A nice, extended piece on species discovery in Ecuador, featuring many of my sabbatical colleagues:
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Happy to share our latest paper documenting the distribution and predatory habits of the rove beetle Platydracus buquetti #Coleoptera #Ecuador #Biodiversity doi.org/10.1649/0010...
Please welcome to the world: Metopiellus palamaku and M. chasqui, new species of neotropical Pselaphinae, written with friends/coauthors from INABIO. These are the 8th and 9th species of Metopiellus known, and the first ones from Ecuador.
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Thrilled to share this open access paper that represents the bulk of the work done during my 2024–25 sabbatical work at INABIO in Quito!
18 new genera, 339 new species, and the species accumulation curves still headed for the sky!
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New spider species discovered that mimics the Cordyceps fungus - Taczaniwskia waska #Ecuador #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #Araneidae #INABIO mapress.com/zt/article/v...
Happy to share this new publication describing a new genus and species from Ecuador #Biodivesity #Beetles #Ecuador #INABIO peerj.com/articles/211...
The Bosque Escuela Tena in Ecuador, children learn by exploring nature. The school was recently awarded a Global Citizenship Award - @unesco.org, which recognizes initiatives that build more peaceful and sustainable societies. www.instagram.com/bosque_escue...
Aequatobolbus otongachi, gen. et sp. nov., the new South American genus and species of Bolboceratinae, are described from Ecuador. The new genus and species are diagnosed and illustrated, and an updat...
#LiteratureNotice Muñoz-Tobar & Caterino. New species of the Brachyglutine genus #Panabachia Park (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from Ecuador doi.org/10.3897/zook... #Beetle #Beetles #newspecies #biodiveristy
These friends are flat-backed millipedes and they feed on decaying vegetation. We found a bunch of them yesterday.
Intag Refugio, Ecuador
