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Cerambycidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from the Caatinga biome: checklist, new reco...

Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:51:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Based on recently collected material and specialised catalogues, we list 52 species of Cerambycidae occurring in the state of Sergipe, Brazil. A total of 25 specimens of Cerambycidae were collected in Propriá municipality, supported by the Semiarid Biodiversity Research Programme (PPBio /Semiarido). Fif...

Contribution to the knowledge of Atrichobrunettia Satchel, 1953 (Diptera, Psych...

A new species of moth-fly, Atrichobrunettia (Polibrunettia) longipalpis sp. nov. (Psychodinae, Psychodidae), from the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest is described. It can be distinguished from other species of the subgenus mainly by the length of palpus that is longer and by the dentate distal margin of hypandrium. Here the distribution of A. angelae Bravo, 2006 and A. paranaensis Bravo, 2005 is reviewed and mor...

A new species of Pelidnota MacLeay (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae, Ruteli...

Pelidnota MacLeay, 1819 is one of the most diverse genus in Rutelina (Rutelini) and, even after broad and recent revisions, fieldwork has revealed a diversity of species yet to be known to science. Here, we describe Pelidnota silveiranetoi sp. nov. with illustrations and a map for the type locality, as well as its inclusion in a previously published identification key for the Pelidnota species. The new species ...

Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Ptiloneuridae): review of the inte...

Four species of Triplocania collected in the Brazilian state of Bahia, are described and illustrated, based on male specimens, namely: T. annyae sp. nov., T. diamantina sp. nov., T. lauzie sp. nov. and T. miltoni sp. nov. They differ from the other species in the genus, in which the males are known by hypandrium and phallosome structures. New records of T. capixaba Silva-Neto, García Aldrete & Rafael, 2016 ...

New species and new records of Tonnoira (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Brazil

A new species of moth-fly, Tonnoira igrapiunensis sp. nov. (Psychodidae, Psychodinae), from the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest is described. The new species can be distinguished from other species of the genus by its eye bridge separated by 0.5 facet diameter, R₅ ending slightly posterior to apex of the wing, gonostyli bifurcated with long arm shorter than length of gonocoxites, aedeagus bipartite and asym...

Dismantling Brazil's science threatens global biodiversity heritage

In the middle of a political and fiscal crisis, the Brazilian government is applying successive budget cuts, including in science funding. Recent cuts radically affect research programs on biodiversity that are crucial components for the design and monitoring of public policies for nature conservation and sustainable development. We analyze the consequences of such cuts on the Research Program on Biodiversity (...

Apoxyria hirtuosa (wiedemann, 1821) comb. n., lectotype designation, redescript...

The type specimens of Neodiogmites hirtuosus (Wiedemann, 1821), two males and one female, deposited at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität (ZMHB), Berlin were examined. The specimens show the diagnostic characters of Apoxyria Schiner, 1866: face strongly pronounced, swollen and curved hind tibia, and terminalia with epandrium large and hypandrium short and obtuse. A new combination is suggested, ...

Global Biodiversity Threatened by Science Budget Cuts in Brazil

A new species of Wygodasilus artigas & Papavero (Diptera, Asilidae, Asilinae) f...

A new species of Wygodasilus Artigas & Papavero (Diptera, Asilidae, Asilinae) from Brazil. The second species of the Neotropical genus Wygodasilus Artigas & Papavero, 1995, Wygodasilus albisetus sp. nov., is described from Bahia state, Brazil. The habitus, wing, male and female terminalia are described and illustrated.

Description of the female of brasineura diamantina silva-neto & garcía aldrete ...

The unknown female of Brasineura diamantina Silva-Neto & García Aldrete is described and illustrated, with new records and comments on variation in the fore-hindwing venation, based on 27 females and 113 males collected in five localities in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Thirty four types of variation and anomalies in the fore-hindwing veins were found. A revised diagnosis of B. diamantina is also pres...