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Martin Fikáček — List of Publications

Updated April 2026

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Submitted & Accepted

• Liu H.-C., Lee C.-F., Fikáček M., Watanabe K. & Chang J.-H. (submitted): Review of the subfamily Acidocerinae of Taiwan, with new records and two new synonyms. Zootaxa.

• Minoshima Y.N., Ôno T., Shimonaka J., Fikáček M. (submitted): First record of plant-associated water scavenger beetle genus Protosternum Sharp. Elytra

• Uhlig M., Uhlig B., Hu F.-S., Fikáček M. (submitted): A new Erichsonius species from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae): descriptions of adults and larva associated by DNA barcodes, and a checklist of Oriental and East Palaearctic species of the genus. Zootaxa

• Chen C.-C., Ho B.-H., Hu F.-S., Chang C.-F., Chang Z.-Y., Hsu Y.-C., Phang G. J., Damaska A. F., Ruzzier E., Fikáček M. (submitted): Forest twig-eaters: DNA-based survey reveals unusual larval morphology, biology, and regional diversity of Stenochinus beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Zoologica Scripta

Peer-reviewed Publications

2026

• Skuhrovec J., Vondráček D., Fikáček M., Šípek P. (2026): Immature Beetles Meeting Chronology (2007–2025): Meeting summaries and insights. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 66(1): 1–12.

• Damaška A.F., Fikáček M., Suenaga H., Lee C.-F., Náhlovský J., Bryjová A., Munclinger P. (2026): Complex evolution and biogeographic history of moss-inhabiting flea beetles from the Taiwan-Ryukyu Island Arc (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini). Systematic Entomology 51(1): e70013. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.70013

2025

• Kusy D., Motyka M., Simon-Pražák J., Lackner T., Prokin A., Fikáček M. (2025): Phylogenomics resolves the relationships among Hydrophiloidea-Histeroidea families (Coleoptera) and challenges the single colonization of aquatic habitats. Systematic Entomology 50(4): 813-835. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12679

• F.-S. Hu, Luo X.-Zh., Kuan K.-Ch., Beutel R.G., Chi K.-J., Liu H.-C., Fikáček M. (2025): Ancient divergent evolution of specialized swimming modes in aquatic beetles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292(2045): 20243093. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.3093

• Hu F.-S., Solodovnikov A., Fikáček M. (2025): The larva of the genus Tolmerinus Bernhauer described: does it help to reveal a sister-group for the rove beetle subtribe Anisolinina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)? Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 83: 369-389. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.83.e151555

• Mai Z.-Q., Jia F.-L., Ryndevich S. K., Angus R., Minoshima Y. N., Fikáček M., Ruzicka J. (2025): Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the genus Peltocercyon d'Orchymont, 1925 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Megasternini). Zootaxa 5671(1): 1–74. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5671.1.1

• Bulirsch P., Magrini P., Ho B.-H., Fikáček M. (2025): Species of the genus Reicheiodes from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 65(1): 61–70. https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2025.005

2024

• Simon-Pražák J., Yamamoto Sh., Lackner T., Fikáček M., Prokop J., Caterino M.S. (2024): A bonanza of Cretaceous fossils provides insights into the evolution of antennal protection in clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(3): 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae137

• Mai Z.-Q., Wang L.-Y., Ryndevich S.K., Fikáček M., Arriaga-Varela E., Jia F.-L. (2024): DNA but not always morphology help to recognise monophyletic genera within "Cercyon" terrestrial water scavenger beetles: a case study of Asiacyon gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Invertebrate Systematics 38(10): 1–71. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS24012

• Damaška A.F., Fikáček M., Daňková K., Čičovský D., Smyčková M., Koštíř V., Munclinger P. (2024): From Europe to Caucasus: cryptic diversity and unexpected biogeographic history of a Western Palaearctic moss-inhabiting flea beetle (Chrysomelidae: Mniophila). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201(4): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae084

• Platania L., Cardoso A., Anderson M., Fikáček M., et al. (2024): New Caledonian rovers and the historical biogeography of a hyper-diverse endemic lineage of South Pacific leaf beetles. Systematic Entomology 49(4): 565–582. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12632

• Hu F.-S., Arriaga-Varela E., Biffi G., et al. & Fikáček M. (2024): Forest leaf litter beetles of Taiwan: first DNA barcodes and first insight into the fauna. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71(1): 17–47. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.@.112278

• Fikáček M., Hu F.-S., Le M.-H. & Huang J.-P. (2024): Can immature stages be ignored in studies of forest leaf litter arthropod diversity? A test using Oxford Nanopore DNA barcoding. Insect Conservation and Diversity 17(1): 31-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12702

2023

• Minoshima Y., Fikáček M. & Liu H.-C. (2023): Larval morphology of Crephelochares and Peltochares (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 63(2): 305-322. https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2023.019

• von Beeren C., Pohl S., Fikáček M., et al. (2023): Army ant middens – Home and nursery of a diverse beetle fauna. Ecology and Evolution 13(9): e10451. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.10451

• Sýkora V., Herrera-Alsina L., et al. & Fikáček M. (2023): Reconstructing ancient dispersal through Antarctica: a case study of stream-inhabiting beetles (Coleoptera: Elmidae). Journal of Biogeography 50(11): 1939-1954. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14702

• Fikáček M., Simon Pražák J., Short A. E. Z. & Rion F. (2023): Fossil Cymbiodyta from Baltic amber confirms Euro-American ancient distribution of the genus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 81(3): 555-563.

• Simon Pražák J., Fikáček M., Prokop J. & Lackner T. (2023): Under the Cretaceous bark: fossil evidence for the ancient origin of subcortical lifestyle of clown beetles (Coleoptera, Histeridae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 81: 439-453.

• Minoshima Y. N., Kamite Y., Fikáček M. (2023): The genus Anacaena Thomson from the Ryukyu Archipelago of Japan (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 70(1): 143-157. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.70.96994

• Fikáček M., Yamamoto S., Matsumoto K., Beutel R. G., Maddison D. R. (2023): Phylogeny and systematics of Sphaeriusidae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga): minute living fossils with underestimated past and present-day diversity. Systematic Entomology 48(2): 233-249. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12571

• Boudinot B. E., Fikáček M., et al. (2023): Systematic bias and the phylogeny of Coleoptera—A response to Cai et al.(2022). Systematic Entomology 48(2): 223-232. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12570

• Arriaga-Varela E., Tomaszewska W., et al. & Fikáček M. (2023): The resurrection of Cerasommatidiidae, an enigmatic group of coccinelloid beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197(4): 1078–1115. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac082

2022

• Liu H.-C., Fikáček M., Minoshima Y. N. (2022): New record of Laccobius inopinus Gentili, 1980 (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Taiwan. Elytra 12(2): 246–248.

• Ho B.-H., Hu F.-S., Fikáček M. (2022): Oxyomus of Taiwan (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): review of the fauna, a new species and its larva associated by DNA barcoding. Zoological Studies 61(80): 1–17. doi:10.6620/ZS.2022.61-80.

• Damaška A. F., Ruan Y., Fikáček M. (2022): The genus Cangshanaltica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae): overview, new species, and notes on species complexes. Zootaxa 5219(1): 49–64. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5219.1.2

• Damaška A. F., Konstantinov A. & Fikáček M. (2022): Multiple origins of moss-inhabiting flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): molecular phylogeny, overview of genera and a new genus from Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196(2): 647-676. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab112

• Mai Z., Hu J., Minoshima Y. N., Jia F. & Fikáček M. (2022): Review of Dactylosternum Wollaston, 1854 from China and Japan (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa 5091(2): 269-300.

2021

• Liu H.-C., Ma C.-H., Fikáček M. & Wang L.-J. (2021): Annotated Catalogue of the Water Scavenger Beetles from Orchid Island, Taiwan (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 27(2): 301–309.

• Qvarnström M., Fikáček M., et al. (2021): Exceptionally preserved beetles in a Triassic coprolite of putative dinosauriform origin. Current Biology 31(15): 3374-3381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.015

• Minoshima Y. N., Liu H.-C. & Fikáček M. (2021): Description of the larva of a hygropetric Agraphydrus (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae). Elytra, New Series 11(Supplement): 95-106.

• Seidel M., Sýkora V., Leschen R. A. B., Clarkson B. & Fikáček M. (2021): Ancient relicts or recent immigrants? Different dating strategies alter diversification scenarios of New Zealand aquatic beetles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 163(107241): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107241

• Seidel M., Sýkora V., Leschen R. A. B. & Fikáček M. (2021): A review of the New Zealand Berosus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) with descriptions of three new species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 61: 243-252. https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2021.018

• Damaška A., et al. & Fikáček M. (2021): Molecular phylogeny of moss-inhabiting flea beetles from the Chabria group reveals multiple colonizations and radiations in Taiwan. Systematic Entomology 46(4): 915-925. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12502

• Arriaga-Varela E., Sýkora V. & Fikáček M. (2021): Molecular phylogeny of Megasternini terrestrial water scavenger beetles reveals repeated continental interchange during Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Systematic Entomology 46(3): 570-591. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12476

• Liu H.-C. & Fikáček M. (2021): Review of the Taiwanese Laccobius Erichson, 1837 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4963(3): 587-599. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4963.3.11

• Liu H.-C., Ma C.-H. & Fikáček M. (2021): Water scavenger beetles of Kinmen County, Taiwan (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Taiwan Journal of Biodiversity 23(1): 39-62.

• Hlaváč P., Parker J., Maruyama M. & Fikáček M. (2021): Diversification of myrmecophilous Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) and their radiation in New Caledonia. Systematic Entomology 46(2): 422-452. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12469

• Fikáček M., Matsumoto K., Perkins P., et al. (2021): The family Epimetopidae (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea): review of current knowledge, genus-level phylogeny, and taxonomic revision of Eupotemus. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 61(1): 1-34. https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2021.001

2020

• Archangelsky M., Martínez-Román N. R. & Fikáček M. (2020): Larval chaetotaxy and morphology are highly homoplastic yet phylogenetically informative in Hydrobiusini water scavenger beetles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192(2): 416-452. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa050

• Fikáček M., Zhao Q., Kobe I. N. & Grebennikov V. (2020): Kruia rediscovered: phylogeny, larval morphology, and biology of an enigmatic hydrophilid beetle from western Africa. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 78(3): 427–444.

• Rodriguez G., Fikáček M., et al. (2020): Going underwater: multiple origin and functional morphology of piercing-sucking feeding in water scavenger beetle larvae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193(1): 1-30.

• Angus R. B., et al. & Fikáček M. (2020): Karyotypes of the water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): new data and review of published records. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192(3): 958-997. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa105

• Damaška A. F., Mohagan D. J. & Fikáček M. (2020): Moss-inhabiting flea beetles in the Philippines (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). ZooKeys 960: 125-142.

• Arriaga-Varela E., et al. & Fikáček M. (2020): Micro-CT reveals hidden morphology and clarifies the phylogenetic position of Baltic amber water scavenger beetles. Historical Biology 33(9): 1395–1411. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1699921

• Sheth S., Ghate H. & Fikáček M. (2020): Review of Coelostoma of the Indian subcontinent (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) Part 1. European Journal of Taxonomy 690: 1-32. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.690

• Jia F.-L., Liang Z.-L. & Fikáček M. (2020): A review of Himalcercyon stat. nov., with description of a new species from Chinese Himalaya. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 67(1): 35–49.

• Fikáček M., Hu F.-S., et al. (2020): Comparative morphology of immature stages and adults of Hydroscapha from Taiwan, with description of a new species from Hong-Kong. Raffles Journal of Zoology 68: 334-349.

• Seidel M., Minoshima Y. N., Leschen R. A. B. & Fikáček M. (2020): Phylogeny, systematics and rarity assessment of New Zealand endemic Saphydrus beetles. Invertebrate Systematics 34(3): 260-292.

• Liu H.-C., Hu F.-S. & Fikáček M. (2020): Review of the genus Coelostoma of Taiwan with description of a new species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60(1): 155-162.

• Beutel R.G., et al. & Fikáček M. (2020): The morphological evolution of the Adephaga (Coleoptera). Systematic Entomology 45(2): 378-395.

• Beutel R.G., Liu Z., Fikáček M., et al. (2020): Burmapseudomorphus planus gen. et sp. nov. – a Late Cretaceous stem group member of Pseudomorphini (Carabidae, Coleoptera). Cretaceous Research 107(104274): 1-7.

• Fikáček M., Beutel R. G., et al. (2020): Reliable placement of beetle fossils via phylogenetic analysis – Triassic Leehermania as a case study. Systematic Entomology 45: 175-187. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12386

2019

• Fikáček M., Skale A. & Jia F.-L. (2019): Rediscovery of Coelostoma thienemanni (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): the first record from continental Asia. Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series 188: 89–94.

• Jia F.-L., Chen J.-H. & Fikáček M. (2019): A new species of Laccobius Erichson, 1837 from the Chinese Himalaya. ZooKeys 889: 65-80. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.889.34690

• Arriaga-Varela E., Cortés-Aguilar J. & Fikáček M. (2019): Water scavenger beetles in rotten cacti: a review of Agna with the description of a new species from Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 90(e902856): 1-12.

• Fikáček M. (2019): Neotropical leaf litter beetle genus Motonerus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): new species, distribution data and description of third instar larva. Neotropical Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-019-00679-4

• Fikáček M. & Liu H.-C. (2019): A review of Thysanarthria with description of seven new species and comments on its relationships to Chaetarthria. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 59(1): 229-252. https://doi.org/10.2478/aemnp-2019-0020

• Arriaga-Varela E., Tomaszewska W. & Fikáček M. (2019): A new genus of Endomychinae (Coleoptera: Endomychidae) from the Neotropics with unusual mouthparts. Neotropical Entomology 48(2): 290-301.

• Jia F.-L., Liang Z.-L., Ryndevich S. K. & Fikáček M. (2019): Two new species and additional faunistic records of Cercyon Leach, 1817 from China. Zootaxa 4565(4): 501-514.

2018

• Vondráček D., Tkoč M. & Fikáček M. (2018): Is repeated cypermethrin fumigation dangerous for the mitochondrial DNA in dry insect samples? Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58(2): 609-614.

• Fikáček M., Liang W.-R., Hsiao Y., Jia F.-L. & Vondráček D. (2018): Biology and morphology of immature stages of banana-associated Protosternum beetles. Zoologischer Anzeiger 277: 85-100.

• Szczepanski W. T., et al. & Fikáček M. (2018): High diversity of Cetiocyon beetles along an elevational gradient on Mt. Wilhelm, New Guinea. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 76(2): 323-347.

• Fikáček M., Minoshima Y. & Jäch M. A. (2018): Larval morphology of Yateberosus, a New Caledonian endemic genus of Laccobius. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58(1): 195-206.

• Seidel M., Minoshima Y. N., Arriaga-Varela E. & Fikáček M. (2018): Breaking a disjunct distribution: a review of Cylorygmus and Relictorygmus gen. nov. Annales Zoologici 68(2): 375-402.

• Minoshima Y. N., et al. & Fikáček M. (2018): Morphology and biology of the flower-visiting water scavenger beetle genus Rygmodus. Entomological Science 21(4): 363-384.

• Arriaga-Varela E., Wong S.-Y., Kirejtshuk A. & Fikáček M. (2018): Review of the flower-inhabiting water scavenger beetle genus Cycreon. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65(1): 99-115. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.26261

• Deler-Hernández A., et al. & Fikáček M. (2018): Multiple origins of the Phaenonotum beetles in the Greater Antilles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183: 97-120.

• Arriaga-Varela E., Seidel M. & Fikáček M. (2018): A new genus of coprophagous water scavenger beetle from Africa (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). African Invertebrates 59(1): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.3897/AfrInvertebr.59.14621

2017

• Ryndevich S. K., Jia F.-L. & Fikáček M. (2017): A review of the Asian species of the Cercyon unipunctatus group (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57(2): 535-576.

• Minoshima Y. N., Iwata Y., Fikáček M. & Hayashi M. (2017): Description of immature stages of Laccobius kunashiricus. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57: 97-119.

• Newton A. F., Švec Z. & Fikáček M. (2017): A new genus and two new species of Leiodinae from Chile. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57: 121-140.

• Arriaga-Varela E., et al. & Fikáček M. (2017): A review of Cercyon Leach of the Greater Antilles. ZooKeys 681: 39-93.

• Fikáček M., Minoshima Y. N., et al. (2017): Cretocrenis burmanicus, the first Mesozoic amber inclusion of a water scavenger beetle. Cretaceous Research 77: 49-55.

• Deler-Hernandez A., Fikáček M., Delgado J. (2017): The Hydraenidae of Cuba III. Description of two new hygropetric species of Hydraena. Zootaxa 4250(5): 434-446.

• Fikáček M., Gustafson G. T., Short A. E. Z. (2017): On wet rocks with snorkels: immature stages of Tritonus cascade beetles. Annales Zoologici 67(1): 91-107.

• Fikáček M. & Gimmel M. L. (2017): On the identity of Sternosternus grouvellei Guillebeau, 1894. Zootaxa 4237(3): 578-582.

• Jia F.-L., et al. & Fikáček M. (2017): Two new species of Coelostoma Brulle, 1835 from China. Zootaxa 4232(1): 113-122.

• Toussaint E. A. F., et al. & Fikáček M. (2017): The peril of dating beetles. Systematic Entomology 42(1): 1-10.

2016

• Krell F. T., Klimeš P., Rocha L. A., Fikáček M. & Miller S. E. (2016): Preserve specimens for reproducibility. Nature 539: 168.

• Bhubaneshwari Devi M., et al. & Fikáček M. (2016): Redescription and lectotype designation of Chasmogenus abnormalis (Sharp). Zootaxa 4144(2): 296-300.

• Lin R., Jia F. & Fikáček M. (2016): A review of Elocomosta Hansen with a description of a new species from China. ZooKeys 607: 80-92.

• Seidel M., Arriaga-Varela E. & Fikáček M. (2016): Establishment of Cylominae Zaitzev, 1908 as a valid name for the subfamily Rygmodinae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56(1): 159-165.

• Angus R. B., et al. & Fikáček M. (2016): Taxonomy, larval morphology and cytogenetics of Lihelophorus, the Tibetan endemic subgenus of Helophorus. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56(1): 109-148.

• Deler-Hernández A. & Fikáček M. (2016): Larval morphology and chaetotaxy of three Caribbean Berosus Leach, 1817. Aquatic Insects 37(2): 99-113.

• Minoshima Y., Fikáček M. & Ohara M. (2016): Distribution of Cercyon lineolatus (Motschulsky) (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Elytra, New Series 6(1): 165-169.

• Deler-Hernández A. & Fikáček M. (2016): Redescriptions and lectotype designations of Central American species of Phaenonotum Sharp. ZooKeys 579: 83-98.

• Toussaint E.F.A., Fikáček M. & Short A. E. Z. (2016): India-Madagascar vicariance explains cascade beetle biogeography. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118(4): 982-991.

2015

• Fikáček M. & Kropacek D. (2015): A new species of Sphaeridium from northeastern India and Myanmar. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55: 673-680.

• Minoshima Y. N., Fikáček M., Gunter N. & Leschen R. A. B. (2015): Larval morphology and biology of the New Zealand-Chilean genera Cylomissus and Anticura. Coleopterists Bulletin 69(4): 687-712.

• Jia F.-L., Lin R.-C., Li B.-J. & Fikáček M. (2015): A review of omicrine genera Omicrogiton, Mircogioton and Peratogonus of China. ZooKeys 511: 96-116.

• Fikáček M. & Watts C. H. S. (2015): Notes on Australian Anacaenini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 427-434.

• Gentili E. & Fikáček M. (2015): A new CW Mediterranean species of Laccobius (Dimorpholaccobius). Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 14(60): 99-106.

• Fikáček M., Maruyama M., et al. (2015): Protosternini corroborated as monophyletic and its larva described for the first time. Invertebrate Systematics 29(1): 23-36.

• Fikáček M., Jia F.-L. & Ryndevich S. K. (2015): A new aberrant species of Nipponocercyon from mountains of southeastern China. Zootaxa 3904(4): 572-580.

2014

• Fikáček M., Minoshima Y. & Newton A. F. (2014): A review of Andotypus and Austrotypus gen. nov., rygmodine genera with austral disjunct distribution. Annales Zoologici 64(4): 557-596.

• Jia F.-L., Aston P. & Fikáček M. (2014): Review of the Chinese species of the genus Coelostoma. Zootaxa 3887(3): 354-376.

• Lokkos A., Boukal M. & Fikáček M. (2014): The hydrophilid beetle Pachysternum capense became a world-wide adventive species. North-West Journal of Zoology 10(2): 333-336.

• Fikáček M. & Vondracek D. (2014): A review of Pseudorygmodus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54(2): 497-514.

• Albertoni F. F. & Fikáček M. (2014): A new bromeliad-inhabiting species of Omicrus Sharp from South Brazil. Spixiana 37(1): 111-122.

• Bloom D. D., Fikáček M. & Short A. E. Z. (2014): Clade age and diversification rate variation explain disparity in species richness among water scavenger beetle lineages. PLOS One 9(6): e98430. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098430.

• Deler-Hernandez A., Cala-Riquelme F. & Fikáček M. (2014): A review of the genus Oosternum Sharp of the West Indies. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 61: 43-63.

• Machackova L. & Fikáček M. (2014): Catalogue of the type specimens deposited in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague. Polyneopteran orders. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54: 399-450.

• Clarkson B., Albertoni F. & Fikáček M. (2014): Taxonomy and biology of the bromeliad-inhabiting genus Lachnodacnum. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54: 157-194.

• Fikáček M., Prokin A., et al. (2014): Modern hydrophilid clades present and widespread in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170: 710-734.

2013

• Jia F.-L., Fikáček M. & Song K.-Q. (2013): Hemisphaera orientalis new species, the first species of Hemisphaera from the Oriental Region. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 86: 301-306.

• Deler-Hernández A., Cala-Riquelme F. & Fikáček M. (2013): Description of a new species of Phaenonotum from eastern Cuba. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53: 615-622.

• Ryndevich S. K. & Fikáček M. (2013): Faunistic and zoogeographic notes on hydrophiloid beetles from the Palaearctic region. Vestnik BarDU 1: 32-37.

• Balke M., Schmidt S., et al. & Fikáček M. (2013): Biodiversity into your hands – A call for a virtual global natural history 'metacollection'. Frontiers in Zoology 10: 55.

• Fikáček M., Maruyama M., Vondracek D. & Short A. E. Z. (2013): Chimaerocyon gen. nov., a morphologically aberrant myrmecophilous genus of water scavenger beetle. Zootaxa 3716: 277-288.

• Short A. E. Z. & Fikáček M. (2013): Molecular Phylogeny, Evolution, and Classification of the Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera). Systematic Entomology 38: 723-752.

• Fikáček M., Minoshima Y., et al. (2013): Morphology of adults and larvae and integrative taxonomy of Gondwanan genera Tormus and Afrotormus. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53: 75-126.

• Fikáček M. & Schmied H. (2013): Insect fauna of the Late Miocene locality of Öhningen (Germany) less diverse than reported. Journal of Paleontology 87(3): 427–443.

• Jia F.-L., Gentili E. & Fikáček M. (2013): The genus Laccobius in China: new species and new records. Zootaxa 3635: 402-418. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3635.4.4

• Deler-Hernandez A., Fikáček M. & Cala-Riquelme F. (2013): A review of the genus Berosus Leach of Cuba. ZooKeys 273: 73–106.

• Fikáček M. & Rocchi S. (2013): Cercyon hungaricus, a new junior subjective synonym of C. bononiensis. Zootaxa 3616: 95-98.

2012

• Fikáček M., Delgado J. A. & Gentili E. (2012): The Hydrophiloid beetles of the Socotra Island. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52(supplementum 2): 107-130.

• Boukal D. S., Fikáček M., et al. (2012): New and interesting records of water beetles from the Czech Republic. Klapalekiana 48: 1-21.

• Fikáček M., Ryndevich S. K. & Jia F.-L. (2012): An aberrant species of Nipponocercyon from Sichuan, China. ZooKeys 214: 13-27.

• Fikáček M., Prokin A. A., et al. (2012): Phylogeny and the fossil record of the Helophoridae reveal Jurassic origin of modern hydrophiloid lineages. Systematic Entomology 37: 420-447.

• Fikáček M., Prokin A. A., et al. (2012): Revision of Mesozoic fossils of the helophorid lineage of the superfamily Hydrophiloidea. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52: 89–127.

• Fikáček M., Leschen R. A. B, Newton A. F. & Gunter N. (2012): Horelophus walkeri rediscovered: adult morphology and notes on biology. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52: 129–146.

• Fikáček M. (2012): A new species of leaf-litter inhabiting Georissus from Borneo. Zootaxa 3316: 63–68.

• Fikáček M., Jia F.-L. & Prokin A. (2012): Review of the Asian species of the genus Pachysternum. Zootaxa 3219: 1-53.

2011

• Litovkin S. V. & Fikáček M. (2011): New records of Georissus costatus from Russia. Russian Entomological Journal 20(4): 383-385.

• Fikáček M. & Engel M. S. (2011): An aquatic water scavenger beetle in Early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic. Annales Zoologici 61(4): 621-628.

• Fikáček M. & Jia F.-L. (2011): On the identity of Anchorosternum sinense. Zootaxa 3121: 66-68.

• Fikáček M., Barclay M. & Perkins P. (2011): Two new species of the Epimetopus mendeli species group. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51: 477-504.

• Jia F.-L., Fikáček M. & Ryndevich S. (2011): Taxonomic notes on Chinese Cercyon species. Zootaxa 3090: 41-56.

• Fikáček M., Prokin A. & Angus R. B. (2011): A long-living species of the hydrophiloid beetles: Helophorus sibiricus from the early Miocene deposits of Kartashevo. ZooKeys 130: 239-254.

• Hajek J., et al. & Fikáček M. (2011): Two new species of Satonius Endrödy-Younga from China. Zootaxa 3016: 51-62.

• Short A. E. Z. & Fikáček M. (2011): World catalogue of the Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera): additions and corrections II (2006-2010). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51(1): 83-122.

• Fikáček M., Hajek J. & Schmied H. (2011): On the identity of fossil aquatic beetles from Tertiary localities in the southern Upper Rhine Graben. ZooKeys 78: 15-25.

2010

• Fikáček M., Prokop J. & Nel A. (2010): Fossil water scavenger beetles of the subtribe Hydrobiusina from the Upper Oligocene locality of Aix-en-Provence. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50: 445-458.

• Fikáček M. & Short A. E. Z. (2010): Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the genus Cetiocyon and its discovery in the Neotropical region. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 68(3): 309-329.

• Fikáček M. (2010): Sphaerocetum gen. n., a new genus of the Protosternini from peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 2601: 28–36.

• Fikáček M. (2010): HYDROPHILIDAE: Sphaeridiinae (Coleoptera). In: Jäch M. A. & Balke M. (eds.): Water Beetles of New Caledonia, volume 1. Monographs of Coleoptera 3: 323-364.

• Fikáček M. (2010): HYDROPHILIDAE: The genus Kanala Balfour-Browne (Coleoptera). In: Jäch M. A. & Balke M. (eds.): Water Beetles of New Caledonia, volume 1. Monographs of Coleoptera 3: 365-394.

• Fikáček M. (2010): HYDROPHILIDAE: The genus Chaetarthria Stephens – description of a new species from New Caledonia. In: Jäch M. A. & Balke M. (eds.): Water Beetles of New Caledonia, volume 1. Monographs of Coleoptera 3: 263-269.

• Fikáček M., Schmied H. & Prokop J. (2010): Fossil hydrophilid beetles of the Late Oligocene Rott Formation (Germany). Acta Geologica Sinica 84(4): 732-750.

• Fikáček M. & Short A. E. Z. (2010): A revision of the Neotropical genus Sacosternum Hansen. Zootaxa 2538: 1-37.

• Prokin A., Ren D. & Fikáček M. (2010): New Mesozoic water scavenger beetles from the Yixian Formation in China. Annales Zoologici 60: 173-179.

• Fikáček M. & Falamarzi Sh. (2010): Georissus persicus sp. nov. from Iran. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50: 107-116.

• Hoshina H. & Fikáček M. (2010): Morphological study and taxonomic revision of the genus Nipponocercyon Sato. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50: 117-130.

• Hajek J. & Fikáček M. (2010): Taxonomic revision of the Hydroporus bodemeyeri species complex. Journal of Natural History 44(27-28): 1631-1657.

• Fikáček M., Wedmann S. & Schmied H. (2010): Diversification of the greater hydrophilines clade of giant water scavenger beetles dated back to the Middle Eocene. Invertebrate Systematics 24: 9-22.

• Fikáček M., Gentili E. & Short A. E. Z. (2010): Order Coleoptera, family Hydrophilidae. In: van Harten A. (ed.): Arthropod fauna of the UAE, volume 3.

2009

• Fikáček M. (2009): The occurrence of introduced species of the genus Cercyon in the Neotropical region. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 68(3-4): 351-357.

• Fikáček M., Boukal M., et al. (2009): First records of Cercyon hungaricus from Slovakia. Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae Biologicae 94: 73-80.

• Gentili E. & Fikáček M. (2009): Taxonomic notes on Laccobius, subgenus Glyptolaccobius, with new records and description of four new species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49(2): 607-623.

• Fikáček M. & Sipkova H. (2009): New Asian Hydroscapha, with comments on male-female association of co-occurring species. Zootaxa 2286: 31-48.

• Fikáček M. (2009): Taxonomic revision of New World species of the genus Oosternum Sharp. III. A new species from Costa Rica. Koleopterologische Rundschau 79: 179-187.

• Fikáček M. & Hebauer F. (2009): Taxonomic revision of New World species of Oosternum Sharp II. The O. convexum species group. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49(1): 103-117.

• Fikáček M. & Travnicek D. (2009): Georissidae of the United Arab Emirates. In: van Harten A. (ed.): Arthropod fauna of the UAE, volume 2. Pp. 145-148.

• Fikáček M. (2009): Order Coleoptera. Family Helophoridae. In: van Harten A. (ed.): Arthropod fauna of the UAE, volume 2. Pp. 142-144.

• Fikáček M., Hebauer F. & Hansen M. (2009): Taxonomic revision of New World species of Oosternum Sharp I. Definition of species groups and revision of O. aequinoctiale species group. Zootaxa 2054: 1-37.

2008

• Hajek J. & Fikáček M. (2008): A review of the genus Satonius (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Torridincolidae): taxonomic revision, larval morphology, notes on wing polymorphism. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48: 655-676.

• Fikáček M., Archangelsky M. & Torres P. M. (2008): Primary chaetotaxy of the larval head capsule of the Hydrophilidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 1874: 16-34.

• Fikáček M. (2008): A new species of the genus Cyrtonion from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48: 27-35.

• Bily S., Fikáček M. & Sipek P. (2008): First record of myrmecophily in buprestid beetles: immature stages of Habroloma myrmecophila sp. nov. Insect Systematic & Evolution 39: 121-131.

• Boukal D. S., Boukal M., Fikáček M., et al. (2008): Katalog vodních brouků České republiky. Klapalekiana 43(2007)(Supplementum): 1-289.

• Anlas S., Fikáček M. & Tezcan S. (2008): Notes on the seasonal dynamics of the coprophagous Hydrophilidae in western Turkey. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 40(1): 409-417.

• Fikáček M., Hajek J. & Prokop J. (2008): New records of the water beetles from the central European Oligocene-Miocene deposits. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 44(2): 187-199.

2007

• Prokop J. & Fikáček M. (2007): Early Oligocene insect fauna from Seifhennersdorf (Saxony, Germany). Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, series B - Historia Naturalis 63(2-4): 205-213.

• Fikáček M. (2007): Emmidolium excavatum Orchymont (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae) confirmed in Africa and the Arabian peninsula. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47: 117-122.

2006

• Fikáček M. & Angus R. B. (2006): Helophorus (Thaumhelophorus) inexpectatus ANGUS, 1995 – description of male genitalia and notes on morphological variability. Koleopterologische Rundschau 76: 277-282.

• Fikáček M. & Short A. E. Z. (2006): A revision of the Neotropical genus Motonerus Hansen. Zootaxa 1268: 1-38.

• Fikáček M. (2006): Contributions to the taxonomy of Pachysternum and Cyrtonion (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). Biologia 61(2): 149-157. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-006-0024-x

• Fikáček M. (2006): Taxonomic status of Cercyon alpinus, C. exorabilis, C. strandi and C. tatricus. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 107 B (2005): 145-164.

2005

• Fikáček M. & Hebauer F. (2005): A new aberrant species of the genus Pacrillum from Nepal. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45: 59-64.

• Fikáček M. (2005): Taxonomic revision of the Cercyon (Arcocercyon) dieganus species group. Bulletin del'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 75: 79-102.

2004

• Archangelsky M. & Fikáček M. (2004): Description of the egg case and larva of Anacaena and a revision of Anacaenini larvae. European Journal of Entomology 101(4): 629-636.

• Fikáček M. & Boukal M. (2004): Pachysternum capense, a new genus and species for Europe, and updated key to genera of European Sphaeridiinae. Klapalekiana 40: 1-12.

Book Chapters

• Fikáček M. (2019): Superfamily Hydrophiloidea Leach, 1815. Pp. 249-250. In: Ślipiński A. & Lawrence J. (eds.) Australian Beetles. Volume 2. CSIRO Publishing.

• Fikáček M. (2019): Georissidae Castelnau, 1840. Pp. 251-257. In: Ślipiński A. & Lawrence J. (eds.) Australian Beetles. Volume 2. CSIRO Publishing.

• Fikáček M. (2019): Hydrochidae Thomson, 1859. Pp. 258-264. In: Ślipiński A. & Lawrence J. (eds.) Australian Beetles. Volume 2. CSIRO Publishing.

• Fikáček M. (2019): Spercheidae Erichson, 1837. Pp. 265-270. In: Ślipiński A. & Lawrence J. (eds.) Australian Beetles. Volume 2. CSIRO Publishing.

• Fikáček M. (2019): Hydrophilidae Leach, 1815. Pp. 271-337. In: Ślipiński A. & Lawrence J. (eds.) Australian Beetles. Volume 2. CSIRO Publishing.

• Fikáček M., Angus R.B., Gentili E., et al. (2015): Helophoridae, Georissidae, Hydrochidae, Epimetopidae, Spercheidae, Hydrophilidae. Pp. 25-76. In: Löbl I. & Löbl D. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, volume 2. Brill, Leiden-Boston.

• Travnicek D., Fikáček M. & Boukal M. (2005): Hydrophiloidea. Pp. 422-424. In: Farkac J., et al. (eds.): Červený seznam ohrožených druhů České republiky. Praha.

• Boukal D.S., Fikáček M., et al. (2003): Water Beetles of the Novohradské hory Mts. Pp. 163-174. In: Papacek M. (ed.): Biodiverzita a přírodní podmínky Novohradských hor II. České Budějovice.

Book Reviews

• Fikáček M. & Boukal D. S. (2005): Review of LÖBL I. & SMETANA A. (eds.) 2004: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 2. Klapalekiana 41: 88-90.

Online Publications

• Fikáček M. (2011): Spercheidae Erichson 1837. Spercheus Kugelann 1798. Filterfeeding water scavenger beetles. Tree of Life Web Project.