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Jocelia Grazia is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research primarily falls within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on the subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, Plant Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their main research topics include:

  • Hemiptera Insect Studies
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
  • Research on scale insects
  • Insects and Parasite Interactions
  • Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies

Jocelia Grazia has published extensively in several scientific venues with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Zootaxa
  • Neotropical Entomology
  • Systematic Entomology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Recent papers by Grazia cover various aspects of Hemiptera systematics and phylogeny. Notable publications include:

  • "Opening Pandora's box: molecular phylogeny of the stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) reveals great incongruences in the current classification" (2021), published in Systematic Entomology
  • "Phylogeny of the stink bug tribe Chlorocorini (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae) based on DNA and morphological data: the evolution of key phenotypic traits" (2021), published in Systematic Entomology
  • "Phylogenetic analysis of the Euschistus group (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) suggests polyphyly of Dichelops Spinola, 1837 with the erection of Diceraeus Dallas, 1851, stat. rev." (2020), published in Austral Entomology
  • "Evolution of wing polymorphism and genital asymmetry in the thread-legged bugs of the tribe Metapterini Stål (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Emesinae) based on morphological characters" (2020), published in Systematic Entomology
  • "Taxonomy of widespread Neotropical species of Podisus Herrich-Schäffer (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae): redescription of P. distinctus (Stål, 1860) and revalidation of P. fuscescens (Dallas, 1851)" (2020), published in Zootaxa

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jocelia Grazia include:

  • Kim Ribeiro Barão
  • Lurdiana Dayse de Barros
  • Ricardo Brugnera
  • Cristiano F. Schwertner
  • Valentina Castro-Huertas

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic relationships of family groups in Pentatomoidea based on morphology and DNA sequences (Insecta: Heteroptera)

    Jocelia Grazia;Randall T. Schuh;Ward C. Wheeler

  • Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae)

    Jocélia Grazia;Antônio R. Panizzi;Caroline Greve;Cristiano F. Schwertner

  • Taxonomy of widespread Neotropical species of Podisus Herrich-Schäffer (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae): redescription of P. distinctus (Stål, 1860) and revalidation of P. fuscescens (Dallas, 1851).

    Ricardo Brugnera;Talita Roell;Luiz Alexandre Campos;Jocelia Grazia

  • True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics

    Antônio R. Panizzi;Jocélia Grazia

  • Revision of Brachystethus (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Edessinae)

    Aline Barcellos;Jocélia Grazia

  • Revision of Tynacantha Dallas with description of two new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae).

    Ricardo Brugnera;Luiz Alexandre Campos;Jocelia Grazia

  • Revision of Taurocerus (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatomini)

    Jocélia Grazia;Aline Barcellos

  • O gênero Chinavia Orian (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae) no Brasil, com chave pictórica para os adultos

    Cristiano Feldens Schwertner;Jocélia Grazia

  • Revisão do gênero Antiteuchus Dallas (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Discocephalinae)

    José Antônio Marin Fernandes;Jocélia Grazia;Jocélia Grazia

  • Descrição de seis espécies de Chinavia (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae) da América do Sul

    Cristiano Feldens Schwertner;Jocelia Grazia

  • Unusual looking pentatomids: reassessing the taxonomy of Braunus Distant and Lojus McDonald (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae).

    Kim Ribeiro Barão;Thereza De Almeida Garbelotto;Luiz Alexandre Campos;Jocelia Grazia

  • Revisão e análise cladística de Serdia Stål (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatomini)

    Nora Denise Fortes de Fortes;Jocelia Grazia

  • Taxonomic review of Sibaria Stål, 1872 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Carpocorini), with description of a new species.

    Verônica Krein;Filipe M. Bianchi;David A. Rider;Jocelia Grazia

  • Variações morfológicas em Edessa rufomarginata e revalidação de E. albomarginata e E. marginalis (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Edessinae)

    Eduardo José Ely e Silva;José Antonio Marin Fernandes;Jocélia Grazia

  • Revision of the genus Poriptus Stal (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae)

    Aline Barcellos;Jocelia Grazia

  • Elanela Rolston revisited (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae): new distributional records and description of new species.

    Jocelia Grazia;Lurdiana Dayse De Barros;Kim Ribeiro Barão

  • Stapecolis, new genus of Ochlerini (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae).

    Thereza De A. Garbelotto;Luiz A. Campos;Jocelia Grazia

  • Cladistic analysis and synopsis of Chloropepla Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) with the description of three new species

    Caroline Greve;Cristiano F. Schwertner;Jocelia Grazia

  • Xynocoris , new genus of Ochlerini from Central and South America (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae)

    Thereza De A. Garbelotto;Luiz A. Campos;Jocelia Grazia

  • Cladistics and revision of Alitocoris with considerations on the phylogeny of the Herrichella clade (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Discocephalinae, Ochlerini)

    Thereza de A. Garbelotto;Luiz A. Campos;Jocelia Grazia

Frequent Co-Authors

Ward C. Wheeler
Ward C. Wheeler American Museum of Natural History
Gerasimos Cassis
Gerasimos Cassis University of New South Wales

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