Hexapoda Yearbook (Arthropoda: Mandibulata: Pancrustacea) Brazil 2020: the first annual production survey of new Brazilian species

• Autor(a) principal: Silva-Neto, Alberto Moreira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Falaschi, Rafaela Lopes, Zacca, Thamara, Hipólito, Juliana, Pequeno, Pedro Aurélio Costa Lima, Alves-Oliveira, João Rafael, Santos, Roberto Oliveira dos, Heleodoro, Raphael Aquino, Jacobina, Adaiane Catarina Marcondes, Somavilla, Alexandre, Camargo , Alexssandro, Lira, Aline de Oliveira, Sampaio , Aline Amanda, Ferreira, André da Silva, Martins, André Luis, Oliveira, Andressa Figueiredo de, Wengrat, Ana Paula Gonçalves da Silva, Rosa, Augusto Henrique Batista, Corrêa, Caio Cezar Dias, De-Souza, Caroline Costa, Anjos-Santos, Danielle, Cordeiro, Danilo Pacheco, Nogueira, David Silva, Marques, Dayse Willkenia Almeida, Barbosa, Diego Nunes, Mendes, Diego Matheus de Mello, Pádua, Diego Galvão de, Vilela, Diogo Silva, Viegas, Eduarda Fernanda Gomes, Santos , Eduardo Carneiro dos, Dias, Fernando Maia Silva, Nascimento, Francisco Eriberto de Lima, Duque, Francisco José Sosa, Mendes, Gabriela Caroline, Dantas, Galileu Petronilo da Silva, Desidério, Gleison Robson, Marques, Guilherme Alves, Menezes, Isis Sá, Rodrigues, Higor Daniel Duarte, Fogaça, João Manuel, Schoeninger, Karine, Queiroz, Larissa Lima de, Santana, Larissa, Migliore, Letizia Janaína, Fusari , Lívia Maria, Barros, Luana Machado, Araújo, Maíra Xavier, Cutrim, Marcelo, de Santis, Marcelo Domingos, Savaris, Marcoandre, Gottschalk, Marco Silva, Aragão, Marcos, Bevilaqua, Marcus, Bento, Matheus, Soares, Matheus Mickael Mota, Reategui, Natália Soares, Cipola, Nikolas Gioia, Saguiah, Pâmella Machado, Pinto, Paula Jéssica Costa, Riccardi, Paula Raile, Bartholomay, Pedro Reck, Boldrini, Rafael, Sousa, Rafael, Sobral , Rafael, Mello , Ramon Luciano, Carrenho, Renan, Olivier, Renan da Silva, Siewert, Ricardo Russo, Araujo, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Brito, Rosângela, Gadelha, Sian de Souza, Moraes, Simeão de Souza, Pereira, Thalles Platiny Lavinscky, Mahlmann, Thiago, Fernandes, Daniell Rodrigo Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: EntomoBrasilis
• Texto Completo: https://www.entomobrasilis.org/index.php/ebras/article/view/v15.e1000
• topic: Biodiversity; insects; neotropics; taxonomist; taxonomy

This paper provided a list of all new Brazilian Hexapoda species described in 2020. Furthermore, based on the information extracted by this list, we tackled additional questions regarding the taxa, the specialists involved in the species descriptions as well as the journals in which those papers have been published. We recorded a total of 680 new Brazilian species of Hexapoda described in 2020, classified in 245 genera, 112 families and 18 orders. These 680 species were published in a total of 219 articles comprising 423 different authors residing in 27 countries. Only 30% of these authors are women, which demonstrates an inequality regarding sexes. In relation to the number of authors by species, the majority of the new species had two authors and the maximum of authors by species was five. We also found inequalities in the production of described species regarding the regions of Brazil, with Southeast and South leading. The top 10 institutions regarding productions of new species have four in the Southeast, two at South and with one at North Region being the outlier of this pattern. Out of the total 219 published articles, Zootaxa dominated with 322 described species in 95 articles. The average impact factor was of 1.4 with only seven articles being published in Impact Factors above 3, indicating a hardship on publishing taxonomic articles in high-impact journals. The highlight of this paper is that it is unprecedent, as no annual record of Hexapoda species described was ever made in previous years to Brazil.