Rosângela Brito

Rosângela Brito, Brazilian entomologist.

Department of Zoology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Brito, R., Gonçalves, G.L., Vargas, H.A. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2012. A new species of Phyllocnistis Zeller (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from southern Brazil, with life-history description and genetic comparison to congeneric species. Zootaxa 3582: 1–16. Preview Reference page.

Brito, R., Gonçalves, G.L., Vargas, H.A. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2013: A new Brazilian Passiflora leafminer: Spinivalva gaucha, gen. n., sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Gracillariinae), the first gracillariid without a sap-feeding instar. ZooKeys, 291: 1–26. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.291.4910 Reference page.

de Prins, J., Brito, R. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2016. An annotated taxonomic checklist of the Neotropical Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) with links to the information on host plants and parasitoids. Zootaxa 4158(1): 1–51. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.1.1. Reference page.

Brito, R. & Vargas, H.A. 2018. A new leaf-tying Episimus Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) feeding on the vulnerable tree Haplorhus peruviana (Anacardiaceae) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 52(2): 113-119. Reference page.
Moreira, G.R.P., Pollo, P., Brito, R., Gonçalves, G.L. & Vargas, H.A. 2018. Cactivalva nebularia, gen. et sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): a new Weinmannia leaf miner from southern Brazil. Austral Entomology 57(1): 62–76. DOI: 10.1111/aen.12267 . Reference page.

Brito, R., Mielke, O.H.H., Gonçalves, G.L. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2019. Description of three new species of Phyllocnistis Zeller, 1848 (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), from the Atlantic Forest, south Brazil, with notes on natural history and phylogeny. Austral Entomology 58(1): 27–51. Reference page.
Brito, R., Specht, A., Gonçalves, G.L., Moreira, G.R.P., Carneiro, E., Santos, F.L., Roque-Specht, V.F., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M. 2019. Spodoptera marima: a New Synonym of Spodoptera ornithogalli (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), with Notes on Adult Morphology, Host Plant Use and Genetic Variation Along Its Geographic Range. Neotropical Entomology 48: 433-448. DOI: 10.1007/s13744-018-0654-z. . Reference page. .
Pereira, C.M., Arévalo-Maldonado, H.A., Triberti, P., Brito, R., Isaias, R.M.S., Gonçalves, G.L. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2019. Vallissiana universitaria (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): a new genus and species of leaf-mining moth associated with Erythroxylum (Erythroxylaceae) in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil Zootaxa 4604(1): 141–160. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.5. Reference page.
De Prins, J., Arévalo-Maldonado, H.A., Davis, D.R., Landry, B., Vargas, H.A., Davis, M.M., Brito, R., Fochezato, J., Ohshima, I. & Moreira, G.P. 2019. An illustrated catalogue of the Neotropical Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) with new data on primary types. Zootaxa 4575(1): 1–110. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4575.1.1 Reference page.

Cerdeña, J.A., Farfán, J., Davis, D.R., Vargas, H.A., Huanca-Mamani, W., Brito, R., Gonçalves, G.L., Lazo-Rivera, A. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2020. Phyllocnistis furcata sp. nov.: a new species of leaf-miner associated with Baccharis (Asteraceae) from Southern Peru (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae). ZooKeys 996: 121–145. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.996.53958. . Reference page.

Fochezato, J., Brito, R., Gonçalves, G.L., Specht, A., Becker, V.O. & Moreira, G.R.P. 2022. Description of Porphyrosela arachisella sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), the first report of Lithocolletinae for Brazil. Zootaxa 5165(3): 387–404. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.3.4. . Reference page.