Antonio Domingos Brescovit

Publishing 2008–2026

20 papers 36 species 13 genera 6 countries

Publication activity

2008 2026

New taxa described

2012 2025

Described Taxa Distribution

Pamphobeteus 9 Umbyquyra 7 Catanduba 5 Bumba 4 Ewok 2 Hapalopus 2 Acanthoscurria 1 Cymbiapophysa 1 Cyrtogrammomma 1 Nhandu 1 Notahapalopus 1 Tmesiphantes 1

35 type localities across 12 genera

Frequent collaborators (25)

Sylvia Marlene Lucas 18 Ray Gabriel 12 Danniella Sherwood 11 Pedro J. Peñaherrera Romero 5 Hector M. O. Gonzalez-Filho 3 Felipe dos S. Paula 2 Flávio Uemori Yamamoto 2 José Paulo Leite Guadanucci 2 Rafael Prezzi Indicatti 2 Roberto J. León-E 2 Agustin Camacho 1 Arthur Galleti-Lima 1

Papers (20)

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A. D., Lucas, S. M. & Buelvas, D. A. (2026). On Crypsidromus carinatus Valerio, 1980 and its palpal bulb morphology (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 48: 67-71.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2026). Redescription of Nhandu chromatus Schmidt, 2004 stat. rest. and revalidation of Nhandu sylviae Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023 stat. rest. (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 20 (4): 519-526.

Galleti-Lima, A., Yamamoto, F. U., Lucas, S. M., Guadanucci, J. P. L. & Brescovit, A. D. (2026). Morphological revision of the species of Homoeomma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Zootaxa 5752(2): 211-237.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., León-E, R. J., Rollard, C., Leguin, E., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2025). On the identity of some taxa in the tarantula tribe Hapalopini, with two synonymies, and description of four new genera and three new species (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 46: 1-23.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Osorio, L. M., Benavides, L., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Hörweg, C., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2024). Spot the difference: on the genus Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 in Colombia and a new related genus from Brazil and Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 32: 1-44.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R. & Brescovit, A. D. (2023). Nhandu sylviae sp. nov.: first record of the genus from Guyana (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(4): 708-712.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., León-E, R. J., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2023). Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901: redescriptions, new species and records, description of a missing sex, with taxonomic notes and changes in Megaphobema Pocock, 1901 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(6): 894-930.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2023). On the Tarantula Genus Xenesthis Simon, 1891, with Description of a New Species from Venezuela (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Taxonomy 3: 509-527.

Gonzalez-Filho, H. M. O., Fonseca-Ferreira, R., Brescovit, A. D. & Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2022). Taxonomy of the genus Cyrtogrammomma Pocock, 1895 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) with a description of a new species from Brazil. Zoosystematics and Evolution 98(2): 181-199.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2022). On the species of Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901 deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, with redescriptions of type material, the first record of P. grandis Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008 from Peru, and the description of four new species. Arachnology 19(3): 650-674.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2021). An anomalous spermathecae resolved after moulting events in a female of Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 with a review of spermathecal anomalies in theraphosid spiders (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 39: 139-143.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2021). A new species of Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 from Colombia and a transfer from Proshapalopus Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(8): 838-843.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Kaderka, R., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2021). Stabilizing a chaotic taxonomy: redescription and redefinition of the genera Lasiodorides Schmidt & Bischoff, 1997 and Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(8): 893-917.

Lucas, S. M., Passanha, V. & Brescovit, A. D. (2020). New combination and redescription of Bumba humile, description of four new species and new records from Brazil (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Zoologia 37: 1-17.

Gargiulo, F. de F., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2018). Umbyquyra gen. nov., a new tarantula spider genus from the Neotropical region (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae), with a description of eight new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 457: 1-50.

Paula, F. dos S., Gabriel, R., Indicatti, R. P., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2014). On the Brazilian Amazonian species of Acanthoscurria (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 31(1): 63-80.

Gonzalez-Filho, H. M. O., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2014). A new species of Tmesiphantes (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from the state of Pará, Brazil. Iheringia, Sér. Zool. vol.104 no.2.

Gonzalez-Filho, H. M. O., Lucas, S. M., Paula, F. dos S., Indicatti, R. P. & Brescovit, A. D. (2012). On the taxonomy of Acanthoscurria Ausserer from southeastern Brazil with data on the natural history of A. gomesiana Mello-Leitão (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). International Journal of Zoology 2012 (721793): 1-11.

Yamamoto, F. U., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2012). Catanduba, a new Theraphosinae spider genus from Central Brazil (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 3172: 1-19.

Almeida-Silva, L. M., Camacho, A., Brescovit, A. D., Lucas, S. M. & Brazil, T. K. (2008). Redescription and notes on the natural history of the arboreal tarantula Iridopelma seladonium (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25: 728-736.