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, and harvestmen. Those who study spiders and other arachnids are arachnologists. More narrowly, the study of s ...

. His first name, Antônio (the spelling used in Brazil) may also be spelt António (the spelling used in Portugal). He develops academic activities at the 'arthropodae laboratorium' at the

Butantan Institute Instituto Butantan (in modern Portuguese, Instituto Butantã, ) is a Brazilian biologic research center located in Butantã, in the western part of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Instituto Butantan is a public institution affiliated with the S ...

,''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 bi ...

Arachnida Arachnida () is a Class (biology), class of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnida includes, among others, spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, opiliones, harvestmen, Solifugae, came ...

Selected publications

* . 2004. ''A new species of

Drymusa ''Drymusa'' is a genus of false violin spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1892. They physically resemble violin spiders (''Loxosceles''), but their bites are not believed to be medically significant. Originally placed with th ...

Simon, 1891 (Araneae, Drymusidae) from Brazil''. Editor Magnolia Press, 5 pp. * . 1997. ''Revisión del género

Macerio ''Macerio'' is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cheiracanthiidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. Species it contains eight species: *''Macerio chabon'' Ramírez, 1997 — Chile *''Macerio conguillio'' Ramírez, 1997 — C ...

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 ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

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 ''Ericaella'' is a genus of spiders in the family Cheiracanthiidae. It was first described in 1994 by Bonaldo. This genus is named after the Brazilian arachnologist Erica Helena Buckup Erica or ERICA may refer to: * Erica (given name) * ''Eri ...

Bonaldo (Araneae, Miturgidae, Eutichurinae), with a cladistic analysis of the genus''. Editor Magnolia Press, 25 pp. * . 2005b. ''Larval development of

Symphurus ''Symphurus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cynoglossidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. Most species mainly occur in relatively shallow water, including estuaries. Some species are also found in deeper water, includ ...

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
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