Yoshika Oniki-Willis

Yoshika Oniki-Willis (born October 18, 1940 in Marília , São Paulo as Yoshika Oniki ) is a Brazilian entomologist and ornithologist .

Life

Yoshika Oniki is the daughter of Tatsuo and Yoshie Oniki, née Iwasaka. From 1962 to 1965 she studied natural history at the Faculdade de Filosofia of the Universidade Estadual Paulista in São Paulo . From 1966 to 1968 she conducted entomological and ornithological studies at the Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Trópico Úmido in Belém . From 1968 to 1970 she studied systematics and ecology at the University of Kansas , where she obtained her master’s degree with the thesis Studies of the guild of ant-following birds at Belém, Brazil under the direction of Philip Strong Humphrey (1926–2009) . During her studies she met the American ornithologist Edwin O'Neill Willis (1935-2015), whom she married in 1970. From this marriage a daughter was born. From 1970 to 1974 she was a researcher in the biological department of Princeton University in New Jersey . From 1975 to 1978 she was a lecturer in zoology at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas . In 1981 she was studying at the University of Miami . From 1984 to 1987 she studied ecology at the University of Campinas, where they face the dissertation Nidificação de aves em duas Localidades amazônicas: sucesso e adaptações under the direction of Jacques Veilliard (1944-2010) to the doctor received his doctorate of philosophy.

From 1987 to 1988 she conducted ornithological studies at the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul . From 1988 to 1989 she completed entomological studies, in particular on ectoparasites and vectors in birds, during her postdoctoral phase at the University of Florida . In 1991 she did a research stay at the Museum Koenig in Bonn . Yoshika Oniki Willis has been an entomologist and ornithologist since 1989 and has been the deputy director of the Instituto de Estudos da Natureza of the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo since 1991 . She has been a research assistant at the Universidade Estadual Paulista since 1992.

From May to July 1999, Oniki-Willis, in collaboration with German researchers at the Natural History Museums in Bonn and Rudolstadt studies on the taxonomy and ecology of ectoparasites ( louse family Ricinidae ) of hummingbirds by, based on collections and field studies between 1989 and 1999. This work contributed to the understanding of the relationship between ecology and phylogenesis in hummingbirds and their ectoparasites.

In 1982 Oniki-Willis and Kary Cadmus Emerson described the pine louse species Formicaricola willisi , which she named after her husband. In 1992 she and Edwin O'Neill Willis described the bank foliage tyrant ( Phylloscartes kronei ).

Oniki-Willis published three books with her husband, Nomes Gerais para as Aves Brasileiras in 1991 , Bibliography of Brazilian Birds 1500–2002 in 2002 and Aves do estado de São Paulo in 2003 .

literature

• Hitoshi Nomura: Ornitologia Brasileira - III: Aves brasileiras descritas nos séculos XX e XXI (até 2006) Atualidades Ornitológicas No. 133, September / October 2006. (PDF; 3.0 MB, Portuguese)

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae (Portuguese)