**Acknowledgements**

We thank the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico-Programa de Capacitação em Taxonomia (CNPq-PROTAX) for the financial support and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for a doctoral grant to the first author and to CNPq for Productivity Grant to the second author. This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001.

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