Dr. Antonio Arillo |
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Current position:
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Head of the Department of Biology and
Geology. Fortuny Secondary School, Madrid
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Honorary Professor at the Department of
Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty
of Biology, Complutense University, Madrid
Email:
arillo@educa.madrid.org
Mailing address:
Dept. de Zoología y Antropología Física
Facultad de Biología. Universidad
Complutense
c/ José Antonio Novais, 2 - 28040 Madrid
- Spain
Research
My research has focused on all topics
related with amber investigations. Most of
my publications are devoted to fossil
arthropods preserved in fossil resins,
mainly flies (Diptera), mites (Acari) and
Paleoecology of the amber forest. |
Publications |
Delclòs, X., Arillo, A., Peñalver, E.,
Barrón, E., Soriano, C., López del Valle,
R., Bernárdez, E., Corral, C. & Ortuño, V.M.
(2007). Fossiliferous amber deposits from
the Cretaceous (Albian) of Spain. Comptes
Rendus – Palevol, 6: 135-149.
Arillo, A.
(2007). Paleoethology: fossilized behaviors
in amber. Geologica Acta, 5(2): 159-166.
Krzeminski, W. & Arillo, A. (2007).
Alavia neli n. gen. and n. sp. the first
Limoniidae (Diptera) from the Lower
Cretaceous amber of Álava (Spain). Alavesia,
1: 11-13.
Peñalver, E. & Arillo, A. (2007). A new
species of the family Hybotidae in the Lower
Cretaceous amber of El Caleyu (Asturias,
Spain); Alavesia prietoi nov. sp. Alavesia,
1: 63-68.
Arillo, A. & Ortuño, V.M. (2008). Did
dinosaurs have any relation with dung-beetles?
(The origin of coprophagy). Journal of
Natural History, 42(19/20): 1405-1408.
Arillo, A., Peñalver, E. & Delclòs, X.
(2008). Microphorites from the Lower
Cretaceous amber of San Just (Spain), and
the co-occurrence of two ceratopogonid
species in Spanish amber deposits. Zootaxa,
1920: 29-40
Arillo, A., Subías, L.S. & Shtanchaeva,
U. (2008). A new fossil oribatid mite,
Ommatocepheus nortoni sp. nov. (Acariformes,
Oribatida, Cepheidae) from a new outcrop of
Lower Cretaceous Álava amber (northern Spain).
Systematic & Applied Acarology, 13(3-4):
252-255.
Krzemiński, A. & Arillo, A. (2008). A new
species, Symplecta (Psiloconopa) penalveri
n. sp. (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the
Miocene of Spain. Alavesia, 2: 211-213.
Grimaldi, D.A. & Arillo, A. (2008).
Tethepomyiidae, a new family of enigmatic
Cretaceous Diptera. Alavesia, 2: 261-267.
Arillo, A., Peñalver, E. & García-Gimeno, V.
(2009). First fossil Litoleptis (Diptera:
Spaniidae) from the Lower Cretaceous amber
of San Just (Teruel Province, Spain).
Zootaxa, 2026: 33-39.
Arillo, A., Subías, L.S. & Shtanchaeva,
U. (2009). A new fossil species of oribatid
mite, Ametroproctus valeriae sp. nov. (Acariformes,
Oribatida, Ametroproctidae), from the Lower
Cretaceous amber of San Just, Teruel
Province, Spain. Cretaceous Research, 30:
322-324.
Grimaldi, D.A., Cumming, J.M. &
Arillo,
A. (2009). Chimeromyiidae, a new family of
Eremoneuran Diptera from the Cretaceous.
Zootaxa, 2078: 34-54.
Ortuño, V.M. & Arillo, A. (2009). Fossil
carabids from Baltic amber I. A new species
of the genus Calathus Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera:
Carabidae: Pterostichinae). Zootaxa, 2239:
55-61.
Shtanchaeva, U., Subias, L.S. &
Arillo,
A. (2009). New taxa of oribatid mites
belonging to the family Liacaridae (Acariformes,
Oribatida) from the Caucasus. Entomologica
Fennica, 20(4): 245-248.
Arillo, A., Subías, L.S. & Shtanchaeva,
U. (2010). A new genus and species of
oribatid mite, Cretaceobodes martinezae gen.
et sp. nov. from the Lower Cretaceous amber
of San Just (Teruel Province, Spain) (Acariformes,
Oribatida, Otocepheidae). Paleontological
Journal, 44(3): 287-290.
Ortuño, V.M. & Arillo, A. (2010). Fossil
carabids from Baltic amber – II –. A new
subgenus of Bembidion Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera:
Carabidae: Bembidiini). Annales de la
Societé Entomologique de France, 46(1-2):
189-192.
Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Delclòs, X.
Peñalver, E. & Arillo, A. (2011). Biting
midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the
Early Cretaceous El Soplao amber (N Spain).
Cretaceous Research, 32: 750-761.
Grimaldi, D.A., Arillo, A., Cumming, J.M.
& Hauser, M. (2011). Brachyceran Diptera (Insecta)
in Cretaceous ambers, Part IV, Significant
New Orthorrhaphous Taxa. Zookeys, 148:
293-332.
Arillo, A., Subias, L.S. & Shtanchaeva,
U. (2012). A new species of fossil oribatid
mite (Acariformes, Oribatida,
Trhypochthoniidae) from the Lower Cretaceous
amber of San Just (Teruel Province, Spain).
Systematic & Applied Acarology, 17(1):
106-112.
Golub, V.B., Popov, Y.A. & Arillo, A.
(2012). Hispanocaderidae n. fam. (Hemiptera:
Heteroptera: Tingoidea), one of the oldest
lace bugs from the Lower Cretaceous Álava
amber (Spain). Zootaxa, 3270: 41-50.
Subias, L.S., Shtanchaeva, U. &
Arillo,
A. (2012). Listado de los ácaros oribátidos
(Acariformes, Oribatida) de las diferentes
regiones biogeográficas del mundo.
Monografías electrónicas de la Sociedad
Entomológica Aragonesa, 4: 1-819.
Subias, L.S., Shtanchaeva, U. &
Arillo,
A. (2013). Presentación de: Oribátidos (Acari:
Oribatida) de España Peninsular e Islas
Baleares. Distribución. Revista Ibérica de
Aracnología, 22: 59-60.
Subias, L.S., Shtanchaeva, U. &
Arillo,
A. (2013). Oribátidos (Acari: Oribatida) de
España Peninsular e Islas Baleares.
Distribución. Monografías electrónicas de la
Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 5: 1-255.
Arillo, A., Peñalver, E., Pérez-De La
Fuente, R., Delclòs, X., Criscione, J.,
Barden, P., Riccio, M., & Grimaldi, D.
(2015). Long-proboscid Brachyceran flies in
Cretaceous amber (Diptera: Stratiomyomorpha:
Zhangsolvidae). Systematic Entomology, 40:
242-267.
Peñalver, E., Arillo, A., Pérez-De La
Fuente, R., Riccio, M.L., Delclòs, X.,
Barrón, E. & Grimaldi, D.A. (2015). Long-proboscid
Flies as Pollinators of Mesozoic Gymnosperms.
Current Biology, 25: 1917-1923.
Sánchez-García, A., Arillo, A. & Nel, A.
(2016). The first water measurers from the
Lower Cretaceous amber of Spain (Heteroptera:
Hydrometridae: Heterocleptinae). Cretaceous
Research, 57: 111-121.
Szadziewski R., Arillo, A.,
Urbanek, A. & Sontag, E. (2016). Biting
midges of the fossil genus Protoculicoides
Boesel from Lower Cretaceous amber of San
Just, Spain and new synonymy in recently
described fossil genera (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae). Cretaceous Research, 58:
1-9.
Ortuño, V.M. & Arillo, A. (2015). Fossil
carabids from Baltic amber – III -
Tarsitachys bilobus Erwin, 1971 an
interesting fossil ground beetle from Baltic
amber (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae):
Redescription and comments on its taxonomic
placement. Zootaxa, 4027 (4): 578-586.
Lukashevich, E. & Arillo, A. (2016). New
Eoptychoptera (Insecta: Diptera,
Ptychopteridae) from the Early Cretaceous of
Spain. Cretaceous Research, 58: 254-264.
Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E., Arillo, A.,
Engel, M.S., Nel, A., Azar, D. & Ross, A.
(2016). New mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) in
Cretaceous ambers from Lebanon, Spain, and
Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 60: 91-108.
Kania, I., Krzemiński, W. & Arillo, A.
(2016). First representative of the genus
Helius Lepeletier and Serville, 1828 (Diptera:
Limoniidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Álava
amber (Spain). Cretaceous Research, 63:
33-38.
Arillo, A., Subías, L.S. &
Sánchez-García, A. (2016). New species of
fossil oribatid mites (Acariformes,
Oribatida), from the Lower Cretaceous amber
of Spain. Cretaceous Research, 63: 68-76.
Panadès, X., Bartolomé, J., Strömberg,
C., Soriano, I., Buckland, P., Serieyssol,
K.K., Bach, J., Arillo, A., Lozar, F.,
Stevenson, T., Chamorro, L. & Ditchfield, P.
(2016). The utility of livestock dung for
reconstructing recent ethnological and
environmental histories. Environmental
Archaeolog: The Journal of Human
Palaeoecology, 21: |
Books and book chapters: Arillo, A. (2010). Insectos en ámbar:
atrapados en el tiempo. In: Encuentros con
la Ciencia II. Viguera, E., Grande, A. &
Lozano, J. (coor.). 151-162. Servicio de
publicaciones de la Universidad de Málaga.
Arillo, A. (2012). Life in Cretaceous
amber forest of Spain. In: Swiatowa Rada
Bursztynu – VII Posiedzenie Swiatowej Rady
Bursztynu. R. Pytlos, R. Szadziewski, A.
Zbierska, G. Adamska & A. Dmowska (eds.):
55-59.
Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Peñalver, E.,
Delclòs, X., Najarro, M., Rosales, I.,
Barrón, E., López Del Valle, R.,
Ortega-Blanco, J., Arillo, A.,
Sánchez-García, A. & Peris, D. (2013). El
ámbar del cretácico inferior de El Soplao (Rábago,
Cantabria). Avances en la investigación
geológica de la cueva El Soplao y su
entorno. I. Rosales (coor.). Informes
Técnicos/ IGME, nº 7: 99-110. |
Congress contributions: Ortuño, V.M., Arillo, A. & Vique, I.M.
(2007) Description of a new Platynini
species from Baltic amber (Coleoptera,
Carabidae). Fossils x3 Congress Vitoria,
Spain. Abstract book: 230.
Arillo, A. & Ortuño, V.M. (2007) Did
dinosaurs have any relation with dung-beetles?
(The origin of coprophagy). Fossils x3
Congress Vitoria, Spain. Abstract book: 58.
Arillo, A., Brauckmann, C., Béthoux, O. &
Schneider, J.W. (2007) Fossil insects from
the Carboniferous of Iberian Peninsula.
Fossils x3 Congress Vitoria, Spain. Abstract
book: 198.
Arillo, A., Peñalver, E., & Delclòs, X.
(2007) Two new dipteran forms (Ceratopogonidae
and Dolichopodidae) in Early Cretaceous
amber from San Just (Spain). Fossils x3
Congress Vitoria, Spain. Abstract book: 200.
Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E., Soriano, C.,
Arillo, A., Nel, A., Selden, P., Roghi, G.,
Gomez, B., López del Valle, R., Barrón, E.,
Daviero-Gomez, V., Ortega-Blanco, J.,
Pérez-de la Fuente, R. (2009) Amber-bearing
deposits from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain:
Palaeobiology and Sedimentary Environments.
X Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota.
Teruel, Spain. Abstract book: 193-195.
Arillo, A. & Peñalver, E. (2010) A new
species of the uncommon genus Burmazelmira (Diptera:
Sciaroidea) from the Lower Cretaceous amber
of Spain. Fossils x3 Congress Beijing,
China. Abstract book: 107.
Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E., Soriano, C.,
Arillo, A., Barrón, E., Daviero-Gomez, V.,
Gomez, B., López lel Valle, R., Nel, A.,
Ortega-Blanco, J., Pérez-de la Fuente, R.,
Roghi, G., Saupe, E., Selden, P.A. &
Tafforeau, P. (2010) Early Cretaceous amber-bearing
deposits from Spain. Fossils x3 Congress
Beijing, China. Abstract book: 121.
Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Delclòs, X.,
Peñalver, E. & Arillo, A.(2010) New
biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
from the Early Cretaceous amber of Spain.
Fossils x3 Congress Beijing, China. Abstract
book: 159.
Arillo, A. (2010) Paleogeography and
paleoclimatology of the Iberian amber
outcrops. Fossils x3 Congress Beijing,
China. Abstract book: 108.
Álvarez, M., Arillo, A., Berzosa,
J., Gamarra, P., González, D., Hernández,
J.M., Martínez, M.D., Outerelo, R., Ornosa,
C., Pérez, J.M., Ruiz, E. & Subías, L.S.
(2010) Estudio de los componentes de la
biodiversidad de artrópodos y su variación
en los últimos 50 años en la Sierra de
Guadarrama. Datos preliminares. XIV Congreso
Ibérico de Entomología. Lugo, Spain. Libro
de resúmenes: 95.
Álvarez, M., Arillo, A., Berzosa,
J., Cabrero Sañudo, F.J., Gamarra, P.,
Gómez, J.F., González, D., Hernández, J.M.,
Martínez , M.D., Ornosa , C., Outerelo, R.,
Zaballos, J.M.P., Ruiz, E. & Subías, L.S.
(2011) Las bibliotecas de sonidos de
artrópodos: desarrollo y aplicaciones.
XXVIII Jornadas de la Asociación española de
Entomología. Ponferrada, Spain. Libro de
resúmenes: 75.
Arillo, A.(2012) Life in
Cretaceous amber forest of Spain. 7th World
Amber Council. Gdansk, Poland. Abstracts.
Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E., Arillo, A.& Nel, A. (2013) A new mantis (Insecta:
Mantodea) in the Early Cretaceous Spanish.
The 6th International Conference on Fossil
Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Byblos,
Lebanon. Abstract book:
Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Peñalver, E.,
Arillo, A., Peris, D., Sánchez-García,A.
& Delclòs, X. (2014) Paleobiotic
interactions from Early Cretaceous Spanish
amber. The 4th International Paleontological
Congress. Mendoza, Argentina. Abstract book:
393.
Arillo, A. (2014) Spanish Amber. Present
state of knowledge and perspectives. 9th
World Amber Council. Gdansk, Poland.
Abstract book.
Delclòs, X., Arillo, A., Barrón, E., dal
Corso, J., Davieró-Gómez, V., López del
Valle, R., Nel, A., Ortega-Blanco, J.,
Peñalver, E., Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Peris,
D.; Sánchez-García, A., Solórzano-Kraemer,
M.M., Roghi, G., Saupe, E. & Selden, P.
(2014). El ámbar del Cretácico Inferior de
España. pp. In: Royo-Torres, R., Verdú, F.J.
& Alcalá, L. (coords.). XXX Jornadas de
Paleontología de la Sociedad Española de
Paleontología. Teruel, Spain. ¡Fundamental!,
24: 65-68.
Peñalver, E., Arillo, A., Barrón,
E., Delclòs, X., Pérez-de la Fuente, R.,
Peris, D. & Sánchez-García, A. (2014). El
ámbar de España como fuente de información
paleoecológica (Albiense: Cretácico
Inferior). pp. In: Royo-Torres, R., Verdú,
F.J. & Alcalá, L. (coords.). XXX Jornadas de
Paleontología de la Sociedad Española de
Paleontología. Teruel, Spain. ¡Fundamental!,
24: 153-155.
Barrón, E., Arillo, A., Gallardo,
A., Lozano, R., Ontañón, R., Peñalver, E.,
Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Peris, D., Rodrigo,
A., Sánchez-García, A., Sarto i Monteys, V.,
Viejo, J.L. & Delclòs, X. (2015) Proyecto
AMBERIA: el ámbar de Iberia. Estudio
pluridisciplinar de los ecosistemas boscosos
en el Cretácico inferior. XXI Bienal de la
Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural.
Burgos, Spain. Libro de resúmenes: 75-76.
Viejo, J.L., Delclòs, X., Barrón, E.,
Arillo, A., Gallardo, A., Peñalver, E.,
Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Peris, D., Rodrigo,
A., Sánchez-García, A. & Sarto i Monteys, V.
(2015) Una investigación de carácter
paleoecológico sobre las entomofaunas
cretácicas. Proyecto AMBERIA: el ámbar de
Iberia., XXXII Jornadas de la Asociación
española de Entomología. Vilagarcía de
Arousa, Spain. Libro de resúmenes: 85-86.
Arillo, A., Delclòs, X.,
Sánchez-García, A., Peris, D., Pérez-de la
Fuente, R. & Peñalver, E. (2016). Arthropod
haematophagy and vertebrate remains in
Cretaceous Spanish amber. 7th International
conference on fossil insects, arthropods and
amber. Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Abstract
book: 51.
Solórzano-Kraemer, M.M., Peñalver, E.,
Arillo, A., Peris, D., Stebner, F.,
Kraemer, A.S. & Delclòs, X. (2016). Sticky
traps and resin vs amber: an actualistic
approach in Mexican and Malagasy forests.
7th International conference on fossil
insects, arthropods and amber. Edinburgh,
United Kingdom. Abstract book: 6.
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