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Frank-T. Krell

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Nationality: Human. Ethnicity: Human. Natural historian, taxonomist, zoologist. Living on the Colorado prairie, working at Colorado State University, and moving to the Smithsonian in November. Studying scarab beetles, and what is going on with taxonomy.

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Today, a fascinating book on Animal Mummies was published by Sidestone Press in which Ben van den Bercken from the Allard Pierson and I have written a chapter on an incredibly well preserved beetle mummy that even made it onto the front cover of the book. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

24.09.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check out this mummified dung beetle! A local scientist got to study the "very rare" beetle mummy.

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To be published in fall, but already in the press: a wonderful beetle mummy!

15.07.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today, a paper with the description (incl. COI barcodes) of four new species of the dung beetle genus Onthophagus from West Africa, was published in the journal Taxonomy: www.mdpi.com/2673-6500/5/...

19.04.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Special Issue β€œDiversity and Taxonomy of Scarabaeoidea” by the journals "Taxonomy" and "Diversity", open for submissions. mdpi.com/.../diversit..., mdpi.com/.../taxonomy...
Editor-in-Chief: Frank-T. Krell

27.01.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Identification crisis: a fauna-wide estimate of biodiversity expertise shows massive decline in a Central European country - Biodiversity and Conservation Expertise in biodiversity research (taxonomy, faunistics, conservation with taxonomic background) appears to decline worldwide. While the β€œtaxonomic impediment” is discussed extensively in the literat...

link.springer.com/article/10.1... One month ago we published a paper was published on the decline of taxonomic expertise, using the example of Hungary, based on several lines of evidence. My Hungarian colleagues compiled a wealth of data. The paper is open access in Biodiversity and Conservation.

08.12.2024 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

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