Houseflies speaking for the conservation of natural areas: a broad sampling of Muscidae (Diptera) on coastal plains of the Pampa biome, Southern Brazil

The Muscidae (Diptera) from the Atlantic Forest of Serra de Paranapiacaba, southestern Brazil

“…It is worth mentioning that the morphospecies richness values are also much higher than those found here, varying from 23% of the fauna in Krüger et al (2010) to 38% in Rodríguez-Fernández et al (2006), while in this work only four species were not nominally identified (8.89%). Therefore, when disregarding mor-phospecies, the richness in the Biological Reserve of Paranapiacaba was of 41 species, values close to those found by Krüger et al (2010) and Zafalon-Silva et al (2018), 45 and 42 species, respectively. In Paraná, the richness was of 67 species (Rodríguez-Fernández et al, 2006), remaining 63% higher than in Paranapiacaba.…”

“…When considering the main surveys of Muscidae for southern Brazil (Rodríguez-Fernández et al, 2006;Krüger et al, 2010;Zafalon-Silva et al, 2018), we observe that the richness in this family, disregarding the Coenosiinae, is 109 species for Paraná State (Rodríguez-Fernández et al, 2006), 59 species for localities in the grasslands and south coast of Lagoa dos Patos (Krüger et al, 2010) and 63 species for the coastal plain of the Rio Grande do Sul (Zafalon- Silva et al, 2018), values that are 31 to 132% higher than that found for Biological Reserve of Paranapiacaba. It is worth mentioning that the morphospecies richness values are also much higher than those found here, varying from 23% of the fauna in Krüger et al (2010) to 38% in Rodríguez-Fernández et al (2006), while in this work only four species were not nominally identified (8.89%).…”

“…For example, while there is a voluminous literature on Muscidae for the States of Paraná and Rio de Janeiro (e.g., Carvalho et al, 1984;D'Almeida, 1991;Pamplona et al, 2000;Oliveira et al, 2002;Costacurta et al, 2003;Couri & Carvalho, 2005;Leandro & D'Almeida, 2005;Rodríguez-Fernández et al, 2006;Couri & Barros, 2009), the most rich and populous Brazilian State remains with the Muscidae diversity knowledge still incipient. Furthermore, it is relatively scarce the Muscidae surveys in the Neotropics based on the use of non-baited collecting techniques (e.g., Carvalho & Couri, 1991;Costacurta et al, 2003;Rodríguez-Fernández et al, 2006;Krüger et al, 2010;Zafalon-Silva et al, 2018). The present study is the first exhaustive survey of Muscidae for the State of São Paulo based on non-baited collectings.…”

“…There are a number of studies with inventory of Diptera in the Neotropics (e.g., Carvalho & Couri, 1991;Couri et al, 2000;Pamplona et al, 2000;Krüger et al, 2010;Borkent et al, 2018;Zafalon-Silva et al, 2018), on the other hand, several studies focused on groups with agricultural or forensic importance (e.g., Ferraz et al, 2009;Mulieri et al, 2011;Garcia et al, 2003;Cavallari et al, 2015;Carvalho et al, 2017;Olea et al, 2017). With regard to Muscidae, there are a number of inventories in Brazil, but unbalanced between the different Brazilian biomes and states.…”

“…localities in Paraná State, southern Brazil in the Atlantic Forest biome, during one-year with Malaise traps Krüger et al (2010). surveyed four localities in southern Brazilian grasslands in the Pampa biome using a one-year Malaise traps collecting; and Zafalon-Silva et al (2018) collected Muscidae in the 35 areas in the Coastal Plain of the Rio Grande do Sul State, southern Brazil.…”