#Eurynotina
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Hidden in museum drawers for 100+ years, Africa’s mysterious Eurynotina beetles finally tell their story - uncovered by our researchers, Marcin Kamiński and Ryan Lumen, using DNA from century-old specimens. 🧬🪲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/syen...
#taxonomy #beetles #ancientDNA
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
respublications.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess research in #RESSystematicEnt

Complementary genomic and morphological data elucidate the phylogeny of obscure darkling beetles (#Blaptinae: Platynotini: #Eurynotina)
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70012

#Tenebrionidae #Phylogenetics #Morphology
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October 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Lumen et al. Complementary genomic and morphological data elucidate the phylogeny of obscure darkling beetles (Blaptinae: Platynotini: #Eurynotina) doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Beetle #Beetles #darklingbeetles
New characters used in the cladistic analysis of Eurynotina. (a) Ograbies testaceus (Habitus, dorsal). (b) Hirtograbies nanus (Elytra, dorsal). (c) Menederes dannheimeri (Elytra, lateral). (d) Eurynotus capensis (Epipleura, ventrolateral). (e) Quadroncotus irrepertus (Habitus, dorsal). (f) Gonopus deplanatus (Elytra, dorsal). (g) Menederes dannheimeri (Elytra, dorsal). (h) Oncotus farctus (Epipleura, ventrolateral).
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
arborbio.bsky.social
How do you sequence the nearly unsequenceable?

Using #myBaits targeted enrichment, researchers recovered DNA from rare, historical darkling beetles–reshaping our understanding of Eurynotina evolution.
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#NGS #Museomics #Entomology #Genomics
October 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Lumen & Kamiński. Redefining generic boundaries in subtribe Eurynotina (#Coleoptera: #Tenebrionidae): #Taxonomy of the Schyzoschelus generic group. doi.org/10.1080/2475... #Beetle #Beetles #DarklingBeetles
April 9, 2024 at 11:20 PM