Happy to share our latest paper! We’ve described a brand-new species discovered in the high-altitude Ecuadorian páramo 🏔️🌱 doi.org/10.1649/0010...

A New Brachypterous Species of Lebia Latreille (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the Ecuadorian Páramo, and Description of the Male of Lebia paramicola Moret, 2005

Se describe e ilustra una nueva especie del género de carábidos Lebia Latreille, 1802. Esta representa la segunda especie de Lebia conocida para el páramo en Ecuador, después de Lebia paramicola Moret, 2005, cuyo macho también se describe por primera vez. Ambas especies son braquípteras, un rasgo único entre las especies descritas del género Lebia.

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Alexander Humboldt noted that several of these headlight beetles in a perforated gourd make an acceptable reading lamp. In the western slopes of Ecuador, instead of the typical green color usually associated with these beauties- these guys glow cigarette orange.

Excited to share our new paper in @nature.com Scientific Data: Barcoding Megadiversity! 🦟🧬 We compiled 25 datasets spanning 1–7 years of arthropod sampling across 10 sites in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Galapagos & Cocos Islands—complete with DNA barcodes & geo-data 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Barcoding Megadiversity: An Arthropod Database from Sites in the Neotropical Eastern Pacific Bioregion - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Barcoding Megadiversity: An Arthropod Database from Sites in the Neotropical Eastern Pacific Bioregion

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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! doi.org/10.11646/meg...

Scraping the surface of a hyperdiverse group—new genera and species of Ecuadorian Pselaphinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), with an emphasis on the cloud forest fauna | Megataxa

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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...

#Biodiversity #invertebrates #Ecuador

Jen Cross@jencross.bsky.social · 5mo ago

These friends are flat-backed millipedes and they feed on decaying vegetation. We found a bunch of them yesterday. Intag Refugio, Ecuador

Happy to share this new publication describing a new genus and species from Ecuador #Biodivesity #Beetles #Ecuador #INABIO peerj.com/articles/211...

#Biodiversity #Ecuador #Invertebrates #INABIO 🕷️https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/science/spider-cordyceps-fungus-zombies.html

‘The Last of Us’ on Eight Legs

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A nice, extended piece on species discovery in Ecuador, featuring many of my sabbatical colleagues: youtu.be/CuO5iACpVso?...

Ecuador suma 84 nuevas especies - Día a Día - Teleamazonas

YouTube video by Día a Día - Teleamazonas

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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...

“The Cordyceps spider”: Taczanowskia waska sp. nov. (Araneae: Araneidae), a new spider species and a novel case of mimicry of an araneopathogenic fungus (Cordycipitaceae: Gibellula ) | ...

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#Biodiversity #beetles #Ecuador

The Coleopterists Society@coleopsoc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#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

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. doi.org/10.3897/zook...

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...

#Beetles #Biodiversity #Ecuador

ZooKeys@zookeys.pensoft.net · 9mo ago

A surprising diversity of Panabachia beetle species was revealed from a remarkably small area in Ecuador, with 22 newly described species: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #newspecies #paramo #taxonomy @smunoztobar.bsky.social @mcaterino.bsky.social

Twelve new species of the rove beetle genus Bibrax are described from Ecuador. Find out more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook... @mcaterino.bsky.social #beetles #biodiversity #newspecies ‪

Greetings from Sumaco National Park, province of Orellana #Ecuador #Biodiversity #Insects

Phyllophaga sumacoensis is a new species of scarab beetle from Sumaco National Park, Napo- Ecuador archive.org/details/faun... #Biodiversity #Beetles #Ecuador

Please check out my new blog: 'Value in nature'. I plan to feature the innumerable ways biodiversity benefits us - ecosystem services in the widest sense. The punchline to nearly every post: our future flourishing depends on preserving as much biodiversity as we possibly can. mscaterino.pika.page

Twenty two new species of beetles from Ecuador’s páramo and cloud forest offer a rare glimpse into ecosystems that remain largely unexplored. Species names pay tribute to sites, communities and cultural traits of the Ecuadorian Andes zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1583... #Biodiversity #Ecuador #bugs

In her dissertation, @smunoztobar.bsky.social showed that there was a diverse radiation of Panabachia in high-elevation Andean páramo habitats (doi.org/10.3390/inse...). Now most of these have proper names, with 22 species described in our latest paper, in ZooKeys: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

A groundbreaking discovery from the Hollín formation in the province of Napo- Ecuador, gives an insight into Amazonian plant and arthropods biodiversity during the Cretaceous #Biodiversity #Ecuador www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests - Communications Earth & Environment

Cretaceous amber from the Ecuadorian Napo region provides exceptional evidence of a resinous forest ecosystem and diverse arthropod fauna in equatorial Gondwana, as revealed by integrated analyses of ...

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Spotted this milkweed assassin bug (Zelus longipes) on Salvia plants at Quito's Botanical Garden, hunting for flies. Here the adult and immature #Quito #bugs #biodiversity #Ecuador

"The unknown is made up of small organisms, such as insects, mites, and crustaceans. These species are the nuts and bolts of ecosystems. And most of them have yet to be identified." www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results

We still haven’t documented 90 percent of animals on Earth

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Describen doce nuevas especies de escarabajos en Ecuador efeverde.com/describen-do...

Describen doce nuevas especies de escarabajos en Ecuador - EFEverde

Investigadores de instituciones de Ecuador y Estados Unidos describieron doce nuevas especies de escarabajos del género Bibrax (Fletcher, 1927), informó este miércoles el Instituto Nacional ecuatorian...

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Here the Ecuadorian Hermit Crab (Coenobita compressus) from the coast of Esmeraldas-Ecuador #biodiversity #seashore #hermitcrab #Esmeraldas #Ecuador

#Ecuador #biodiversity #Pselaphinae #leaflitter #Clemson #INABIO

Michael Caterino@mcaterino.bsky.social · last yr.

And yes, of course there are genitalia pictures. They are extremely variable for a group that doesn't vary all that much externally.

#Ecuador #biodiversity #beetles

Gil Wizen@wizentrop.bsky.social · last yr.

I'll be returning to Ecuador soon, and what I am hoping to find again is one of the giant longhorn beetles like this Macrodontia cervicornis. It may look scary, but... well, IT IS actually scary! That is one feisty beetle that will not hesitate to snap its jaws at your soft sausage fingers. Chomp.

Here's a subtropical beauty—Vanessa carye—spotted at the Quito Botanical Garden. This butterfly species ranges all the way from Venezuela down to Patagonia #lepidoptera #southamerica #ecuador #insects

I have been enjoying watching the Andean Black Longhorn bee (Thygater aethiops) at Quito's Botanical Garden. Here the male and female over a shrubby Fuchsia (Fuchsia paniculata) #nativebees #biodiversity #insects #Ecuador #JardinBotanicodeQuito

Here Humboldt's house at Antisana National Park, Province of Napo, Ecuador from our last visit #paramo #Biodiversity