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Publications (56)      

1. Balke, Michael & Lars Hendrich. 2019 †Japanolaccophilus beatificus sp. n. from Baltic amber and a key to the Laccophilinae genera of the World (Coleoptera: Laccophilinae) Zootaxa 4567(1): 176–182.
2. Balke, Michael, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Evie L. Warikar, Katja Neven & Lars Hendrich. 2015 Two new species of Limbodessus diving beetles from New Guinea - short verbal descriptions flanked by online content (digital photography, μCT scans, drawings and DNA sequence data) Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e7096.
3. Balke, Michael, David T. Bilton, Maurício García, Angel L. Viloria, Adrián Villastrigo & Lars Hendrich. 2022 Two new high Andean species of Liodessus diving beetles from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini) Alpine Entomology 6: 7-12.
4. Balke, Michael, Jiří Hájek & Lars Hendrich. 2017 Generic reclassification of species formerly included in Rhantus Dejean (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae) Zootaxa 4258(1): 91–100.
5. Balke, Michael, Johannes Bergsten, Liang-Jong Wang & Lars Hendrich. 2017 A new genus and two new species of Southeast Asian Bidessini as well as new synonyms for Oceanian species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) ZooKeys 647: 137-151.
6. Balke, Michael, Katja Neven, Adrián Villastrigo, Rodulfo Ospina-Torres, Carlos Prieto, Nicolas G. Rubiano, Ingrid Lotta, Luisa F. Dueñas & Lars Hendrich. 2023 Eastern Colombian Páramo Liodessus Guignot, 1939 diving beetles are genetically structured, but show signs of hybridization, with description of new species and subspecies (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) ZooKeys 1143: 165-187.
7. Balke, Michael, Rawati Panjaitan, Suriani Surbakti, Helena Shaverdo, Lars Hendrich, Matthew V. Dam & Athena Lam. 2022 nextRAD phylogenomics, sanger sequencing and morphological data to establish three new species of New Guinea stream beetles Alpine Entomology 6: 51-64.
8. Balke, Michael, Rodulfo Ospina-Torres, Yoandri S. Megna & Lars Hendrich. 2021 Liodessus lacunaviridis sp. nov. from Colombia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae: Bidessini) Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 163(1): 7-11.
9. Balke, Michael, Rodulfo Ospina-Torres, Yoandri Suarez Megna, Marco Laython & Lars Hendrich. 2019 A new species of Rhantus diving beetles from the Humedales of the City of Bogota and surroundings (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Colymbetinae) Alpine Entomology 3: 169-174.
10. Balke, Michael, Yoandri S. Megna, Nilver Zenteno, Luis Figueroa & Lars Hendrich. 2020 New Liodessus species from the high Andes of Peru (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini) Zootaxa 4852(2): 151–165.
11. Balke, Michael, Yoandri S. Megna, Nilver Zenteno, Luis Figueroa & Lars Hendrich. 2020 Two new species of Liodessus Guignot, 1939 diving beetles from Northern Peru (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae) Alpine Entomology 4: 173-178.
12. Balke, Michael, Yoandri S. Megna, Rodulfo Ospina-Torres, Carlos Prieto & Lars Hendrich. 2021 A new Colombian species of Liodessus diving beetles from the Páramo de Sumapaz (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae: Bidessini) ZooKeys 1059: 79-87.
13. Gerstmeier, Roland, Jerome Moriniere & Lars Hendrich. 2019 High genetic variation within mitochondrial CO1 in Middle European Thanasimus formicarius (Linné, 1758) (Coleoptera: Cleridae) Zootaxa 4674(3): 386–392.
14. Hájek, Jiří, Ana Zippel, Patrick Müller, Maximilian G. Pankowski, Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke. 2025 Copelatus diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from early Miocene Mexican amber, with description of a new species displaying distinct sexual dimorphism Journal of Paleontology 98(5): 830 - 837.
15. Hájek, Jiří, Helena Shaverdo, Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke. 2021 A review of Copelatus diving beetles from the Solomon Islands, reporting the discovery of six new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae) ZooKeys 1023: 81-118.
16. Hájek, Jiří, Jaroslav Šťastný, Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke. 2023 A review of the genus Platynectes from the Solomon Islands (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Agabinae) Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 63(1): 57-74.
17. Hájek, Jiří, Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke. 2022 Copelatus ignacioi, an unusually shaped new species of diving beetle from French Guiana (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología Suplementos del Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología(4): 43-45.
18. Hájek, Jiří, Lars Hendrich, Oliver Hawlitschek & Michael Balke. 2010 Copelatus sibelaemontis sp. nov. from the Moluccas with generic assignment based on morphology and DNA sequence data (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50(2): 437-443.
19. Hájek, Jiří, Yves Alarie, Cesar J. Benetti, Neusa Hamada, Monika Springer, Lars Hendrich, Adrián Villastrigo, Rodulfo Ospina-Torres, Michael Basantes & Michael Balke. 2023 Underestimated diversity and range size of diving beetles in tank bromeliads – Coleoptera of “hygrofloric” lifestyle (Dytiscidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
20. Hawlitschek, Oliver, Nick Porch, Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke. 2011 Ecological niche modelling and nDNA sequencing support a new, morphologically cryptic beetle species unveiled by DNA barcoding Public Library of Science, ONE 6(2): e16662.
21. Hendrich, Lars & Jaroslav Šťastný. 2014 Taxonomic revision of Australian Platynectes Régimbart, 1879 (part I)—four new species from Queensland (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae) Zootaxa 3795(1): 25–37.
22. Hendrich, Lars & Marek Przewoźny. 2015 Two new species of the genus Platambus Thomson, 1859 from China (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae) Zootaxa 3947(2): 191–200.
23. Hendrich, Lars & Michael Balke. 2011 A simultaneous journal / wiki publication and dissemination of a new species description: Neobidessodes darwiniensis sp. n. from northern Australia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini) ZooKeys 79: 11-20.
24. Hendrich, Lars & Michael Balke. 2013 Revision of Australian Matini diving beetles based on morphological and molecular data (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Matinae), with description of a new species ZooKeys 293: 41-64.
25. Hendrich, Lars & Michael Balke. 2015 Review of the genus Sekaliporus Watts, 1997 with description of a new species from northern Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae) Zootaxa 3981(1): 107–116.
Hendrich, Lars & Michael Balke. 2020 Hydaticus (Prodaticus) hauthi sp. nov., a new diving beetle from the cloud forest in the Cordillera El Sira, Peru (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) Zootaxa 4743(3): 419–426.
Hendrich, Lars & Michael Balke. 2020 Hydaticus (Prodaticus) kourouensis sp. n., a new diving beetle species from French Guiana (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) Aquatic Insects.
Hendrich, Lars & Michael Balke. 2020 A Baltic amber species of the diving beetle genus Coptotomus Say, 1830 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Coptotominae) Zootaxa 4895(2): 285–290.
Hendrich, Lars & Michel Brancucci. 2005 The rediscovery of Platambus (s. str.) angulicollis (Régimbart, 1899), and a discussion of some characters for the phylogenetic evaluation of the genus Platambus Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey 27: 7-14.
Hendrich, Lars & Michel Brancucci. 2025 Revision of the Oriental and Australasian diving beetle genus Sandracottus Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Dytiscinae) ZooKeys 1223: 87-147.
Hendrich, Lars, Chris H. S. Watts & Michael Balke. 2020 The “minute diving beetles” of southern Australia - taxonomic revision of Gibbidessus Watts, 1978, with description of six new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini) ZooKeys 975: 11-49.
Hendrich, Lars, Emmanuel Toussaint & Michael Balke. 2014 A new genus of Hydroporini from south-western Australia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) Spixiana 37(1): 103-109.
Hendrich, Lars, Helena Shaverdo, Jiří Hájek & Michael Balke. 2019 Taxonomic revision of Australian Copelatus Erichson, 1832 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae) ZooKeys 889: 81-152.
Hendrich, Lars, Liang-Jong Wang & Michael Balke. 2021 Taxonomic revision of Australasian diving beetles in the genus Leiodytes Guignot, 1936 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini) Zootaxa 4990(1): 23–44.
Hendrich, Lars, Michael Balke & Chris H. S. Watts. 2016 Description of a new Tiporus Watts, 1985 from northern Queensland, Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae) Zootaxa 4189(1): 174–182.
Hendrich, Lars, Michael Manuel & Michael Balke. 2019 The return of the Duke—locality data for Megadytes ducalis Sharp, 1882, the world’s largest diving beetle, with notes on related species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) Zootaxa 4586(3): 517–535.
Hendrich, Lars, Rico Apenborn, Ernst-Gerhard Burmeister & Michael Balke. 2015 A new species of Agaporomorphus Zimmermann, 1921 from Peru (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae) ZooKeys 512: 63-76.
Hendrich, Lars, Suriani Surbakti & Michael Balke. 2020 Limbodessus skalei sp. nov., a new diving beetle species from the west Papuan Archipelago (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini) Zootaxa 4763(4): 587–592.
Jiang, Zhuoyin, Shuang Zhao, Zuqi Mai, Feng-Long Jia & Lars Hendrich. 2023 Review of the genus Cybister in China, with description of a new species from Guangdong (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 63(1): 75-102.
Kodada, Ján, Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke. 2018 Tepuidessus grulai sp. nov. from Acopán Tepui in Venezuela (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae: Bidessini) Zootaxa 4434(3): 561–572.
Mai, Zuqi, Zhuoyin Jiang, Jian Hu, Lars Hendrich & Fenglong Jia. 2022 A new species of Clypeodytes Régimbart, 1894 from China (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae: Bidessini) Zootaxa 5124(1): 50-60.
Megna, Yoandri S., Lars Hendrich, Andrea L. Garcia, Rodulfo Ospina-Torres, Carlos Prieto & Michael Balke. 2019 Diving beetles of the genus Liodessus Guignot, 1953 in Colombia, with description of three new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) Aquatic Insects 40: 99-122.
Megna, Yoandri S., Michael Balke, Rico Apenborn & Lars Hendrich. 2019 A review of Peruvian diving beetles of the genus Hydaticus Leach, 1817, with description of Hydaticus (Prodaticus) panguana sp. nov. and notes on other Neotropical species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) Zootaxa 4615(1): 113–130.
Michat, Mariano C., Yves Alarie & Lars Hendrich. 2014 Description of the third instar of Hygrobia nigra (Clark, 1862) (Coleoptera: Paelobiidae), with a key for the identification of mature larvae of Hygrobia Latreille, 1804 and phylogenetic analysis Zootaxa 3827(3): 318–330.
Oláh, János, Gilles Vinçon, Trond Andersen, Stoyan Beshkov, Constantin Ciubuc, Gennaro Coppa, Lars Hendrich, Kjell A. Johanson, Juha Salokannel & Bronislaw Szczęsny. 2020 Revision of the European Rhyacophila fasciata species complex by fine phenomics of the paramere (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae) Opuscula Zoologica, Budapest 51(1): 21-54.
Raupach, Michael J., Karsten Hannig, Jerome Moriniere & Lars Hendrich. 2016 A DNA barcode library for ground beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae) of Germany: The genus Bembidion Latreille, 1802 and allied taxa ZooKeys 592: 121-141.
Raupach, Michael J., Karsten Hannig, Jerome Moriniere & Lars Hendrich. 2018 A DNA barcode library for ground beetles of Germany: the genus Amara Bonelli, 1810 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae) ZooKeys 759: 57-80.
Raupach, Michael J., Karsten Hannig, Jerome Moriniere & Lars Hendrich. 2019 About Notiophilus Duméril, 1806 (Coleoptera, Carabidae): Species delineation and phylogeny using DNA barcodes Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 66(1): 63-73.
Raupach, Michael J., Karsten Hannig, Jerome Moriniere & Lars Hendrich. 2020 A DNA barcode library for ground beetles of Germany: the genus Agonum Bonelli, 1810 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae) Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 67(2): 197-207.
Raupach, Michael J., Karsten Hannig, Jerome Moriniere & Lars Hendrich. 2020 A DNA barcode library for ground beetles of Germany: the genus Pterostichus Bonelli, 1810 and allied taxa (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae) ZooKeys 980: 93-117.
Shaverdo, Helena V., Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke. 2013 Exocelina baliem sp. n., the only known pond species of New Guinea Exocelina Broun, 1886 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae) ZooKeys 304: 83-99.
Shaverdo, Helena V., Suriani Surbakti, Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke. 2012 Introduction of the Exocelina ekari-group with descriptions of 22 new species from New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae) ZooKeys 250: 1-76.
Shaverdo, Helena, Jiří Hájek, Lars Hendrich, Suriani Surbakti, Rawati Panjaitan & Michael Balke. 2023 Austrelatus gen. nov., a new genus of Australasian diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae), with the discovery of 31 new species from New Guinea ZooKeys 1170: 1-164.
Shaverdo, Helena, Lars Hendrich, Suriani Surbakti, Rawati Panjaitan & Michael Balke. 2024 Revision of the Austrelatus papuensis group with descriptions of 42 new species from New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae) ZooKeys 1201: 1-165.
Surbakti, Suriani, Michael Balke & Lars Hendrich. 2023 Limbodessus moni sp. nov., a new high altitudinal diving beetle from the Grasberg in West Papua, Indonesia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini) Zootaxa 5319(3): 413-420.
Watts, Christopher H. S., Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke. 2016 A new interstitial species of diving beetle from tropical northern Australia provides a scenario for the transition of epigean to stygobitic life (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae) Subterranean Biology 19: 23-29.
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