Martin
fikačekMartin
fikaček Phone: ++420/221951838;
Fax: ++420/221951841
E-mail:
mfikacek@seznam.cz
Personal www-pages: www.cercyon.eu
Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea (water scavenger
beetles)
- morphology and phylogeny of extant and fossil representatives
- taxonomy of the terrestrial groups of Hydrophilidae
- morphology of immature stages
Taxonomy and larval morphology of selected remaining groups of aquatic beetles (e.g. Myxophaga)
Taxonomy and phylogeny of the subfamily Sphaeridiinae with emphasis on the tribes Megasternini and Omicrini
Fossil record of the Hydrophiloidea (focused especially on representatives of extant genera)
Larval morphology of the Hydrophilidae and using of larval characters for phylogeny reconstruction
Basic entomology (practices: Paleoentomology,
Biodiversity)
System and phylogeny of invertebrates (practices, field trips)
BOUKAL D. S., FIKACEK M., HAJEK J., STASTNY J., TRAVNICEK D. 2003: Water Beetles of the Novohradské hory Mts. Pp. 163-174. In: PAPACEK M. (Ed.): Biodiverzita a prirodni podminky Novohradských hor II. Jihoceská Univerzita a Entomologický ustav AV CR, Ceske Budejovice. 221 pp.
FIKACEK M. & BOUKAL M. 2004: Pachysternum capense, a new genus and species for Europe, and updated key to genera and subgenera of European Sphaeridiinae (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Klapalekiana 40:1-12.
ARCHANGELSKY M. & FIKACEK M. 2004: Description of the egg case and larva of Anacaena and a revision of the knowledge of Anacaenini larvae and their relationships (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilinae). European Journal of Entomology 101(4): 629-636.
FIKACEK M. 2005: Taxonomic revision of the Cercyon (Arcocercyon) dieganus species group (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Bulletin de l´Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 75: 79-102.
FIKACEK M. & HEBAUER F. 2005: A new aberrant species of the genus Pacrillum from Nepal (Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae: Megasternini). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45: 59-64.
FIKACEK M. 2006: Taxonomic status of Cercyon alpinus, C. exorabilis, C. strandi and C. tatricus and notes on their biology (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 107 B (2005): 145-164.
FIKACEK M. 2006: Contributions to the taxonomy of the genera Pachysternum and Cyrtonion (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). Biologia 61(2): 149-157.
FIKACEK M. & SHORT A. E. Z. 2006: A revision of the Neotropical genus Motonerus Hansen (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa 1268: 1-38.
FIKACEK M. & ANGUS R. B. 2006: Helophorus (Thaumhelophorus) inexpectatus ANGUS, 1995 – description of male genitalia and notes on morphological variability and bionomy (Coleoptera: Helophoridae). Koleopterologische Rundschau 76: 277-282.
FIKACEK M. 2007: Emmidolium excavatum Orchymont (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae) confirmed in Africa and the Arabian peninsula. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47: 117-122.
FIKACEK M., HAJEK J. & PROKOP J. 2008: New records of the water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae) from the central European Oligocene-Miocene deposits, with a confirmation of the generic attribution of Hydrobiomorpha enspelense Wedmann 2000. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (n.s.) 44(2): 187-199.
ANLAS S., FIKACEK M. & TEZCAN S. 2008: Notes on the seasonal dynamics of the coprophagous Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera) in western Turkey, with first record of Megasternum concinnum for Turkish fauna. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 40(1): 409-417.
BOUKAL D. S., BOUKAL M., FIKACEK M., HAJEK J., KLECKA J., SKALICKY S., STASTNY J. & TRAVNICEK D. 2008: Katalog vodních brouků České republiky. Catalogue of water beetles of the Czech Republic (Coleoptera: Sphaeriusidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Hygrobiidae, Dytiscidae, Helophoridae, Georissidae, Hydrochidae, Spercheidae, Hydrophilidae, Hydraenidae, Scirtidae, Elmidae, Dryopidae, Limnichidae, Heteroceridae, Psephenidae). Klapalekiana 43 (2007)(Supplementum): 1-289.
BILY S., FIKACEK M. & SIPEK P. 2008: First record of myrmecophily in buprestid beetles: immature stages of Habroloma myrmecophila sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) associated with Oecophylla ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Systematic & Evolution 39: 121-131.