Adrian Villastrigo

Beatriz Galindo research fellow

Evolution of a tropical high-altitude insect community in the Andes inferred from a global phylogenetic framework



Publications


Plate tectonics, cold adaptation and long-distance range expansion to remote archipelagos and the high Andes as drivers of a circumantarctic freshwater arthropod radiation


Adrián Villastrigo, Athena Lam, Matthew H Van Dam, Agnes Scheunert, Jiří Hájek, Lars Hendrich, Mariano C Michat, Yoandri Megna, Luis Figueroa, Nilver Zenteno, others

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Academic Press, 2025, p. 108279


Recent range expansion and lineage idiosyncratic population structure of Liodessus diving beetles in the high Andes (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini)


Michael Balke, Tobias Mainda, Katja Neven, Lars Hendrich, Michael Steven Basantes, Carlos Prieto, Adrián Villastrigo

PloS one, vol. 19, Public Library of Science, 2024, pp. e0308683


Two new high Andean species of Liodessus diving beetles from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini)


M Balke, DT Bilton, M García, AL Viloria, A Villastrigo, L Hendrich

Alpine Entomology, vol. 6, Pensoft, 2022, pp. 7--12