Evidence of the influence of Malaise trap age on its efficiency in the collection of Muscidae (Insecta, Diptera)

Diversity of Braconidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) of the Parque Natural Municipal de Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil

“…The use of "old" traps in the present work may also have affected trap efficiency, because Duarte et al (2010) related that new Malaise traps caught a higher number of individuals and also species of Muscidae than 12 and 18 months old traps, probably due to darkening of the mesh after long time exposure in field. Moreover, Lewis & Whitfield (1999) argued that two factors might also be related to the quantitative differences wasp collections.…”

What does the Southern Brazilian Coastal Plain tell about its diversity? Syrphidae (Diptera) as a model

“…In total, 140 Malaise traps, with modifications in the collecting flask (Townes, 1972; Brown, 2005; Duarte et al ., 2010), were installed in five regions of the CPRS (fig. 1): Region 1, corresponding to the Arroio Pelotas and Arroio Corrientes basins, in the municipality of Pelotas, and the Arroio Grande basin in the municipality of São Lourenço do Sul; Region 2, corresponding to the reserves, Reserva Biológica do Lami José Lutzenberger, in the municipality of Porto Alegre, Reserva Particular de Patrimônio Natural Barba Negra, in the municipality of Barra do Ribeiro, and the riparian forest fragment in Rio Camaquã, in Vila Pacheca, in the municipality of Camaquã; Region 3, corresponding to the Estação Ecológica do Taim (ESEC Taim) and its surroundings, located in the municipality of Rio Grande; Region 4, corresponding to the reserves, Parque Estadual do Itapuã, in the municipality of Viamão, Parque Natural Municipal Tupancy, in the municipality of Arroio do Sal, and Parque Estadual de Itapeva and Parque da Guarita, in the municipality of Torres; and Region 5, corresponding to the Parque Nacional da Lagoa do Peixe, with the traps located in the municipalities of Tavares, Mostardas, and São José do Norte.…”

New records of phorid flies (Diptera, Phoridae) from Rio Grande do Sul, with five new records to Brazil

“…The diversity of the order in this state is mostly known from few families, such as Calliphoridae (Vianna et al 1998, Azevedo et al 2013), Drosophilidae (Hochmüller et al 2010, Poppe et al 2012, Valer et al 2013, Sciomyzidae (Kirst et al 2015), Muscidae , Duarte et al 2010, Mydidae (Duarte and Krüger 2015) and Tabanidae (Krüger and Krolow 2015).…”