Adalberto José dos Santos

Adalberto José dos Santos, Brazilian arachnologist.

Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Santos, A.J. & Brescovit, A.D. 2003. A revision of the Neotropical species of the lynx spider genus Peucetia Thorell 1869 (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 34(1): 95–116. DOI: 10.1163/187631203788964863. . Reference page.

dos Santos, A.J., Brescovit, A.D. & Levi, H.W. 2005. Melychiopharis: an atypical orb-weaving spider from South America (Araneae: Araneidae). Zootaxa 1016: 57–64. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page.

Gonzaga, M.O., Leiner, N.O. & Santos, A.J. 2006. On the sticky cobwebs of two theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Natural History 40: 293-306. Reference page.

Brescovit, A.D., dos Santos, A.J. & Pinto-Leite, C.M. 2011. A second species of the orb-weaving spider genus Melychiopharis from South America (Araneae: Araneidae). Zootaxa 2798: 61–63. Preview. . Reference page.
Magalhães, I.L.F. & Santos, A.J. 2011. Two new species and taxonomic notes on the Neotropical spiny orb-weaving spiders Micrathena and Chaetacis (Araneae: Araneidae), with remaks on the development of Micrathena excavata. Zootaxa 2983: 39–56. Preview. Reference page.

Magalhães, I.L.F. & Santos, A.J. 2012. Phylogenetic analysis of Micrathena and Chaetacis spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) reveals multiple origins of extreme sexual size dimorphism and long abdominal spines. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166: 14-53. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00831.x . Reference page.

Brescovit, A.D. & Santos, A.J. 2013: The spider genus Kukulcania in South America (Araneae: Filistatidae): a redescription of K. brevipes (Keyserling) and new records of K. hibernalis (Hentz). Zootaxa 3734(3): 301–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.3.1. Reference page.

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.
Faleiro, B.T. & Santos, A.J. 2014. Three new species and new records of the orb-weaving spider genus Philoponella (Araneae, Uloboridae) from Brazil and Ecuador. Zootaxa 3754(5): 572–582. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.5.3 Reference page.

Azevedo, G.H.F., Ott, R., Griswold, C.E. & Santos, A.J. 2016a. A taxonomic revision of the ground spiders of the genus Apopyllus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4178(3): 301–327. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.3.1. Reference page.

Magalhães, I.L.F., Martins, P.H., Nogueira, A.A. & Santos, A.J. 2017. Finding hot singles: matching males to females in dimorphic spiders (Araneidae: Micrathena) using phylogenetic placement and DNA barcoding. Invertebrate Systematics 31(1): 8-36. DOI: 10.1071/IS15062. Reference page.
Santos, A.J. 2017. The jumping lynx spider Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845 and its Neotropical relatives (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Zootaxa 4216(5): 457–481. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.5.3. Reference page.

Azevedo, G.H.F., Griswold, C.E. & Santos, A.J. 2018. Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae). Cladistics 34(6): 579-626. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12226. Reference page.
Magalhães, M.D.F. & Santos, A.J. 2018. The spider family Oecobiidae in Madagascar, including four new species and a new record. Zootaxa 4527(1): 37–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4527.1.3 Reference page.
Martins, P.H. & Santos, A.J. 2011. Morphology and taxonomy of the orb-weaving spider genus Mecynogea, and a peculiar species of Argiope (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4415(3): 423–451. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.2. Reference page.

Faleiro, B.T. & Santos, A.J. 2019. Revision of the crab-spiders of the genus Runcinioides Mello-Leitão, 1929 (Araneae, Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4567(1): 25–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.2 Reference page.

Magalhães, M.D.F., Piacentini, L.N. & Santos, A.J. 2024. The desert wolf-spider genus Xenoctenus: two endemic species from the Brazilian Caatinga, and a redescription of the type-species, X. unguiculatus (Araneae: Xenoctenidae). Zootaxa 5399(5): 517–539. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.5.3. . Reference page.