Andres Ramirez

Andres Ramirez is a researcher currently undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Biology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His current research deals with the search for a natural supraspecific classification of the tribe Anomalini (Rutelinae) in the New World with the integration of different kinds of data.

          His area of study focuses on aspects of evolution, biodiversity, taxonomy, natural history, conservation, phylogeny, and historical biogeography using Neotropical scarab beetles, mainly those of the tribe Anomalini. He is also interested in implementing methods and techniques to try to tackle and resolve questions of phylogenetic inference, historical biogeography, and geometric morphometry in a scheme of integrative taxonomy.

Andres Ramirez
Instituto de Biología
Circuito exterior S/N
Ciudad Universitaria
Copilco-Coyoacán. UNAM
Mexico City, 04510, MEXICO

EMAIL: arponce110@hotmail.com, andres.ramirez@st.ib.unam.mx
TEL: 01 (55) 56229155 ext. 29155

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Publications:

1.    Ramírez-Ponce, A., J. Allende-Canseco, and M. A. Morón. 2009. Fauna de Coleópteros lamelicornios de Santiago Xiacui, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.) 25(2): 323-343.

2.    Ramírez-Ponce, A. and M. A. Morón. 2009. Relaciones filogenéticas del género Anomala Samouelle (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 80: 357- 394.

3.    Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2010. Paranomala zaragozai, una nueva especie de Nayarit, México (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini). Dugesiana 17(2): 181-185.

4.    Ramírez-Ponce, A. and M. A. Morón. 2012. Revision of the genus Pachystethus Blanchard with description of three new species from Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Rutelinae; Anomalini). Zootaxa 3394: 1-24.

5.    Ramírez-Ponce, A. and M. Á. Morón. 2012. A new species of Callistethus from Mexico (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Rutelinae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia  56 (2): 1-5.

6.    Morón, M. A. and A. Ramírez-Ponce. 2012. Mesoamerican genera of Anomalini (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae), a brief review. Trends in Entomology 8: 97-114.

7.    Ramírez-Ponce A. and M. A. Morón. 2012. Revision of Bucaphallanus, a new subgenus of Paranomala (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae, Rutelinae, Anomalini) with description of six new species from Mexico. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 105(6):781-803.

8.    Ramírez-Ponce, A. Submitted. Giesbertiolus curoei, a new species of flower chafer from Panama with transitional characters (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini). Zootaxa.

9.     Ramírez-Ponce, A. and D. Curoe. Submitted. Description of two new Anomalini species of the genera Strigoderma Burmeister and Epectinaspis Blanchard (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae.