Recently, Kevin Sagastume-Espinoza had the opportunity to represent Bennelongia in the Short-range endemics and beyond: Terrestrial Invertebrates in EIA symposium hosted by Murdoch University and the…
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Bennelongia has moved
Bennelongia has moved to 9B Bishop Street, Jolimont, just down the road.
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…
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).…
Two new copepod species discovered
A new paper has recently been published describing two new copepod species of the genus Anzcyclops from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The paper…
Six new ostracod species discovered
Two new papers have recently been published as a result of ongoing research on the ostracod genus Bennelongia within Western Australia. The first paper (link) is…
Seven new species of troglofauna
Seven new species of troglofauna from the subterranean diversity hotspot in the Pilbara have been described in three papers published in the second issue of…