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Entomologistas do Brasil, EntomoBrasilis, (15), p. e1000, 2022

DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1000

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Hexapoda Yearbook (Arthropoda: Mandibulata: Pancrustacea) Brazil 2020: the first annual production survey of new Brazilian species

Journal article published in 2022 by Alberto Moreira Silva-Neto ORCID, Rafaela Lopes Falaschi ORCID, Thamara Zacca ORCID, Juliana Hipólito ORCID, Pedro Aurélio Costa Lima Pequeno ORCID, João Rafael Alves-Oliveira ORCID, Roberto Oliveira dos Santos ORCID, Raphael Aquino Heleodoro ORCID, Adaiane Catarina Marcondes Jacobina ORCID, Alexandre Somavilla ORCID, Alexssandro Camargo ORCID, Aline de Oliveira Lira ORCID, Aline Amanda Sampaio ORCID, André da Silva Ferreira ORCID, André Luis Martins ORCID and other authors.
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Abstract

This paper provided a list of all new Brazilian Hexapoda species described in 2020. Furthermore, based on the information extracted by this list, we tackled additional questions regarding the taxa, the specialists involved in the species descriptions as well as the journals in which those papers have been published. We recorded a total of 680 new Brazilian species of Hexapoda described in 2020, classified in 245 genera, 112 families and 18 orders. These 680 species were published in a total of 2019 articles comprising 423 different authors residing in 27 countries. Only 30% of these authors are women, which demonstrates an inequality regarding sexes. In relation to the number of authors by species, the majority of the new species had two authors and the maximum of authors by species was five. We also found inequalities in the production of described species regarding the regions of Brazil, with Southeast and South leading. The top 10 institutions regarding productions of new species have four in the Southeast, two at South and with one at North Region being the outlier of this pattern. Out of the total 219 published articles, Zootaxa dominated with 322 described species in 95 articles. The average impact factor was of 1.4 with only seven articles being published in Impact Factors above 3, indicating a hardship on publishing taxonomic articles in high-impact journals. The highlight of this paper is that it is unprecedent, as no annual record of Hexapoda species described was ever made in previous years to Brazil.