Wilson R. Lourenço

Wilson R. Lourenço is a French-Brazilian arachnologist specializing in scorpions.

Biography

Wilson R. Lourenço gained his PhD in evolutionary biology in 1978 from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, and a doctorate in population biology there in 1985. Since 1971 he has worked on the taxonomy, general biology, biogeography, and ecology of scorpions. He is an emeritus research fellow at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle of Paris.[1] He has published over 600 papers on scorpions,[1][2] and books including the 2002 Scorpions of Brazil.[3]

Dedicated taxa

Other zoologists have named the following taxa after Lourenço:

Described taxa

Lourenço has described the following taxa:

Lourenço named Afghanobuthus naumanni and its monotypic genus.
Lourenço has described the genus and many species of Microcharmus, including Microcharmus cloudsleythompsoni.
Protobuthus elegans, a Triassic scorpion described by Lourenço & Gall

References

  1. ^ a b Lourenço, Wilson R. (2014). "A historical approach to scorpion studies with special reference to the 20th and 21st centuries". Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases. 20 (1): 8. doi:10.1186/1678-9199-20-8. ISSN 1678-9199. PMC 3995703. PMID 24618067.
  2. ^ "Lourenço, Wilson R." ZooBank. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  3. ^ Lourenço (2002). Scorpions of Brazil. Paris: Éd. de l'If. ISBN 978-2-914449-03-8. OCLC 470146814.
  4. ^ Ojanguren Affilastro, Andres Alejandro; Mattoni, Camilo Ivan; Ochoa, José A.; Prendini, Lorenzo (February 2012). "Rumikiru, n. gen. (Scorpiones: Bothriuridae), a new scorpion genus from the Atacama Desert". Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.