S. and C. A. Flowerday (eds.), An Atlas of the Sand Hills.
Resource Atlas 5b, Conservation and Survey Division, Institute
of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
260 pp.
70. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Michael A. Ivie. 1998. New species
of Hemiphileurus (Coleoptera:Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)
from the Dominican Republic with a key to the West Indian species
of Hemiphileurus. Coleopterists Bulletin 52: 201-208.
71. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Andrew B. T. Smith. 1999. New species
of Canthonella Chapin (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
from Amazonian Brazil. Coleopterists Bulletin 53: 1-7.
72.
Bedick, J. C., B. C. Ratcliffe, W. Wyatt Hoback and Leon G.
Higley. 1999. Distribution, ecology, and population dynamics
of the American burying beetle [Nicrophorus americanus
Olivier (Coleoptera, Silphidae)] in south-central Nebraska,
USA. Journal of Insect Conservation 3: 171-181.
73.
Ratcliffe, B. C. 1999. U. S. scarab collection moves to Nebraska.
ASC Newsletter 27: 1 and 6.
74.
Coca-Abia, M., P. Dominguez-Alonso, and B. C. Ratcliffe. 1999.
Evidencias de actividad biológica producidas por artrópodos
terrestres a lo largo del tiempo geológico, pp. 213-221. In
Melic, A., J. J. de Haro, M. Mendez, and I. Ribera (Eds.), Evolución
y Filogenia de Arthropoda. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica
Aragonesa (Monographic Volume) 26: 1-806.
75.
Ratcliffe, B. C. 2000. Dynastine scarab beetles of Monteverde,
pp. 111-113. In Nadkarni, N. and N. Wheelwright (eds.), Monteverde.
Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest. Oxford
University Press, New York, NY. 573 pp.
76.
Micó, E., W. E. Hall, and B. C. Ratcliffe. 2001. Descriptions
of the larvae of Hoplopyga singularis (Gory and Percheron)
and Hologymnetis cinerea (Gory and Percheron) with a
revised key to the larvae of New World Gymnetini (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Coleopterists Bulletin 55: 205-217.
77.
Ratcliffe, B. C. and E. Micó. 2001. A review of the Neotropical
genus Neocorvicoana Ratcliffe and Micó, new genus (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Gymnetini). Coleopterists Bulletin
55: 279-296.
78.
Ratcliffe, B. C. and F. Ocampo. 2001. Tyrannasorus rex
Ratcliffe and Ocampo, a new genus and species of Miocene hybosorid
in amber from the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea:
Hybosoridae). Coleopterists Bulletin 55: 351-355.
79. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2001. New
species of Hemiphileurus Kolbe (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Dynastinae) from Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and Brazil. Coleopterists
Bulletin 55: 433-443.
80. Ratcliffe, B. C. and J. Christen.
2002 Lucanus elaphus Fabr. (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)
discovered in Nebraska, with brief notes on its biology and
identification. Entomological News 113: 68-70.
81. Ratcliffe, B. C. and R. D.
Cave. 2002. New species of Cyclocephala from Honduras
and El Salvador (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini).
Coleopterists Bulletin 56: 152-157.
82. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2002. A
checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama. Zootaxa
32: 1-48.
83. Ratcliffe, B. C. and F. Ocampo.
2002. A review of the genus Hylamorpha Arrow (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini: Brachysternina). Coleopterists
Bulletin 56: 367-378.
84. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2002. Review
of the genus Palaeophileurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae::
Phileurini) with description of two new species from Peru. Annals
of the Entomological Society of America 95: 335-339.
85. Ratcliffe, B. C. and P. C.
Hammond. 2002. Insects and the native vegetation of Nebraska.
Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 28: 29-47.
86. Jameson, M. L., B. C. Ratcliffe,
and V. Maly. 2002. Review of the genus Acrobolbia
Ohaus with remarks on its classification and key to the world
genera of Cyclocephalini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae).
Folia Heyrovskyana 10: 1-15.
87. Jameson, M. L. and B. C.
Ratcliffe. 2002. Series Scarabaeiformia Crowson 1960, Superfamily
Scarabaeoidea Latreille 1802, pp. 1-5. In, Arnett,
R. H., M. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank (eds.), American
Beetles, Volume 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 861 pp.
88. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2002. Chapter
23. Lucanidae Latreille 1804, pp. 6-9. In, Arnett,
R. H., M. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank (eds.), American
Beetles, Volume 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 861 pp.
89. Jameson, M. L. and B. C.
Ratcliffe. 2002. Chapter 24. Diphyllosomatidae Holloway 1972,
pp. 10-11. In, Arnett, R. H., M. Thomas, P. E. Skelley,
and J. H. Frank (eds.), American Beetles, Volume 2.
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 861 pp.
90. Ratcliffe, B. C., M. L. Jameson,
and A. B. T. Smith. 2002. Chapter 34. Scarabaeidae Latreille
1802, pp. 39-81 (in part). In, Arnett, R. H., M. Thomas,
P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank (eds.), American Beetles,
Volume 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 861 pp.
91. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2002. Chapter
34-V. Dynastinae MacLeay 1819, pp. 64-67. In, Arnett,
R. H., M. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank (eds.), American
Beetles, Volume 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 861 pp.
92. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2002. Chapter
34-VI. Cetoniinae Leach 1815, pp. 67-71. In, Arnett,
R. H., M. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank (eds.), American
Beetles, Volume 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 861 pp.
93. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2003. New
species of Hemiphileurus Kolbe from Honduras and Guatemala
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Phileurini). Coleopterists
Bulletin 57: 334-338.
94. Mudge, A. D., B. C. Ratcliffe, R. L. Westcott, and F. A.
Noguera F.A. 2003. A new species of Neoscelis from
Jalisco, Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Folia
Heyrovskyana 11:143-154.
95. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2004. Comment on the
proposed precedence of Bolboceras Kirby, 1819 (July)
(Insecta, Coleoptera) over Odonteus Samouelle, 1819
(June). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 61:43.
96. Bedick, J., B. C. Ratcliffe, and L. G.
Higley. 2004. A new sampling protocol for the American burying
beetle, Nicrophorus americanus Olivier (Coleoptera:
Silphidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 58: 57-70.
97. Ratcliffe, B. C. and M. L. Jameson. 2004. The revised classification
for Scarabaeoidea: what the hell is going on? Scarabs 15: 3-10.
98. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2004. Lectotype designations in the New
World Gymnetini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Zootaxa
729: 1-19.
99. Ratcliffe, B. C. and M. A. Morón. 2005. Larval descriptions
of eight species of Megasoma Kirby (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Dynastinae) with a key for identification and notes on biology.
Coleopterists Bulletin 59: 91-126.
100. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2005. A review of the South American genus
Hoplopygothrix Schürhoff (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Cetoniinae: Gymnetini). Coleopterists Bulletin 59: 136-142.
101. Ratcliffe, B. C. and M. Hardy. 2005. Collagenus dasysternus,
a new genus and species of Dynastinae from eastern Venezuela
with a key to the New World genera
of Pentodontini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleopterists
Bulletin 59: 143-150.
102. Ratcliffe, B. C., D. M. Smith, and D. Erwin. 2005. Oryctoantiquus
borealis, new genus and species from the Eocene of Oregon,
U.S.A., the world's oldest fossil dynastine and largest fossil
scarabaeid (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleopterists
Bulletin 59: 127-135.
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS
1.
Ivie, M. A. and B. C. Ratcliffe. 1999. West
Indian Dynastinae. http://virgin.msu.montana.edu/WestIndies/Polyphaga/Scarabaeoidea/Scarabaeidae
/Dynastinaeframe.html
2.
Jameson, M. L. and B. C. Ratcliffe. 1999. Guide
to the genera of New World pleurostict scarab beetles.
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Guide-introduction/Guideintro.html
3.
Jameson, M. L. and B. C. Ratcliffe. 1999. NSF/PEET:
Systematics Studies of New World Scarab Beetles.
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/peet2.htm
4.
Jameson, M. L. and B. C. Ratcliffe. 1999. Team
Scarab in Venezuela. http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Venezuela.htm
5.
Ratcliffe, B. C. 1999. Scarab Workers World Directory: Alphabetic List, Taxonomic
List, Geographic List. http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/index2.htm
6.
Ratcliffe, B. C. 1999. Larval Workshop at University of Nebraska State Museum.
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workshop.htm
7.
Ratcliffe, B. C. 1999. U. S. National Collection of Scarabs Transferred to the University
of Nebraska. http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/SI_coll.htm
8.
Ratcliffe, B. C. 1999. Faunistic Survey of the Dynastine Scarab Beetles on Honduras,
Nicaragua, and El Salvador. http://www- museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/ database2/01Hond.html
9.
Ratcliffe, B. C., F. C. Ocampo and, A. Smith. 2000. Honduras
Collecting Trip. http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/database2/trip-2000.html
10. Hoback, W. W., K. M. Skinner,
and B. C. Ratcliffe. 2001. Nebraska carriion beetles.
http://www.unk.edu/acad/biology/hoback/carrion_beetles/home.htm
11. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2002. Collecting
trip to Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador16 June – 5
July 2002.
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/database2/trip-2002.html
12. Jameson, M.L. and B. C. Ratcliffe. 2003. Little brown beetle
workshop. Montana
State University, Bozeman, Montana, 18-20 August 2003.
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/database2/lbb_workshop.htm
13. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2004. Collecting/museum trip to Chile and
Argentina, November 2003.
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Chile_Argentina.htm
14. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2005. VI Reunión Latinoamericana de Scarabaeoidologia
EARTH University, Costa Rica.
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/VI_Reunion.htm
BOOKS:
1. Ratcliffe, Brett
C. 1991. The Scarab Beetles of Nebraska.
Bull. Univ. Nebraska St. Mus.12: 1-333.
2. ______. 1996. The
Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Nebraska.
Bull. Univ. Nebraska St. Mus. 13: 1-100.
3. Morón, Miguel A., Brett C. Ratcliffe, and Cuauhtemoc Deloya.
1997. Atlas de los Escarabajos de
Mexico (Coleoptera: Lamellicornia).
Vol. 1. Familia Melolonthidae. CONABIO and Sociedad Mexicana
de Entomologia, Mexico. 280 pp.
4. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 2003. The Dynastine
Scarab Beetles of Costa Rica and Panama. Bull. Univ. Nebraska
St. Mus. 16: 1-506.
BOOK REVIEWS:
1. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1983. Book Review. The Nesting Behavior
of Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae). An Ecological and Evolutive
Approach. By Gonzalo Halffter and W.D.Edmonds. J. New York
Ent. Soc. 91: 512-515.
2. ______. 1985. Book Review. Escarabajos. 200 Millones
de Años de Evolucion. By Miguel Morón. Scarabaeus No. 11:
4.
3. ______. 1985. Book Review. Escarabajos. 200 Millones
de Años de Evolucion. By Miguel Morón. J. New York Ent.
Soc. 93: 1277-1278.
4. ______. 1987. Book Review. The Dynastinae of the World.
By S. Endrödi. Bull. Ent. Soc. America 33: 196-197.
5. ______. 1990. Book Review. The Scarab Beetles of Florida
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Part II. The May or June Beetles
(genus Phyllophaga). By R. Woodruff and B. Beck. Florida
Ent. 73: 523-524.
6. ______. 1991. Book Review. The Beetles of the World,
vol. 10. Rutelini premier partie. By M.A. Morón. Coleop.
Bull. 45: 14.
7. ______. 1993. Book Review. Dung Beetle Ecology.
By I. Hanski and Y. Cambefort. Ann.Ent. Soc. America 86: 218-219.
8. _______. 1997. Book Review. An Inordinate Fondness for
Beetles. By A. Evans and C. Bellamy. Coleop. Bull. 51:291-292
9. ______. 1999. Book Review. The Cetoniine Beetles of the
World by K. Sakai and S. Nagai. Coleopterists Bulletin
53: 145.
10. ______. 1999. Book Review. Manu: The Biodiversity of
Southeastern Peru by D. Wilson and A. Sandoval (eds.).
American Entomologist 45: 122-123.
11. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 2000. Book Review. Carabid
family values, a review of Bomby, the Bombardier Beetle
by H. M. Rue. Annals of Improbable Research 6: 9.
12. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 2001. Book Review. Fauna
Iberica, Volume 14: Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea I by F.Martin
Piera and J. L. Lopez-Colón. Coleopterists Bulletin 55: 124.
13. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 2001. New Journal Review.
Cetoniimania, a publication devoted to Cetoniinae, Valginae,
and Trichiinae published by R. Alexis and M. Delpont.
Coleopterists Bulletin 55: 123-124.
14. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 2001. Book Review. Bomby,
the Bombardier Beetle by H. M. Rue. Coleopterists
Bulletin 55: 241-242.
15. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 2002. Book Review. Fauna
of New Zealand No. 42. Aphodiinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
by Z. T. Stebnicka. Proceedings of the Washington
Entomological Society, 104:823-824.
ABSTRACTS:
1. Fagerstrom, J.A. and B.C. Ratcliffe. 1975. Synopsis of Recent
burrowing insects as analogues of non-marine trace fossils.
Abstracts with Programs 7(7): 1070-1071. Ann. Meet. Geol. Soc.
America, Calgary, Canada.
2. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1977. Curating systematic entomology
collections in the humid tropics: an overview. ASC Newsletter
5(3): 29.
3. Fagerstrom, J.A. and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1979. Recent arthropod
Lebensspuren as indicators of ancient flood-plain deposition.
Program, p. 84. AAPG-SEPM Ann. Conv., Houston, Texas.
4. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1984. Analyses of Phylogeny and Biogeography
of the Penichrolucaninae (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). XVII Internat.
Cong. Ent., Abstr., Vol., p. 21. Hamburg, Germany.
5. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1988. A faunistic survey of the Scarabaeidae
(Coleoptera) of Nebraska. Proc., p. 62. XVIII Internat. Cong.
Ent., Vancouver, Canada.
6. Morón, M.A. and B.C. Ratcliffe. 1988. Estudio sinoptico de
las especies americanas de Goliathini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea,
Cetoniinae). Res., p. 355. XXIII Cong. Nac. Ent., Morelia, Mexico.
7. Deloya, Cuauhtemoc and Brett C. Ratcliffe. 1988. Las especies
de Cotinis Burmeister (Cleoptera: Melolonthidae: Cetoniinae)
en la Zona de Transicion Mexicana. Res., p. 356. XXIII Cong.
Nac. Ent., Morelia, Mexico.
8. Ratcliffe, Brett C. and Cuauhtemoc Deloya. 1990. Analyses
of phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Hologymnetis
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Program, p. 179. Fourth
Int. Cong. Syst. Evol. Biol., Washington, D.C.
9. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1993. A phylogenetic analysis of the
genera of Cyclocephalini (Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Memorias,
p. 13. Primera Reunión Latinoamericana de Escarabaeiodologia,
Guatemala City, Guatemala.
10. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1994. The phylogeny of the Cyclocephalini
(Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Programme & Abstracts,
p. 51-52. International Symposium on Biodiversity and Systematics
in Tropical Ecosystems, Bonn, Germany.
11. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1995. A faunistic survey of the Dynastinae
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae of Costa Rica and Panama. Program,
p. 7. International Caribbean Conference of Entomology, San
José, Costa Rica.
12. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1996. A faunistic survey of the Dynastinae
of Panama and Costa Rica. Programme, p. 36. Scarabiology Symposium,
Kruger National Park, South Africa.
13. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 2000.
A faunistic survey of the Dynastinae (Coleoptera:
Scarabaeidae) of Central America. 21st International Congress
of Entomology, Abstracts Book 2: 929.
14. Adis, J., W. Paarmann, and B. C. Ratcliffe. 2000. Dung beetles
of Central Amazonian floodplains. 21st
International Congress of Entomology, Abstracts Book 1: 100.
15. Benecke, M., L. Barksdale, J. Sundermeier, S. Reibe, and
B. C. Ratcliffe. 2000. Forensic entomology
in a murder case: blood spatter artifacts caused by flies, and
determination of post mortem interval (PMI) by use of blowfly
maggots. Zoology, Analysis of ComplexSystems
103 (Supplement 3): 106.
16. Ratcliffe, B. C. 2004. A faunistic survey of the dynastine
scarab beetles of Mesoamerica. VI Reunion
de Scarabaeoidologia, Compendio de Resumenes, EARTH University,
Costa Rica, p.30.
17. Neita Moreno, J. C., J. Orozco, and B. C. Ratcliffe. 2004.
Escarabajos pleurosticti (Scarabaeidae) de la selva baja
del bosque pluvial tropical, Choco, Colombia. VI Reunion de
Scarabaeoidologia, Compendio de Resumenes, EARTH University,
Costa Rica, p. 20.
18. Mudge, A. D., B. C. Ratcliffe, R. L. Westcott, and F. Noguera.
2004. A new species of Neoscelis Schoch from Jalisco,
Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). VI Reunion de
Scarabaeoidologia, Compendio de Resumenes, EARTH University,
Costa Rica, p. 19.
POPULAR ARTICLES:
1. Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1970. Scarabs. Univ. Nebraska News 49(22):
1-4. (Museum Notes No. 42).
2. ______. 1977. Curating your beetle collection. TIEG Mag.
11(1): 14-17.
3a. ______. 1980. Take a beetle to lunch today, or the natural
history of dung beetles. Univ. Nebraska News 59(18): 1-4. (Museum
Notes No. 66).
3b. ______. 1983. Reprinted in The Explorer 25: 22-26.
4. ______. 1980. A matter of taste, or the natural history of
carrion beetles. Univ. of Nebraska News 59(31): 1-4. (Museum
Notes No. 67).
5. ______. 1984. Division of Entomology. Friends Univ. Nebraska
St. Mus. 1(3): 3.
6. ______. 1987. Six-legged science. Friends Univ. Nebraska
St. Mus. 4(1): 4-5.
7. ______. 1988. Scarab Beetles. Jeweled pollinators, dung feeders,
and horned giants. NEBRASKAland Mag. 66: 30-37.
8. ______. 1988. Beetles. Friends Univ. Nebr. St. Museum 5(1):
9.
9. ______. 1989. Entomology: We're good for what bugs you. Mammoth,
Oct. 1989, No. 4: 10-11.
10. ______. 1990. Tiger Beetles. NEBRASKAland Mag. 68: 50-51.
11. ______. 1991. Dragonflies. NEBRASKAland Mag. 69: 50-51.
12. ______. 1992. Collecting in Brazilian Amazonia. Mammoth,
May 1992, No. 2: 6-7.
13. ______. 1992. Swallowtails. NEBRASKAland Mag. 70: 50-51.
14. ______. 1992. Collecting in Costa Rica. Mammoth. August
1992, No. 3: 6-7.
15. ______. 1993. Nebraska's giant silkmoths. NEBRASKAland Mag.
71: 22-29.
16. ______. 1994. Bumblebees. NEBRASKAland Mag. 72: 58-59.
17. ______. 1995. Burying Beetles. NEBRASKAland Mag. 73: 50-51.
18. ______. 1996. Garden spiders. NEBRASKAland Mag. 74: 50-51.
19. ______. 1997. A faunistic survey of the Dynastinae of Costa
Rica and Panama. Simbiosis January-April 1997: 7.
20. Ratcliffe, B. C. and S. Spomer. 2002. Nebraska’s endangered
species. Part 1: introduction and the insects. Museum Notes
113: 1-6. |
