Post-doctoral researcher | Zoologische Staatssammlung München

• PhD in Biodiversity, University of Barcelona, 2019
• MSc in Environmental Assessment of Natural Hazards, University of León, 2014
• B.Sc. in Biology, University of León, 2013

email: adrianvillastrigo@um.es
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Research lines:

• Cryptic diversity in coastal habitats in the western Palaearctic region using supralittoral Ochthebius beetles.
• Evolutionary dynamics across an extreme altitudinal gradient in Southeast Asia: from alpine to subterranean habitats
• High-altitude water beetle evolution in the Andes Cordillera.

Career history:

• 2023-Present: Postdoctoral research - Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Munich (Germany).
• 2021-2023: Postdoctoral fellow - Humboldt Foundation. Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Munich (Germany).
• 2019-2020: Postdoctoral researcher. Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia. Murcia (Spain).
• 2018 (3 months): Visiting PhD student. University of Adelaide. Adelaide (Australia).
• 2017 (4 months): Visiting PhD student. Islands Ecology and Evolution, Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología. Tenerife (Spain).
• 2015-2019: Predoctoral researcher. Water and Cave beetle evolution lab, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF). Barcelona (Spain).

Publications:

• Bilton D.T., Ribera I. & Villastrigo, A., 2023. The colonisation of the Tyrrhenian Islands by Hydraena water beetles, with Hydraena reflexa Rey, 1884 reinstated as a valid species endemic to Corsica and Sardinia (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 23(4), 881-900.
• Villastrigo A., Orenes-Salazar V., García-Meseguer A.J., Mirón-Gatón J.M., Mourre B., Millán A. & Velasco, J., 2023. Oceanic currents maintain the genetic structure of non-marine coastal taxa in the western Mediterranean Sea. npj Biodiversity, 2(1), 25.
• García-Meseguer A.J., Villastrigo A., Mirón-Gatón J.M., Millán A., Velasco J. & Muñoz, I., 2023. Novel Microsatellite Loci, Cross-Species Validation of Multiplex Assays, and By-Catch Mitochondrial Genomes on Ochthebius Beetles from Supratidal Rockpools. Insects, 14(11), 881.
• Hájek J., Alarie Y., Benetti C.J., Hamada N., Springer M., Hendrich L., Villastrigo A., Ospina Torres R., Basantes M.S. & Balke, M., 2023. Underestimated diversity and range size of diving beetles in tank bromeliads—Coleoptera of ‘hygrofloric’lifestyle (Dytiscidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, p.zlad093.
• Watts C.H., Villastrigo A., Langille B.L., Stringer D.N., Bradford T.M., Humphreys W.F., Austin A.D., Balke, M. & Cooper, S.J., 2023. Phylogenetic placement and description of Ngaliadessus humphreysi gen. et sp. nov., Watts & Villastrigo (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), a subterranean diving beetle from the Ngalia Basin in central Australia. Austral Entomology, 62(3), 300-309.
• Raupach M.J., Charzinski N., Villastrigo A., & Beckmann, W., Aus dem Dunkel ins Licht: Die Entdeckung einer bislang unbekannten Wasserwanzenart in Deutschland. Heteropteron, 6.
• Toledo M, Bilton D.T., Balke M., Schizzerotto A., & Villastrigo A., 2023. A new, putatively semisubterranean, Rhithrodytes diving beetle from southwestern Sardinia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 63(1), 125-133.
• Villastrigo A., Deharveng L., & Balke M., 2023. New Caledonia’s enigmatic terrestrial diving beetle Typhlodessus monteithi is a derived species of Paroster. Zoologica Scripta, 52(2), 176-183.
• Balke M., Neven K., Villastrigo A., Ospina R., Prieto C., Gutierrez Rubiano N., Lotta I., Dueñas Montalvo L., & Hendrich L., 2023. Eastern Colombian Páramo Liodessus diving beetles are genetically structured, but show signs of hybridization, with description of new species and subspecies (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Zookeys, 1143, 165-187.
• Villastrigo A., Hernando, C., & Millán, A., 2022. The Ochthebius (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae) from western Palaearctic supratidal rockpools. Suplementos del Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología 4, 100-108.
• Langille, B.L., Tierney, S.M., Bertozzi, T., Beasley-Hall, P.G., Bradford, T.M., Fagan-Jeffries, E.P., Hyde, J., Leijs, R., Richardson, M., Saint, K.M., Stringer, D.N., Villastrigo, A., Humphreys, W.F., Austing, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B., 2022. Parallel decay of vision genes in subterranean water beetles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 173, 107522. 
• Villastrigo, A., Bilton, D.T., Abellán, P., Millán, A., Ribera, I. & Velasco, J., 2022. Cryptic lineages, cryptic barriers: Historical seascapes and oceanic fronts drive genetic diversity in supralittoral rockpool beetles (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196(2), 740-756.
• Balke, M., Bilton, D.T., García, M., Viloria, A.L., Villastrigo, A. & Hendrich, L., 2022. Two new high Andean species of Liodessus diving beetles from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini). Alpine Entomology, 6, 7-12. 
• Raupach, M. J., Deister, F., Villastrigo, A. & Balke, M., 2022. The complete mitochondrial genomes of Notiophilus quadripunctatus Dejean, 1826 and Omophron limbatum (Fabricius, 1777): New insights into the mitogenome phylogeny of the Carabidae (Insecta, Coleoptera). Insect Systematics & Evolution, 53, 242-263.
• Villastrigo, A., Abellán, P., & Ribera, I. (2021). Habitat preference and diversification rates in a speciose lineage of diving beetles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 159, 107087.
• Villastrigo, A., Hernando, C., Millán, A., & Ribera, I. (2020). The neglected diversity of the Ochthebius fauna from Eastern Atlantic and Central and Western Mediterranean coastal rockpools (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 20(4), 785-801.
• Villastrigo, A., Arribas, P., & Ribera, I. (2020). Irreversible habitat specialization does not constrain diversification in hypersaline water beetles. Molecular Ecology, 29(19), 3637-3648.
• Miguélez, D., Villastrigo, A., & Valladares, L.F. (2020). On the presence of Aphelocheirus aestivalis (Fabricius, 1794) in the Iberian Peninsula: new records with morphological and molecular data (Hemiptera: Aphelocheiridae). Aquatic Insects.
• Villastrigo, A. (2019). Digest: Insights into diatoms diversity patterns. Evolution, 73(12), 2542-2543.
• Jäch, M. A., Delgado, J.A., Twardy, D., Villastrigo A., & Dorfer, W. (2019). Ochthebius (s.str.) caudatus Frivaldszky, 1883: redescription, new records, and group assignation based on molecular data. Koleopterologische Rundschau, 89, 17-28.
• Villastrigo, A., Jäch, M. A., Cardoso, A., Valladares, L. F., & Ribera, I. (2019). A molecular phylogeny of the tribe Ochthebiini (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae, Ochthebiinae). Systematic Entomology, 44(2), 273-288.
• Villastrigo, A., Fery, H., Manuel, M., Millan, A., & Ribera, I. (2018). Evolution of salinity tolerance in the diving beetle tribe Hygrotini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Zoologica Scripta, 47(1), 63-71.
• Hernando, C., Villastrigo, A., & Ribera, I. (2017). A new species of Micragasma J. Sahlberg, 1900 (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from Crete. Aquatic Insects, 38(4), 185-196.
• Villastrigo, A., Ribera, I., Manuel, M., Millan, A., & Fery, H. (2017). A new classification of the tribe Hygrotini Portevin, 1929 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae). Zootaxa, 4317(3), 499-529.
• Villastrigo, A., Ribera, I., Bilton, D. T., Velasco, J., & Millán, A. (2017). An updated checklist of the water beetles and bugs of Cyprus. Latissimus, 40, 9-17.
• Botella-Cruz, M., Villastrigo, A., Pallarés, S., López-Gallego, E., Millán, A., & Velasco, J. (2017). Cuticle hydrocarbons in saline aquatic beetles. PeerJ, 5, e3562.
• Villastrigo, A., & García-Criado, F. (2017). Response of a littoral macroinvertebrate assemblage to a persistent hydrological drought in a permanent mountain shallow lake from northwestern Spain. In Annales de Limnologie-International Journal of Limnology (Vol. 53, pp. 315-323). EDP Sciences.