Jennifer C. Girón duque
Beetle morphology, taxonomy, biodiversity, and systematics
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 de Coleopterólogos de Colombia
and co-editor and manager of www.Curculionoidea.org.
News
I received the Lacordaire Prize from The Coleopterists Society
The prize is given to the best publication based on PhD work and was awarded for this paper:
Girón, J.C. & Short, A.E.Z. (2021) The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species. ZooKeys 1045, 1–236. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1045.63810
First collaboration on darkling beetles including data from the Ontology for the Anatomy of the Insect SkeletoMuscular system
Kamiński et al. 2022. Female terminalia morphology and cladistic relations among Tok-Tok beetles (Tenebrionidae: Sepidiini). Cladistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12510
First collaboration on a paper dealing with endosymbionts and genomic data published in Ecology and Evolution
Manthey, J.D., Girón, J.C. & Hruska, J.P. (2022) Impact of host demography and evolutionary history on endosymbiont molecular evolution: A test in carpenter ants (genus Camponotus) and their Blochmannia endosymbionts. Ecology and Evolution 12, e9026. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9026
The Coleoptera Anatomy Ontology (COLAO) is accepted by the OBO Foundry and available through the following portals:
Grupo de Coleopterólogos 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 de Coleopterólogos 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.
