Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr., Brazilian entomologist and cytogeneticist (Capivari, São Paulo State 28 December 1898 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 22 January 1988)

Authored over 1200 publications between books, papers and popular articles

Authored papers with international repercussion on invertebrate cytogenetics

With A. Zamith reported new exceptional meiotic mechanisms or mis-meiosis (1946)

Discovered diffuse centromere in Tytius bahiensis

DESCRIBED ORTHOPTERA & ARACHNIDA TAXA

Orthoptera

Valid Genera

Acrephyllum 1973

Anapolisia 1980

Balneum 1967

Beierella 1978

Bertius 1974

Choirorhynchus 1974

Ctenophorema 1967

Herbardius 1980

Megatympanon 1958

Mendesius 1960

Meneghelia 1980

Metaphotina 1964

Miroceroys 1936

Paracoelophyllum 1972

Paraviadana 1980

Pelecynotum 1967

Phanerocercus 1980

Phaneropterella 1977

Phaneropteroides 1940

Piracicaba 1967

Polyurena 1967

Tympanotriba 1971

Wattenwylia 1938

Arachnida

Valid Genera

Anoplogynus 1938

Cercopachylus 1940

Inhuma 1938 

Paratricommatus 1943

Progonyleptiodellus 1940

Styloleptes 1943

Species

Over 300 being 143 in Orthoptera

HONOURS

Doctor Honoris Causa, Berlin University

Pizaia Terra 1982 (Orthoptera)

Pizacris Souza-Dias & Desutter-Grandcolas 2015 (Orthoptera)