Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque


Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque was a Brazilian entomologist who served as director of the National Museum of Brazil. A total of at least seven taxon names are authored by him.

Biography

Albuquerque arrived at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in 1962 together with two other noted entomologists, Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque and Roger H. P. Arlé.
Albuquerque later assumed the directorship of the museum; during his six years as director, he did not publish scientific papers, although he worked daily in the laboratory assisting and following ongoing research projects. He was concerned with training local personnel for entomological research in the region. Therezinha de Jesus Pimentel Chaves, now an entomology researcher, was supervised by Dalcy Albuquerque, who is remembered for his dedication as a mentor.
Albuquerque, together with two interns and technicians Apolinário Azevedo de Souza and Maria Fernanda Pinto Torres, initiated a project to reassemble and recover the former Adolpho Ducke collection, a collection that had many type specimens lost during fifty years when the material had been boxed up.
He married fellow entomologist Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque.

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