Biography

Carminda da Cruz Landim, Portuguese-born Brazilian animal morphologist (Figueira de Penacova, Beira Litoral Province, Portugal 06 August 1935 –

DESCRIBED NEW STRUCTURES IN

Hymenoptera

With F.C. Abdalla & M.L.F. Gracioli Vitti. Anatomy and histology of the Dufour and venom gland s of Augochloropsis graminea Fabricius 1804. Naturalia (2003) (first time to be described some globular enlargements placed along the secretory filaments in bee venom glands)

With K. Patricio. Morphological aspects of cell reabsorption in laying queens and workers of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Iheringia Ser. Zool. 98(4), 2000 (described and named corpus luteus and corpus atresicus in ovaries of queens and nurse workers of  this species)

With R.D. Reginato. Preliminary report on the presence of tegumentar glands in the thorax of Meliponinae bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev. Bras. Biol. 59(1), 1999 (first report of glandular cells in the lateral tegument of the mesothorax of Meliponinae bees)

With A.C. Guerino. A new type of sternal gland presente in Oxaea flavescens (Hymenoptera, Oxaeinae): location and histology. Cytobios 97:71-7, 1999

With F.C. Abdalla, H. Velthuis & M.J. Duchateau. A new class of exocrine glandular cell in insects: Dufour’s gland cell of the bumble bee Bombus terrestris L. (Hymenoptera, Bombini). Acta Microscopica 8:493-4, 1999

With A.C. Guerino. Ultrastructure of a tegumentar gland present in 5th ventral segment of the abdomen of Euglossa cordata (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossinae). Acta Microscopica 6:602, 1997

With J.E. Serrão. A specialized midgut region in stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae). Biocell 20:227-34, 1996

With R.L.M. Silva de Moraes. Ultrastructural localization of new exocrine glands in legs of social Apidae (Hymenoptera) workers. J. Adv. Zool. 15(2):60-7, 1994

An unusual lamellar envelop from the ventricular muscle fibers of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 28:465-72, 1984

Others

With E.W. Kitajima. Uma estrutura peculiar em cutículas de lipídeos nas células foliculares de Coffea sp. Bragantia 27(19):78-84, 1968

Significado dos núcleos acessórios  que ocorrem em ovócitos de insetos. Estudo em Atta sexdens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Resumos XVIII Congr. Bras. Zool. (1986) 

HONORS

Carminda Dias 1998 (Lepidoptera)