Willians Porto

Willians Porto, Brazilian arachnologist

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biodiversidade. Avenida André Araújo, 2936, Aleixo, CEP 69011−970, Cx. Postal 478, Manaus, AM, Brazil

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

& Colmenares, P.A. 2014. A new species of Avima, the first record of Agoristenidae (Opiliones: Laniatores) from the state of Roraima, Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba) 31: 634–638. Reference page.

Colmenares, P.A., & Tourinho, A.L. 2016. Taxonomic notes on the genus Auranus (Opiliones, Laniatores, Stygnidae), with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4103(2): 117–129. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.2. Reference page.

Porta, A.O., Proud, D.N., Franchi, E., , Epele, M.B. & Michalik, P. 2019. The first record of caeculid mites from the Cretaceous amber of Myanmar with notes on the phylogeny of the family. Pp 23–43 In Zhang, Z-Q., Pfingstl, T., Norton, R., Mironov, S.V. & Seeman, O.D. (eds.). Systematic acarology and palaeoacarology: a special volume in memory of Ekaterina Alekseevna Sidorchuk (1981–2019). Zootaxa 1–505. Reference page. Zootaxa 4647(1): 23–43. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4647.1.5 Reference page.

& Pérez-González, A. 2020. Redescription of Promecostethus unifalculatus, the only known harvestman from Crozet Islands (Opiliones: Triaenonychidae). Zootaxa 4861(1): 120–130. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.1.8 Reference page.
& Pérez-González, A. 2020a. Beauty under the mud: Soil crypsis in new species of the Malagasy genus Ankaratrix (Opiliones: Triaenonychidae: Triaenobuninae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 287: 198–216. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.06.001. . Full article (PDF). Reference page.

, Derkarabetian, S., Giribet, G. & Pérez-González, A. 2024. Systematic revision of the South American “Nuncia” (Opiliones, Laniatores, Triaenonychidae). ZooKeys 1207: 1–149. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1207.120068 Reference page.
, Monod, L. & Pérez-González, A. 2024. Uncovering the worldwide footprint of an ancient relictual lineage of harvestmen: new genus and species of Buemarinoidae from Australia (Opiliones: Laniatores: Triaenonychoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society zlae067: 1–11. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae067 . Reference page.

Pereira, M.P., , de Moya-Guerra, N.A., Martínez-Hernández, N.J. & Pérez-González, A. 2025. Two new species of Icaleptes (Opiliones: Laniatores: Icaleptidae) from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Zootaxa 5563(1): 166–192. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.12. Reference page.