Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista

Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista, Brazilian arachnologist.

Laboratório de Diversidade de Aracnídeos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Av. Carlos Chagas Filho 373, 21941-902, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Baptista, R.L.C. 2003. Speocera eleonorae sp. n., the first troglomorphic spider from Brazilian caves (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 7: 221-224. Reference page.

Huber, B.A., Pérez-González, A. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2005. Leptopholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) in continental America: rare relicts in low precipitation areas. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 53(1-2): 99-107. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Saturnino, R., Tourinho, A.L., Azevedo, C.S., Baptista, R.L.C. & Magalhães, C. 2009. Catalogue of type specimens of invertebrates in the collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil. V. Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones and Scorpiones. Zootaxa 2247: 51–67. Abstract & excerpt (PDF). Reference page.

Silva-Moreira, T. da, Baptista, R.L.C., Kury, A.B., Giupponi, A.P.L., Buckup, E.H. & Brescovit, A.D. 2010. Annotated check list of Arachnida type specimens deposited in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. II—Araneae. Zootaxa 2588: 1–91. Preview. . Reference page.

Castanheira, P. de S. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2015. A new species of Alpaida (Araneae, Araneidae) from Southeastern Brazil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 105(3): 372-375. DOI: 10.1590/1678-476620151053372375. . Reference page.
Castro, D., Baptista, R., Grismado, C.J. & Ramírez, M.J. 2015. New species and records of Otiothopinae from the Southern Atlantic Rainforest, with notes on the claw tufts in Fernandezina Birabén (Araneae: Palpimanidae). Zootaxa 4012(3): 465–478. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Pedroso, D.R., Baptista, R.L.C. & Bertani, R. 2015. A new species of Masteria (Araneae: Dipluridae: Masteriinae) from southeastern Brazil. Zoologia 32(1): 59-65. DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702015000100009 Reference page.

Castanheira, P. de S., Pérez-González, A. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2016. Spider diversity (Arachnida: Araneae) in Atlantic Forest areas at Pedra Branca State Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7055. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7055. Reference page.
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.
Pedroso, D.R., de Souza Castanheira, P. & Cerqueira Baptista, R.L. 2016. Redescription and synonymies of Diplura macrura (C.L. Koch, 1841) and D. lineata (Lucas, 1857), with notes on the genus (Araneae, Dipluridae). European Journal of Taxonomy 210: 1-21. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.210. . Reference page.

Baptista, R.L.C., Castanheira, P. de S. & do Prado, A.W.D. 2018. Notes on the orb-weaving spider genus Alpaida (Araneae, Araneidae) with description of four new species from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zootaxa 4407(3): 321–345. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.3.2 Reference page.
do Prado, A.W., Baptista, R.L.C. & Machado, M. 2018. Taxonomic review of Epicadinus Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4459(2): 201–234. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.1. Reference page.
Pedroso, D.R., Giupponi, A.P de L. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2018. Comments on the genus Diplura C.L. Koch, 1850, with description of two new species (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae). ZooKeys 771: 57–71. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.771.24921 Reference page.

Castanheira, P. de S., Baptista, R.L.C., Pizzetti, D. dos P. & Teixeira, R.A. 2019. Contributions to the taxonomy of the long-jawed orb-weaving spider genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in the Neotropical region, with comments on the morphology of the chelicerae. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 95(2): 465–505. DOI: 10.3897/zse.95.36762 Reference page.
Castanheira, P. de S., Pérez-González, A., do Prado, A.W. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2019. Three new species of Ochyrocera (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 4657(3): 523–544. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.6. Reference page.
Pedroso, D.R., Miranda, G.S. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2019. Further advancements in the taxonomy of Trechona spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae): two new species, redescription of Trechona uniformis Mello-Leitão, 1935, additions to descriptions of Trechona rufa Vellard, 1924 and Trechona venosa (Latreille, 1832) and key to the species. Austral Entomology 58(1): 204–219. Reference page.

Baptista, R.L.C., Castanheira, P. de S., Oliveira, G.A. & do Prado, A.W. 2020. Descriptions of three new species of jumping-spiders, genus Arnoliseus (Araneae, Salticidae), from Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, with comments on their genital morphology and a key to species. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 96(1): 73–90. DOI: 10.3897/zse.96.46509 Reference page.
Castanheira, P. de S. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2020. Notes on slender species of the long-jawed spider genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of three new species. Zootaxa 4768(1): 043–075. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4768.1.4. . Reference page.

Framenau, V.W., Baptista, R.L.C., Oliveira, F.S.M. & Castanheira, P. de S. 2021a. Taxonomic revision of the new spider genus Hortophora, the Australasian Garden Orb-weavers (Araneae, Araneidae). Evolutionary Systematics 5: 275–334. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.5.72474. . Reference page.
Framenau, V.W., Vink, C.J. Scharff, N., Baptista, R.L.C. & Castanheira, P. de S. 2021. Review of the Australian and New Zealand orb-weaving spider genus Novakiella (Araneae, Araneidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(2): 393–405. DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.67788 Reference page.

Castanheira, P. de S., Cerqueira Baptista, R.L. & Martins Oliveira, F.S. 2022. Five new species of the long-jawed orb-weaving spider genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in South America, with a key to the species from Argentina and Brazil. Evolutionary Systematics 6: 175–210. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.6.91418. . Reference page.

Castanheira, P. de S. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2023. One less monotypic genus: a new species of the enigmatic Magnopholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Tasmania (Australia) with comments on its genital morphology and the generic placement in Pholcommatinae. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 32: 1-7. DOI: 10.54102/ajt.v3zyt. . Reference page.
Castanheira, P. de S., Rossi, G.F. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2023. Two new species in the spider genus Nanometa (Araneae: Tetragnathidae: Nanometinae) from Tasmania. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 38: 1-8. DOI: 10.54102/ajt.gcxtp. . Reference page.
Rubio, G.D., Stolar, C.E., Baigorria, J.E.M. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2023. Description of two new species of jumping spider Colonus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Brazil and Argentina. Faunitaxys 11(58): 1-10. DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-11(58). . Reference page.

do Prado, A.W., Pantoja, P. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2024. Two new and unusual species of Tibelloides Mello-Leitão, 1939 (Araneae: Philodromidae). Zootaxa 5497(4): 559–576. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.4.6. . Reference page.