• Population dynamics of the main phytophagous and predatory mites associated with rubber tree plantations in the State of Bahia, Brazil 

  Castro, Elizeu B. ; Nuvoloni, Felipe M.; Feres, Reinaldo J.F. (Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2018) [Artigo]

  Rubber trees, Hevea brasiliensis, are the main source of latex in the world, being cultivated in several states in Brazil. Calacarus heveae Feres and Tenuipalpus heveae Baker are considered the main pest mites of this crop. ...

• Looking for a place: How are tadpoles distributed within tropical ponds and streams? 

  Melo, Lilian S. O. ; Garey, Michel V.; Rossa-Feres, Denise C. (Herpetology Notes, 2018) [Artigo]

  Microhabitat use by tadpoles has been little documented, especially for neotropical anuran species. Here we describe microhabitat use by tadpoles in two different aquatic systems, lentic and lotic, in the Atlantic Rainforest. ...

• Redescription of trichomycterus striatus (Meek & Hildebrand, 1913) (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae), with notes on its geographic distribution 

  Angulo, Arturo ; Donascimiento, Carlos; Lasso-Alcala, Oscar M.; Farah-Pérez, Aldo; Langeani, Francisco ; McMahan, Caleb D. (Zootaxa, 2018) [Resenha]

  Trichomycterus striatus is herein redescribed, based on examination of the types and recently collected specimens, and its geographic distribution is updated. This species can be diagnosed from all other northeastern South ...

• On the dumping ground genus scotaena klug, 1810 (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Thynninae): Phylogeny, taxonomy and geographic distribution 

  Carnimeo, Fernando Henrique ; Noll, Fernando Barbosa (Zootaxa, 2018) [Artigo]

  The Neotropical thynnine genus Scotaena is revised and a cladistic analysis is presented. The analysis, conducted from 75 morphological characters of 31 terminal taxa, returned a single tree under equal weighting. The ...

• Threshold responses of Amazonian stream fishes to timing and extent of deforestation 

  Brejão, Gabriel L. ; Hoeinghaus, David J.; Pérez-Mayorga, María Angélica ; Ferraz, Silvio F. B.; Casatti, Lilian (Conservation Biology, 2018) [Artigo]

  Deforestation is a primary driver of biodiversity change through habitat loss and fragmentation. Stream biodiversity may not respond to deforestation in a simple linear relationship. Rather, threshold responses to extent ...

• Effects of pasture conversion to sugarcane for biofuel production on stream fish assemblages in tropical agroecosystems 

  Zeni, Jaquelini O. ; Hoeinghaus, David J.; Casatti, Lilian (Freshwater Biology, 2017) [Artigo]

  One of the main causes of biodiversity loss in aquatic ecosystems is instream habitat change associated with land-use change in the drainage basin. Biofuel crop production is an increasingly important driver of land-use ...

• Kryptousia macronema gen. nov., sp. nov. and kryptousia microlepis sp. nov., nostocalean cyanobacteria isolated from phyllospheres 

  Alvarenga, Danillo Oliveira; Andreote, Ana Paula Dini; Branco, Luis Henrique Zanini ; Fiore, Marli Fatima (International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2017) [Artigo]

  Tropical ecosystems worldwide host very diverse microbial communities, but are increasingly threatened by deforestation and climate change. Thus, characterization of biodiversity in these environments, and especially of ...

• Gross brain morphology of the armoured catfish Rineloricaria heteroptera, Isbrücker and Nijssen (1976), (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Loricariinae): A descriptive and quantitative approach 

  Angulo, Arturo ; Langeani, Francisco (Journal of Morphology, 2017) [Artigo]

  The gross morphology of the brain of Rineloricaria heteroptera and its relation to the sensory/behavioural ecology of the species is described and discussed. The sexual and ontogenetic intraspecific variation in the whole ...

• A new species of Terminalichus (Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae) from Thailand, with a key to the known species 

  Castro, Elizeu B. ; Ochoa, Ronald; Feres, Reinaldo J.F. (Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2017) [Resenha]

  A new species, Terminalichus simplex sp. nov., is described based on adult females, deutonymphs and protonymphs, collected on Terminalia catappa L. (Combretaceae) from Thailand. The relationship of Terminalichus with other ...

• Redescription of Tenuipalpus heveae Baker (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) and description of a new species from rubber trees in Brazil 

  Castro, Elizeu B. ; Ramos, Felipe A. M. ; Feres, Reinaldo J. F. ; Ochoa, Ronald; Bauchan, Gary R. (Acarologia, 2017) [Artigo]

  Tenuipalpus heveae Baker, 1945 was originally described from only female specimens collected on rubber trees from Belterra, State of Pará, Brazil. The original description does not provide enough key information essential ...

• Evaluating multiple spatial scales to understand the distribution of anuran beta diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest 

  Melchior, Lara G. ; Rossa-Feres, Denise de C. ; da Silva, Fernando R. (Ecology and Evolution, 2017) [Artigo]

  We partitioned the total beta diversity in the species composition of anuran tadpoles to evaluate if species replacement and nestedness components are congruent at different spatial resolutions in the Brazilian Atlantic ...

• Tetranychidae (acari) in forest fragments in the state of São Paulo, Brazil 

  Demite, Peterson R. ; Flechtmann, Carlos H. W.; Feres, Reinaldo J. F. (Acarologia, 2016) [Artigo]

  Tetranychidae is an important family of phytophagous mites, with some species considered agricultural pests. Nevertheless, there are few studies about the diversity of this mite family in natural environments. Thus, the ...

• Reconciling more than 150 years of taxonomic confusion: The true identity of Moenkhausia lepidura, with a key to the species of the M. lepidura group (Characiformes: Characidae) 

  Marinho, Manoela M. F.; Langeani, Francisco (Zootaxa, 2016) [Artigo]

  Moenkhausia lepidura (Kner) is redescribed based on the examination of the type and other specimens from several localities of the Amazon and Orinoco basins. The species is readly diagnosed from congeners by a combination ...

• Aliterella atlantica gen. nov., sp. nov., and Aliterella antarctica sp. nov., novel members of coccoid Cyanobacteria 

  Rigonato, Janaina; Gama, Watson Arantes; Alvarenga, Danillo Oliveira; Branco, Luis Henrique Zanini ; Brandini, Frederico Pereira; Genuário, Diego Bonaldo; Fiore, Marli Fatima (International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2016) [Artigo]

  Two Cyanobacteria isolated from South Atlantic Ocean continental shelf deep water and from a marine green algae inhabiting the Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica were investigated based on morphological and ...

• A new species of Tenuipalpus Donnadieu (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Brazil, with ontogeny of chaetotaxy 

  De Castro, Elizeu B. ; Ramos, Felipe A. M. ; Feres, Reinaldo J. F. ; Ochoa, Ronald (Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2015) [Artigo]

  Tenuipalpus toropi sp. nov., is described from females, males, deutonymphs, protonymphs and larvae collected on Sapium glandulatum (Vell.) Pax (Euphorbiaceae) from the northwest of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. We include ...

• Fish complementarity is associated to forests in Amazonian streams 

  Bordignon, Carolina Rodrigues ; Casatti, Lilian ; Pérez-Mayorga, María Angélica ; Teresa, Fabrício Barreto; Brejão, Gabriel Lourenço (Neotropical Ichthyology, 2015) [Artigo]

  The functional structure of communities is commonly measured by the variability in functional traits, which may demonstrate complementarity or redundancy patterns. In this study, we tested the influence of environmental ...

• A new Hasemania Ellis from the upper rio Paraná basin, with the redescription of Hasemania crenuchoides Zarske & Géry (Characiformes: Characidae) 

  Serra, Jane Piton; Langeani, Francisco (Neotropical Ichthyology, 2015) [Artigo]

  A new Hasemania species is described from the headwaters of the rio Uberaba, rio Grande basin, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The new species is distinguished from its congeners by a combination of a black, vertically-elongate ...

• Chauliocheilos saxatilis, a new genus and species of Hypoptopomatinae from rio Jequitinhonha basin, with a unique labial appendix (Teleostei: Loricariidae) 

  Martins, Fernanda O. ; Andrade, Breno N. ; Rosa, Alaina C. ; Langeani, Francisco (Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 2014) [Artigo]

  Chauliocheilos saxatilis, new genus and species, is described from headwater streams of the rio Itamarandiba, upper rio Jequitinhonha basin, southeastern Brazil. The new genus is diagnosed from all other Loricariidae members ...

• A comparison of tadpoles of two populations of Leptodactylus plaumanni (Anura: Leptodactylidae), with a discussion of Leptodactylus tadpole morphology 

  Mello, Caio Marinho; Gonçalves, Darlene da Silva; Solé, Mirco; Rossa-Feres, Denise de Cerqueira; Conte, Carlos Eduardo (Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 2018) [Artigo]

  Of the currently known 75 species within the four recognized species groups of Leptodactylus, the L. fuscus group contains 30 species, of which tadpoles are known for 24, including L. plaumanni described based on a population ...

• Review of the genus Ceratotarsonemus De Leon, 1956 (Acari: Prostigmata: Tarsonemidae), with description of a new species from the Amazon Forest 

  Rezende, José Marcos ; Lofego, Antonio Carlos ; Gulbronson, Connor; Bauchan, Gary; Ochoa, Ronald (Zootaxa, 2018) [Resenha]

  The genus Ceratotarsonemus De Leon (Acari: Prostigmata: Tarsonemidae) is reviewed here, with the addition of an updated key for the genus. Ceratotarsonemus amazonicus, sp. nov., found in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, ...

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