Staff Profile

Curator, Entomology Research Museum

John Marris

MApplSc (Cant)

John Marris

Contact Details

Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Location B510A
Phone 64 3 423 0748
Extension
Email John.Marris@lincoln.ac.nz
 

Currently Teaching

 

Academic and Professional Background

Member of:

  • Entomological Society of New Zealand
  • Executive of the Entomological Society of New Zealand
  • Associate Editor for the New Zealand Journal of Zoology
 

Current Research and Publications / Selected Publications

My primary role as the curator of the Entomology Research Museum is to manage the operation of the museum and provide taxonomic expertise for staff and students.

Research interests include beetle taxonomy and conservation, and subantarctic entomology. Currently I am working on taxonomic revisions of beetles in the families' Elateridae, Cucujidae and Silvanidae.



Lefort, M-C., Barratt, B.I.P., Marris, J.W.M., Boyer, S. (2013) Combining molecular and morphological approaches to differentiate the pest Costelytra sealandica (White) (Coleoptera: Scarabeidae: Melolonthinae) from the non-pest Costelytra brunneum (Broun) at the larval stage. New Zealand Entomologist 36(1): 15-21.

Leschen, R.A.B., Marris, J.W.M., Emberson, R.M., Nunn, J., Hitchmough, R.A., Stringer, I.A.N. (2012) The conservation status of New Zealand Coleoptera. New Zealand Entomologist 35(2): 91-98.

Brown, S.D.J., Marris, J.W.M., Leschen, R.A.B. (2012) Review of New Zealand Cryptamorpha (Coleoptera: Silvanidae), with a description of a new species from the Three Kings Islands. New Zealand Entomologist 35(1): 29-38.

Kean, J.M., Vink, C.J., Till, C., Crosby, T.K., Marris, J.W.M., Fagan, L. (2012) Real-time remote diagnostics for ecology: Wheeler et al.'s vision realized. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10(2): 99-104.

Liebherr, J.K., Marris, J.W.M., Emberson, R.M., Syrett, P., Roig-Junent, S. (2011) Orthoglymma wangapeka gen.n., sp.n. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brosckini): a newly discovered relict from the Buller Terrance, north-western South Island, New Zealand, corroborates a general pattern of Gondwanan endemism. Systematic Entomology 36: 395-414. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00569.x

Marris, J.W.M., Johnson, P.J. (2010) A revision of the New Zealand click beetle genus Amychus Pascoe 1876 (Coleptera: Elateridae: Denticollinae): with a description of a new species from the Three Kings Islands. Zootaxa 2331: 35-56.

Liebherr, J.K., Marris, J.W.M. (2009) Revision of the New Zealand species of Mecyclothorax Sharp (Coleptera: Carabidae: Psydrinae, Mecyclothoracini) and the consequent removal of several species to Meonochilus gen. n. (Psydrinae, Meonini). New Zealand Entomologist 32: 5-22.

Young, L.M., Marris, J.W.M., Pawson, S.M. (2008) Back from extinction: rediscovery of the Canterbury knobbled weevil Hadramphus tuberculatus (Pascoe 1877) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with a review of its historical distribution. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 35: 323-330.

Johnson, J.B., Emberson, R.M., Marris, J.W.M. (2008) Biology of Metaxina ornata Broun (Coleoptera: Metaxinidae), with notes on associated beetle taxa. The Coleopterists Bulletin 62(2): 215-219.

 

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