Antonio Domingos Brescovit in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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The class Diplopoda is represented by approximately 11,000 described species worldwide, of which only 6% are known from Brazil. This underrepresentation results from a shortage of specialists, an accumulation of unidentified material in collections, and insufficient sampling efforts. The order Spirostreptida, one of the most species-rich groups within the class and predominantly Gondwanan…
This project has two focuses with a common purpose, to work and expand the systematic and distributional studies of the main haplogynous spider families of the Neotropical region. We consider the target of this study to be the Haplogynae and Palpimanidae araneomorphs, spiders that present a haplogynous condition of the genitalia, that is, a female vulva with a blind bottom, with fused cop…
The researcher's visit aims to conclude with a research begun during his postdoctoral stay at the Butantan Institute in 2016 financed by FAPESP. The main objective of this postdoctoral project was the taxonomic revision and phylogeny of Nops, the genus with the highest species richness in the Caponiidae spider family. As results, three articles were published that raised the level of know…
The aim of this project is to study the systematics and distribution of the main families of haplogyne spiders from the Neotropical region. The taxa included are Mygalomorphae, Haplogynae and Palpimanidae, all of which present the haplogyne type of genitalia, with females presenting fused copulation and fertilization ducts and males presesenting very simple palps devoid of accessory scler…
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The family Chelodesmidae, with around 781 species in 177 genera, represents the second-largest family within the entire subphylum Myriapoda. They are distributed in tropical, subtropical, and temperate forests. The family's distribution follows a Gondwanan pattern, occurring in the Afrotropical and Neotropical regions. Currently, the family is divided into two subfamilies: Chelodesminae (…
The Rhinocricidae family is the most numerous of the order Spirobolida, currently has 33 genera with more than 575 species described and distributed almost entirely in the Neotropical Region. It is currently divided into three subfamilies: Rhinocricinae Brölemann, 1913; Oxypyginae Chamberlin, 1922 and Poecilocricinae Schubart, 1962. Until today, only 16 genera have been included in any of…
Anyphaenidae includes 58 genera and 614 species of small to medium sized spiders, which normally inhabit arboreal environments. It is divided in Amaurobioidinae and Anyphaeninae subfamilies. Amaurobioidinae is distinguished by a tracheal spiracle closer to spinnerets than the epigastric region, and male palpus with an exclusive hyaline triangular area on tegulum. This subfamily exhibits 1…
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Tarantulas of the subfamily Theraphosinae are the most diversified group within Mygalomorphae, a lineage that also includes sheet-web spiders and trapdoor spiders. Theraphosinae are endemic to the New World and constitute a group of large spiders with abdominal bristles used for defense. The morphology of these bristles, as in other traditional characters, have been used to infer phylogen…
The armored trapdoor spiders (family Idiopidae), which build and inhabit burrows lined with silk and closed with a trapdoor, are the second most diverse group of spiders among Mygalomorphae, a lineage that also includes tarantulas and sheet funnel-web spiders. Members of the subfamily Idiopinae are characterized, mostly, by having anterior lateral eyes projected up front, away from the oc…
Chelodesmidae belongs to the largest and most easily recognizable order Polydesmida, with approximately 5000 species in 31 families. It is the second largest family in the Diplopoda class, with approximately 800 species, just behind Paradoxosomatidae with 975 species. Chelodesmidae is divided into two subfamilies, Chelodesminae, for Neotropical species, and Prepodesminae for members inhab…
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Among Mygalomorph spiders, the family Idiopidae Simon, 1889, is the second most diverse. It comprises trapdoor spiders with a predominantly Gondwanan distribution, including species from South and Central America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, divided into three subfamilies: Arbanitinae, Genysinae, and Idiopinae. A recent study focused on Idiopinae species from South America and Africa has, …
Tmesiphantes Simon, 1892 is a tarantula genus with 22 species found in the Brazilian biomes Caatinga, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest and Amazonia, as well as Argentinean Sub Andean Yungas and inter-Andean dry forest of Peru. The most recent morphological phylogenetic analyses revealed it species in a politomy, with some of them divided into three groups, but their relationships remain unclear. …
Within the family Buthidae, the genus Ananteris Thorell, 1891 was originally proposed to accommodate the type species, Ananteris balzanii. It is distributed primarily in the Neotropical region, but due to a possible association with Old World other Buthidae genera it may show a Gondwanan pattern of distribution. The genus was taxonomically revised in 1982, and in recent years, many new sp…
The taxonomy of Pseudonannolenidae have been a well-known focus of discussion over the past 100-years. The most recent approach of the family is based on the affinities of sexual structure of the males (i.e. gonopod and process on first pair of legs) and the morphological traits of the gnathochilarium. Concerning the gnathochilarium, this issue is especially criticized due to the poorly u…
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