Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the West-Most Brazilian Amazon Region: Checklist, New Records, and Identification Key

Bevilaqua, Marcus; Fonseca, Cláudio Ruy Vasconcelos da

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“…The Passalidae is a beetle family with approximately 930 known species distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. Among the passalid beetles collected in this work, P. marginatus was found in Colombia, Suriname, French Guiana, Bolivia and Brazil (Amazonian biome), while S. aquinoi , V. magdalenae and V. sinuosus occupy Brazilian states within the Amazonian biome [12, 24, 25]. The geographic distribution of these beetles suggests that the novel yeast species could have a wide occurrence in the Amazonian biome.…”

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Sugiyamaella bielyi f. a., sp. nov. and Sugiyamaella amazoniana f. a., sp. nov., two yeast species isolated from passalid beetles and rotting wood in Amazonia

Souza

Barros

Alvarenga

et al. 2023

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

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Sixteen yeast isolates representing two novel species of the genus Sugiyamaella were obtained from passalid beetles, their galleries and rotting wood collected in three sites of Amazonian Forest in Brazil. Sequence analyses of the ITS-5.8S region and the D1/D2 domains of the large subunit rRNA gene showed that the first species, described here as Sugiyamaella amazoniana f. a., sp. nov. (holotype CBS 18112, MycoBank 847461) is phylogenetically related to S. bonitensis with these species differing by 37 nucleotide substitutions and six gaps in D1/D2 sequences. S. amazoniana is represented by nine isolates obtained from the guts of the passalid beetles Popilius marginatus, Veturius magdalenae, Veturius sinuosus and Spasalus aquinoi, a beetle gallery and rotting wood. The second species, Sugiyamaella bielyi f. a., sp. nov. (holotype CBS 18148, MycoBank 847463), is most phylogenetically related to several undescribed Sugiyamaella species. S. bielyi is described based on seven isolates obtained from the guts of V. magdalenae and V. sinuosus, a beetle gallery and rotting wood. Both species appear to be associated with passalid beetles and their ecological niches in Amazonian biome.

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Sugiyamaella bielyi f. a., sp. nov. and Sugiyamaella amazoniana f. a., sp. nov., two yeast species isolated from passalid beetles and rotting wood in Amazonia

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Barros

Alvarenga

et al. 2023

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

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“…The specimens collected were stored in 60‐ml‐capacity plastic bottles containing PAMPEL fixative solution (42% distilled water, 44% alcohol 96° GL, 8% formalin, and 5% to 6% glacial acetic acid), for 12 h. Subsequently adult and immature passalids were transferred to vials containing alcohol 96° GL and labelled. The collected passalids were identified using identification keys (Luederwaldt, 1931; Jiménez‐Ferbans et al ., 2015; Bevilaqua & da Fonseca, 2019). This identification was later refined by comparisons with vouchers from the entomological collection of INPA and with the support of specialists.…”

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Windthrows promote higher diversity of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera: Passalidae) in a Central Amazon forest

Alencar

Fonseca

Marra

et al. 2021

Insect Conserv Diversity

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1. Natural disturbances change environmental conditions that play an important role in controlling biodiversity. Large-scale windthrows (i.e. snapped and uprooted trees) promoted by convective systems cause severe tree mortality and can alter the dynamics of several insect taxons in forests.2. We assessed the effect of large-scale windthrows resulting from a squall line event in January 2005 on strictly saproxylic beetle assemblages in Central Amazonia. Using a paired sampling design comparing windthrown and old-growth forest, we investigated the responses of different metrics of Passalidae diversity (richness, abundance and composition).3. We found a higher richness and abundance of species in windthrown areas compared with old-growth forest, and a correlation between species composition and the tree mortality gradient.4. Differences in the richness and composition of the Passalidae assemblage between disturbed and old-growth forest suggest that the tree mortality gradient created by windthrows promotes the diversity of saproxylic beetles in Central Amazonia.

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Redescription of the species ofPassalusFabricius, 1792 (Coleoptera: Passalidae) described by Walter Douglas Hincks (1906–1961) deposited in the Museum of the University of Manchester

Bevilaqua

Fonseca

2020

Journal of Natural History

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Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the West-Most Brazilian Amazon Region: Checklist, New Records, and Identification Key

Cited by 10 publications

References 26 publications

Sugiyamaella bielyi f. a., sp. nov. and Sugiyamaella amazoniana f. a., sp. nov., two yeast species isolated from passalid beetles and rotting wood in Amazonia

Sugiyamaella bielyi f. a., sp. nov. and Sugiyamaella amazoniana f. a., sp. nov., two yeast species isolated from passalid beetles and rotting wood in Amazonia

Windthrows promote higher diversity of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera: Passalidae) in a Central Amazon forest

Redescription of the species ofPassalusFabricius, 1792 (Coleoptera: Passalidae) described by Walter Douglas Hincks (1906–1961) deposited in the Museum of the University of Manchester

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