Isolda Rocha e Silva-Albuquerque

Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque (born 27 January 1931) is a Brazilian entomologist. A Guggenheim Fellow, she specialised in cockroaches and was a researcher at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Biography She was born on 27 January 1931 in Rio de Janeiro. After studying abroad at the University of Paris from 1951 until 1952, she later returned to Brazil, where she got her bachelor's degree in natural history from the in 1954. She married fellow entomologist Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque. She described several new species, including Xestoblatta bananae (1962), Xestoblatta iani (1964), Xestoblatta roppai (1975), and Xestoblatta vera (1975). In addition to a dozen articles in the , which her employer published,

William Leslie Overal and Inocêncio de S. Gorayeb called her "a renowned specialist in South American Blattoidea", which she had a large collection of specimens, and said that her published work "represents significant contributions to the knowledge of the fauna of the Brazilian Amazon". In 1983, Jose C. M. Carvalho and Maria Luiza Felippe named the species Isoldalinus rarus and its genus Isoldalinus "in recognition of her work on Neotropical Blattariae".