A Cockroach and a Cacophonous Case of Careless Characters
By Dominic Evangelista As a subject editor for the journal Zookeys, I recently officiated one paper that recounted an incredible story. The paper by Xin-Ran Li and Zong-Qing Wang addresses […]
New Checklist of Guiana Shield Highlights Cockroach Diversity in the Americas
Cockroaches that mimic beetles, semi-aquatic cockroaches, and cockroaches that live only in forest canopies … These are only a few of the 234 cockroach species listed as the known fauna […]
May Berenbaum Receives New Species of Cockroach Named After Her
Earlier this year, a PhD student named Dominic Evangelista wrote a blog post for Entomology Today where he described a new species of cockroach he had discovered, and offered to […]
How to Describe a New Species: Getting into the “Spuh Nov” Club
By Dominic Evangelista One of my life-long dreams has been to discover and describe a species previously unknown to science. It’s something a lot of aspiring naturalists dream about. However, […]