Rhainer Guillermo Nascimento Ferreira

Research interests

Publications

• Odonata systematics: past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in Anisoptera (dragonflies)

  Insect Systematics and Diversity · 2025 · 10.1093/isd/ixaf030

• Scientists' warning on the need for greater inclusion of dragonflies in global conservation

  Insect Conservation and Diversity · 2025 · 10.1111/icad.12819

• Sampling completeness changes perceptions of continental scale climate–species richness relationships in odonates

  Journal of Biogeography · 2024 · 10.1111/jbi.14810

• Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2024 · 10.1098/rstb.2023.0102

• Sampling completeness changes perceptions of continental scale climate–species richness relationships in odonates

  Journal of Biogeography · 2024 · 10.1111/jbi.14810

• Amazonian Odonata Trait Bank

  Ecology and Evolution · 2023 · 10.1002/ece3.10149

• Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata)

  Diversity · 2022 · 10.3390/d14090757

• Dragon colors: the nature and function of Odonata (dragonfly and damselfly) coloration

  Journal of Zoology · 2022 · 10.1111/jzo.12963

• Color lightness of velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) follows an environmental gradient

  Journal of Thermal Biology · 2021 · 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2021.103030

• Impact of environmental changes on the behavioral diversity of the Odonata (Insecta) in the Amazon

  Scientific Reports · 2021 · 10.1038/s41598-021-88999-7

• Heat-distribution in the body and wings of the morpho dragonflyZenithoptera lanei(Anisoptera: Libellulidae) and a possible mechanism of thermoregulation

  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2021 · 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa216

• Dragonflies and damselflies from the West of Minas Gerais, Brazil: checklist and new records

  Biota Neotropica · 2020 · 10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2019-0851

• Comment on “Molecular identification of seven new Zygopteran genera from South China through partial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene”

  Meta Gene · 2020 · 10.1016/j.mgene.2020.100759

• Revision of the genus Minagrion Santos, 1965 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae)

  Zootaxa · 2020 · 10.11646/zootaxa.4786.2.2

• Buildings promote higher incubation temperatures and reduce nest attentiveness in a Neotropical thrush

  Ibis · 2020 · 10.1111/ibi.12863

• Sampling Methods for Dragonflies and Damselflies

  Journal · 2020 · 10.1007/978-3-030-53226-0_9

• Structural coloration predicts the outcome of male contests in the Amazonian damselfly Chalcopteryx scintillans (Odonata: Polythoridae)

  Arthropod Structure & Development · 2019 · 10.1016/j.asd.2019.100884

• A further study on Franciscobasis Machado & Bedê, 2016 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae), a newly described genus from Minas Gerais, Brazil

  PLoS ONE · 2019 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0223241

• Heteragrion denisye sp. nov. (Odonata: Zygoptera: Heteragrionidae), a notable species from Serra da Canastra, Minas Gerais, Brazil

  Zootaxa · 2019 · 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.4.10

• The female of Heteragrion icterops Selys, 1862 (Odonata: Heteragrionidae) with comments and key on the Brazilian females of Heteragrion group B

  Zootaxa · 2019 · 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.12

• Egg‐laying traits reflect shifts in dragonfly assemblages in response to different amount of tropical forest cover

  Insect Conservation and Diversity · 2018 · 10.1111/icad.12319

• Argia angelae (Odonata: Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) sp. nov. from Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso, Brazil

  Zootaxa · 2018 · 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.8

• Description of the female of Dicterias atrosanguinea Selys 1853, with notes on male genital ligula and male behavior (Odonata: Dicteriadidae)

  Zootaxa · 2018 · 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.3.7

• Final instar larvae of Argia mollis Hagen in Selys, 1865 and Argia smithiana Calvert, 1909 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado

  Zootaxa · 2018 · 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.1.11

• The Influence of Body Size and Agility in Displacement Capacity of Male Damselflies (Odonata, Protoneurinae)

  Journal of Insect Behavior · 2017 · 10.1007/s10905-017-9655-8

• Female color polymorphism ofIschnura capreolusHagen, 1861 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) with notes on behavior and ontogenetic color changes

  International Journal of Odonatology · 2017 · 10.1080/13887890.2017.1373152

• Colours of war: visual signals may influence the outcome of territorial contests in the tiger damselfly, Tigriagrion aurantinigrum

  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2017 · 10.1093/biolinnean/blx024

• The odonata community of a brazilian vereda: seasonal patterns, species diversity and rarity in a palm swamp environment

  Bioscience Journal · 2016 · 10.14393/bj-v32n2a2016-30491

• Erythrodiplax ana sp. nov. (Odonata: Libellulidae) from Brazilian palm swamps

  Zootaxa · 2016 · 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.2.10

• Mechanism of the wing colouration in the dragonfly Zenithoptera lanei (Odonata: Libellulidae) and its role in intraspecific communication

  Journal of Insect Physiology · 2015 · 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2015.07.010

• Variable assessment of wing colouration in aerial contests of the red-winged damselfly Mnesarete pudica (Zygoptera, Calopterygidae)

  Die Naturwissenschaften · 2015 · 10.1007/s00114-015-1261-z

• Recent and future environmental suitability to dengue fever in Brazil using species distribution model

  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2014 · 10.1093/trstmh/trt115

• Behavior of the Amazonian damselflyChalcopteryx scintillansMcLachlan (Zygoptera: Polythoridae) and comments on its morphological distinction fromC. rutilans(Rambur)

  International Journal of Odonatology · 2014 · 10.1080/13887890.2014.983189

• The Role of Wing Pigmentation, UV and Fluorescence as Signals in a Neotropical Damselfly

  Journal of Insect Behavior · 2013 · 10.1007/s10905-013-9406-4

• Ants Visiting the Post-Floral Secretions of Pericarpial Nectaries in Palicourea rigida (Rubiaceae) Provide Protection Against Leaf Herbivores But Not Against Seed Parasites

  Sociobiology · 2013 · 10.13102/sociobiology.v60i3.217-221

• New records of Forcipomyia (Pterobosca) incubans (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) parasitizing wings of Odonata in Brazil

  Biota Neopropica/Biota Neotropica · 2013 · 10.1590/s1676-06032013000100037

• Male and female interactions during courtship of the Neotropical damselfly Mnesarete pudica (Odonata: Calopterygidae)

  acta ethologica · 2012 · 10.1007/s10211-012-0122-4

• Oviposition site selection inOxyagrion microstigmaSelys, 1876 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) is related to aquatic vegetation structure

  International Journal of Odonatology · 2011 · 10.1080/13887890.2011.621109

• Territoriality and male-biased sexual size dimorphism in Argia reclusa (Odonata: Zygoptera)

  acta ethologica · 2011 · 10.1007/s10211-011-0114-9

• Resource Defense Polygyny by Hetaerina rosea Selys (Odonata: Calopterygidae): Influence of Age and Wing Pigmentation

  Neotropical Entomology · 2011 · 10.1590/s1519-566x2011000100011

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