Adrian Villastrigo

Beatriz Galindo research fellow

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


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


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


First record of the subgenus Cobalius on Tenerife, Canary Islands


Adrián Villastrigo, Eva García-Esquivel

Spixiana, vol. 46, 2024, pp. 197-199


Flight Dispersal in Supratidal Rockpool Beetles


Jorge Plaza-Buendía, Juana María Mirón-Gatón, Antonio José García-Meseguer, Adrián Villastrigo, Andrés Millán, Josefa Velasco

Insects, vol. 15, MDPI, 2024, p. 140


Overlooked coastal habitats expose a new species: Ochthebius vilanovensis sp. nov.(Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)


Adrián Villastrigo, Eva García-Esquivel

Zootaxa, vol. 5538, 2024, pp. 439-447


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


The discovery of an overseen pygmy backswimmer in Europe (Heteroptera, Nepomorpha, Pleidae)


Michael J Raupach, Nele Charzinski, Adrian Villastrigo, Martin M Gossner, Rolf Niedringhaus, Peter Schäfer, Sebastian Schmelzle, Gerhard Strauß, Lars Hendrich

Scientific Reports, vol. 14, Nature Publishing Group UK London, 2024, p. 28139


Underestimated diversity and range size of diving beetles in tank bromeliads—Coleoptera of ‘hygrofloric’lifestyle (Dytiscidae)


Jiří Hájek, Yves Alarie, Cesar J Benetti, Neusa Hamada, Monika Springer, Lars Hendrich, Adrián Villastrigo, Rodulfo Ospina Torres, Michael S Basantes, Michael Balke

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 200, Oxford University Press UK, 2024, pp. 720-735


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


Aus dem Dunkel ins Licht: Die Entdeckung einer bislang unbekannten Wasserwanzenart in Deutschland


Michael J Raupach, Nele Charzinski, Adrián Villastrigo, Werner Beckmann

HETEROPTERON, vol. 68, 2023, pp. 6-8


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


Novel Microsatellite Loci, Cross-Species Validation of Multiplex Assays, and By-Catch Mitochondrial Genomes on Ochthebius Beetles from Supratidal Rockpools


Antonio José García-Meseguer, Adrián Villastrigo, Juana María Mirón-Gatón, Andrés Millán, Josefa Velasco, Irene Muñoz

Insects, vol. 14, MDPI, 2023, p. 881


Oceanic currents maintain the genetic structure of non-marine coastal taxa in the western Mediterranean Sea


Adrián Villastrigo, Víctor Orenes-Salazar, Antonio José García-Meseguer, Juana María Mirón-Gatón, Baptiste Mourre, Andrés Millán, Josefa Velasco

npj Biodiversity, vol. 2, Nature Publishing Group UK London, 2023, p. 25


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


The colonisation of the Tyrrhenian Islands by Hydraena water beetles, with Hydraena reflexa Rey, 1884 reinstated as a valid species endemic to Corsica and Sardinia (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)


David T Bilton, Ignacio Ribera, Adrián Villastrigo

Organisms Diversity \& Evolution, vol. 23, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg, 2023, pp. 881-900


Advances in aquatic and subterranean beetles research: a tribute to Ignacio Ribera


Adrián Villastrigo, Andrés Millán, David Sánchez Fernández, Javier Fresneda, Luis F Valladares, others

Asociación Espa{\~n}ola de Entomología, 2022


Cryptic lineages, cryptic barriers: Historical seascapes and oceanic fronts drive genetic diversity in supralittoral rockpool beetles (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)


A Villastrigo, DT Bilton, P Abellan, A Millan, I Ribera, J Velasco

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 196, Wiley, 2022, pp. 740--756


Parallel decay of vision genes in subterranean water beetles


Barbara L Langille, Simon M Tierney, Terry Bertozzi, Perry G Beasley-Hall, Tessa M Bradford, Erinn P Fagan-Jeffries, Josephine Hyde, Remko Leijs, Matthew Richardson, Kathleen M Saint, others

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 173, Academic Press, 2022, p. 107522


The complete mitochondrial genomes of Notiophilus quadripunctatus Dejean, 1826 and Omophron limbatum (Fabricius, 1777): New insights into the mitogenome phylogeny of the Carabidae (Insecta, Coleoptera)


Michael J Raupach, Fabian Deister, Adrián Villastrigo, Michael Balke

Insect Systematics \& Evolution, vol. 53, Brill, 2022, pp. 242--263


The Ochthebius (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae) from western Palaearctic supratidal rockpools


Adrián Villastrigo, Carles Hernando, Andrés Millán

Suplementos del Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, vol. 4, 2022, pp. 100-108


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


Habitat preference and diversification rates in a speciose lineage of diving beetles


Adrián Villastrigo, Pedro Abellán, Ignacio Ribera

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 159, Academic Press, 2021, p. 107087


In Memoriam: Ignacio Ribera Galán (1963-2020)


Andrés Millán, Pedro Abellán, Paula Arribas, Susana Pallarés, Félix Picazo, Adrián Villastrigo, Josefa Velasco, David Sánchez-Fernández

Limnetica, vol. 39, 2020, pp. i--vi


Irreversible habitat specialization does not constrain diversification in hypersaline water beetles


Adrián Villastrigo, Paula Arribas, Ignacio Ribera

Molecular Ecology, vol. 29, 2020, pp. 3637--3648


On the presence of Aphelocheirus aestivalis (Fabricius, 1794) in the Iberian Peninsula: new records with morphological and molecular data (Hemiptera: Aphelocheiridae)


David Miguélez, Adrián Villastrigo, Luis F Valladares

Aquatic Insects, vol. 41, Taylor \& Francis, 2020, pp. 227--240


The neglected diversity of the Ochthebius fauna from Eastern Atlantic and Central and Western Mediterranean coastal rockpools (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)


Adrian Villastrigo, Carles Hernando, Andrés Millán, Ignacio Ribera

Organisms Diversity \& Evolution, vol. 20, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2020, pp. 785--801


A molecular phylogeny of the tribe Ochthebiini (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae, Ochthebiinae)


Adrián Villastrigo, Manfred A Jäch, Anabela Cardoso, Luis F Valladares, Ignacio Ribera

Systematic Entomology, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019


Digest: Insights into diatoms diversity patterns


Adrián Villastrigo

Evolution, vol. 73, Blackwell Publishing Inc Malden, USA, 2019, pp. 2542--2543


Ochthebius (s. str.) caudatus FRIVALDSZKY, 1883: redescription, new records, and group assignation based on molecular data


Manfred Jäch, JA Delgado, D Twardy, A Villastrigo, W Dorfer

Koleopterologische Rundschau, vol. 89, 2019, pp. 17--28


Evolution of salinity tolerance in the diving beetle tribe Hygrotini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)


Adrián Villastrigo, Hans Fery, Michael Manuel, Andrés Millan, Ignacio Ribera

Zoologica Scripta, vol. 47, 2018, pp. 63--71


A new classification of the tribe Hygrotini Portevin, 1929 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae)


Adrian Villastrigo, Ignacio Ribera, Michaël Manuel, Andrés Millán, Hans Fery

Zootaxa, vol. 4317, 2017, pp. 499--529


A new species of Micragasma J. Sahlberg, 1900 (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from Crete


Carles Hernando, Adrián Villastrigo, Ignacio Ribera

Aquatic Insects, vol. 38, Taylor \& Francis, 2017, pp. 185--196


An updated checklist of the water beetles and bugs of Cyprus


Adrián Villastrigo, Ignacio Ribera, David T. Bilton, Josefa Velasco, Andrés Millán

Latissimus, vol. 40, 2017, pp. 9-17


Cuticle hydrocarbons in saline aquatic beetles


María Botella-Cruz, Adrián Villastrigo, Susana Pallarés, Elena López-Gallego, Andrés Millán, Josefa Velasco

PeerJ, vol. 5, PeerJ Inc., 2017, pp. e3562


Response of a littoral macroinvertebrate assemblage to a persistent hydrological drought in a permanent mountain shallow lake from northwestern Spain


Adrián Villastrigo, Francisco García-Criado

Annales de Limnologie-International Journal of Limnology, vol. 53, EDP Sciences, 2017, pp. 315--323