New Species Podcast

The Thin Horizon of a Plan is Almost Clear: Towards a Lichen Biodiversity Inventory of the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA | Phytotaxa

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Three New Lichens with Erin Manzitto-Tripp

How much do you know about lichens? These incredible taxa are understudied, but Dr. Erin Manzitto-Tripp is making sure they’re not undervalued. “You can’t look at lichens under a microscope and not become immediately obsessed” she says. “It’s an endless world of magnificent, beautiful biodiversity.”

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New Cretaceous insects have been described from the family Umenocoleidae! Listen to this episode to hear Soo Bin Lee describe these interesting creatures and what they can tell us about a unique period of prehistory.

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A new cryptic Phyllodonta Warren (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Mexico City with documentation of its life history | Zootaxa

Read Ivonne's paper in Zootaxa: www.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5666.1.8

“There is no way to get bored,” Ivonne Garzón says about geometrid moths, “There is no way! You are amazed all the time.”

Do you like tomatillos or moth taste-testing? (just kidding!) Listen as Ivonne shares her latest paper's findings and introduces Phyllodonta coztomatlivora to the world!

New Species Podcast Just a fraction of the species on our planet are known to science, but more are described and published every day.

and visit newspeciespodcast.net for photos, transcripts in both spanish and english, and more.

A review of the Quichua Porcupine Coendou quichua complex (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) with the description of a new species from Colombia Based on integrative analyses, the Quichua Porcupine (Coendou quichua complex) comprises 3 different species. One available name (C. rothschildi) is resurr

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Did you know there's a new porcupine from Colombia? Listen in as Héctor Ramirez-Chaves shares the discovery and more of his porcupine adventures!

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New Species Podcast Just a fraction of the species on our planet are known to science, but more are described and published every day.

You can listen to this episode above, at newspeciespodcast.net, or wherever you get your podcasts

On a Maine island, historians discover one of the oldest living apple trees in North America The Drap D'Or de Bretagna — or Golden Cloth of Brittany, in French, is one of a few historic apples that are the genetic ancestors of many of the common varieties we eat today. And the Verona Island t...

For more great information on this discovery, as well as some beautiful pictures of this tree, read this article by @mainepublic.org

Did you know that one of the world's oldest apple tree ancestors can be found living in Downeast Maine? In this special episode of the New Species Podcast, I interview John Bunker, Todd Little-Siebold and Cameron Peace about their new (old) species discovery and the unique story it tells.

A New Butterfly with Zac MacDonald and Julian Dupuis — New Species Podcast Think butterfly genomics is a simple topic? Think again, but this time think alongside Zac MacDonald and Julian Dupuis. Not only are they answering some of the most interesting contemporary conservati...

A fascinating story of a butterfly we recently published as new to science, told by authors Zac MacDonald and Julian Dupuis on the @newspeciespodcast.bsky.social Podcast!

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Genomic and ecological divergence support recognition of a new species of endangered Satyrium butterfly (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) We describe a highly isolated population of hairstreak butterfly from Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada, as a new species, Satyrium curiosolus sp. nov., previously recognized as Satyrium s...

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Think butterfly genomics is a simple topic? Think again! There's so much we don't know about conservation in insect populations. In this episode, Zac MacDonald and Julian Dupuis expand our idea of what is possible with the help of a very curious butterfly.

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Across trench and ridge: description of five new species of the Haploniscus belyaevi Birstein, 1963 species complex (Isopoda, Haploniscidae) from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench region Integrative taxonomy provides a valuable approach to discover and unravel even morphologically almost indiscernible species, such as those forming “cryptic” species complexes. The six members of the r...

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This is not your typical 'god complex!' Named after Greek gods and mythological creatures, Henry Knauber's new group of isopods reflect the incredible beauty and diversity of the deep-sea.

episode: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/fl7xFMrl1Ub

It was so much fun!

Biomechanics of venom delivery in South America’s first toxungen-spraying scorpion Abstract. Venom is a metabolically expensive secretion used sparingly in a variety of ecological contexts, most notably predation and defence. Accordingly,

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Armed with not much more than a phone camera and some long foreceps, Léo Laborieux described a new species of toxungenous scorpion! @6legsandup.bsky.social thanks for sharing your knowledge, experience, and deep love for scorpions on the podcast!

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A new species Begonia ziroensis and a new record of Begonia siamensis from Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India A new species, Begonia ziroensis D.Borah, Taram & M.Hughes is described herein based on collections made in Ziro Valley of Lower Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh. It is distinct from all oth...

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This new Begonia species was an unexpected find for Dr. Dipankar Borah, but he has taken it in stride. Through his work on Begonias and other flowering plants he learns about the fascinating world of flowers and shares what they can teach us.

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Species discovery in Southern African bee flies (Diptera, Bombyliidae): A new species in the revised genus Enica Macquart, 1834 The Bombyliidae genera Enica Macquart, 1834 and Nomalonia Rondani, 1863, restricted to South Africa, are synonymized. Currently, one species of Enica is known from South Africa, Enica longirostris (Wi...

Read their paper in African Invertebrates: doi.org/10.3897/afri...

A New Bee Fly with Lisa Rollinson and Allan Cabrero New Species · Episode

Happy #FlyWeek! What better way to start than with one of the cutest groups of flies, the bee fly.

Thanks to Allan and Lisa for bringing me into their world and telling me all about this "Sister Bug!"

The oldest continuous association between astigmatid mites and termites preserved in Cretaceous amber reveals the evolutionary significance of phoresy - BMC Ecology and Evolution Background Among minute-sized and wingless arthropods, astigmatid mites stand out for their diverse range of symbiotic associations (parasitic, neutral and mutualistic), with both invertebrate and ver...

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A New Astigmatid Mite with Hemen Sendi New Species · Episode

What if I told you that the oldest known biotic association of arthropods is a piece of Cretaceous Lebanese amber?

At the same time that flowering plants were diversifying, astigmatid mites were hitchiking on the backs of termites.
Learn more in this episode!

Ovicula biradiata, a new genus of Compositae from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas Here, we describe and illustrate a new monospecific genus of Compositae, Ovicula biradiata gen. et sp. nov., from the Chihuahuan Desert in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Ovicula biradiata is a very lo...

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A new "woolly devil" sunflower from #BigBendNationalPark!

Listen in as plant taxonomist @ca-naturalist.bsky.social shares the tremendous effort that went into this discovery, and what the future might look like for this little plant and its neighbors.

lateral photo of a tiny orange-brown rove beetle, with a bulbous abdomen, a small, elongate head with tiny eyes pointed downward, and elbowed antennae with clubs at the tip.

Sometimes all I can do is just stare a specimen and ask it 'who are you, and who do you want to be?'