What I'm doing now?

On the summer, the Franz lab went to the Dominican Republic in a collecting trip across the country. 61 localities were visited looking for entimines (and other interesting insects) and almost always this weevils were located.
The collected material was brought to the UPRM Invertebrate Collection, where this was sorted, mounted and labeled and is ready to be identified.
In the collecting and sorting process, weevils belonging to Apodrosus were recognized (a time ago the specialist Charles O'Brien told us about new species of Apodrosus from the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas; we are already borrowed this material from him).
At this moment at least five new species has been separated and cataloged in a database of the collecting localities.
These are the next objective of the project, but at the moment, the morphology is being reviewed as a necessary step before to deal with the new species description.