RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Muñoz-Tobar, S.I. and Caterino, M.S. 2025. New species of the Brachyglutine genus Panabachia Park (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Ecuador. ZooKeys 1254: 225-261. doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1254.158319
Caterino, M.S., Milne, M.A., and Recuero, E. 2025. Patterns of intra- and interspecific diversity in Araneomorph spiders of southern high Appalachian leaf litter. Journal of Arachnology. 53: 105-117. doi.org/10.1636/JoA-S-24-007
Tapuy-Avilés, Y., Díaz-Guevara, D.R., and Caterino, M.S. 2025. First record of Bibrax Fletcher (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Ecuador, with descriptions of twelve new species. ZooKeys 1250: 105-133. doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1250.156763
Recuero E., and Caterino, M.S. 2025 Is there anybody (new) out there? Seven new species of Ligidium (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Ligiidae) from the Southern Appalachians, eastern North America. European Journal of Taxonomy 976: 133-170. doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2783
Shealy, K.N., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Intraspecific diversity in selected high elevation Entomobryomorpha (Collembola) from the southern Appalachian Mountains. Southeastern Naturalist 23(4): 492-515. doi: 10.1656/058.023.0411
Haberski, A., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Endogean habits drove cryptic diversification in Appalachian Lathrobium Gravenhorst (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. doi: 0.1016/j.ympev.2024.108252
Simon-Pražák, J., Yamamoto, S., Lackner, T., Fikáček, M., Prokup, J., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. A bonanza of Cretaceous fossils provide insights into the evolution of antennal protection in clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(3): x-xx. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae137
Caterino, M.S. and Recuero, E. 2024. Origins and diversification of high Appalachian Stenus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 126(2): 105-128. DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.126.2.105
Harden, C.W., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Systematics and biogeography of Appalachian Anillini, and a taxonomic review of the species of South Carolina (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae, Anillini). ZooKeys 1209: 69-197. doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1209.125897
Harden, C.W., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Revision of the pecki-group and elongatus-group of Anillinus Casey, 1918 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae, Anillini), with four new species and notes on Anillinus turneri Jeannel, 1963. Insecta Mundi 1057: 1-31. https://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/136788
Recuero, E. and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Molecular diversity of Diplura in southern High Appalachian leaf litter. Biodiversity Data Journal 12(3125162): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e125162
126. Recuero E., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Hidden diversity in eastern North America: The genus Ligidium (Oniscidea, Ligiidae) in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Zoologica Scripta 53(5):712-731. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12661
Haberski, A., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. A review of nearctic Lathrobium (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), with revision and descriptions of new micropterous species from the mountains of the southeastern U.S. ZooKeys 1198: 193-277. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1198.118355
Caterino, M.S. and Harden, C.W. 2024. A review of Appalachian Dasycerus Horn, and the recognition of cryptic diversity within Dasycerus carolinensis (Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae). Insect Systematics & Diversity 8(2, ixae009): 1-22.https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixae009
Wooden, P.L.S., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Trechus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Appalachia: a phylogenetic insight into the history of high elevation leaf litter communities. Diversity.16(4) 212: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16040212
Recuero E., Etzler, F.E., and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Most soil and litter arthropods are unidentifiable based on current DNA barcode reference libraries. Current Zoology 70(5): 637-646. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoad051
Caterino, M.S. and Recuero, E. 2024. Overcoming life-stage-centric biases illuminates arthropod diversity, systematics, and biology. Systematic Entomology 49(3): 345-354. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12624
Recuero, E. and Caterino, M.S. 2024. Molecular diversity of Pseudoscorpiones in southern High Appalachian leaf litter. Biodiversity Data Journal 12(e115928): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e115928.
Harden C.W., Davidson, R.L., Malabad, T.E., Caterino, M.S., and Maddison, D.R. 2024. Phylogenetic systematics of the enigmatic genus Horologion Valentine, with description of a new species from Bath County, Virginia (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae: Horologionini). Subterranean Biology 48: 1-49. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.48.114404
Caterino, M.S. and Recuero E. 2024. Shedding light on dark taxa in high Appalachian leaf litter – assessing patterns of endemicity using large scale, voucher-based barcoding. Insect Conservation & Diversity 17(1): 16-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12697
Caterino, M.S. 2023. A new, flightless species of Medon (Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from high Appalachia, with intraspecific phylogeographic analysis and description of its associated larva. The Coleopterists Bulletin 77(4): 507-523. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-77.4.507
Caterino, M.S., Arey, N.C. 2023. Limited phylogeographic structure in a flightless, Appalachian chalcidoid wasp, Dipara trilineatus (Yoshimoto) (Hymenoptera: Diparidae), with reassessment of the male of the species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96: 1061-1072. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.115001
Caterino, M.S. and Recuero, E. 2023. Molecular diversity of Protura in southern High Appalachian leaf litter. Biodiversity Data Journal 11(e113342): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e113342
Caterino, M.S., and Yamamoto, S. 2023. New onthophiline fossil species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Onthophilinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The Coleopterists Bulletin 77(3): 432-438. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-77.3.432
Yamamoto, S. and Caterino, M.S. 2023. A remarkable new fossil species of Amplectister with peculiar hindleg modifications (Coleoptera: Histeridae): further evidence for myrmecophily in Cretaceous clown beetles. Palaeoworld 32(3): 481-489. doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2022.09.010
Kucuk, R.A., Campbell, B.J., Lyon, N., Shelby, E., and Caterino, M.S. 2023. Gut bacteria of adult and larval Cotinis nitidaLinnaeus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) demonstrate community differences according to life stage and gut region. Frontiers in Microbiology 14 (1185661): 1-16. 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1185661
Recuero, E. and Caterino, M.S. 2023. A second species of the pill millipede genus Nearctomeris Wesener, 2013, from the Great Smoky Mountains, USA. ZooKeys 1166: 333-349. 10.3897/zookeys.1166.103516
Gimmel, M.L., Johnston, M.A. and Caterino, M.S. 2023. Annotated checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of the California Channel Islands. PeerJ 11 (e14793): 1-326. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14793
Young, K., Tsalickis, A., Sheehan, T.N., Klepzig, K.D., Caterino, M.S., and Hartshorn, J.A. 2023. Dung beetle community composition in the presence and absence of mesopredators in a longleaf pine forest. Southeastern Naturalist 22(1): 78-90.
Caterino, M.S. 2022. First report of the Euconnus Thomson subgenus Cladoconnus Reitter in the New World, represented by thirteen new Appalachian species. ZooKeys 1137:133-175. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1137.97068
Caterino, M.S. and L.M.Vásquez-Vélez. 2022. A new species of Prespelea Park (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 76(4): 589-594. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-76.4.589
Dukes C.D., Janssens F., Recuero E., and Caterino, M.S. 2022. Specific and intraspecific diversity of Symphypleona and Neelipleona (Hexapoda: Collembola) in southern high Appalachia (USA). Diversity 14(847): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14100847
Caterino, M.S. and A.K. Tishechkin. 2022. A new genus and species of histerid beetle from western México showing a remarkable sexual mesotibial dimorphism (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Histerinae: Exosternini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 76(3): 357-363. (https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-76.3.357)
Jiang, R., Caterino, M.S., and Chen, X.-S. 2022. Discovery of the genus Anapleus Horn, 1873 from Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Insects 13 (746): 1-7. (https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13080746)
Traylor, C.R., M.S. Caterino, M.D. Ulyshen, M.L. Ferro, and J.V. McHugh. 2022. Assessing the old-growth dependency of two saproxylic beetle species in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Insect Systematics & Diversity 6(3): 1-13. (doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixac012)
Caterino, M.S. and Harden, C.W. 2022. Unseeing and unseen: On the distribution, morphology, and larva of one of North America’s rarest histerid beetles, Geocolus caecus Wenzel (Coleoptera: Histeridae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 76(2): 191-205.
Harden, C.W., Caterino, M.S. and T.E. Malabad. 2022. Trechus obtusus Erichson, a palearctic species recently established in the Appalachian region of the southeastern United States. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76(1): 61-69. (doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-76.1.61)
Caterino, M.S. 2021. New fossil histerid species from Cretaceous Burmese amber. The Coleopterists Bulletin 75(1): 211-221. (doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.211)
Dégallier, N., Kovarik, P.W. Tishechkin, A.K. and Caterino, M.S. 2021. Coleoptera Histeridae de Guyane. XIII. Nouvelles additions au catalogue et description de 4 genres nouveaux et 19 espèces nouvelles (Haeteriinae ; Tribalinae). ACOREP-France : Coléoptères de Guyane. Tome XIII: 99-147.
Megna, Y., Lamoth-Mayet, Y., Caterino, M.S., and Lackner T. 2021. First West Indies records of Phelister completus Schmidt, 1893, with notes on other Cuban species (Coleoptera, Histeridae, Histerinae). Check List 17(1): 39-44. (doi: 10.15560/17.1.39)
Caterino, M.S. and A.K. Tishechkin. 2020. Recognition and revision of the Phelister blairi group (Histeridae: Histerinae: Exosternini). ZooKeys 1001: 1-154. (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1001.58447)
Arriagada, G. and Caterino, M.S. 2020. Nueva posición taxonómica para Euspilotus wenzeli (Mazur, 1984)(Coleoptera: Histeridae). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 69(1): 77-85.
Zhou, Y.-L., Slipinski, S.A., Ren, D., and Caterino, M.S. 2020. Phylogeny and evolution of the Mesozoic and extant lineages of Histeridae (Coleoptera), with a discovery of a new subfamily Antigracilinae from the Lower Cretaceous. Cladistics 36(5): 521-539. (https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12418)