Fernando Maia Silva Dias

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Fernando Maia Silva Dias (F.M.S. Dias), Entomologist, Brazil

Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, P.O. Box 19.020, 81.531–980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Dolibaina, D.R., Leite, L.A.R., Dias, F.M.S., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M.. An annotated list of Symmachia Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Symmachiini) from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil, with the description of a new species. Insecta Mundi 0249: 1–11.Web.Reference page.

Dias, F.M.S. ; Dolibaina, D.R. ; Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M., 2013: New species of Mesenopsis Godman & Salvin, 1886 (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Symmachiini) from southeastern Brazil, with an illustrated key to the genus. Zootaxa 3616 (6): 578–586. Preview: DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.6.4.
Dias, F.M.S., Dolibaina, D.R., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M. 2013: Revision of the genus Stichelia Zikán (Riodinidae: Riodininae: Symmachiini), with the description of a new species from southern Brazil. Zootaxa 3693(4): 579–593. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3693.4.10 [1] Reference page.
Dolibaina, D.R., Dias, F.M.S., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M. 2013. Taxonomy of the Synargis axenus complex belonging to the Synargis regulus species group, with a phylogenetic reassessment of the genus Synargis Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Nymphidiini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168(3): 427–451. Reference page.

Dias, F.M.S. ; Dolibaina, D.R. ; Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M., 2014: Two new species of Esthemopsis C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865 (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Symmachiini) from southeastern and northeastern Brazil, with taxonomic comments on Esthemopsis teras (Stichel, 1910) stat. rev. and Esthemopsis pallida Lathy, 1932 stat. nov. Zootaxa, 3784 (2): 148–158. Abstract: [2]

Dias, F.M.S., Dolibaina, D.R., Mielke, C.G.C., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M. 2015: Description of two new species of Pheles Herrich–Schäffer, [1853] and notes on the taxonomic position of two species hitherto included in the genus (Riodinidae: Riodininae). Zootaxa 3981(2): 275–283. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Dolibaina, D.R., Dias, F.M.S., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M. 2015. Argyrogrammana Strand (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil, with the description of four new species. Zootaxa 4028(2): 227–245. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.2.4. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Dolibaina, D.R., Dias, F.M.S., Siewert, R.R., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M. 2016. Mesene Doubleday (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil, with taxonomic notes and the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4175(5): 463–472. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.5.4. Reference page.
Neild, A.F.E., Nakahara, S., Zacca, T., Fratello, S., Lamas, G., le Crom, J-F., Dolibaina, D.R., Dias, F.M.S., Casagrande, M.M., Mielke, O.H.H. & Espeland, M. 2015. Two new species of Euptychia Hübner, 1818 from the upper Amazon basin (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). ZooKeys 541: 87–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.541.6297 Full article Reference page.
Queiroz-Santos, L., Dias, F.M.S., Dell'Erba, R., Casagrande, M.M. & Mielke, O.H.H. 2016. Assessment of the current state of biodiversity data for butterflies and skippers in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea). ZooKeys 595: 147-161. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.595.7856. Reference page.

Dias, F.M.S., Specht, A., Blas, G.S., Casagrande, M.M. & Mielke, O.H.H. 2017. Resurgence of a forgotten Southern Brazil endemic species: taxonomic position, redescription, and spatio-temporal distribution of Porosagrotis carolia Schaus, 1929 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Noctuinae). Zootaxa 4363(3): 421–433. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.3.7 Reference page.
Zacca, T., Mielke, O.H.H., Pyrcz, T.W., Dias, F.M.S., Casagrande, M.M & Boyer, P. 2017a. Systematics of the Neotropical genus Pampasatyrus Hayward, 1953 (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae: Pronophilina), with description of three new taxa. Insect Systematics & Evolution 48(3): 201-255. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-48022154. Reference page.

Dias, F.M.S., Dolibaina, D.R., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M. 2020. Taxonomic review of the “Probetoriformes” species group of Symmachia Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae), with the description of two new species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Zootaxa 4780(3): 471–507. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.3.3. . Reference page.