@MothMatson

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; Entomology, Lepidoptera

Joined February 2021
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"ACG is a success story, a powerful example of what can happen when humans help forests heal." @ACGuanacaste #reforestation #restoration #biodiversity #CostaRica They turned cattle ranches into tropical forest — then climate change hit theverge.com/24137380/forest… via @Verge

They turned cattle ranches into tropical forest — then climate change hit

“This is what gives me hope.”

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While playing in the garden, my 2-yr old daughter came across a rolly-polly and, intrigued, decided to taste it. When her mother asked in shock, 'Did you just eat that?!' She calmly replied, 'Yeeees, it's... SPICY! So now you know...
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Stunning work by @ryan_stlaurent et al! doi.org/10.1080/00222933.202… 4/4 on new Cerurinae life histories from eggs...in a part of the world with desperate need for this type of research!
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@Zeke_Darwin18 Dec 2023
Just realized that an article was published last week on the new species of moth my students worked on naming! kansas.com/news/state/articl…

Creature with ‘golden wings’ discovered as new species, with Kansas 8th graders’ help

The patterned animal lives in woodlands of Mexico, researchers said.

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Exciting news! 16 new Mexican #Geometridae in the genus Stamnodes @ejtaxonomy Dive into Mexican #biodiversity and #biogeography ! 🦋🔬 #NewSpecies #Biodiversidad #Lepidoptera europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu…
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Our latest newsletter is out! Read and share! Season's Greetings 2023 - mailchi.mp/febf5f906689/seas…
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Three newly described species of the Neotropical genus Achagua - a rarely encountered geometrid moth #Lepidoptera #Geometridae #newspecies doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.535…
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Pull a Scranci leg! Congrats Ryan et al!
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Right or wrong, when elevating an infraspecific taxon to species, what is your preferred language. Example: "Taxon A represents a [???] species."
12%"good"
50%"valid"
12%"full"
25%something other
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My "Insistent Curator" 😊
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The new website of Forum Herbulot, including ONLINE TAXONOMIC FACILITY OF GEOMETRIDAE lunched just today: geometroidea.smns-bw.org/ The related paper published in @IntegSyst: doi.org/10.18476/2022.577933
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Fresh from the press in @IntegSyst: “An online taxonomic facility of Geometridae (Lepidoptera), with an overview of global species richness and systematics”, presenting the brand new web resource of @ForumHerbulot bioone.org/journals/integrat…
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Eutrepsia vanilla n. sp. from southern Mexico published with my colleague Ivonne Garzón-Orduña. It's the only predominantly white member of the genus and (I think) bears a strong resemblance to the butterfly Dynamine agacles.
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Our paper on mtDNA variation of butterflies introduced to North America is out. I find it fascinating that some haplotypes probably originated since introduction, a blink of an eye in evolutionary time. eje.cz/artkey/eje-202201-003…

Patterns of DNA barcode diversity in butterfly species (Lepidoptera) introduced to the Nearctic

Jacopo D'ERCOLE, Leonardo DAPPORTO, B. Christian SCHMIDT, Vlad DINCĂ, Gerard TALAVERA, Roger VILA, Paul D.N. HEBERT

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Check out our brand new study on latitudinal patterns of larval diet breadth in European geometrid moths. doi.org/10.1111/geb.13493
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Haha, make it a wasp, scale for size, and you have @MikeGates17
Daniel De Simon, MD MBA@Daniel_De_Simon24 Mar 2022
My NICU attending is 6’6” and when he puts his giant hands through the incubator holes to examine the baby that’s literally 2 pounds he says “hey there little guy” as the tiny human holds his giant finger and it’s just 🙌🏼🥺😭
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Feels good to have our paper on unresolved phylogeny of butterflies and moths finally published. Thanks to @VTwort @Syntomis @MycalesisPena @ChrisWWheat @LepPhylo and Lauri Kaila. doi.org/10.1111/syen.12545

The unresolved phylogenomic tree of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera): Assessing the potential...

Phylogenomics has helped us resolve much of the Lepidoptera tree of life, but the relationships among the superfamilies within Ditrysia, containing 98% of the order's species richness, remain...

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Taxonomy and systematics of the enigmatic emerald moth Xenochlorodes graminaria (Kollar, 1850) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), and its assignment to a new genus bioone.org/journals/integrat…
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Cryptic moth taxa are often found at informational extremes. Too much info (excessive or variable bands) useful characters go unnoticed. Too little info, nothing draws the eye. A great example of the latter in all-white - a long hidden US megalopygid: doi.org/10.18473/lepi.76i1.a…
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