Miguel Angel Morón Ríos, Mexican entomologist (Ciudad de Mexico 24 October 1952 – Xalapa 22 August 2017)
Regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on scarab beetles larvae
DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA
Genera/Subgenus
Archedinus 1990 with Krikken
Belicinus 2012 with Arce Perez & Shepard
Subg. Bucaphalanus 2012 with Ramírez Ponce
Chelilabia 1999 with Nogueira
Halffterinetis 2007 with Nogueira
Iridosoma 1991 with Delgado Castillo
Macropoidelimus 1983
Mazahuapertha 1999 with Nogueira
Mesosternus 1988
Nayarita 1999 with Nogueira
Paraheterosternus 1983
Parisoleoides 1987
Plesiosternus 1983
Saccharoscaptus 2015 with Gross
Yaaxkumukia 1999 with Nogueira
Species
291 (136 of them in genus Phyllophaga)
HONORS
Moronopeilos Brailovsky 1988 (Hemiptera)
Moronius Grossi & Vaz de Mello 2015 (Coleoptera)
Moroniella Ramírez Ponce 2015 (Coleoptera)
LINKS
http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0065-17372019000100301 (Spanish)
http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0065-17372017000300538&lng=pt&nrm=iso (Spanish)