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A class of the Arthropoda typically having a segmented body with an external, chitinous covering, a pair of compound eyes, a pair of antennae, three pairs of mouthparts, and two pairs of wings. (Source: MGH)

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Koch F 2005. The sawflies of the BIOTA-Southern Africa Project with description of a new species of Arge (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Zoosystematics and Evolution 81 (2) 193-199

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.200510012/abstract

Koch F, Deckert J, Uhlig M 1995. Die entomologischen Afrika-Expeditionen des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin von 1992 bis 1995 als Grundlage für das Forschungsprojekt "Zur Biodiversität von Insekten in der afrotropischen Region". Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 71 (2) 189-211

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19950710203/abstract

Picker MD, Ross-Gillespie V, Vlieghe K, Moll E 2012. Ants and the enigmatic Namibian fairy circles – cause and effect?. Ecological Entomology 37 (1) 33-42

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01332.x/abstract

Koch F, Vohland K 2004. Ants along a southern African transect - a basis for biodiversity change monitoring (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 80 (2) 261-3737

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.20040800206/abstract

Enders MM, Schüle H, Henschel JR 1998. Sexual Dimorphism, Fighting Success and Mating Tactics of Male Onymacris plana Péringuey (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the Namib Desert. Ethology 104 (12) 1003-1019

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1998.tb00049.x/abstract

Hanrahan SA, Kirchner WH 1994. Acoustic Orientation and Communication in Desert Tenebrionid Beetles in Sand Dunes. Ethology 97 (1-2) 26-32

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1994.tb01026.x/abstract

Borowiec L 1995. Cassidinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) of Namibia. Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 71 (2) 369-372

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19950710215/abstract

Wegrzynowicz P 1996. Erotylidae and Languriinae Collected in Namibia by the Museum of Natural History Berlin in 1992 and 1993 (Coleoptera, Erotylidae and Languriidae). Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 72 (2) 307-309

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19960720213/abstract

Uhlig M 1995. Adinopsis klimaszewskii sp. n. from the Popa Falls in Northern Namibia. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 71 (2) 293-295

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19950710209/abstract

Uhlig M, Klimaszewski J 1995. A Review of the African Adinopsis Species with Description of Two New Species from Northern Namibia. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 71 (2) 297-309

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19950710210/abstract

Göllner-Scheiding U 1997. Die Rhopalidae der afrotropischen Region unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna der Republik Namibia (Insecta: Heteroptera, Coreoidea). Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 73 (2) 291-308

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19970730208/abstract

Yelamos T, Vienna P 1995. Contribution to the Knowledge of the Histerid Beetles from Namibia. (Coleoptera, Histeridae). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 71 (2) 277-285

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19950710207/abstract

Wendt H 1995. Neue Arten der Samenkäfer-Gattung Spermophagus Schoenherr, 1833, aus dem südlichen Afrika (Coleoptera, Bruchidae, Amblycerinae). Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 71 (2) 353-367

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19950710214/abstract

Kirejtshuk AG 1996. Some results of Study on the Nitidulidae from Namibia and Adjacent Territories. Part 1 (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea, Nitidulidae). Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 72 (1) 21-52

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19960720106/abstract

Irish J 1996. Lepismatidae from North-East Namibia, Including the First Record of Namunukulina wygodzinsky from Subequatorial Africa (Insecta: Thysanura). Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 72 (1) 15-19

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19960720104/abstract

Ferrer J 2004. Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) de Namibia, avec descriptions de 12 espèces nouvelles. Zoosystematics and Evolution 80 (2) 181-250

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.20040800204/abstract

Uhmann G 1995. Die Anthicidae der ersten entomologischen Afrika-Expedition des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin 1992 nach Namibia und weitere Nachweise aus Namibia und Südafrika. 45. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Anthicidae (Coleoptera). Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin) 71 (2) 341-352

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mmnz.19950710213/abstract

Gess FW, Gess SK 1999. The use by wasps, bees and spiders of shells of Trigonephrus Pilsb. (Mollusca: Gasteropoda: Dorcasiidae) in desertic winter-rainfall areas in southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 43 (2) 143-153

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196399905499

Nicolson SW 1991. Diuresis or clearance: Is there a physiological role for the "diuretic hormone" of the desert beetle Onymacris?. Journal of Insect Physiology 37 (6) 447-452

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191091900544

Hanrahan SA, Nicolson SW 1987. Ultrastructure of the malpighian tubules of Onymacris plana plana peringuey (Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae). International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology 16 (2) 99-119

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0020732287900110

Schenk K, Suhling F, Martens A 2004. Egg distribution, mate-guarding intensity and offspring characteristics in dragonflies (Odonata). Animal Behaviour 68 (3) 599-606

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347204002131

Anne O, Rasa E 1995. Ecological factors influencing burrow location,group size and mortality in a nocturnal fossorial Kalahari detritivore, Parastizopus armaticeps Peringuey (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Arid Environments 29 (3) 353-365

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305801144

Marsh AC 1987. Thermal responses and temperature tolerance of a dessert* ant-lion larva. Journal of Thermal Biology 12 (4) 295-300

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0306456587900313

de Villiers PS, Hanrahan SA 1991. Sperm competition in the Namib Desert beetle, Onymacris unguicularis. Journal of Insect Physiology 37 (1) 7-8

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002219109190012O

McClain E, Magnuson P, Warner SJ 1988. Behavioural fever in a Namib Desert tenebrionid beetle, Onymacris plana. Journal of Insect Physiology 34 (4) 279-284

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191088901369

Enders MM 1995. Size-assortative mating in a tenebrionid beetle of the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (4) 469-484

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196395800190

Hattingh J, Ganhao M, Naidu SG 1984. Haemolymph composition in Namib Desert tenebrionid beetles. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology 78 (3) 541-545

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0300962984905930

Nicolson SW 1980. Water balance and osmoregulation in Onymacris plana, a tenebrionid beetle from the Namib desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 26 (5) 315-320

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191080901407

Wang X, Levy K, Son Y, Johnson MW, Daane KM 2012. Comparison of the thermal performance between a population of the olive fruit fly and its co-adapted parasitoids. Biological Control 60 (3) 247-254

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049964411003240

Gess SK, Gess FW 2004. Distributions of flower associations of pollen wasps (Vespidae: Masarinae) in southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 57 (1) 17-44

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196303000934

Curtis BA 1985. Temperature tolerances in the Namib Desert dune ant, Camponotus detritus. Journal of Insect Physiology 31 (6) 463-466

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191085900939

Cooper PD 1982. Water balance and osmoregulation in a free-ranging tenebrionid beetle, Onymacris unguicularis, of the Namib Desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 28 (9) 737-742

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191082901330

Naidu SG, Hattingh J 1986. Water balance and osmoregulation in Stips stali, a nocturnal tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 32 (10) 891-896

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191086901046

Lamb T, Bond JE 2013. A multilocus perspective on phylogenetic relationships in the Namib darkling beetle genus Onymacris (Tenebrionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (3) 757-765

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790312004368

Hartmann G, Wehner R 1995. The ant's path integration system: a neural architecture. Biological Cybernetics 73 (6) 483-497

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00199541

Miller MF 1994. Large African herbivores, bruchid beetles and their interactions with Acacia seeds. Oecologia 97 (2) 265-270

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00323159

Nicolson SW, Hanrahan SA 1986. Diuresis in a desert beetle? hormonal control of the malpighian tubules of Onymacris plana (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 156 (3) 407-413

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01101103

Strauß J, Lakes-Harlan R 2009. The evolutionary origin of auditory receptors in Tettigonioidea: the complex tibial organ of Schizodactylidae. Naturwissenschaften 96 (1) 143-146

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-008-0450-4

Marsh AC 1985. Microclimatic factors influencing foraging patterns and success of the thermophilic desert ant, Ocymyrmex barbiger. Insectes Sociaux 32 (3) 286-296

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02224917

Rasmussen JL, Seely MK, Pietruszka RD 1991. The reproductive behavior of six species of Namib desert tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 4 (5) 567-582

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01048071

Ward D, Seely MK 1996. Competition and habitat selection in Namib desert tenebrionid beetles. Evolutionary Ecology 10 (4) 341-359

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01237722

Curtis BA 1985. Nests of the namib desert dune ant Camponotus detritus Emery. Insectes Sociaux 32 (3) 313-320

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02224920

Curtis BA 1985. The dietary spectrum of the namib desert dune ant Camponotus Detritus. Insectes Sociaux 32 (1) 78-85

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02233228

McClain E, Kok CJ, Monrad LAG 1991. Reflective wax blooms on black Namib desert beetles enhance day activity. Naturw 78 (1) 40-42

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01134045

Augus D 2006. Ant Colony Optimisation: From Biological Inspiration to an Algorithmic Framework.

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Wehner R 1987. Spatial organization of foraging behavior in individually searching desert ants, Cataglyphis (Sahara desert) and Ocymyrmex (Namib Desert). From Individual to Collective Behavior in Social Insects 15-42

Website link:http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12816268?selectedversion=NBD5388628

Muser B, Sommer S, Wolf H, Wehner R 2005. Foraging ecology of the thermophilic Australian desert ant, Melophorus bagoti. Australian Journal of Zoology 53 (5) 301-311

Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/ZO05023.htm

Fet V, Polis GA, Sissom WD 1998. Life in Sandy Deserts: The Scorpion Model. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (4) 609-622

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397903864

Adis J, Zompro O, Moombolah-Goagoses E, Marais E 2002. Gladiators: A New Order of Insect. Scientific American 287 (5)

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Hauffe HC, Searle JB, Seely MK 1994. The taxonomic status of two morphotypes of the tenebrionid Onymacris rugatipennis: indications from behavioural and genetical studies. Journal of Zoology 233 (2) 193-201

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1994.tb08583.x/abstract;jsessionid=EFB49D78DDB1474BAD38520AECC42C29.d04t03?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false