Willians Lourenço Porto

Willians Lourenço Porto, Brazilian arachnologist (1986-)

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biodiversidade. Avenida André Araújo, 2936, Aleixo, CEP 69011−970, Cx. Postal 478, Manaus, AM, Brazil
División de Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales-CONICET, Avenida Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Sección Aracnología y Miriapodología, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Paseo del Bosque s/n, (1900) La Plata (Argentina).
E-mail: willians.porto@outlook.com

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Porto, W.L. & Colmenares García, P.A. 2014. A new species of Avima, the first record of Agoristenidae (Opiliones: Laniatores) from the state of Roraima, Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba) 31: 634–638. Reference page.

Colmenares García, P.A., Porto, W.L. & Tourinho, A.L. 2016. Taxonomic notes on the genus Auranus (Opiliones, Laniatores, Stygnidae), with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4103(2): 117–129. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.2. Reference page.

Porta, A.O., Proud, D.N., Franchi, E., Porto, W.L., Epele, M.B. & Michalik, P. 2019. The first record of caeculid mites from the Cretaceous amber of Myanmar with notes on the phylogeny of the family. Pp 23–43 In Zhang, Z-Q., Pfingstl, T., Norton, R., Mironov, S.V. & Seeman, O.D. (eds.). Systematic acarology and palaeoacarology: a special volume in memory of Ekaterina Alekseevna Sidorchuk (1981–2019). Zootaxa 1–505. Reference page. Zootaxa 4647(1): 23–43. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4647.1.5 Reference page.

Porto, W.L. & Pérez-González, A. 2020. Redescription of Promecostethus unifalculatus, the only known harvestman from Crozet Islands (Opiliones: Triaenonychidae). Zootaxa 4861(1): 120–130. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.1.8 Reference page.
Porto, W.L. & Pérez-González, A. 2020a. Beauty under the mud: Soil crypsis in new species of the Malagasy genus Ankaratrix (Opiliones: Triaenonychidae: Triaenobuninae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 287: 198–216. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.06.001. . Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Mamani, C.V., Porto, W.L., Iglesias, P.P. & Pérez-González, A. 2021. Two new species of Stenostygnus from South America (Opiliones: Biantidae: Stenostygninae). Pp 182–202 In Jäger, P., Shear, W.A. & Schwendinger, P.J., eds. A Festschrift honouring Prof. Dr. Jochen Martens on occasion of his 80th birthday. Zootaxa 4984(1): 1–384. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.1. Reference page. Zootaxa 4984(1): 182–202. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.15 Reference page.

Porto, W.L., Derkarabetian, S., Giribet, G. & Pérez-González, A. 2024. Systematic revision of the South American “Nuncia” (Opiliones, Laniatores, Triaenonychidae). ZooKeys 1207: 1–149. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1207.120068 Reference page.
Porto, W.L., Kontos, P. & Pérez-González, A. 2024. African highland harvestman: New genus and new species of Filopalpinae Martens, 2022 (Opiliones, Assamiidae) from Wonchi crater, Oromia province, Ethiopia. Zoosystema 46(22): 577-587. DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2024v46a22 . Reference page.

Pereira, M.P., Porto, W.L., de Moya-Guerra, N.A., Martínez-Hernández, N.J. & Pérez-González, A. 2025. Two new species of Icaleptes (Opiliones: Laniatores: Icaleptidae) from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Zootaxa 5563(1): 166–192. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.12. Reference page.
Porto, W.L., Iglesias, P.P. & Pérez-González, A. 2025. Disentangling the South American “Ceratomontia”: new genus, new combinations, and new species (Opiliones: Laniatores: Triaenonychidae). Zootaxa 5729(2): 233–263. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.2.2. Reference page.
Porto, W.L., Monod, L. & Pérez-González, A. 2025. Uncovering the worldwide footprint of an ancient relictual lineage of harvestmen: new genus and species of Buemarinoidae from Australia (Opiliones: Laniatores: Triaenonychoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203(3): zlae067: 1–11. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae067 . Reference page.