Fernando Zagury Vaz de Mello

Professor
Biology and Zoology
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Brazil

Biography

Fernando Zagury Vaz de Mello currently working as Professor of the Department of Biology and Zoology of the Institute of Biosciences of the Federal University of Mato Grosso, and curator of the Entomology Section of the Zoological Collection of UFMT, a research productivity fellow at CNPq (2011-), postdoctoral Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Author or co-author of more than 100 scientific articles in indexed journals. Orienta or guided more than 20 master's theses or doctoral theses, and several scientific initiation or graduation courses. Has experience of research in the Systematics and Taxonomy of Recent Groups, working mainly on topics related to taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, faunistic and biodiversity of coleopteran insects of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Research Intrest

Systematics and Taxonomy-Biogeography, faunistic and biodiversity of coleopteran insects of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea

List of Publications
Roque FO, Corrêa EC, Valente‐Neto F, Stefan G, Schulz G, Barbosa Souza PR, Motta CM, Oliveira Bavutti LL, Colzani E, Demétrio MF, Escarpinati SC. Idiosyncratic responses of aquatic and terrestrial insects to different levels of environmental integrity in riparian zones in a karst tropical dry forest region. Austral Entomology. 2017 Jan 1.
Lugon AP, Boutefeu M, Bovy E, Vaz‐de‐Mello FZ, Huynen MC, Galetti M, Culot L. Persistence of the effect of frugivore identity on post‐dispersal seed fate: consequences for the assessment of functional redundancy. Biotropica. 2017 May 1;49(3):293-302.
Vaz-de-Mello FZ, Bavutti LL, Flechtmann CA, Puker A, Correa C. Checklist of Scarabaeinae (Coeloptera: Scarabaeidae) from Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil. Iheringia. Série Zoologia. 2017;107.