Frank-T. Krell
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Frank-T. Krell
@frankkrell.bsky.social
Nationality: Human. Ethnicity: Human. Natural historian, taxonomist, zoologist. Living on the Colorado prairie, working at Colorado State University, and moving to the Smithsonian in November. Studying scarab beetles, and what is going on with taxonomy.
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Today, my first large paper on Colorado Scarabaeoidea was published by Insecta Mundi covering 28 species, with several new state records. It is the first in a series of papers covering distribution, phenology and ecology of Colorado scarabaeoid beetles.
(PDF) The distribution of 28 species of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) in Colorado, with new state records
PDF | The distribution of the following Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) species in Colorado is established on the basis of preserved specimens and verifiable... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Today, a fascinating book on Animal Mummies was published by Sidestone Press in which Ben van den Bercken from the Allard Pierson and I have written a chapter on an incredibly well preserved beetle mummy that even made it onto the front cover of the book. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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To be published in fall, but already in the press: a wonderful beetle mummy!
Check out this mummified dung beetle!
A local scientist got to study the "very rare" beetle mummy.
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July 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Today, a paper with the description (incl. COI barcodes) of four new species of the dung beetle genus Onthophagus from West Africa, was published in the journal Taxonomy: www.mdpi.com/2673-6500/5/...
April 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Special Issue “Diversity and Taxonomy of Scarabaeoidea” by the journals "Taxonomy" and "Diversity", open for submissions. mdpi.com/.../diversit..., mdpi.com/.../taxonomy...
Editor-in-Chief: Frank-T. Krell
January 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
link.springer.com/article/10.1... One month ago we published a paper was published on the decline of taxonomic expertise, using the example of Hungary, based on several lines of evidence. My Hungarian colleagues compiled a wealth of data. The paper is open access in Biodiversity and Conservation.
Identification crisis: a fauna-wide estimate of biodiversity expertise shows massive decline in a Central European country - Biodiversity and Conservation
Expertise in biodiversity research (taxonomy, faunistics, conservation with taxonomic background) appears to decline worldwide. While the “taxonomic impediment” is discussed extensively in the literat...
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December 8, 2024 at 4:26 AM