doc. RNDr. Robin Kundrata, Ph.D. MBA FRES

• Diverzita, fylogeneze, evoluce, systematika, klasifikace, morfologie, fosilní záznamy a ekologe čeledi Elateridae (Coleoptera) a příbuzných skupin

• Biologická klasifikace živočichů
• Fylogeneze a systém bezobratlých
• Komplexní exkurze
• Kurz terénní entomologie
• Metody molekulární ekologie
• Obecná entomologie
• Obecná zoologie
• Přírodovědná muzeologie
• Srovnávací morfologie hmyzu
• Systém a fylogeneze bezobratlých
• Systematická entomologie
• Základy zoologie
• Zoogeografie
• Zoologická cvičení v terénu
• Zoologická praxe
• Zoologie bezobratlých

Garant navazujícího magisterského programu Zoologie.

Functional morphological and bionic studies on the explosive jumping locomotion of Elateridae (32270483), National Natural Science Foundation of China 2023–2026 (spoluřešitel).

Evoluce drobnělek (Zoraptera): od fosilií a srovnávací morfologie po cytogenetiku a transkriptomy (22-05024S), GAČR 2022–2024 (spoluřešitel).

Biodiverzita a životní strategie živočichů III (IGA_PrF_2024_029), IGA UP 2024–2025 (hlavní řešitel).
Biodiverzita a životní strategie živočichů II (IGA_PrF_2023_030), IGA UP 2023–2024 (hlavní řešitel).
Biodiverzita a životní strategie živočichů (IGA_PrF_2022_024), IGA UP 2022–2023 (hlavní řešitel).
Evoluce životních strategií živočichů V (IGA_PrF_2021_019), IGA UP 2021–2022 (hlavní řešitel).
Evoluce životních strategií živočichů IV (IGA_PrF_2020_026), IGA UP 2020–2021 (hlavní řešitel).
Evoluce životních strategií živočichů II (IGA_PrF_2018_026), IGA UP 2018–2019 (hlavní řešitel).

Inovace výuky terénních zoologických cvičení a exkurzí (FRVŠ G4/1772/2012), FRVŠ 2012 (hlavní řešitel).

Časopisy s IF

2024

Beutel, R. G., Xu, C., Jarzembowski, E., Kundrata, R., Boudinot, B. E., McKenna, D. D. & Goczał, J. (2024). The evolutionary history of Coleoptera (Insecta) in the late Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic. Systematic Entomology 49: 355–388.

Cai, C., Tihelka, E., Ballantyne, L., Li, Y.-D., Huang, D., Engel, M.S. & Kundrata, R. (2024). A light in the dark: A mid-Cretaceous bioluminescent firefly with specialized antennal sensory organs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291: 20241671.

Ferreira, V.S., Roza, A.S., Barbosa, F.F., Vega-Badillo, V., Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Mermudes, J.R.M., Ivie, M.A., Hansen, A.K., Brunke, A.J., Douglas, H.B., Solodovnikov, A. & Kundrata, R. (2024). Phylogenomics of Phengodidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): towards a natural classification of a bioluminescent and paedomorphic beetle lineage, with recognition of a new subfamily. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201: zlae093.

Ghahari, H., Pačková, G., Platia, G. & Kundrata, R. (2024). Updates and additions to the annotated checklist of click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of Iran. Zootaxa 5432: 250–266.

Goczał, J., Beutel, R. G., Gimmel, M. L. & Kundrata, R. (2024). When a key innovation becomes redundant: Patterns, drivers and consequences of elytral reduction in Coleoptera. Systematic Entomology 49: 1–28.

Hu, F.-S., Arriaga-Varela, E., Biffi, G., Bocák, L., Bulirsch, P., ... Fikáček, M. (incl. Kundrata, R.) (2024). Forest leaf litter beetles of Taiwan: first DNA barcodes and first insight into the fauna. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71: 17–47.

Jiménez-Mejías, P., Manzano, S., Gowda, V., Krell, F.-T., Lin, M.-Y., + 1543 additional coauthors (incl. Kundrata, R.) (2024). Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal. BioScience74: 467–472.

Kundrata, R. & Pačková, G. (2024). Discovery of a new soft-bodied click-beetle genus from Namibia with a unique morphology leads to a modified diagnosis of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae). ZooKeys 1213: 183–197.

Kundrata, R., Pačková, G., Li, Y.-D., Hsiao, Y., Jenkins Shaw, J., Ferreira, V. S., Bai, M. & Cai, C. (2024). Further mysteries solved in Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar: Discovery of female specimens, and synonymy of Trapezioceps recently described as Cantharidae. Cretaceous Research 154: 105756.

Kundrata, R., Třísková, K. & Prosvirov, A. S. (2024). Paleoselatosomus cretaceus gen. et sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae): the first known representative of Dendrometrinae from the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber. Bulletin of Geosciences 99: 191–202.

Lee, S. B., Li, Y.-D., Cai, C., Engel, M. S., Nam, G. S., Park, J. K., Nel, A., Jenkins Shaw, J., Jouault, C., Legalov, A. & Kundrata, R. (2024). Cretaceous beetles of the Jinju Formation (Coleoptera): An overview of the Jinju Formation, its coleopteran diversity, and past and future research. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 27: 102236.

Németh, T., Rosa, S. P. & Kundrata, R. (2024). Comparative morphology of larvae of Elathous agilis Németh, 2019 and Elathous brucki (Candèze, 1878) (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 308: 25–34.

Pačková, G., Brus, J., Kazantsev, S.V. & Kundrata, R. (2024). New species and distributional records of the paedomorphic click-beetle genus Euanoma Reitter, 1889 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Omalisinae) from the Western Palaearctic. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 27: 102260.

Pačková, G., Hájek, J., Geiser, M. & Kundrata, R. (2024). Taxonomic review of Palearctic Eurypogon Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Artematopodidae), with a redescription of the only European species and descriptions of three new species from China. Zootaxa 5437: 451–479.

Qiu, L. & Kundrata, R. (2024). New species of Sinodima Kundrata, Sormova & Qiu, 2019 reveal the first case of strong sexual dimorphism in Dimini (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 27: 102289.

Roza, A. S., Kundrata, R., Kusý, D., Lian, Z.-D. & Silveira, L. F. L. (2024). The first firefly fossil (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Dominican amber. Palaeoentomology 7: 590–593.

Telnov, D., Perkovsky, E. E., Vasilenko, D. V. & Kundrata, R. (2024). When rare click beetles were not that rare: Cretaceous Cerophytidae Latreille, 1834 (Coleoptera) from Siberia. Palaeoentomology 7: 92–103.

Wang, C.-B. & Kundrata, R. (2024). Studies on the Rhagophthalmidae (Coleoptera) from China, part II. Three new species of Diplocladon Gorham, 1883 from China. Zootaxa 5528: 164–183.

2023

Hoffmannová, J., Pačková, G., Prosvirov, A. S., Akhter, M. A. & Kundrata, R. (2023). An updated catalogue of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Pakistan. Zootaxa 5270: 281–305.

Kundrata, R., Třísková, K. & Prosvirov, A. S. (2023). A new click beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber underlines the need for an improved tribal classification of Elaterinae. Cretaceous Research 151: 105630.

Németh, T., Hoffmannová, J., Kakiopoulos, G., Kramp, K. & Kundrata, R. (2023). Plastocerus angulosus (Germar, 1844) (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae): An enigmatic click beetle with a convoluted taxonomic history. Zootaxa 5284: 271–290.

Pačková, G., Háva, J., Wang, C.-B. & Kundrata, R. (2023). A new species of Eurypogon Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Artematopodidae) from China, with notes on E. sanzang Wang & Liu. Zootaxa 5230: 540–548.

Pačková, G. & Kundrata, R. (2023). A new species of Rhagophthalmus Motschulsky, 1854 (Coleoptera, Rhagophthalmidae) from Laos represents the smallest known member of the genus. ZooKeys 1184: 81–89.

Pačková, G., Prosvirov, A. S., Qiu, L. & Kundrata, R. (2023). Rostricephalus vitalisi Fleutiaux, 1918 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Lissominae) confirmed from Laos, with description of its male pregenital segments and genitalia. The Coleopterists Bulletin 77: 554–557.

Qiu, L., Ruan, Y., Huang, Z., Wei, W. & Kundrata, R. (2023). Distribution and variability of Plastocerus thoracicus Fleutiaux, 1918 from China (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Plastocerini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 77: 650–654.

Roza, A. S., Kusý, D., Lian, Z. D. & Kundrata, R. (2023). The first Phengodidae fossil (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): Cretocydistus wittmeri gen. et sp. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeoentomology 6: 356–364.

Shepard, W. D. & Kundrata, R. (2023). A review of Araeopidius monachus (LeConte, 1874) (Coleoptera: Dryopoidea: Ptilodactylidae), with main emphasis on its biology and ecology. Diversity 15: 131.

Telnov, D., Kairišs, K., Třísková, K. & Kundrata, R. (2023). Unveiled: Prototrichalus from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber represents a yet oldest record of Ischaliidae Blair, 1920 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea). Cretaceous Research 151: 105634.

Telnov, D., Perkovsky, E. E., Kundrata, R., Kairišs, K., Vasilenko, D. V. & Bukejs, A. (2023). Revealing Palaeogene distribution of the Ptilodactylidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): the first Ptilodactyla Illiger, 1807 records from Rovno amber of Ukraine. Historical Biology 35: 2171–2180.

2022

Cai, C., Tihelka, E., Giacomelli, M., Lawrence, J. F., Ślipiński A., Kundrata, R., Yamamoto, S., Thayer, M. K., Newton, A. F., Leschen, R. A. B., Gimmel, M. L., Lü, L., Engel, M. S., Bouchard, P., Huang, D., Pisani, D. & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2022). Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles. Royal Society Open Science 9: 211771.

Ferreira, V. S., Solodovnikov, A., Ivie, M. A. & Kundrata, R. (2022). Dominican amber net-winged beetles suggest stable paleoenvironment as a driver for conserved morphology in a paedomorphic lineage. Scientific Reports 12: 5820.

Hoffmannová, J. & Kundrata, R. (2022). Diversity of the paedomorphic snail-eating click-beetle genus Malacogaster Bassi, 1834 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in the Mediterranean. Biology 11: 1503.

Kundrata, R., Hoffmannová, J., Hinson, K.R., Keller, O. & Pačková, G. (2022). Rhagophthalmidae Olivier, 1907 (Coleoptera, Elateroidea): described genera and species, current problems, and prospects for the bioluminescent and paedomorphic beetle lineage. ZooKeys, 1126: 55–130.

Li, Y.-D., Biffi, G., Kundrata, R., Huang, D.-Y. & Cai, C.-Y. (2022). Nothotytthonyx, a new genus of Malthininae (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. ZooKeys 1092: 19–30.

Li, Y.-D., Kundrata, R., Huang, D. & Cai, C. (2022). First Artematopodidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Zootaxa 5129: 257–271.

Li, Y.-D., Kundrata, R., Qu, T.-Q., Huang, D. & Cai, C. (2022). A new species of Vetubrachypsectra from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Brachypsectridae). Insects 13: 122.

Qiu, L. & Kundrata, R. (2022). Descriptions of two new flightless species of Pseudocsikia Schimmel & Platia (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini) from Taiwan Island, China, with a definition of formosana species-group. ZooKeys 1103: 123–138.

Qiu, L. & Kundrata, R. (2022). The first record of genus Neocsikia Ôhira & Becker (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Dimini) in China, with the description of a new species. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 25: 101965.

Ruan, Y., Zhang, M., Kundrata, R., Qiu, L., Ge, S., Yang, X., Chen, X. & Jiang, S. (2022). Functional morphology of the thorax of the click beetle Campsosternus auratus (Coleoptera, Elateridae), with an emphasis on its jumping mechanism. Insects 13: 248.

Szabó, M., Kundrata, R., Hoffmannová, J., Németh, T., Bodor, E., Szenti, I., Prosvirov, A. S., Kukovecz, Á. & Ősi, A. (2022). The first mainland European Mesozoic click-beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) revealed by x-ray micro-computed tomography scanning of an Upper Cretaceous amber from Hungary. Scientific Reports 12: 24.

Tihelka, E., Jäch, M., Kundrata, R., Li, Y.-D., Engel, M.S., Lozano-Fernandez, J., Huang, D. & Cai, C. (2022). Mastigocoleidae fam. nov., a new Mesozoic beetle family and the early evolution of Dryopoidea (Coleoptera). Insect Systematics and Diversity 6: 1–18.

Třísková, K., Pačková, G., Prosvirov, A.S. & Kundrata, R. (2022). Burmogonus gen. nov., a new click beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Elaterinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Diversity, 14: 1070.

2021

Biffi, G., Rosa, S. P. & Kundrata, R. (2021). Hide-and-seek with tiny neotenic beetles in one of the hottest biodiversity hotspots: Towards an understanding of the real diversity of Jurasaidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Biology 10: 420.

Douglas, H. B., Kundrata, R., Brunke, A. J., ... Dettman, J. R. (2021). Anchored phylogenomics, evolution and systematics of Elateridae: Are all bioluminescent Elateroidea derived click beetles? Biology 10: 451.

Kirstová, M., Kundrata, R. & Kočárek, P. (2021). Molecular phylogeny and classification of Chelidurella Verhoeff, stat. restit. (Dermaptera: Forficulidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 52: 335–371.

Kundrata, R., Gimmel, M. L., Pačková, G., Bukejs, A. & Blank, S. M. (2021). A new enigmatic lineage of Dascillidae (Coleoptera: Elateriformia) from Eocene Baltic amber described using X-ray microtomography, with notes on Karumiinae morphology and classification. Fossil Record 24: 141–149.

Kundrata, R., Németh, T., Prosvirov, A. S. & Hoffmannová, J. (2021). Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle genus Elathous Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), including habitus photographs for all species. Zootaxa 4995: 231–265.

Kundrata, R., Pačková, G., Kairišs, K., Bukejs, A., Hoffmannová, J. & Blank, S. M. (2021). The first Ptilodactyla (Coleoptera: Dryopoidea: Ptilodactylidae) described from Eocene Baltic amber. Biology 10: 877.

Kundrata, R., Pačková, G., Prosvirov, A. S. & Hoffmannová, J. (2021). The fossil record of Elateridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): Described species, current problems and future prospects. Insects 12: 286.

Kundrata, R., Prosvirov, A. S., Long, R. & Pačková, G. (2021). Cretopachyderes gen. nov., a new remarkable click beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Fossil Record 24: 347–355.

Li, Y.-D., Kundrata, R., Huang, D. & Cai, C. (2021). Notes on the morphology and systematic position of Archaeolus Lin, 1986, from the Jurassic of South China (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Insects 12: 876.

Li, Y.-D., Kundrata, R., Pačková, G., Huang, D. & Cai, C. (2021). An unusual elateroid lineage from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Scientific Reports 11: 21985.

Li, Y.-D., Kundrata, R., Tihelka, E., Liu, Z., Huang, D. & Cai, C. (2021). Cretophengodidae, a new Cretaceous beetle family, sheds light on the evolution of bioluminescence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288: 20202730.

Pačková, G., Hoffmannová, J. & Kundrata, R. (2021). Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of Iran. The Coleopterists Bulletin 75: 579–586.

Pačková, G. & Kundrata, R. (2021). The genus Selasia Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4926: 285–292.

2020

Faucheux, M. J., Németh, T. & Kundrata, R. (2020). Comparative antennal morphology of Agriotes (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with spetial reference to the typology and possible functions of sensilla. Insects 11: 137.

Faucheux, M. J., Németh, T., Hoffmannová, J. & Kundrata, R. (2020). Scanning electron microscopy reveals the antennal micromorphology of Lamprodila (Palmar) festiva (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), an invasive pest of ornamental Cupressaceae in Western Palearctic. Biology 9: 375.

Kočárek, P., Horká, I. & Kundrata, R. (2020). Molecular phylogen and infraordinal classification of Zoraptera (Insecta). Insects 11: 51.

Kundrata, R., Pačková, G. & Hoffmannová, J. (2020). Fossil genera in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): A Triassic origin and Jurassic diversification. Insects 11: 394.

Kundrata, R. & Hoffmannová, J. (2020). Annotaed catalogue of the click-beetle genera Hapatesus Candѐze, 1863 and Toorongus Neboiss, 1957 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from the Australasian realm. Zootaxa 4885: 221–234.

Kundrata, R., Bukejs, A., Prosvirov, A. S. & Hoffmannová, J. (2020). X-ray micro-computed tomography reveals a unique morphology in a new click-beetle (Coleoptera, Elateridae) from the Eocene Baltic amber. Scientific Reports 10: 20158.

Németh, T., Prosvirov, A. S. & Kundrata, R. (2020). Two new species of Elathous Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Syria. Zoology in the Middle East 66: 167–177.

Németh, T., Brůha, P. & Kundrata, R. (2020). Discovery of a new species of Lacon Laporte (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) endemic to Cyprus, with modified tarsal morphology. Zootaxa 4780: 554–562.

Peris, D., Kundrata, R., Delclòs, X., Mähler, B., Ivie, M. A., Rust, J. & Labandeira, C. C. (2020). Unlocking the mystery of the mid-Cretaceous Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) and modalities in transiting from gymnosperms to angiosperms. Scientific Reports 10: 16854.

Qiu, L., Németh, T., Prosvirov, A. S. & Kundrata, R. (2020). Dima spicata Schimmel, 1999 (Elateridae: Dimini), a morphologically remarkable species endemic to China. Zootaxa 4768: 415–424.

Qiu, L., Dong, Z.-W. & Kundrata, R. (2020). New records of the giant click-beetle Sinelater perroti (Fleutiaux) (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Tetralobinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 74: 370–374.

Rosa, S. P., Costa, C., Kramp, K. & Kundrata, R. (2020). Hidden diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest: The discovery of Jurasaidae, a new beetle family (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with neotenic females. Scientific Reports 10: 1544.

2019

Bi, W.-X., He, J.-W., Chen, C.-C., Kundrata, R. & Li, X.-Y. (2019). Sinopyrophorinae, a new subfamily of Elateridae (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with the first record of a luminous click beetle in Asia and evidence for multiple origins of bioluminescence in Elateridae. ZooKeys 864: 79–97.

Kundrata, R., Šormová, E. & Qiu, L. (2019). Sinodima jenisi gen. et sp. nov., a new wingless click-beetle from the mountains of Hunan, China (Elateridae: Dendrometrinae: Dimini). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 22: 15–18.

Kundrata, R., Ivie, M. A. & Bocák, L. (2019). Podabrocephalus Pic is the morphologically modified lineage of Ptilodactylinae (Coleoptera: Elateriformia: Ptilodactylidae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 50: 147–161.

Kundrata, R., Kubaczková, M., Prosvirov, A. S., Douglas, H. B., Fojtíková, A. ... Bouchard, P. (2019). World catalogue of the genus-group names in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera). Part I: Agrypninae, Campyloxeninae, Hemiopinae, Lissominae, Oestodinae, Parablacinae, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae. ZooKeys 839: 83–154.

Kundrata, R., Šormová, E., Qiu, L. & Prosvirov, A. S. (2019). Revision of the flightless click-beetle genus Neodima Schimmel & Platia (Elateridae: Dimini) endemic to China, with comments on its systematic position. Zootaxa 4604: 42–58.

Kundrata, R. & Németh, T. (2019). Descriptiion of Penia mantillerii sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini), with a key to Penia species from Vietnam and nearby areas. Zootaxa 4612: 275–281.

Kundrata, R., Németh, T. & Jarzabek-Müller, A. (2019). Description of Lacon mertliki sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) from the Hyrcanian forest ecoregion, with a key to the Lacon species of Iran. European Journal of Taxonomy 535: 1–13.

Kundrata, R., Blank, S. M., Prosvirov, A. S., Šormová, E., Gimmel, M. L., Vondráček, D. & Kramp, K. (2019). One less mystery in Coleoptera systematics: The position of Cydistinae (Elateriformia incertae sedis) resolved by multigene phylogenetic analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187: 1259–1277.

Kundrata, R., Prosvirov, A. S., Vondráček, D. & Šormová, E. (2019). Congruence between molecular data and morphology: Phylogenetic position of Senodoniini (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Insects 10: 231.

Kundrata, R. & Bocák, L. (2019). Molecular phylogeny reveals the gradual evolutionary transition to soft-bodiedness in click-beetles and identifies sub-Saharan Africa as a cradle of diversity for Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187: 413–452.

Kundrata, R., Mertlík, J. & Németh, T. (2019). Unexpected diversity of Lacon Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in the Levant: Revised species concepts, new species, and an identification key. Zootaxa 4679: 401–449.

Rosa, S. P., Németh, T. & Kundrata, R. (2019). Comparative morphology of immature stages of Ludioctenus cyprius (Baudi di Selve, 1871) (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae), with discussion on the monophyly of Hemirhipini. Zoologischer Anzeiger 283: 33–39.

2018

Douglas, H. B., Kundrata, R., Janošíkova, D. & Bocák, L. (2018). Molecular and morphological evidence for new genera in the click‐beetle subfamily Cardiophorinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Entomological Science 21: 292–305.

Kundrata, R. (2018). New minute Drilini species significantly extend the distributions of Lolosia and Microselasia (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in tropical Africa. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58: 531–538.

Kundrata, R. & Šormová, E. (2018). Selasia dembickyi sp. nov., the first member of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from South East Asia, with the description of S. jenisi sp. nov. from Nepal. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58: 513–518.

Kundrata, R., Gunter, N. L., Janošiková, D. & Bocák, L. (2018). Molecular evidence for the subfamilial status of Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with comments on parallel evolution of some phenotypic characters. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 76: 137–145.

Kundrata, R. & Šormová, E. (2018). Platiana cechovskyi sp. nov. from Malysia, a remarkable new member of Dimini (Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) with strongly serrate antennae. Zootaxa 4524: 132–138.

Kundrata, R., Musálková, M. & Prosvirov, A. S. (2018). Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle tribe Senodoniini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae). Zootaxa 4532: 273–287.

Mertlík, J., Németh, T. & Kundrata, R. (2018). Additions to the revision of Dima Charpentier, 1825 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini) in the Balkan Peninsula, with the descriptions of five new species. Zootaxa: 4433: 325–351.

Qiu, L., Šormová, E., Ruan, Y. & Kundrata, R. (2018). A new species of Dima (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini), with a checklist and identification key to the Chinese species. Annales Zoologici 68: 441–450.

Ruan, Y., Kundrata, R., Sormova, E., Qiu, L., Zhang, M. & Jiang, S. (2018). Description of two new species of Dima Charpentier, 1825 from China (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae). Zootaxa 4526: 589–599.

Šormová, E., Kramp, K. & Kundrata, R. (2018). Diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Drilus Olivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in Cyprus. Zoologischer Anzeiger 275: 1–12.

2017

Kundrata, R. (2017). New species of Selasia Laporte, 1836 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) from Nepal and Pakistan. Zootaxa 4344: 380–386.

Kundrata, R. & Bocak, L. (2017). Taxonomic review of Drilini (Elateridae: Agrypninae) in Cameroon reveals high morphological diversity, including the discovery of five new genera. Insect Systematics & Evolution 48: 441–492.

Kundrata, R. & Jäch, M. (2017). Ptilodactyla crenatostriata Redtenbacher, 1868 (Coleoptera: Ptilodactylidae) transferred to Phytocerum Costa, Vanin, Lawrence & Ide, 2003 (Coleoptera: Cerophytidae). Zootaxa 4324: 371–377.

Kubaczkova, M. & Kundrata, R. (2017). Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Zootaxa 4323: 151–184.

Gabriš, R., Trnka, F., Wahab, R. A. & Kundrata, R. (2017). Taxonomic revision of the endemic Bornean genera Anexodus Pascoe and Pantilema Aurivillius (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae). ZooKeys 669: 29–51.

Kundrata, R., Baena, M. & Bocak, L. (2017). Iberobaenia andujari sp. nov., the third species of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) from southern Spain. Annales Zoologici 67: 121–129.

Faucheux, M. J. & Kundrata, R. (2017). Comparative antennal morphology of male Drilini with special reference to the sensilla (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 266: 105–119.

Kundrata, R., Jäch, M. A. & Bocak, L. (2017). Molecular phylogeny of the Byrrhoidea-Buprestoidea complex (Coleoptera, Elateriformia). Zoologica Scripta 46: 150–164.

Petrzelkova, I., Makris, Ch. & Kundrata, R. (2017). The genus Brachypsectra LeConte, 1874 (Coleoptera: Brachypsectridae) in the Palaearctic Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 276: 1–14.

Andújar Fernández, C., Arribas, P., Linard, B., Kundrata, R., Bocak, L. & Vogler, A. P. (2017). The mitochondrial genome of Iberobaenia (Coleoptera: Iberobaeniidae): First rearrangement of protein coding genes in the beetles. Mitochondrial DNA Part A 28: 156–158.

Mertlik, J., Németh, T. & Kundrata, R. (2017). Revision of the flightless click-beetle genus Dima Charpentier, 1825 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini) in the Balkan Peninsula. Zootaxa 4220: 1–63.

2016

Kundrata, R., Gunter, N. L., Douglas, H. & Bocak, L. (2016). Next step toward a molecular phylogeny of click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae): redefinition of Pityobiinae, with a description of a new subfamily, Parablacinae, from the Australasian Region. Austral Entomology 55: 291–302.

Gabriš, R., Kundrata, R. & Trnka, F. (2016). Review of Dolichostyrax Aurivillius (Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) in Borneo, with descriptions of three new genera and the first case of (ovo)viviparity in the long-horned beetles. ZooKeys 587: 49–75.

Bocak, L., Kundrata, R., Andújar Fernández, C. & Vogler, A. P. (2016). The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea), a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283: 20152350.

Batelka, J., Kundrata, R. & Bocak, L. (2016). Position and relationships of Ripiphoridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) inferred from the ribosomal and mitochondrial molecular markers. Annales Zoologici 66: 113–123.

2015

Petrzelkova, I. & Kundrata, R. (2015). The genus Drilus (Elateridae: Agrypninae) from the Levant: a new species, new records and updated key to the males. Annales Zoologici 65: 483–490.

Kobieluszova, L. & Kundrata, R. (2015). Taxonomic review of Drilus Olivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) from Asia Minor, with descriptions of seven new species and comments on the female antennal morphology in Drilini. Zootaxa 4012: 78–96.

Trllova, S. & Kundrata, R. (2015). A review of the genus Selasia (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in the Palaearctic Region. Zootaxa 3920: 563–571.

Faucheux, M. J. & Kundrata, R. (2015). Perforated plates corresponding to integumental glands on the antennae of adult male Drilus mauritanicus Lucas 1849 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) 51: 1–3.

Kundrata, R., Baena, M. & Bocak, L. (2015). Classification of Omalisidae based on molecular data and morphology, with description of Paradrilinae subfam. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Zootaxa 3915: 413–422.

Kundrata, R., Baalbergen, E., Bocak, L. & Schilthuizen, M. (2015). The origin and diversity of Drilus Olivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in Crete based on mitochondrial phylogeny. Systematics and Biodiversity 13: 52–75.

2014–2007

Baalbergen, E., Helwerda, R., Schelfhorst, R., Castillo Cajas, R. F., van Moorsel, C. H. M., Kundrata, R., Welter-Schultes, F. W., Giokas, S. & Schilthuizen, M. (2014). Predator-prey interactions between shell-boring beetle larvae and rock-dwelling land snails. PLoS ONE 9: e100366.

Kundrata, R., Bocakova, M. & Bocak, L. (2014). The comprehensive phylogeny of the superfamily Elateroidea (Coleoptera: Elateriformia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 76: 162–171.

Kundrata, R., Kobieluszova, L. & Bocak, L. (2014). A review of Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of the Northern Levant, with description of a new species from Syria and a key to Levantine species. Zootaxa 3755: 457–469.

Kundrata, R., Bocakova, M. & Bocak, L. (2013). The phylogenetic position of Artematopodidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea), with description of the first two Eurypogon species from China. Contributions to Zoology 82: 199–208.

Kundrata, R. (2012). Description of Selasia socotrana sp. nov. (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) from Socotra Island, with notes on S. homhilia. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (Supplementum 2): 213–218.

Kundrata, R. (2012). Taxonomic review of the Himalayan species of Selasia Laporte, 1836 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini). Annales Zoologici 62: 261–266.

Kundrata, R. & Bocak, L. (2011). The phylogeny and limits of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): is there a common tendency of click beetles to soft-bodiedness and neoteny? Zoologica Scripta 40: 364–378.

Kundrata, R. & Bocak, L. (2011). Redescription and relationships of Pseudothilmanus Pic (Coleoptera: Rhagophthalmidae) – a long-term neglected glow-worm beetle genus from the Himalayas. Zootaxa 2794: 57–62.

Kundrata, R. & Bocak, L. (2007). A revision of Euanoma and Pseudeuanoma (Coleoptera: Drilidae). Annales Zoologici 57: 427–441.

Ostatní články a konferenční abstrakty

Kočárek, P., Horká, I. & Kundrata, R. (2020). Molekulární fylogeneze a klasifikace drobnělek (Insecta: Zoraptera). In: Bryja, J., Kuras, T., Tuf, I. H. & Tkadlec, E. (Eds), Zoologické dny Olomouc 2020: sborník abstraktů z konference 6.–7. února 2020: 99. [in Czech]

Sormova, E. & Kundrata, R. (2017). Afrocerophytum vix Costa, Vanin et Rosa, 2014 (Elateroidea: Cerophytidae) newly recorded from Ghana. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 78: 35–38.

Kundrata, R. (2017). The current state of knowledge of the larvae of Drilini (Elateridae: Agrypninae). P. 851. In: Seidel, M., Arriaga-Varela, E. & Vondráček, D. (Eds), Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2017, October 5−6th, Prague, Czech Republic. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57: 835−859.

Kundrata, R., Trnka, F., Gabriš, R., Rada, S., Machač, O., Kočárek, P., Tuf. I. H. & Kuras, T. (2017). Bezobratlí bornejského národního parku Ulu Temburong II. Brouci. Živa 6: 304–307. [in Czech]

Gabriš, R., Kundrata, R. & Trnka, F. (2015). A review of Morimopsini (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) from Borneo. In: Bryja, J., Řehák, Z. & Zukal, J. (Eds), Zoologické dny Brno 2015: sborník abstraktů z konference 12.–13. února 2015: 72–73.

Németh, T., Dušánek, V., Mertlík, J. & Kundrata, R. (2014). New distributional data on Elateroidea (Coleoptera: Elateridae, Eucnemidae and Omalisidae) for Albania, Montenegro and Macedonia. Elateridarium 8: 112–117.

Faucheux, M. J. & Kundrata, R. (2014). Persistance de caractères larvaires sur les antennes des femelles néoténiques des Coléoptères héliciphages Drilus mauritanicus Lucas 1849 et Malacogaster passerinii Bassi 1883 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini). Bulletin de la Société des sciences naturelles de l’Ouest de la France (N. S.) 36: 97–100. [in French]

Kundrata, R. & Bocak, L. (2012). Evoluce neotenie a měkkého těla v nadčeledi Elateroidea (Coleoptera). In: Bryja, J., Albrechtová, J. & Tkadlec, E. (Eds), Zoologické dny Olomouc 2012: sborník abstraktů z konference 9.–10. února 2012: 119. [in Czech]

Kapitoly v kniháh

Bocak, L., Branham, M. A. & Kundrata, R. (2010). Family Drilidae Blanchard, 1845. In: J. F. Lawrence & R. A. B. Leschen (Eds.), Handbook of Zoology, Volume IV (ed. by N. P. Kristensen & R. G. Beutel). Part 38, Volume 2: Coleoptera, Polyphaga, part (pp. 104–110). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, New York, Berlin.

Nabídka témat

Individuální řešení témat blízkých výzkumnému zaměření vedoucího.

Vedené práce

Bakalářské
Jetelina D. (2023): Fosilní záznam nadčeledi Elateroidea (Coleoptera) z období druhohor
Kučerová B. (2023): Přehled rodové a tribální klasifikace podčeledi Dendrometrinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)    
Fojtíková A. (2023): Přehled rodové a tribální klasifikace podčeledi Španělová M. (2021): Biologie a ekologie larev tribu Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Pačková G. (2021): Fosilní záznam čeledi Elateridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)
Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Teichmannová J. (2020): Klasifikace a distribuce tribu Oxynopterini (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Hoffmannová J. (2020): Fylogenetická pozice a diverzita rodů Panspoeus, Toorongus a Hapatesus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) z Australasie
Rosůlková L. (2020): Diverzita, distribuce a klasifikace rodu Lacon Laporte (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Kubaczková M. (2017): Klasifikace a distribuce tribu Tetralobini (Elateridae: Agrypninae)
Šormová E. (2017): Taxonomické review rodu Drilus (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) z Kypru 
Mušálková M. (2016): Klasifikace a distribuce tribu Dimini (Elateridae: Dendrometrinae)
Šmidrová D. (2015): Klasifikace podčeledi Cardiophorinae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Elateridae)
Trllová Š. (2014): Review palearktických druhů rodu Selasia Laporte (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) se zaměřením na faunu Arabského poloostrova
Kobieluszová L. (2012): Klasifikace a distribuce tribu Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae)

Diplomové
Pačková G. (2023): Diverzita rodu Eurypogon (Coleoptera: Artematopodidae) z východního Palearktu
Hoffmannová J. (2022): Diverzita rodu Malacogaster (Coleoptera: Elateridae) z oblasti Středomoří
Šormová E. (2019): Fylogenetická pozice a diverzita rodu Dima (Elateridae: Dendrometrinae: Dimini)
Kubaczková M. (2019): Fylogeneze a klasifikace podčeledi Eudicronychinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Šmidrová D. (2017): Fylogeneze podčeledi Cardiophorinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Trllová Š. (2016): Taxonomické review rodu Drilus (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) z oblasti Peloponésu a Jónských ostrovů
Kobieluszová L. (2015): Taxonomické review rodu Drilus (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) z Turecka
Petrželková I. (2015): Taxonomické review rodu Drilus Olivier, 1790 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) z Izraele

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