Luiz Felipe Lima da Silveira

Luiz Felipe Lima da Silveira, Brazilian entomologist

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia/UFRJ, Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, A0-113, Bloco A, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Silveira, L.F.L. & Mermudes, J.R.M. 2013. Memoan ciceroi gen. et sp. nov., a remarkable new firefly genus and species from the Atlantic Rainforest (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Zootaxa 3640(1): 79–87. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3640.1.6. . Reference page.

Silveira, L.F.L. & Mermudes, J.R.M. 2014. Ybytyramoan, a new genus of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae, Lampyrinae, Photinini) endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest, with description of three new species. Zootaxa 3835(3): 325–337. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3835.3.2 Reference page.
Silveira, L.F.L. & Mermudes, J.R.M. 2014a. Systematic review of the firefly genus Amydetes Illiger, 1807 (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), with description of 13 new species. Zootaxa 3765(3): 201–248. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.3.1 Reference page.

Silveira, L.F.L., Mermudes, J.R. & Bocakova, M. 2016. Systematic review of the firefly genus Scissicauda (Coleoptera, Lampyridae, Amydetinae) from Brazil. ZooKeys 558: 55-75. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.558.6040. Reference page.

Roza, A.S., Quintino, H.Y.S., Mermudes, J.R.M. & Silveira, L.F.L. 2017. Akamboja gen. nov., a new genus of railroad-worm beetle endemic to the Atlantic Rainforest, with five new species (Coleoptera: Phengodidae, Mastinocerinae). Zootaxa 4306(4): 501–523. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.3. . Reference page.
Silveira, L.F.L. & Mermudes, J.R.M. 2017. A new tropical montane firefly genus and species, active during winter and endemic to the southeastern Atlantic Rainforest (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Zootaxa 4221(2): 205–214. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4221.2.4. Reference page.

Silveira, L.F.L., Souto, P.M. & Mermudes, J.R.M. 2018. Four new species of Luciuranus fireflies from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Zootaxa 4413(1): 173–186. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.1.7 Reference page.

Campello-Gonçalves, L., Souto, P.M., Mermudes, J.R.M. & Silveira, L.F.L. 2019. Uanauna gen. nov., a new genus of fireflies endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic forest (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), with key to brazilian genera of Lucidotina. Zootaxa 4585(1): 59–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.1.4. . Reference page.
Nunes, V.C.S., Souto, P.M., Monteiro, R.F. & da Silveira, L.F.L. 2019. A second species of Araucariocladus Silveira & Mermudes, with notes on the variation in antennomere numbers in this genus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Zootaxa 4571(4): 562–570. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.8 Reference page.

Lima, W., Lima-da Silveira, L.F., Vasconcelos-da Fonseca, C.R. & Zaragoza-Caballero, S. 2021. Cratomorphus leoneli: a new firefly from Mexico (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Cratomorphini). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 92: e923831: 1–10. DOI: 10.22201/ib.20078706e.2021.92.3831 Reference page.
Silveira, L.F.L., Roza, A.S., Vaz, S. & Mermudes, J.R.M. 2021: Description and phylogenetic analysis of a new firefly genus from the Atlantic Rainforest, with five new species and new combinations (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Lampyrinae) Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 79: 115-150. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Campello-Gonçalves, L., Vaz, S., Mermudes, J.R.M., Ferreira, A.L.D. & Silveira, L.F.L. 2022. Comparative morphology and key to Amydetinae genera, with description of three new firefly species (Coleoptera, Lampyridae). Zookeys 1114ː 131–166. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1114.77692 Reference page.
da Silveira, L.F.L. & Branham, M.A. 2022. A new species of Petalacmis firefly from Bolivia, with a key to species (Coleoptera, Lampyridae). Zookeys 1092ː 63–77. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1092.80464 Reference page.
Silveira, L.F.L., Lima, W., Fonseca, C.R.V. & McHugh, J.V. 2022. Haplocauda, a New Genus of Fireflies Endemic to the Amazon Rainforest (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Insects 13(1): 1–26. DOI: 10.3390/insects13010058 Reference page.

Lima, W., Moseyko, A.G. & Silveira, L.F.L. 2024. New world lampyrid types at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. European Journal of Taxonomy 943(1): 24–58. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.943.2575 . Reference page.
Souto, P.M., Rosa, S.P., Zampaulo, R. de A., Rivera, S.C., Pellegrini, T.G. & da Silveira, L.F.L. 2024. Larval and adult morphology of Photuris elliptica Olivier (Coleoptera, Lampyridae) and a Halloweeny case of cave-dwelling firefly larva feeding on bat guano. ZooKeys 1203: 71–94. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1203.120341 Reference page.