Jaime Pizarro-Araya

Jaime Pizarro-Araya, Chilean entomologist and arachnologist

Laboratorio de Entomología Ecológica, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Serena, Casilla 544, La Serena, Chile

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Ojanguren Affilastro, A.A., Augusto, P., Pizarro-Araya, J. & Mattoni, C.I. 2007. Two new scorpion species of genus Brachistosternus (Scorpiones: Bothriuridae) from northern Chile. Zootaxa 1623: 55–68. Abstract & excerpt. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Flores, G.E. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2012. Systematic revision of the South American genus Praocis Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Part 1: Introduction and subgenus Praocis s. str. Zootaxa 3336: 1–35. Preview . Reference page.

Laborda, Á., Ramírez, M.J. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2013. New species of the spider genera Aysenia and Aysenoides from Chile and Argentina: description and phylogenetic relationships (Araneae: Anyphaenidae, Amaurobioidinae). Zootaxa 3731(1): 133–152. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.1.6 . Reference page.

Flores, G.E. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2014. Towards a revision of the South American genus Praocis Eschscholtz (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), with estimation of the diversity of each subgenus. ZooKeys 415: 53–80. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.415.6656 . Reference page.
Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A.; Pizarro-Araya, J. 2014: Two new scorpion species from Paposo, in the coastal desert of Taltal, Chile (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae, Brachistosternus). Zootaxa 3785(3): 400–418. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.3.4 Reference page.

Pizarro-Araya, J., Cepeda-Pizarro, J., Mondaca, J. & Cortés-Contreras, M. 2015. A population outbreak of Lichnia gallardoi Gutiérrez, 1943 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in the matorral shrublands of the transitional coastal desert of Chile. The Coleopterists Bulletin 69(2): 337–340. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.2.337 Reference page.

Grismado, C.J. & Pizzaro-Araya, J. 2016. The spider genus Cyrioctea Simon on Chañaral Island (Pingüino de Humboldt National Reserve, Atacama, Chile): description of a new species, and the male of Cyrioctea cruz Platnick (Araneae, Zodariidae). Zootaxa 4107(2): 267–276. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4107.2.8. Reference page. .

Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Pizarro-Araya, J. & Ochoa, J.A. 2018. Five new scorpion species of genus Brachistosternus (Scorpiones: Bothriuridae) from the deserts of Chile and Peru, with comments about some poorly studied diagnostic characters of the genus. Zootaxa 4531(2): 151–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.2.1 Reference page.

Mondaca, J., Pizarro-Araya, J. & Alfaro, F.M. 2019. Revision of the genus Luispenaia Martínez (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Tanyproctini), with description of three new species from the Atacama Desert, Chile. Zootaxa 4615(3): 549–562. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4615.3.8 Reference page.

Jerez, V. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2020. Una revisión de Henicotherus Brèthes, 1928 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae); género endémico y áptero de Chile [A revision of Henicotherus Brèthes, 1928 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae); an endemic and apterous genus from Chile]. Gayana 84(2): 101–111. DOI: 10.4067/S0717-65382020000200101 . Reference page.

Ojanguren Affilastro, A.A., Alfaro, F.M. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2021. Two new scorpion species from protected areas in Antofagasta Region, Chile (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae, Brachistosternus). Zootaxa 5040(1): 111–131. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5040.1.6. . Reference page.

Flores, G.E. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2022. Revision of the subgenus Mesopraocis Flores & Pizarro-Araya of the Neotropical genus Praocis Eschscholtz (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Pimeliinae). Zookeys 1100ː 29–55. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1100.78769 Reference page.
Ramírez, M.J., Magalhaes de, I.L.F., Pizarro-Araya, J., Ballarin, F., Marusik, Y.M. & Eskov, K.Y. 2022. A new species of the spider genus Tekellina Levi, 1957 from Chile, with a broadened definition of the family Synotaxidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 301: 76-90. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2022.08.005. . Reference page.

Grismado, C.J. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2023. A new species of the genus Osornolobus Forster & Platnick from the maulino forests of Chile (Araneae, Orsolobidae). Zootaxa 5284(3): 585–592. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.3.9. . Reference page.

Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Benítez, H.A., Iuri, H.A., Mattoni, C.I., Alfaro, F.M. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2023. Description of Bothriurus mistral n. sp., the highest-dwelling Bothriurus from the western Andes (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae), using multiple morphometric approaches. PLoS ONE 18(2): e0281336. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281336 Reference page

Magalhaes, I.L.F., Iuri, H.A., Brescovit, A.D. & Pizzaro-Araya, J. 2024. The tiniest violin: the male of Loxosceles vallenar (Araneae, Sicariidae). ZooKeys 1206: 327–346. Reference page.

Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Alfaro, F.M., Iuri, H.A., Camousseigt-Montolivo, B. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2023. Description of Brachistosternus pehuenche sp. nov. (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae), a new scorpion species from the upper Maule Valley, in the southern Chilean Andes. Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(1): 137–174. DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.146451 Reference page

Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Alfaro, F.M., Iuri, H.A., Camousseigt-Montolivo, B. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2023. Description of Brachistosternus pehuenche sp. nov. (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae), a new scorpion species from the upper Maule Valley, in the southern Chilean Andes. Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(1): 137–174. DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.146451 Reference page
Iuri, H.A., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Maury, E.A., Alfaro, F.M., Camousseigt-Montolivo, B. & Pizarro-Araya, J. 2025. Unveiling high solifuge diversity: Review of the genus Pseudocleobis Pocock, 1900 (Ammotrechidae) in Chile with the description of nine new species. PLoS ONE 20(1): e0309776. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309776 Reference page