Dr. Rayner Nunez

Profile

Academic positionCurrently without academic position
Research fieldsSystematics and Morphology (Zoology)
KeywordsGreater Antilles, biogeography, systematics, species delimitation, islands
Honours and awards

2019: Humboldt Alumni Award for Networking Initiatives

2019: Renewed Research Stay, Humboldt Foundation

2016: Georg Forster Fellowship for Experienced Researchers

2014: Systematic Research Fund Award of the Linnean Society and the Systematics Association

2013: Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation

2012: CIMO International Research Fellowship

2012: Coimbra Group Scholarship Programme for Young Professors and Researchers from Latin American Universities

2010: Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation

2010: Smithsonian Institution Short- term Visitor Program

2005: Lepidoptera Research Foundation Howanitz Award

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityGöttingen

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Axel HausmannZoologische Staatssammlung München, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB), München
Dr. Axel HausmannZoologische Staatssammlung München (ZSM), Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB), München
Dr. Marianne EspelandSektion Lepidoptera, Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels (LIB), Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2016

Programme(s)

2015Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2021 R, Willmott, K.R., Álvarez, Y., Genaro, J.A., Pérez-Asso, A.R., Quejereta, M., Turner, T., Miller, J.Y., Brévignon, C., Lamas, G., Hausmann, A.: Integrative taxonomy clarifies species limits in the hitherto monotypic passion‐vine butterfly genera Agraulis and Dryas (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae). . In: Systematic Entomology, 47, 2021, 152-178
2020Núñez R., Alegre-Barroso, A., & Hausmann, A.: Redescription and evolutionary relationships of the Cuban endemic monotypic genus Holguinia Evans, 1955 (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae). . In: Systematics and Biodiversity, 19, 2020, 1-12
2019Rayner Núñez, Julio A. Genaro, Antonio Pérez-Asso, Leidys Murillo-Ramos, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Niklas Wahlberg, and A. Hausmann Species delimitation and evolutionary relationships among Phoebis New World sulphur butterflies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae, Coliadinae).. In: Systematic Entomology doi:10.1111/syen.12408, 2019, 1-12
2019Rayner Núñez, Alejandro Barro-Cañamero, Marc C. Minno, Douglas M. Fernández and Axel Hausmann: The herophile species group of Calisto (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Satyrinae), new taxa and historical biogeography. In: Invertebrate Systematics, 2019, 644-660
2018Carlos Prieto, Rayner Nuñez, Axel Hausmann: Molecular species delimitation in the genus Rhamma Johnson, 1992 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Theclinae).. In: Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 2018, 1-18
2018Leydis Murillo-Ramos, Renzo Hernandez-Torres, Rayner Núñez, Roger Ayazo: New insights on the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of the Neotropical genus Phoebis (Pieridae: Coliadinae) revealed by molecular and morphological data.. In: Zootaxa, 2018, 179-188
2018Rayner Núñez, Tim Norriss, Douglas M. Fernández, Axel Hausmann: Revalidation of an endemic Cuban Skipper, Chiomara gundlachi (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). In: Zootaxa, 2018, 597-600
2017Rayner Núñez Aguila, Julio A. Genaro, Antonio R. Pérez-Asso, Axel Hausmann A new species of the hysius species-group of Calisto Hübner (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) and insights into the status of different populations currently attributed to C. grannus Bates.. In: Zootaxa, 2017, 1-44