Rafael Fonseca-Ferreira

Rafael Fonseca-Ferreira, Brazilian arachnologist

• PPGBC/USP, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, UFSCar, São Carlos, Brazil

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 5 taxon names authored by Rafael Fonseca-Ferreira

Publications

2015

• Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Fonseca-Ferreira, R. & Bichuette, M.E. 2015. A new highly specialized cave harvestman from Brazil and the first blind species of the genus: Iandumoema smeagol sp. n. (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae). Zookeys 537: 79–95. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.537.6073 Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2016

• Guadanucci, J.P.L., Fonseca-Ferreira, R., Baptista, R.L.C. & Pedroso, D.R. 2016. An unusual new species of Trechona (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae), from quartzitic caves of the Diamantina Plateau, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a key to the known species. Journal of Natural History 50(39-40): 2487–2497. Reference page. 

2017

• Fonseca-Ferreira, R., Zampaulo, R. de A. & Guadanucci, J.P.L. 2017. Diversity of iron cave-dwelling mygalomorph spiders from Pará, Brazil, with description of three new species (Araneae). Tropical Zoology. 30(4): 178-199. DOI: 10.1080/03946975.2017.1367590. Reference page. 

2021

• Fonseca-Ferreira, R., Guadanucci, J.P.L., Yamamoto, F.U., Brescovit, A.D. 2021. Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical spiders of the genus Idiops Perty, 1833 (Araneae, Idiopidae), with description of four new species. European Journal of Taxonomy. 780(1): 1–71. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.780.1581 Reference page. 

2022

• Gonzalez-Filho, H.M.O., Fonseca-Ferreira, R., Brescovit, A.D.& Guadanucci, J.P.L. 2022. Taxonomy of the genus Cyrtogrammomma Pocock, 1895 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) with a description of a new species from Brazil. Zoosystematics and Evolution 98(2): 181–199. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.85212 Reference page.