Research Interests
Ecology; entomology; and insects conservation, specially dragonflies; citizen science.
Research Description
Understanding how the evolutionary history of cockroaches affects their present and future distribution patterns. In my free time, discovering and studying the fauna of South American dragonflies.
Education
2021 – 2023: Master in Zoology, Universidade Federal do Pará - Brazil.
2012 – 2016: Bachelor in Biology, Universidad Agraria La Molina - Perú.
Grants
Tambopata - Bahuaja Research Grant Fund
Funded by: AIDER – Peru
Project: "Factors influencing the colonization of Odonata (insects) in environments degraded by gold mining in the Tambopata National Reserve, Peru".
Carlos Ponce del Prado Research Grant
Funded by: Amazon Basin Conservation Association (ACCA).
Project: "Association of species of the order Odonata to habitat variables in Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre de Dios, Peru".
Awards and Honors
2024: Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Additional Campus Affiliations
Museum of Natural History - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú
Department of Entomology
Collaborating Researcher
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Medina-Espinoza, E. F., Oliveira-Junior, J. M. B., & Juen, L. (2025). The role of habitat integrity and biogeographic provinces in Odonata (Insecta) habitat specialization in Amazonia. Hydrobiologia, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-025-05929-8
Medina-Espinoza, E. F., Juen, L., Calvão, L. B., & Arellano Cruz, G. (2024). Variations in the Odonata Assemblages: How Do the Dry Season and Water Bodies Influence Them?. Neotropical Entomology, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-024-01153-6
Medina-Espinoza, E. F. (2022). Abundance of Odonata in different microhabitats at an oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon. Acta Amazonica, 52(3), 236-240. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392202200161
Recent Publications
Medina-Espinoza, E. F., Oliveira-Junior, J. M. B., & Juen, L. (2025). The role of habitat integrity and biogeographic provinces in Odonata (Insecta) habitat specialization in Amazonia. Hydrobiologia, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-025-05929-8
Christie, M., Medina-Espinoza, E. F., & Faasen, T. (2025). Erythiagrion, a new genus of damselfly from Peru, with description of its type species Erythiagrion alidae (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). International Journal of Odonatology, 28, 50-60. https://doi.org/10.48156/1388.2025.1917319
Vilela, D. S., Dias-Oliveira, T. M., Souza, M. M., Medina-Espinoza, E. F., & Juen, L. (2024). The females of Epipleoneura capilliformis (Selys, 1886) and E. albuquerquei Machado, 1964 (Odonata: Protoneurinae): description and diagnosis. Zootaxa, 5507(1), 187-193.
Alves‐Martins, F., Stropp, J., Juen, L., Ladle, R. J., Lobo, J. M., Martinez‐Arribas, J., ... & Hortal, J. (2024). Sampling completeness changes perceptions of continental scale climate–species richness relationships in odonates. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14810
Da Silva Junior, W. F., Calvão, L. B., Carvalho, F. G.; Medina-Espinoza, E. F. (2023): Use of the Zygoptera/Anisoptera Ratio (Insecta: Odonata) for Habitat Alteration Assessment in Cerrado Streams. Internafional Journal of Odonatology, 26, 124-131. https://doi.org/10.48156/1388.2023.1917214
Pellón, J. J., Medina-Espinoza, E. F., Lim, B. K., Cornejo, F., & Medellín, R. A. (2023). Eat what you can, when you can: relatively high arthropod consumption by frugivorous bats in Amazonian Peru. Mammalian Biology, 103(1), 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-022-00327-2
Medina-Espinoza, E. F. (2022). First record of Heteragrion cooki from Peru (Odonata: Heteragrionidae). Notulae odonatologicae, 9(6), 236-240. https://doi.org/10.60024/zenodo.4268583