“…The Amazon region has had a considerable number of studies carried out during the mid-20 th century by foreign researchers such as Grönblad (1945), Thomasson (1955Thomasson ( , 1971Thomasson ( , 1977, Förster (1963Förster ( , 1964Förster ( , 1969Förster ( , 1974, Scott et al (1965), Schmidt and Uherkovich (1973), Uherkovich and Schmidt (1974), Uherkovich and Rai (1979), and Uherkovich (1981). Only since the 1980s have the main contributors been Brazilian, such as Martins (1980Martins ( , 1982Martins ( , 1986aMartins ( , 1986b, Bittencourt-Oliveira (1990, 1993a, 1993b, Lopes (1992), Suarez-Mera (1995), Sophia and Huszar (1996), Ibañez (1998), Lopes and Bicudo (2003), Martins-da-Silva and Bicudo (2007), Souza et al (2007), Souza (2008Souza ( , 2012, Melo and Souza (2009), and Melo (2010, 2011). The most recent Brazilian researchers are Holanda et al (2019), Araújo et al (2020), and Saturnino et al (2020).…”