Ladislav Bocák

University Hospital Olomouc — Czech Republic

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution(140), Forest Insect Ecology and Management(74), Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies(56), Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography(47), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(28)

Publications166 total

Phylogenomics‐based click‐beetle classification tackles multiple origins of phenotypic modifications
Systematic Entomology·2025Open Access
Validation of earlier proposed taxa Tibionemini new tribe and Hiekeolycus winkleri new species
Zootaxa·2025· 1 cited
Taxonomy in the digital era: ZooBank allows the registration of unavailable taxonomic works
Insect Systematics and Diversity·2025Open Access
An erotine net-winged beetle from Cenomanian Burmese amber confirms the Mesozoic origins of subfamilies (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Lycidae: Erotinae)
Palaeoentomology·2025
Phylogenetic origin of an insect fauna at the boundary of the Palaearctic and Oriental realms: Evidence from ‘site‐based’ mitogenomics
Journal of Biogeography·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Forest leaf litter beetles of Taiwan: first DNA barcodes and first insight into the fauna
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
New Species of Paussus, Subgenus Scaphipaussus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae), from Southeast Asia Reveal Ambiguities in Species Group Limits and High Species Diversity in the Oriental Region
Insects·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Enigmatic Campyloxenus: Shedding light on the delayed origin of bioluminescence in ancient Gondwanan click beetles
iScience·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Neogene climatic fluctuations and poor connectivity with the centres of diversity shaped the Western Palaearctic net-winged beetle fauna
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society·2023Open Access
Untangling the evolution of soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) and the evaluation of the morphological phylogenetic signal in a soft‐bodied elateroid lineage
Cladistics·2023· 24 citedOpen Access
European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
European Journal of Taxonomy·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Ontogenetic modifications produce similar phenotypes in distantly related click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Insect Systematics and Diversity·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Paussus (Edaphopaussus) asseyi sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae) from the Nguru Mountains of the Eastern African Arc in Tanzania
Zootaxa·2023Open Access
Ontogenetic modifications produce similar phenotypes in distantly related click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Eocene aposematic patterns persist in modern European Lycidae beetles despite the absence of co-mimics
iScience·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Systematic bias and the phylogeny of Coleoptera—A response to Cai et al. (2022) following the responses to Cai et al. (2020)
Systematic Entomology·2022· 18 cited
Neogene climatic fluctuations and poor connectivity with the centres of diversity shaped the Western Palearctic net-winged beetle fauna
2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Analysis of the Holarctic Dictyoptera aurora Complex (Coleoptera, Lycidae) Reveals Hidden Diversity and Geographic Structure in Müllerian Mimicry Ring
Insects·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
How Do Genomic, Mitochondrial, and Morphological Data Contribute to the Linnean Classification of the Porrostomine Net-Winged Beetles (Coleoptera, Lycidae)?
Insect Systematics and Diversity·2022· 2 cited
Beetle bioluminescence outshines extant aerial predators
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2022· 24 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Michal Motyka(13), Milada Bocáková(11), Alfried P. Vogler(11), Robin Kundrata(9), Dominik Kusy(9), Matěj Boček(8), Michal Mášek(7), Nicole L. Gunter(5), Dirk Ahrens(4), Toby Hunt(3), Zuzana Levkaničová(3), Katerina Sklenarova(3), Renata Bílková(3), Christopher Barton(2), Douglas Chesters(2), C. Lorna Culverwell(2), Steven Dodsworth(2), Stephen L. Cameron(2), Adam Ślipiński(2), Seth Bybee(2)