New Species

A New Scale Insect with Lily Deeter

Lily Deeter works on scale insects, tiny creatures that many people aren’t familiar with, or only see as a pest. But once you get to know them, you’ll be hooked. Not only

The Shared Practice of Art and Science with Aissa, Nicole, and Kathleen

If you want to be a scientist, you enroll in 4-10 years of higher education. If you want to be an artist, you go to art school and learn a classic technique. Two choices;

All About Crayfish with Zack Graham

Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdad; no matter what you call them, If you live in the southeastern United States, their biodiversity hotspot is in your backyard! Astacologist (cr

A New Cordyceps Spider with Alex Bently

While giving a tour in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Alex Bently identified a clump on a leaf as a dead spider parasitized by a Cordyceps fungus. When it moved under his touch,

Rediscovered Freshwater Shrimps with Prakash Sanjeevi and Maclean Santos

Freshwater shrimps are difficult to study. They’re nocturnal, they live in leaf litter, and yet they are involved in both commercial fishing and the pet trade, making res

Who Describes the Spiders? With Katherine Montana and Cláudia Xavier

“I hope that individual taxonomists take a step back and really think about the choices they make when it comes to collaboration…I want taxonomists to consider equity in

Coming Soon - New Species en Español!

New Species en Español will be a Spanish-language version of the New Species Podcast, hosted by Ivonne Garzón. Subscribe to it here: https://open.spotify.com/user/31jdp

No New Species! With Takahiro Sugiyama, Ryutaro Goto, & Chloé Fourreau

Sometimes, a collection of new species turns out to be… no new species! Takahiro Sugiyama, Ryutaro Goto, and Chloé Fourreau began studying the unique ectoparasitic scale

Two New Trapdoor Spiders with Donard Geci

Donard Geci fell into studying spiders by accident, but now he can’t imagine his life without them. He’s one of the only arachnologists in the Balkans, a hotspot for spid

Two New Tachinid Flies with Rodrigo Dios

There are plenty of taxonomists who use museum collections as a resource, but not everyone makes collections the basis of their work. Rodrigo Dios studies Tachinid flies,

A Bug's Life (1998) with Jesse and Charleigh Hurlburt

“The queen especially was not like, like totally not like mad mad, but like mad at him…” That analysis is from Charleigh (age 6 ), who I talked to along with her dad Jes

New Species Census 2026

Hi everyone, incredibly it's time for the third biennial New Species Census! Every two years I ask listeners to answer a few questions about who they are, how they listen

A New Isopod with Benedikt Kästle

Do you ever wonder if your pet could be a new species? Paleontologist Benedikt Kästle took a closer look at his, and it led to a brand new genus and species! Also known a

All About Stoneflies with Anna Eichert

Stoneflies, or Plecoptera, are an order of insects with around 4,000 species. But that’s about to change. In her paper “Stonefly systematics: past, present, and future,”

New Adelopsis Beetles with Eduardo Gomyde

The genus Adelopsis is one of the many groups of LBB’s, ‘little brown beetles’ that often get left behind or unidentified by researchers. Eduardo Gomyde is a scientist gi

Three New Lichens with Erin Manzitto-Tripp

How much do you know about lichens? These incredible taxa are understudied, but today’s guest is making sure they’re not undervalued. “You can’t look at lichens under a m

Three New Fossil Dictyopterans with Soo Bin Lee

The Cretaceous insects in the family Umenocoleidae have been difficult to classify, but for Soo Bin Lee they are a window into one of the most interesting periods of our

A New Geometrid Moth with Ivonne Garzón

Do you have a love of holometabolic insects? Ivonne Garzón is the president of their fan club! She studies a subset of geometrid moths that may look drab, but their color

Un Nuevo Puercoespín con Héctor Ramírez-Chaves

Los puercoespines, una de las criaturas más adorables y dolorosas a la vez, captan la atención en toda su área de distribución mundial. En este artículo, Héctor Ramírez-C

A New Porcupine with Héctor Ramirez-Chaves

Simultaneously one of the cutest and most pain-inducing creatures, porcupines capture attention all over their worldwide range. In this paper, Héctor Ramirez-Chaves and h