Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque
Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque | |
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| Born | 27 January 1931 Rio de Janeiro |
| Occupation | Entomologist |
| Spouse | Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1959 and 1960) |
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Entomology |
| Sub-discipline | Blattodea |
| Institutions | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi |
Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque (born 27 January 1931) is a Brazilian entomologist. A Guggenheim Fellow, she specialised in cockroaches and was a researcher at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
Biography
She was born on 27 January 1931 in Rio de Janeiro.[1] After studying abroad at the University of Paris from 1951 until 1952, she later returned to Brazil, where she got her bachelor's degree in natural history from the Faculdade Nacional de Filosofia in 1954.[1]
In 1952, she began working as an investigator at the National Research Council.[1] She was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships in 1959 and 1960.[2] She married fellow entomologist Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque.[2]
In 1962, she and her husband started working at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, where the latter eventually became director.[3] She described several new species, including Xestoblatta bananae (1962), Xestoblatta iani (1964), Xestoblatta roppai (1975), and Xestoblatta vera (1975).[4] In addition to a dozen articles in the Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi , which her employer published,[3] she also published in the Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências.[1] She was manager of the Blattodea collection at the National Museum of Brazil.[5]
William Leslie Overal and Inocêncio de S. Gorayeb called her "a renowned specialist in South American Blattoidea", which she had a large collection of specimens, and said that her published work "represents significant contributions to the knowledge of the fauna of the Brazilian Amazon".[3] In 1966, Ashley B. Gurney and Louis M. Roth named the genus Isoldaia after her "in recognition of her sustained efforts to broaden the knowledge of South American Blattaria".[6] In 1983, Jose C. M. Carvalho and Maria Luiza Felippe named the species Isoldalinus rarus and its genus Isoldalinus "in recognition of her work on Neotropical Blattariae".[7]
References
- ^ a b c d Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1959. p. 114.
- ^ a b "Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
- ^ a b c Overal, William Leslie; Gorayeb, Inocêncio de S. (1981). "Entomologia do Museu Goeldi". Acta Amazonica (in Portuguese). 11 (1): 177–181. Bibcode:1981AcAma..11..177O. doi:10.1590/1809-43921981111s177. ISSN 0044-5967. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ^ Silva-da-Silva, Luiz Rafael; Lopes, Sonia Maria (2015). "Two new species of Xestoblatta Hebard, 1916 from Brazil, a redescription of Xestoblatta roppai Rocha e Silva Albuquerque & Fraga, 1975 and a key for the species of the buscki group (Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Blattellinae)". ZooKeys (526): 117–129. Bibcode:2015ZooK..526..117S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.526.6077. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 4607848. PMID 26487828.
- ^ "Apresentação". National Museum of Brazil Departament of Entomology (in Portuguese). Retrieved 24 May 2025.
- ^ Gurney, Ashley B.; Roth, Lous M. (1966). "Two New Genera of South American Cockroaches Superficially Resembling Loboptera, With Notes on Bionomics (Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Blattellidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 73 (3): 196–207. doi:10.1155/1966/70978. ISSN 0033-2615.
- ^ Carvalho, Jose C. M.; Felippe, Maria Luiza (1983). "Mirideos neotropicais, CCXXXV: descrição de novo genero e notas taxonomicas sobre especies sulamericanas (Hemiptera)" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Biologia (in Portuguese). 43 (3): 277-282. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 June 2024. Retrieved 25 May 2025.