Mary Liz Jameson

TL;DR: A phylogeny of beetles based on DNA sequence data from eight nuclear genes, including six single‐copy nuclear protein‐coding genes, for 367 species representing 172 of 183 extant families provides a uniquely well‐resolved temporal and phylogenetic framework for studying patterns of innovation and diversification in Coleoptera.

TL;DR: The most important areas for future research include elucidating the factors that attract cyclocephalines to flowers including floral scent chemistry and thermogenesis, determining whether cyclocephaline dicot visitation is truly limited to the New World, and inferring evolutionary relationships within the Cyclocephalini to rigorously test vicarance hypotheses, host plant shifts, and mutualisms with angiosperms.

TL;DR: The 1042 species of Scarabaeoidea known to occur in Peru are listed with their taxonomic placement in families, subfamilies, and tribes.

TL;DR: A new genus of anomaline scarab, Anomalorhina, is described from Costa Rica and Nicaragua and is characterized by the clypeal apex that is abruptly reflexed, the base of the frons that has prominent tubercles in males, and the pronotum with a depressed fovea in males.

TL;DR: The authors argue that adjusting assessment criteria to correspond to modern scholarly productivity is essential for the success of individual scientists and of our discipline as a whole. But the assessment system that governs professional success has not kept pace, creating a mismatch between modes of scholarly productivity and academic assessment criteria.