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)

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,
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