New clearwing moth species discovered in the Malaysian jungle!

Pyrophleps ellawi, with its slender body and rapid flight, is a wasp mimic. It appears to be extremely rare, with only one or two individuals per sighting. The new species description in ZooKeys is also the first record of the genus Pyrophleps in Peninsular Malaysia. Unique footage filmed in the Malaysian jungle revealed its interesting behaviours such as sucking up nutrients from moist substrate, known as puddling. The discovery has been published in ZooKeys (2017) 692: 129–139, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.692.13587.

SkowronVolponi_A new species of wasp-mim.

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ClearWing Foundation for Biodiversity

Our company and team members are environmentally conscious. BioVentures Institute patented technology has potentially high impact on the environment monitoring, remediation and protection. Continuing +!5 years cooperation with Malaysian biotechnology holding Revongen Corporation there was founded ClearWing Foundation for Biodiversity (https://www.clearwingfound.com/en_GB/). The foundation was established by two funders: BioVentures Institute President - professor Piotr Skowron and Revongen President – Mr El Law as well as Italian nature movie maker – Mr Paolo Volponi (the foundation President) and recognised entomologist – dr Marta Skowron Volponi (the Foundation vice-President). The foundation is actively persuing biodiversity exploration, which has resulted in discovery of 5 new butterfly species in Malaysia and Thailand as well as rediscovery of Asian butterfly species, which was considered extinct for 130 years. This dr Marta Skowron Volponi discovery was commented wordwide, including Science magazine (http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/researchers-find-moth-last-seen-130-years-ago).

Cooperation with University of Gdansk and New England Biolabs Ltd. (USA)

BioVentures InstituteSp. z o.o. continues a long term cooperation with University of Gdansk and New England Biolabs Ltd. (USA), a world leader in the development and sales of enzymatic tools for recombinant DNA technologies. Our common project in the field of restriction endonucleases has resulted in solving a longstanding riddle of two RM.TaqII specificities, discovering a third RM system (RM.TaqIII) from T. aquaticus YT-1. Results were published in a high Impact Factor (10.2) journal – Nucleic Acid Research 2017, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx599. Among the authors is a Nobel Prize Nominee – prof. Richard Roberts.

The third restriction–modification syste.

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