Hexapoda Yearbook (Arthropoda: Mandibulata: Pancrustacea) Brazil 2020: the first annual production survey of new Brazilian species
Authors: Silva-Neto Alberto Moreira , Falaschi Rafaela Lopes , Zacca Thamara , Hipólito Juliana , Pequeno Pedro Aurélio Costa Lima , Alves-Oliveira João Rafael , Santos Roberto Oliveira dos , Heleodoro Raphael Aquino , Jacobina Adaiane Catarina  Marcondes , Somavilla Alexandre , Camargo Alexssandro , Lira Aline de Oliveira , Sampaio Aline Amanda , Ferreira André da Silva , Martins André Luis , Oliveira Andressa Figueiredo de , Wengrat Ana Paula Gonçalves da Silva , Rosa Augusto Henrique Batista , Corrêa Caio Cezar Dias , De-Souza Caroline  Costa , Anjos-Santos Danielle , Cordeiro Danilo Pacheco , Nogueira David Silva , Marques Dayse Willkenia Almeida , Barbosa Diego Nunes , Mendes Diego Matheus de Mello , Pádua Diego Galvão de , Vilela Diogo Silva , Viegas Eduarda Fernanda Gomes , Santos Eduardo Carneiro dos , Dias Fernando Maia Silva , Nascimento Francisco Eriberto de Lima , Duque Francisco José Sosa , Mendes Gabriela Caroline , Dantas Galileu Petronilo da Silva , Desidério Gleison Robson , Marques Guilherme Alves , Menezes Isis Sá , Rodrigues Higor Daniel Duarte , Fogaça João Manuel , Schoeninger Karine , Queiroz Larissa Lima de , Santana Larissa , Migliore Letizia Janaína , Fusari Lívia Maria , Barros Luana Machado , Araújo Maíra Xavier , Cutrim Marcelo , De Santis Marcelo Domingos , Savaris Marcoandre , Gottschalk Marco Silva , Aragão Marcos , Bevilaqua Marcus , Bento Matheus , Soares Matheus Mickael Mota , Reategui Natália Soares , Cipola Nikolas Gioia , Saguiah Pâmella Machado , Pinto Paula Jéssica Costa , Riccardi Paula Raile , Bartholomay Pedro Reck , Boldrini Rafael , Sousa Rafael , Sobral Rafael , Mello Ramon Luciano , Carrenho Renan , Olivier Renan da Silva , Siewert Ricardo Russo , Araujo Rodrigo de Oliveira , Brito Rosângela , Gadelha Sian de Souza , Moraes Simeão de Souza , Pereira Thalles Platiny Lavinscky , Mahlmann Thiago , Fernandes Daniell Rodrigo Rodrigues 
Published: May 2022

This paper provided a list of all new Brazilian Hexapoda species described in 2020. Furthermore, based on the information extracted by this list, we tackled additional questions regarding the taxa, the specialists involved in the species descriptions as well as the journals in which those papers have been published. We recorded a total of 680 new Brazilian species of Hexapoda described in 2020, classified in 245 genera, 112 families and 18 orders. These 680 species were published in a total of 2019 articles comprising 423 different authors residing in 27 countries. Only 30% of these authors are women, which demonstrates an inequality regarding sexes. In relation to the number of authors by species, the majority of the new species had two authors and the maximum of authors by species was five. We also found inequalities in the production of described species regarding the regions of Brazil, with Southeast and South leading. The top 10 institutions regarding productions of new species have four in the Southeast, two at South and with one at North Region being the outlier of this pattern. Out of the total 219 published articles, Zootaxa dominated with 322 described species in 95 articles. The average impact factor was of 1.4 with only seven articles being published in Impact Factors above 3, indicating a hardship on publishing taxonomic articles in high-impact journals. The highlight of this paper is that it is unprecedent, as no annual record of Hexapoda species described was ever made in previous years to Brazil.