Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque
Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 August 1918[1] Cuiabá, Brazil |
| Died | 3 October 1982 (aged 64)[1] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Known for | Entomology; direction of the Museu Nacional; reconstruction and recovery of the Adolpho Ducke collection |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Entomology |
| Institutions | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi; Museu Nacional (Brazil) |
Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque (2 August 1918 – 3 October 1982) was a Brazilian entomologist who served as director of the National Museum of Brazil (Museu Nacional). A total of at least seven taxon names are authored by him.[2]
Biography
Albuquerque arrived at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in 1962 together with two other noted entomologists, Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque and Roger H. P. Arlé.[2]
Albuquerque later assumed the directorship of the museum; during his six years as director, he did not publish scientific papers, although he worked daily in the laboratory assisting and following ongoing research projects.[2] He was concerned with training local personnel for entomological research in the region. Therezinha de Jesus Pimentel Chaves, now an entomology researcher, was supervised by Dalcy Albuquerque, who is remembered for his dedication as a mentor.[2]
Albuquerque, together with two interns and technicians Apolinário Azevedo de Souza and Maria Fernanda Pinto Torres, initiated a project to reassemble and recover the former Adolpho Ducke collection, a collection that had many type specimens lost during fifty years when the material had been boxed up.[2][3]
He married fellow entomologist Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque.[4]
Honours
- 1957 Guggenheim Fellowships award
- 1960 Guggenheim Fellowships award
- Colobodactylus dalcyanus is named in honor of him.[5][6]: 4
- Atractus albuquerquei is also named in honor of him.[6]: 4
See also
References
- ^ a b Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque at neglectedscience.com
- ^ a b c d e "Entomologia do Museu Goeldi" (PDF). Acta Amazonica (in Portuguese). Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA). 1981. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- ^ Entomologia do Museu Goeldi — full article (SciELO).
- ^ Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1959. p. 114.
- ^ Colobodactylus dalcyanus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 July 2019.
- ^ a b Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. xiii + 296. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.