Ignacio Ribera

Ignacio Ribera Galán
Born(1963-03-09)March 9, 1963
Barcelona, Catalonia
DiedApril 15, 2020(2020-04-15) (aged 57)
Alma materUniversity of Barcelona
Spanish National Research Council
SpouseAlexandra Cieslak
Children1
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology
InstitutionsSpanish National Research Council

Ignacio “Nacho” Ribera Galán (9 March 1963 – 15 April 2020) was a Spanish entomologist who authored 104 species, 16 genera, 3 subgenera, and 1 family of beetles, along with two species of worms (Nematomorpha).[1][2][3][4]

Career

Born in Barcelona, Ignacio grew up in Martorell and was the second of six children. He graduated from the University of Barcelona in the 1980s with a degree in biology, followed by a PhD from the Spanish National Research Council. His PhD dissertation was titled "Estudio de los Hydradephaga (Coleoptera) del Pirineo y Prepirineo: morfometría y ecología." Throughout his early career, Ribera worked at the Scottish Agricultural College, University of Murcia, Natural History Museum, London, and the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid. In 2008 he obtained a position at the Instituto de Biología Evolutiva (Spanish National Research Council), where he remained until his death.[1][2][3]

As an entomologist, Ribera focused on the study of water and cave beetles, authoring numerous taxa in the families Dytiscidae, Hydraenidae, and Limnichidae, among others.[1][5][6]

As of December 2020, eight species have been named for Ribera:[1]

Personal life

Ribera married Alexandria Cieslak on 8 June 2002 in Tarragona. Their only child, a son named Bernard, was born in July 2003. Ribera named Ochthebius bernard for his son and Agabus alexandrae for his wife.[1][2][3][7]

Ribera suffered from kidney problems since the 1980s, requiring dialysis and multiple transplants, including one kidney from his father Andrés. His health rapidly deteriorated in April 2020, before dying on 15 April.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Jäch, Manfred A. (2020). "In memoriam Ignacio Ribera (1963–2020)" (PDF). Koleopterologische Rundschau. 90: 349–390. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  2. ^ a b c d Valladares, Luis F.; Millán, Andrés (2020). "En recuerdo de Ignacio Ribera (1963–2020)". Boletín de la Asociación espanola de Entomología. 44 (1–2): XIII-XXXIV.
  3. ^ a b c d Millán, Andrés; Abellán, Pedro; Arribas, Paula; Pallarés, Susana; Picazo, Félix; Villastrigo, Adrián; Velasco, Josefa; Sánchez-Fernández, David (2020). "In Memoriam: Ignacio Ribera Galán (1963–2020)" (PDF). Limnetica. 39 (2): i–vi.
  4. ^ "A sad farewell to Ignacio Ribera". Istitut de Biologia Evolutiva. 2020-04-15.
  5. ^ Thuain, Pankaj (2019-01-09). "A new species of beetle was discovered in a cave in Portugal". Interesting Engineering.
  6. ^ "New endemic beetles discovered in Iberian Peninsula". Science Daily. 2011-06-01.
  7. ^ Ribera, Ignacio; Hernando, Carles; Aguilera, Pedro (2001). "Agabus alexandrae sp. n. from Morocco, with molecular phylogeny of the Western Mediterranean species of the A. guttatus group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 32 (3): 253–262. doi:10.1163/187631201X00191.

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