The UPLB Museum of Natural History is proud to share that one of the published articles in the March 2025 issue of the Journal of the International Palm Society is “Adonidia zibabaoa, a Remarkable New Palm Species from Samar Island, Philippines.” The paper was authored by Prof. Jiro T. Adorador,...
New, critically endangered tree species found in Mt. Mantalingahan dedicated to PH botanist Dan Lagunzad
The Philippine Journal of Science recently announced, through its upcoming 152nd volume, the discovery of the 6th species of Helicia in the Philippines. According to the journal, foresters from the University of the Philippines Los Baños led by Professor Pastor L. Malabrigo, Jr. found the new tree species, now named...
Cristian Lucañas and his two new LOTR-inspired cockroach genera
Cristian Lucañas, an insect taxonomist at the UPLB Museum of Natural History, is a young man on a mission. Just below his 30s, he has already described/co-described more than 14 species of cockroaches and other insects. Last week, as a result of his continuing studies to revise the cockroach genus...
Entomologists describe new species of predatory mites from Indonesian corn fields
UPLB entomologists published two species of predatory cunaxid mites new to science last 30 November 2022 in the journal Zootaxa (https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.1.3) The new species of mites are Dactyloscirus sumatranus Corpuz-Raros and Naredo sp.n. and Dactyloscirus ladangjagung Corpuz-Raros and Lit sp.n. The discoveries were the outputs of Professor Emeritus Leonila...
Museum curators contribute to new groundbreaking book on Philippine mycology
Publisher Elsevier recently announced on 16 October 2022 the release of the new book “Mycology in the Tropics: Updates on Philippine Fungi,” a scientific reference seen to become an important publication on the many facets of the field of mycology in the Philippines. The UPLB Museum of Natural History is...
MNH entomologist honored, new species of oribatid mite named after him
A new oribatid mite, Galumna (Neogalumna) eusebioi, has been described by Russian acarologist Sergey G. Ermilov and UPLB Museum of Natural History (MNH) entomologist and curator, Professor Emeritus Leonila Corpuz-Raros, in June 2022. The new species has been collected from Mt. Guiting-guiting Natural Park in Sibuyan Island.
New Philippine moth is named after University of the Philippines’ president
A new species of geometrid moth, specifically a “pug” moth, has just been described from the island of Sibuyan of Romblon by the Museum’s curator for geometrid moths and spiders, Dr. Aimee Lynn B. Dupo and French lepidoptera systematist, Claude Tautel. The description of the new moth was published in...
New endemic forest palm discovered, named after late botanist Leonard Co
A slender new species of Pinanga, a genus of palms native to eastern and southern Asia across to New Guinea, has been recently described from the volcanic slopes of Mt. Cagua, Cagayan by botanists Jiro T. Adorador and Edwino S. Fernando. Adorador and Fernando are assistant professor and Professor Emeritus,...
Museum entomologists records first case of nematode parasitism in Philippine ants
Former UPLB MNH curator for ants Dr. David Emmanuel M. General and his entomologist co-worker, Perry Archival C. Buenavente of the National Museum of the Philippines recently reported the first case of mermithism in ants in the Philippines. Mermithism is a condition in ants wherein an endoparasite nematode infects it,...
New blind cave cockroach described from highland caves in New Guinea
A new species of highly troglobitic cockroach, this time from a limestone cave in Papua Province, Indonesia, has been described by MNH's junior entomologist Cristian C. Lucañas and his co-researchers from the Czech Republic and Indonesia. Through an article published by the journal Zootaxa (https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.3.7) last 17 December 2021, the...