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

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

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

2022

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 2019 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.

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