The man who loved flies: a biographical profile of Nelson Papavero 

Abstract

Nelson Papavero is one of the major Brazilian zoologists. His contribution to the field began in the second half of the twentieth century, when he started publishing in the areas of entomology, systematics, biogeography, and history of science, while working at graduate courses and training teachers and students. Papavero was one of the earliest Brazilian advocates of Hennig's phylogenetic systematics. In his entomological work, his first widely recognised works were the Catalogue of South American Diptera and his essays on the history of Neotropical Dipterology. Papavero's greatest contribution however, is in his Special Courses on Zoological Systematics, as well as his numerous administrative positions during his academic career. All these were fundamental to the development of zoology and comparative biology in Brazil and other Latin American countries. Here we present a biography of Nelson Papavero, along with several personal anecdotes, and his role in the development of Brazilian biological systematics over the last 50 years.

The Brazilian entomologist Messias Carrera (1907-1994): Biobibliographical profile

“…4), there is some direct information or evidence of his professional profile and personal life that were compiled and organized in this article. These are scattered mainly in their introductory sections, such as prefaces and introductions, written by the author or by important professionals in their fields, such as Júlio Seabra Inglez de Souza , an agronomist of great importance for Viticulture and Brazilian enology (Agricultura, 1998), José Reis (1907-2002, "dean" of scientific journalism in Brazil (Giacheti, 2006), and Prof. Dr. Nelson Papavero, renowned Brazilian entomologist (Klassa & Santos, 2014).…”

Aphyly: identifying the flotsam and jetsam of systematics

“…Klassa and Santos's () recent profile of the Brazilian entomologist Nelson Papavero discussed the term “merophyly”. Merophyly was created to correspond to the identification of “unnatural or non‐monophyletic groups (both poly and paraphyletic)” (Bernardi, ).…”

On the diversity of Neotropical Hymenoptera

“…Scobble 1999 for Geometridae). Nelson Papavero during several decades published the serial catalog of Diptera of the Neotropical region (Klassa and dos Santos 2014).…”