29/11/2025
📣𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 > 𝐀 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐈𝐌! 🔍
🕵️Pietro Lo Cascio, founder of the Associazione Nesos - trekking & natura and member of the Scientific Council of PIM Initiative, together with Greek entomologists Leonidas Romanos Davranoglou and Nikolaos Manolas, have described two new species of Coleoptera discovered on the islets of the Milos archipelago (Cyclades, Greece).🏝 It is an honour for our NGO to have one of the two species named after it, 𝐴𝑚𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑖𝑚. The other beetle, 𝐴𝑚𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑒, was named in reference to Claudia Corti, a long-standing member of PIM Initiative Scientific Council.
⛵️This discovery was made possible by the knowledge acquisition mission organised by PIM in May 2025 on the Milos archipelago, in collaboration with Οργανισμός Φυσικού Περιβάλλοντος και Κλιματικής Αλλαγής-ΟΦΥΠΕΚΑ - NECCA, the Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών - University of Athens, Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο - Ionian University and the Natural History Museum of Crete - Official Page.
📖It has resulted in a publication in the Biodiversity Journal, available on our PIM resources center: urlr.me/ERfQBW
👏Our warmest congratulations and thanks to Pietro Lo Cascio, and to all the team who participated in the expedition ! 👏
Photo credits : Nikolaos Manolas