Antônio Domingos Brescovit (born 1959) is a Brazilian
arachnologist
Arachnology is the scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related invertebrates such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, ticks, and mites. Those who study spiders and other arachnids are arachnologists. More narrowly ...
. His first name, Antônio (the spelling used in Brazil), may also be spelled António (the spelling used in Portugal). He develops academic activities at the 'arthropodae laboratorium' at the
Butantan Institute,
[''Ciência hoje: revista de divulgação científica da Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência''. Volumen 40, Nº 235–240. Editor A Sociedade, 2007] and he is a specialist in
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In biogeogra ...
Arachnida
Arachnids are arthropods in the class Arachnida () of the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnida includes, among others, spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip spiders and vinegaroons.
Adult arachnids ...
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Selected publications
* . 2004. ''A new species of
Drymusa Simon, 1891 (Araneae, Drymusidae) from Brazil''. Editor Magnolia Press, 5 pp.
* . 1997. ''Revisión del género
Macerio y comentarios sobre la ubicación de Cheiracanthium, Tecution y Helebonia (Araeae, Miturgidae, Eutichurinae)''. Iheringia, ser. Zool. Porto Alegre (82): 43–66
* . 1995. ''On Unicorn, a new
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of the spider family Oonopidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea)''. Nº 3152 de American Museum Novitates. Editor American Museum of Natural History, 12 pp.
Books
* . 2005a. ''On a new species of
Ericaella Bonaldo (Araneae, Miturgidae, Eutichurinae), with a cladistic analysis of the genus''. Editor Magnolia Press, 25 pp.
* . 2005b. ''Larval development of
Symphurus atramentatus (Cynoglossidae: Pleuronectiformes) from the Gulf of California''. Editor Magnolia Press, 64 pp.
* . 1996. ''Revisão de Anyphaeninae bertkau a nível de gêneros na região neotropical: (araneae, anyphaenidae)''. Editor Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia, 187 pp.
References
External links
World Spider Catalog
Brazilian arachnologists
1959 births
Living people
20th-century Brazilian zoologists
21st-century Brazilian zoologists
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