Keith Philips

University of Pretoria

• Insect biodiversity (systematics), especially on the Coleoptera (beetles), with emphasis
  on phylogenetics, biogeography, and behavior.
• Databases and geographic information systems and their use in the study
  and preservation of biological diversity.
• New Mezium sp

• The effect of fire regime on beetles in oak savannahs in Wisconsin
• Rolling behavior in dung beetles.
• Evolutionary history of several tribes of dung beetles.
• A book: Dung beetles of Africa.
• Beetles associated with honey bee colonies in Zimbabwe.
• Biodiversity studies of the spider beetle fauna of southern Africa
• A new genus of longhorned beetle from Namaqualand, South Africa
• Two new genera of flightless spider beetles from Madagascar.
• Aggregation of net-winged beetles and their mimics in South Africa.
• A test of the evolution of flightlessness in spider beetles with molecular data.
• The Beetles of Rio Bravo Conservation Area, Belize.
• The Coleoptera of a proposed park in Sarawak, Malaysia.

• Biol 224 General Zoology
• Biol 225 General Zoology lab

• 200x. Philips, T.K. and C.H. Scholtz. Phylogenetic analysis of the Eucraniini (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): A test of monophyly and an examination of evolution in a clade of dung beetles. (submitted: Journal of Natural History).
• 200x. Pretorius, R., T.K. Philips and C.H. Scholtz. Geometric morphometrics, the metendosternite and its use in phylogenetics (submitted: Elytron).
• 2001. Harrison J. du G., C.H. Scholtz, T.K. Philips and S.L. Chown Phylogeny of Pachysoma MacLeay and related flightless Scarabaeini (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). (accepted: Systematic Entomology).
• 2001. Philips, T.K. A record of Micromalthus debilis LeConte (Coleoptera: Micromalthidae) from Central America and a discussion of its distribution. (In press: Florida Entomologist).
• 2000. Philips, T.K. and C.H. Scholtz. A new genus and species of trichome bearing dung beetle (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from South Africa. (In press: African Entomology).
• 2000. Philips, T.K. A Phylogenetic analysis of the New World Ptininae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea). Systematic Entomology. 25:1-29.
• 1999. Bond, W.B. and T.K. Philips. Diversity, phenology, and flower hosts of anthophilous long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in a southeastern Ohio forest. Entomological News. 110: 267?278.
• 1999. Philips, T.K. Revision of the New World genus Niptinus Fall (Coleoptera: Anobiidae: Ptininae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 71: 137-158.
• 1998. Philips, T.K., W.E. Steiner, and C.A. Triplehorn. A new species of Central American Platydema Laporte and Brullé (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) recently established in Florida. Coleopterists Bulletin. 52: 291-296.
• 1998. Philips, T.K. A new genus and species of putatively myrmecophilous ptinine, Coleoaethes tetralobus (Coleoptera: Anobiidae: Ptininae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist.74(2):1-5.
• 1998. Philips, T.K., and M.A. Ivie. The Methiini of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with notes on circum-Caribbean species. Entomologica Scandinavia. 29: 57-87.
• 1998. Philips, T.K. and D.C. Smith. Notes on the biology and hosts of Procecidochares atra (Loew) (Diptera: Tephritidae): Evidence for cryptic species. Entomological News.109: 159-164.
• 1998. Philips, T.K. A new genus and species of spider beetle from the Virgin Islands: Lachnoniptus lindae (Coleoptera: Anobiidae: Ptininae). Florida Entomologist. 81: 1-6.
• 1998. Philips, T.K., L.L. Ivie, and M.A. Ivie. Leaf Mining in Spider Beetles (Coleoptera: Anobiidae: Ptininae): An unreported mode of larval feeding in the Bostrichoidea. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 100: 147-153.
• 1996. Philips, T.K., R.G. Hancock, and W.A. Foster. Epigamic display and unique mating position in Wyeomyia arthrostigma. (Diptera: Culicidae) Journal of Insect Behavior. 9: 739-753.
• 1990. Ivie, M.A., T.K. Philips, and K.A. Johnson. High Altitude Aggregations of Anetia briarea Godart (Nymphalidae: Danainae). Journal of the Lepidopterist's Society. 44: 209-214.