Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha (Pinto-da-Rocha), Brazilian arachnologist.

• Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11461, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 05422-970
• E-mail: ricrocha@usp.br

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• 64 taxon names authored by Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

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• 1 eponym of Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

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• Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Buckup, E.H. 1995: Wagneriana levii, a new species of Araneidae from Brazil (Araneae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia 79: 159-161. Reference page. 

• Buckup, E.H. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 1996: On the males of Wagneriana roraima Levi and W. yacuma Levi (Araneae, Araneidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 13: 849-852. Reference page. 

• Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 1997. Systematic review of the Neotropical family Stygnidae (Opiliones, Laniatores, Gonyleptoidea). Arquivos de Zoologia 33: 163–342. Reference page. 

• Firmo & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2002. A new species of Pseudotrogulus Roewer and assignment of the genus to the Hernandariinae (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae). Journal of Arachnology 30: 173-176. Reference page. 

• Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Hara, M.R. 2009. New familial assignments for three species of Neotropical harvestmen based on cladistic analysis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores). Zootaxa 2241(1): 33–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2241.1.3 . Reference page. 
• Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Villarreal M, O. 2009. Cladistic analysis of the Stygninae and description of a new species of Protimesius Roewer, 1913 (Opiliones: Stygnidae). Zootaxa 2176: 48–56. Abstract & excerpt . Reference page. 
• Yamaguti, H.Y. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2009. Taxonomic review of Bourguyiinae, cladistic analysis, and a new hypothesis of biogeographic relationships of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest (Arachnida: Opiliones, Gonyleptidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156(2): 319–362. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00484.x Reference page. 

• Dasilva, M.B. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2010. Systematic review and cladistic analysis of the Hernandariinae (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 27(4): 577–642. DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000400010. . Reference page. 
• DaSilva, M.B., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Giribet, G. 2010. Canga renatae, a new genus and species of Cyphophthalmi from Brazilian Amazon caves (Opiliones: Neogoveidae). Zootaxa 2508: 45–55. Preview Reference page. 
• Hara, M.R. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R.P. 2010. Systematic review and cladistic analysis of the genus Eusarcus Perty 1833 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae). Zootaxa 2698: 1–136. Preview. Reference page. 

• Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Bragagnolo, C. 2011. Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of the Brazilian subfamily Sodreaninae (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae). Invertebrate Systematics 24: 509–538. [2010]. Reference page. 
• Pinto-da-Rocha, R.P. & Hara, M.R. 2011. Redescription of Platygyndes Roewer 1943, a false Gonyleptidae, (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae). ZooKeys, 143: 1–12. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.143.1916. Reference page.  

• Bragagnolo, C. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2012. Systematic review of Promitobates Roewer, 1913 and cladistic analysis of Mitobatinae Simon, 1879 (Arachnida: Opiliones: Gonyleptidae). Zootaxa 3308: 1–48. Preview Reference page. 
• Dasilva, M.B. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2012. Descriptions of Thereza murutinga sp. nov. and Pristocnemis caipira sp. nov., and new records of Caelopyginae (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptidae). Zootaxa 3317: 25–38. Preview Reference page. 
• Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Tourinho, A.L. 2012. Two new genera, ten new species and new records of Amazonian Stygnidae Simon, 1879 (Opiliones: Laniatores). Zootaxa 3340: 1–28. Preview . Reference page. 
• Polydoro, N.S. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2012. New species of Fissiphallius Martens 1988 from Brazil and notes on the morphology of Fissiphalliidae (Arachnida, Opiliones). Zootaxa 3583: 77–82. Preview . Reference page. 

• Coronato-Ribeiro, A., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Rheims, C.A., 2013. Catalogue of Opiliones (Arachnida) types deposited in the Arachnida and Myriapoda collection of the Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil. Zootaxa 3637(5): 501–520. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3637.5.1 Reference page. 
• Coronato-Ribeiro, A., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Rheims, C.A. 2013. A new species of Imeri (Opiliones: Stygnidae: Heterostygninae) from the Brazilian Amazon. Zoologia (Curitiba) 30(3): 329–332. PDF Reference page. 
• Pessoa-Silva, M., Hara, M.R. & Pinto da Rocha, R., 2013. Revision of the South American Fonckia (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae: Pachylinae) with the description of two new species. Zoologia (Curitiba), 30(2): 227–237. PDF. Reference page. 
• Ochoa, J.A. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2013. Three new Peruvian species of Protimesius (Opiliones: Laniatores: Stygnidae). Journal of Arachnology, 41(2): 197–204. DOI: 10.1636/Ha12-69.1 Reference page. 

• Hara, M.R., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Villarreal M., O. 2014. Revision of the cranaid genera Phalangodus, Iquitosa and Aguaytiella (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptoidea). Zootaxa 3814(4): 567–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.8 Reference page. 
• Mori, B.J. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2014. Taxonomic revision of Parampheres (Arachnida: Opiliones: Gonyleptidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 31(6): 541–556. DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702014000600003. Reference page. 
• Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Bragagnolo, C. & Tourinho, A.L. 2014. Three new species of Thrasychiroides Soares & Soares, 1947 from Brazilian mountains (Opiliones, Eupnoi, Neopilionidae). Zootaxa 3869(4): 469–482. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.4.9 Reference page. 

• Bragagnolo, C., Hara, M.R. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2015. A new family of Gonyleptoidea from South America (Opiliones, Laniatores). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173: 296–319. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12207. Reference page. 
• Coronato-Ribeiro, A. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2015. Four new species of Cosmetus from Panama, with comments on the systematics of the genus (Opiliones: Cosmetidae). Zoologia 32(5): 409–422. PDF. Reference page. 
• Monteiro, Y.F. & Pinto-da-Rocha, P. 2015. Revision of the genus Ferkeria Roewer, 1947, with the description of a new species (Opiliones: Laniatores: Cosmetidae). Zootaxa 4006(2): 361–373. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.2.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Fonseca-Ferreira, R. & Bichuette, M.E. 2015. A new highly specialized cave harvestman from Brazil and the first blind species of the genus: Iandumoema smeagol sp. n. (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae). Zookeys 537: 79–95. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.537.6073 Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Tourinho, A.L., Pinto da-Rocha, R. & Bragagnolo, C. 2015. Taxonomic notes on Holcobunus Roewer, 1910, with descriptions of three new species, and new records for Holcobunus nigripalpis Roewer, 1910 (Opiliones: Eupnoi: Sclerosomatidae). Zootaxa 4027(3): 425–436. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.3.6 Preview (PDF). Reference page. 
• Villarreal M, O., Kury, A.B. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2015. The poorly known genus Ventrifurca Roewer, 1913 revisited (Opiliones: Cranaidae). Zoological Studies 54(45): 1–18. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Andrade, R. & Moreno-González, J.A. 2016. Two new cave-dwelling genera of short-tailed whip-scorpions from Brazil (Arachnida: Schizomida: Hubbardiidae). Zoologia 33(2): 1–9. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Coronato-Ribeiro, A. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2017. Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Metalibitia Roewer, 1912 (Opiliones, Cosmetidae, Cosmetinae). Zootaxa 4291(2): 201–242. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.2.1. Reference page. 
• Gueratto, C., Mendes, A.C. & Pinta-da-Rocha, R. 2017. Description of two new species of Magnispina and a new hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships for Heteropachylinae (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptidae). Zootaxa 4300(2): 180–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.2.2. Reference page. 
• Hara, M.R., Bragagnolo, C. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2017. Revision of Thaumatocranaus Roewer, 1932, with description of two new species (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptoidea). Zootaxa 4254(4): 457–472. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.4.5. Reference page. 
• Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Bragagnolo, C. 2017. Cladistic analysis of the family Nomoclastidae with descriptions of a new genus and eight new species (Opiliones, Laniatores). Invertebrate Systematics 31: 91–123. Reference page. 

• Costa, C.S., Chagas, A. Jr. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2018. Redescription of Epiperipatus edwardsii, and descriptions of five new species of Epiperipatus from Brazil (Onychophora: Peripatidae). Zoologia, 35: e23366. DOI: 10.3897/zoologia.35.e23366 Reference page. 
• Damron, B.N., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Longhorn, S.J. 2018. Description of a new species of Eucynorta (Opiliones, Cosmetidae) from Cortés, Honduras. Zootaxa 4450(1): 125–134. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.1.9 Reference page. 
• Hara, M.R., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Benedetti, A.R. 2018. Redescription of Juticus furcidens Roewer, 1943 (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae), with a discussion of its relationships in the subfamily Gonyleptinae. Zootaxa 4422(3): 422–430. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.3.8 Reference page. 
• Kury, A.B., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Gruber, J. & Carvalho, R.N. 2018. Clarification of three species of Discocyrtus Holmberg, 1878 with convoluted taxonomic histories (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptidae: Pachylinae). Journal of Arachnology 46: 355–369. Reference page. 

• Benedetti, A.R. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2019. Description of two new species of Progonyleptoidellus (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae), with a cladistic analysis of the genus, an overview of relationships in the K92 group, and taxonomic notes on Deltaspidium. Zootaxa 4691(5): 461–490. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4691.5.3 Reference page. 

• Pinzón-Morales, C.A. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2020. Two new Colombian harvestmen of the genus Quindina Roewer, 1914 (Opiliones: Nomoclastidae). Zootaxa 4748(3): 531–547. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.3.7 Reference page. 

• Benavides, L.R., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Giribet, G. 2021. The Phylogeny and Evolution of the Flashiest of the Armored Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones). Systematic Biology 70(4): 648–659. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa080 Reference page. 
• Gueratto, C., Benedetti, A.R. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2021. Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Mischonyx Bertkau, 1880, with taxonomic changes and three new species description (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae). PeerJ 9:e11682 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11682. . Reference page. 
• Moreno-González, J.A., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Gallão, J.E. 2021. Zookeys 1075ː 33–75. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1075.67459 Reference page. 
• Pessoa-Silva, M., Hara, M.R. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2021. Revision of the southern Andean genus Sadocus Sørensen, 1886 (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae, Pachylinae). Zookeys 1025: 91–137. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1025.57806 Reference page. 
• Pinzón-Morales, C.A., Damron, B.N. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2021. Three new species of Cosmetidae C.L. Koch, 1839 from South America. (Opiliones: Cosmetidae). Zootaxa 4984(1): 203–217. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.16. . Reference page. 

• Benedetti, A.R. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2022. Systematic revision and total evidence phylogenetic analysis of the Andean family Metasarcidae Kury, 1994 (Opiliones: Laniatores), with description of two new genera and twenty new species. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 80: 309–388. Reference page. 

• Damron, B.N., Moreno-González, J.A. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 2025. Systematic placement of the enigmatic genus Timesius Simon, 1879 (Opiliones, Laniatores, Nomoclastidae), with description of a new species from the Colombian Andes. Zootaxa 5661(3): 381–393. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5661.3.5. Reference page. 
• Saraiva, N.E.V., Pinto-da-Rocha & DaSilva, M.B. 2025. Amid the fallen leaves: Intense collecting in the Northern Atlantic Forest reveals new minute harvestmen species (Opiliones: Stygnidae) within the Area of Endemism of Pernambuco. Austral Entomology 64(4): 1-20. DOI: 10.1111/aen.70024. Reference page.