Two New Tachinid Flies with Rodrigo Dios

<p>There are plenty of taxonomists who use museum collections as a resource, but not everyone makes collections the basis of their work. Rodrigo Dios studies Tachinid flies, a group that displays some of the most diverse parasitism behavior of all animals. By reorganizing and rediscribing museum specimens, he finds that we have a lot to learn from both flies and museum collections. “It&#39;s crazy,” says Rodrigo, about working in collections. “You can actually assess all this knowledge, all this variation between time and between space as well. It&#39;s like infinite knowledge.”<br></p><p>Rodrigo Dios’ paper “Taxonomic update on Cordyligasterini, new generic synonyms and new species of Neosophia Guimarães” is in volume 29 of Entomological Science. </p><p>It can be found here: <a href="http://www.doi.org/10.1111/ens.70003"><u>www.doi.org/10.1111/ens.70003</u></a></p><p><br></p><p>A transcript of this episode can be found here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tu7TSI1ppo98txuidZgDYcvhZICoo8AXIOQD0yEux5Q/edit?usp=sharing"><u>Rodrigo Dios - English Transcript</u></a></p><p>This transcript translated into portuguese: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NnBEUSN4ci-OBj9K9vi27aMy7rPOlSjDDe4WhjUCEU4/edit?usp=sharing"><u>Rodrigo Dios - Portuguese Transcript</u></a></p><p> </p><p>New Species: <em>Neosophia argentifasciata, Neosophia pakitza</em></p><p>Episode image credit: Rodrigo Dios</p><p>Follow Rodrigo on Instagram: @rodrigodios</p><p>Rodrigo’s paper about the fly that lays eggs on plants: <a href="http://www.doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2024.63-54"><u>www.doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2024.63-54</u></a>Connect with Rodrigo on iNaturalist: <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/people/rodrigodios"><u>https://www.inaturalist.org/people/rodrigodios</u></a></p><p>Don’t be shy! Contact Rodrigo about flies: <a href="mailto:rodrigodios@gmail.com"><u>rodrigodios@gmail.com</u></a></p><p><br></p><p>Be sure to follow New Species on Bluesky (@newspeciespodcast.bsky.social) and Instagram (@NewSpeciesPodcast) and “like” the podcast page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NewSpeciesPodcast).</p><p>Music in this podcast is &quot;No More (Instrumental),&quot; by HaTom (https://fanlink.to/HaTom)</p><p>If you have questions or feedback about this podcast, please e-mail us at NewSpeciesPodcast@gmail.com</p><p>If you would like to support this podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, please consider doing so at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/NewSpeciesPod"><u>https://www.patreon.com/NewSpeciesPod</u></a></p><p><br>If you would like to make a one-time contribution to this podcast, you can do so at <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/newspeciespod"><u>https://buymeacoffee.com/newspeciespod</u></a></p>