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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde

@caloptilia.bsky.social
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Entomologist, Insect-Plant interactions, Leafminers, Microlepidoptera, Natural History Collections, Parasitoids, Phylogenies, Systematics, Tropical forests, Urban Ecology

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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🐜🦋 Passionnés de nature, curieux, familles et amis des insectes : rendez-vous à Tours ! 🐝🪲 Nous vous invitons à participer à une grande journée de médiation scientifique ouverte à tous. Au plaisir de vous y retrouver nombreux !
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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
New paper on Actias isabellae, focusing on its Alpine subspecies (galliaegloria). Using genomics (RADseq) and ecological niche modelling, we found: 🧬 Extremely low genetic diversity and signs of inbreeding 🌡️ A major projected loss of suitable habitat by 2050 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Deux nouvelles espèces de Caloptilia découvertes en Nouvelle‑Calédonie 🏝️ : leurs chenilles vivent dans des galles de feuilles 🌿 et utilisent un petit tunnel comme “toilette”, qu’elles rebouchent ensuite avec de la soie pour rester propres 🚽✨ www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...
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Des chenilles qui vont aux toilettes !
La Nouvelle-Calédonie présente une biodiversité foisonnante. Un chercheur du Muséum, en collaboration avec des scientifiques de l'université de Tours, de l’INRAE Orléans, du Naturalis Biodiversity Cen...
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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New Caledonian Forests are full of hidden natural treasures! 🌿🦋 Our new ZooKeys paper (led by Antoine Guiguet) describes two spectacular new species of Caloptilia moths—C. augeas and C. ceryneia—discovered in the Parc des Grandes Fougères. zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1738...
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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
🥰 1,100+ abstracts submitted to #ECE2026Tours! 🌍 Scientists from 66 countries will bring a huge diversity of topics—#ECE2026Tours is set to be a global insect science hub 🐜 👉 Updates: ece2026.org
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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Call for abstracts – XIII European Congress of Entomology (#ECE2026) 🐞 29 June–2 July 2026, Tours, France I’m co-organizing the symposium “Insect Systematics in the Biodiversity Crisis: Bridging Tradition and Innovation” 🗓 Early-bird & abstract deadline: 15 Dec 2025 www.ece2026.org
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ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
New from the LIFEPLAN team in Methods in Ecology & Evolution: we present an active ensemble classifier to sift through millions of camera-trap images, finding animals while filtering out empty shots & people. 🌍📸 👉 doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Back from the 24th European Congress of Lepidopterology in the Czech Republic 🦋🇨🇿 What a week! 🎉 Had an absolute blast enjoying top-notch talks on Lepidoptera conservation, ecology & systematics 🦋🌿. Huge shout-out to Zdeněk Faltynek Fric & team 🙌 for putting together such a fantastic conference.
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela @usc.gal · 15/04/2025
🪶 Un estudo constata o influxo do eucalipto na diminución da avifauna forestal 🍃 Un equipo integrado por persoal investigador de USC e @mbgcsic.bsky.social comparou 240 parches de bosque autóctono e eucaliptal no Parque Natural das Fragas do Eume 🗞️ www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...
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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 13/04/2025
I’ve now personally heard of 22 colleagues taking DeRP in the USDA. These roles are irreplaceable. You can't train and hire expertise in these taxa overnight. We can't rehire what no longer exists in the US and undo this. 🧪 #Entomology Recommended read from last year: www.nwf.org/Magazines/Na...
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Are Entomologists as Endangered as the Insects They Study?
All life depends on insects. As many species decline and others—including disease carriers—relocate, the entomologists who study them are becoming endangered.
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Is this the caterpillar of the white witch? If so we are hanging with it right now on cerro hoya. Entomology sky help us out! @wizentrop.bsky.social ?
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Javier Martín @txaverius.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Discurso en directo de @cmhmaliani.bsky.social: "Hemos llegado al triste punto en que se ha vuelto necesario reivindicar el papel crucial de la historia natural en la ciencia ecológica como fuente insustituible de preguntas nuevas". www.youtube.com/live/S4lo8IH...
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Acto de Investidura como Doctor Honoris Causa de Carlos Manuel Herrera Maliani
YouTube video by Universidad de Jaén
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Vicki Hird MSc FRES @vickihird.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Know a budding insect lover? Here's a new fund from @royentsoc.bsky.social and family of the great moth expert Douglas Boyes. For 14-18 year old persons who would benefit from funding to support their entomological interest? Please encourage them to apply www.royensoc.co.uk/douglas-boye...
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Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society
The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access t...
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Enric Frago @enricfrago.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Never forget aphids, cicadas, planthoppers and leafhoppers!
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Applications open! The LinneSys grant supports small-scale research and education projects in the fields of taxonomy and systematics on any organism group with grants of up to £1,500. Follow the link below! www.linnean.org/the-... @systassn.bsky.social
An open wooden drawer containing pinned butterflies of varying sizes and patterns.
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Peter Mulhair @petermulhair.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Delighted to see our new paper out, led by PhD student Asia Hoile. We explored new genes that emerged during the early evolution of Lepidoptera 🦋 Many cool insights which we think open up new questions to explore. Get in touch if you have thoughts/want to discuss more! 🔗: tinyurl.com/48rx72es
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Gene novelty and gene family expansion in the early evolution of Lepidoptera - BMC Genomics
Background Almost 10% of all known animal species belong to Lepidoptera: moths and butterflies. To understand how this incredible diversity evolved we assess the role of gene gain in driving early lep...
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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The 2025 LinneSys call is open! Need funding for a systematics-based project? Details on eligibity and how to apply here: systass.org/linnesys/ You need an active @systassn.bsky.social or @linneansociety.bsky.social membership to apply! Applications close Monday, 10th March at 23:59 GMT+0
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LinneSys: Systematics Research Fund
LinneSys: Systematics Research Fund The Councils of The Linnean Society of London and The Systematics Association jointly administer this fund for the benefit of systematics research. The Fund has …
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Biodiversity Genomics Europe plus (BGE+) @biogeneurope.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
There’s another brand-new #referencegenome! 🧬 This time, it’s the genome of the Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae), a #butterfly native to the Eastern Iberian Peninsula and the French Alps. 🦋 Go to the genome report: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ergabiodiv.bsky.social @cnag-eu.bsky.social
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Extremely worrying dynamics are unfolding in the US: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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Niklas Wahlberg @lepphylo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoctoral fellow in Noctuidae functional genomics
Subject description The project will use a comparative functional genomes approach to study a species-rich group of moths, Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). Noctuidae have both a huge negative and positive imp
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tlepechon.bsky.social @tlepechon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Quelle restauration des forêts de Mayotte, point chaud mondial de biodiversité, après le cyclone Chido ? theconversation.com/quelle-resta...
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Quelle restauration des forêts de Mayotte, point chaud mondial de biodiversité, après le cyclone Chido ?
Restaurer ces forêts est essentiel pour conserver leur biodiversité sans pareil, pour que les Mahorais continuent de bénéficier de leur protection lors d’inondation ou glissements de terrains.
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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
My take on listing #monarchs under the #ESA cornellsun.com/2025/02/04/a...
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AGRAWAL | The Monarch’s Edict
Since we're in the 90 day comment period before monarchs would officially be listed under the Endangered Species Act, I thought I would publicly offer my thoughts on the beautiful subjects of my life'...
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Gael Kergoat @gkergoat.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Glad to see the study led by our grad student Benoit_Penel (@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social) finally out in @ecography.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1111/ecog... #abundance_data #agroecosystems #beetles #biodiversity #metabarcoding #parataxonomy
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Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The #Eurytomidae UCE phylogeny that I've been working on in the past few years is now out as a preprint. By using museum samples at NMNH and CIRAD, we generated the first global phylogeny of this diverse but poorly studied #Chalcidoidea family. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Phasing in and out of phytophagy: phylogeny and evolution of the family Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) based on Ultraconserved Elements
We present the first global molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the family Eurytomidae, a group of chalcidoid wasps with diverse biology, with a representative sampling (197 ingroups and 11 outgroup...
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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
‘Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future’ - a special issue of Phil Trans R Soc B in honour of a very special biodiversity scientist - is published today by @royalsociety.org. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1917
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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
All welcome at Butterfly Conservation’s free online UK Moth Recorders' Meeting (Saturday 25 January 2025 on Zoom). Reserve your place now bit.ly/3Z2MOzc There’s a fab line-up of speakers: bit.ly/3Z2MxfE #TeamMoth please repost to spread the word!
Welsh Clearwing (Iain Leach)
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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
What an incredible ten days in Guyane with an amazing team of passionate entomologists! Thanks to Rodolphe Rougerie and Jérôme Barbut from the Natural History Museum in Paris for organizing this unforgettable expedition filled with discovery and camaraderie! 🌿🦋
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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I’m thrilled to announce our latest publication in @neobiotajournal.bsky.social ! 🚀 🪲🔬 Our paper delves into biosurveillance of mass-trapped long-horned beetles using innovative metabarcoding techniques powered by @nanoporetech.com Check it out : neobiota.pensoft.net/articles.php...
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Darren Crayn @dcrayn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A little starter pack for fans of biological systematics. I’d love to gather more people and organisations- if that’s you please let me know :) go.bsky.app/GCP9Um
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LIB @leibnizlib.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🦗We are #hiring 🦗 Open position Curator #Entomology with focus on #Hemimetabola at the @leibnizlib.bsky.social, #MuseumofNatureHamburg. Make a difference in the #biodiversity world. 👉 Apply now 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-20-... #Insects #Collection #Jobs #MuseumofNatureHamburg
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Joanie King, PhD @joanieking.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We’re looking for an assistant professor in urban entomology at New Mexico State University: careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assista... Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂
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Assistant Professor/Urban Entomology - Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Position Title: Assistant Professor/Urban Entomology Employee Classification: LC Faculty TT/TN 9m College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col Department: 303000-ENTOMOLOGY PLANT PATH AND...
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Anne Kempel @annekempel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Starter pack about researchers interested in plant-herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions! This list is by far not complete - so please help me to get it extended. Leave suggestions or self-nominations in the comments and I'll add you. go.bsky.app/4JR67t6
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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hey Lepidoptera folks, here’s a Starter Pack of Lepidopterologists! If you want to be added (or removed), just @ me with your favourite: #buttetflies? #moths? go.bsky.app/U3HPgpW
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