
Coleoptera
Scarabaeoidea
Escarabajos
Evolución
Taxonomía
Sistemática filogenética
Morfometría geométrica
Conservación biológica
Coleoptera
Scarabaeoidea
Scarab beetles
Evolution
Taxonomy
Phylogenetic Systematics
Geometric Morphometrics
Biological Conservation
2025
Andalco-Cid, K.S., Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Estrada-Torres, A., Rodríguez-Mirón, G., & Ramírez-Ponce, A. ACEPTADO. Description of a new Mexican endemic subgenus in Strigoderma Burmeister with six new species (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Anomalini). European Journal of Taxonomy. PDF
Delgado, L., Mora-Aguilar, E.F., & Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2025. Neoscelis septentrionalis, una nueva especie del estado de Sonora, México (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 96: e965646. PDF
https://doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2025.96.5646
Cortés-Dávila, A. T., Lozano-Trejo, S., Ramírez-Ponce, A., & Cruz-López, A. A. 2025. El grupo pallida (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) en Oaxaca: nuevos registros y descripción de una especie nueva. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 96: e965641. PDF
https://doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2025.96.5641
Arce, P.R., & Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2025. Notes on Cybistrinae from Mexico (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), with the description of 2 new species of Trifurcitus. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 96: e965599. PDF
https://doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2025.96.5599
García-Díaz, J. J., Ramírez-Ponce, A., López-Godínez, B., & Tórres-Yañez, E. 2025. Flying in the canopy: taxonomic and ecological analysis with geometric morphometrics and distributional notes on Athis delecta and Athis jaliscana (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). Zootaxa, 5666(1):74-92.
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5666.1.3
Flores-Manzano, A., Arias-Del Razo, I., Hereira-Pacheco, S., Estrada-Torres, A., Díaz de la Vega-Pérez, A., Ramírez-Ponce, A., Aguilera-Miller, E.F., & Cruz-Salazar, B. 2025. Multi-species genetic patterns in a modified temperate forest from central Mexico. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 144: blaf012. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaf012
Díaz-García, J.M., Díaz de la Vega-Pérez, A.H., Navarro-Noya, Y., Ramírez-Ponce, A., Guillén, S., Esparza-Carlos, J.P., Hereira-Pacheco, S., Martínez y Pérez, J.J., Moctezuma, V., Juárez-Díaz, M., Salazar-Hernández, B., Arias-Del Razo, A., Rivera-Vázquez, M., Estrada-Torres, A., & Arias-Del Razo, I. 2025. Biodiversity between volcanoes: A multi-taxa analysis to identify priority conservation areas in a highly fragmented landscape of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Journal for Nature Conservation, 84: 126852. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2025.126852
2024
Cerón-Gómez, R., Márquez, J., Ramírez-Ponce, A., Martínez-Falcón, A.P., y Castellanos, I. 2024. Diversity of carabids (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, determined using two complementary approaches. Biologia, 79: 1367–1377. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01625-5
Moctezuma, V., Ramírez-Ponce, A., y Curoe, D. 2024. Corrections to the status of Eucanthus Westwood, 1848, Bolbelasmus Boucomont, 1911, and Kolbeus Boucomont, 1911 (Coleoptera: Bolboceratidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.), 60(1): 85–86. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2024.2296169
Ramírez-Ponce, A., Delgado, L., Mora-Aguilar, E.F., Curoe, D., y Zaragoza-Caballero, S. 2024. Pulchrotes, nuevo subgénero de Paranomala (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) y descripción de dos especies nuevas de México y América Central. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 95 (2024): e955314. PDF
https://doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2024.95.5314
Márquez-López, Y., Martins, C., Guevara-Chumacero, L.M., Ramírez-Ponce, A., Contreras-Ramos, A. Comparative morphology of male genitalia in antlions (Insecta, Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae), with emphasis on owlflies (Ascalaphinae) and a possible structural evolutionary scenario. Journal of Morphology, 285 (5): e21701. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21701
Moctezuma, V., Lizardo, V., Arias-Del Razo, I., & Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2024. Overcoming the Wallacean shortfall in sky-islands of central Mexico: the case of copro-necrophagous beetles and two national parks. Journal of Insect Conservation 28: 7-785. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-024-00598-9
Pablo-Cea, J.D., Ramírez-Ponce, A., Moreno, C.E., Cave, R.D., Moctezuma, V., & Rojas-Soto, O. 2024. Chorotypes, zones for the conservation of Scarabaeoidea, and representativity in protected areas of El Salvador. Insect Conservation and Diversity. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12807
Julián-Caballero, C.C., De los Santos-Romero, R., Ramírez-Ponce, A., & García-Guerrero, U. 2024. Morphological variations in relation to sex and habitat in southern Mexico populations of the longarm river prawn Macrobrachium tenellum (Smith, 1871) (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 44, ruae071. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruae071
2023
Ayala-Berdón, J., Martínez-Gómez, M., Ramírez-Ponce, A., Beamonte-Barrientos, R., Vásquez, J., Rodríguez-Peña, O. N. 2023. Weather, ultrasonic, cranial and body traits predict insect diet hardness in a Central Mexican bat community. Mammal Research, 68:273–282. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-023-00678-2
García-Guerrero, M., Martínez-Salazar, N., Ramírez-Ponce, A., Santos-Romero, R. 2023. Geometric morphometric analysis of the variations in cephalothorax shape of the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium tenellum, Smith (Decapoda Palaemonidae) from two different coastal basins in Oaxaca, Mexico. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 51(4): 471-482. PDF
DOI: 10.3856/vol51-issue4-fulltext-3017
Madrigal, K., Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2023. Comparative morphology of the genera with perpendicular parameres in Anomalini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae) allows revalidation of the endemic Mexican genus Lamoana Casey, 1915 stat. rev. European Journal of Taxonomy 910: 175–199. PDF
https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.910.2369
Moctezuma, V., Ramírez-Ponce, A., Curoe, D. 2023. A new Mexican species of Bolbelasmus Boucomont, 1911 (Coleoptera: Bolboceratidae), with an updated key for related species and a revised status of Eucanthus Westwood, 1848. Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.), 59(3): 168–176. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2023.2205372
Ramírez-Ponce, A., Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Curoe, D. 2023. A new species of Dilophochila Bates, 1888 with comments on natural history and distribution of the genus (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, v.63: e202363030. PDF
Ramírez-Ponce, A., Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Seidel, M. 2023. Geometric morphometry enables species hypotheses testing and the assignment of historical type specimens in the genus Callirhinus Blanchard (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Anomalini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023, XX, 1–26. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad172
Rodríguez-Mirón, G., Montaño-Arias, G., Ramírez-Ponce, A., López-Pérez, S. 2023. Potential Distribution of Vesperoctenus flohri Bates (Coleoptera: Vesperidae), an Endemic Species in Mexico, and Intraspecific Variation in Male Genitalia. The Coleopterists Bulletin 77(3): 331–340. 2023. PDF
DOI.org/10.1649/0010-065X-77.3.331
Vega-Vadillo, V., Ramírez-Ponce, A., Zaragoza-Caballero, S. 2023. Halffterus, a new genus (Coleoptera: Phengodidae, Mastinocerinae) from Peru. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 1-8. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1080/01650521.2023.2240443.
2022
Barria, M., Clavijo-Bustos, J., Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2022. A new species of Phyllophaga (s. str.) schizorhina species group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Rhizotrogini) from Panama. Faunitaxys, 10(58), 2022 : 1–5. PDF
https://doi.org/10.57800/faunitaxys-10(58)
Cerón-Gómez, R., Márquez, J., Ramírez-Ponce, A. Carabidae fauna (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico: Checklist species, first records and geographic distribution data. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie), 38: 1–38. PDF
https://doi.org/10.21829/azm.2022.3812495.
Cordero-Martínez, G., Mercado-Silva. N., García de Jesús, S., Ramírez-Ponce, A., y Kejía-Mojica. H. 2022. Diversidad específica y taxonómica de la ictiofauna del Río Amacuzac, Morelos, México. Revista de Biología tropical, 70: 290-306. PDF
Cruz-López, A.A., Osorio-Alcalá, L., Gálvez-Marroquín, L., Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2022. A new species of the genus Cyclocephala Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) from Oaxaca, Mexico. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie), 38: 1–7. PDF
https://doi.org/10.21829/azm.2022.3812559
Flores, O., Botero, J. P., and Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2022. New species and new records of Disteniidae (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea) from Mexico with a checklist of Mexican species. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. PDF
DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2021.2021013
Luna-Luna, M., Martins, C., López-Pérez, A., Ramírez-Ponce, A., and Contreras-Ramos, A. 2022. Aquatic beetle diversity from Volcán Tacaná, Mexico: altitudinal distribution pattern and biogeographical affinity of the fauna. Zookeys. PDF
doi: 10.3897/zookeys.@@.68665
Márquez, J., Reyes-Hernández, J., Céron-Gómez, R., Escoto-Moreno, J., Ramírez-Ponce, A. Scarabaeoidea beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Aguascalientes, Mexico. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie), 38: 1–51. PDF
https://doi.org/10.21829/azm.2022.3812492.
Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Zurita-García, L., Ramírez-Ponce. A. 2022. The on-off pattern in the evolution of the presence of bioluminescence in a derived lineage from fireflies of Mexico (Coleoptera, Lampyridae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 302: 266-283. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2022.12.009
2021
Ramírez-Ponce, A., and Galindo, O. 2021. A new species of Heterosternus Dupont (Coleoptera: Rutelini) from Mexico. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1080/01650521.2021.1908789.
2020
Ramírez-Ponce, A., Delgado, L., Soto, Y. 2020. A new species of Epectinaspis Blanchard (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from Guatemala and rediscovery of Balanogonia constricta Paucar-Cabrera. 515-522. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1080/01650521.2020.1859874.
Ramírez-Ponce, A., Nogueira, G. and Cunningham, R. 2020. Redefinition of the genus Parabyrsopolis Ohaus and description of a new species from western Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelini). Zootaxa, 4803 (3): 515–522. PDF
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4803.3.7
2019
García-Morales, L., Ramírez-Ponce, A., Curoe, D., and García-Jiménez, J. 2019. A new species of Neoscelis Schoch from Mexico (Coleoptera: Cetoniinae: Goliathini) with new distributional records for the genus. Zootaxa 4695(2): 122-130. PDF
Ramírez-Ponce, A., Calderón-Patrón, J. M., Guzmán-Vásquez, E., and Moreno, C. E. 2019. Biotic heterogeneity among the beetle communities of an anthropized landscape in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Insect Conservation. PDF
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-019-00169-3
2018
Ibarra, A., Curoe, D., y Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2018. Descripción de una nueva especie de Hyalophora Duncan, 1841 de México (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Attacini). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 89(1): 1068-1073. PDF
Mora-Aguilar, E.F., Curoe, D., Delgado, L., & Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2018. A new species of Chrysina Kirby (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae), with nomenclatural changes, new records, and a key to the Quiche species group. Zootaxa, 4461(2): 196-204. PDF
Mora-Aguilar, E., Ramírez-Ponce, A., and Escobar, F. 2018. First country record of the genus Platyrutela Bates (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) for Mexico. The Coleopterist Bulletin, 72(2): 368–370. PDF
2017
Ramírez-Ponce, A., & Curoe, D. 2017. Description of a new Plusiotis jewel scarab species from Oaxaca, Mexico (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 88: 820-823. PDF
Ramírez-Ponce, A., G. Garfias-Lozano, and A. Contreras-Ramos. 2017. The Nature of Allometry in an Exaggerated Trait: The Postocular Flange in Platyneuromus Weele (Insecta: Megaloptera). PLoS ONE 12(2): e0172388. PDF
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172388
2016
Morón, M.A., A. Ramírez-Ponce, A., C. Ramírez-Salinas and H. Carrillo-Ruíz. 2015. Description of immature stages of Hoplia mexicana Harold and H. squamifera Burmeister (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Hopliinae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 60(1): 1-7. PDF
2015
Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2015. Moroniella, un nuevo género americano de Anomalini (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae). Dugesiana. 22(2): 261-266. PDF
2014
Ramírez-Ponce, A., A. Bitar & D. Curoe. 2014. Two new species of Paranomala Casey (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini) with remarkable modifications on pronotum. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 85: 1054-1060. PDF
Ramírez-Ponce, A., & D. Curoe. 2014. Description of two new species in the genera Epectinaspis Blanchard and Strigoderma Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini). Zootaxa 3827(1): 087-094. PDF
Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2014. Giesbertiolus curoei, a new species of flower chafer from Panama with transitional characters (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini). Zootaxa 3795 (5): 557-563. PDF
2012
Morón, M. A. & A. Ramírez-Ponce. 2012d. Mesoamerican genera of Anomalini (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae): a brief review. Trends in Entomology 8(12): 97-114. PDF
Ramírez-Ponce A. & M. A. Morón. 2012c. 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. PDF
Ramírez-Ponce, A. & M. A. Morón. 2012b. A new species of Callistethus from Mexico (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Rutelinae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 56(2): 142-146. PDF
Ramírez-Ponce, A. & M. A. Morón. 2012a. Revision of the genus Pachystethus Blanchard with description of three new species from Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Rutelinae; Anomalini). Zootaxa 3394: 1-24. PDF
2010
Ramírez-Ponce, A. 2010. Paranomala zaragozai, una nueva especie de Nayarit, México (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini). Dugesiana, 17(2): 181-185. PDF
2009
Ramírez-Ponce, A. y M. A. Morón. 2009. Relaciones filogenéticas del género Anomala Samouelle (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 80: 357- 394. PDF
Ramírez-Ponce, A. & M. A. Morón. 2009. Fauna de Coleópteros Lamelicornios de Santiago Xiacui, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.). 25(2): 323-343. PDF
