Darrell Ubick (Darko Ljubić) - papers on Opiliones

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Darrell Ubick (Darko Ljubić) Birthdate: 29 March 1952 Birthplace: Dubrovnik, Croatia (then, Jugoslavija) Co-author: T.S. Briggs, J.A. Dunlop, and R. Ozimec. Autobiography: I was born as Darko Ljubić in the medieval city of Dubrovnik, and spent my early years in the nearby villages of Šipanska Luka and Ston, living close to the sea and forests.  My family immigrated to California in 1960, at about the time Sputnik was orbiting the skies, and eventually settled in San Francisco in 1961.  I collected insects and arachnids as a youth and was introduced to more formal study in high school by my instructor, Tom Briggs.  The summer of 1972 was spent in Arizona at the AMNH field station, learning spiders from Vince Roth and Willis Gertsch.  I attended San Jose State University and majored in Entomology, earning a BS (1976) and MA (1980).  My collaboration with Briggs, on the systematics of Phalangodidae, started in 1981. Field work: I have conducted field work mostly in California and adjacent areas of the western Nearctic, but with several collecting trips to tropical regions, as Florida, Mexico, and Costa Rica.  Spent several summers collecting in Croatia, with shorter trips to Italy, England, and New Zealand.  Have participated in CAS expeditions to Africa (Tanzania, Equatoria Guinea, Madagascar, and South Africa) and Asia (China and Myanmar).
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Ubick, D.  2007.  Phalangodidae. pp.217-221. in R. Pinto-da-Rocha, G. Machado, & G. Giribet. (eds.) Harvestmen, The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press, 597 pp.

Ubick, Darrell & Tomas S. Briggs, 1988. Congruent biogeographic patterns in harvestmen and salamanders. American Arachnol., no. 38, p. 9.

Ubick, Darrell & Tomas S. Briggs, 1989. The harvestmen family Phalangodidae. 1. The new genus Calicina, with notes on Sitalcina (Opiliones: Laniatores). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 46(4): 95-136.

Ubick, Darrell & Tomas S. Briggs, 1992. The harvestman family Phalangodidae. 3. Revision of Texella Goodnight and Goodnight (Opiliones: Laniatores). Texas Memorial Museum, Speleological Monographs, 3: 155-240.

Ubick, Darrell & Tomas S. Briggs, 2002. The harvestman family Phalangodidae 4. A review of the genus Banksula (Opiliones, Laniatores). The Journal of Arachnology, 30: 435–451. http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_Congress/JoA_v30_n2/arac-30-02-435.pdf

Ubick, Darrell & Tomas S. Briggs, 2004. The harvestman family Phalangodidae. 5. New records and species of Texella Goodnight and Goodnight (Opiliones: Laniatores). Texas Memorial Museum, Speleological Monographs, 6: 101-141.

Ubick, D. & Briggs, T.S. (2008) The harvestman family Phalangodidae. 6. Revision of the Siltalcina complex (Opiliones: Laniatores). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, (4) 59(1), 1–108.

Ubick, D. & Dunlop, Jason A. 2005. On the placement of the Baltic amber harvestman Gonyleptes nemastomoides Koch & Berendt, 1854, with notes on the phylogeny of Cladonychiidae (Opiliones, Laniatores, Travunioidea). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin – Geowissenschaftliche Reihe, 8: 75–82.

Ubick, D. & Ozimec, R., 2005. On the harvestman genus Lola Kratochvil (Opiliones: Laniatores). Natura croatica, Zagreb, 14 (3): 161–174.

Briggs, T.S. & D. Ubick.  1981.  Studies on cave harvestmen of the central Sierra Nevada, with descriptions of new species of Banksula. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 42(11):315-322.

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