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This monograph analyzes the critical importance of paleontological collections for ecosystem reconstruction and climate change studies in Costa Rica. It examines the existing lega…
AI is rapidly becoming a valuable ally of science, automating and improving data analysis processes and the generation of identification tools. This work tested a simple prompt in…
One aspect that international policy has overlooked is the importance of scientific collections to the economy. Far from being a simple repository of specimens, each one provides …
The collections of the National Museum of Costa Rica contain a total of 7,895 specimens, corresponding to the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM) and some peri-urban areas surrounding…
For decades, scientific studies related to wildlife have been little reviewed for national inventories, with birds and mammals being the only faunal groups that have official list…
Light pollution generated by human structures attracts insects or even modifies their behaviour, which causes many specimens to appear dead on windows, lights and in corridors. Ca…
A total physical review of the holotype specimens of Lepidoptera deposited in the Entomological Collection of the National Museum of Costa Rica was carried out. A total of 457 hol…
Within the Euglossini tribe we find the Exaerete genus, a group of cuckoo bees which attacks Eulaema and Eufriesea hives. In Costa Rica, the interspecific associations of paraciti…
In Costa Rica, five species of bumblebees of the Bombus genus are reported, however, two of these species have practically identical coloration, which makes it difficult to distin…
Caño Negro is a Ramsar Wetland that has been extensively studied for botanical and vertebrate species, but with a significant deficiency in insect and other invertebrate taxonomy.…
The genus Prisopus previously only recorded three species for Costa Rica: P. ariadne, P. bioley and P. berosus. This article reports two more species for Costa Rica: P. horstokkii…