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Chungkun Shih is affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus also in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Paleontology, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of Shih's work involve fossil insects in amber, plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny, Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, plant diversity and evolution, and Coleoptera taxonomy and distribution.

Shih has published research in several scientific journals. They have a notable presence in the following publication venues:

  • Cretaceous Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Insects
  • Palaeoentomology
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Frequent collaborators of Chungkun Shih include Dong Ren, Taiping Gao, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, Yongjie Wang, and Michael S. Engel.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Behaviors and Interactions of Insects in Mid-Mesozoic Ecosystems of Northeastern China" (2020) in Annual Review of Entomology
  • "Early evolution of wing scales prior to the rise of moths and butterflies" (2022) in Current Biology
  • "Cretaceous ants shed new light on the origins of worker polymorphism" (2020) in Science China Life Sciences
  • "Termite communities and their early evolution and ecology trapped in Cretaceous Amber" (2020) in Cretaceous Research
  • "Cretaceous mantid lacewings with specialized raptorial forelegs illuminate modification of prey capture (Insecta: Neuroptera)" (2020) in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Best Publications

  • A Probable Pollination Mode Before Angiosperms: Eurasian, Long-Proboscid Scorpionflies

    Dong Ren;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Jorge A. Santiago-Blay;Jorge A. Santiago-Blay;Alexandr Rasnitsyn;Alexandr Rasnitsyn

  • Ancient pinnate leaf mimesis among lacewings

    Yongjie Wang;Zhiqi Liu;Xin Wang;Chungkun Shih

  • Jurassic mimicry between a hangingfly and a ginkgo from China

    Yongjie Wang;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Chungkun Shih;Qiaoling Ding

  • The evolutionary convergence of mid-Mesozoic lacewings and Cenozoic butterflies.

    Conrad C. Labandeira;Qiang Yang;Jorge A. Santiago-Blay;Carol L. Hotton

  • Mid-Mesozoic Flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates

    Tai-ping Gao;Chung-kun Shih;Xing Xu;Shuo Wang

  • Termite colonies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar demonstrate their early eusocial lifestyle in damp wood.

    Zhipeng Zhao;Xiangchu Yin;Chungkun Shih;Chungkun Shih;Taiping Gao

  • New Transitional Fleas from China Highlighting Diversity of Early Cretaceous Ectoparasitic Insects

    Taiping Gao;Chungkun Shih;Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn;Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn;Xing(徐星) Xu

  • The Earliest Fossil Record of Pelecinid Wasps (Inseta: Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea: Pelecinidae) from Inner Mongolia, China

    Chungkun Shih;Chenxi Liu;Dong Ren

  • Life habits and evolutionary biology of new two-winged long-proboscid scorpionflies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber

    Xiaodan Lin;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Chungkun Shih;Chungkun Shih;Carol L. Hotton

  • A new genus of Tanyderidae (Insecta: Diptera) from Myanmar amber, Upper Cretaceous

    Fei Dong;Chungkun Shih;Dong Ren

  • Early evolution and historical biogeography of fishflies (Megaloptera: Chauliodinae): implications from a phylogeny combining fossil and extant taxa.

    Xingyue Liu;Yongjie Wang;Chungkun Shih;Dong Ren

  • A golden orb-weaver spider (Araneae: Nephilidae: Nephila) from the Middle Jurassic of China.

    Paul A. Selden;ChungKun Shih;Dong Ren

  • New Mesozoic Mesopsychidae (Mecoptera) from Northeastern China

    Ren Dong;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Shih ChungKun

  • Mesozoic lacewings from China provide phylogenetic insight into evolution of the Kalligrammatidae (Neuroptera).

    Qiang Yang;Qiang Yang;Yongjie Wang;Conrad C Labandeira;Conrad C Labandeira;Conrad C Labandeira;Chungkun Shih

  • Behaviors and Interactions of Insects in Mid-Mesozoic Ecosystems of Northeastern China.

    Taiping Gao;Chungkun Shih;Chungkun Shih;Dong Ren

  • Phylogeny of Evanioidea (Hymenoptera, Apocrita), with descriptions of new Mesozoic species from China and Myanmar

    Longfeng Li;Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn;Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn;Chungkun Shih;Chungkun Shih;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira

  • A new genus and species of Praeaulacidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) from Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber

    Longfeng Li;Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn;Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn;Chungkun Shih;Dong Ren

  • New fossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Amphiesmenoptera) from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Northeastern China.

    Weiting Zhang;Chungkun Shih;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Jae-Cheon Sohn;Jae-Cheon Sohn

  • NEW CUPEDIDS FROM THE MIDDLE JURASSIC OF INNER MONGOLIA, CHINA (COLEOPTERA: ARCHOSTEMATA)

    Jingjing Tan;Dong Ren;Chungkun Shih

  • Blood-Feeding True Bugs in the Early Cretaceous

    Yunzhi Yao;Wanzhi Cai;Xing Xu;Chungkun Shih

  • New genus and species of Hexagenitidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from Yixian Formation, China

    Jiandong Huang;Dong Ren;Nina D. Sinitshenkova;Chungkun Shih

  • The Earliest Timematids in Burmese Amber Reveal Diverse Tarsal Pads of Stick Insects in the mid-Cretaceous

    Sha Chen;Shi-Wo Deng;Chungkun Shih;Chungkun Shih;Wei-Wei Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Dong Ren
Dong Ren Capital Normal University
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution
Paul A. Selden
Paul A. Selden University of Kansas
David L. Dilcher
David L. Dilcher Indiana University
Michael S. Engel
Michael S. Engel University of Kansas
Xing Xu
Xing Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mark S. Harvey
Mark S. Harvey Australian Museum
Shuo Wang
Shuo Wang Nankai University
Antónia Monteiro
Antónia Monteiro National University of Singapore
Xingyue Liu
Xingyue Liu China Agricultural University

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