Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr., Brazilian entomologist and cytogeneticist (Capivari, São Paulo State 28 December 1898 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 22 January 1988)
Authored over 1200 publications between books, papers and popular articles
Authored papers with international repercussion on invertebrate cytogenetics
With A. Zamith reported new exceptional meiotic mechanisms or mis-meiosis (1946)
Discovered diffuse centromere in Tytius bahiensis
DESCRIBED ORTHOPTERA & ARACHNIDA TAXA
Orthoptera
Valid Genera
Acrephyllum 1973
Anapolisia 1980
Balneum 1967
Beierella 1978
Bertius 1974
Choirorhynchus 1974
Ctenophorema 1967
Herbardius 1980
Megatympanon 1958
Mendesius 1960
Meneghelia 1980
Metaphotina 1964
Miroceroys 1936
Paracoelophyllum 1972
Paraviadana 1980
Pelecynotum 1967
Phanerocercus 1980
Phaneropterella 1977
Phaneropteroides 1940
Piracicaba 1967
Polyurena 1967
Tympanotriba 1971
Wattenwylia 1938
Arachnida
Valid Genera
Anoplogynus 1938
Cercopachylus 1940
Inhuma 1938
Paratricommatus 1943
Progonyleptiodellus 1940
Styloleptes 1943
Species
Over 300 being 143 in Orthoptera
HONOURS
Doctor Honoris Causa, Berlin University
Pizaia Terra 1982 (Orthoptera)
Pizacris Souza-Dias & Desutter-Grandcolas 2015 (Orthoptera)