Moacyr Alvarenga, Brazilian military and entomologist (Campos, Rio de Janeiro State 10 August 1914 – 20 July 2010)

GENERA DESCRIBED 

Specialist in Erotylidae family (Coleoptera)

Apolybas 1965

Micrischyrus 1965

Neacronotus 1965

Nebarytopus 1965

Neoogaster 1965

Neopriotelus 1965 

Tritomapara 1970

Kakoia 1971 

Neomorphoides 1977

Lycocephala 1986 (with Martínez) 

EPONYMY

Alvarenga Carrera 1962 (Diptera)

Alvarenganiella Viana & Martínez 1971(Coleoptera)

Alvarengius Frey 1975 (Coleoptera)

Alvarengaia Rocha e Silva & de Aguiar 1977 (Orthoptera)

Alvarengamiris Carvalho 1991 (Hemiptera)

Besourenga Vaz de Mello 2008 (Coleoptera)

Moaciria Freitas 1956 (Nematoda) 

More than one hundred new insect species named after him.