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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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Schalk L 1982. The occurrence of Microcerinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 14 11-22

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979661

Barker JF 1982. A preliminary study of the distribution of Acridoidea in relation to overgrazing in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 14 1-10

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979660

Linder HP, Strebel PM, Crowe TM 1980. Island biogeography and the "Acacia" clumps at the Nxai Pan, Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 12 170-173

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980804

Johnson P 1980. New records of shorthorned grasshoppers from Botswana, with a description of Rhodesiana cuneicerca n. sp. ("Insecta: Acridomorpha"). Botswana Notes and Records 12 23-33

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980791

Pinhey E 1971. Check List of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera) of Botswana: Part 2. Botswana Notes and Records 3 148-152

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979285

Pinhey E 1974. Check list of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera Rhopalocera) of Botswana: Part 3 (With Illustrations). Botswana Notes and Records 6 197-214

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40959220

Pinhey E 1976. Checklist of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera Rhopalocera). Botswana Notes and Records 8 269-288

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979472

Houston JFT 1977. Grasshoppers of south-east Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 9 (139-143) 139

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979517

Pinhey A 1968. Check List of the butterflies (Lepidoptera - Rhapalocera) of Botswana: Part I. Botswana Notes and Records 1 85-92

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979226

Pinhey A 1968. An Entomologist in N'gamiland. Botswana Notes and Records 1 31-40

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979219

Kipping J, Martens A, Suhling F 2012. Africa's smallest damselfly - a new Agriocnemis from Namibia (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Organisms Diversity and Evolution 12 (3) 301-306

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-012-0084-4

Dean WRJ, Hockey PAR 1989. An ecological perspective of lark (Alaudidae) distribution and diversity in the southwest-arid zone of Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 60 (1) 27 - 34

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1989.9634502#.VGoQd1ItBHg

Suhling F, Sahlén G, Martens A, Marais E, Schütte C 2006. Dragonfly Assemblages in Arid Tropical Environments: A Case Study from Western Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 15 (1) 311-332

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Holter P, Scholtz CH, Stenseng L 2009. Desert detritivory: Nutritional ecology of a dung beetle (Pachysoma glentoni) subsisting on plant litter in arid South African sand dunes. Journal of Arid Environments 73 (12) 1090-1094

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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019630900113X

Vlieghe K, Picker M, Ross-Gillespie V, Erni B 2015. Herbivory by subterranean termite colonies and the development of fairy circles in SW Namibia. Ecological Entomology 40 42-49

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/een.12157/abstract

Deschodt CM, Davis ALV, Scholtz CH 2011. New dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) taxa from arid south-western Africa. Insect Systematics and Evolution 42 (3) 277-294

Website link:http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/187631211x568173?crawler=true

Deschodt CM, Kryger U, Scholtz CH 2007. New taxa of relictual Canthonini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) utilizing rock hyrax middens as refuges in South-western Africa. Insect Systematics and Evolution 38 (4) 361-376

Website link:http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/187631207788784067?crawler=true

Frolov AV, Akhmetova LA, Scholtz CH 2008. Revision of the obligate mushroom‐feeding African "dung beetle" genus Coptorhina Hope (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Journal of Natural History 42 (21-22) 1477-1508

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222930802002535#.VLYnUGctApE

Peringuey L 1884. Insects injurious to forest trees in South Africa. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 4 (1) 15-25

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21560382.1884.9526194#.VLOV-2ctApE

Hesse AJ 1928. Some new species of curculionidae from South Africa and South-West Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 16 (2) 131-167

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359192809519664#.VJA_QmctApE

Schawaller W, Grimm R 2014. The genus Alphitobius Stephens (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Alphitobiini) in Africa and adjacent islands. Zookeys 415 169-190

Website link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4089823/

Scholtz CH 1988. Biology of Sparrmannia flava Arrow (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 42 (1) 57-62

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4008564

Arrow GJ 1917. III. - Some systematic notes on melolonthine Coleoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 19 (109) 59-65

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222931709486912#.VI_jVmctApE

Pascoe FP 1869. XXIV. - Descriptions of some new species of Lamiiae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 (21) 203-211

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222936908696031#.VI7bQmctApE

Hinton HE 1936. XLVI. - Lepiceridae - a new name for the Cyathoceridae Lepicerinus - a new name for the Scolytid genus Lepicerus Eichh. (Coleoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17 (100) 472-473

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222933608655143#.VIqnQmctApE

Peringuey L 1889. Third contribution to the south african coleopterous fauna. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 6 (2) 1-92

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21560382.1889.9526255#.VIlnP2ctBHg

Kaartinen R, Quicke DLJ 2007. A revision of the parasitic wasp genus Bathyaulax szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Journal of Natural History 41 (1-4) 125-212

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222930601121221#.VIgK52ctBHg

Kirk-Spriggs AH, McGregor G 2009. Disjunctions in the Diptera (Insecta) fauna of the Mediterranean Province and southern Africa and a discussion of biogeographical considerations. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 64 (1) 35-52

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359190909519236#.VIbSrGctBHg

Bolton B 1986. Apterous females and shift of dispersal strategy in the Monomorium salomonis-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 20 (2) 267-272

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222938600770211#.VHniS2ctBHg

Miller WR, Mason TR 2000. Stellavelum arborensis igen., sp. nov., Stellavelum uncinum igen., isp. nov. and Termitichnus namibiensis isp. nov.; New Ichnofossils from Cenozoic deposits of Namaqualand, South Africa. Ichnos: An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces 7 (3) 195-215

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10420940009380160#.VHg632ctBHg

Suhling F, Martens A, Marais E 2004. Critical species of Odonata in southwestern Africa. International Journal of Odonatology (Special Issue: IUCN Regional Reports) 7 (2) 263-277

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Kirk-Spriggs AH, Barraclough DA, Meier R 2002. The immature stages of Katacamilla cavernicola Papp, the first described for the Camillidae (Diptera: Schizophora), with comparison to other known Ephydroidea larvae, and notes on biology. Journal of Natural History 36 (9) 1105-1128

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110048936#.VHWT_2ctBHg

Ben-Dov Y 1977. New species of Aclerda signoret (Homoptera: Aclerdidae) from southern Africa. Journal of Natural History 11 (4) 371-376

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222937700770281#.VG8dBVItBHg

Bolton B, Marsh AC 1989. The Afrotropical thermophilic ant genus Ocymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 23 (6) 1267-1308

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222938900770681#.VG8Tk1ItBHg

Harrison J du G, Scholtz CH, Chown SL 2003. A revision of the endemic south-western African dung beetle subgenus Scarabaeus (Pachysoma) MacLeay, including notes on other flightless Scarabaeini (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Journal of Natural History 37 (3) 305-355

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/713834683#.VGtAOlItBHg

Suhling F, Martens A, Marais E 2009. How to enter a desert—patterns of Odonata colonisation of arid Namibia. International Journal of Odonatology 12 (2) 287-308

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van Wyk E, van der Bank FH, Verdoorn GH, Bouwman H 1993. Chlorinated-hydrocarbon insecticide residues in the Cape Griffon Vulture (Gyps coprotheres). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C - Pharmacology Toxicology & Endocrinology 104 (2) 209 - 220

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/074284139390026H

Conti E, Viglianisi FM 2005. Ecology of the calling song of two Namibian armoured ground crickets, Acanthoplus longipes and Acanthoproctus diadematus (Orthoptera Tettigoniidae Hetrodinae). Ethology, Ecology and Evolution 17 (3) 261-269

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08927014.2005.9522596#.VGocblItBHg

Gess SK, Gess FW 2004. The distributions of the genera of pollen wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae<: Masarinae) in the semi-arid to arid areas of southern Africa in relation to their requirements for successful nesting. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 59 (2) 59-64

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359190409519163#.VGn-z1ItBHg

Cassola F 1975. Studies on Cicindelids: 13. A contribution to the knowledge of the Cicindelidae of South West Africa (Coleoptera Cicindelidae): Pubblicazioni del Centro di Studio per la Faunistica ed Ecologia Tropicali Del C.N.R.: XCVIII. Monitore Zoologico Italiano. Supplemento 6 (1) 243-262

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Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03749444.1975.10736817#.VGnxU1ItBHg

Irish J 1994. Systematics and biogeography of southern African Lepismatidae (Thysanura): current progress and future prospects. Acta Zoologica Fennici (195) 81-86

Irish J 1996. Biogeography and systematics of South African Lepismatidae (Thysanura, Insecta: II: The Central Nama Karoo Biome: material and methods. Researches of the National Museum (12) 163-169

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Irish J 1994. Biogeography and systematics of South African Iepismatidae (Thysanura, Insecta): I: the Orange Free State: systematics. Researches of the National Museum (10) 464-485

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Kipping J, Suhling F Dragonflies of the Okavango River system.

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Henschel JR 1990. The Biology of Leucorchestris arenicola (Araneae: Heteropodidae), a Burrowing Spider of the Namib Dunes. Namib ecology: 25 years of Namib research 115-127

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1914. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süßwasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas - Ergebnisse der Hamburger deutsch-südwestafrikanischen Studienreise 1911.

Hull HE, Freitag S, Chown SL, Bellamy CL 1998. Identification and evaluation of priority conservation areas for Buprestidae (Coleoptera) in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia. African Entomology (6) 265-274

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Gerstmeier R 2018. Checklist of the checkered beetles of Namibia (Coleoptera, Cleridae). Namibian Journal Of Environment (2) 7-21

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Mbata KJ 2018. Annotated checklist of cockroaches and termites of Zambia (Arthropoda: Insecta; Blattodea). Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 404-415

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Annotated checklist of cockroaches and termites of Zambia.pdf	995.49 KB

Irish J 2018. Contribution to the knowledge of southern African Lepismatidae (Thysanura, Insecta). Namibian Journal of Environment (2) 22-127

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Contribution to the knowledge of southern African Lepismatidae_2018_Irish.pdf	8.45 MB