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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Bachelor's at Ciências Biológicas from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1997), bachelor's at Ciências Biológicas from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1998), PhD on Entomology Zoology from Federal University of Paraná (2004), and Postdoc at the Museum of Zoology of University of Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo). He is now Associate Professor at the University of Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (since 2007). With experience in Zoology, focusing on Taxonomy of the Extant Groups, acting on the following subjects: Diptera, Orthoptera, taxonomy, systematics and biogeography. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The clade Calyptrata in Diptera comprises 15 families and over 20,000 species, about 12% of the world Diptera diversity. The Calyptratae are divided into three superfamilies: Hippoboscoidea, Muscoidea and Oestroidea. The Neotropical diversity of the group comprises 5,000 species, 1/4 of world diversity. Although the monophyly is consistently corroborated, there are several problems to be …
Belonging to Streblidae, a family of highly specialized ectoparasites of bats, Noctiliostrebla Wenzel, 1966 currently comprises four species divided into two groups: group A, N. dubia (Rudow, 1871) and N. traubi Wenzel, 1966, and group B, N. aitkeni Wenzel, 1966 and N. maai Wenzel, 1966. The genus is included within the subfamily Trichobiinae, along with Paradyschiria Speiser, 1900 consid…
Xiphocentronidae (200 spp., 8 genera) and Psychomyiidae (~600 spp., 8 extant genera) are closely related families of aquatic insects (Trichoptera), which clades diverged during the early Cretaceous when the mean global temperature was 10ºC warmer than today. Currently these families are distributed in freshwater ecosystems around the world. The Xiphocentronidae are mostly restricted to th…
Tachinidae is one of the biggest families in Diptera, with about 8.500 described species, being the Neotropical region the most diverse. Currently, it is divided in 4 subfamilies: Dexiinae, Exoristinae, Phasiinae, Tachininae. The subfamilies of Tachinidae has a long history of changes and uncertainties in the classifications. There is a large number of phylogenetic and morphological studi…
Grylloidea classification have had several controversies over the years. Higher-level phylogenies for Orthoptera, Ensifera and Grylloidea recently started to clarify these relationships. The subfamily Tafaliscinae sensu Desutter 1987, traditionally considered not valid, was recently recovered as monophyletic based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis. However, none taxonomic change to val…
Orthoptera comprises popularly known insects like crickets, locusts, grasshoppers, katydids and weta. This order has 27 thousand described species divided into two suborders, Caelifera and Ensifera, recognized as monophyletic. In Ensifera, the infraorder Gryllidea, taxon that comprises all the crickets, is monophyletic and divided into two superfamilies, Gryllotalpoidea and Grylloidea. Th…
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There are several studies using crickets as models of evolutionary study, mainly concerning speciation, acoustic communication, modification of forewings characters and relationship with habitats. Although crickets are good models of evolutionary studies, Grylloidea classification have had several controversies over the years. Therefore, higher-level phylogenies for Orthoptera, Ensifera a…
Recent studies on the phylogenetic classification of Orthoptera have begun to elucidate the evolutionary relationships, which for a long time remained controversial in the group. The first phylogenetic study of crickets was recently published, and although it recovered some monophyletic families, groups that were traditionally recognized were not recovered. This is the case of Landrevinae…
The global increase of species richness towards the equator has intrigued biogeographers for more than a century. Why do nearly all groups of organisms have more species in the tropics? Although numerous hypotheses have been proposed to elucidate, the so-called latitudinal gradient of diversity, the number of species in a given clade and region is ultimately explained by four major compon…
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