Bibliography for BITTACIDAE
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- Alcock, J. 1979. Selective mate choice by females of Harpobittacus australis (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 86: 213-217
- Bornemissza, G.F. 1966. Observations on the hunting and mating behaviour of two species of scorpion flies (Bittacidae: Mecoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 371-382
- Byers, G.W. 1974. New generic names for Mecoptera of Australia and New Zealand. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 165-167
- Byers, G.W. 1986. A new Australian genus of Bittacidae (Mecoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 22: 165-168
- Byers, G.W. & Thornhill, R. 1983. Biology of the Mecoptera. Annual Review of Entomology 28: 203-228
- Crossley, A.C. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1969. The ultrastructure of a pheromone secreting gland in the male scorpion-fly Harpobittacus australis (Bittacidae: Mecoptera). Tissue and Cell 1: 273-294
- Currie, G.A. 1932. Some notes on the biology and morphology of the immature stages of Harpobittacus tillyardi (Order Mecoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57: 116-122
- Esben-Petersen, P. 1915. A synonymic list of the order Mecoptera. Entomologiske Meddelelser 10: 216-242
- Esben-Petersen, P. 1921. Mecoptera. Monographic revision. Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps 5(2): 1-172
- Esben-Petersen, P. 1935. Two new species of Harpobittacus Gerst. (Mecoptera). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 99: 1-3
- Gerstaecker, A. 1885. Ueber einige Arten der Gattung Bittacus Latr. Mittheilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen. Greifswald 16: 117-121
- Gwynne, D.T. 1984. Nuptial feeding behaviour and female choice of mates in Harpobittacus similis (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia 23: 271-276
- Hinton, H.E. 1981. Biology of Insect Eggs. Oxford : Pergamon Press 3 vols.
- Klug, [J.C.F.] 1838. Versuch einer systematischen Feststellung der Insecten-Familie: Panorpatae und Auseinandersetzung ihrer Gattungen und Arten. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1836: 81-108
- Lambkin, K.J. 1988. An Australian species of the genus Bittacus Latreille (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25: 439-444
- Lambkin, K.J. 1993. New information on the Australian small bittacids (Mecoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 253-257
- Lambkin, K.J. 1994. Revision of the Australian scorpion-fly genus Harpobittacus (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 767-808
- Latreille, P.A. 1805. Histoire naturelle, Générale et Particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Paris : F. Dufart Vol. 13 432 pp.
- Mickoleit, G. 1975. Die Genital- und Postgenitalsegmente der Mecoptera-Weibchen (Insecta, Holometabola) I. Das Exoskelet. Zeitschrift für Morphologie der Tiere 80: 97-135
- Navás, L. 1932. Décadas de insectos nuevos Década 19. Brotéria. Serie Ciências Naturais 1: 62-72
- Penny, N.D. & Byers, G.W. 1979. A check-list of the Mecoptera of the world. Acta Amazonica 9: 365-388
- Potter, E. 1938. The internal anatomy of the order Mecoptera. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 87: 467-501
- Rambur, J.P. 1842. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Névroptères. Paris : Roret xvii 529 pp. 12 pls. [Publication date established from Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775–1930 with Biographical Notes on Authors and Collectors. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales viii 380 pp. [264]]
- Riek, E.F. 1954. The Australian Mecoptera or scorpion-flies. Australian Journal of Zoology 2: 143-168
- Sélys-Longchamps, E. de 1868. Diagnose d'un nouveau genre d'Agrionine d'Australie: Synlestes Weyersii, et d'une Panorpide nouvelle d'Australie: Bittacus nigriceps. Bulletin ou Comptes-rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 11: LXXVI-LXXVIII
- Setty, L.R. 1940. Biology and morphology of some North American Bittacidae (Order Mecoptera). American Midland Naturalist 23: 257-353
- Smithers, C.N. 1973. New species and records of Australian Bittacidae (Mecoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12: 296-300
- Smithers, C.N. 1993. A note on the Megaloptera, Neuroptera and Mecoptera of Tuglo Wildlife Refuge, New South Wales. Australian Entomologist 20: 67-71 [Date published August 1993]
- Thornhill, R. 1983. Cryptic female choice and its implications in the scorpionfly Harpobittacus nigriceps. American Naturalist 122: 765-788
- Thornhill, R. 1984. Fighting and assessment in Harpobittacus scorpionflies. Evolution 38: 204-214
- Willmann, R. 1981. Das Exoskelett der männlichen Genitalien der Mecoptera (Insecta). I. Morphologie. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 9: 96-150
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