Integra o Projeto Temático “Dimensions US-BIOTA-São Paulo: Assembly and evolution of the Amazonian biota and its environment: an integrated approach”, dentro do qual executa o projeto “Filogeografia e diferenciações morfológicas em Heliconius hermathena em habitats de campinas de areias brancas na Amazônia” (2014).
Possui Doutorado em Ecologia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, UNICAMP (2010) e é atualmente Pesquisador colaborador associado ao Labbor (2017). Atua principalmente com dinâmica de populações, padrões de coloração alar, comunidades de borboletas do maracujá, seleção de plantas hospedeiras, comportamento, história natural, conservação e evolução e com aplicações de ferramentas da genética molecular.
Publicações na área/Relevant publications:
1. Ramos RR & AVL Freitas 1999. Population biology and wing color variation in Heliconius erato phyllis (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists` Society 53: 11-21.
2. Freitas AVL & RR Ramos 2001. Population biology of Parides anchises nephalion (Papilionidae) in a coastal site in Southeast Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology 61: 623-630.
3. Ramos RR, D Rodrigues, AVL Freitas 2012. Oviposition preference and larval performance in a Heliconius erato phyllis (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) population from southeastern Brazil: is there a positive relationship? Journal of Natural History 46: 669-681.
4. Francini RB & RR Ramos 2014. Butterflies of Alcatrazes Island, São Paulo State, Brazil (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea). Check List 10(1): 28-32.
5. Ramos RR & RB Francini 2014. Inter-generic mating attempt: males of Tegosa claudina Eschscholtz and a female of Chlosyne lacinia saundersi Doubleday (Nymphalidae: Melitaeinae). News of the Lepidopterist’s Society, 56(4): 170-174.
6. Francini RB, TS Souza, RR Ramos, M Cerávolo 2015. Quantifying wing pattern sexual dimorphism in the butterfly Anartia amathea roeselia Eschscholtz (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). International Journal of Fauna and Biological Studies, 2(2): 43-52.
7. Braga L, RR Ramos, AVL Freitas 2018. Notes on geographic distribution. Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae, Godartiana byses: distribution extension and first record for the state of São Paulo, SE Brazil. The Lepidopterists’ Society, in press.
8. Ramos RR, AVL Freitas, RB Francini 2018. Defensive Strategies of a Noctuid Caterpillar in a Myrmecophytc Plant: are Dyops Larvae Immune to Azteca Ants? Sociobiology 65(3): 397-402. DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v65i3.2843
9. Freitas AVL, RR Ramos et all 2018. A new subspecies of Heliconius hermathena from Southern Amazonia. Neotropical Entomology, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-018-0658-8
Current Projects:
PH.D. in Ecology from the University of Campinas, SP, Brazil, UNICAMP (2010). Post doctorate fellow at Labbor since 2015.
Works mainly with dynamics of populations, wing color patterns, communities of passion fruit butterflies, host plant selection, behavior, natural history, conservation and evolution and applications of molecular genetic tools
Current Projects:
• Integrates the thematic project “Dimensions US-BIOTA-São Paulo: Assembly and evolution of the Amazonian biota and its environment: an integrated approach”, within which performs the project named “Phylogeography and morphological differentiations in Heliconius hermathena in Amazonian habitats of white sand campinas” (2014).