A spectacular new ant species has been discovered by Phil Hoenle – in the rainforest just behind the research station. The paper in ZooKeys describes this new species, Odonotomachus davidsoni – and accompanies the formal description for the first time with 3D images, making Museum specimen accessible to the public. …
Phil Hoenle discovered a new Strumigenys species in the study site. Within the large global ant genus Strumigenys, this species is a morphologically outlier with its long trap-jaw mandibles and smooth surface sculpturing. The species description in ZooKeys caught a lot of attention by the media: it was not only …
How does nature renew itself? – First press release by TU Darmstadt on the day when funding was announced by DFG. https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/aktuelles_meldungen/einzelansicht_307968.en.jsp
