Patterns of Ant Diversity in the Natural Grasslands of Southern Brazil

Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Parque Estadual São Camilo, an isolated Atlantic Forest remnant in western Paraná, Brazil

“…We present here the first list of the ants occurring in the Parque Estadual São Camilo, Paraná, increasing the number of species formerly recorded for the state. We found that less than 30 species listed in the PESC are shared with other areas of the state based on previous studies on ant diversity in Paraná (Holdefer et al 2017, Franco and Feitosa 2018, Golias et al 2018, Martins et al 2019, Franco et al 2021.…”

“…The dataset was analyzed in the R environment with the R Base package (R Core Team 2020), and the graph relating the number of species by genus in each subfamily was made with the ggplot2 package (Wickham 2016). Our list was compared with other records for ants in the region (see Golias et al 2018, Holdefer et al 2017, Franco and Feitosa 2018, Martins et al 2019, Franco et al 2021. We elaborated a map of the study area in Brazil with the collection points established at PESC in QGIS v.3.16.7 (QGIS 2021), the vegetation cover was retrieved from IAT (2022b).…”

“…The state of Paraná, Southern Brazil, is covered by two of the six officially recognized Brazilian biomes (MMA 2021): the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado. While the Cerrado is restricted to small, isolated fragments in the northern portion of the state , the Atlantic Forest occupies most of Paraná's surface, including areas of semideciduous seasonal forests, ombrophilous forests with Araucaria and natural grasslands (Franco et al 2021). One of the conservation unities stablished to protect the Atlantic Forest in the state is the Parque Estadual São Camilo (hereafter PESC), created in 1990 and once named Reserva Biológica de São Camilo (IAT 2022a).…”