Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (July 17, 1886 – December 14, 1948) was a Brazilian zoologist who is considered the founder of Arachnology in South America...
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Lasiodora parahybana (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
genus Theraphosa). It was discovered and described in 1917 by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão, in Paraíba, where the tarantula is endemic. They are popular...
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Firmino is a surname and given name, the Portuguese form of Firmin. Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (1886–1948), Brazilian zoologist Émerson Luiz Firmino...
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Maria Luisa Leitao, Hong Kong television host and actress Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (1886–1948), Brazilian zoologist George N. Leighton (1912–2018)...
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Metaltella (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
genus of South American intertidal spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1931. One species, Metaltella simoni, has been introduced...
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scientific name of this species was first published in 1941 by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão, found in Colombia. Platnick, Norman I. (2010). The world spider...
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Jürgen Gruber, Reginald Frederick Lawrence, Jochen Martens, Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (20th century) Gonzalo Giribet, Adriano Brilhante Kury, Tone...
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Grammostola pulchra (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
generally expensive.[citation needed] "Taxon details Grammostola pulchra Mello-Leitão, 1921", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved...
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morphotype 2 Avicularia juruensis was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1923, based on specimens from Juruá in Brazil. The specific...
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player Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (1886–1948), Brazilian zoologist Cândido José de Araújo Viana (1793–1875), Brazilian writer Cândido Rondon (1865–1958)...
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Oltacloea (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
South American ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940. As of June 2019[update] it contains only three species...
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Quemedice (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
South American huntsman spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1942. As of September 2019[update] it contains two species...
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Echemoides (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
South American ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938. Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved...
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(1764–1845) Mello-Leitão – Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (1886–1948) Melsheimer – Frederick Ernst Melsheimer (1782–1873) Menezes – Naercio Aquino de Menezes...
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Moreno (spider) (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940. As of August 2022[update] it contains six species...
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Dubiaranea (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
Dubiaranea is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1943. As of May 2019[update] it contains one hundred species...
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once by Eugène Simon in 1897 (Myrmecium lunatum) and once by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1932 (Myrmecium rubrum). As of April 2019[update] it contains...
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Arachnomura (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
South American jumping spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1917. As of June 2019[update] it contains only two species...
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Erissoides (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
of South American crab spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1929. As of September 2020[update] it contains two species...
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Neuquenia (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940. As of April 2019[update] it contains only two species, both found in Argentina. "Gen. Neuquenia Mello-Leitão...
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Austrohahnia (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
South American dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1942. As of May 2019[update] it contains only three species...
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Attacobius (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1925. As of April 2019[update] it contains sixteen species...
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Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1943. As of April 2019[update] it contains only two species, both found in Chile. "Gen. Neoporteria Mello-Leitão,...
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Gaucha (arachnid) (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
Brazil Mello-Leitão, Cândido (1924). "A new South-American solpugid". Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. 28: 140–143. "Gaucha Mello-Leitão, 1924"....
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Pikelinia (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
South American crevice weavers that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1946. As of September 2022[update] it contains 19 species:...
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Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1938. Its single species, Cordobulgida bruchi is distributed in Argentina. Mello-Leitão, C. (1938). "Solífugos de Argentina"...
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Pseudofluda (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
South American jumping spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1928. As of August 2019[update] it contains only three species...
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Fageia (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
genus of running crab spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1929. As of September 2022[update] it contains six species...
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Anisacate (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1941. As of April 2019[update] it contains four species: Anisacate fragile Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina...
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Gephyroctenus (category Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão)
genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1936. As of April 2019[update] it contains nine species:...
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