Christina Painting

Christina Painting

University of Waikato

H-index: 15

Oceania-New Zealand

About Christina Painting

Christina Painting, With an exceptional h-index of 15 and a recent h-index of 11 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Waikato, specializes in the field of Behavioural Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Sexual selection, Entomology, Insect Conservation.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Animal behaviour: diverse insights across Aotearoa New Zealand and the South Pacific

Males armed with big weapons win fights at limited cost in ant-mimicking jumping spiders

The evolution of positive allometry and exaggerated traits in a diverse beetle clade

Home and away: the role of intraspecific behavioural variation in biological invasion

Sequential analysis reveals use of mutual assessment in contests between wild New Zealand giraffe weevils

Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism

Exaggerated mandibles are correlated with enhanced foraging efficacy in male Auckland tree wētā

Weak evidence for personality and behavioural syndrome in Teleogryllus commodus crickets

Christina Painting Information

University

Position

Senior Lecturer School of Science

Citations(all)

801

Citations(since 2020)

676

Cited By

350

hIndex(all)

15

hIndex(since 2020)

11

i10Index(all)

19

i10Index(since 2020)

18

Email

University Profile Page

University of Waikato

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Christina Painting Skills & Research Interests

Behavioural Ecology

Evolutionary Biology

Sexual selection

Entomology

Insect Conservation

Top articles of Christina Painting

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Animal behaviour: diverse insights across Aotearoa New Zealand and the South Pacific

Kristal E Cain

Stephanie S Godfrey

Christina J Painting

2024/4/3

Males armed with big weapons win fights at limited cost in ant-mimicking jumping spiders

Current Zoology

Guocheng Yu

Boon Hui Wong

Christina J Painting

Hongze Li

Long Yu

...

2024/2/1

The evolution of positive allometry and exaggerated traits in a diverse beetle clade

Functional Ecology

Christina J Painting

Matthew RE Symonds

Gregory I Holwell

2024

Home and away: the role of intraspecific behavioural variation in biological invasion

Nicola R Pyper

Christina J Painting

Angela McGaughran

2024/4/9

Sequential analysis reveals use of mutual assessment in contests between wild New Zealand giraffe weevils

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Rebecca J LeGrice

Gregory I Holwell

Christina J Painting

2023/8/15

Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism

Behavioral Ecology

Erin C Powell

Christina J Painting

Glauco Machado

Gregory I Holwell

2023/7/1

Exaggerated mandibles are correlated with enhanced foraging efficacy in male Auckland tree wētā

Biology Letters

Bridgette Farnworth

Samuel Purdie

Priscilla M Wehi

Christina J Painting

2023/11/15

Weak evidence for personality and behavioural syndrome in Teleogryllus commodus crickets

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Lara Mills

Chia-Chen Chang

Christina J Painting

2023/10/2

Size and shape variation in the male dimorphic head weapons of an anthribid weevil (Hoherius meinertzhageni)

Evolutionary Ecology

Christina J Painting

2022/8

Masquerading predators deceive prey by aggressively mimicking bird droppings in a crab spider

Current Zoology

Long Yu

Xin Xu

Zengtao Zhang

Christina J Painting

Xiaodong Yang

...

2022/6/1

An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites

Scientific Data

Stefano Mammola

Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte

Valeria Arabesky

Diego Alejandro Barrales-Alcalá

Aimee Lynn Barrion-Dupo

...

2022/3/28

The global spread of misinformation on spiders

Current Biology

Stefano Mammola

Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte

Valeria Arabesky

Diego Alejandro Barrales-Alcalá

Aimee Lynn Barrion-Dupo

...

2022/8/22

Commentary: The ecological and evolutionary implications of allometry

Evolutionary Ecology

Emma Sherratt

Erin L McCullough

Christina J Painting

2022/8

Contests between male New Zealand sheet-web spiders, Cambridgea plagiata (Araneae: Desidae)

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Josephine E McCambridge

Christina J Painting

Leilani A Walker

Gregory I Holwell

2022/1/2

Aggressive behaviour in the skyhoppers of the Australian Alps

Evolutionary Ecology

Giselle E Muschett

Christina J Painting

Marie E Herberstein

Kate DL Umbers

2022/8

A molecular phylogeny of the circum-Antarctic Opiliones family Neopilionidae

Invertebrate Systematics

Gonzalo Giribet

Kate Sheridan

Caitlin M Baker

Christina J Painting

Gregory I Holwell

...

2021/11/5

Diet, predators, and defensive behaviors of New Zealand harvestmen (Opiliones: Neopilionidae)

The Journal of Arachnology

Erin C Powell

Christina J Painting

Anthony J Hickey

Glauco Machado

Gregory I Holwell

2021/5

The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits

Database

Stano Pekár

Jonas O Wolff

Ľudmila Černecká

Klaus Birkhofer

Stefano Mammola

...

2021/10/15

Exaggerated sexually selected weapons maintained with disproportionately low metabolic costs in a single species with extreme size variation

Functional Ecology

Ummat Somjee

Erin C Powell

Anthony J Hickey

Jon F Harrison

Christina J Painting

2021/10

No risk to scrambling? Mating tactic does not affect the frequency of leg autotomy in a New Zealand harvestman

Animal Behaviour

Erin C Powell

Nikolas J Willmott

Caitlin J Selleck

Christina J Painting

Anthony J Hickey

...

2021/7/1

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Co-Authors

H-index: 58
Jon Harrison

Jon Harrison

Arizona State University

H-index: 54
Marie (Mariella) Herberstein

Marie (Mariella) Herberstein

Macquarie University

H-index: 44
Daiqin Li

Daiqin Li

National University of Singapore

H-index: 38
Glauco Machado

Glauco Machado

Universidade de São Paulo

H-index: 38
A J Hickey

A J Hickey

University of Auckland

H-index: 25
G I Holwell

G I Holwell

University of Auckland

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