Ana Lúcia Tourinho- Ph.D. in Ecology
- Professor at Federal University of Mato Grosso
Ana Lúcia Tourinho
- Ph.D. in Ecology
- Professor at Federal University of Mato Grosso
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Introduction
Born in Rio de Janeiro, I moved to Manaus in Brazil to experience a profound immersion in the forest and its organism dynamics. My research focus is ecology and evolution of arthropods and the conservation of the Amazon basin. My main research lines are integrative systematics and taxonomy, sampling design, community ecology and conservation of terrestrial arthropods and the Amazon.
I am currently focusing in understanding the basics of the relationship of key indicator species, potentially substitutive taxa, with Amazonian trees, leaf-litter and its ecosystem structure. The distribution and Natural History of Ricinulei species in the Amazon habitats. And the effects of fragmentation, including river and island dynamics in the distribution of arthropods in the Amazon.
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August 2013 - August 2016
January 2009 - December 2012
INPA Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Position
- Research Associate
Description
- Taxonomy course
January 2009 - June 2013
Position
- Research Associate
Education
November 2004 - December 2007
August 1998 - August 2020
Publications
Publications (93)
Several ecological studies and monitoring programs of biodiversity have shown that using fewer collecting methods in biological surveys is more efficient than several redundant ones. However, in an attempt to increase species detection, researchers are still using as many field methods as possible in the surveys of arthropods and other megadiverse...
Invertebrates can be sampled using any of several well-established, rapid and cost-effective methods for documenting species richness and composition. Despite their many differences, different orders of arachnids have been often sampled together in various studies. Active nocturnal search has been long considered the most efficient method for sampl...
• Mega hydroelectric dams have become one of the main drivers of habitat loss in tropical forests, converting large tracts of pristine forests into isolated forest islands. Understanding how biodiversity cope with landscape modification in these archipelagic landscapes is of paramount importance to assess the environmental consequences of dam infra...
Arachnids are charismatic animals, very abundant and/or diverse in some habitats and are important components of the ecosystems of the planet and of human culture. They are mostly generalist predators, highly dependent on microclimatic conditions of their environments and with a strong relationship and even close interactions with plants. Arachnids...
With a territory of 90,680,600 hectares, the state of Mato Grosso possesses a broad range of natural beauty and rich biodiversity and currently houses 46 state conservation units that encompass 3.2 million hectares. A significant part of this biodiversity, however, remains un�known due to limited knowledge generation and dissemination.
Rio Ronuro E...
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...
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...
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...
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 classification. In this context, the B Brazilian meg...
The reduced temporal validity 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 the up-to-date knowledge of all species and classifications. The Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil (CTFB), made publ...
Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil: se ng the baseline knowledge on the
animal diversity in Brazil
Since the workforce is affected by individuals’ socio-economic status, prohibitive and ballooning costs associated with academic conferences are one factor that helps to perpetuate inequality in STEM fields. Of the many types of economic barriers that early-career academics and other minority groups can find in the academic realms, those related to...
Arthropods are important components of edaphic environments, being responsible for numerous processes related to the decomposition and cycling of matter. Studies on their diversity are important for understanding the ecosystem dynamics. This study aimed to
evaluate the composition of the edaphic community of arthropods, mainly arachnids, in a Cerr...
This study presents a preliminary inventory of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in
the Rio Ronuro Ecological Station in Brazil. Butterflies were sampled in eight plots dis�tributed in three sites located between the Municipality of Nova Ubiratã and Paranatin�ga and Santiago do Norte. We sampled 30 species of butterflies, in four families,...
A academia científica está edificada sobre um profundo viés que privilegia os homens e resulta numa progressão de carreira diferenciada entre gêneros e áreas. Nas chamadas ciências duras (Ciências, Matemática, Engenharia e Tecnologia) a presença feminina domina a base da pirâmide da carreira acadêmica, mas declina a cada nível seguinte devido às di...
Para entender o real impacto do preconceito de gênero nas diferentes áreas da ciência é
fundamental realizar um diagnóstico da representação feminina tanto formativa quanto
produtiva nas subáreas científicas. Na aracnologia o preconceito de gênero é acentuado
e se manifesta em todas as subáreas, mas varia em intensidade se acirrando agudamente
em a...
Resumo: A participação feminina nos meios acadêmicos tem aumentado como fruto da luta de mulheres para afirmar suas posições em todas as áreas da sociedade. Esse incremento, todavia, é maior em áreas estereotipadas como femininas (humanas). O campo das “ciências duras” (STEM) continua predominantemente masculino. Os efeitos pervasivos de uma academ...
Las aracnólogas de la generación Y, o millennials, traen nuevas demandas al mundo académico y si destacan por su confianza, alta formación académica, ambición, objetivos profesionales definidos y conciencia de los problemas a cerca de la baja representatividad de los grupos minoritarios. Sin embargo, aún con todas estas actitudes, todavía no hay mu...
Universities are living repositories of the heritage of humanity. They are constantly renewed because they are used differently by society, mostly professors, students and researchers. The University is multidisciplinary pushing each individual to overcome the limits of their cultural and scientific environment, expanding a holistic view of the wor...
1. Mega hydroelectric dams have become one of the main drivers of habitat loss in tropical forests, converting large tracts of pristine forests into isolated forest islands. Understanding how biodiversity cope with landscape modification in these archipelagic landscapes is of paramount importance to assess the environmental consequences of dam infr...
List of species of spiders collected per method.
A new species, Conifaber manicoba n. sp., is described based on a female from the state of Pará, Brazil. It is characterized as
being the smallest uloborid female and by having the thoracic region posteriorly depressed.
Opiliones are iconic arachnids with a Palaeozoic origin and a diversity that
reflects ancient biogeographic patterns dating back at least to the times of
Pangea. Owing to interest in harvestman diversity, evolution and biogeography,
their relationships have been thoroughly studied using morphology
and PCR-based Sanger approaches to infer their syst...
Invertebrates can be sampled using any of several well-established, rapid and cost-effective methods for documenting species richness and composition. Despite their many differences, different orders of arachnids have been often sampled together in various studies. Active nocturnal search has been long considered the most efficient method for sampl...
Among Opiliones, the family Samoidae Sørensen, 1886 is a group of small Laniatores with a wide tropical distribution. Neotropical samoids are distributed mainly in the Caribbean subregion, with species recorded from insular localities and the Venezuelan coastal range. Previously, for continental South America only three genera and just a few specim...
1. Arthropod diversity and non-flying arthropod food web are strongly influenced by habitat components related to plant architecture and habitat structural complexity.
However, we still poorly understand the relationship between arthropod diversity and the
vegetation structure at different spatial scales. Here, we examined how harvestmen
assemblage...
Nos últimos dois séculos o avanço do conhecimento sobre Arachnida foi substancialmente ampliado. Isso ocorreu devido ao aumento considerável no número de especialistas formados e ativos nos campos da taxonomia, sistemática, biogeografia e ecologia de Arachnida o que também fomentou o crescente interesse e demanda por informação referente ao grupo e...
Among the Amazonian families of harvestmen the members of Stygnidae are better known due to the recent revision of the family and efforts of specialists describing new taxa in the last few years. Species of Amazonian genus Auranus Mello- Leitão, 1941, have been collected in several inventories that were carried out in different locations of the Ama...
Nos últimos dois séculos o avanço do conhecimento sobre Arachnida foi substancialmente ampliado. Isso ocorreu devido ao aumento considerável no número de especialistas formados e ativos nos campos da taxonomia, sistemática, biogeografia e ecologia de Arachnida o que também fomentou o crescente interesse e demanda por informação referente ao grupo e...
Two new species of Tangaroa Lehtinen 1967 (Araneae: Uloboridae) from the Cook Islands are described here: Tangaroa vaka n. Sp. from Rarotonga, and Tangaroa pukapukan n. Sp. from Mitiaro, both based on male and female specimens.
Esta apostila é destinada ao treinamento de estudantes e profissionais técnicos ou pesquisadores, cuja linha de pesquisa está direta ou indiretamente ligada à classe Arachnida ou, ainda, para aqueles que desejam iniciar atividades com o grupo. Nesse sentido, tal apostila aborda aspectos importantes relacionados à classe, iniciando com sua classific...
Three new Brazilian species of Holcobunus Roewer, 1910 are described, thus increasing the total number of species in the genus to five: Holcobunus bicornutus Mello-Leitão, 1940, H. nigripalpis Roewer, 1910, Holcobunus dissimilis sp. nov. (type locality: Espírito Santo, Santa Teresa, Reserva Biologia Augusto Ruschi), Holcobunus ibitirama sp. nov. (t...
We add three new species to the formerly monotypic Amazonian Hutamaia, Hutamaia maceta sp. nov.,
Hutamaia plei sp. nov. and Hutamaia trompsonica sp. nov. and compare them with the type species, Hutamaia caramaschii Soares & Soares, 1977. Hutamaia was known only from two localities: Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil (type locality of the type species), and...
Three new species of the genus Thrasychiroides are described from the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest mountains: Thrasychiroides moporanga sp. nov. (type locality: Reserva Biologica de Alto da Serra de Paranapiacaba, State of São Paulo), T. toryba sp. nov. (type locality: São Francisco de Paula, State of Rio Grande do Sul) and T. ybytyra sp. nov. (t...
Abstract
Background: Ariston O. P.-Cambridge, 1896 and Siratoba Opell, 1979 are two poorly known genera of the spider
family Uloboridae, which together comprise six nominal species previously described. This study provides an
update of the taxonomic status for both genera and the description of two new species for Ariston.
Results: The male of Aris...
A new species of Cryptocellus Westwood, 1874 is described, based on males, females and all free-living immature stages. Cryptocellus muiraquitan sp. nov. from Juruti, Pará, Brazil, is a member of the foedus group of species and probably closely related to Cryptocellus icamiabas Tourinho & Azevedo, 2007, C. abaporu Bonaldo & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2003 and...
Globally, natural resource management agencies are increasingly recognizing the importance of long-term ecological research (LTER) for monitoring biodiversity, ranging from relatively simple, known, local-level issues, such as managing tourist impacts in a conservation park, to more complex, multifaceted, pervasive, and far-reaching impacts, such a...
In this paper we describe two new species of Phareicranaus Roewer, 1913: Phareicranaus rohei sp. nov. from the state of Amazonas, Brazil and Phareicranaus tizana sp. nov., from the state of Zulia, Venezuela. The number of known species of this genus increases to 47. We discuss and suggest the possible relationships of these species with their relat...
The male, larva and nymphal stages of Cryptocellus iaci Tourinho, Lo Man-Hung & Bonaldo, 2010, a species previously known only from a single female, are described based on specimens from around the type locality, in an area of both Terra Firme forest and igapó (flooded forests), at the Jufari River, Roraima State, Brazil. The specimens were illustr...
O que é um opilião?
Essa questão é bem frequente, mesmo entre alunos de classes de pós-graduação das áreas biológicas e relacionadas. Esses aracní-deos muito abundantes e distribuídos no mundo todo são pouco conhecidos. Possuem hábitos crípticos e noturnos, atingem seu pico de diversidade em regiões tropicais da Améri-ca do Sul, principalmente o Br...
As a result of recent expeditions to two mountains in the Amazon basin, Tapirapecó and Pico da Neblina, two new genera of Stygnidae, Imeri g. nov. (type species Imeri lomanhungae sp. nov.) and Jime g. nov. (type species Jime chifrudo sp. nov.), and
ten new species are described: Auranus hehu sp. nov., Auranus tepui sp. nov., Imeri lomanhungae sp. n...
Miagrammopes correai Piza, 1944, M. zenzesi (Mello-Leitão, 1945) and M. lacteovittatus Mello-Leitão, 1947 are synon-ymized with Miagrammopes guttatus Mello-Leitão, 1937. Synonymies are based on morphological data from specimens recently collected compared with the recovered type of M. lacteovittatus, and the types M. correai and M. zenzesi, as well...
Sclerosomatids constitute the largest family of the arachnid order Opiliones, and one of the two families commonly found in the temperate regions of the northern Hemisphere. Harvestmen have a sparse fossil record in the Mesozoic, with only two species known from the Jurassic, one of them poorly preserved and none with precise phylogenetic placement...
A new species of Ricinulei of the genus Cryptocellus Westwood 1874 is described from the Madeira-Purus Interfluve, Amazonas, Brazil. It shares a set of apomorphies with Cryptocellus peckorum Platnick & Shadab 1977 and Cryptocellus tarsilae Pinto-da-Rocha & Bonaldo 2007, with which it forms an assemblage of related species herein named the peckorum...
Cryptocellus iaci sp. nov. is described from an adult female collected during a field campaign organized by the World Wildlife Fund to the median Negro River at the Jauaperí river, in the state of Roraima, northern Brazil.
A zoologia é uma área científica multidisciplinar. De um modo geral, pode ser definida como a ciência que estuda os representantes do reino animal em todos os seus aspectos. O fascínio dos homens pelos animais atravessa a história, remontando um passado onde pinturas destes, muitos hoje extintos, eram feitas no interior de cavernas. Diversos povos...
Article Catalogue of type specimens of invertebrates in the collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil. V. Abstract A catalogue of type specimens of Araneae, Opiliones and Scorpiones deposited in the Invertebrate Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, is presented. Th...
A catalogue of type specimens of Araneae, Opiliones and Scorpiones deposited in the Invertebrate Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, is presented. There are 52 holotypes and 99 lots of paratypes for 68 species of Araneae; 6 holotypes and 18 lots of paratypes for 7 species of Opiliones; and 19 holoty...
An updated catalogue of type specimens of Acari, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones, Ricinulei and Schizomida deposited in the Invertebrate Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, is presented. A total of 19 holotypes and 23 lots of paratypes of 22 species of Acari; three lots of paratypes of one species of P...
A new spider species, Ochyrocera ibitipoca sp. n., is described from caves in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. A close relationship to Ochyrocera viridissima Brignoli, 19742.
Brignoli , P. M. 1974. Ragni del Brasile. I. Ochyrocera viridissima n. sp. (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae).. Rev Suisse Zool, 81: 77–81. View all references is indicated by male...
A new Amazonian genus and species of Schizomida is described from Tobogán de la Selva, Amazonas state in Venezu-ela. Piaroa virichaj n. gen. and n. sp is the seventh species of the order described for Venezuela. Piaroa virichaj gen. and n. sp. is distinguished by having the metapeltidium entire; abdominal segment IX – XII elongated in the male; mal...
COMPLETE REFERENCE: BONALDO, A.B.; CARVALHO, L. S. ; PINTO-DA-ROCHA, R. ; TOURINHO, A. ; MIGLIO, L. T. ; CANDIANI, D. F. ; LO-MAN-HUNG, N. F. ; ABRAHIM, N. ; RODRIGUES, B. V. B. ; BRESCOVIT, A. D. ; SATURNINO, R. F. ; BASTOS, N. C. ; DIAS, S. C. ; SILVA, B. J. F. ; PEREIRA-FILHO, J. M. B. ; RHEIMS, C. A. ; LUCAS, S. M. ; POLOTOW, D. ; RUIZ, G. R. S...
FIGURES 11. Piaroa virichaj gen. n. & sp. n., (female paratype). Habitus: lateral view. Scale bar 1 millimeter
FIGURES 1 – 2. Piaroa virichaj gen. n. & sp. n., (male holotype). 1. Habitus: Dorsal view. 2. Same: lateral view. Scale bars 1 millimeter.
FIGURES 6 – 9. Piaroa virichaj gen. n. & sp. n., (male holotype). Propeltidium, mesopeltidium and metapeltidium: dorsal view. 7. Cheliceral movable and fixed jaw. 8. Pedipalp: lateral view. 9. Leg IV: prolateral view. Scale bars 1 millimeter. 10. Spermathecae: dorsal view.
FIGURE 12. Map showing the type locality of Piaroa virichaj gen. n. & sp. n. in Amazonas State, Venezuela.
FIGURES 3 – 5. Piaroa virichaj gen. n. & sp. n., (male holotype). 3. Flagellum: dorsal view. 4. Same ventral view. 5. Same: lateral view. Scale bars 1 millimeter.
Cryptocellus icamiabas sp. nov. is described from an adult male from Amazonas state, Brazil. The new species is a mem-ber of the Amazonian foedus group, and is closest to Cryptocellus abaporu Bonaldo & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2003, Cryptocel-lus becki Platnick, 1977, and Cryptocellus simonis Hansen & Sorensen, 1904. The distribution pattern and morphology...
Two new species of Brazilian Fissiphalliidae are described. Fissiphallius chicoi n. sp. from Pará State, Gurupá municipality, whitewater floodplains (várzea), and Fissiphallius tucupi n. sp. from Amazonas State, Castanho municipality (paleovárzea). The number of species for this family in the Amazon rainforest increases from one to three. The two n...
Caiza Roewer, 1925, is considered a junior subjective synonym of Pectenobunus Roewer, 1910, and its type species Caiza colliculosa Roewer, 1925 is newly combined as Pectenobunus colliculo- sus. The genus Pectenobunus should now include three species distributed in the “Southern Cone” of South America and Bolivia. Emended diagnoses are given for Pec...
The genus Jussara Mello-Leitão 1935, hitherto monotypic, with the species Jussara obesa Mello-Leitão 1935, is redefined to contain 15 species from Brazil. Eight species are transferred from other genera to Jussara, resulting in the new combinations: Jussara argentata for Holcobunus argentatus Roewer 1953; Jussara atra for Holcobunus ater Roewer 191...
The monotypic genus Bastioides Mello-Leitão, 1931, and its type species, are here considered nomina dubia. The early juvenile holotype of Bastioides coxopunctatus Mello- Leitão, 1931, does not bear diagnostic characters allowing its recognition and attribution to any gagrelline taxon, although its position in the Gagrellinae is confirmed. The holot...
Museu Nacional Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Unlike the other Palpatores, which are much more diverse in temperate realms, the members of the subfamily Gagrellinae of the Sclerosomatidae are numerous in the tropics of the Oriental and Neotropical regions. This subfamily currently includes about 960 species. ROEWER (e.g. 1910, 1923, 1953) u...
The southernmost record for the order Schizomida in South America was hitherto
from the Brazilian Amazonia. As a result of a leaf litter sifting project in the
metropolitan zone of Rio de Janeiro some females of Stenochrus portoricensis
Chamberlin, 1922 have been found. This widespread species is native from Mexico
and the Caribbean and has been...
