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Two New Tachinid Flies with Rodrigo Dios
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- New Species
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- Mar 24, 2026
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Summary
There are plenty of taxonomists who use museum collections as a resource, but not everyone makes collections the basis of their work. Rodrigo Dios studies Tachinid flies, a group that displays some of the most diverse parasitism behavior of all animals. By reorganizing and rediscribing museum specimens, he finds that we have a lot to learn from both flies and museum collections. “It's crazy,” says Rodrigo, about working in collections. “You can actually assess all this knowledge, all this variation between time and between space as well. It's like infinite knowledge.” Rodrigo Dios’ paper “Taxonomic update on Cordyligasterini, new generic synonyms and new species of Neosophia Guimarães” is in volume 29 of Entomological Science. It can be found here: www.doi.org/10.1111/ens.70003 A transcript of this episode can be found here: Rodrigo Dios - English Transcript This transcript translated into portuguese: Rodrigo Dios - Portuguese Transcript New Species: Neosophia argentifasciata, Neosophia pakitza Episode image credit: Rodrigo Dios Follow Rodrigo on Instagram: @rodrigodios Rodrigo’s paper about the fly that lays eggs on plants: www.doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2024.63-54 Connect with Rodrigo on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/rodrigodios Don’t be shy! Contact Rodrigo about flies: [email protected] Be sure to follow New Species on Bluesky (@newspeciespodcast.bsky.social) and Instagram (@NewSpeciesPodcast) and “like” the podcast page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NewSpeciesPodcast). Music in this podcast is "No More (Instrumental)," by HaTom (https://fanlink.to/HaTom) If you have questions or feedback about this podcast, please e-mail us at [email protected] If you would like to support this podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, please consider doi…