Data/hora: 12/06/2024 14:38:03

Provedor de dados: | 49
País: | Brazil
Título: | Gall-inducing insects from Campos de Altitude, Brazil
Autores: | Coelho,Marcel Serra; Carneiro,Marco Antônio Alves; Branco,Cristina; Borges,Rafael Augusto Xavier; Fernandes,Geraldo Wilson.
Data: | 2013-12-01
Ano: | 2013
Palavras-chave: | Biodiversity; Biogeography; Herbivory; Host plant; Altitude.
Resumo: | Gall-inducing insects are very specious in vegetations of southeastern Brazil. Our goal was describe the gall richness by characterizing their external forms and their patterns of occurrence on host plants. Samples were collected from Campos de Altitude at four regions of the Mantiqueira Range: 1) Parque Estadual da Serra do Brigadeiro, 2) Parque Nacional do Caparaó, 3) Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca, 4) Parque Nacional do Itatiaia. We found 93 gall species within 13 families, 30 genera and 50 host plant species. We recorded 38 gall species in Parque Estadual da Serra do Brigadeiro, 21 in Parque Nacional do Caparaó, 23 in Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca and 20 in Parque Nacional do Itatiaia. Asteraceae represented 33% of the species collected, followed by Melastomataceae at 17%; with each one concentrating 56% and 18% of the galling insects, respectively. 98% of galls were Cecydomiidae (Diptera). The most attacked organ was the stem (56%), followed by the leaf (23%). Only 12% of the galls described in our study had been already recorded in previous studies, thus reinforcing the need to increase the sampling effort toward a better understanding of the richness and the natural history of gall-inducing insects from Brazil.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032013000400139
Editor: | Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP
Relação: | 10.1590/S1676-06032013000400015
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Biota Neotropica  v.13 n.4 2013
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess