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Frank-T. Krell @frankkrell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

www.researchgate.net/publication/... Today, my first large paper on Colorado Scarabaeoidea was published by Insecta Mundi covering 28 species, with several new state records. It is the first in a series of papers covering distribution, phenology and ecology of Colorado scarabaeoid beetles.

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(PDF) The distribution of 28 species of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) in Colorado, with new state records

PDF | The distribution of the following Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) species in Colorado is established on the basis of preserved specimens and verifiable... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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Frank-T. Krell @frankkrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Today, a fascinating book on Animal Mummies was published by Sidestone Press in which Ben van den Bercken from the Allard Pierson and I have written a chapter on an incredibly well preserved beetle mummy that even made it onto the front cover of the book. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Frank-T. Krell @frankkrell.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

denverite.com/2025/07/15/m... To be published in fall, but already in the press: a wonderful beetle mummy!

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Check out this mummified dung beetle!

A local scientist got to study the "very rare" beetle mummy.

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Frank-T. Krell @frankkrell.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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: www.mdpi.com/2673-6500/5/...

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Frank-T. Krell @frankkrell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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

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Frank-T. Krell @frankkrell.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

link.springer.com/article/10.1... One month ago we published a paper was published on the decline of taxonomic expertise, using the example of Hungary, based on several lines of evidence. My Hungarian colleagues compiled a wealth of data. The paper is open access in Biodiversity and Conservation.

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Identification crisis: a fauna-wide estimate of biodiversity expertise shows massive decline in a Central European country - Biodiversity and Conservation

Expertise in biodiversity research (taxonomy, faunistics, conservation with taxonomic background) appears to decline worldwide. While the “taxonomic impediment” is discussed extensively in the literat...

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