Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in the Arboretum of Alagoas State, Brazil / Borboletas (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) no Arboretum de Alagoas, Brasil

Abstract

The deforestation of areas due to the expansion of cities and urban zones have directly affected natural habitats, causing negative changes, biodiversity loss and reducing populations size of native flora and fauna. In this context, butterflies are considered excellent organisms for monitoring environmental quality as they are involved in extremely specific ecological relationships with their habitats. Thus, this research aimed to carry out a survey of the butterfly (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) fauna in the Arboretum of Alagoas State. Weekly samplings were carried out from September 2019 to March 2020. During 140 sampling hours, 415 individuals were collected, being observed the occurrence of 44 species distributed in six families. The low number of recorded taxa reflects an expected poor richness as, in general, the closer the analyzed fragment is to an urban area, the smaller the number of species. Nymphalidae was the most well represented family, being recorded seven subfamilies. Based on these results, it was possible to state that the butterfly fauna in the Arboretum of Alagoas State comprises species commonly found in anthropic environments and/or areas under high anthropogenic influence.

First record of Aricoris campestris (Bates, 1868) Lepidoptera: Riodinidae in pitaya in northeastern Brazil

“…Rev. Caatinga, Mossoró, v.37: e12190, 2024 There are records of the occurrence of A. campestris, both in forest areas and in agricultural environments, in cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) in the Brazilian Northeast (SOUZA et al, 2018), in a forest area in the Catimbau National Park in the Pernambuco state (NOBRE; SCHLINDWEIN; MIELKE, 2008), in the Amazon biome and in the Cerrado of Maranhão (MARTINS et al, 2017), in the Alagoas state in a forest environment (BEZERRA et al, 2021), and in the Caatinga and Atlantic Forest areas of the Bahia state (DANTAS; ZACCA; BRAVO, 2021) (Figure 1).…”

Butterflies of two atlantic forest conservation units from Paraíba state, northeast of Brazil

“…In Brazil, more than 3,570 species have been recorded (Casagrande 2023a;2023b;Casagrande et al 2023a;2023b;Carneiro & Casagrande 2023;Duarte et al 2023;Mielke et al 2023). Although butterflies constitute one of the best-known insect groups worldwide, there have been only seven inventories conducted in the Northern Atlantic Forest, of which only three were carried out in UCs (D 'Almeida 1935;Cardoso 1949;Kesselring & Ebert [1982]; Melo et al 2019;Bezerra et al 2021;Medeiros et al 2021).…”