Events

Karen Vanessa Bonilla Farinango: Revelando os Paederinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) da Amazônia Brasileira, com ênfase na Coleção de Invertebrados do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (MSc defence)

Elisabeth Körs: The potential of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in forensic entomology (MSc defence)

Amelie Meyer: The biodiversity of Staphylinidae in the Boberger Moor (BSc defence)

Congratulations!!! 🥳

Photos by: K. Koszela & D. Żyła

We were part of a group that presented their research at three research institutes in Ghana. 

• CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Kumasi

• University of Ghana, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, Legon

• University of Cape Coast

The main goal was to establish scientific cooperation with students and researchers there.

Photos by: K. Koszela & Others

Poster session:

• Katarzyna Koszela: Detection of endosymbiont DNA in museum specimens of the Paederus beetle

• Dagmara Żyła: First genus-level phylogeny of Paederinae using genomic and morphological data

Photos by: K. Koszela

Visit to the entomological collection in National Museum in Prague

Lecture day:

• Camilo Guzman: Revision of the two paederine genera Lypeticus Sharp, 1886 and Leiporaphes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

• Laurele Gerke: Paederinae in Bitterfeld amber

• Katarzyna Koszela: The utility of UCEs in Staphylinidae phylogenomics

• Alexandra Tokareva: Mesosternal Marvels: phylogenetic insights on Paederinae subtribes through comparative morphology

• Dagmara Żyła: Phylogeny of Paederinae based on genomic and morphological data

Poster session:

• Alexandra Tokareva: Mysteries of Lathrobium: An update on the adventures in tackling overloaded genus’s taxonomy with the cybertaxonomic approach

Excursion to: NPR Křivé Jezero, PR Stibůrkovská jezera and Býčí skála

Photos by: K. Koszela & A. Solodovnikov

Laurele Gerke: Representative of the rove beetle subfamily Paederinae in Bitterfeld amber

Emily Pierau: Utility of Synchrotron X-ray Scanning for phylogenetic reconstruction – Paederinae from Bitterfeld amber

Priscila Saraiva: Comparative analysis of the biodiversity of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) between the unprotected area of Jenischpark and its Flottbektal nature reserve

Congratulation🥳

Photos by: K. Koszela

Belgium: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren - Mar

Switzerland: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel - Mar

Germany: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart - Mar

Japan: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo - Aug

Japan: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology - Aug

Japan: Kyushu University Museum - Sep

Japan: Tokyo University of Agriculture - Sep

Co-funded by:

Ernst Mayr Travel Grant

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

Photos by: K. Koszela

Lecture days:

Karen Vanessa Bonilla Farinango: New records of Paederinae rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) for Ecuador

Photos by: M. C. Peñuela Mora

Lecture days:

• Camilo Guzman: Historical habitats changes shaped the species diversity in Neolindus genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

• Katarzyna Koszela: The first attempt to build Staphylinidae phylogeny using UCEs 

• Alexandra Tokareva: First genus-level phylogeny of Paederinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) based on genomic data: preliminary results

• Dagmara Żyła: Next-generation sequencing as a tool to study Paederus-Pseudomonas symbiotic relationships

Co-funded by:

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

Photos by: K. Koszela

Visit the entomological collection in the Natural History Museum of Geneva

Lecture day:

• Camilo Guzman: A new enophthalmous species of the genus Micranops from Bolivia and discussion on adaptations to endogean habitats in Paederinae

• Katarzyna Koszela: Karillantu gen. nov. - out of the darkness. A new genus of Paederinae

• Alexandra Tokareva: Fighting the taxonomic impediment in Staphylinidae with fresh means: RADSeq, barcodes, morphology, and palaeontology versus hyperdiverse genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802 (Staphylinidae: Paederinae)

• Dagmara Żyła: Paederinae of Ecuador

Excursion to: Chancy

Photos by: K. Koszela

France: Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle in Paris - Jan/Feb

Hungary: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest - 

USA: American Museum of Natural History, New York City - Jun/Jul

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque - Jun/Jul

Burke Museum, Seattle - Jun/Jul

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco - Jun/Jul

Co-funded by:

SYNTHESYS+

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

National Science Centre (NCN): PRELUDIUM-21

Photos by: K. Koszela

Lectures:

• Guzman Y. C., Tokareva A., Żyła D.: New species of the genus Neolindus Scheerpeltz, 1933 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Cylindroxystina): current and future distribution models.

• Tokareva A., Żyła D.: The new miniature genus of Paederinae from Cretaceous: Phylogenetic placement and discussion on unique characters.

Workshop: hDNA NGS Shotgun Sequencing from Insect Museum Specimens

Symposium: Perspectives and Challenges in hDNA analyses from insect museum specimens 

Co-funded by:

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

Photos by: K. Koszela

Lecture day:

• Dagmara Żyła: The challenge of studying megadiversity: the past and the present of rove beetles through phylogenetic analysis

• Camilo Guzman: What do the rove beetles (Staphylinidae) do in the palms?

Practical exercises in the field: Katarzyna Koszela, Lech Karpiński

Identification: Dagmara Żyła

Photos by: K. Koszela, D. Żyła & María Cristina Peñuela Mora

Visit to the entomological collection in National Museum in Prague

Lecture day:

• Katarzyna Koszela: The utility of UCEs in Staphylinidae phylogenomics

• Alexandra Tokareva: The new miniature extinct genus of Paederinae from Cretaceous: phylogenetic placement and discussion on unique characters

• Dagmara Żyła: Rare and poorly known Afrotropical Paederinae

Poster session:

• Camilo Guzman: New species of Neolindus and where to find them, poster

Excursion to: Raná - Hrádek Natura 2000 site and Borečský Vrch Natura 2000 site

Photos by: K. Koszela, D. Żyła & A. Solodovnikov

During our field trip to the Caucasus, we took part in a BioBlitz as the Staphylinidae experts. 

The events were organized as part of the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBOL) project in

Yerevan Botanical Garden (Armenia) and National Botanical Garden in Tbilisi (Georgia)

Photos by: K. Koszela & D. Żyła

Belgium: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels - Nov/Dec

Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren - Nov/Dec

United Kingdom: Natural History Museum in London - Jan/Feb

Co-funded by:

SYNTHESYS+

Ernst Mayr Travel Grant

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

Photos by: K. Koszela & D. Żyła