Species composition and temporal activity of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) in two cerrado vegetation types

Temporal Occurrence of TwoMorphoButterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): Influence of Weather and Food Resources

“…Additionally, we examined how habitat structure impacts the temporal dynamics of butterflies in the Cerrado. We predicted less temporal variation in butterfly communities in the forest (gallery forest) compared with those in a savanna habitat, because the dense canopy that covers the gallery forest promotes high shade levels (Kanegae et al 2000) and greater microclimate stability, reinforcing earlier findings of less temporal variation of insects in this habitat compared with their savanna relatives (Diniz & Kitayama 1998;Tidon 2006;Scherrer et al 2013). …”

“…However, the gallery forest habitat, where the weather conditions were more stable (Oliveira-Filho & Ratter 2002;Tidon 2006;Scherrer et al 2013), showed greater butterfly species turnover over the seasons. The present study is among the first to describe the temporal dynamics of Nymphalidae in the Cerrado Biome and indicates that the gallery forest is an important component of Nymphalidae diversity.…”

Arctiini Leach, [1815] (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) of the Brazilian Amazon. IV - Subtribe Euchromiina Butler, 1876

“…These two last sites were located in the Atlantic Forest biome and were intensively sampled. In the Cerrado sites, were recorded a much lower number of Euchromiina species, ranging from 11 (Scherrer et al 2013) to 30 (Moreno & Ferro 2016). Moreover, the number of Euchromiina species of a single Amazon site (Santarém, 96) was higher than the entire Cerrado Euchromiina fauna .…”

“…As observed for the subtribes Phaegopterina (Teston & Ferro 2016a), Pericopina (Teston & Ferro 2016b) and Ctenuchina (Teston et al 2019), the number of Amazonian Euchromiina species is underestimated because the fauna was never sampled in the vast majority of the biome (less than 10% of the municipalities were sampled). Even the sites already sampled need to be studied in the long-term (at least 1 year of sampling) because it is known that tiger moths respond to climate/seasonal changes (Kitching et al 2000, Hilt et al 2007, Scherrer et al 2013, Ferro et al 2014 and that Lepidoptera richness is higher in long-term surveys than in short-term surveys (Ferro & Diniz 2007, Moreno & Ferro 2016, Martins et al 2017. Moreover, studies that sample Amazonian Lepidoptera in different types and strata of vegetation are rare.…”

Temporal distribution of fruit-feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the eastern extreme of the Amazon region

“…Environmental parameters, such as rainfall and temperature, contribute not only to the understanding of how species are distributed in space, but also how species and their interactions vary through time (Chesson 2000;Tonkin et al 2017). Typically, insects are considered excellent models for the study of seasonal influences on species richness and abundance due to their short generation times (Devries et al 1997;Grøtan et al 2014) and rapid responses to environmental changes (Scherrer et al 2013). Although seasonality is a relatively well-studied phenomenon in insect biology (Wolda 1978;Wolda 1988), its underlying causes and mechanisms are still not completely understood (Kishimoto-Yamada and Itioka 2015).…”