Josip Skejo

Josip Skejo, Croatian entomologist and evolutionary biologist

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Deparment of Biology, Division of Zoology, Evolution Lab, Rooseveltov trg 6, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Skejo, J., Rebrina, F., Buzzetti, F.M., Ivković, S., Rašić, A. & Tvrtković, N. 2014. First records of Croatian and Serbian Tetrigidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) with description of a new subspecies of Tetrix transsylvanica (Bazyluk & Kis, 1960). Zootaxa 3856(3): 419–432. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3856.3.7 Reference page.

Skejo, J. & Gupta, S.K. 2015. On the specific status of Hedotettix cristatus Karny, 1915 (Tetrigidae: Tetriginae). Zootaxa 4018(4): 584–592. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Skejo, J., Rebrina, F., Tvrtković, N., Gomboc, S. & Heller, K-G. 2015. More than a century old ‘Platycleis Kraussi case’ finally resolved (Tettigoniidae: Platycleidini). Zootaxa 3990(4): 497–524. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.4.2. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Skejo, J. & Caballero, J.H.S. 2016. A hidden pygmy devil from the Philippines: Arulenus miae sp. nov. —a new species serendipitously discovered in an amateur Facebook post (Tetrigidae: Discotettiginae). Zootaxa 4067(3): 383–393. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.7. Reference page.

Lehmann, A., Devriese, H., Tumbrinck, J., Skejo, J., Lehmann, G.U.C. & Hochkirch, A. 2017. The importance of validated alpha taxonomy for phylogenetic and DNA barcoding studies: a comment on species identification of pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae). ZooKeys 679: 139—144. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.679.12507. Reference page.
Silva, D.S.M., Skejo, J., Pereira, M.R., de Domenico, F.C. & Sperber, C.F. 2017. Comments on the recent changes in taxonomy of pygmy unicorns, with description of a new species of Metopomystrum from Brazil (Insecta, Tetrigidae, Cleostratini, Miriatrini). ZooKeys 702: 1–18. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.702.13981 Reference page.

Muhammad, A.A., Tan, M.K., Abdullah, N.A., Azirun, M.S., Bhaskar, D. & Skejo, J. 2018. An annotated catalogue of the pygmy grasshoppers of the tribe Scelimenini Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with two new Scelimena species from the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. Zootaxa 4485(1): 1–70. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4485.1.1 Reference page.
Skejo, J., Gupta, S.K. & Tumbrinck, J. 2018. Nymph inadvertently described as new species for a fourth time? On the identity of Euscelimena hardi (Tetrigidae: Scelimeninae) with general remarks on the identification of pygmy grasshopper nymphs. Zootaxa 4418(1): 93–97. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.1.6 Reference page.
Skejo, J., Rebrina, F., Szövényi, G., Puskás, G. & Tvrtković, N. 2018. The first annotated checklist of Croatian crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera). Zootaxa 4533(1): 1–95. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4533.1.1 Reference page.

Skejo, J., Gupta, S.K., Chandra, K., Panhwar, W.A. & Franjević, D. 2019. Oriental macropterous leaf-mimic pygmy grasshoppers—genera Oxyphyllum and Paraphyllum (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) and their taxonomic assignment. Zootaxa 4590(5): 546–560. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.5.3 Reference page.
Thomas, M.J., Skejo, J. & Heads, S.W. 2019. The last batrachideine of Europe: A new genus and species of pygmy grasshopper (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4686(3): 435–445. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.3.9 pdf Reference page.

Skejo, J., Connors, M., Hendriksen, M., Lambert, N., Chong, G., McMaster, I., Monaghan, N., Rentz, D.C.F., Richter, R., Rose, K. & Franjević, D. 2020. Online social media tells a story of Anaselina, Paraselina, and Selivinga (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae), rare Australian pygmy grasshoppers. ZooKeys, 948: 107–119. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.948.52910 Reference page.
Skejo, J., Medak, K., Pavlović, M., Kitonić, D., Miko, R.J.C. & Franjević, D. 2020. The story of the Malagasy devils (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae): Holocerus lucifer in the north and H. devriesei sp. nov. in the south? ZooKeys, 957: 1–15. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.957.52565 Reference page.
Tumbrinck, J., Deranja, M., Adžić, K., Pavlović, M. & Skejo, J. 2020. Cockscomb-shaped twighopper, Cladonotus bhaskari sp. n., a new and rare pygmy grasshopper species from Sri Lanka (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Cladonotinae). Zootaxa 4821(2): 333–342. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4821.2.5 Reference page.

Hlebec, D., Sivec, I., Podnar, M., Skejo, J. & Kučinić, M. 2021. Morphological and molecular characterisation of the Popijač’s Yellow Sally, Isoperla popijaci sp. nov., a new stenoendemic stonefly species from Croatia (Plecoptera, Perlodidae). Zookeys 1078ː 85–106. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1078.66382 Reference page.

Deranja, M., Kasalo, N., Adžić, K., Franjević, D. & Skejo, J. 2022. Lepocranus and Valalyllum gen. nov. (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae, Cladonotinae), endangered Malagasy dead-leaf-like grasshoppers. ZooKeys 1109ː 1–15. Reference page.