Maria Isabel P. A. Balbi

Research interests

Publications

• “Dark taxonomy”: A new protocol for overcoming the taxonomic impediments for dark taxa and broadening the taxon base for biodiversity assessment

  Cladistics · 2025 · 10.1111/cla.12609

• An integrative taxonomic treatment of the Mycetophilidae of Singapore reveals 115 new species from just 730 km2 (Diptera: Bibionomorpha)

  Integrative Systematics Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History · 2025 · 10.18476/2025.752376

• “Dark taxonomy”: a new protocol for overcoming the taxonomic impediments for dark taxa and broadening the taxon base for biodiversity assessment

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2023 · 10.1101/2023.08.31.555664

• An integrative taxonomic treatment of the Mycetophilidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) from Singapore reveals 115 new species on 730km 2

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2023 · 10.1101/2023.09.02.555672

• Vertical stratification of insect abundance and species richness in an Amazonian tropical forest

  Scientific Reports · 2022 · 10.1038/s41598-022-05677-y

• Vertical stratification of Diptera abundance and species richness in an Amazonian tropical forest

  Research Square · 2021 · 10.21203/rs.3.rs-430012/v1

• First Neotropical species of genus Azana (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae)

  Zootaxa · 2008 · 10.11646/zootaxa.1937.1.5

• First Neotropical species of genus Azana (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae)

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2008 · 10.5281/zenodo.184972

• Azana atlantica, n.sp., with reduced mouthparts and two ocelli: first record of Azana for the Neotropical region (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae)

  Zootaxa · 2008 · 10.11646/zootaxa.1789.1.2

• A review of Anapausis Enderlein (Diptera: Scatopsidae) in the Neotropical Region, with four new species and comments on the phylogeny of the genus

  Zootaxa · 2006 · 10.11646/zootaxa.1300.1.1

Current projects

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