Marcelo Vargas-Ortiz

Marcelo Vargas-Ortiz

Entomologist, Chile

PPG Biologia Animal, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil.
Departamento de Recursos Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 6-D, Arica, Chile.

Taxon names authored

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Vargas-Ortiz, M. & Vargas, H.A. 2018. A new species of Strepsicrates Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from the Atacama Desert of northern Chile previously misidentified as S. smithiana Walsingham. Zootaxa 4370(5): 569–579. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.5.8. Reference page.

Vargas-Ortiz, M., Gonçalves, G.L., Huanca-Mamani, W., Vargas, H.A. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2019. Description, natural history and genetic variation of Caloptilia guacanivora sp. nov. Vargas-Ortiz & Vargas (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Austral Entomology 58(1): 171–191. Reference page.

Davis, D.R., Farfán, J., Cerdeña, J.A., Huanca-Mamani, W., Vargas, H.A., Vargas-Ortiz, M., Gonçalves, G.L. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2020. Adenogasteria leguminivora Davis & Vargas gen. et sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): a new seed-feeding micromoth associated with Fabaceae in Peru and Chile. Austral Entomology 59, 37–51. Reference page.
Espinoza-Donoso, S., Bobadilla, D., Huanca-Mamani, W., Vargas-Ortiz, M. & Vargas, H.A. 2020. A new species of Ithome Chambers (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Chrysopeleiinae) from the Atacama Desert revealed by morphology and DNA barcodes. ZooKeys 912: 125-138. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.912.47562. . Reference page.
Vargas, H.A., Vargas-Ortiz, M. & Gielis, C. 2020. A new species of Stenoptilia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) associated with Neobartsia peruviana (Orobanchaceae) in the Andes of northern Chile. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 64(2): 1-8. DOI: 10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2019-0028. . Reference page.