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Provedor de dados: | 92
País: | Brazil
Título: | Distribution, habitat use and plant associations of Moluchia brevipennis (Saussure, 1864) (Blattodea: Ectobiidae): an endemic cockroach from Chilean Mediterranean Matorral biome
Autores: | Schapheer,Constanza; Lopez-Uribe,Margarita M.; Vera,Alejandro; Villagra,Cristian A.
Data: | 2017-04-01
Ano: | 2017
Palavras-chave: | Larcenists; Habitat fragmentation; Ecological interactions; South American cockroaches.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT Wild cockroaches are often described as abundant and diverse insects from wet tropical zones; however, they can also be found in arid and semiarid areas. It is proposed that in these drier environments cockroach survival may dependent on its tight association with native plant species. In this work, using bait trapping and active collection methods, we surveyed cockroach species along central Chile coastal scrubland; the southern limit of the semiarid Mediterranean Matorral biome in the Neotropical Region (32° S). Based on morphological and DNA barcoding methods we found that our collected cockroaches belonged to native species Moluchia brevipennis (Saussure, 1864) (Blattodea: Ectobiidae). Furthermore, thanks to field sampling, we noticed for the first time that M. brevipennis predominantly can be found in patches of native vegetation from Matorral biome, for instance, associated to endemic plant species from Puya (Bromeliaceae) genus, where we recorded these wild cockroaches feeding on flowers at dusk. Under the light of these findings, we discuss the relevance of the association between M. brevipennis and native plants for its survival in this semiarid habitat, its potential ecological function and the ongoing hazards for native insect species resulting from nearby urban sprawl in coastal central Chile.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262017000200114
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
Relação: | 10.1016/j.rbe.2017.02.001
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Entomologia  v.61 n.2 2017
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess