Jennifer C. Girón duque
Beetle morphology, taxonomy, biodiversity, and systematics
I'm the Curator of Invertebrate Zoology of the Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of Texas Tech University
My research focuses on beetle systematics and taxonomy, mainly on the Neotropical members of the subfamilies Entiminae (Curculionidae) and Acidocerinae (Hydrophilidae).
I'm interested in beetle morphology, biological collections, and biodiversity informatics.
I manage the Ontology for the Anatomy of the Insect SkeletoMuscular system and the
Coleoptera Anatomy Ontology.
I'm one of the coordinators of the Grupo Coleoptera de Colombia
and co-editor and manager of www.Curculionoidea.org.
News
Three new collaborative papers published in June 2024
Montanaro, G., Balhoff, J.P., Girón, J.C., Söderholm, M., Tarasov, S. (2024) Computable species descriptions and nanopublications: applying ontology-based technologies to dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeinae). Biodiversity Data Journal, 12: e121562.
https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e121562
Borovec, R., Girón, J.C. (2024) Taxonomic status of the genus Heteroschoinus Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) with notes on Afrotropical Geonemini. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 78 (2), 210-213. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.210
Hernández-May, M.A., Pérez de la Cruz, M., Girón, J.C., Anderson, R.S., Méndez-García, J.A. (2024) First record of Exophthalmus albofasciatus (Champion, 1911) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) in Mexico feeding on Coccoloba barbadensis Jacquin, 1760 (Polygonaceae). Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”, 67(1): 57–63. https://doi.org/10.3897/travaux.67.e102876
Publications on Colombian beetles
From the efforts of the Grupo Coleoptera de Colombia I participated in four publications so far:
The Coleoptera Anatomy Ontology (COLAO) is accepted by the OBO Foundry and available through the following portals:
Grupo Coleoptera de Colombia
Interested in learning more?
visit https://sites.google.com/view/coleopcol/inicio
or email us at ColeopCol@gmail.com
On February 2022 the Grupo Coleoptera de Colombia surpassed its first 1000 species listed.
Colombian Coleoptera workers with colleagues from other countries have been hard at work scanning through the published literature to compile information about the beetles recorded from the country.
Current taxonomic lists published by members of the group via SiB Colombia and GBIF can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/coleopcol/listados. All lists include references to original descriptions and additional publications citing taxonomic groups, with links to those publications that can be found online.
Publications based on those species lists are posted at https://sites.google.com/view/coleopcol/publicaciones
