Angelo Moreira da Costa Lima, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 29 June 1887 – Rio de Janeiro 20 May 1964)
World authority on Curculionidae Coleoptera
Authored 344 works between them Insetos do Brasil (Insects of Brazil) that earned him international reputation (1939-62)
With H. Aragão showed that yellow fever could be transmitted mosquito to mosquito
With H. Aragão performed studies about behavior of yellow fever virus in mosquito e its transmissibility requirements
DESCRIBED GENERA
Coleoptera
Eusemio 1950
Geniatosoma 1940
Malacobius 1920
Melzerella 1931
Microscapus 1950
Paranaenomus 1914
Plaumanniola 1962
Pseudoecitoxenia 1932
Spermophthorus 1929
Diptera
Microlynchia 1915 with Lutz & Neiva
Neohexachaeta 1953
Paratrichobius 1921
Pintomyia 1932
Pseudophorellia 1934
Pseudopolionota 1935
Pseudostrebla 1921
Hemiptera
Neoneella 1942
Penidoia 1940
Pessoaia 1940
Phacosemoides 1962 with Guitton
Hymenoptera
Duckeia 1936
Lutzimicron 1960
Orthoptera
Rehnacridium 1942
METHODS
Described a method for staining and mounting in entomology named Costa Lima method
Coloração de pequenos insetos. Arch. Esc. Agr. Med. Vet. 5:125, 1921
Technica para a preparação e montagem de pequenos insectos para exame microscópico. Rev. Sciencias 4(4-6):165-6, 1920
A method for mounting articular parts of insects
HONORS
Costalimaida Orfila 1958 (Lepidoptera)
Angelocentris Bondar 1949 (Coleoptera)
Costalimaita Bechyné 1954 (Coleoptera)
Costalimacris Carbonell & Campos Seabra 1988 (Orthoptera)
Limacridium Carbonell & Campos Seabra 1988 (Orthoptera)
Costalimella Martins-Neto 1996 (Fossil Ephemeroptera)
Costalimada Martin 2011 (Hemiptera)
Limacoccus Bondar 1929 (Hemiptera)
Angelodesmus Schubart 1962 (Diplopoda)
Subgenus Limamyia Lane & Cerqueira 1942 (Diptera)