An updated checklist to the biodiversity data of ladybeetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Azores Archipelago (Portugal)

Soares, António O.; Borges, Isabel; Calado, Hugo; Borges, Paulo A. V.

doi:10.3897/bdj.9.e77464

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“…A large number of new records for the islands are based on recently published articles (e.g. Stüben and Borges (2019) , Carvalho et al (2021) , Costa and Borges (2021) , Marcelino et al (2021) , Soares et al (2021) , Tsafack et al (2021) , Borges et al (2021) , Borges et al (2022a) , Borges et al (2022b) , Lhoumeau et al (2022a) , Lhoumeau et al (2022b) ) and one currently in evaluation (e.g. Boieiro et al (2022) ).…”

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“…For taxonomic consistency, we evaluated specific data for: Araneae , expert revision by PC and LC using the R package arakno ( Cardoso and Pekár 2022 ) that feeds on the World Spider Catalogue ( World Spider Catalog 2022 ); Coleoptera , Staphylinidae (expert revision by VA and MS; see also Borges et al (2022a) ); Coleoptera , Coccinellidae (expert revision by AOS, see also Soares et al (2021) ), Coleoptera , Curculionidae ( Stüben and Borges 2019 ) and Lepidoptera (expert revision by VV and OK).…”

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An updated checklist of Azorean arthropods (Arthropoda)

Borges¹,

Lamelas-López²,

Andrade³

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The Azores is a remote oceanic archipelago of nine islands which belongs to the Macaronesia biogeographical region hosting a unique biodiversity. The present Azorean landscape is strongly modified by the presence of man and only in small areas, where the soil or climate was too rough, have primitive conditions remained unchanged. Despite the fact that most of the Azorean native habitats are now lost, a large number of endemic species are still present and need urgent conservation. The present checklist of terrestrial and freshwater arthropods of the Azores Archipelago is based on all known published literature. The main goal of this work is to list, as rigorously as possible, all the known terrestrial and freshwater arthropods of the Azores. In this way, we are contributing to solve the ‘Linnaean’ shortfall, i.e. an incomplete taxonomic description of species-level diversity and the Wallacean Biodiversity Shortfall, the incomplete species distribution knowledge. The checklist includes new records of arthropods at island and archipelago levels that were published in the last twelve years. Compared to the last checklist of Azorean arthropods (Borges et al. 2010b), a total of 217 taxa (species and subspecies) are added. Currently, the total number of terrestrial and freshwater arthropod species and subspecies in the Azores is estimated to be 2420 taxa belonging to 14 classes, 53 orders, 440 families, 1556 genera, 2400 species and 149 individual subspecies. The most diverse orders of Azorean arthropods are: Coleoptera (585 taxa), Diptera (423 taxa), Hemiptera (338 taxa), Hymenoptera (163 taxa), Lepidoptera (159 taxa) and Araneae (133 taxa). A total of 276 endemic taxa are currently known (232 species and 44 subspecies), belonging to eight classes and 22 orders. São Miguel, Terceira and Pico are the islands with higher number of endemic species and subspecies. In the Azores, the number of native non-endemic taxa is 793 taxa, totalling 1069 indigenous taxa. Compared to the other nearest Macaronesian archipelagos (Madeira and Canaries), the Azorean arthropod fauna is characterised by a lower percentage of endemism (endemics/indigenous: 26% in Azores, 47% in Madeira Archipelago and 42% in Canary Islands) and a high proportion of exotic introduced taxa (39% in Azores, 19% in Madeira Archipelago and 8% in Canary Islands). Based on recent IUCN Red-listing of Azorean arthropods, a large fraction of the endemic taxa is under high threat.

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An updated checklist of Azorean arthropods (Arthropoda)

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Andrade³

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“…- Four beetles ( Coleoptera ), Clitostethus arcuatus (Rossi, 1794) (introduced), Dryops algiricus (Lucas, 1846) (native non-endemic), Notothecta dryochares (Israelson, 1985) (endemic) and Scymnus suturalis Thunberg, 1795 (introduced). C. arcuatus and S. suturalis are ladybeetles ( Coccinellidae ) widespread in Azores ( Soares et al 2021 ). Notothecta dryochares ( Staphylinidae ) is the most abundant endemic rove-beetle in Azores ( Borges et al 2022a ), commonly found associated with the canopy and trunks of endemic trees.…”

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SLAM Project - Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in the natural forests of Azores: V - New records of terrestrial arthropods after ten years of SLAM sampling

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A long-term study monitoring arthropods (Arthropoda) is being conducted since 2012 in the forests of Azorean Islands. Named "SLAM - Long Term Ecological Study of the Impacts of Climate Change in the natural forest of Azores", this project aims to understand the impact of biodiversity erosion drivers in the distribution, abundance and diversity of Azorean arthropods. The current dataset represents arthropods that have been recorded using a total of 42 passive SLAM traps (Sea, Land and Air Malaise) deployed in native, mixed and exotic forest fragments in seven Azorean Islands (Flores, Faial, Pico, Graciosa, Terceira, São Miguel and Santa Maria). This manuscript is the fifth data-paper contribution, based on data from this long-term monitoring project. We targeted taxa for species identification belonging to Arachnida (excluding Acari), Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Hexapoda (excluding Collembola, Lepidoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera (but including only Formicidae)). Specimens were sampled over seven Azorean Islands during the 2012-2021 period. Spiders (Araneae) data from Pico and Terceira Islands are not included since they have been already published elsewhere (Costa and Borges 2021, Lhoumeau et al. 2022). We collected a total of 176007 specimens, of which 168565 (95.7%) were identified to the species or subspecies level. For Araneae and some Hemiptera species, juveniles are also included in this paper, since the low diversity in the Azores allows a relatively precise species-level identification of this life-stage. We recorded a total of 316 named species and subspecies, belonging to 25 orders, 106 families and 260 genera. The ten most abundant species were mostly endemic or native non-endemic (one Opiliones, one Archaeognatha and seven Hemiptera) and only one exotic species, the Julida Ommatoiulus moreleti (Lucas, 1860). These ten species represent 107330 individuals (60%) of all sampled specimens and can be considered as the dominant species in the Azorean native forests for the target studied taxa. The Hemiptera were the most abundant taxa, with 90127 (50.4%) specimens. The Coleoptera were the most diverse with 30 (28.6%) families. We registered 72 new records for many of the islands (two for Flores, eight for Faial, 24 for Graciosa, 23 for Pico, eight for Terceira, three for São Miguel and four for Santa Maria). These records represent 58 species. None of them is new to the Azores Archipelago. Most of the new records are introduced species, all still with low abundance on the studied islands. This publication contributes to increasing the baseline information for future long-term comparisons of the arthropods of the studied sites and the knowledge of the arthropod fauna of the native forests of the Azores, in terms of species abundance, distribution and diversity throughout seasons and years.

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