🚨 New paper! 🚨 We sequenced the mitochondrial genome of Hypocephalus armatus, a rare mole beetle endemic to Brazil’s Cerrado & Caatinga, helping clarify its long-mysterious evolutionary placement. First paper of the year with colleagues from UFRJ: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Abstract. The mole beetle, Hypocephalus armatus Desmarest, 1832, is an enigmatic insect with an uncertain phylogenetic placement. Hypocephalus armatus is e