Month: January 2017

My colleague and co-author Margarete Macedo introduced the idea of this grant back in 2014, and the proposal was submitted in 2015.  Although awarded, the funds were not given out until recently. The wait made all of us lose a little hope, given that the Brazilian economy was wobbling a bit.  However, finally we can…

My systematic inventory of beetles in Peru has discovered many, many new species.  There is a long lag between recognizing you have a new species among the specimens and getting around to the scientific paper that describes any new species, along with any additional new discoveries (e.g. new records for a country, additional life stages,…