André Victor Lucci Freitas

Research interests

Publications

• Conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories explain the latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies

  Nature Communications · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25906-8

• Priors and Posteriors in Bayesian Timing of Divergence Analyses: The Age of Butterflies Revisited

  Systematic Biology · 2019 · 10.1093/sysbio/syz002

• Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

  PLoS Biology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075

• Studies with Butterfly Bait Traps: An Overview

  Revista Colombiana de Entomología · 2014 · 10.1177/012004881404000213

• Out of the Andes: patterns of diversification in clearwing butterflies

  Molecular Ecology · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04149.x

• Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2009 · 10.1098/rspb.2009.1303

• Selecting terrestrial arthropods as indicators of small-scale disturbance: A first approach in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

  Biological Conservation · 2009 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.01.008

• Egg‐Laying Butterflies Distinguish Predaceous Ants by Sight

  The American Naturalist · 2009 · 10.1086/599302

• Additive partitioning of butterfly diversity in a fragmented landscape: importance of scale and implications for conservation

  Diversity and Distributions · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00505.x

• Species richness, composition and abundance of fruit‐feeding butterflies in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: comparison between a fragmented and a continuous landscape

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2006 · 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00267.x

• Higher‐level phylogeny of the Ithomiinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): classification, patterns of larval hostplant colonization and diversification

  Cladistics · 2006 · 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00108.x

• Higher level phylogeny of Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on DNA sequence data

  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2006 · 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.007

• Conservation of Terrestrial Invertebrates and Their Habitats in Brazil

  Conservation Biology · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00682.x

• Phylogeny of the Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera)

  Systematic Biology · 2004 · 10.1080/10635150490445670

• Ant–plant–herbivore interactions in the neotropical cerrado savanna

  Die Naturwissenschaften · 2004 · 10.1007/s00114-004-0585-x

• Butterfly Communities of Urban Forest Fragments in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil: Structure, Instability, Environmental Correlates, and Conservation

  Journal of Insect Conservation · 2002 · 10.1023/a:1024462523826

• Atlantic Forest Butterflies: Indicators for Landscape Conservation1

  Biotropica · 2000 · 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2000.tb00631.x

• Atlantic Forest Butterflies: Indicators for Landscape Conservation1

  Biotropica · 2000 · 10.1646/0006-3606(2000)032[0934:afbifl]2.0.co;2

• Ants as Selective Agents on Herbivore Biology: Effects on the Behaviour of a Non-Myrmecophilous Butterfly

  Journal of Animal Ecology · 1996 · 10.2307/5723

Current projects

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