Biography

Miguel Angel Morón Ríos, Mexican entomologist (Ciudad de Mexico 24 October 1952 – Xalapa 22 August 2017)

Regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on scarab beetles larvae

DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA

Genera/Subgenus

Archedinus 1990 with Krikken

Belicinus 2012 with Arce Perez & Shepard

Subg. Bucaphalanus 2012 with Ramírez Ponce

Chelilabia 1999 with Nogueira

Halffterinetis 2007 with Nogueira

Iridosoma 1991 with Delgado Castillo

Macropoidelimus 1983

Mazahuapertha 1999 with Nogueira

Mesosternus 1988

Nayarita 1999 with Nogueira

Paraheterosternus 1983

Parisoleoides 1987

Plesiosternus 1983

Saccharoscaptus 2015 with Gross

Yaaxkumukia 1999 with Nogueira

Species

291 (136 of them in genus Phyllophaga)

HONORS

Moronopeilos Brailovsky 1988 (Hemiptera)

Moronius Grossi & Vaz de Mello 2015 (Coleoptera)

Moroniella Ramírez Ponce 2015 (Coleoptera)

LINKS

http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0065-17372019000100301 (Spanish)

http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0065-17372017000300538&lng=pt&nrm=iso (Spanish)