New continental record and new species of Austromerope (Mecoptera, Meropeidae) from Brazil

Machado, Renato Jose Pires; Kawada, Ricardo; Rafael, José Albertíno

doi:10.3897/zookeys.269.4255

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“…Phalangioid harvestman ( Hesperopilio ; Shear, ; Shultz & Cekalovic, ; Groh & Giribet, ); pseudotyrannochthoniid pseudoscorpions ( Pseudotyrannochthonius ; Harvey & Štáhlavský, ); pionid water mites ( Larri ; Harvey, ); and meropeid scorpion flies ( Austromerope ; Abbott et al , ; Machado et al , ; Fig. L).…”

Section: Testable Models Of Historical Biogeography In South‐western mentioning

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“…L), found in forested habitats in the HRP (see Abbott, Burbidge & Wills, ). The Meropeidae are known from only three extant species: Merope tuber from eastern North America; A. poultoni endemic to SWWA; and the recently discovered A. brasiliensis from Espírito Santo, Brazil (Machado, Kawada & Rafael, ). Given this distribution, and given additional fossil evidence and morphology, it has been proposed that modern Meropeidae are now highly disjunct Pangaean relicts (Machado et al , ), although this hypothesis remains to be tested phylogenetically.…”

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Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot

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The south-western land division of Western Australia (SWWA), bordering the temperate Southern and Indian Oceans, is the only global biodiversity hotspot recognised in Australia. Renowned for its extraordinary diversity of endemic plants, and for some of the largest and most botanically significant temperate heathlands and woodlands on Earth, SWWA has long fascinated biogeographers. Its flat, highly weathered topography and the apparent absence of major geographic factors usually implicated in biotic diversification have challenged attempts to explain patterns of biogeography and mechanisms of speciation in the region. Botanical studies have always been central to understanding the biodiversity values of SWWA, although surprisingly few quantitative botanical analyses have allowed for an understanding of historical biogeographic processes in both space and time. Faunistic studies, by contrast, have played little or no role in defining hotspot concepts, despite several decades of accumulating quantitative research on the phylogeny and phylogeography of multiple lineages. In this review we critically analyse datasets with explicit supporting phylogenetic data and estimates of the time since divergence for all available elements of the terrestrial fauna, and compare these datasets to those available for plants. In situ speciation has played more of a role in shaping the south-western Australian fauna than has long been supposed, and has occurred in numerous endemic lineages of freshwater fish, frogs, reptiles, snails and less-vagile arthropods. By contrast, relatively low levels of endemism are found in birds, mammals and highly dispersive insects, and in situ speciation has played a negligible role in generating local endemism in birds and mammals. Quantitative studies provide evidence for at least four mechanisms driving patterns of endemism in south-western Australian animals, including: (i) relictualism of ancient Gondwanan or Pangaean taxa in the High Rainfall Province; (ii) vicariant isolation of lineages west of the Nullarbor divide; (iii) in situ speciation; and (iv) recent population subdivision. From dated quantitative studies we derive four testable models of historical biogeography for animal taxa in SWWA, each explicit in providing a spatial, temporal and topological perspective on patterns of speciation or divergence. For each model we also propose candidate lineages that may be worthy of further study, given what we know of their taxonomy, distributions or relationships. These models formalise four of the strongest patterns seen in many animal taxa from SWWA, although other models are clearly required to explain particular, idiosyncratic patterns. Generating numerous new datasets for suites of co-occurring lineages in SWWA will help refine our understanding of the historical biogeography of the region, highlight gaps in our knowledge, and allow us to derive general postulates from quantitative (rather than qualitative) results. For animals, this process has now begun in earnest, as has the process of ta...

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Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot

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“…Despite all of this loss, remaining forest fragments harbor exceptionally diverse fauna and flora with extremely high levels of speciation and endemism on the one hand, and the persistence of old lineages via low species extinction rates on the other hand, which makes this biome both a cradle and a museum of Neotropical diversity [ 31 , 33 , 63 ]. Many interesting insects were reported from the Atlantic Forest, including the bioluminescent larvae of Keroplatidae fungus gnats (Diptera) [ 64 ] and rove beetles (Staphylinidae) [ 65 ], the first Neotropical meropeid Mecoptera [ 66 ], ant-brood parasitizing scuttle flies (Phoridae) [ 67 ], and many others. The late discovery of Jurasaidae in the Atlantic Forest might seem surprising at first sight, but considering high numbers of recently reported new lineages in other soft-bodied elateroids, including Lampyridae [ 56 , 57 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 ], Lycidae [ 19 , 75 ], and Phengodidae [ 76 , 77 ], it is much less surprising.…”

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Hide-and-Seek with Tiny Neotenic Beetles in One of the Hottest Biodiversity Hotspots: Towards an Understanding of the Real Diversity of Jurasaidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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Rosa

Kundrata

2021

Biology

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Jurasaidae are a family of neotenic elateroid beetles which was described recently from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot based on three species in two genera. All life stages live in the soil, including the larviform females, and only adult males are able to fly. Here, we report the discovery of two new species, Jurasai miraculum sp. nov. and J. vanini sp. nov., and a new, morphologically remarkable population of J. digitusdei Rosa et al., 2020. Our discovery sheds further light on the diversity and biogeography of the group. Most species of Jurasaidae are known from the rainforest remnants of the Atlantic Forest, but here for the first time we report a jurasaid species from the relatively drier Atlantic Forest/Caatinga transitional zone. Considering our recent findings, minute body size and cryptic lifestyle of all jurasaids, together with potentially high numbers of yet undescribed species of this family from the Atlantic Forest and possibly also other surrounding ecoregions, we call for both field research in potentially suitable localities as well as for a detailed investigation of a massive amount of already collected but still unprocessed materials deposited in a number of Brazilian institutes, laboratories and collections.

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“…Seu estudo, no entanto, é imprescindível para a compreensão das relações filogenéticas entre os grupos de Holometabola, e da história evolutiva dos insetos, devido principalmente à grande diversidade de linhagens fósseis. O encontro de exemplares em áreas reflorestadas revela provável potencial de Mecoptera como bioindicadores da qualidade do ambiente e indicação para a conservação de áreas (Machado et al 2013). No entanto, os mecópteros registrados para o estado de São Paulo estão na lista vermelha de espécies ameaçadas de extinção do estado (Almeida 2018).…”

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Capítulo 34: Mecoptera Packard, 1886

Machado,

Collucci

2024

Insetos Do Brasil: Diversidade E Taxonomia

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Os mecópteros não possuem nome popular no Brasil. A ordem é cosmopolita, ocorrendo em todas as regiões biogeográficas, exceto Antártica. Mecoptera compreende cerca de 740 espécies, distribuídas em nove famílias e 39 gêneros (Bicha 2018). A maioria das espécies ocorre em duas famílias, Panorpidae e Bittacidae, com cerca de 450 e 220 espécies respectivamente (Bicha 2018). A região Neotropical possui 77 espécies descritas, distribuídas em dez gêneros e quatro famílias: Bittacidae é a maior, com 72 espécies; Eomeropidae possui uma espécie, que ocorre no Chile. Meropeidae é representada também por uma espécie com registro somente para o Brasil (Machado et al. 2013) e Nannochoristidae com três espécies, encontradas na região Andina do Chile e da Argentina (Machado 2018). Para o Brasil, são registradas 26 espécies, 5 gêneros e duas famílias, Bittacidae e Meropeidae (Tab. 34.1) (Machado et al. 2009, 2013, 2018, 2022). Estima-se que o número real de espécies no mundo seja em torno de 1.200 e no Brasil, cerca de 100 espécies. A maioria das áreas da região Neotropical é subamostrada e as coletas são ocasionais, carecendo de uma padronização de metodologia. No Brasil, as regiões norte e sudeste são as mais bem amostradas.

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New continental record and new species of Austromerope (Mecoptera, Meropeidae) from Brazil

Cited by 17 publications

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Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot

Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot

Hide-and-Seek with Tiny Neotenic Beetles in One of the Hottest Biodiversity Hotspots: Towards an Understanding of the Real Diversity of Jurasaidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Capítulo 34: Mecoptera Packard, 1886

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