Rodulfo Ospina-Torres

Rodulfo Ospina-Torres, Colombian entomologist.

Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Abejas. Departamento de Biología Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Santa Fé de Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Mey, W. & Ospina-Torres, R. 2018. Contribution to the Trichoptera fauna of the river La Vieja, Bogotá, Colombia (Insecta: Trichoptera). Zootaxa 4504(1): 23–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.1.2 Reference page.
Ospina-Torres, R., Mey, W. & Jaime-Murcia, P. 2018. Two new orthoclad species from Colombian Andes (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4472(2): 385–392. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.2.11 Reference page.

Balke, M., Ospina-Torres, R., Megna, Y.S., Laython, M. & Hendrich, L. 2019. A new species of Rhantus diving beetles from the wetlands of the City of Bogota and surroundings (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae). Alpine Entomology 3: 169-174. DOI: 10.3897/alpento.3.37308. . Reference page.
Jaramillo, J., Ospina-Torres, R. & Gonzalez, V.H. 2019. Stingless bees of the genus Nannotrigona Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in Colombia. Zootaxa 4706(2): 349–365. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4706.2.8 . Reference page.
Suárez Megna, Y., Hendrich, L., García-Hernández, A.L., Ospina-Torres, R., Prieto, C. & Balke, M. 2019. Diving beetles of the genus Liodessus Guignot, 1953 in Colombia, with description of three new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Aquatic Insects 40(2): 99-122. DOI: 10.1080/01650424.2018.1538521. . Reference page.

Balke, M., Ospina-Torres, R., Suarez-Megna, Y. & Hendrich, L. 2020. Liodessus lacunaviridis sp. n. from the high Andes of Colombia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae: Bidessini). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 163: 7-11. DOI: 10.1163/22119434-20192084. . Reference page.

Balke, M., Suarez-Megna, Y., Ospina-Torres, R., Venegas, J.S., Prieto, C. & Hendrich, L. 2021. A new Colombian species of Liodessus diving beetles from the Páramo de Sumapaz (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini). ZooKeys 1059ː 79–87. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1059.70134 Reference page.

Balke, M., Neven, K., Villastrigo, A., Ospina-Torres, R., Prieto, C., Gutierrez Rubiano, N., Lotta, I.A., Dueñas, L.F. & Hendrich, L. 2023. Eastern Colombian Páramo Liodessus Guignot, 1939 diving beetles are genetically structured, but show signs of hybridization, with description of new species and subspecies (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Zookeys 1143ː 165–187. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1143.97461 Reference page.