Fábio G.L. Oliveira

University of Rostock · Institut für Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie

Springtails are notable for their jumping apparatus and latch-mediated spring mechanism. The challenge, in the light of the tiny size and rapid movement of these organisms, has been to understand the morphological intricacies of this spring system. This study takes an approach that integrates SEM, MicroCT, cLSM and high-speed video recordings to un...

Springtails have the ability to jump using morphological structures consisting of a catapult, the furca, and a latching system constructed with interaction of the retinaculum and the dens lock. The retinaculum engages in the furca at the dens lock in order to form a spring mechanism. They exhibit diversified morphological traits that serve as adapt...

Background Springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) are tiny organisms that lead a hidden life, mostly occuring deep in the soil and on leaf litter. They have a variety of interesting body morphology patterns, the most famous of which is the catapult-like structure that enables them to jump and flee from predators. This highly specialized jumping apparat...

Plumachaetas Salmon is a genus of Entomobryoidea with 11 valid species, all from Oceania. The genus is characterised by the presence of lanceolate scales, the subapical chaeta of the maxillary outer lobe thick and blunt, dental spines absent and a short mucro. In this paper we describe four new species of Plumachaetas from Oceania: P. belae sp. nov...

Nine new species of the collembolan genus Salina MacGillivray from South America are described and illustrated. Two Neotropical species were recorded for the first time from Brazil: S. dedoris Mari-Mutt and S. tristani Denis. Salina was previously known to occur in three Brazilian states, and this is now updated to include 19 states with 12 recorde...

A new species of Campylothorax from Brazilian Amazon is described and illustrated. Campylothorax plagatus sp. nov. resembles another Neotropical species, C. cubanus, by abdomen with two transverse bands and pattern of dorsal chaetotaxy. However, the new species differs by unguis with one unpaired apical tooth, unguiculi III truncate, and abdomen IV...

The status of Heteromurini Absolon & Ksenemann is analyzed and a new diagnosis is proposed to the tribe. New chaetotaxic characteres were added to distinguish Dicranocentrus Schött and Pseudodicranocentrus Mari Mutt. Alloscopus Börner, Heteromurtrella Mari Mutt and Verhoeffiella Absolon, originally proposed as subgenera of Heteromurus Wankel, are r...

Two new species of Salina, S. maculiflora sp. nov. from Brazil and S. colombiana sp. nov. from Colombia are described and illustrated. The complete dorsal chaetotaxy, including the specialized chaetae (S-chaeta), is studied in these new species. Comparisons based on the chaetotaxy of the basomedian field, abdomen II, and mucro shape are made betwee...

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Orchesellinae specimens are distinguished from other Entomobryidae by a shorter fourth abdominal segment (length at the midline less than 1.8 times the third segment), generally more than four antennal segments, recurved labral setae and the presence of a complex metatrochanteral organ, with at least 11 spine-like setae, (Soto-Adames et al. 2008)....

The diversity of Collembola across three forest types was compared on the basis of species richness, abundance and species turnover. The goal of this study was to identify patterns of diversity at local scale in each forest type sample and to compare it at the regional scale. Our results showed that samples taken from the Atlantic Forest had higher...

Experts from around the world have currently dedicated themselves to studying the global water scarcity and stress, that is, the “crisis of the 21st century”. It even seems an extreme exaggeration to say that the world is experiencing a shortage of water, making it of crucial importance to remember that water resources are not distributed evenly am...

The need of a survey of qualitative and quantitative data about physical, chemical, bacteriological and biological index for the classification and monitoring of water resources is relevant. The study was conducted in tributaries of the reservoir of the Hydro-electrical Power Station of Marechal Mascarenhas de Moraes inserted at the Basin of the Mi...

The Legal Forest Reserve is a territorial space protected in the meaning of the article 225, 1st paragraph, III, of the Federal Constitution. This project was elaborated considering that in the city of Passos – MG, agricultural proprietors do not possess registered Legal Forest Reserve. The objective of the study was that agricultural proprietors a...

One of the mains agricultural cultures of Paraty (RJ) city is the sugar cane, that generaly is used to produce cachaça that already became famous through an event – “Festival da Pinga” – that happen every year in the city. Nowadays in Paraty there are seven sugar cane mills registered at Producers and Friends of the Artisan Cachaça of Paraty Associ...