Janira Martins Costa

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Janira Martins Costa (born December 5, 1941 in Olinda , Pernambuco ; † February 8, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian entomologist , university professor and former director of the Brazilian National Museum in Rio de Janeiro . She was instrumental in the identification and research of dragonflies in Brazil.

Life

Costa was the daughter of Francisco de Souza Martins and Ana Rosa Pedreira Martins. She moved to Rio de Janeiro to prepare for the university entrance exam and joined natural history courses at the private Universidade Gama Filho . She worked as a volunteer at the National Museum as early as 1964 under the guidance of Newton Dias dos Santos , one of the pioneers of entomology in Brazil. She graduated in 1967 and joined the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro from 1972 to 1976. Since 1976 she has taught at the National Museum, where she also conducted research. She received a master's degree in zoology (Life Sciences) in 1977 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , where she in 1985 with the work on calopterygidae Especiação em Mnesarete pudica: (Odonata Calopterygidae) doctorate and received permission to teach.

Her research focus was the taxonomy of dragonflies (Odonata), about which she wrote 96 essays, one book and ten chapters in books on the Neotropical Odonata and the fauna of Brazil. From 1994 to 1998 she was director of the National Museum and visiting professor at the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul in Campo Grande . In 2012, she retired from the National Museum after organizing and expanding the institution's entire Odonata collection, initiated by Newton Dias dos Santos.

She died of pancreatic cancer on February 8, 2018 .

Publications

Costa published numerous scientific articles in national and international journals.

  • Breve histórico sobre Newton Dias dos Santos. In: Revista brasileira de entomologia. São Paulo, Vol. 33 (1989), No. 2, pp. 402-411.

literature

  • Museu Nacional (Ed.): Os Diretores do Museu Nacional / UFRJ . Rio de Janeiro 2007, p. 51–52 (Brazilian Portuguese, archive.org [PDF; 639 kB ; accessed on September 26, 2018]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Costa, Janira Martins. In: biodiversitylibrary.org. Biodiversity Heritage Library , accessed September 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Janira Martin's Costa. In: escavador.com. Escavador, June 10, 2018, accessed September 26, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Janira Martins
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian entomologist, university teacher and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Olinda , Pernambuco
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2018
Place of death Rio de Janeiro