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Líneas de Investigación / Research Lines

Principales líneas de investigación / Main Research Lines:

 

• Sistemática y evolución de la superfamilia Curculionoidea (orden Coleoptera).

• Relaciones planta-insecto.

• Sistemática (Taxonomía), Nomenclatura zoológica.

 

 

Dr. Alonso-Zarazaga's research is primarily focused on the systematics, taxonomy and evolution of Coleoptera Curculionoidea, with special interest in the families Apionidae and Nanophyidae worldwide, and in the fauna of the Iberian peninsula and neighbouring areas. He is also interested in the plant-insect relationship and the host shifting. Among his contributions are the review of supraspecific taxa in the Palaearctic region of Nanophyidae (1989) and Apionidae (1990).

Dr. Alonso-Zarazaga is an active member of the Advisory Board, Taxonomic Expert and Group Coordinator of a part of the Coleoptera for the Project Fauna Europaea (2000-2004), the publication (together with Dr. C.H.C. Lyal) of a World Catalogue of Family and Genus names of Curculionoidea (1999) and its sequel, the World Weevil Database known as WTaxa (http://wtaxa.csic.es) which will house more than 140,000 names and data on the Curculionoidea, including an extensive bibliography and an electronic library.

 

 

Deeply interested in zoological nomenclature, having translated into Spanish the 4th Edition of the Code and being one of the four original founders of the European Association for Zoological Nomenclature.

 

 

Proyectos en curso / Ongoing Projects:

 

 

• Sistemática, evolución y biogeografía de la superfamilia Curculionoidea (orden Coleoptera) en la región mediterránea occidental y la macaronesia.

• Taxonomía de Apionidae y Curculionidae Entiminae (Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) de la península ibérica e islas baleares.

 

 

Miembros del grupo de investigación / Research Group Members:

 

 

 

 

Publicaciones relevantes / Selected Publications:

 

Audisio, Paolo; Alonso Zarazaga, Miguel-Angel; Slipinski, Adam ; Nilsson, Anders ; et. al. (2015). Fauna Europaea: Coleoptera 2 (excl. series Elateriformia, Scarabaeiformia, Staphyliniformia and superfamily Curculionoidea).  Biodiversity Data Journal, 3: e4750
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4750

 

Fontaine, Benoît ; van Achterberg, Kees, Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., Araújo, Rafael., Asche, Manfred., et al., (2012). New Species in the Old World: Europe as a Frontier in Biodiversity Exploration, a Test Bed for 21st Century Taxonomy. PLoS ONE, 7(5): 1-7 
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036881 

 

Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A., Smith, A.B.T. (2011). Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys, 88 (SPEC. ISSUE), pp. 1-972.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.88.807

 

Pierotti, H., Bello, C. & M. A. Alonso-Zarazaga, (2010). Contribution to the systematic rearrangement of the Paleartic Peritelini. VI. A synthesis of the Spanish Peritelini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae). Zootaxa, 2376: 1-96 
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