Disentangling the veil line for Brazilian biodiversity: An overview from two long-term research programs reveals huge gaps in ecological data reporting.

The lack of synthesized information regarding biodiversity is a major problem among researchers, leading to a pervasive cycle where ecologists make field campaigns to collect information that already exists and yet has not been made available for a broader audience. This problem leads to long-lasting effects in public policies such as spending money multiple times to conduct similar studies in the same area. We aim to identify this knowledge gap by synthesizing information available regarding two Brazilian long-term biodiversity programs and the metadata generated by them.

Unveiling the diversity of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Brazilian western Amazonia: a checklist of the Entomological Collection of the Federal University of Rondônia, Brazil.

An extensive checklist of the Cerambycidae deposited in the Entomological Collection of the Federal University of Rondônia (UNIR) is provided. The checklist includes photographs of 58 new records for the State of Rondônia, four of them representing new records for Brazil: Oncideres wappesi Martins Galileo, 2005, Rhaphiptera boliviana Galileo Martins, 2007, Tulcus liturus (Dillon Dillon, 1945) and Xenofrea zischkai Galileo Martins, 2012.