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Filipino weevil specialist

Analyn Anzano Cabras (July 17, 1986 – December 7, 2024) was a leading Filipino weevil specialist in the Philippines. She served as a Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Museum of the Philippines, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a National Geographic Explorer, a Lakeside research fellow at the California Academy of Sciences, and an International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List Assessor. She was among the 2020 Future Science Leaders by the National Academy of Science and Technology, 2021 National Geographic Early Career Leader^[1], and was one of the three Women of Science featured by National Geographic in 2021.^[2]

She is an Associate Professor at Davao Oriental State University, where she founded the Terrestrial Invertebrate Research Laboratory (TIRL)^[3], a research and conservation laboratory dedicated to the study of Philippine invertebrates. She also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Tropical Coleopterology. She has been involved in various local and international biodiversity research endeavors to advance beetle research and conservation in the Philippines, published roughly 103 scientific publications, co-published 2 books, and described approximately 100 new species of beetles to science.

Cabras obtained her PhD in Biology, specializing in Systematics, from Central Mindanao University, supported by the Commission on Higher Education. She earned a Master of Arts in Science Teaching in Biology from the University of Southeastern Philippines in Davao City, Philippines. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education, majoring in General Science, from the University of Southeastern Philippines, where she graduated Cum Laude (with honors).

Cabras was involved in the description of more or less 100 new beetle species, particularly in the tribe Pachyrhynchini. The following are some of the new species that she described:

• Metapocyrtus (Trachycyrtus) baltazarae Cabras, Buenavente, Medina, Bollino, 2023
• Metapocyrtus (Trachycyrtus) siargaonon Cabras, Buenavente, Medina, Bollino, 2023
• Metapocyrtus madayaw Cabras & Medina, 2023
• Metapocyrtus nacolod Cabras, Senarillos, Ibanez, 2023
• Metapocyrtus (Dolichocephalocyrtus) silago Cabras, Senarillos, Ibanez, 2023
• Metapocyrtus (Trachycyrtus) rubiginosus Torrejos & Cabras, 2023
• Metapocyrtus siargaonon Bollino & Cabras, 2023
• Metapocyrtus (Sclerocyrtus) dinagatensis Cabras, Iligan, Samarca, Temon, Cuadrado, Rukmane-Barbale, 2023
• Metapocyrtus (Sclerocyrtus) dabaw Cabras & Mainda, 2023
• Metapocyrtus (Sclerocyrtus) rolandmuelleri Cabras & Mainda, 2023
• Eumacrocyrtus robertfoxi Cabras, Buenavente, Medina, 2024
• Enoplocyrtus agelalcalai Cabras, Buenavente, Medina, 2024
• Metapocyrtus hamiguitan Cabras, Villegas, Buenavente, 2024
• Metapocyrtus mranaw Cabras, Villegas, Buenavente, 2024
• Metapocyrtus inangsabong Obrial, Agbas, Medina, Cabras, 2024
• Metapocyrtus lumad Obrial, Agbas, Medina, Cabras, 2024
• Metapocyrtus (Trachycyrtus) uphagpula Obrial, Agbas, Medina, Cabras, 2024

To following species are described in her name: