Social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) from two National Parks of the Caatinga Biome, in Brazil

Somavilla, Alexandre; Oliveira, Márcio Luiz de; Rafael, José Albertíno

doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v64i3.1593

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“…After that publication, Piauí was curiously sampled only in the portion covered by the semiarid region, reporting an addition of 17 new species (Rocha & Silveira, 2014;Somavilla et al, 2017) to that found by Andena and Carpenter (2014). Alagoas with a survey on a fragment of Atlantic forest (Barbosa et al, 2018) and Sergipe remains as the only one without sampling.…”

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“…As demonstrated by Andena and Carpenter (2014), Barbosa et al (2016) and Somavilla et al (2017), the Northeastern region is still poorly sampled compared to other regions of Brazil, mainly due to its climatic characteristics and low concentration of researchers, but not because it has low species diversity. By mapping the sampling areas from studies carried out in the Northeast, it was possible to determine the most inventoried areas (mainly in Bahia), as well as places that need new studies.…”

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“…Conservation Units are the most frequently used areas for sampling social wasps' species in Northeast (Aragão & Andena, 2014;Somavilla et al, 2017;Barbosa et al, 2018). Usually, researchers work in these areas due to the reduction or absence of fragmentation of the environments and anthropic pressures, as well as exclusive species, presenting unchanged or only slightly altered conditions (Gurgel et al, 2009).…”

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“…We did not find any standardization for the collection methods adopted in the research, especially for the passive collection methods. The methods differ regarding the duration of active collections in the field (Melo et al, 2005;Santos et al, 2006;Santos et al, 2007a;Virginio et al, 2017) and in the association of different methods (Andena & Carpenter, 2014;Aragão & Andena, 2016;Elisei et al, 2017;Somavilla et al, 2017). This affects the evaluation of efficiency of such methods and makes it impossible to determine which of those used in the northeast were more or less efficient in collecting wasps.…”

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Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) from Northeastern Brazil: State of the Art

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For many years, research about social wasps in the Northeast was neglected due to its climatic and vegetative characteristics, insufficient incentive for training researchers to study these animals and perpetuation of low diversity of these groups in arid environments proposed by Ducke. This study carried out a bibliographic survey of research about social wasps in a 40 years period from January/1979 to December/2019, to determine the overall reality of biodiversity and richness knowledge for social wasps species. One hundred and twenty-four (124) social wasp species have been registered in the Northeast Region, distributed among 20 genera. Epiponini stands out with 84 species, followed by Mischocyttarini (24) and Polistini (16). Sergipe is the only state with no studies and records of species thus far. Such results show the importance of continuing taxonomic studies of these insects to expand their geographic distribution and to determine areas for environmental preservation in the Northeastern biomes, i.e., the Caatinga sensu lato, Cerrado and Amazon rainforest and their transition zones, as they have been insufficiently studied and present high potential for new discoveries. We suggest Alagoas, Ceará, Pernambuco and, especially Sergipe as priority areas since there is a lacking data in these states. Finally, we recommend continuing research on species reports in states like Bahia, using the map created herein to choose future study areas.

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“…Basically, these wasps start building their nests by using two different strategies, which permit their classification in: independent founding wasps (Polistes and Mischocyttarus) or swarm-founding wasps (Epiponini) (Jeanne, 1980;Wenzel, 1998). Brazilian social wasp biodiversity is actually well known for several areas with different vegetal formation, such as Brazilian savanna and semideciduous mountain forest (de Souza & Prezoto, 2006), campos rupestres (Silva-Pereira & Santos, 2006), mangrove and resting (Santos et al, 2007), semideciduous seasonal forest (Gomes & Noll, 2009), dense and open upland forest, upland forest dense downland, closed and open flooded forest, high and low white-sand forest (Somavilla et al, 2015) and montane humid forest (Somavilla et al, 2017). Though, there are still few approaches regarding such types of study in anthropized and agricultural-urbanized places (Lima et al, 2000;de Barros Alvarenga et al, 2010;Oliveira et al, 2017a;Detoni et al, 2018).…”

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Occurrence and nesting behavior of social wasps in an anthropized environment

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Some effort had been made concerning the social biodiversity of wasps in Brazil; however, few approaches have been made relating to how this taxa have adapted their nesting behavior to anthropic mixed environments. Thus, the present work aimed to survey the occurrence of social wasps in an anthropic area and their relationship with different types of nesting substrates. Increasing the knowledge of social wasps in anthropic areas would allow us to develop strategies for their conservation and management. Twenty long-term surveys were made at the Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto campus, São Paulo State. During the searches, we collected information about wasp species and nesting substrate. A total of 20 species of 8 genera were identified, and a total of 431 active colonies were registered. Epiponini was the richest in terms of species richness. On the other hand, Mischocyttarini was represented by more active colonies. Mischocyttarus cerberus had a remarkably greater number of colonies, which agreed with the idea of preference of anthropic environments by independent founding wasps. Nesting behavior was associated with eight substrate categories. We observed that some species might express certain plasticity regarding their nesting substrate usage, whereas some expressed certain specificity. Facing the increase in the actual urbanization process and, consequently, habitat loss, this type of study might contribute towards better understanding how these insects are affected by altered environment.

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