Vera Cristina Silva

• Abstract

  This project is included in two broader ones, that have received financial support from FAPESP, and are parts of the BIOTA Special Program: (I) "Biota fragments", aimed to inventory many taxonomic groups, including terrestrial invertebrates from Northeastern S. Paulo State (Proc. 2004/04820-3); (2) "Biota-Diptera" (Proc. 2003/10.274-9), intended to use biological material collected with s…

  Diversity of Diptera (Insecta) in a preserved fragment of Atlantic semi-deciduous Forest, at Sertãozinho, São Paulo State, AP.R
• A review of the lauxaniidae family from the neotropical region: an initial approach (diptera, schizophora)., AR.EXT

• Abstract

  The states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Rondônia are located in the Midwest and northern Brazil, with a Neotropical influence. Their vegetation cover present aspects of the Pantanal, Cerrado and Amazon Rainforest Biomes. They are among the Brazilian collections with little coverage and representativeness in entomological collections, which implies low knowledge of its insect fau…

  Species of Chaetominettia Malloch (Diptera: Lauxaniidae) from the States of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Rondônia, Brazil, BP.IC

• Abstract

  The Brazilian Atlantic Forest used to be a huge one, and until the end of the 19th century along all the Brazilian coast, occupying a wide zone between latitudes 3º and 33ºS, covering approximately a million square kilometers. It is developed over a variety of soils and topography, with very diverse geological and geomorphological characteristics. Even today it is home to an enormous biol…

  Diversity of Drosophilidae (Diptera, Schizophora) in one fragment of Semideciduos Atlantic Forest, at Sertãozinho, SP, Brazil, BP.IC
• Patterns of distribution of the species of Drosophilidae (Diptera, Schizophora) throughout the Atlantic Rainforest, BP.IC

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)