Episode 22: Four new beetle species and why the term “adventive” should be used more!
Dr. Adam Brunke is a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes. He talks to me about his paper published in the...
15 Jun 202131min
Episode 21: The Taxonomic Impediment: a special episode in which we talk about the need for more evolutionary biologists!
Dr. Jason Bond is the Schlinger Chair in Insect Systematics at the University of California - Davis. He talks to me about a special topic of concern—something called the taxonomic impediment, which is...
8 Jun 202139min
Episode 20: New millipedes from the northwestern US—eighteen (!!) new species in three new genera!
Dr. Bill Shear is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He talks to me about his paper published in the May 24 issue of the Zootaxain which he and hi...
1 Jun 202133min
Episode 19: New Species—of orchids from Australia that trick gnats into sex!
Dr. Noushka Reiter is a Senior Research Scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. She talks to me about her paper published in the May 13 issue of Phytotaxa in which she...
25 Mai 202135min
Episode 18: New Species—of semi-aquatic mice from Africa, and getting DNA from a mouse captured 100 years ago!
Dr. Tom Giarla is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Siena College in Albany, NY. He talks to me about his paper published in the May issue of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society in which ...
18 Mai 202130min
Episode 17: New Species—of ant spiders from Iran and Turkmenistan, and collecting in mine fields!
Alireza Zamani is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Turku in Finland. He talks to me about his paper published in ZooKeys on April 27 in which he and his coauthor describe 17 new species of ant s...
11 Mai 202129min
Episode 16: New Species—of elfin saddle fungus from Mexico!
Dr. Roberto Garibay-Orijel is a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He talks to me about his paper published in Phytotaxa on April 23 in which he and his coauthors describe a ne...
4 Mai 202131min
Episode 15: New Species—of harlequin toad from Panama and the troubles to get one specimen!
Dr. Abel Batista is a researcher at the Universidad Autonoma de Chiriqui in Panama. He talks to me about his paper published in Zoological Research in which he describes a new species of harlequin toa...
27 Apr 202130min
