Jennifer Cristina Girón Duque

Jennifer Cristina Girón Duque, also known as Jennifer C. Girón, Colombian entomologist.

• E-mail: entiminae@gmail.com

Curator of the Invertebrate Zoology Collection at the Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

Manager of the Coleoptera Ontology Project.

Co-corodinator of Grupo Coleoptera de Colombia

Web admin for https://curculionoidea.org/

Former places of work and studies:

• Oct. 2018 – Aug. 2023 - Research Associate, Research Aide and Acting Collections Manager of the Invertebrate Zoology Collection at the Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
• Aug. 2020 – Jul. 2022 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Manager of the Coleoptera Anatomy Ontology Project, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
• Aug. 2015 – Dec. 2019 - Graduate student, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology & Division of Entomology, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
• Jan. 2013 – Jun. 2015 - Full time Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Universidad Santo Tomás, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia.
• Mar. 2011 – Oct. 2012 - Research Technician, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, PR, USA.
• Aug. 2007 – Dec. 2010 - Graduate student, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, PR, USA.
• Aug. 1999 – Dec. 2006 - Undergraduate student, Department of Biology, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 38 taxon names authored by Jennifer Cristina Girón Duque

plus:

• Globulosis flavus Short, García, & Girón, 2017: 277 (Venezuela)
• Quadriops acroreius Girón & Short, 2017: 123 (Brazil, Guyana, Suriname)
• Quadriops clusia Girón & Short, 2017: 125 (French Guiana, Suriname)

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2009

• Franz, N.M. & Girón, J.C. 2009. Scelianoma elydimorpha, a new genus and new species of entimine weevil from southwestern Puerto Rico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae). Neotropical entomology, 38(2): 219–230. DOI: 10.1590/S1519-566X2009000200009 PDF. Reference page. 

2010

• Girón, J.C. & Franz, N.M. 2010. Revision, phylogeny and historical biogeography of the genus Apodrosus Marshall, 1922 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 41(4): 339–414. DOI: 10.1163/187631210X538799 Reference page. 
• O'Brien, C.W., Ciegler, J.C. & Girón, J.C. 2010. Weevils of the genus Cercopeus Schoenherr from South Carolina, USA (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae). Insecta Mundi 0141: 1–29. Digital Commons Reference page. 

2012

• Girón, J.C. & Franz, N.M. 2012. Phylogenetic assessment of the Caribbean weevil genus Lachnopus Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae). Invertebrate systematics 26(1): 67–82. DOI: 10.1071/IS11033 Reference page. 

2017

• Girón, J.C. & Short, A.E.Z. 2017. Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Quadriops Hansen, 1999 (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae). ZooKeys 705: 115—141. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.705.19815. Reference page. 
• Short, A.E.Z., García, M. & Girón, J.C. 2017. Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Globulosis García, 2001 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). Zootaxa 4232(2): 271–281. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.2.10. Reference page. 

2018

• Girón, J.C., O'Brien, C.W. & Rose-Smyth, M.C. 2018. On the West Indian weevil genus Lachnopus Schönherr, 1840 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae): descriptions of six new species, a proposal for species-groups, and an annotated checklist. Zootaxa 4423(1): 1–85. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4423.1.1 Reference page. 
• Girón, J.C. & Short, A.E.Z. 2018. Three new genera of acidocerine water scavenger beetles from tropical South America (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae). ZooKeys 768: 113–158. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.768.24423. Reference page. 
• Short, A.E.Z. & Girón, J.C. 2018. Review of the Helochares (Hydrobaticus) MacLeay of the New World (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae). Zootaxa 4407(1): 29–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.2 Reference page. 

2019

• Girón, J.C. & Short, A.E. 2019. Three additional new genera of acidocerine water scavenger beetles from the Guiana and Brazilian Shield regions of South America (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae). Zookeys, 855: 109–154. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.855.33013 Reference page. 
• Raudez Reyes, S.M., Cano Espinoza, R.A. & Girón, J.C. 2019. A new species and immature stages of the skiff beetle genus Yara Reichardt and Hinton (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae) from Nicaragua. Zootaxa 4544(1): 125–134. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.1.8 Reference page. 

2021

• Girón, J.C. & Short, A.E.Z. 2021. Review of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Tobochares Short & García, 2007 (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae): new lineages, new species, and new records. Zookeys 1019: 93–140. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1019.59881 Reference page. 
• Girón, J.C. & Short, A.E.Z. 2021. The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species. Zookeys 1045: 1–236. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1045.63810 Reference page. 

2022

• Atencio, R., Barba, A., Collantes, R., Pitti, J., Muñoz, J., Medeiros, B. & Girón, J. 2022. A new species of Epicaerus Pascoe, 1881 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Geonemini) associated with potato cultivars in Tierras Altas de Chiriquí, Panama. Zootaxa 5115(1): 103–121. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.1.7. . Reference page. 

2023

• Short, A.Z. & Girón, J.C. 2023. Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Novochares Girón & Short (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae). Zookeys 1171ː 1–112. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1171.104142 Reference page. 

Links

• JCGiron. 2018. Personal website.