Episode 10: New Species—of muscid flies from North America, and the thrill of naming new species!

Dr. Jade Savage is a Professor of Biology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Bishop’s University in Quebec, Canada. She talks to us about her recent paper published on March 15th in ZooKeys! Dr. Savage and her coauthor, Dr. Vera Sorokina, described 4 new species of muscid flies! We talk about where these flies are found, how she determined that these were new species, how she chose names for the new species, and the pure joy of discovering new species!

The title of the paper is “Review of the North American Fauna of Drymeia Meigen (Diptera, Muscidae) and evaluation of DNA barcodes for species level identification in the genus.” The paper is Open Access and in the March 15 issue of ZooKeys: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/60393/element/8/3498//

To learn more about Dr. Jade Savage, visit her faculty page at Bishop’s University: https://www.ubishops.ca/academic-programs/faculty-of-arts-and-science/natural-sciences-and-mathematics/biological-sciences/faculty/name/jade-savage/

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