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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New #OpenAccess work in #RESSystematicEnt reports on automated specimen triage, finding #DeepLearning enables orientation, sex ID & anatomical segmentation from robotic #imaging doi.org/10.1111/syen.70039 #Taxonomy @gkergoat.bsky.social @rudolf-meier.bsky.social @flyliceresearch.bsky.social

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David Tan @mangrovepitta.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Managed to sneak in one paper before the New Year with coauthors @flyliceresearch.bsky.social and Daniel Gustafsson (not on Bsky)! Introducing 2 new species of bird-infesting lice that, despite having no wings, appear to be adept at jumping across bird hosts and continents! doi.org/10.1111/mve....

Guimaraesiella (Guimaraesiella) impiger sp. nov.

Guimaraesiella (Guimaraesiella) stellana sp. nov.

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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Halloween News: Meet a new vampire fly (Hippoboscidae) 🧛‍♂🪰 1 of 10 species found on citizen-reported bird carcasses in Singapore: Even dead birds can have productive afterlives! See host records, annotated images, pictorial keys & DNA diagnostics here: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Dark taxa are extremely diverse organisms that remain largely undescribed due to small size, subtle differences, & few experts. Take this quiz to find out what you are - I'm a gall midge! whatdarktaxonareyou.static.domains/insect-quiz.... by @vivianfeng.bsky.social & @flyliceresearch.bsky.social

A dark, hairy gall midge fly on a white sheet. It has long legs and antennae and a red neck.

Quiz results showing I'm a gall midge or cecidomyiid

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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The top 10 flying insect clades rule the skies—but defy the rules. Weak or inverted latitudinal diversity gradients leave biogeographers puzzled. Entomologists? Mildly amused. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🚫 Farewell to species descriptions with consensus barcodes. ✨ Hello to Diagnostic Molecular Combinations (DMCs) for your taxonomic research ✅ State-specific ✅ Contrastive ✅ Publication-ready Now even easier with the latest UITOTO, our updated user-friendly software; Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

UITOTO for taxonomy. Get your molecular diagnoses right without coding or breaking a sweat! Use state-specific, contrastive DMCs instead of fuzzy consensus barcodes! 🪰🦋🪱🦎🦀🐌🦉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Illuminating Entomological Dark Matter with DNA Barcodes in an Era of Insect Decline, Deep Learning, and Genomics" Who uses insect DNA barcodes for which taxa? The usual suspects dominate... Now in Annual Review of Entomology: doi.org/10.1146/annu...

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