Adrian Villastrigo

Beatriz Galindo research fellow

Evolutionary dynamics across an extreme altitudinal gradient



Publications


A review of Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 from New Guinea, with description of eight new tropical-alpine species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini)


Michael Balke, Adrián Villastrigo, Jiří Hájek, Suriani Surbakti, Rawati Panjaitan, Lars Hendrich

Alpine Entomology, vol. 9, 2025, pp. 5-28


Aridification and major geotectonic landscape change shaped an extraordinary species radiation across a world’s extreme elevational gradient


Adrián Villastrigo, Steven JB Cooper, Barbara Langille, Erinn P Fagan-Jeffries, William F Humphreys, Lars Hendrich, Michael Balke

Communications Biology, vol. 7, Nature Publishing Group UK London, 2024, p. 1500


A new, putatively semisubterranean, Rhithrodytes diving beetle from southwestern Sardinia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)


Mario Toledo, David T Bilton, Michael Balke, Antonio Schizzerotto, Adrián Villastrigo

Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 2023, p. 125


New Caledonia's enigmatic terrestrial diving beetle Typhlodessus monteithi is a derived species of Paroster


Adrián Villastrigo, Louis Deharveng, Michael Balke

Zoologica Scripta, vol. 52, 2023, pp. 176-183


Phylogenetic placement and description of Ngaliadessus humphreysi gen. et sp. nov., Watts & Villastrigo (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), a subterranean diving beetle from the Ngalia Basin in central Australia


Christopher HS Watts, Adrián Villastrigo, Barbara L Langille, Danielle N Stringer, Tessa M Bradford, William F Humphreys, Andrew D Austin, Michael Balke, Steven JB Cooper

Austral Entomology, vol. 62, 2023, pp. 300-309