02819naa a2200193 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000190006024500630007926000090014230000150015149000080016652022560017465000110243065300110244165300280245265300290248077301160250914625802006-03-09       2000    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aPANIZZI, A. R.  aBrazilian entomological societies preserving biodiversity.  c2000  ap.103. v.1  vv.1  aThere are two entomological societies in Brazil. The first society is the Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia (SBE) which was founded on July 17, 1937, by a small group of entomologists at the Instituto Biologico de Sao Paulo. There are currently 350 members. The SBE meets as part of the annual congress of the Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia (SBZ). It publishes the Revista Brasileira de Entomologia three times a year with a not fixed periodicity. It contains mostly, papers on taxonomy and biology. Approximately 50 articles are published each year in Portuguese, English, or Spanish. The Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia was published nine times from 1948 to 1958, and is now inactive. The second society, Sociedade Entomologica do Brasil (SEB) was founded on February 22, 1972, in Itabuna, Bahia. A number of attendants at an agricultural entomology meeting launched the society because they felt that the existing SBE dedicated little attention to economic entomology. The SEB quickly grew to become the largest entomological society in Latin America with about 1300 members. The SEB is divided in 17 regions which allows a high level of involvement by the members in the affairs of the society. A national congress is held every 18 months. A journal, Anais da Sociedade Entomologica do Brasil is published quartely on a fixed periodicity (March, June, September, and December). The Society publishes also a newsletter (Informativo da Sociedade Entomologica do Brasil - ISEB) every four month, on April, August, and December, which contains SEB news, book reviews, editorial notes, etc. The contributions of the Brazilian entomological societies to promote biodiversity will be discussed. Our view is that both societies should interact with each other and with other organizations to promote preservation of biodiversity in the country and in the continent. Cataloguing insects, similar to the BIOTA-FAPESP project, that aims to record all the living organisms in the state of Sao Paulo, should be estimulated, and the societies should get involved with such projects. Also, issues related to biodiversity should be part of the constitutions of the societies, to promote this subject among the members and the public in general.  aBrazil  aBrasil  aEntomological societies  aSociedade de Entomologia  tIn: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ENTOMOLOGY, 21., 2000, Foz do Iguassu. Abstracts... Londrina: Embrapa Soja, 2000.