Center of studies on
Subterranean Biology

Cooperation

Dra. Hannelore Hoch

Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, GERMANY

Project: Description of troglobitic Hemiptera of Minas Gerais, Bahia and Rio Grande do Norte (Cixiidae and Kinnaridae).

Dr. Yoshitaka Kamimura

Department of Biology, Keio University, Yokohama.  JAPAN.

Project: Conflict and sexual selection in species Neotrogla (Psocoptera: Prionoglarididae) in caves of Brazil.

Dr. Boris Sket

Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA

Project: Diversity patterns of troglobitic species in Brazil and Slovenia

Dr. Charles Lienhard

Department of Arthropodology and Entomology I, Museum of Natural History, oute de Malagnou 1, CH-1208 Geneva, SWITZERLAND

Project: Description of Psocoptera syllipsocidae and Prionoglarididae of Brasil

Dr. Hans Klompen

Acarology Laboratory Ohio State University, Museum of Biological Diversity 1315 Kinnear Road Columbus, Ohio 43212, USA

Project: Standards and processes involved in diversification of American Opilioacariformes.

Dr. Kazunori Yoshizawa

Associate Professor, Systematic Entomology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, JAPAN.

Project: Conflict and sexual selection in species Neotrogla (Psocoptera: Prionoglarididae) in caves of Brazil.

Dr. Cene Fiser

Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, ESLOVÊNIA

Project: Descrição de anfípodes troglóbios do Rio Grande do Norte.

Dra. Maja Zagmajster

Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA

Project: Database of Brazilian subterranean fauna: assistance for conservation.

Dra. Simona Prevorcnik

Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA

Project: Description of troglobitic isopods of Rio Grande do Norte and Bahia.

Dr. Thomas Wessener

Forschungsmuseum A. Koenig, Sektion Myriapoda, Bonn, GERMANY

Project: Description of troglobitic millipedes do Pará (Glomeridesmida).

Dr. William A. Shear

James Trinkle Professor of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College USA

Project: Description of troglobitic millipedes of Brazil.

Dr. Enrique Martínez Ansemil

Departmento de Bioloxía Animal, Bioloxía Vexetal e Ecoloxía, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, Coruña, SPAIN

Project: Description Oligochaeta troglobites of Bahia and Rio Grande do Norte.

Dr. Lucio Bonato

Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, Padova ITALIA

Project: Description of Geophilomorpha from Brazilian caves

Dr. Esteban Gutiérrez

Curator of Insecta (Blattaria)  Research Department, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural,  Obispo #61 esq. a Oficios, Plaza de Armas,  Habana Vieja 10100, La Habana, CUBA.

Project: Description of troglobite Blattaria of Minas Gerais.

Ana Maria Leal Zanchet

PPG Biologia: Diversidade e Manejo de Vida Silvestre UNISINOS, São Leopoldo – RS, BRAZIL

Project: Description of cave Planarians

Dr. Adalberto José dos Santos

Laboratório de Aracnologia Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Project: Description of cave Schizomida

Dr. Antônio Domingos Brescovit

Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, CEP 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Project: Description of cave spiders

Dr. André R. Senna

Centro Universitário de Volta Redonda (UNIFOA) Curso de Ciências Biológicas, Volta Redonda, RJ, Brazil

Project: Description of Brazilian troglobitic Cirolanidae

Dra. Aline Barcellos Prates dos Santos

Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Project: Additional description of Tingidae found in caves

Dr. Alessandro Ponce de Leão Giupponi

Museu Nacional-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Dept. Invertebrados – Aracnologia, Rio de Janeiro

Project: Description of new species of Charinus (Amblypygi) found in caves

Dra. Leila Aparecida Souza

Instituto Superior de Ciências Biomédicas, Laboratório de Carcinicultura Campus do Itaperi, Universidade Estadual do Ceará/UECE, Fortaleza, CE

Project: Description of new Brazilian troglobitic species of Isopoda Styloniscidae

Dr. Márcio Bernardino da Silva

Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa-PB, Brasil

Project: Description of species of Mitogoniella in Brazilian caves.

Dr. Hélcio R. Gil-Santana

Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil, 4365, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Project: Description of cave Hemiptera

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