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Project title: 
Speciation and species boundaries in neotenic Pachypus beetles
ZFMK Project lead: 
Dr. Dirk Ahrens
Unit: 
Coleoptera
Object of research: 
Beetles

Description

The project explores the Speciation of these archaic beetles that survived since Tertiary only on the ancient islands rifting on the Thyrrenian sea.

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Dr. Dirk Ahrens
Head of Department Arthropoda
Head of Section
Curator
Coleoptera
+49 228 9122-286
+49 228 9122-212
d.ahrens [at] leibniz-zfmk.de