Viridiana Vega Badillo

• Técnico académico at Institute of Ecology INECOL

Phengodidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea), commonly known as glowworm beetles, are a small family of bioluminescent and paedomorphic beetles. There are few phylogenetic studies of Phengodidae, and these are mostly discordant, especially when comparing morphology-based and molecular-based phylogenetic hypotheses. Here, we used the anchored hybrid enrich...

Mexico Firefly Festival - 2023 activities report

Pyropyga Motschulsky, 1852 is a genus of diurnal fireflies occurring in America (with the exception of one species introduced in Japan). Seven of the 12 described species have been reported in Mexico; work on the genus is scarce and the genital structures of the female have never been studied. The new species was discovered between the limits of th...

Fireflies are charismatic beetles because some night-dwelling species have the ability to emit light to communicate sexually in the adult stage and this natural phenomenon is of great attraction to humans. The use of insecticides, soil erosion and compression, and light pollution are factors that can result in a decline of their populations at the...

Primer curso de identificación y monitoreo de luciérnagas (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) de la AMXSA

Se presenta la descripción de Pyropyga julietafierroae sp. nov., incluyendo los genitales de la hembra, de modo que es la primera vez que se describen estas estructuras para una hembra del género Pyropyga Motschulsky, 1852. La especie nueva fue descubierta en un ambiente urbanizado de Ciudad Universitaria en la Ciudad de México, lo que aumenta a 13...

Information on fireflies from the north-western región of Mexico is provided, which includes the states of Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Zacatecas. Sixty-seven species of 69 that have be...

Se describe e ilustra 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑧𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑧𝑖.sp. nov., procedente de Ixtlahuacán, Colima, México y se compara con 𝐷. 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖 Zaragoza-Caballero, 1986 por ser una especie cercana. Se presenta un nuevo registro estatal de 𝐷. 𝑙𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑒 Zaragoza-Caballero, 1986.Se comentan aspectos sobre la distribución del género Distremocephalus en México.

The life cycle, morphology, and bionomy of Photinus extensus Gorham, 1881, an endemic species of Mexico, are described. Redescriptions of adults (male and female) are also presented. Larvae were reared to the adult stage from eggs laid by females collected at the El Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve, south of Mexico City. The activity period...

Zaragozapirhidius Vega-Badillo et al., a new genus of wedge-shaped beetles (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae) from Volcán Tacaná, Chiapas, Mexico is proposed on the basis of the new species, Zaragozapirhidius zuritai Vega-Badillo et al. The new genus is generally similar to the New World complex of genera Pirhidius Besuchet, 1957, Neorrhipidius Viana, 1958...

A taxonomic revision of the genus Cenophengus LeConte, 1881 (Coleoptera: Phengodidae) is provided, including new data on geographic ranges of the species. This is the first time this genus has been recorded for Belize and in Honduras. Four new species ( C. gardunoi , C. saasil , C. tsiik and C. zuritai ) are described and a new synonymy ( C. guerre...

Six new species of the genus Cenophengus LeConte, 1881 are described. Five of these new species were collected in Mexico, in the states of Hidalgo (Cenophengus mboi sp. nov. and Cenophengus hnogamu̱i sp. nov.), Coahuila (Cenophengus kikapu sp. nov.) and San Luis Potosí (Cenophengus tupae sp. nov., Cenophengus mumui sp. nov.). An additional species...

Based on the morphological study of specimens housed at the Colección Nacional de Insectos (CNIN), five new species from Jalisco, Durango, and Baja California belonging to the genera Cratomorphus Motschulsky, Tenaspis LeConte, and Microphotus LeConte are described and illustrated. The new species are Cratomorphus limai sp. nov., Tenaspis chamelensi...

The genus Cenophengus LeConte (1881) includes 27 species, distributed from southern United States to northern Costa Rica. In order to test the monophyly of Cenophengus, a cladistic analysis based on 81 morphological characters, 28 species of Cenophengus and 27 outgroup species was conducted. A clade supported by three synapomorphies corresponds to...

The genus Cladotoma Westwood, 1837 (Ptilodactylidae) has seven species distributed in Argentina, Costa Rica, Fren-ch Guiana, and Panama. Cladotoma ovalis Westwood, 1837 is record for the first time in Mexico, in the states of Jalisco and Chiapas. Illustrations, distribution map and a diagnosis for the genus and for C. ovalis are herein presented. A...

2020. Escarabajos (Coleoptera). En: La biodiversidad en Morelos. Estudio de Estado 2. Vol. ii. conabio, México, pp. 163-175. Introducción La característica más evidente que separa a los coleóp-teros del resto de los insectos es la presencia de élitros (primer par de alas endurecidas), de la cual reciben su nombre científico Coleoptera (coleos = est...

Two species of Phengodidae (Coleoptera) are reported for the first time in Argentina: Neophengus huantaensis Wittmer, 1976 and Mastinomorphus atacamensis (Wittmer, 1963). Oxymastinocerus unicolor (Pic, 1926) is firstly reported from Catamarca, Chaco, La Rioja, and Tucumán. Diagnoses and geographical distributions of these three species are provided...

Cleicosta, a new genus of Phengodidae containing two new species, C. equatoreana sp. nov., and C. monaguense sp. nov., are described. Additionally, a new combination for Cenophengus breviplumatus Wittmer, 1976 is included. Cleicosta gen. nov., is the thirty-eighth genus assigned to the beetle family Phengodidae in the new world and is also the most...

A new species of the nematode Triumphalisnema Kloss, 1962 (Oxyuridomorpha), is described from the wood beetle Proculejus hirtus Truqui from the mountain mesophilic forest in Hidalgo State, Mexico. Triumphalisnema zuuei n. sp. is distinguished from the other 4 congeners species by the presence of an expanded cervical ring, well-developed lateral ala...

Se describen 36 especies nuevas de Photinus y 1 de Paraphotinus. Las nuevas especies proceden de la Ciudad de México (2), Estado de México (15), Hidalgo (6), Morelos (2), Puebla (11) y Tlaxcala (1). Se actualiza la información de 64 especies del centro de México de los géneros Aorphalus Zaragoza-Caballero y Gutiérrez-Carranza, Aspisoma Laporte, Asp...

En el presente trabajo se reporta por primera vez la familia Phengodidae en Belice, ampliando así la distribución de Phengodes (Phengodella) leonilae, P. (P.) tuxtlaensis y Stenophrixothrix fuscus. Se describe una nueva especie del género Phengodes. Se presenta una clave para la identificación de especies de Phengodidae para Belice. Abstract The pr...

Data from the literature and from specimens preserved at the Colección Nacional de Insectos (CNIN) Instituto de Biología, UNAM were used to compile a checklist of the fauna of Coleoptera of the state of Morelos, México. A sum of 70 families, 167 subfamilies, 361 tribes, 1,022 genera, and 2,606 species are recorded; from this 24 species are new reco...

A new species of the genus Chaetocoelus is described from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is compared with C. setosus. It represents the second species of this genus among the coleoptera Melyridae. Keywords: Insecta, Malachiinae: Carphurini sp. nov., Mexico.

This study describes for the first time the vertical distribution of the Coleoptera of a tropical dry-forest of the Mexican Pacific. Even when some studies about the diverstiy and distributional patterns of insect communities in tropical dry forests of Mexican Pacific Coast have been made, there is no information about local ecological patterns, su...