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Group photo of CTFB coordinators involved in the meeting from 12th to 14th on May 2015 in Brasília, Brazil, at the Ministério de Meio Ambiente (MMA). Numbers on the photograph refer to the zoologists and collaborators present in the meeting. 1. Adriano Brilhante Kury; 2. Martin Lindsey Christoffersen; 3. Renato Silveira Bérnils; 4. Wolmar Benjamim Wosiacki; 5. Michel P. Valim; 6. Luis Fábio Silveira; 7. Élison Fabricio Bezerra Lima; 8. Ângelo Parisi Pinto; 9. Jocélia Grazia; 10. André Esteves; 11. Keila Elizabeth Mafadem Juarez; 12. Guilherme Muricy; 13. Leandro Manzoni Vieira; 14. Fernando Carbayo; 15. Otto Müller P. Oliveira; 16. Naércio Aquino Menezes; 17. Magno Vicente Segalla; 18. Hussam El Dine Zaher; 19. Alexandre Reis Percequillo; 20. Marcelo Roberto de Souto Melo; 21. Walter A. Boeger; 22. Cristiana S. Serejo; 23. Marcela Laura Monné Freire; 24. Frederico Falcão Salles; 25. Simone C. Cohen; 26. Mirna Martins Casagrande; 27. Antonio Arnovis Agudelo Rondôn; 28. Reginaldo Constantino; 29. Daniela Maeda Takiya; 30. Fernando Zagury Vaz-de-Mello; 31. José Albertino Rafael; 32. Márcio Luiz de Oliveira; 33. Cleide Costa; 34. Douglas Zepellini Filho; 35. Marcos Gonçalves Lhano; 36. Renato Gregorin; 37. Allan Paulo Moreira dos Santos.
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The limited temporal completeness and taxonomic accuracy of species lists, made available in a traditional manner in scientific publications, has always represented a problem. These lists are invariably limited to a few taxonomic groups and do not represent up-to-date knowledge of all species and classifications. In this context, the Brazilian mega...
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... meetings. One, that occurred in Rio de Janeiro, at the JBRJ in September 11, 2013 with representatives of the Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA), Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia e Inovação Tecnológica (MCTI), Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) and JBRJ. The second one, in Brasília from May 12 to 14, 2015 (Fig. 2), was organized with 36 taxa coordinators to discuss the final preparations for the launch of the online system. These preparations included the definition of the team of specialists and coordinators for each major taxon, deadlines, and goals. Initially, the goal of the project was to compile a list of valid species names of animals to ...
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... meetings. One, that occurred in Rio de Janeiro, at the JBRJ in September 11, 2013 with representatives of the Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA), Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia e Inovação Tecnológica (MCTI), Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) and JBRJ. The second one, in Brasília from May 12 to 14, 2015 (Fig. 2), was organized with 36 taxa coordinators to discuss the final preparations for the launch of the online system. These preparations included the definition of the team of specialists and coordinators for each major taxon, deadlines, and goals. Initially, the goal of the project was to compile a list of valid species names of animals to ...
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... meetings. One, that occurred in Rio de Janeiro, at the JBRJ in September 11, 2013 with representatives of the Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA), Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia e Inovação Tecnológica (MCTI), Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) and JBRJ. The second one, in Brasília from May 12 to 14, 2015 (Fig. 2), was organized with 36 taxa coordinators to discuss the final preparations for the launch of the online system. These preparations included the definition of the team of specialists and coordinators for each major taxon, deadlines, and goals. Initially, the goal of the project was to compile a list of valid species names of animals to ...
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... It is the product of the effort of around 800 qualified zoologists of all taxa that inhabit the Brazilian territory. Currently, CTFB encompasses around 125,000 valid extant animal nominal species, and includes information-e.g., year of publication, author's name, synonymic list, hosts and parasites, distribution across Brazilian states, ecological biomes, and hydrographic basins-for an important part of these species (Boeger et al. 2024). The type locality, information on name-bearing types, and their museum repository have already started to be added to the Megaloptera section of the CTFB. ...
The present study provides a comprehensive overview of the Megaloptera fauna in Brazil. A total of 27 species-25 extant and two extinct-distributed into two families, Corydalidae and Sialidae, and six genera, are recorded from Brazil. The historical timeline of Megalopteran records in Brazil spans 180 years, from 1842 to 2022, and unfolds into three distinct periods: the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century dominated by European authors, the second half of the 20th century dominated by Mexican and US-born authors, and the 21st century dominated by Brazilian authors. Currently, about 75% of the type specimens of Brazilian Megaloptera are housed in foreign institutions. Among Brazilian states, Minas Gerais boasts the highest number of megalopteran records, with eight, while eight states have no records. The biome of Atlantic Forest exhibits the greatest richness of Megaloptera, with 15 species, whereas Pampas and Pantanal lack records of the order. The Amazon Basin leads with ten recorded species, although three Brazilian hydrographic basins remain with no records. Impressively, only ten Brazilian Megaloptera species have known immature stages.
KEY WORDS: Alderfly; Brazilian Zoology Group; Corydalidae; dobsonfly; fishfly; Sialidae; taxonomy
... A second ambitious project is the Taxonomic Catalog of the Brazilian Fauna (Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil -CTFB), which also had the Diptera led by José Albertino Rafael and involves many Brazilian taxonomists. The CTFB project started in 2015 and has the participation of over 500 experts in the taxonomy of different animal groups (Santos et al. 2020, see also Boeger et al. 2024). The platform is available online (http://fauna.jbrj.gov.br/) and provides information on the taxonomic status of the name, taxonomic hierarchy, whether the taxa are native to Brazil, its geographic distribution in Brazilian territory, and references documenting the taxon in Brazil (Santos et al. 2020). ...
We provide an overview of the taxonomic history and systematics of Bibionomorpha families with occurrences in Brazil, focusing on Anisopodidae, Bibionidae, Cecidomyiidae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Lygistorrhinidae, Mycetophilidae, Rangomaramidae, and Sciaridae. The study evaluated the Linnean and Wallacean shortfalls in the Brazilian fauna using the Taxonomic Catalog of the Fauna of Brazil (CTFB) database, until December, 2023. The analysis included species diversity and distribution patterns across states and biomes. Our results showed varied levels of taxonomic knowledge and distribution across families, highlighting the need for precise policies in terms of science funding and priorities. The study underscores the importance of ongoing projects, such as CTFB, to consolidate and disseminate taxonomic information for the next generations of researchers and biogeographers interested in the Brazilian and Neotropical fauna.
KEY WORDS: Biodiversity; Brazilian biomes; distribution; Linnean shortfall; taxonomy; Wallacean shortfall
... With approximately 63,000 described extant species (Ślipiński et al. 2011), Chrysomeloidea include Cerambycidae, Disteniidae, Vesperidae, Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae and Chrysomelidae (Bouchard et al. 2011, Reid 2014a, Haddad et al. 2018. All Chrysomeloidea families occur in Brazil (Monné 2012) and constitutes the most species rich superfamily representing 30% of the Brazilian Coleoptera fauna (Caron et al. 2024) and 8.5% of the Brazilian animal fauna (Boeger et al. 2024). Within the superfamily, Chrysomelidae (= leaf beetles) stand out as the most species rich, reaching 45,000 described species and estimated to include 55,000-60,000 species globally (Jolivet 2015), with the highest diversity in the tropics. ...
The leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) are one of the most species-rich family of herbivorous beetles with about 45,000 species worldwide. Based on the contributions of chrysomelidologists to the Taxonomic Catalog of the Brazilian Fauna - CTFB, the family comprises 6,079 species in 562 genera of which 951 species are endemic to Brazil, standing out as the most diverse, representing 4.8% of the Brazilian fauna and 17.1% of the beetle species. Chrysomelidae has twelve subfamilies with nine reported to Brazil: Galerucinae, the richest with 1,916 species in 202 genera, followed by Cassidinae, Eumolpinae, Cryptocephalinae, Chrysomelinae, Bruchinae, Criocerinae, Lamprosomatinae and Sagrinae - this with only one species. Most of these subfamilies need urgent revision, since many species are poorly characterized, and polymorphism is frequent in some groups. The Czech couple Jan and Bohumila Bechyně were the researchers who described most species from Brazil. Furthermore, despite the increase of research on biology, natural history, host plants, genetics, ecology from 1980’s much still need to be investigated to better known the Brazilian Chrysomelidae and probably many new species are yet to be discovered.
KEY WORDS: Brazilian fauna; CTFB; biodiversity; leaf beetles; phytophagous
... Although advances have expanded our understanding of biodiversity in Brazil (e.g., Boeger et al., 2024), the distribution of fish species at high-altitudes mountains exemplifies the Wallacean shortfall (Hortal et al., 2015) and represents an uncharted frontier. These knowledge gaps are not exclusive to Brazil; studies indicate that fish remain among the least studied taxonomic groups along altitudinal gradients (Fischer et al., 2011). ...
Brazil harbors one of the greatest diversities of freshwater fish in the world; however, the presence or absence of fish in high-altitude aquatic ecosystems remains largely unknown. This study aims to investigate fish occurrence on the Itatiaia Plateau (Itatiaia National Park) at altitudes ranging from 2,140 to 2,543 meters, marking one of the highest-altitude fish surveys conducted in Brazil. Additionally, it analyzes gaps in fish distribution above 2,000 meters in Brazil by compiling approximately 1 million occurrence records from digital biodiversity repositories (SpeciesLink, Salve, SIBBr). Results from the Itatiaia expedition and biodiversity repositories converge to indicate a lack of fish records in high-altitude aquatic ecosystems (> 2,000 m) in Brazil. Psalidodon scabripinnis (Jenyns 1842) is the species with the highest recorded altitude (~1,944 m). Challenging climatic conditions, physical barriers to dispersal, isolation, historical absence, sampling gaps, and repository biases may be associated with this lack of fish occurrences. This study highlights gaps in knowledge of fish distribution and the potential for future research to discover previously unknown species or species adapted to high altitudes in Brazil.
Histerid beetles represent a group that has historically received little attention from entomologists, especially in Brazil, which makes it difficult not only to understand biodiversity and its conservation, but also to develop research using these beetles in applied areas. Here we present an overview of the biodiversity of Histeridae in Brazil, focusing on the following information i) historical data and the current richness known for Brazil, including a list of species; ii) the main authors who described the Histeridae biodiversity recorded in the Brazilian territory, and in relevant entomological collections; iii) the literature to identify Histerids; iv) the known biological associations and collection methods; v) and the conservation of Brazilian species; in addition, to proposing goals for future studies. Most of the data presented comes from the Taxonomic Catalog of the Brazilian Fauna (TCBF), part Histeridae, a Brazilian initiative to generate knowledge about the faunal biodiversity present in the country. Our data indicate that to date six subfamilies, 16 tribes, 132 genera, 607 species and one subspecies are known in Brazil. We believe that the development of taxonomic tools that contribute to the knowledge of biodiversity, as well as the increase in taxonomic revisions, constitute the guiding principle to boost research in Histeridae.
KEY WORDS: Biodiversity; clown beetle; conservation; South America; Neotropical
The names of two genera and eleven species belonging to Hymenoptera are unavailable. They were published by Francisco Dias da Rocha in 1908 for species from the state of Ceará (Brazil) and attributed to William H. Ashmead. The genus names proposed here as nomina nuda are: Mesopteromalus (Pteromalidae) and Rochai (Ichneumonidae). The species names proposed as nomina nuda are Trichoporus abdominalis, Tetrastichus balteativentris (Eulophidae), Eupelmus myrtaceae (Eupelmidae), Eurytoma cearae (Eurytomidae), Mesopteromalus abdominalis (Pteromalidae), Syntomaspis loranthaceae (Torymidae), Urogaster brasiliensis (Braconidae), Rochai achiaemorpha (Ichneumonidae), Leptacis myrtaceae, Polygnotus brasiliensis, and Synopeas rochai (Platygastridae). The probable relationship between Mesopteromalus abdominalis with Jaliscoa nudipennis Bouček, and between Eurytoma cearae and Rileya cearae Crawford are discussed.
KEY WORDS: Ceará; fauna; nomenclatural act; parasitoid wasps; taxonomic catalog
The 4,461 shrimp species worldwide correspond to approximately 25% of the diversity of crustacean decapods. We surveyed the shrimp species known for Brazil based on the Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil (Taxonomic Catalog of the Brazilian Fauna). A total of 373 shrimp species are so far recorded from Brazil, of which 79% are Caridea, 19% Dendrobranchiata, and 2% Stenopodidea. Caridea is represented by 24 families and 294 species, Dendrobranchiata by seven families and 72 species, and Stenopodidea by three families and seven species. The Brazilian representatives of the three taxa respectively represent 8%, 14%, and 7% of the global species diversity and 21%, 49%, and 29% of the global generic biodiversity. Forty-three species of Caridea, three of Stenopodidea, and one of Dendrobranchiata are endemic to Brazil. Twelve non-native, alien species belonging to seven genera are reported for Caridea and Dendrobranchiata. The vast majority of all species are marine and brackish-water (328 species), 112 of which are from deep water (> 500 m), and 45 from fresh water. Brazil is the confirmed type locality of 81 species, but this number may be higher. The authors of these species were only from Europe and the USA until 1950, but mostly Brazilian since. This compilation aims to provide information about Brazilian shrimps to assist future research in all areas and to help governmental or non-governmental (NGO) agencies in making decisions and recommendations about conservation issues.
