Extremely proud of my Ph.D. student, Sajan KC, for describing a new species of giant skipper, Aegiale occidentalis, KC, McGuire, and Shirey from Sonora: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
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Taking a breather from #uproarchallenge, there's a new paper online today that was several years in the making (all the best papers are!):
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Map butterfly differs in wing size and color between seasons. We tested how these differences influence body temperature dynamics, revealing potentially optimized thermal performance between seasons. š¦āļø
The study, led by Dani and IrÄa, is in preprint version: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Aegiale C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860 has traditionally been treated as a monotypic genus of Giant Skippers (Hesperiidae: Megathymina), represented by A. hesperiaris (Walker, 1856), which occurs fro...
The conservation community sorely lacks a global indicator of change in insect populations. Given widespread insect declines, addressing this gap is key for conservation and policy targets. We sugges...
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library is turning 20! š
Weāre starting celebrations with a special anniversary blog series #BHLat20: Treasures from BHL, featuring remarkable works chosen by the people who know them best: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/03/cele... #ILoveBHL
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group
PƔvel Matos
Now online! In this review, we cover four major topics on butterflies and moths: their evolutionary history and diversification dynamics, genomics, global diversity patterns, and conservation š¦š (1/8) @natrevbiodiv.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
ICYMI: New online! Evolution, genomicsĀ and conservation of butterflies and moths
Introducing the newest species of moth from the US, and likely one of the rarest. Cicinnus albarenicolus is known from just 19 specimens, all in white sand scrub in peninsular Florida. Only one verified extant population! zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1817...
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Butterflies and moths are key indicators of functioning and healthy ecosystems around the world. This Review describes the evolutionary history of the order Lepidoptera and tracks shifts in researcher...
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 16 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00128-8Butterflies and moths are key indicators of functioning and healthy ecosystems around the world. This Review describes the evolutionary history of the order Lepidoptera and tracks shifts in researchersā understanding of the clade in the genomic era; it also explores biogeographic patterns and conservation efforts for threatened species.
Super excited about these results and new system.
Mapping, Expression, Loss-of-Function
I'm floored by how this locus seem to integrate all the spatial info to sketch the minute details of the phenotype, and how this is prone to evol tweaks
Large hyperdiverged haplotype without an inversion.
A rarely reported new species of Mimallonidae from Florida, USA, is described. Remarkably, the distinctive new species has not been seen across much of its historical range since the 1960s, and all re...
New pre-print with some updates on ivory:miR193 in a highly polymorphic moth.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We mapped ivory (again!?) this time controlling aspects of camouflage in Anticarsia gemmatalis. Mapping, SVs, Expression and Function.
Comments/suggestions welcome!
