Angelo Barbosa Monteiro Machado, Brazilian neuroanatomist and entomologist (Belo Horizonte 22 May 1934 – Belo Horizonte 06 April 2020)

Authored about 165 publications

MORPHOLOGY

Discovered a new function of smooth endoplasmatic reticulum i.e. the formation of noradrenaline synaptic vesicles in axon terminals

Made influential discoveries on lesions of autonomic nervous system in Chagas disease (1960s)

ENTOMOLOGY

DESCRIBED ODONATA TAXA

Genera

Helveciagrion 1980

Navicordulia 1995 with J.M. Costa

Amazoneura 2004

Schizocordulia 2005

Tukanobasis 2009

Denticulobasis 2009

Tuberculobasis 2009

Austrotepuibasis 2011 with Lencioni

Carajathemis 2012

Franciscobasis 2015 with Bedê

Franciscagrion 2015 with Bedê

Species  

98 (until 2017)

Others

Helicopsyche planorbides 1957 (Trichoptera)

HONORS

Genus Machadoporites Nemesio 2005 (Cnidaria)