Paulo Iide (22 February 1939 – 21 July 2012) was a Brazilian

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

who worked at the

Universidade Federal Fluminense The Fluminense Federal University ( Portuguese: ''Universidade Federal Fluminense'', UFF, named after the state's demonym) is a public higher education institution located mainly in Niterói and in other cities of Rio de Janeiro state. It was f ...

and at the

Instituto Oswaldo Cruz The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Portuguese ''Fundação Oswaldo Cruz'', also known as FIOCRUZ) is a scientific institution for research and development in biological sciences located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; it is considered one of the world's ma ...

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of the same name, Brazil's List of Brazilian states by population, third-most populous state, and the List of largest citi ...

, specializing in soldier flies (

Stratiomyidae The soldier flies (Stratiomyidae, sometimes misspelled as Stratiomyiidae, from Greek - soldier; - fly) are a family of flies (historically placed in the now-obsolete group Orthorrhapha). The family contains over 2,700 species in over 380 exta ...

) and horse-flies (

Tabanidae Horse-flies or horseflies are true flies in the family Tabanidae in the insect order Diptera. They are often large and agile in flight, and only the female horseflies bite animals, including humans, to obtain blood. They prefer to fly in su ...

Works

*Iide, P. 1966. Estudo sôbre as espécies brasileiras do gênero ''Chrysochlorina'' James, 1939 (Diptera, Stratiomyidae). Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de São Paulo 14(2): 69–113. *Iide, P. 1967. Estudo sôbre uma nova espeecie Amazionica de gienero "''Cyphomyia''" Wiedemann (Diptera, Stratioymidae). Atas do Simpósio sôbre a Biota Amazônica 5(Zoologia): 225–238. *Iide, P. 1968. Contribuição ao conhecimento das espécies brasileiras do gênero “''Euryneura''” Schiner, 1867 (Diptera, Stratiomyidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 28(3): 251–272. *Iide, P. 1971. Estudos sôbre os Stratiomyiidae da coleção do United States National Museum. II: O gênero ''Pelagomyia'' Williston, 1896 (Insecta, Diptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 31(4): 497–506.

References

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