Diversity of wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata: Vespidae) along an altitudinal gradient of Atlantic Forest in Itatiaia National Park, Brazil

Ribeiro, Daniele Guedes; Silvestre, Rogério; Garcete-Barrett, Bolívar R.

doi:10.1016/j.rbe.2018.12.005

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“…Environmental conditions associated with higher elevation are known to influence insect communities [1]. For example, it is widely accepted that there is a decrease in the abundance and diversity of many insect groups at higher elevations, including beetles (Coleoptera) [2][3][4][5], moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) [6][7][8], wasps (Hymenoptera) [9,10], and flies (Diptera) [1,11,12]. In addition, insect communities change according to season.…”

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The abundance and diversity of fruit flies and their parasitoids change with elevation in guava orchards in a tropical Andean forest of Peru, independent of seasonality

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Lower elevations are generally thought to contain a greater abundance and diversity of insect communities and their natural enemies than higher elevations. It is less clear, however, how changes in seasons influence this pattern. We conducted a 2-year study (2013‒2014) in guava orchards located in a tropical Andean forest of Peru to investigate differences in fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) and their parasitoid communities at two elevations and over two seasons. Fruit fly traps were installed, monitored, and guava fruits were sampled from eight orchards at low (800–950 m above sea level) and high (1,700–1,900 m above sea level) elevations and during the dry and rainy seasons. At each orchard, adult fruit fly trap captures and emergence of fruit flies and their parasitoids from guava fruit were quantified to determine their abundance and species composition. There was a greater abundance and species richness of fruit flies captured in traps at lower elevations, as well as higher abundance and species evenness of fruit flies that emerged from fruit, indicating that lower elevations are associated with larger fruit fly populations. The abundance, species richness and diversity of parasitoids were also greater at lower elevations. Consequently, guava fruit infestation and fruit fly parasitism rates were also greater at lower elevations. Seasonality also influenced fruit fly populations with a greater number of flies emerging from guava fruit and more fruit infested in the rainy season. However, seasonality had no effect on parasitoid population parameters or rate of parasitism, nor did it interact with elevation as an influence of populations of fruit flies or their parasitoids in guava orchards. This study highlights the importance of examining both elevation and seasonality for a better understanding of the population dynamics of fruit flies and their parasitoids in tropical agroecosystems.

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The abundance and diversity of fruit flies and their parasitoids change with elevation in guava orchards in a tropical Andean forest of Peru, independent of seasonality

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“…Several studies carried out in different areas of the Atlantic Forest commonly record occurrences of unpublished species for their respective states (Souza & Prezoto, 2006;Menezes et al, 2010;Souza et al, 2012Souza et al, , 2015cSouza et al, , 2018Brunismann et al, 2016;Ribeiro et al, 2019). This shows that the fauna of vespids of the biome is possibly greater than already known.…”

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“…Both studies have taxonomic bias, totaling 109 described species, many of which were no longer recorded after these publications. Recently another inventory for social wasps was published by Ribeiro et al (2019) for the Itatiaia National Park. However, only five species of the genus were recorded, all of wide geographic occurrence.…”

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Social Wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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This study was developed aiming to compile data concerning the occurrence and distribution of social wasp species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, as well as recording exclusive and rare species. For this purpose, we compiled studies from the specialized literature and created a table containing the species occurrence in the different states which present the phytogeographic domain. A total of 170 species was recorded, corresponding to almost a half of the richness of social wasps in Brazil, including 50 endemic, with highlight to Rio de Janeiro state, which nevertheless is insufficiently sampled. This way, from this work, it is concluded that Brazilian Atlantic Forest must be seen as an important refuge for Polistinae.

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“…Given their abundance and ecological importance, social wasps have been and continue to be the subject of ecological studies in different regions and environments (Diniz & Kitayama, 1998;Souza & Prezoto, 2006;Silva et al, 2011;Da Silva et al, 2019;Clemente et al, 2020;Ferreira et al, 2020). In Brazil, these environments include the Cerrado savanna (Souza et al, 2012;Souza et al, 2020;Vicente et al, 2020), Atlantic Forest (Grandinete & Noll, 2013;Togni et al, 2014;Ribeiro et al, 2019;Souza et al, 2021), the semi-arid Northeast (Santos et al, 2020), the Amazon Forest (Silveira, 2002;Silveira et al, 2012;Somavilla & Oliveira, 2017;Graça & Somavilla, 2018;Gomes et al, 2020), and the Pantanal wetlands of Mato Grosso (Almeida et al, 2014). In the most recent study of the social wasps of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, Ferreira et al (2020) recorded 43 species.…”

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Assemblages of Social Wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) in the Veredas of Central Brazil

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Silva³

2021

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Social wasps are widely distributed in Brazil, and their distribution is intimately linked to habitats and the vegetation structure. Veredas (Brazilian Palm swamps) occur in moist soils and are characterized by the almost monodominant presence of Buriti palms (Maurítia flexuosa). The insect fauna of these environments is poorly known, especially in Central Brazil. Some studies assessing the diversity of social wasps were carried out in the State of Mato Grosso, however, there are no studies performed in the palm swamps of this region. Thus, we aim in this study to investigate the composition of wasp species in six vereda environments throughout 24 months of sampling, from august 2017 to July 2019; The specimens were collected using a sweep net, in 200m transects that were subdivided into 10 3m2 parcels. To attract the wasps, we sprayed each parcel (using a backpack sprayer) with an insect attractant made from five spoons of granulated sugar and one spoon of salt dissolved in 5 liters of water. After spraying the plot, we waited 10 minutes before starting the collections and stayed another 10 minutes to sample in each plot, totaling 200 minutes of sampling per palm swamp. A total of 1062 social wasp specimens were collected, distributed in 10 genera and 36 species. The most abundant species were Polybia cf. ruficeps xantops (Richards, 1978), Angiopolybia pallens (Lepeletier, 1836), Polybia rejecta (Lepeletier, 1836), and Mischocyttarus sp. 2, which accounted for 57% of the total collected specimens in the 60 parcels. The estimated richness for the Vereda environments was 38,88 ± 0,627, approximately 41% of the 88 species of Polistinae wasps found in the Cerrado of eastern Mato Grosso.

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Diversity of wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata: Vespidae) along an altitudinal gradient of Atlantic Forest in Itatiaia National Park, Brazil

Cited by 12 publications

References 57 publications

The abundance and diversity of fruit flies and their parasitoids change with elevation in guava orchards in a tropical Andean forest of Peru, independent of seasonality

The abundance and diversity of fruit flies and their parasitoids change with elevation in guava orchards in a tropical Andean forest of Peru, independent of seasonality

Social Wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Assemblages of Social Wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) in the Veredas of Central Brazil

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