The Biodiversity Heritage Library is turning 20! 🎉
We’re 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
🐶 Trees as good citizens.
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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...
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.
🚨🚨🚨Publication alert! 🚨🚨🚨
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/...
ICYMI: New online! Evolution, genomics and conservation of butterflies and moths
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 🦋🌏 (1/8) @natrevbiodiv.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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. 🦋☀️
The study, led by Dani and Irča, is in preprint version: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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...
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...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Biodiversity Pics
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...
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 researchers’ understanding of the clade in the genomic era; it also explores biogeographic patterns and conservation efforts for threatened species.
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...
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...
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!
