Nicole L. Gunter

Nicole L. Gunter is the Associate Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Ohio, USA). Starting out her career as a marine parasitologist, she was eventually won over by the wonderful world of beetles during her postdoctoral research at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO (Canberra, Australia). During that time, she started a “small” side project to describe some known cryptic species of the dung beetle genus Lepanus that has shaped much of her career. She has board interests in the evolution of specious invertebrate groups, but much of her research today focuses on systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, and conservation of Australian dung beetles.

Nicole L. Gunter PhD
Associate Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
Cleveland Museum of Natural History 
1 Wade Oval Drive
Cleveland, OH 44106

EMAIL: ngunter@cmnh.org
TEL: (216) 231-4600 ext 3282

PUBLICATIONS:

1. LAWRENCE, J. F., GUNTER, N. L., LEMANN, C., & WEIR, T.A. (2019). 22. Superfamily Scarabaeoidea. In: Australian Beetles (Volume 2) Eds. Slipinski, A., & Lawrence, J. F. CSIRO Publishing. Pp 362-368.
2. WEIR, T.A., LAWRENCE, J. F., LEMANN, C., & GUNTER, N. L. (2019). 29. Subfamily Aphodiinae. In: Australian Beetles (Volume 2). Eds. Slipinski, A., & Lawrence, J. F .CSIRO Publishing. Pp 431-442.
3. GUNTER, N. L., LEMANN, C. & WEIR, T.A. (2019). 30. Subfamily Scarabaeinae. In: Australian Beetles (Volume 2). Eds. Slipinski, A., & Lawrence, J. F.CSIRO Publishing.  Pp 443-466.
4. WEIR, T.A., LAWRENCE, J. F., LEMANN, C. & GUNTER, N. L. (2019). 31. Subfamily Melolonthinae. In: Australian Beetles (Volume 2). Eds. Slipinski, A., & Lawrence, J. F. CSIRO Publishing.  Pp 467-507.
5. WEIR, T.A., LAWRENCE, J.. F., LEMANN, C. & GUNTER, N. L. (2019). 33. Subfamily Dynastinae. In: Australian Beetles (Volume 2). Eds. Slipinski, A., & Lawrence, J. F. CSIRO Publishing.  Pp 508-515..
6. WEIR, T.A., LAWRENCE, J.. F., LEMANN, C. & GUNTER, N. L. (2019).  32. Subfamily Rutelinae. In: Australian Beetles (Volume 2). Eds. Slipinski, A., & Lawrence, J. F. CSIRO Publishing. Pp 516-530.
7. GUNTER, N.L., & WEIR, T.A. (2019). Revision of Australian species of the dung beetle genus Lepanus (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): key to species groups and description of 10 new species from the L. australis,  L. monteithi and L. villosus species groups. Zootaxa. 4695: 201- 252.           
8. GUNTER, N.L., MONTEITH, G.B, CAMERON, S.L. & WEIR, T.A (2019). Evidence from Australian mesic zone dung beetles support Gondwanan vicariance and Mesozoic origin of the Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Invertebrate Systematics and Evolution .50(2): 168-188.  
9. GUNTER, N.L., & WEIR, T.A. (2019). Revision of Australian species of the dung beetle genus Lepanus (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): key to species groups and description of 14 new species from the L. pygmaeus species group. Zootaxa. 4564: 41- 80.           
10. GUNTER, N.L. & WEIR, T.A. (2017). Two new genera of Australian dung beetle (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with the description of six new species and transfer of six described species.  Zootaxa. 4290 (2): 201-243.  
11. GUNTER, N.L., WEIR, T.A., SLIPINSKI, A., BOCAK, L. & CAMERON, S.L (2016). If dung beetles arose in association with dinosaurs did they also suffer a mass co-extinction at the K-Pg Boundary? PLOS ONE