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* indicates students under my supervision or mentorship

2019

Le Grice, R. J.*, G. Tezanos-Pinto, P. de Villemereuil, G. I. Holwell, C. J. Painting (2019) Directional selection on body size but no apparent survival cost to being large in wild New Zealand giraffe weevils. Evolution. Link 

McCambridge, J. A.*, C. J. Painting, L. Walker, G. I. Holwell (2019) Weapon allometry and phenotypic correlation in the New Zealand sheetweb spider Cambridgea plagiata. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126: 349-359. Link

2018

Hua, Z., S. Wee, C. J. Painting, S. Zhang, D. Li (2018) Equivalent effect of UV colouration and vibratory signal on mating success in a jumping spider. Behavioral Ecology. Link

2017

Painting, C. J., C. C. Nicholson, M. W. Bulbert, Y. Norma-Rashid, D. Li (2017) Nectary feeding and guarding behaviour by a tropical jumping spider. Frontiers in Ecology & Environment 15: 469-470. Link

Huixin, R. W.*, Y. Norma-Rashid, D. Li, C. J. Painting (2017) Courtship and male-male interaction behaviour of Orsima ichneumon, an ant-mimicking jumper spider (Arachnida: Salticidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65: 426-439. Link

Painting, C. J., S. Myers, G. I. Holwell, & T. R. Buckley (2017) Phylogeography of the New Zealand giraffe weevil: a comparison of biogeographic boundaries. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 122: 13-28. Link

Painting, C. J., C-C. Chang, J. F. Seah, D. Li (2017) Condition dependence of female-specific ultraviolet (UV)-induced fluorescence in a jumping spider. Animal Behaviour 127: 233-241. Link

Herberstein, M. E., C. J. Painting, G. I. Holwell. (2017) Scramble competition polygyny in terrestrial arthropods.  Advances in the Study of Behavior 49: 237-295. Link

2016

Holwell, G. I., P. Allen, F. Goudie, PE. Duckett, C. J. Painting. (2016) Male density influences mate searching speed and duration in millipedes (Polydesmida: Gigantowales chisholmi). Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology 70: 1381-1388. Link 

Painting, C. J., W. Splinter, S. Callander, T. Maricic, M. Peso, P. R. Y. Backwell (2016) Ladies first: Coerced mating in a fiddler crab. PlosONE. Link

Painting, C. J., G. Rajamohan, Z. Chen, H. Zeng, D. Li (2016) It takes two peaks to tango: the importance of UVB and UVA in sexual signalling between Cosmophasis umbratica jumping spiders. Animal Behaviour 113: 137-146 . Link 

2015

Painting, C. J., A. F. Probert*, D. J. Townsend*, G. I. Holwell (2015) Multiple exaggerated weapon morphs: a novel form of male polymorphism in harvestmen. Scientific Reports. 5, 16368. Link 

Painting, C. J., G. I. Holwell (2015) Temporal variation in body size and weapon allometry in the New Zealand giraffe weevil. Ecological Entomology, 40: 486-489. Link  

2014

Painting, C. J., T. R. Buckley, G. I. Holwell (2014) Weapon allometry varies with latitude in the New Zealand giraffe weevil. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27: 2864-2870. Link

Painting, C. J., G. I. Holwell (2014) Flexible alternative mating tactics by male giraffe weevils. Behavioral Ecology, 25: 1409-1416. Link

Painting, C. J., G. I. Holwell (2014) Exaggerated rostra as weapons and the competitive assessment strategy of male giraffe weevils. Behavioral Ecology, 25: 1223-1232. Link

Painting, C. J., T. R. Buckley, G. I. Holwell (2014) Male biased sexual size dimorphism and sex ratio in the New Zealand giraffe weevil, Lasiorhynchus barbicornis (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Brentidae). Austral Entomology, 53: 317-327. Link 

Painting, C. J., G. I. Holwell (2014) Observations on the ecology and behaviour of the New Zealand giraffe weevil (Lasiorhynchus barbicornis). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 41: 147-153. Link

2013

Painting, C. J., G. I. Holwell (2013) Exaggerated trait allometry, trade-offs and compensation in the New Zealand giraffe weevil (Lasiorhynchus barbicornis). PlosONE 8(11): e82467. Link