Antonio Domingos Brescovit

Antonio Domingos Brescovit Brazilian entomologist and arachnologist

• Special Laboratory for Zoological Collections, Butantan Institute, São Paulo, Brazil.

Taxon names authored

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• 193 taxon names authored by Antonio Domingos Brescovit

Publications

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1992

• Brescovit, A.D. 1992. Revisão das aranhas do gênero Macrophyes O. Pickard-Cambridge, da região Neotropical (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 36: 101-106. Reference page. 

1993

• Brescovit, A.D. 1993. Thaloe e Bromelina, novos gêneros de aranhas neotropicais da família Anyphaenidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 37: 693-703. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D. 1993a. Lepajan, um gênero novo de aranhas neotropicais e sinonímia de Pelayo Pickard-Cambridge com Josa Keyserling (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 37: 125-130. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D. 1993b. Aranhas do gênero Hibana Brescovit: espécie nova, combinações, sinonímias e novas ocorrências para a região neotropical (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 37: 131-139. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D. 1993c. Sobre o gênero Isigonia Simon: I. reducta (Chickering). comb. n. e registros novos para a região neotropical (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 37: 141-144. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D. 1993d. Novas espécies do gênero Macrophyes O. P.-Cambridge da região Neotropical (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Iheringia (Zool.) 75: 113-116. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D. 1993e. Revisão das aranhas neotropicais do gênero Osoriella Mello-Leitão (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 37: 787-791. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D. & Höfer, H. 1993. Aranhas dos gêneros Lygromma e Eilica, da Amazônia central, Brasil (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). Iheringia (Zool.) 74: 103-107. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D. & Lise, A.A. 1993. Novas espécies e ocorrências de aranhas dos gêneros Apodrassodes e Apopylus [sic] (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Biociências 1: 101-110. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D. & Lise, A.A. 1993a. Novas contribuições taxonômicas ao gênero Hibana Brescovit (Araneae; Anyphaenidae). Biociências 1: 111-120. Reference page. 
• Buckup, E.H. & Brescovit, A.D. 1993. Aranhas do gênero Zimiromus, seis novas espécies do Brasil (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 37: 181-187. reference page 

1994

• Brescovit, A.D. & Höfer, H. 1994. On the spider genus Zimiromus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in central Amazonia. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 262-266. reference page 

1998

• Brescovit, A.D. & Buckup, E.H. 1993. Zimiromus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae): Espécies novas, descrições complementares e novas ocorrências do Brasil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 84: 167-174. reference page 

2000

• Brescovit, A.D., Raizer, J. & Amaral, M.E.C. 2000: Descriptions and notes on the genus Paradossenus in the Neotropical Region (Aranaea, Trechaleidae). The Journal of Arachnology 28: 7–15. full article (PDF). reference page 

2003

• Brescovit, A.D. & Ramos, E.F. 2003. A new species of the spider genus Oltacloea (Araneae: Prodidomidae) from Brazilian "caatinga" in Central, Bahia. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12(7): 333-334. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Brescovit 2003. Ibotyporanga Mello-Leitão: tropical spiders in Brazilian semi-arid habitats (Araneae: Pholcidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 34: 15-20. reference page 
• Ruiz, G.R.S. & Brescovit, A.D. 2003. Description of six new species of Kalcerrytus Galiano from the Brazilian Amazon (Araneae: Salticidae). Revista Ibérica Aracnología 8: 73–79. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2004

• Brescovit, A.D., Álvares, E.S.S. & Lopes Ferreira, R. 2004. Two new species of Symphytognatha Hickman (Araneae, Symphytognathidae) from Brazil. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 10: 75-80. Reference page. 

2005

• Ruiz, G.R.S. & Brescovit, A.D. 2005. Three new genera of jumping spider from Brazil (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 22(3): 687–695. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2006

• Ruiz, G.R.S. & Brescovit, A.D. 2006. Gavarilla, a new genus of jumping spider from Brazil, and description of two new species of the genera Capeta Ruiz & Brescovit and Amatorculus Ruiz & Brescovit (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticinae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 23(2): 350–356. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Ruiz, G.R.S. & Brescovit, A.D. 2006a. Edilemma, a new genus of jumping spider from Tocantins, Brazil (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 23(2): 364–366. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2007

• Ruiz, G.R.S., Brescovit, A.D. & Lise, A.A. 2007. On the taxonomy of some neotropical species of jumping spiders described by Caporiacco (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 24(2): 376–381. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2008

• Brescovit, A.D. & Lopardo, L. 2008. The first record on the spider genus Trogloneta Simon in the southern hemisphere (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with descriptions of three new species from Brazil and remarks on the morphology. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 89: 93-106. Reference page. 

2009

• De Souza, C.A.R., Candido, D.M., Lucas, S.M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2009. On the Tityus stigmurus complex (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Zootaxa 1987: 1–38. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

2012

• Brescovit, A.D., Lopes Ferreira, R., Souza Silva, M. & Rheims, C.A. 2012a: Brasilomma gen. nov., a new prodidomid genus from Brazil (Araneae, Prodidomidae). Zootaxa 3572: 23–32. Preview reference page 
• Ott, R. & Brescovit, A.D. 2012: Arauchemus, a new spider genus of the Echemus group (Araneae: Gnaphosidae: Echeminae) from Araucaria Forest areas in southern Brazil, with notes on habitat preferences and phenology. Zootaxa 3339: 44–56. Preview reference page 
• Yamamoto, F.U., Lucas, S.M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2012. Catanduba, a new Theraphosinae spider genus from central Brazil (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 3172: 1–19. Preview. reference page 

2013

• Lemos, Y. & Brescovit, A.D. 2013: New species of the spider genus Exocora Millidge, 1991 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 3599(3): 261–278. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.3.4 reference page 
• Machado, É.O., Laborda, Á., Simó, M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2013. Contributions to the taxonomy and distribution of the genus Mesabolivar in southern South America (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 3682(3): 401–411. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.3.1. Reference page. 
• Rodrigues, E.N.L., Lemos, Y. & Brescovit, A.D. 2015: A new species and new records of linyphiid spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Amazonas, Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba) 30: 338-342. doi: 10.1590/s1984-46702013000300013. reference page 

2014

• Bonaldo, A.B., Ruiz, G.R.S., Brescovit, A.D., Santos, A.J. & Ott, R. 2014: Simlops, a new genus of goblin spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) from northern South America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (388) doi: 10.1206/829.1 Reference page. 
• dos S. Paula, F., Gabriel, R., Indicatti, R.P., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M. 2014. On the Brazilian Amazonian species of Acanthoscurria (Araneae: Theraphosidae) Zoologia (Curitiba) 31(1): 63-80. reference page 

2015

• Ruiz, G.R.S. & Brescovit, A.D. 2013. Revision of Breda and proposal of a new genus (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 3664(4): 401–433. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3664.4.1 Reference page. 
• Almeida-Silva, L.M., Griswold, C.E. & Brescovit, A.D. 2015: Revision of Emmenomma Simon, (Amaurobiidae, Macrobuninae). Zootaxa 3931(3): 387–400. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.3. Reference page. 
• Oliveira, L.F.M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2015: A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical spider genus Xiruana Brescovit 1997 (Araneae: Anyphaenidae, Anyphaeninae). Zootaxa 3980(2): 201–229. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.2.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Oliveira, L.F.M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2015: Two new species of the Neotropical spider genus Umuara Brescovit (Araneae, Anyphaenidae, Anyphaeninae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 3980(3): 435–441. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Rodrigues, E.N.L. & Brescovit, A.D. 2015: On the spider genus Thymoites in the Neotropical Region (Araneae, Theridiidae): nine new species, complementary descriptions and new records. Zootaxa 3972(2): 181–207. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.2.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A.D. 2015: On the taxonomic placement of the Cuban spider Nops ariguanabo Alayón and the description of a new Mexican Tarsonops (Araneae, Caponiidae). Zootaxa 3914(2): 131–143. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.2.3. Reference page. 
• Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Brecovit, A.D. & Alayon, G. 2015. Four new caponiids species (Araneae, Caponiidae) from the West Indies and redescription of Nops blandus (Bryant). Zootaxa 3972(1): 43–64. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.1.3 Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2016

• Brescovit, A.D., de Magalhães, I.L.F. & Cizauskas, I. 2016. Three new species of Misionella from northern Brazil (Araneae, Haplogynae, Filistatidae). ZooKeys 589: 71–96. doi: ''10.3897/zookeys.589.7951. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D. & Sánchez-Ruiz, A. 2016. Descriptions of two new genera of the spider family Caponiidae (Arachnida, Araneae) and an update of Tisentnops and Taintnops from Brazil and Chile. ZooKeys 622: 47–84. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.622.8682. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D., Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Alayón García, G. 2016. The Filistatidae in the Caribbean region, with a description of the new genus Antilloides, revision of the genus Filistatoides F. O. P.-Cambridge and notes on Kukulcania Lehtinen (Arachnida, Araneae). Zootaxa 4136(3): 401–432. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.1. Reference page. 
• Cabra-García, J. & Brescovit, A.D. 2016. Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider genus Glenognatha Simon, 1887 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 4069(1): 1–183. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4069.1.1. Reference page. 
• Durán-Barrón, C.G., Pérez, T.M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2016. Two new synanthropic species of Anyphaena Sundevall (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) associated to houses in Mexico City. Zootaxa 4103(2): 189–194. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.11. Reference page. 
• Lopes Rodrigues, E.N., Buckup, E.H. & Brescovit, A.D. 2016: New species, new records, and a key to the Brazilian species of Gelanor (Araneae: Mimetidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 33(4): 1-14. doi: 10.1590/S1984-4689zool-20160034. reference page 

2017

• Bouzan, R.S., Pena-Barbosa, J.P.P. & Brescovit, A.D. 2017. Taxonomic review of the genus Atlantodesmus Hoffman, 2000 (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae). Zootaxa 4236(2): 269–290. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.2.3. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D., Cizauskas, I. & Mota, L.P. 2018. Seven new species of the spider genus Ochyrocera from caves in Floresta Nacional de Carajás, PA, Brazil (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae). ZooKeys 726: 87–130. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.726.19778. Reference page. 
• Souza, L.H.B., Brescovit, A.D. & Araujo, D. 2017. A new species of Synotaxus and the first chromosomal study on Synotaxidae, presenting a rare XY sex chromosome system in spiders (Araneae, Araneoidea). Zootaxa 4303(1): 140–150. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.1.9. Reference page. 
• Calvanese, V.C. & Brescovit, A.D. 2017. A new species of Notiphilides from Amazonia, with a redescription of N. grandis (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Oryidae). Zootaxa 4232(1): 1–20. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.1.1. Reference page. 
• Giroti, A.M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2017. Revision of the spider genus Gippsicola Hogg, 1900 (Araneae: Segestriidae). Zootaxa 4227(3): 390–406. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.6. Reference page. 
• Indicatti, R.P., Chavari, J.L., Zucatelli, M. Jr., Lucas, S.M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2017. Six new species of silk-lined burrow spider genus Stenoterommata Holmberg, 1881 (Araneae, Nemesiidae) from southern Brazil. Zootaxa 4254(4): 435–456. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.4.2. Reference page. 
• Ott, R., Ruiz, G.R.S., Brescovit, A.D. & Bonaldo, A.B. 2017. Amazoonops, a new genus of goblin spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) from the Brazilian Amazon. Zootaxa 4236(2): 244–268. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.2.2. Reference page. 
• Salvatierra, L., Brescovit, A.D. & Tourinho, A.L. 2017. The smallest spider of Uloboridae, a new species of Conifaber Opell, 1982 (Arachnida: Araneae) from Brazil Turkish Journal of Zoology 41(2): 306-310. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A.D. 2017. A new genus with seven species of the Subfamily Nopinae (Araneae, Caponiidae) from the Neotropical region. Zootaxa 4291(1): 117–143. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.1.7 Reference page. 
• Santos-da-Silva, A. de P., Carvalho, L.S. & Brescovit, A.D. 2017. Two new species of Bothriurus Peters, 1861 (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae) from Northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 4258(3): 238–256. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.3.2. Reference page. 

2018

• Brescovit, A.D. & Cizauskas, I. 2018. A new species of Ochyrocera (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from caves in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, with notes on O. ibitipoca. Arachnology 17(9): 441-448. doi: 10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.441. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D., Cizauskas, I. & Mota, L.P. 2018. Seven new species of the spider genus Ochyrocera from caves in Floresta Nacional de Carajás, PA, Brazil (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae). ZooKeys 726: 87–130. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.726.19778. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D., Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Bonaldo, A.B. 2018. On the spider genus Syspira Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Miturgidae) in the Caribbean: four new species from Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 4370(1): 57–66. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.1.4 Reference page. 
• Gargiulo, Fabio de F., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M. 2018. Umbyquyra gen. nov., a new tarantula spider genus from the Neotropical region (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae), with a description of eight new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 457: 1-50. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2018.457. reference page 
• Giroti, A.M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2018. The taxonomy of the American Ariadna Audouin (Araneae: Synspermiata: Segestriidae). Zootaxa 4400(1): 1–114. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4400.1.1 Reference page. 
• Hazzi, N.A., Polotow, D., Brescovit, A.D., González-Obando, R. & Simó, M. 2018. Systematics and biogeography of Spinoctenus, a new genus of wandering spider from Colombia (Ctenidae). Invertebrate Systematics 32(1): 111-158. doi: 10.1071/IS17022 Full article  reference page 
• Passanha, V. & Brescovit, A.D. 2018. On the Neotropical spider subfamily Masteriinae (Araneae, Dipluridae). Zootaxa 4463(1): 1–73. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4463.1.1 Reference page. 
• Prete, P.H., Cizauskas, I. & Brescovit, A.D. 2018. Three new species of the spider genus Plato and the new genus Cuacuba from caves of the states of Pará and Minas Gerais, Brazil (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae). ZooKeys 753: 107–162. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.753.20805. Reference page. 
• Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A.D. 2018. A revision of the spider genus Nops MacLeay (Araneae: Caponiidae) with the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the Nopinae genera.Zootaxa 4427 (1): 001–121. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4427.1.1 Reference page. 
• Villanueva-Bonilla, G.A., Brescovit, A.D., dos Santos, E. & Vasconcellos-Neto, J. 2018. First record of Epipompilus excelsus (Bradley, 1944) (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) as a koinobiont ectoparasitoid of Ariadna mollis (Holmberg, 1876) (Araneae, Segestriidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 66: 15–21. doi: 10.3897/jhr.66.28915 Reference page. 

2019

• Brescovit, A.D. & Cizauskas, I. 2019. Seven new species of the spider genus Matta Crosby from caves in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae). Zootaxa 4559(3): 401–444. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.3.1. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D. & Oliveira, L.F.M. 2019: Three new species of Thaloe Brescovit (Araneae: Anyphaenidae: Anyphaeninae), with descriptions of the first known females of the genus. Zootaxa 4624(2): 256–266. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.2.8. Reference page. 
• Brescovit, A.D., Villanueva-Bonilla, G.A., Sobczak, J.C.M.S.M., de Sousa Nóbrega, F.A., Oliveira, L.F.M., Arruda, I.D.P. & Sobczak, J.F. 2019. Macrophyes pacoti n. sp. (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) from Brazilian Atlantic Forest, with notes on an araneopathogenic fungus. Zootaxa 4629(2): 294–300. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4629.2.12. Reference page. 
• Ott, R., Ubick, D., Bonaldo, A.B., Brescovit, A.D. & Harvey, M.S. 2019 A revision of the new world goblin spider genus Cinetomorpha Simon, 1892 revalidated from Gamasomorpha Karsch, 1881 (Araneae, Oonopidae, Oonopinae). Zootaxa 4641(1): 001–152. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4641.1.1. Reference page. 
• Passanha, V., Cizauskas, I. & Brescovit, A.D. 2019. A new genus of Micromygalinae (Araneae, Microstigmatidae) from Brazil, with transfer of Masteria emboaba Pedroso, Baptista & Bertani, 2015 and description of six new species. ZooKeys 814: 1–32. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.814.29906 Reference page. 
• Polotow, D. & Brescovit, A.D. 2019: Guasuctenus gen. nov., a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 4624(4): 539–550. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.4.6. Reference page. 
• Santanna, M., Rodrigues, E.N.L., Cizauskas, I. & Brescovit, A.D. 2019. On the spider genus Cryptachaea from Peru, Bolivia and cave environments in Brazil: a new species, additional descriptions and new records (Araneae, Theridiidae). Zootaxa 4646(2): 271–292. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4646.2.4. Reference page.