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Publications (40)      

1. Bednařík, Michal & Ladislav Bocak. 2023 New Species of Paussus, Subgenus Scaphipaussus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae), from Southeast Asia Reveal Ambiguities in Species Group Limits and High Species Diversity in the Oriental Region. Insects 14(12): 947.
2. Bocak, Ladislav, Michal Motyka, Dominik Kusy, Elizabeth T. Arias-Bohart, Seth M. Bybee, Sergey V. Kazantsev & Shȗhei Yamamoto. 2025 Validation of earlier proposed taxa Tibionemini new tribe and Hiekeolycus winkleri new species Zootaxa 5609(2): 293-297.
3. Bocak, Ladislav, Vasily V. Grebennikov & Michal Masek. 2013 A new species of Dexoris (Coleoptera: Lycidae) and parallel evolution of brachyptery in the soft-bodied elateroid beetles Zootaxa 3721(5): 495-500.
4. Bocák, Ladislav. 1998 Nomenclatural notes on taxa of the family Lycidae described by Guérin Méneville (Insecta: Coleoptera) Annales Zoologici 48(3/4): 245-251.
5. Bocak, Ladislav. 2012 A revision of the Cautires obsoletus species group from Java (Coleoptera, Lycidae) ZooKeys 241: 55-66.
6. Bocak, Ladislav. 2018 Dexoris ruzzieri sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae), a new net-winged beetle from Ivory Coast Zootaxa 4377(1): 138–142.
7. Bocakova, Milada, Ladislav Bocak, Matthew L. Gimmel & Tereza Friedlova. 2015 A review of the genus Lamellipalpodes Maulik (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Zootaxa 3925(3): 409–421.
8. Bocek, Matej & Ladislav Bocak. 2016 Species limits in polymorphic mimetic Eniclases net-winged beetles from New Guinean mountains (Coleoptera, Lycidae) ZooKeys 593: 15-35.
9. Bocek, Matej & Ladislav Bocak. 2017 The congruence of molecular and morphology-based phylogenies of trichaline net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Metriorrhynchini) with description of a new subgenus PeerJ 5(e3963).
10. Douglas, Hume, Robin Kundrata, Dominika Janosikova & Ladislav Bocak. 2018 Molecular and morphological evidence for new genera in the click-beetle subfamily Cardiophorinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) Entomological Science 21(3): 292-305.
11. Dvorak, Milan & Ladislav Bocak. 2007 Sulabanus gen. nov., a new genus of Lycidae (Coleoptera) from Sulawesi. Zootaxa 1611: 1-24.
12. Hu, Fang-Shou, Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Gabriel Biffi, Ladislav Bocak, Petr Bulirsch, Albert F. Damaška, Johannes Frisch, Jiří Hájek, Peter Hlaváč, Bin-Hong Ho, Yu-Hsiang Ho, Yun Hsiao, Josef Jelìnek, Jan Klimaszewski, Robin Kundrata, Ivan Löbl, György Makranczy, Keita Matsumoto, Guan-Jie Phang, Enrico Ruzzier, Michael Schülke, Zdeněk Švec, Dmitry Telnov, Wei-Zhe Tseng, Lan-Wei Yeh, My-Hanh Le & Martin Fikáček. 2024 Forest leaf litter beetles of Taiwan: first DNA barcodes and first insight into the fauna Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71(1): 17-47.
13. Jendek, Eduard, Vasily V. Grebennikov & Ladislav Bocak. 2015 Undetected for a century: Palaearctic Agrilus ribesi Schaefer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) on currant in North America, with adult morphology, larval biology and DNA barcode Zootaxa 4034(1): 112–126.
14. Jiruskova, Alice, Michal Motyka & Ladislav Bocak. 2016 High diversity and endemism identified in Cautires (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from the Malay mountain forests European journal of taxonomy(219): 1-29.
15. Kalousova, Romana & Ladislav Bocak. 2017 Species delimitation of colour polymorphic Cladophorus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from New Guinea Zootaxa 4320(3): 505–522.
16. Kazantsev, Sergey V. & Ladislav Bocak. 2022 New genus of erotine net-winged beetles, Damzenium gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae), from Eocene Rovno amber Zootaxa 5154(5): 583-589.
17. Kazantsev, Sergey V., Michal Motyka & Ladislav Bocak. 2023 European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae) European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159–174.
18. Kubecek, Vaclav, Timothy C. Bray & Ladislav Bocak. 2015 Molecular phylogeny of Metanoeina net-winged beetles identifies Ochinoeus, a new genus from China and Laos (Coleoptera: Lycidae) Zootaxa 3955(1): 113–122.
19. Kundrata, Robin & Ladislav Bocak. 2017 Taxonomic review of Drilini (Elateridae: Agrypninae) in Cameroon reveals high morphological diversity, including the discovery of five new genera Insect Systematics & Evolution 48: 441-492.
20. Kundrata, Robin & Ladislav Bocak. 2019 Molecular phylogeny reveals the gradual evolutionary transition to soft-bodiedness in click-beetles and identifies Sub-Saharan Africa as a cradle of diversity for Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
21. Kundrata, Robin, Els Baalbergen, Ladislav Bocak & Menno Schilthuizen. 2015 The origin and diversity of Drilus Olivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in Crete based on mitochondrial phylogeny Systematics and Biodiversity 13(1): 52–75.
22. Kundrata, Robin, Lucie Kobieluszova & Ladislav Bocak. 2014 A review of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of the Northern Levant, with description of a new species from Syria and a key to Levantine species Zootaxa 3755(5): 457–469.
23. Kundrata, Robin, Manuel Baena & Ladislav Bocak. 2015 Classification of Omalisidae based on molecular data and morphology, with description of Paradrilinae subfam. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) Zootaxa 3915(3): 413–422.
24. Kundrata, Robin, Milada Bocakova & Ladislav Bocak. 2013 The phylogenetic position of Artematopodidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea), with description of the first two Eurypogon species from China Contributions to Zoology 82(4): 199–208.
25. Kundrata, Robin, Nicole Gunter, Hume Douglas & Ladislav Bocak. 2015 Next step toward a molecular phylogeny of click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae): redefinition of Pityobiinae, with a description of a new subfamily Parablacinae from the Australasian Region Austral Entomology.
Kusy, Dominik, Katerina Sklenarova & Ladislav Bocak. 2018 The effectiveness of DNA-based delimitation in Synchonnus net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) assessed, and description of 11 new species Austral entomology 57: 25-39.
Li, Yun, Hong Pang & Ladislav Bocak. 2017 Molecular phylogeny of the tribe Erotini with description of a new genus from China (Coleoptera: Lycidae) Entomological Science 20: 213-223.
Li, Yun, Ladislav Bocak & Hong Pang. 2015 Molecular phylogeny of Macrolycus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) with description of new species from China Entomological science.
Masek, Michal & Ladislav Bocak. 2014 The taxonomy and diversity of Platerodrilus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) inferred from molecular data and morphology of adults and larvae ZooKeys 426: 29-63.
Masek, Michal, Michael A. Ivie, Vaclav Palata & Ladislav Bocak. 2014 Molecular phylogeny and classifi cation of Lyropaeini (Coleoptera: Lycidae) with description of larvae and new species of Lyropaeus Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62: 136-145.
Motyka, Michal & Ladislav Bocak. 2015 The classification of Flabellochromus and Dumbrellia (Coleoptera: Lycidae) with descriptions of two new species of Calochromus from the Sundaland Region Zootaxa 3941(1): 125–130.
Motyka, Michal & Ladislav Bocak. 2018 Escalonius, a new subgenus of Calochromus Guérin-Méneville, 1833 identified by the molecular phylogeny of Calochromini (Coleoptera: Lycidae) Zootaxa 4461(1): 77–82.
Motyka, Michal, Dominik Kusy & Ladislav Bocak. 2025 An erotine net-winged beetle from Cenomanian Burmese amber confirms the Mesozoic origins of subfamilies (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Lycidae: Erotinae) Palaeoentomology 8(1): 107–119.
Motyka, Michal, Dominik Kusy, Elizabeth T. Arias-Bohart, Seth M. Bybee & Ladislav Bocak. 2023 Enigmatic Campyloxenus: Shedding Light on the Delayed Origin of Bioluminescence in Ancient Gondwanan Click Beetles iScience 26(108440).
Motyka, Michal, Michal Masek & Ladislav Bocak. 2017 Congruence between morphology and molecular phylogeny: the reclassification of Calochromini (Coleoptera: Lycidae) and their dispersal history Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180(1): 47–65.
Palata, Vaclav & Ladislav Bocak. 2012 Revision of the genus Alyculus Kazantsev, 1999 (Coleoptera: Lycidae) Zootaxa 3564: 61-67.
Peart, Rachael A., Bocak, Ladislav, Keren Spong, Dominik Kusy, Michal Motyka, Judy Sutherland, Michelle Kelly, Matej Bocek. 2019 Drilidae Blanchard, 1845: multi-gene molecular phylogenies versus morphological similarity. An answer to Kovalev et al. Zootaxa 4674(1): 142–146.
Szawaryn, Karol, Ladislav Bocak, Adam Ślipiński, Hermes E. Escalona & Wioletta Tomaszewska. 2015 Phylogeny and evolution of phytophagous ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Epilachnini), with recognition of new genera Systematic Entomology.
Takahashi, Naoki, Ladislav Bocak & Idris A. Ghani. 2016 Discovery of a new species of the brachyelytrous net-winged beetle genus Alyculus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from Peninsular Malaysia Zootaxa 4144(1): 145–150.
Tvardik, David & Ladislav Bocak. 2001 Review of the genus Plateros Bourgeois (Coleoptera; Lycidae) from Sulawesi. Zootaxa 16: 1-12.
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