A very enjoyable article about our research unit just appeared in TU Darmstadt’s hoch3 journal, written by journalist Hildegard Kaulen. Also in German language here. And our most poisonous frog made it on the title page.
A spectacular new ant species has been discovered by Phil Hoenle – in the rainforest just behind the research station. The paper in ZooKeys describes this new species, Odonotomachus davidsoni – and accompanies the formal description for the first time with 3D images, making Museum specimen accessible to the public. …
Phil Hoenle discovered a new Strumigenys species in the study site. Within the large global ant genus Strumigenys, this species is a morphologically outlier with its long trap-jaw mandibles and smooth surface sculpturing. The species description in ZooKeys caught a lot of attention by the media: it was not only …
How does nature renew itself? – First press release by TU Darmstadt on the day when funding was announced by DFG. https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/aktuelles_meldungen/einzelansicht_307968.en.jsp
