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Anna Kocorek I am a doctor in the Department of Biosystematics at the University of Opole (Poland). My primary interests in the Pentatomoidea are related to the morphology, classification, and phylogeny of the family Dinidoridae (Oriental and Afrotropical family of Pentatomoidea).
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Information: Department of Biosystematics Division of Invertebrate Zoology University of Opole Oleska 22, 45-052 Opole POLAND |
Current Projects:
1) Variability of morphological features of the
Oriental species.
2) External morphology of eggs.
3) Comparative study of the metathoracic wing.
4) Description of new species.
5) Revision of the genera
Coridiellus, Megymenum.
6) Systematic position and new species of
Mimikana (Pentatomidae ?).
Publications:
Lis, J. A. and A. Kocorek. 1996. Thalma secunda n. sp. from New Guinea, and notes on other species of the family (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum, Entomology 6-7: 249-252.
Lis, J. A. and A. Kocorek. 1997. The hindwing venation and its taxonomic value in Dinidoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Genus 8(3-4): 567-581.
Kocorek, A. 1998. Modifications of bucculae in the family Dinidoridae (Heteroptera, Pentatomoidea). Abstract of a communication presented at the VI European Congress of Entomology. Czeskie Budziejowice, 1998, 42.
Kocorek, A. 2000. Megymenum lisi and M. megaspinosum, two new species of Oriental Dinidoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae). Genus 11(2): 113-117.
Kocorek, A. and J. A. Lis. 2000. A cladistic revision of the Megymeninae of the world (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 69: 7-30.
Kocorek, A. 2001. The spermatheca and its taxonomic value in the subfamily Megymeninae (Heteroptera: Dinidoridae). Abstract of a communication presented at the 2. European Hemiptera Congress - Fiesa (Slovenia), 2001.
Kocorek, A. and T. Danielczok-Demska. 2002. Comparative morphology of the spermatheca and its taxonomic value in the family Dinidoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). European Journal of Entomology 99: 91-98.
Kocorek, A. and T. Danielczok. 2002. Megymenum aruensis, a new species from the Australian region (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae). Genus 13(1): 5-8.
Lis, J. A., M. Jastrzebska, and A. Kocorek. 2002. Comparative studies on the pretarsal structures in Dinidoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 71: 165-184.
Danielczok, T. and A. Kocorek. 2003. External morphology of eggs of four African species of Coridius Ill. (Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea: Dinidoridae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 72: 63-73.
Kocorek, A. 2003. Coridius pseudoflavomarginatus, sp. n. from Madagascar, and new records for some species of the family Dinidoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 72: 51-55.
Kocorek, A. 2004. Study on the external body structures of Megymenum affine Boisduval (Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea: Dinidoridae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 73(4): 283-289.
Kocorek, A. 2004. Byrsodepsus zetteli, a new species of dinidorid bugs from India (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 73(4): 323-326.
Kocorek, A. and J. A. Lis. 2008. Megymenum sumatranum, a new dinidorid species from Sumatra (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae. Genus 19(1): 21-25.
Kocorek, A. 2012. New records for some Old World Dinidoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea). Heteroptera Poloniae – Acta Faunistica 4: 1-4.
Kocorek, A. and H. Ghate. 2012. Megymenum distanti, a remarkable species of the Dinidoridae subfamily Megymeninae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae) from India. Zootaxa 3218: 31-39.
Hebda, G. and A. Kocorek. 2012. Terrestrial bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the forest-type ‘Rozumice’ Nature Reserve in the Opole Province (East Sudetes). Heteroptera Poloniae - Acta Faunistica 5: 9-16.
Lis, J. A., A. Kocorek, D. J. Ziaja, and P. Lis. 2015. New insight into the systematic position of the endemic Madagascan genus Amberiana (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae) using 12S rDNA sequences. Turkish Journal of Zoology 39: 610-619.
Kocorek, A. 2018. First country records for two species of the Afrotropical genus Coridiellus J. A. Lis, 1990 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae). Heteroptera Poloniae – Acta Faunistica 12: 83-85.
Kocorek, A. 2020. New Afrotropical species of the genus Coridiellus J.A. Lis, 1990 with a key to its species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae). Zootaxa 4767(1): 193-200.
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