Angelo Moreira da Costa Lima, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 29 June 1887 – Rio de Janeiro 20 May 1964)

World authority on Curculionidae Coleoptera

Authored 344 works between them Insetos do Brasil (Insects of Brazil) that earned him international reputation (1939-62)

With H. Aragão showed that yellow fever could be transmitted mosquito to mosquito 

With H. Aragão performed studies about behavior of yellow fever virus in mosquito e its transmissibility requirements

DESCRIBED GENERA

Coleoptera

Eusemio 1950

Geniatosoma 1940

Malacobius 1920

Melzerella 1931

Microscapus 1950

Paranaenomus 1914

Plaumanniola 1962

Pseudoecitoxenia 1932

Spermophthorus 1929

Diptera

Microlynchia 1915 with Lutz & Neiva

Neohexachaeta 1953

Paratrichobius 1921

Pintomyia 1932

Pseudophorellia 1934

Pseudopolionota 1935

Pseudostrebla 1921 

Hemiptera

Neoneella 1942

Penidoia 1940

Pessoaia 1940

Phacosemoides 1962 with Guitton

Hymenoptera

Duckeia 1936

Lutzimicron 1960

Orthoptera

Rehnacridium 1942

METHODS

Described a method for staining and mounting in entomology named Costa Lima method

Coloração de pequenos insetos. Arch. Esc. Agr. Med. Vet. 5:125, 1921

Technica para a preparação e montagem de pequenos insectos para exame microscópico. Rev. Sciencias 4(4-6):165-6, 1920

A method for mounting articular parts of insects 

HONORS

Costalimaida Orfila 1958 (Lepidoptera)

Angelocentris Bondar 1949 (Coleoptera)

Costalimaita Bechyné 1954 (Coleoptera) 

Costalimacris Carbonell & Campos Seabra 1988 (Orthoptera) 

Limacridium Carbonell & Campos Seabra 1988 (Orthoptera) 

Costalimella Martins-Neto 1996 (Fossil Ephemeroptera) 

Costalimada Martin 2011 (Hemiptera) 

Limacoccus Bondar 1929 (Hemiptera)

Angelodesmus Schubart 1962 (Diplopoda)

Subgenus Limamyia Lane & Cerqueira 1942 (Diptera)