Robert J. Kallal

Robert J. Kallal, US arachnologist

• Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560

Taxon names authored

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• 19 taxon names authored by Robert J. Kallal

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2012

• LaPolla, J.S., Kallal, R.J. & Brady, S.G. 2012. A new ant genus from the Greater Antilles and Central America, Zatania (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), exemplifies the utility of male and molecular character systems. Systematic Entomology 37(1): 200–214. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00605.x Reference page. 

2016

• Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2016. Redescription of the Jamaican orb-weaving spider Chrysometa pecki Levi, 1986 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae), including the first description of the male. Zootaxa 4066(1): 95–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.1.11. Reference page. 

2018

• Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2018. An expanded molecular phylogeny of metaine spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of new taxa from Taiwan and the Philippines. Invertebrate Systematics 32(2): 400-422. DOI: 10.1071/IS17058. Reference page. 
• Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2018. Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian leaf-curling orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae: Zygiellinae), with a comparative analysis of retreat evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184: 1055–1141. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly014 Reference page. 

2019

• Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2019. Evolution of the male palp morphology of the orb-weaver hunting spider Chorizopes (Araneae : Araneidae) revisited on a new phylogeny of Araneidae, and description of a third species from Madagascar. Invertebrate Systematics 33(2): 473-487. DOI: 10.1071/IS18061. Reference page. 
• LaPolla, J.S. & Kallal, R.J. 2019. Nylanderia of the World Part III: Nylanderia in the West Indies. Zootaxa 4658(3): 401–451. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4658.3.1 Reference page. 

2020

• Alvarez-Padilla, F., Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2020. Taxonomy and phylogenetics of Nanometinae and other Australasian orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 438: 1-107. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.438.1.1. . Reference page. 
• Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2020. Phylogenetic placement of the stone-nest orb-weaving spider Nemoscolus Simon, 1895 (Araneae : Araneidae) and the description of the first species from Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 34(8): 893-905. DOI: 10.1071/IS20035. Reference page.