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There are roughly 212 holotypes in 10 insect orders from the Torrevillas collection that were used to describe new species, helped improve Philippine biodiversity knowledge, and advanced careers of entomologists across the globe:
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Take a hike: #MuirWoods #HalfMoonBay #MountDiablo

Fruit fly males of Themara lunifera face off in Mount Makiling.
#Diptera #Tephritidae 🪰🪵🌳

🎥: A. Dupo

Should be spike-collared walrus, but it’s an elephant bot fly:
#Diptera #Oestridae 🪰

#Frog 🐸
#Flies 🪰

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Mount Makiling Forest Reserve:

16 candidates to fill 8 vacancies of #ICZN Commissioners:
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#zoology #taxonomy

🪰🦟 #ICDX 2023

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Apogonia rizali Heller, 1897; #Coleoptera #Scarabaeidae.
Named after #JoseRizal while exiled in #Dapitan during the Spanish era in the #Philippines. He was in correnspondence with German naturalists Dr. A. Meyer & Dr. K. M. Heller.

📷: O. Jaeger

#Diptera of Mount Makiling (Luzon island): cluster of feasting Poecilosomella flies #Sphaeroceridae doing all the dirty work.

📷: A.L. Dupo-Barrion

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There should be another edition for this book:

🐝 Here is a clip I took of a “rare” bumble #bee: Bombus irisanensis #Apidae #Hymenoptera

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bot flies ( #Diptera #Oestridae ) mimicking orchid and carpenter bees ( #Hymenoptera #Apidae )