Rafael Nascimento de Carvalho

Rafael Nascimento de Carvalho, Brazilian arachnologist

Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20.940-040, Rio de Janeiro - RJ - BRAZIL

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Kury, A.B. & Carvalho, R.N. 2016. Revalidation of the Brazilian genus Discocyrtanus, with description of two new species (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae: Pachylinae). Zootaxa 4111(2): 126–144. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.2.2 Reference page.

Carvalho, R.N. & Kury, A.B. 2018. Further dismemberment of Discocyrtus with description of a new Amazonian genus and a new subfamily of Gonyleptidae (Opiliones, Laniatores). European Journal of Taxonomy 393: 1–32. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.393 Reference page.
Kury, A.B., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Gruber, J. & Carvalho, R.N. 2018. Clarification of three species of Discocyrtus Holmberg, 1878 with convoluted taxonomic histories (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptidae: Pachylinae). Journal of Arachnology 46: 355–369. Reference page.

Carvalho, R.N. & Kury, A.B. 2020. A new subfamily of Gonyleptidae formed by false Discocyrtus Holmberg, 1878 from Brazil, with revalidation of Pachylobos Piza, 1940 and description of a new genus. Zoologischer Anzeiger 290: 79–112. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.11.004. . Reference page.

Carvalho, R.N. & Kury, A.B. 2021. Intraspecific spination pattern in Discocyrtus prospicuus (Holmberg, 1876) (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae) reviewed: revalidation of the harvestman genus Opisthoplatus, with two new synonymies and biogeographical notes on their morphs. Austral Entomology 60: 364–89. DOI: 10.1111/aen.12537. . Reference page.

Carvalho, R.N. & Kury, A.B. 2023. Between areolated and band-shaped spots: a revision of Lacronia Strand, 1942 (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 859: 1–56. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.859.2043. . Reference page.

Carvalho, R.N. & Kury, A.B. 2024. Filling a geographic gap: a new species of genus Lacronia Strand, 1942 (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) from southern Brazil. Zootaxa 5496(3): 420–426. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5496.3.7. . Reference page.

Carvalho, R.N. & Kury, A.B. 2025. Further draining of Discocyrtus to expand Neopachylinae (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae): absorption of taxa and establishment of new genera and species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203(1): 1-65. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae023. . Reference page.
Carvalho, R.N. & Kury, A.B. 2025a. A stellar configuration in Gonyleptidae: Nyctaster, a new genus of Neopachylinae from the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest (Arachnida: Opiliones). Zootaxa 5729(1): 43–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.1.2. Reference page.