Acidocerinae
Latest papers on Acidocerine water scavenger beetles:
A revision of a widespread Neotropical genus of water scavenger beetles
Short AEZ, Girón JC (2023) Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Novochares Girón & Short (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae). ZooKeys 1171: 1-112. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1171.104142
Girón JC, Short AEZ (2021) The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species. ZooKeys 1045: 1–236. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1045.63810
Short AEZ, Girón JC, Toussaint EFA (2021) Evolution and biogeography of acidocerine water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) shaped by Gondwanan vicariance and Cenozoic isolation of South America. Systematic Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12467
Our research on Neotropical aquatic beetles was highlighted in August 2019 by KU News
From my blogpost, 2015:
Keep reading blogposts about my research on acidocerines at http://acidocerinae.blogspot.com/
Given the repeated transitions from aquatic to intermediate and terrestrial habitats that occur throughout the group, the goal is to elucidate the evolutionary history of the acidocerines, emphasizing on morphological modifications associated with those habitat changes.
Click here to see the list of the acidocerine species that occur across the Americas (a work in progress).
Publications on the topic:
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Short, A.E.Z., Girón, J.C. (2023) Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Novochares Girón & Short (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). ZooKeys, 1171: 1–112. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1171.104142
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short (2021) The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species. ZooKeys 1045: 1–236. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1045.63810
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short (2021) Review of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Tobochares Short & García, 2007 (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae): new lineages, new species, and new records. ZooKeys 1019: 93–140. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1019.59881
Short, A. E. Z., Girón, J. C. & Toussaint, E. F. A. (2021) Evolution and biogeography of acidocerine water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) shaped by Gondwanan vicariance and Cenozoic isolation of South America. Systematic Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12467
Arriaga-Varela, E., A. Brunke, J. C. Girón, K. Szawaryn, J. Bruthansová & M. Fikáček (2019) Micro-CT reveals hidden morphology and clarifies the phylogenetic position of Baltic amber water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1699921
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short (2019) Three additional new genera of acidocerine water scavenger beetles from the Guiana and Brazilian Shield regions of South America (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). ZooKeys, 855: 109–154. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.855.33013
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short (2018) Three new genera of acidocerine Water Scavenger Beetles from South America (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). ZooKeys, 768: 113–158. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.768.24423
Short, A. E. Z. & J. C. Girón (2018) Review of the Helochares (Hydrobaticus) MacLeay of the New World (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). Zootaxa, 4407(1): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.2
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short (2017) Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Quadriops Hansen, 1999 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). ZooKeys 705: 115–141. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.705.19815
Short, A. E. Z., M. García & J. C. Girón. 2017. Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Globulosis García, 2001 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). Zootaxa 4232 (2): 271–281. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4232.2.10
Presentations and posters:
Including links to the files.
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short. Back to land: Ecological shifts and morphological adaptations in the water scavenger beetle subfamily Acidocerinae (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, St. Louis, MO. Nov 2019. [Presentation]
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short. Phylogeny and reclassification of the water scavenger beetle subfamily Acidocerinae (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Vancouver, Canada. Nov 2018. [Presentation]
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short. On the morphology of water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Oral presentation. Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Denver, CO. Nov 2017. [Presentation]
Girón, J. C. Morphological review of the Acidocerinae and related hydrophilids (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Graduate Student Organization Retreat, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Mar 2017. First place for best talk. [Presentation]
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short. Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the Acidocerinae (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): advances in the Chasmogenus group. Oral presentation. International Congress of Entomology, Orlando, FL. Sep 2016. [Presentation] Link to the abstract: https://doi.org/10.1603/ice.2016.107574
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short. Exploring morphological characters associated with habitat transitions in water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). Poster. Evolution Meeting, Austin, TX. Jun 2016. [Poster]
Girón, J. C. & A. E. Z. Short. Review of the water scavenger beetle genus Helobata Bergroth (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). Oral presentation. Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Nov 2015. [Presentation]
At the Denver Convention Center in 2017, with Marianna Simões, Stephen Baca and Grey Gustafson, members of The Short Lab
At the Evolution Meeting 2016