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Provedor de dados: 	49	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Gall-inducing insects from Atlantic Forest of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil	
Autores: 	Santos,Jean Carlos; Almeida-Cortez,Jarcilene Silva de; Fernandes,Geraldo Wilson.	
Data: 	2012-09-01	
Ano: 	2012	
Palavras-chave: 	Biodiversity; Cecidomyiidae; Host plants; Insect galls; Herbivory.	
Resumo: 	An inventory of gall inducing insects and their host plants in the Atlantic forest of Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil is presented. Samples of galls and their host plants were taken in six fragments of Atlantic forest. One hundred thirty-six different morphotypes of insect galls on 79 host plant species belonging to 35 plant families and 53 genera were recorded. The host plant families most attacked by galling insects were: Lecythidaceae, Myrtaceae, and Nyctaginaceae. The most frequent galling taxa were Diptera of the Cecidomyiidae family (95%), followed by Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. Galls occurred most frequently on leaves and stems, had globoid and elliptical shapes, green color and absence of trichomes on the external walls. The data indicate an intermediary richness of gall inducing insects when compared to other Brazilian Atlantic forests.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032012000300020	
Editor: 	Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1676-06032012000300020	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Biota Neotropica  v.12 n.3 2012	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess