Thiago da Silva Moreira
Graduate Student (Ph.D.)
Systematics and Evolution of linyphiid spiders
Department of Biological Sciences
George Washington University
2023 G Street. NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
Tel. Lab: (202) 994-0302
Tel. Secretary: (202) 994-6090
Fax: (202) 994-6100
E-Mail: tmoreira@gwmail.gwu.edu

 


Education:

B.Sc. Biological Sciences, with emphasis in Zoology– Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) 2001 to 2005. Advisors: Adriano Brilhante Kury and Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista

Professional Post Graduation in Education – Universidade Cândido Mendes (UCAM) 2005 to 2007

M.Sc. Zoology – Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ) 2006 to 2008. Advisor: Adriano Brilhante Kury

PhD in Biological Sciences – The George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences. Fall of 2010 to Present date. Advisor: Gustavo Hormiga


Professional Experience:

Assistant curator of the spider colection Arachnology Department at MNRJ (from 2005-2010)

Scientific Advisor for the Management Plan to Parque Nacional da Tijuca (Tijuca National Park, Rio de Janeiro Brazil) (2003-2004)


Research Interests:

My main interests are Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of araneomorph spiders with emphasis on sheet web spiders (Linyphiidae) and crab spiders (Thomisidae). Interested topics include speciatiaton events, modeling spatial patterns of biodiversity and implication of morphologic aspects on ecological and behavioral characteristics.


Current Research:

Current project: Systematics and taxonomy of "Linyphiini" spiders (Linyphiidae), as part of the NSF-ARTS grant to Gustavo Hormiga and Gonzalo Giribet.

My PhD dissertation research focus in the sheet web spiders subfamily Linyphiinae, particulary in its Neotropical representatives. The aim of the study is to unravel the internal relationship of this subfamily using both morphological and molecular data and present a newer and more robust linyphiinids phylogenetic hypothesis. In addition, a taxonomic monography concerning some of its genera (eg: Diplothyron, Lomaita, Notholeptyphantes among others) is also in preparation


Field Experience:

2013 – Costa Rica (August 5th to August 25th). PN Braulio Carrilo, sector Volcán Barva; Estación Biológica Monteverde; PNMM Tapanti, Estacion Esperanza and Estacion Tapanti; Reserva Florestal Rio Macho, Estación Villa Mills.
Project name: ARTS: Systematics and Evolution of Neotropical Arachnids (PI. Gustavo Hormiga and Gonzalo Giribet, Harvard U., USA)
Other Expedition Members: Jesus Ballesteros (GWU)

2012 – Mexico (October 1st to October 21st). Veracruz: Pico de Orizaba.
Project name: Diversidad de las arañas araneomorfas en tres encinares de La Faja Volcánica Transmexicana (PI. Dr. Fernando Alvarez-Padilla, UNAM, Mexico)
Other Expedition Members: Fernando Alvarez Padilla, Uriel Garcilazo Cruz, Francisco Javier Salgueiro Sepulveda, Francisco Andrés Rivera Quiroz , Miguel Hernandez-Patrício (UNAM, Mexico) Facundo Labarque and Daniela Polotow (California Accademy of Sciences, USA)

2012 – Brazil (May 5th to June 5th). Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke (Amazonas) and Alto do Rio Jufari (Roraima).
Project name: ARTS: Systematics and Evolution of Neotropical Arachnids (PI. Gustavo Hormiga and Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard U., USA))
Other Expedition Members: Gustavo Hormiga, Jesus Ballesteros Chavez, Ligia Benavides (GWU) Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard University), Cristina Rheims, Rafael P. Indicatti (Intituto Butantan, Brazil), Ana Lucia Tourinho, Williams Porto and Lidiane Salvatierra (INPA, Brazil)

2008 – Brazil (May 12nd to 18th). PARES do Desengano (Rio de Janeiro).
Project name: AMMA – Aracnideos e Miriapodos da Mata Atlantica (PI: Dr. Adriano Brilhante Kury, MNRJ Brazil).
Other Expedition Members: Adriano Brilhante Kury, Cristiano Sampaio Costa and Amazonas Chagas-Júnior (MNRJ)

2006 – Brazil (October 20th to 25th and December). Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos (Rio de Janeiro).
Project name: AMMA – Aracnideos e Miriapodos da Mata Atlantica (PI: Dr. Adriano Brilhante Kury, MNRJ Brazil)
Other Expedition Members: Adriano Brilhante Kury, Alessandro P.L. Giupponi, Amanda Cruz Mendes, Amazonas Chagas-Júnior, Cláudio Pires Ferreira, Cristiano Sampaio Costa, Denis Rafael Pedroso, Eduardo Gomes de Vasconcelo and Eduardo Henrique Wienskoski Filho (MNRJ)

2005 – Brazil (February). Arraial d'Ajuda; Cabrália and Fazenda Santa Bahia in Alcobaça (Bahia).
Project name: AMMA – Aracnideos e Miriapodos da Mata Atlantica (PI: Dr. Adriano Brilhante Kury, MNRJ Brazil))
Other Expedition Members: Abel Pérez Gonzalez, Adriano Brilhante Kury, Amazonas Chagas-Júnior, Cristiano Sampaio Costa, Denis Rafael Pedroso and Eduardo Henrique Wienskoski Filho (MNRJ)

2003 – Brazil (March). Rio de Janeiro: Barra de Sao João (Rio de Janeiro).
Project name: AMMA – Aracnideos e Miriapodos da Mata Atlantica (PI: Dr. Adriano Brilhante Kury, MNRJ Brazil))
Other Expedition Members: Abel Pérez Gonzalez, Adriano Brilhante Kury, Alessandro P.L. Giupponi, Aline Pires, Amanda Cruz Mendes, Ana Lúcia Tourinho, Cláudio Pires Ferreira, Deives Frota Almeida Denis Rafael Pedroso, Eduardo Gomes de Vasconcelo and Renner L. Cerqueira Baptista (MNRJ)


Appointments:

2006 to 2008 – Graduate Teaching Assistant. Arachnids Taxonomy and Systematic. Museu Nacional/ UFRJ (Brazil)

2003 to 2005 – Undergraduate Teaching Assistant. Invertebrate Zoology. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

2003 to 2005 – Junior research assistant. Systematic and taxonomy of Spiders. PIBIC - Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação Científica, CNPq (Brazil)


Grants and Awards:

2013 – Sigma XI GIAR. Sigma XI Research Society.

Summer 2011and Summer 2012 – Harland Graduate Summer Scolarship. The George Washington University.

Fall 2010 to Fall 2012 – Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Biological Sciences. The George Washington University.

2006 to 2008 – M.Sc. Fellowship from Programa de Apoio à Pós-Graduação (PROAP) by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior)

2004 – Best poster presentation. Session: Arachnida & Miryapoda, at XXV Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia (XXV Brazilian Zoology Congress)

2003 to 2005 – Junior ressearch Fellowship Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação Científica (PIBIC) by CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico)


Memberships:

American Arachnological Society (AAS).

International Society of Arachnology (ISA).


Meetings Attended:

2010

Silva-Moreira, T. Polimorfismo morfológico em fêmeas de Epicadus heterogaster (Guérin-Menéville, 1829) (Araneae: Thomisidae: Stephanopinae). Event: XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Brazil.

Silva-Moreira,T; Rossini T.A. Duas novas espécies de Othiothops MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae: Palpimanidae: Othiopinae) do sul da Bahia. Event: XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Brazil.

2008

Silva-Moreira, T. Ampliação da Distribuição Geográfica do Gênero Epicadus (Araneae: Thomisidae).Event: Segundo Congresso Latinoamericano de Aracnologia, Argentina (poster)

2007

Silva-Moreira, T. Epicadus: A Dilemma to be Solved. Event:17th International Congress of Arachnology, São Pedro, São Paulo Brasil (Oral presentation)

Silva-Moreira, T. The State of The Art of The Thomisidae (Arachnidae: Araneae) Collection Of The Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro.Event: 17th International Congress of Arachnology, Brazil.

Pedroso, D.R., Baptista, R. L. C. and Silva-Moreira, T. Trechona rufa Vellard, 1924 (Araneae: Dipluridae): species rank, redescription and neotype designation. Event:17th International Congress of Arachnology, Brazil. (Poster)

2006

Wienskoski, E.H.F., Silva-Moreira, T and Baptista, R. L. C. Descrição do Macho de Hypognatha alho Levi,1996 (Araneae: Araneidae). Event:XXVI Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Brazil. (Poster)

Tourinho-Davis, A.L.M., Pérez, A. and Silva-Moreira, T - Quem são os representantes dos gêneros Geaya Roewer, 1910 e Prionostemma Pocock, 1903? (Arachnida, Opiliones, Eupnoi). Event: XXVI Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Brazil. (Poster)

2005

Silva-Moreira, T and Baptista, R. L. C. - Descrição do Macho de Caponina tijuca Platnick,1994 (Araneae, Caponiidae). Primer Congresso Latino Americano de Aracnologia, Uruguay. (Poster)

Baptista, R. L. C., Silva-Moreira, T, Pedroso, D.R., Wienskoski, E.H.F. - Levantamento da Araneofauna (Arachnida: Araneae) do Parque Nacional da Tijuca: Resultados Preliminares. Primer Congresso Latino Americano de Aracnologia, Uruguay. (Poster)

2004

Vasconcelos, E. G., Almeida, D. F., Silva-Moreira, T. - Notas Sobre a Distribuição Geográfica de Gonyleptinae (Opiliones, Laniatores, Gonileptidae). XXV Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia. Brazil. (Poster)

Silva-Moreira, T, Kury, A.B., Baptista, R. L. C. - Histórico e Estado Atual das Coleções do Laboratório de Aracnologia do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. XXVI Jornada Giulio Massarani de Iniciação Científica, Artística e Cultural. Brazil. (Poster)

2003

IV Encontro de Aracnólogos do Cone Sul (IV EACS) - Participant



Publications:

Silva-Moreira, T. 2010 . On the collection of Thomisidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil. Arquivios do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 67: 61-72.

Silva-Moreira, T; Baptista, R.L.C; Kury, A.B., Giupponi, A.P.L., Buckup, E. and Brescovit, A. D. 2010. Annotated check list of Arachnida type specimen deposited in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. II – Araneae. Zootaxa 2588: 1-91

 

Other Scientific Written Productions:

Silva-Moreira, T. 2008. Revisão Taxonômica de Epicadus Simon, 1895 (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae). pp. I-XIX, 1-97. (M Sc. Dissertation).

Silva-Moreira, T. 2006. Levantamento da Araneofauna (Arachnida: Araneae) do Parque Nacional da Tijuca. pp. I-VII, 1-120. (B.Sc Dissertation).

 


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