Publications by authors named "Cesar A C Favacho"
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- The Amazonian region features diverse environments, including savannas, which make up about 5% of the Amazon biome in Brazil, yet its insect biodiversity is largely unexplored.
- A study conducted in four Brazilian Amazon savannas documented 40 species of flesh flies, including two new species (Lepidodexia (Notochaeta) helenae and Lipoptilocnema augustoi) and a first-ever record for Brazil (Oxysarcodexia graminifolia).
- Several other species previously unrecorded in the Brazilian Amazon were also documented, with a redescribed species (Dexosarcophaga paulistana) featuring detailed illustrations of male terminalia.
The minute litter bugs (Heteroptera: Schizopteridae) fauna from the Brazilian Amazon comprises only nine species described during the past four years. In this paper, the Schizopteridae fauna of an Amazonian savanna was surveyed, resulting in the discovery of two new species of Corixidea Reuter and a new species of Schizoptera (Cantharocoris) McAtee Malloch: Corixidea graziae sp. nov.
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