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Provedor de dados: | 82
País: | Brazil
Título: | Morphometric Analysis of Populations of Centris aenea Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from Northeastern Brazil
Autores: | Ferreira,VS; Aguiar,CML; Costa,MA; Silva,JG.
Data: | 2011-02-01
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Centridini; Solitary bee; Morphometry; Partial warp; Population variability.
Resumo: | Centris aenea Lepeletier is a solitary bee that has raised interest in management to pollinate crops, such as acerola, Malpighia emarginata. This study investigated the level of morphometric variability among populations of C. aenea from Northeastern Brazil. Traditional and geometric morphometric analyses were used. Head length, leg length, wing length, and wing shape were measured in samples (5-10 females) from eight localities. We did not find statistically significant differences among the populations (P &gt; 0.01). The partial wing warps were similar in the populations and indicated that the bees were not morphometrically different. Our results suggest that C. aenea shows low population morphometric variability and highlight the need for further investigations on population variation in this species, preferably including populations sampled at the extremes of their geographic distribution. Significant insight into the population variation of C. aenea will probably require the use of molecular markers to allow a comparative approach between morphometric variability and genetic variability.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-566X2011000100014
Editor: | Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil
Relação: | 10.1590/S1519-566X2011000100014
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Neotropical Entomology  v.40 n.1 2011
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess