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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
bachelor's at CIências Biológicas from Universidade de São Paulo (2000), master's at Zoology from Universidade de São Paulo (2003) and doctorate at Zoology from Universidade de São Paulo (2007). Has experience in Zoology, focusing on Taxonomy of the Recent Groups, acting on the following subjects: theraphosidae, serra do espinhaço, ischnocolinae, araneae and mygalomorphae. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Tarantulas of the subfamily Theraphosinae comprise the most diverse group of Mygalomorphae, which also includes sheet-web-building spiders and trapdoor spiders. Theraphosinae, endemic to the Neotropics, is composed of spiders that range from small animals to the largest spiders ever recorded, and are mainly characterized by having abdominal urticating setae used for defense. The morpholog…
Morphometrics, in special Geometric Morphometrics, have advanced quite a lot in the last decades, although it is still scarce the use of continuous characters in phylogenies, which can be implemented with the use of morphometrics. These tools incorporate meristic and/or landmark data into matrices to be analyzed under the premises of parcimony. For those taxa that show homogeneous morphol…
The infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae) are currently divided into 16 families, 11 of those occur in Brazil: Actinopodidae, Barychelidae, Ctenizidae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Dipluridae, Idiopidae, Mecicobothriidae, Microstigmatidae, Nemesiidae, Paratropididae e Theraphosidae. These spiders show high morphological uniformity, making it difficult the proposition of phenotypic homologies. Furthermo…
Mygalomorphae spiders comprise around 7% of the diversity of the Araneae and are marked by morphological uniformity, which has always made it difficult to establish discrete morphological characters when delimiting taxa. Due to morphological homogeneity, subjective or vaguely defined character states are common, as is the treatment of continuously varying characters as discrete. An exampl…
In Mygalomorphae systematics, species delimitation has traditionally relied on morphological characters. However, this approach can be limited due to the lack of attention to intraspecific variation and the presence of homoplasy. This is especially problematic in groups like the Theraphosidae, where traditional taxonomy can lead to misidentification and failure to recognize cryptic divers…
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The tarantulas of the subfamily Theraphosinae comprise the most diverse group of Mygalomorphae, a lineage that also includes sheet-web spiders and trapdoor spiders.Theraphosinae, endemic to the New World, are composed of large spiders bearing abdominal urticating setae used for defense. The morphology of these setae, as well as the traditional morphological characters, have been used to …
The infraorder Mygalomorphae includes mainly the spiders known as tarantulas. The taxonomic history of the group is complex and unstable, mainly due to the morphological uniformity of the group, which makes the tasks of species delimitation and recognition challenging. The exclusive use of morphological characters to distinguish among taxa can result in inaccuracies and divergences. An im…
(Only some records are available in English at this moment)
The infraorder Mygalomorphae, one of the three primary spider lineages, includes diverse species like tarantulas and trapdoor spiders. Comprising around 3,000 species across 31 families, the Theraphosidae family is notably diverse. Within this family, the Theraphosinae subfamily, with over 500 species, is distributed throughout tropical regions in Central and South America, the Caribbean,…
Feather mites (Analgoidea and Pterolichoidea) is the most species rich and abundant group of arthropods associated with birds. This diversity is due to a combination of two factors: the mites' (I) specialization to live in specific microhabitats on the bird's body (II) high specificity to their hosts. Transmission of these mites to new hosts typically occurs when two bird individuals have…
The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae, some of which are known as tarantulas, comprise a morphological homogeneous group, and the search for morphogical characters may be a hard task. Even though we have witnessed the growth of molecular tools for systematics, there is still a large unexplored universe of morphological features of cuticular structures for these spiders. In this context, a g…
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