Vitor Gabriel Pereira Junta

Concordia University
Candidat Ph.D.

superviseur(e): Jean-Philippe Lessard
Début: 2026-09-08

Publications

1- Are there choices in the darkness? habitat selection and environmental filtering shape invertebrate communities in semi-arid caves
Junta, Vitor Gabriel Pereira, Marconi Souza-Silva, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
2026 Oecologia

2- One cave, multiple worlds: cave zonation, habitat selection and conservation of cave-dwelling fauna in a new hotspot of subterranean biodiversity in South America
Junta, Vitor Gabriel Pereira, Marconi Souza-Silva, Gabriel Augusto Silva Vaz, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
2025 Community Ecology

3- Three new cricket species and a new subgenus of Endecous Saussure, 1878 (Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae) from caves in northeastern Brazil
CARVALHO, PEDRO HENRIQUE MENDES, VITOR GABRIEL PEREIRA JUNTA, RODRIGO ANTÔNIO CASTRO-SOUZA, RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
2023 Zootaxa

4- Expanding the taxonomic knowledge of Adelosgryllus Mesa & Zefa, 2004 (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae): description of four new species for Brazilian subterranean habitats
MERLO, RAYANNE LAYS SANT’ANA , RODRIGO ANTÔNIO CASTRO-SOUZA, VITOR GABRIEL PEREIRA JUNTA, RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
2022 Zootaxa

5- A new species of Arachnopsita (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae) from caves in Guatemala
JUNTA, VITOR GABRIEL PEREIRA , RODRIGO ANTÔNIO CASTRO-SOUZA, RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
2022 Zootaxa

6- The first record of Adelosgryllus Mesa & Zefa, 2004 (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae) from caves, with the description of a new species from Brazil
MERLO, RAYANNE LAYS SANT’ANA, RODRIGO ANTÔNIO CASTRO-SOUZA, VITOR GABRIEL PEREIRA JUNTA, RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
2021 Zootaxa

7- Five new species of Phalangopsis Serville, 1831 (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae) from Brazilian caves in the Amazon Forest
JUNTA, VITOR GABRIEL PEREIRA, RODRIGO ANTÔNIO CASTRO-SOUZA, RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
2020 Zootaxa

8- Description and ecology of a new species of the cricket genus Endecous (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae) in the speleological province of Arcos-Pains-Doresópolis, Southeastern Brazil
CASTRO-SOUZA, RODRIGO ANTÔNIO, VITOR GABRIEL PEREIRA JUNTA, RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
2020 Zootaxa