Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology
Scholtz, CH
BSc(Hons) MSc DSc(Pret) - Professor
NRF Rating: B1
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3236
Fax number: 012 362 5242
E-mail address: chscholtz@zoology.up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Sustainable insect management
Biology of fragmented populations; Conservation planning; Conservation and restoration ecology; and Biodiversity and systematics
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Veldtman R, McGeoch MA, Scholtz CH: 2004. Parasitoids of southern African wild silk moths (Lepidoptera). African Entomology, 12 (1), pp 117-122.
Scholtz CH, Harrison JDG, Grebennikov VV: 2004. Dung beetle (Scarabaeus (Pachysoma)) biology and immature stages: Reversal to ancestral states under desert conditions (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 83 (4), pp 453-460.
Philips TK, Edmonds WD, Scholtz CH: 2004. A phylogenetic analysis of the New World tribe Phanaeini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): Hypotheses on relationships and origins. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 35, pp 43-63.
Grebennikov VV, Scholtz CH: 2004. The basal phylogeny of Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) inferred from larval morphology. Invertebrate Systematics, 18, pp 321-348.
Philips TK, Pretorius E, Scholtz CH: 2004. A phylogenetic analysis of dung beetles (Scarabaeinae: Scarabaeidae): Unrolling an evolutionary history. Invertebrate Systematics, 18, pp 53-88.
Davis ALV, Scholtz CH: 2004. Local and regional species ranges of a dung beetle assemblage from the semi-arid Karoo/Kalahari margins, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments, 57 (1), pp 61-85.
Dacke M, Byrne M, Scholtz CH, Warrant E: 2004. Lunar orientation in a beetle. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section B-Biological Sciences, 271, pp 361-365.
Davis ALV, Scholtz CH, Dooley PW, Bham N, Kryger U: 2004. Scarabaeine dung beetles as indicators of biodiversity, habitat transformation and pest control chemicals in agro-ecosystems. South African Journal of Science, 100, pp 415-424.
Grebennikov VV, Ballerio A, Ocampo FC, Scholtz CH: 2004. Larvae of Ceratocanthidae and Hybosoridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea): Study of morphology, phylogenetic analysis and evidence of paraphyly of Hybosoridae. Systematic Entomology, 29, pp 524-543.
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