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Publications (20)      

1. Ferretti, Nelson, Patricio Cavallo, Duniesky Ríos-Tamayo, Tracie Seimon, Rick West & Juan C. Chaparro-Auza. 2018 The Neotropical genus Hapalotremus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with the description of seven new species and the highest altitude record for the family Journal of Natural History 52: 1927-1984.
2. Kaderka, Radan, Nelson Ferretti, Martin Hüsser, Tim Lüddecke & Rick C. West. 2021 Antikuna, a new genus with seven new species from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) and the highest altitude record for the family Journal of Natural History 55: 1335-1402.
3. Kurczewski, Frank E. & Rick C. West. 2022 Host selection and nesting behavior of Nearctic trapdoor spider-hunting spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Pepsinae, Pompilinae) Insecta Mundi(0959): 1–24.
4. Kurczewski, Frank E. & Rick C. West. 2023 Evaluation of North American spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) common names Insecta Mundi(0989): 1–8.
5. Kurczewski, Frank E., Alice J. Abela & Rick C. West. 2021 Nesting behavior, ecology, and functional morphology of the trapdoor spider-hunting spider wasp Aporus (Plectraporus) hirsutus (Banks) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Insecta Mundi(0902): 1–23.
6. Kurczewski, Frank E., J. H. Stoller, Rick C. West, Kelly C. Kissane & Neil S. Cobb. 2020 Geographic variation in host selection in the spider wasps Entypus unifasciatus (Say) and Tachypompilus ferrugineus (Say) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Insecta Mundi(0759): 1-38.
7. Kurczewski, Frank E., Joseph W. Stoll, Rick C. West, Kelly C. Kissane, Paige R. Chesshire & Neil S. Cobb. 2022 Geographic variation in host selection in the spider wasps Entypus unifasciatus (Say) and Tachypompilus ferrugineus (Say) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), II Insecta Mundi(0925): 1–73.
8. Kurczewski, Frank E., Marshal Hedin & Rick C. West. 2023 Nesting behavior of the spider wasp Calopompilus pyrrhomelas (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Insecta Mundi(0980): 1–7.
9. Kurczewski, Frank E., Rick C. West & Cecilia Waichert. 2024 New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Insecta Mundi(1034): 1–32.
10. Kurczewski, Frank E., Rick C. West & James P. Pitts. 2022 First host record, nesting behavior, and taxonomic position of the spider wasp genus Hesperopompilus Evans and some other Evans genera (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Insecta Mundi(0960): 1–8.
11. Kurczewski, Frank E., Rick C. West, Cecilia Waichert & James P. Pitts. 2022 Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Insecta Mundi(0928): 1–32.
12. Kurczewski, Frank E., Rick C. West, Cecilia Waichert, Kelly C. Kissane, Darrell Ubick & James P. Pitts. 2020 New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) Zootaxa 4891(1): 1–112.
13. Kurczewski, Frank E., Rick C. West, James P. Pitts & Cecilia Waichert. 2022 First host record for the spider wasp Cryptocheilus severini Banks (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Pepsinae) Insecta Mundi(0935): 1–4.
14. Kurczewski, Frank E., Rick C. West, Sarah C. Crews & N. R. Jenzen-Jones. 2020 Selenopidae (Arachnida: Araneae), a new host spider family for the spider wasp Tachypompilus ferrugineus (Say) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Pompilini). Insecta Mundi(0824): 1-6.
15. Kurczewski, Frank E., Rick West, Dionne Newell & Scott Johnson. 2024 First records of the spider wasp Entypus ochrocerus Dahlbom (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Pepsinae) from the continental United States, Jamaica, and the Bahamas Insecta Mundi(1081).
16. Montemor, Vivian M., Rick C. West, Alireza Zamani, Majid Moradmand, Volker V. Wirth, Ingo Wendt, Siegfried Huberg & José P. L. Guadanucci. 2020 Taxonomy of the genus Ischnocolus in the Middle East, with description of a new species from Oman and Iran (Araneae: Theraphosidae) Zoology in the Middle East 66(1): 76-90.
17. Nicoletta, Micaela, Juan C. Chaparro, Luis Mamani, José A. Ochoa, Rick C. West & Nelson Ferretti. 2020 Two new endemic species of Bistriopelma (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Peru, including a new remarkable horned tarantula European Journal of Taxonomy(644): 1-20.
18. Nunn, Steven C., Rick C. West & Volker von Wirth. 2016 A revision of the selenocosmiine tarantula genus Phlogiellus Pocock 1897 (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with description of 4 new species International Journal of Zoology 2016: 1-54.
19. Sherwood, Danniella, Nelson Ferretti, Ray Gabriel & Rick C. West. 2021 Redescription of the theraphosine Hapalotremus albipes Simon, 1903 and description of four new species of Hapalotremus Simon, 1903 from Peru and Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae) Arachnology 18(9): 965–989.
20. Zamani, Alireza & Rick C. West. 2023 A new species of Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Iran ZooKeys 1174: 75-84.