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View article: Digitizing Primary Data on Biodiversity to Protect Natural History Collections Against Catastrophic Events: The type material of dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) from Museu Nacional of Brazil
Digitizing Primary Data on Biodiversity to Protect Natural History Collections Against Catastrophic Events: The type material of dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) from Museu Nacional of Brazil Open
Natural history collections (NHC) are guardians of biodiversity (Lane 1996) and essential to understand the natural world and its evolutionary processes. They hold samples of morphological and genetic heritages of living and extinct biotas…
View article: The Biota of the Florentine Tondo
The Biota of the Florentine Tondo Open
This paper describes and identifies the biological elements depicted in Virgin with Child, Young St. John the Baptist and an Angel by Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) from the permanent collection of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateau…
View article: Foreword
Foreword Open
From its beginnings, humanity has lived intensely with the insects, which are prevailing forms of life in the terrestrial environment, comprising fourfifths of all of the animals on the earth, with more than one million species. Relations …
View article: Moth of Venus, caterpillar of Christ Piero di Cosimo's insects and their possible meaning
Moth of Venus, caterpillar of Christ Piero di Cosimo's insects and their possible meaning Open
This paper identifies and contextualizes all the insects depicted by the Florentine master Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522). These are present in six of his paintings: Madonna and Child with Saints Lazarus and Sebastian, Chiesa dei Santi Michel…
View article: Aquatic Insects from the Caatinga: checklists and diversity assessments of Ubajara (Ceará State) and Sete Cidades (Piauí State) National Parks, Northeastern Brazil
Aquatic Insects from the Caatinga: checklists and diversity assessments of Ubajara (Ceará State) and Sete Cidades (Piauí State) National Parks, Northeastern Brazil Open
Diversity and distribution of Neotropical aquatic insects is still poorly known, with many species to be recorded and many others to be described, due to the small number of taxonomists and sparse faunistic studies. This knowledge is espec…