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This earwig's rump looks like an Odontomachus! O_O! Phil Jack Longino

Reinstate former President Trump

Replacing accepted scientific names because of perceived offensiveness is not, and should not be, regulated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: doi.org/10.1093/zoolin…

Take a bow Dr Ben Spencer Rt Hon John Glen MP Harriett Baldwin Conservatives MPs who voted not to conserve our rivers but flood them with sewage. Your achievement will be remembered for posterity. Blue plaques for dirty politicians are popping up all over England - if you see one, tag us 😎

Royal Entomological Society Sarah Luke Lynn Dicks Dept of Zoology @simon2ward Luke Tilley Read the full paper #OpenAccess here resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ic…

Sauvons les collections du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle - Sign the Petition! chng.it/jNKV5zhc via Change.org

researchgate.net/publication/37… In February the eminent lepidopterist and our good friend Paul Opler (CSU Fort Collins, Colorado) lost his battle with cancer. With his wife Evi Buckner-Opler, I published an obituary and his list of publications.

We are happy to announce a new special issue "Advances in Palaeontology—Feature Papers to Celebrate the Inaugural Issue of Fossils", edit by Dr. Eric Buffetaut： mdpi.com/journal/fossil… #palaeontology #Palaeobotany #Micropalaeontology #fossil #Extinction #Palaeobiology

A new statement/comment from the ICZN is available on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/37… It is about DNA-based descriptions and will hopefully initiate wide discussions that help us wording the next edition of the Code.

researchgate.net/publication/37… DOI: 10.3390/d15101053 Today a Perspective paper was published that I coauthored with my European friends and colleagues Ivan Löbl, Bernhard Klausnitzer, and Matthias Hartmann on the current situation of biodiversity science/taxonomy.

And, please, if you agree, support this statement as a signatory. There is a link in the pdf where you can register your support. Thank you very much.

rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa02/fragmen… Belohina inexpectata from Madagascar, the only species in the scarabaeoid family Belohinidae, rediscovered.

Exciting opportunities! On the nomenclatural musings in this article ("cybertypes" etc.) I have written an eLetter, which is now published at the end of the paper and on ResearchGate at researchgate.net/publication/37…

How many dung beetles can one elephant sustain? My research is available on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/37…

researchgate.net/.../379078309_…... 3 dung beetle species from the Dakotas - A European invasive has a new state record, but the two native species discussed haven't been collected since the end of the 1960s. So are they extinct in the Dakotas now? Or is just nobody collecting anymore?

>1500 scientists from >100 countries agreeing in something is a very rare event. In this opinion piece we joined together to express that if biological nomenclature is not understood as a neutral tool, we put ourselves at risk . Let me explain why we had to organize this 🧵👇

Today our paper was published on the decline of taxonomic expertise, using the example of Hungary, based on several lines of evidence. It is open access in Biodiversity and Conservation. doi.org/10.1007/s10531…

Special Issue “Diversity and Taxonomy of Scarabaeoidea” by the journals "Taxonomy" and "Diversity", open for submissions. mdpi.com/.../diversity/…, mdpi.com/.../taxonomy/s… Editor-in-Chief: Frank-T. Krell

Today, a paper with the description (incl. COI barcodes) of four new species of the dung beetle genus Onthophagus from West Africa, was published in the journal Taxonomy: mdpi.com/2673-6500/5/2/…