#Biodiversity #invertebrates #Ecuador

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

‘The Last of Us’ on Eight Legs

#Biodiversity #Ecuador #Invertebrates #INABIO 🕷️www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/science/spide...

Ecuador suma 84 nuevas especies - Día a Día - Teleamazonas YouTube video by Día a Día - Teleamazonas

A nice, extended piece on species discovery in Ecuador, featuring many of my sabbatical colleagues:

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“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 ) | ...

New spider species discovered that mimics the Cordyceps fungus - Taczaniwskia waska #Ecuador #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #Araneidae #INABIO mapress.com/zt/article/v...

#Biodiversity #beetles #Ecuador

Habitus photos of new Metopiellus species. A–C. M. palamaku sp. nov. (female dorsal, female lateral, male holotype ventral); D–F. M. chasqui sp. nov. (male holotype dorsal, female paratype head + pronotum, male non-type head only). Scale bars: 1 mm (unless otherwise indicated). in general the beetles are quite antlike, elongate, very setose, and with very long, elbowed antennae.

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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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

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 ‪

Looking forward to examining the leaf litter sample under the microscope #beetles #Ecuador

I’ve spent the past few days surveying the insect diversity in the lowland tropical forests of the area

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

Habitus and morphological characteristics of P. Sumacoensis

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

Banner image from mscaterino.pika.page. The background image is a pineapple growing at the tip of a bromeliad against a tropical forest backdrop. In the lower left is the caption 'Value in nature'.

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.

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Dorsal view of Panabachia species

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

Plate of 10 dorsal photographs of new Panabachia species, with scale bars showing each to be roughly 1mm in length. They are somewhat typical pselaphine rove beetles, short-bodied, brownish-orange, with short elytra and clubbed antennae. The species are as follows: A. Panabachia pahuma; B. P. pastazae; C. P. romeroi; D. P. salebrosa; E. P. urbana; F. P. carltoni; G. P. patera; H. P. vigilans; I. P. perdita; J. P. ambulans.

Male genitalia photos of nine new Panabachia species. Most have a thin and curved median lobe with coiled lateral accessory sclerites. Two on the bottom are more rounded with fimbriate apices, while a third at bottom right is asymmetrical with a coiled lateral plate. The species are as follows: A. Panabachia papallacta; B. P. ananay; C. P. cayambi; D. P. cryptica; E. P. caranqui; F. P. patera; G. P. vigilans; H. P. perdita; I. P. ambulans.

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...

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 ...

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...

Adult of Zeus longipes

Immature of Zeus longipes

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 search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results We still haven’t documented 90 percent of animals on Earth

"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."

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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...

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

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

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

#Ecuador #biodiversity #beetles

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

Male and female of Thygater, over flowers at the Jardín Botánico de Quito

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

Mica lake in Napo Province

I was really lucky to spend the day in Antisana National Park and enjoy this amazing ecosystem #paramo #Biodiversity #Ecuador

Casa de Humboldt it was a resting site that Humboldt used before trying to climb Mt Antisana

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

Here a Narrow-banded Dartwhite (Archonias flisa) from Quito's Botanical Garden #Biodiversity #Ecuador #insects #JardinBotanicodeQuito

Glittery green weevil

Close up of the glitter

A weevil at Wildsumaco in Ecuador. Easily found by following the trail of glitter he leaves behind everywhere he goes.

But really- this glitter weevil is always amazing to see and a real wonder of the world. Endless forms most beautiful, indeed.