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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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…
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…
Mygalomorphae spiders show a great morphological uniformity, resulting in ill-defined characters when establishing primary homologies. Moreover, traditional methods for species delimiting are based on morphology, and most of the time, single characters are used to support species. In order to understand the meaning of morphological and molecular characters in Mygalomorphae systematics, we…
Spiders are generally non-social creatures, with little visual accuracy, aggressive and potential cannibal predators. These features could have acted as selective pressure for distinct forms of long distance communication, such as chemical and/or vibratory signals. Pheromones are one example of signal used during intersexual communication in spiders, being chemically characterized in four…
Spiders belonging to infraorder Mygalomorphae, which include tarantulas, trapdoor spiders and funnel web spiders, are characterized by a morphological uniformity and marked lifestyles, which are the evolutionary reflex of a habit of life strongly sedentary, limited dispersion and low vagility, which can lead to a strong population genetic structuration. These characteristics make them exc…
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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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