Rodrigo Machado Feitosa
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo
Laboratório de Entomologia - Hymenoptera
Avenida Nazaré, 481 - Ipiranga
CEP 04263-000
São Paulo-SP, Brasil
Tel: +55 (11) 2060-0222
ANT TAXONOMY
Systematics, natural history, and evolution of ants. Current projects include taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of heteroponerine ants; systematic revision of the genera Blepharidatta (Myrmicinae) and taxonomic studies on the Neotropical species of Probolomyrmex (Proceratiinae) and Sphinctomyrmex (Cerapachyinae). Additional interests include the use of ants as bioindicators and the preparation of a general guide for the ants of Brazil.
TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS
Brandão, C. R. F., R. M. Feitosa, F. A. Schmidt and R. R. de Castro Solar. 2008. Rediscovery of the putatively extinct ant species Simopelta minima (Brandão) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a discussion on rarity and conservation status of ant species. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 52(3): 480-483.
Feitosa, R. M. and C. R. F. Brandão,. 2008. A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical myrmicine ant genus Lachnomyrmex Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Zootaxa 1890: 1-49.
Feitosa, R. M., C. R. F. Brandão and B. H. Dietz. 2007. Basiceros scambognathus (Brown, 1949) n.comb., with the worker and male descriptions, and a revised generic diagnosis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Papeis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia 47(2): 15-26.
Feitosa, R. M., C. R. F. Brandão and J. L. M. Diniz. 2008. Revisionary studies on the enigmatic Neotropical ant genus Stegomyrmex Emery, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), with the description of two new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 17(1): 64-82
Feitosa, R.M., Hora, R.R., Delabie, J.H.C., Valenzuela, J. & Fresnau, D. 2008. A new social parasite in the ant genus Ectatomma F. Smith. Zootaxa 1713: 47-52.
Silva, R.R., Feitosa, R.M., Brandão, C.R.F. & Diniz, J.L.M. 2009. Tropidomyrmex elianae, a new myrmicine ant genus and species from Brazil, tentatively assigned to Solenopsidini. Zootaxa 2052: 32-48.
REFERENCE
Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton's Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.