Thamara Zacca

Thamara Zacca (Zacca), Entomologist, Brazil

Laboratório de Pesquisas em Lepidoptera (LaPeL), Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (since 2020)
Laboratório de Ecologia e Sistemática de Borboletas, Museu de Zoologia “Adão José Cardoso”, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo (2017-2020)
Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, P.O. Box 19.020, ZIP Code 81.531-980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil (2011-2017)
E-mail: tzacca@mn.ufrj.br

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Zacca, T., Mielke, O.H.H., Pyrcz, T.W., Casagrande, M.M., Freitas, A.V.L. & Boyer, P. 2013. Stegosatyrus, a new genus of Euptychiina from the grasslands of neotropical realm (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 3682(2): 331–350. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.2.7 Reference page.

Cerdeña, J.A., Pyrcz, T.W. & Zacca, T. 2014. High Andean butterflies from southern Peru, I. Dry puna Satyrinae, with the description of two new taxa and three new records from Peru (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Revista peruana de biología 21(3): 213–222. DOI: 10.15381/rpb.v21i3.10894 Reference page.

Siewert, R.R., Zacca, T., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M. 2016. Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Sophista Plötz, 1879 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) with description of a new species from north-east Brazil. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177(3): 526–540. PDF DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12378. Reference page.
Zacca, T., Siewert, R.R., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H. & Paluch, M. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the “Pierella lamia species group” (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with descriptions of four new species from Brazil: IN Living among dragons: A festschrift in honor to Dr. Angelo B. M. Machado on occasion of his 80th birthday. Zootaxa 4078(1): 366–386. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.31. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Huertas, B., Neild, A.F.E. & Benmesbah, M. 2017. Description of a new species of Euptychiina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from South America. Zootaxa 4231(3): 442–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.3.10. Reference page.
Zacca, T., Mielke, O.H.H., Pyrcz, T.W., Dias, F.M.S., Casagrande, M.M & Boyer, P. 2017a. Systematics of the Neotropical genus Pampasatyrus Hayward, 1953 (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae: Pronophilina), with description of three new taxa. Insect Systematics & Evolution 48(3): 201–255. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-48022154. Reference page.
Zacca, T., Paluch, M., Siewert, R., Freitas, A., Barbosa, E., Mielke, O. & Casagrande, M. 2017b. Revision of Godartiana Forster (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), with the description of a new species from northeastern Brazil. Austral Entomology 56: 169-190. DOI: 10.1111/aen.12223. Reference page.

Benmesbah, M., Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Lamas, G. & Willmott, K.R. 2018. Taxonomic notes on Papilio ocypete Fabricius, 1776 and Papilio helle Cramer, 1779 with description of two new similar species from South America (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 4425(1): 115–145. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4425.1.7. Reference page.
Nakahara, S., Zacca, T., Huertas, B., Neild, A.F.E., Hall, J.P.W., Lamas, G., Holian, L.A., Espeland, M. & Willmott, K.R. 2018: Remarkable sexual dimorphism, rarity and cryptic species: a revision of the ‘aegrota species group’ of the Neotropical butterfly genus Caeruleuptychia Forster, 1964 with the description of three new species (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 49(2): 130–182. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002167 . Reference page.
Nakahara, S., Willmott, K.R., Mielke, O.H.H., Schwartz, J., Zacca, T., Espeland, M. & Lamas, G. 2018a: Seven new taxa from the butterfly subtribe Euptychiina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with revisional notes on Harjesia Forster, 1964 and Pseudeuptychia Forster, 1964. Insecta Mundi 0639: 1–38. Reference page.

Freitas, A.V.L., Mota, L.L., Zacca, T. & Barbosa, E.P. 2019. Description of a new and highly distinctive genus and species of Euptychiina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the Brazilian southern Amazon. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 63(3): 254-261. DOI: 10.1016/j.rbe.2019.05.004. Reference page.
Nakahara, S., Zacca, T., Dias, F.M.S., Dolibaina, D.R., Xiao, L., Espeland, M., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Lamas, G., Huertas, B., Kleckner, K. & Willmott, K.R. 2019. Revision of the poorly known Neotropical butterfly genus Zischkaia Forster, 1964 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), with descriptions of nine new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 551: 1–67 DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.551. https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/751

Barbosa, E.P., Aguiar, T.M.C., Rosa, A.H.B., Zacca, T. & Freitas, A.V.L. 2020. A new species of butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the highlands of Southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 4819(1): 128–142. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.1.6. . Reference page.
Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Huertas, B., Espeland, M., Freitas, A.V.L., Willmott, K.R., Nakahara, S. & Lamas, G. 2020. Revalidation of Vareuptychia Forster, 1964, description of Vanima gen. nov., and notes on Euptychia cleophes Godman & Salvin, 1889 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 4858(1): 1–34. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.1.1. . Reference page.
Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Huertas, B., Barbosa, E.P., Freitas, A.V.L. & Willmott, K.R. 2020a. Description of Emeryus Zacca, Mielke & Casagrande gen. nov. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) to accommodate three species formerly placed in Paryphthimoides Forster, 1964. Austral Entomology 59: 505–523. DOI: 10.1111/aen.12479. Reference page.

Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Huertas, B., Barbosa, E.P., Freitas, A.V.L.. Lamas, G., Espeland, M., Brévignon, C., Nakahara, S., Checa, M.F. & Willmott, K.R. 2021. Systematics of the Neotropical butterfly genus Paryphthimoides Forster, 1964 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), with descriptions of seven new taxa. Insect Systematics & Evolution 52(1): 42–96. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00001027 . Reference page.
Zacca, T., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H., Huertas, B., Freitas, A.V.L.. Marín, M.A., Espeland, M. & Willmott, K.R. 2021a. A new euptychiine butterfly species from south Brazil and taxonomic rearrangements for Taydebis Freitas, 2013 and Hermeuptychia Forster, 1964 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 5023(4): 555–570. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.4.5. . Reference page.

Zacca, T., Cordeiro, D.P. & Gonella, P.M. 2023. A new genus and endangered species of euptychiine butterfly from isolated mountains in southeastern Brazil (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Zootaxa 5346(1): 083–093. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5346.1.5. Reference page.