
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
2010. Slipiński, A.S., N.P. Lord and J.F. Lawrence, 10.28. Bothrideridae Erichson, 1845. Pp. 411-422 in: Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology. Band/Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband/Part 38. Coleoptera, Beetles. Volume 2. Morphology and Systematics (Polyphaga partim). (Eds RG Beutel, RAB Leschen and JF Lawrence). W. DeGruyter, Berlin.
2020
Kang, I., K.D. Long, M.J. Sharkey, J.B. Whitfield, and N.P. Lord. Orientocardiochiles, a new genus of Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with descriptions of two new species from Malaysia and Vietnam. ZooKeys 971: 1–15 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.971.56571
Bermúdez-Ureña, E., C. Kilchoer, N.P. Lord, U. Steiner, and B.D. Wilts. Structural diversity with varying disorder enables the multi-color display in the longhorn beetle Sulawesiella rafaelae. iScience, 23(7), 101339. Published online 02 July. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101339
Buckley, T.R, N.P. Lord, A. Ramon-Laca, J.S. Allwood, and R.A.B. Leschen. Journal of Biogeography. Early View, published 17 January 2020. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13776.
2017
Leschen, R.A.B. and N. P. Lord. Three new genera of New Zealand Synchitini (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Colydiinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 71(4): 733–745.
Sharkey, C.R., M.S. Fujimoto, N.P. Lord, A. Suvorov, G.J. Martin, S. Shin, D.D. McKenna, S.M. Bybee. 2017. Overcoming the loss of blue sensitivity through opsin duplication in the largest animal group, beetles. Scientific Reports 7, Article number 8 (2017). doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00061-7.
Zhou, Y-L, N.P. Lord, and A.S. Ślipiński. 2017. Review of the Australian Teredolaemus Sharp, 1885 (Coleoptera: Teredidae) with description of five new species. Austral Entomology, early view published on 10 January. Doi: 10.1111/aen.12260.
2016
Lord, N.P. and M.A. Ivie. 2016. Several new genera and species of New World Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 70(4): 715–753.
Ivie, M.A., N.P. Lord, I.A. Foley, and S.A. Ślipiński. 2016. Colydiine genera of the New World: A key and nomenclatural acts 30 years in the making (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Colydiinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 70(4): 755–788.
Lord, N.P., R.L. Plimpton, C.R. Sharkey, A. Suvorov, J.P. Lelito, B.M. Willardson, and S.M. Bybee. A cure for the blues: Opsin duplication and subfunctionalization for short wavelength sensitivity in jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16:107. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0674-4.
Arnold, P.R., N.P. Lord, A.N. Smith, and S.M Bybee. The effects of non-ideal temperature regimes on RNA quality from samples stored in RNAlater: an attempt to replicate field conditions. Journal of Analytical and Molecular Techniques, 2(1): 8.
Ivie, M.A., N.P. Lord, and M. Elgueta. Resolving a branching taxonomy conundrum - can one species be in two places at one time under the same name (Zopheridae: Colydiinae and Tenebrionide)? The Coleopterists Bulletin, 70(1): 105-110.
2015
Martin, G.J., N.P. Lord, and S.M. Bybee. Review of the firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) visual system and evolution of the genes underlying color vision. Organisms Diversity, & Evolution, published online 28 April 2015. DOI 10.1007/s13127-015-0212-z.
Robertson, J.A., A.S. Slipinski, M. Moulton, F.W. Shockley, A. Giorgi, N.P. Lord, D.D. McKenna, W. Tomaszewska, J. Forrester, K.B. Miller, M.F. Whiting, and J.V. McHugh. Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Systematic Entomology, published online 6 August 2015. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12138.
2014
Lord, N.P. and R.A.B. Leschen. Catalog and type designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae. Zootaxa, 3809(1): 1-127.
Lord, N.P., C.E. Carlton and R.A.B. Leschen. A new species of Leptochromus Motschulsky from Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with notes on morphology and natural history. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 68(1): 119-125.
Alekseev, V.I. and N.P. Lord. A New Species of Xylolaemus (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Colydiinae) from Baltic amber. The Baltic Journal of Coleopterology, 14(1): 97-102.
2013
Lord, N.P. and J.V. McHugh. A taxonomic revision of the genus Deretaphrus Newman (Coleoptera: Bothrideridae). The Coleopterists Society Monograph Number 12, The Coleopterists Bulletin, 67(mo.4): 1-107.
2010
Lord, N.P., C.S. Hartley, K.B. Miller, J.V. McHugh, M.F. Whiting. Phylogenetic analysis of the minute brown scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae), and recognition of a new beetle family, Akalyptoischiidae, fam. n. (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Systematic Entomology, 35: 753-763.
Bousquet, Y., P. Bouchard, and N.P. Lord. Case 3517. LATRIDIIDAE Erichson, 1842 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed precedence over Corticariidae Curtis, 1829; and Corticaria Marsham, 1802: proposed conservation of usage by designation of Corticaria ferruginea Marsham, 1802 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 67(2). June, 2010.
Shockley, F.W., M.D. Ulyshen, and N.P. Lord. New state records and natural history notes for Micropsephodes lundgreni Leschen and Carlton (Coleoptera: Endomychidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 62(3): 350-352.