Lucas Augusto Kaminski

Research interests

Publications

• 12,500+ and counting: biodiversity of the Brazilian Pampa

  Frontiers of Biogeography · 2023 · 10.21425/f5fbg59288

• Anthropogenic impacts on plant-animal mutualisms: A global synthesis for pollination and seed dispersal

  Biological Conservation · 2022 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109461

• Different-aged Pinus afforestation does not support typical Atlantic Forest fruit-feeding butterfly assemblages

  Forest Ecology and Management · 2022 · 10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120279

• Immature stages of Stegosatyrus ocelloides (Nymphalidae: Euptychiina), a grassland specialist butterfly

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2021 · 10.5281/zenodo.5600441

• Molecular phylogeny and higher systematics of the metalmark butterflies (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)

  Systematic Entomology · 2018 · 10.1111/syen.12282

• More Than Colours: An Eco-Evolutionary Framework for Wing Shape Diversity in Butterflies

  Advances in insect physiology · 2018 · 10.1016/bs.aiip.2017.11.003

• Trait-mediated indirect interactions of ant shape on the attack of caterpillars and fruits

  Biology Letters · 2016 · 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0401

• The Effect of Symbiotic Ant Colonies on Plant Growth: A Test Using an Azteca-Cecropia System

  PLoS ONE · 2015 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0120351

• The role of tending ants in host plant selection and egg parasitism of two facultative myrmecophilous butterflies

  Die Naturwissenschaften · 2014 · 10.1007/s00114-014-1232-9

• Paulogramma hydarnis (n. comb.) (Nymphalidae: Biblidinae): Distribution, Systematic Position, and Conservation Status of a Rare and Endangered Butterfly

  Neotropical Entomology · 2014 · 10.1007/s13744-014-0200-6

• Two ways to be a myrmecophilous butterfly: natural history and comparative immature-stage morphology of two species of Theope (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)

  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2013 · 10.1111/bij.12014

• Adult and early‐stage characters of Brassolini contain conflicting phylogenetic signal (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

  Systematic Entomology · 2013 · 10.1111/syen.12000

• Life History ofAricoris propitia(Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)—A Myrmecophilous Butterfly Obligately Associated with Fire Ants

  Psyche A Journal of Entomology · 2012 · 10.1155/2012/126876

• Natural history of an ant–plant–butterfly interaction in a Neotropical savanna

  Journal of Natural History · 2012 · 10.1080/00222933.2011.651649

• A new species of Yphthimoides (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the southern Atlantic forest region

  Zootaxa · 2012 · 10.11646/zootaxa.3526.1.3

• Immature stages ofParrhasius polibetes(Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): host plants, tending ants, natural enemies and morphology

  Journal of Natural History · 2012 · 10.1080/00222933.2011.651630

• Species‐specific levels of ant attendance mediate performance costs in a facultative myrmecophilous butterfly

  Physiological Entomology · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2011.00785.x

• Interaction between Mutualisms: Ant‐Tended Butterflies Exploit Enemy‐Free Space Provided by Ant‐Treehopper Associations

  The American Naturalist · 2010 · 10.1086/655427

• Ectoparasitism in Aulacothrips (Thysanoptera: Heterothripidae) revisited: Host diversity on honeydew-producing Hemiptera and description of a new species

  Zoologischer Anzeiger · 2010 · 10.1016/j.jcz.2010.09.002

• Trade-offs underlying polyphagy in a facultative ant-tended florivorous butterfly: the role of host plant quality and enemy-free space

  Oecologia · 2010 · 10.1007/s00442-010-1626-0

• Natural history and morphology of immature stages of the butterflyAllosmaitia strophius(Godart) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) on flower buds of Malpighiaceae

  Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment · 2010 · 10.1080/01650520903495826

• Polyphagy and Obligate Myrmecophily in the Butterfly Hallonympha paucipuncta (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) in the Neotropical Cerrado Savanna

  Biotropica · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00379.x

• Occurrence of Lepidopterism caused by the moth Hylesia nigricans (Berg) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil

  Neotropical Entomology · 2007 · 10.1590/s1519-566x2007000400022

• O estágio de ovo dos Heliconiini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

  Iheringia Série Zoologia · 2005 · 10.1590/s0073-47212005000100006

• Morfologia externa dos estágios imaturos de heliconíneos neotropicais: III. Heliconius erato phyllis (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae)

  Revista Brasileira de Zoologia · 2002 · 10.1590/s0101-81752002000400003

Current projects

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