 Fernando
Vaz-de-Mello
with Megasoma gyas.
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Fernando Vaz-de-Mello is a grad
student in systematics at the Instituto de Ecologia in Xalapa,
Mexico working with Dr. Gonzalo Halffter. His interest is the
taxonomy and systematics of Neotropical Laparosticti Scarabaeoidea,
and he worked on the systematics of the scarabaeinae genera
Trichillum and Pedaridium for his M. S. thesis
at the University of Lavras in Brazil. He is also preparing
descriptions of new species and some new keys. He is describing
new species in the Aclopidae, Bolboceratidae, Ochodaeidae and
Orphnidae. He is also interested in the distribution of Brasilian
Laparosticts, myrmecophily, and termitophily in this group,
and phylogenetic relationships of small genera of Canthonini
and Ateuchini. He is very interested in exchanging scarabs of
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