The conference abstract is available online – https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.1.e30282 and a video of Michael Curran‘s talk will be forthcoming. eDNA metabarcoding holds great promise for documenting…
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New Office Admin and Bookkeeper
Bennelongia is excited to welcome Connie Mandrakas into the team. She has extensive accounting and bookkeeping experience in Australia and overseas. Connie ran her own…
On the Ecology of Australia’s Arid Zone
The Managing Director, Stuart Halse, has had a book chapter published in ‘On the Ecology of Australia’s Arid Zone’. Stuart’s chapter talks about the subterranean…
Subterranean Biology Conference
The 24th International Conference on Subterranean Biology recently concluded. It was held in the University of Aveiro, Portugal. This small city offered a beautiful backdrop…
New stygal diving beetles to be described by Bennelongia staff
Bennelongia is excited to reveal the pending descriptions of several new species of stygobitic diving beetles (Dytiscidae) that were collected during recent sampling trips. Specimens…
Three new troglobitic cockroaches described
Bennelongia’s resident taxonomic powerhouse Jane McRae, former Bennelongia principle scientist Dr Andrew Trotter and senior ecologist Dean Main and geneticist Dr Terrie Finston have co-authored a…
Bennelongia welcomes Robyn Murphy
In the latest of several key additions, the excellent Robyn Murphy has joined the Bennelongia team as our new Administrator. Robyn comes armed with a…
New ground beetles named after Bennelongia staff
Six new genera and 17 new species of troglobitic carabid beetles (Carabidae) from the Pilbara and Yilgarn regions have recently been described by Martin Baehr…
Exploring patterns of diversity in complex subterranean systems with schizomids
In December 2015, Dr. Danilo Harms presented on patterns of diversity in subterranean systems at the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists (SASB) conference in Fremantle (external link).…
Danilo Harms – the new curator of the Zoological
Danilo Harms has swiftly resigned at Bennelongia to take up the highly esteemed position of Curator of the Zoological Museum (University of Hamburg). Due to its…