Table 3 in Coleoptera of Brazil: what we knew then and what we know now. Insights from the Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil

Table 3. Top ten authors with the most valid names for species recorded from Brazil.
AuthorNationality Family Number of species Years of publicationMaurice Pic 1 (1866–1957)FrenchAderidae, Anthicidae, Archeocrypticidae, Artematopodidae, Byrrhidae, Callirhipidae, Cantharidae, Chelonariidae, Chrysomelidae, Ciidae, Cleridae, Cneoglossidae, Dermestidae, Endomychidae, Georissidae, Lampyridae, Limnichidae, Lycidae, Lymexylidae, Megalopodidae, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Melyridae, Mordellidae, Mycteridae, Oedemeridae, Phengodidae, Ptilodactylidae, Ptinidae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Scirtidae, Scraptiidae, Staphylinidae, Tenebrionidae and Zopheridae1,7941894–1956Carl Henrich Boheman 2 (1796–1868)SwedishAnthribidae, Belidae, Brentidae, Buprestidae, Cantharidae, Carabidae, Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Coccinellidae, Curculionidae, Histeridae, Hydrophilidae, Mordellidae, Nitidulidae, Ptilodactylidae, Scarabaeidae, Staphylinidae and Tenebrionidae1,3091829–1862Jan Karel Bechyné 3 (1920–1973)CzechChrysomelidae1,229*1944–1983Carl Fiedler 4 (1864–1955)GermanCurculionidae1,0741932–1954Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins 5 (1932–2015)BrazilianCerambycidae, Disteniidae and Erotylidae1,008*1959–2016Henry Walter Bates 6 (1825–1892)EnglishCarabidae, Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Disteniidae, Endomychidae, Geotrupidae, Hybosoridae, Megalopodidae, Melolonthidae, Scarabaeidae and Tenebrionidae7381861–1891Thomas Lincoln Casey 8 (1857–1925)AmericanCoccinellidae, Curculionidae, Melolonthidae and Staphylinidae6571890–1922David Sharp 7 (1840–1922)EnglishAttelabidae, Bothrideridae, Brentidae, Carabidae, Chrysomelidae, Dytiscidae, Elmidae, Epimetopidae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae, Laemophloeidae, Limnichidae, Melolonthidae, Monotomidae, Nitidulidae, Noteridae, Staphylinidae and Zopheridae6231874–1905Alphonse-Adrien Hustache 1 (1872–1949) FrenchAttelabidae, Belidae and Curculionidae6111922–1951Maria Helena Mainieri Galileo (b. 1950) BrazilianCerambycidae and Disteniidae535*1977–2018
*Some species-group names published with co-authors. 1 Constantin (1992); 2 Stål (1869); 3 Anonymous (1974); 4 Groll (2016b); 5 Galileo and Santos-Silva (2015); 6 Ferreira (2004); 7 Smetana and Herman (2001).