Coleção de referência do Laboratório de Mirmecologia do Alto Tietê, São Paulo, Brasil: status atual e perspectivas

Souza-Campana, Débora Rodrigues de; Wazema, Claudia Tiemi; Magalhães, Fabrício Severo; Silva, Nathalia S.; Nagatani, Victor H.; Suguituru, Silvia S.; Goto, Mariana A.; Morini, Maria Santina Castro

doi:10.46357/bcnaturais.v15i1.274

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“…The specimens collected were also compared to the type specimens of P. tijucana, which are deposited at Coleção de Hymenoptera of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP). The vouchers were also deposited at MZSP (individually as MZSP67490, MZSP67491, MZSP67492, and MZSP95643) and at the Laboratório de Mirmecologia do Alto Tietê da Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes (LAMAT) (Souza-Campana et al 2020).…”

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Occurrence of Pheidole tijucana Borgmeier, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

Gonçalves¹,

Prado²,

Magalhães³

et al. 2023

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Pheidole Westwood, 1839 is a hyperdiverse ant genus that is widely distributed in a variety of terrestrial ecosystems, especially in the tropics. The identification of Pheidole species is challenging, thus contributing to the description of several questionable morphospecies in the literature and making the geographic distribution of most species uncertain. In this work, we present the first records of Pheidole tijucana Borgmeier, 1927 from the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The specimens were recorded at Parque Ibirapuera Conservação, an urban green area located in the southern part of the city of São Paulo. The sampling was performed in 2015, 2016, and 2017 using pitfall traps. In total, 224 specimens (one major worker and 223 minor workers) of P. tijucana were recorded. Our new data help fill a distribution gap and highlights the importance of reporting species that are a challenge to identify.

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Occurrence of Pheidole tijucana Borgmeier, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

Gonçalves¹,

Prado²,

Magalhães³

et al. 2023

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“…All sequences generated in the present study were deposited in GenBank. Vouchers were deposited in the Alto Tietê ant collection at the University of Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil (see Souza‐Campana et al, 2020).…”

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“…The comparison of the mtDNA of the collected individuals showed 98 to 99% similarity between haplotypes (Hebert et al, 2003a;Ronque et al, 2016). For S. saevissima, the haplotypes obtained were compared with the description by Ross et al the University of Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil (see Souza-Campana et al, 2020).…”

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Impact of native vegetation cover near crops on the occurrence and molecular diversity of fire ants

Nagatani

Ramalho

Alves

et al. 2022

Agri and Forest Entomology

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Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis saevissima are the most common fire ants in Brazil. Environmental disturbances favour the colony dispersal of both species, particularly those with an anthropogenic origin. However, the frequencies of the species can vary according to the amount of anthropogenic disturbances. Crops near native vegetation fragments is a common landscape in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Here, we analyse if there is influence of native vegetation cover on the occurrence of these fire ants and their molecular diversity in crops. Our hypothesis is that these species are antagonistic in terms of occurrence and molecular diversity when compared in the same habitat. We selected crops near fragments with around 50% of native vegetation cover, a percentage informative enough to detect biological responses from insects belonging to a same order. Nests were collected and the species were identified using external morphology, and mtDNA COI sequences. We reject our hypothesis, which suggest that the species colonize the vegetation patches around crops in a similar way. Solenopsis invicta is not limited by vegetation cover, and has a high haplotype diversity when compared to S. saevissima, particularly when the vegetation cover is greater than 50%. Additionally, the vegetation cover seems to not have influence in the total number of haplotypes, but the species have haplotypes that are exclusive to each landscape. Our findings suggest that S. invicta is expanding to native vegetation areas that it has not occupied before, as S. saevissima was dominant there.

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“…The classification of urban ants was based on Loeck & Silva (1999 and Zarzuela et al (2002). We assigned a morphospecies number to specimens that could not be identified to species-level, following Suguituru et al (2015) and Souza-Campana et al (2020). The species names were validated based on Bolton (2023).…”

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“…The latter are more restricted in their nature than museum collections and are usually the product of specific research projects. They give the researcher in charge and his or her research group quick and in-depth access to the species of a particular place or region (see Souza-Campana et al 2020), and can be formed by different types of material. Local collections store information on the communities inhabiting a particular region, with its diverse landscapes and floristic formations.…”

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Preserving a Legacy: Ensuring the Access and Conservation of the Harold (Harry) G. Fowler (1950–2018) Ant Collection and Data

WAZEMA,

SILVA,

MAGALHÃES

et al. 2024

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Biological collections are important repositories of biodiversity, as they include various types of data potentially useful to different areas of science and can contribute to the establishment of biodiversity conservation policies. For a long time, scientific collections were considered only as physical databases; in this context Harold G. Fowler (1950–2018) built an ant collection at the Universidade Estadual Paulista, campus Rio Claro (São Paulo state, Brazil), over the course of a 34-year career, comprising around 20,000 ant specimens. Most specimens came from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, but many others came from distinct locations in Brazil and abroad. After his death, the collection was left without the necessary curatorial care for a period of time, which required a project to be conceived for its recovery and conservation, with the goal of incorporating it to the Zoology Museum of the University of São Paulo (MZSP). In addition to applying modern technical curation protocols, other activities such as checking, material identification and digitization of the information contained on the sample labels were carried out, forming an accurate database. This process enabled the identification of new distribution records and the discovery of possible undescribed species and unpublished natural history data. After validating this information, we counted 524 valid species and 201 morphospecies belonging to 105 genera and 10 subfamilies. In addition, we integrated technical curation activities with scientific outreach to draw the general public’s attention to the importance of biological collections, thus fostering interest in science, biodiversity and nature conservation. Our work highlights the importance of preserving the areas sampled by Fowler’s research group. The preservation of vouchers using curatorial practices reinforces the role of scientific collections as important tools for the study, understanding and preservation of biodiversity.

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Coleção de referência do Laboratório de Mirmecologia do Alto Tietê, São Paulo, Brasil: status atual e perspectivas

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Occurrence of Pheidole tijucana Borgmeier, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

Occurrence of Pheidole tijucana Borgmeier, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

Impact of native vegetation cover near crops on the occurrence and molecular diversity of fire ants

Preserving a Legacy: Ensuring the Access and Conservation of the Harold (Harry) G. Fowler (1950–2018) Ant Collection and Data

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Occurrence of Pheidole tijucana Borgmeier, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the state of S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil

Occurrence of Pheidole tijucana Borgmeier, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the state of S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil

Impact of native vegetation cover near crops on the occurrence and molecular diversity of fire ants

Preserving a Legacy: Ensuring the Access and Conservation of the Harold (Harry) G. Fowler (1950–2018) Ant Collection and Data

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Occurrence of Pheidole tijucana Borgmeier, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

Occurrence of Pheidole tijucana Borgmeier, 1927 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil