Projects

Specialists at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich (ZSM) have been studying Panguana representatives of selected butterfly groups...

Since 2014 a Peruvian student has been addressing the biology and faunistics of ‘woolly bear’ moths (Arctiidae), of which there...

The list of butterfly species created by Juliane Diller in her diploma thesis on the colouring of carrion- and excrement-eating...

The caterpillars of Panguana are fascinating and extraordinarily diverse in their shapes and colors. Attempts to identify them morphologically usually...

In the various types of waterbodies at Panguana aquatic insects are extremely diverse. Water beetles and their biology have been...

Panguana’s current tally of more than 80 odonate species already is higher than the one for all of Germany. Researchers...

The shiny metallic or bumblebee-like orchid-bees (> 30 species) and the orchids they pollinate are studied jointly by the Munich...

The ants of Panguana are a mega hit! The more than 520 species found so far make this the most...

Members of other Hymenoptera families such as Vespidae and Ichneumonidae also are important components of the Amazonian fauna, thus regularly...

The enormously species-rich insect order of beetles shows different composition from year to year. The groups studied most at Panguana...

The list of stick insects, or phasmids, and of the various true bugs, grasshoppers and cicadas recorded from Panguana by...

One fascinating research focus are the systematics and morphology of the bizarre and often tiny thorn bugs (Membracidae) with their...