François Louis Nompar de Caumont La Force, comte de Castelnau was a French naturalist, known also as François Laporte or Francis de Castelnau. The standard author abbreviation Castelnau is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name., and zoological names other than insects. However, Laporte is typically used when citing an insect name (e.g.,), or Laporte de Castelnau (e.g.).
Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin Du Val was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
El Carnero is the colloquial name of a Spanish language colonial chronicle whose title was Conquista i descubrimiento del nuevo reino de Granada de las Indias Occidentales del mar oceano, i fundacion de la ciudad de Santa Fe de Bogotá, ... [also known as El Carnero de Bogotá]. It is a chronicle of history and customs written in 1636-1638 by Bogota-born Juan Rodríguez Freyle.
Marc Soula was a French entomologist. He was born in Oran and died in Lima (Peru).
Muisca people are indigenous people in Colombia.
Muisca bitaeniata is the accepted type species of checkered beetles of the genus Muisca in the subfamily of Clerinae or Enopliinae. It was first described by entomologist Maximilian Spinola in 1844.
Alabagrus muisca is a species of parasitoid wasp in the subfamily of Agathidinae of the family Braconidae. The wasp was described by Sharkey in 1988.
Huitaca or Xubchasgagua was a rebelling goddess in the religion of the Muisca. The Muisca and their confederation were one of the four advanced civilizations of the Americas who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Andes. Huitaca has been described by the chroniclers Juan de Castellanos in his Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita and Pedro Simón.
Brachygasterina muisca is a species of fly in the genus Brachygasterina of the subfamily Muscinae, described in 2012 by Soares and De Carvalho.
Calinda muiscas is a species of jumping plant lice of the genus Calinda in the family of Triozidae. The species was first described in 1997 by Olivares and Burckhardt.
Neocorynura muiscae is a species of sweat bee of the genus Neocorynura in the subfamily of Halictinae of the family of Halictidae. It was first described by Alan Smith-Pardo and Victor Hugo González Betancourt in 2006.
Huitaca boyacaensis is a species of neotropical harvestmen in the family Neogoveidae, first described by Ligia Benavides and Gonzalo Giribet in 2013.
Oxysternon festivum is a species of dung-beetle of the scarab beetle family.
Choconta circulata is a species of froghopper in the genus Choconta, of the family of Cercopidae. The species has been named formerly Sphenorhina circulata (Lallemand), Tomaspis circulata (Fennah), and originally Cercopis circulatus. The species has been described first by French entomologist Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1844.
Taeniotes farinosus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, originally under the genus Cerambyx.
Euryomma muisca is a species of fly in the genus Euryomma. It was first described by Grisales et al. in 2012.
Muisca cylindricollis is a species of checkered beetles of the genus Muisca in the subfamily of Clerinae or Enopliinae. It was first described by zoologist Adriano Lúcio Peracchi in 1962 as Cregya cylindricollis. The same author reclassified the species as Paracregya cylindricollis in 1964. Paracregya cylindricollis was reclassified as Muisca cylindricollis by Ekis in 1975. The genus is been named after the Muisca from the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in central Colombia.
Ischnura chingaza is a species of damselfly in the genus Ischnura, of the family Coenagrionidae, endemic to the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. It was first described by Emilio Realpe in 2010.
Pegoscapus bacataensis is a species of fig wasp in the genus Pegoscapus which is native to Colombia. It has an obligate mutualism with Ficus andicola, the fig species it pollinates. It was first described by Sergio Jansen and Carlos Sarmiento in 2008. The egg stage of Pegoscapus bacataensis is around 130 days, longer than other pollinating fig wasps.
