Dr. Adrian Villastrigo

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsEcology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions,Evolution, Anthropology
Keywordsnext generation sequencing, macroevolution, alpiene species, groundwater species, aquatic beetles

Current contact address

CountrySpain
CityLeon
InstitutionUniversidad de Leon
InstituteFacultad de Ciencias Biologicas y Ambientales

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Michael BalkeZoologische Staatssammlung München, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2021

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Michael Balke, Adrián Villastrigo, Jiří Hájek, Suriani Surbakti, Rawati Panjaitan, Lars Hendrich: A review of Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 from New Guinea, with description of eight new tropical-alpine species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini). In: Alpine Entomology, 9, 2025, 5-28
2025Antonio José García-Meseguer, Irene Muñoz, Pedro Abellán, Adrián Villastrigo, Juana María Mirón-Gatón, Andrés Millán, Josefa Velasco: Gene pools in rockpools: coastal Ochthebius beetles across the western Mediterranean. In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 205, 2025, zlaf173
2025Adrián Villastrigo, Athena Lam, Matthew H Van Dam, Agnes Scheunert, Jiří Hájek, Lars Hendrich, Mariano C Michat, Yoandri Megna, Luis Figueroa, Nilver Zenteno, Julieta Ledezma, Fernando Guerra-Serrudo, Michael Balke: Plate tectonics, cold adaptation and long-distance range expansion to remote archipelagos and the high Andes as drivers of a circumantarctic freshwater arthropod radiation. In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 204, 2025, 108279
2024Adrián Villastrigo, Steven JB Cooper, Barbara Langille, Erinn P Fagan-Jeffries, William F Humphreys, Lars Hendrich, Michael Balke: Aridification and major geotectonic landscape change shaped an extraordinary species radiation across a world’s extreme elevational gradient. In: Communications Biology, 7, 2024, 1500
2024Adrián Villastrigo, Eva García-Esquivel: First record of the subgenus Cobalius on Tenerife, Canary Islands. In: Spixiana, 46, 2024, 197-199
2024Jorge Plaza-Buendía, Juana María Mirón-Gatón, Antonio José García-Meseguer, Adrián Villastrigo, Andrés Millán, Josefa Velasco: Flight Dispersal in Supratidal Rockpool Beetles. In: Insects, 15, 2024, 140
2024A Villastrigo, E García-Esquivel: Overlooked coastal habitats expose a new species: Ochthebius vilanovensis sp. nov.(Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). In: Zootaxa, 5538, 2024, 439-447
2024Michael Balke, Tobias Mainda, Katja Neven, Lars Hendrich, Michael Steven Basantes, Carlos Prieto, Adrián Villastrigo: Recent range expansion and lineage idiosyncratic population structure of Liodessus diving beetles in the high Andes (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini). In: PloS one, 19, 2024, e0308683
2024Michael J Raupach, Nele Charzinski, Adrian Villastrigo, Martin M Gossner, Rolf Niedringhaus, Peter Schäfer, Sebastian Schmelzle, Gerhard Strauß, Lars Hendrich: The discovery of an overseen pygmy backswimmer in Europe (Heteroptera, Nepomorpha, Pleidae). In: Scientific Reports, 14, 2024, 28139
2024Jiří Hájek, Yves Alarie, Cesar J Benetti, Neusa Hamada, Monika Springer, Lars Hendrich, Adrián Villastrigo, Rodulfo Ospina Torres, Michael S Basantes, Michael Balke: Underestimated diversity and range size of diving beetles in tank bromeliads—Coleoptera of ‘hygrofloric’lifestyle (Dytiscidae). In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 200, 2024, 720-735
2023Mario Toledo, David T Bilton, Michael Balke, Antonio Schizzerotto, Adrián Villastrigo: A new, putatively semisubterranean, Rhithrodytes diving beetle from southwestern Sardinia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). In: Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 63, 2023, 125-133
2023Michael Balke; Katja Neven; Adrián Villastrigo; Rodulfo Ospina-Torres; Carlos Prieto; Nicolas Gutierrez Rubiano; Ingrid Lotta; Luisa F. Dueñas; Lars Hendrich: Eastern Colombian Páramo Liodessus Guignot, 1939 diving beetles are genetically structured, but show signs of hybridization, with description of new species and subspecies (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). In: ZooKeys, 2023,
2023Adrián Villastrigo, Louis Deharveng, Michael Balke: New Caledonia's enigmatic terrestrial diving beetle Typhlodessus monteithi is a derived species of Paroster. In: Zoologica Scripta, 2023,
2023Antonio José García-Meseguer, Adrián Villastrigo, Juana María Mirón-Gatón, Andrés Millán, Josefa Velasco, Irene Muñoz: Novel Microsatellite Loci, Cross-Species Validation of Multiplex Assays, and By-Catch Mitochondrial Genomes on Ochthebius Beetles from Supratidal Rockpools. In: Insects, 14, 2023, 881
2023Adrián Villastrigo, Víctor Orenes-Salazar, Antonio José García-Meseguer, Juana María Mirón-Gatón, Baptiste Mourre, Andrés Millán, Josefa Velasco: Oceanic currents maintain the genetic structure of non-marine coastal taxa in the western Mediterranean Sea. In: npj Biodiversity, 2, 2023, 25
2023Christopher HS Watts, Adrián Villastrigo, Barbara L Langille, Danielle N Stringer, Tessa M Bradford, William F Humphreys, Andrew D Austin, Michael Balke, Steven JB Cooper: Phylogenetic placement and description of Ngaliadessus humphreysi gen. et sp. nov., Watts & Villastrigo (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), a subterranean diving beetle from the Ngalia Basin in central Australia. In: Austral Entomology, 62, 2023, 300-309
2023David T Bilton, Ignacio Ribera, Adrián Villastrigo: The colonisation of the Tyrrhenian Islands by Hydraena water beetles, with Hydraena reflexa Rey, 1884 reinstated as a valid species endemic to Corsica and Sardinia (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). In: Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 23, 2023, 881*900
2022Villastrigo, Adrián; Bilton, David T.; Abellán, Pedro; Millán, Andrés; Ribera, Ignacio; Velasco, Josefa: Cryptic lineages, cryptic barriers: historical seascapes and oceanic fronts drive genetic diversity in supralittoral rockpool beetles (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2022,
2022Langille, Barbara L.; Tierney, Simon M.; Bertozzi, Terry; Beasley-Hall, Perry G.; Bradford,Tessa M.; Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P.; Hyde, Josephine; Leijs, Remko; Richardson, Matthew; Saint, Kathleen M.; Stringer, Danielle N.; Villastrigo, Adrián; Humphreys, William F.; Austin, Andrew D.; Cooper, Steven J.B.: Parallel decay of vision genes in subterranean water beetles. In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 173, 2022, 107522
2022Adrián Villastrigo, Carles Hernando, Andrés Millán: The Ochthebius (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae) from western Palaearctic supratidal rockpools. In: Suplementos del Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, 4, 2022, 100-108
2022Raupach, Michael; Deister, Fabian; Villastrigo, Adrián; Balke, Michael: The complete mitochondrial genomes of Notiophilus quadripunctatus Dejean, 1826 and Omophron limbatum (Fabricius, 1777): New insights into the mitogenome phylogeny of the Carabidae (Insecta, Coleoptera). In: Insect Systematics & Evolution, 2022, 1-22
2022Balke, Michael; Bilton, David T.; García, Mauricio; Viloria, Ángel L.; Villastrigo, Adrián; Hendrich, Lars: Two new high Andean species of Liodessus diving beetles from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini). In: Alpine Entomology, 6, 2022, 7-12
2021Villastrigo, Adrián; Abellán, Pedro; Ribera, Ignacio: Habitat preference and diversification rates in a speciose lineage of diving beetles. In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 159, 2021, 107087
2020Millán, Andrés; Abellán, Pedro; Arribas, Paula; Pallarés, Susana; Picazo, Félix; Villastrigo, Adrián; Velasco, Josefa; Sánchez-Fernández, David: In Memoriam: Ignacio Ribera Galán (1963-2020). In: Limnetica, 39, 2020, i-vi
2020Villastrigo, Adrián; Arribas, Paula; Ribera, Ignacio: Irreversible habitat specialization does not constrain diversification in hypersaline water beetles. In: Molecular Ecology, 29, 2020, 3637-3648
2020Miguélez, David; Villastrigo, Adrián; Valladares, Luis F.: On the presence of Aphelocheirus aestivalis (Fabricius, 1794) in the Iberian Peninsula: new records with morphological and molecular data (Hemiptera: Aphelocheiridae). In: Aquatic Insects, 41, 2020, 227-240
2020Villastrigo, Adrián; Hernando, Carles; Millán, Andrés; Ribera, Ignacio: The neglected diversity of the Ochthebius fauna from Eastern Atlantic and Central and Western Mediterranean coastal rockpools (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). In: Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 20, 2020, 785-801
2019Villastrigo, Adrián; Jäch, Manfred; Cardoso, Anabela; Valladares, Luis F.; Ribera, Ignacio: A molecular phylogeny of the tribe Ochthebiini (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae, Ochthebiinae). In: Systematic Entomology, 44, 2019, 273-288
2019Villastrigo, Adrián: Digest: Insights into diatoms diversity patterns. In: Evolution, 73, 2019, 2542-2543
2019Jäch, Manfred A.; Delgado, JA; Twardy, D.; Villastrigo, Adrián; Dorfer, W.: Ochthebius (s. str.) caudatus FRIVALDSZKY, 1883: redescription, new records, and group assignation based on molecular data. In: Koleopterologische Rundschau, 89, 2019, 17-28
2018Villastrigo, Adrián; Fery, Hans; Manuel, Michael; Millán, Andrés; Ribera, Ignacio: Evolution of salinity tolerance in the diving beetle tribe Hygrotini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). In: Zoologica Scripta, 47, 2018, 63-71
2017Villastrigo, Adrián; Ribera, Ignacio; Manuel, Michael; Millán, Andrés; Fery, Hans: A new classification of the tribe Hygrotini Portevin, 1929 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae). In: Zootaxa, 4317, 2017, 499-529
2017Hernando, Carles; Villastrigo, Adrián; Ribera, Ignacio: A new species of Micragasma J. Sahlberg, 1900 (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from Crete. In: Aquatic Insects, 38, 2017, 185-196
2017Botella-Cruz, María; Villastrigo, Adrián; Pallarés, Susana; López-Gallego, Elena; Millán, Andrés; Velasco, Josefa: Cuticle hydrocarbons in saline aquatic beetles. In: PeerJ, 5, 2017, e3562
2017Villastrigo, Adrián; García-Criado, Francisco: Response of a littoral macroinvertebrate assemblage to a persistent hydrological drought in a permanent mountain shallow lake from northwestern Spain. In: Annales de Limnologie-International Journal of Limnology, 53, 2017, 315-323