EntomoBrasilisPub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1007
Ali Al-Jahdhami, A. Al-Raeesi, Said Al-Rashdi
{"title":"First Records of Black Widow Spider Latrodectus Walckenaer (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Oman","authors":"Ali Al-Jahdhami, A. Al-Raeesi, Said Al-Rashdi","doi":"10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1007","url":null,"abstract":"The present communication deals with a faunistic study on two species of Latrodectus Walckenaer with medically important issues from Oman. Several specimens of Latrodectus have been collected at various localities in Sultanate of Oman. This study records two species of Latrodectus from Oman, of which Latrodectus cinctus Blackwall only from northern Oman and Latrodectus geometricus C.L. Koch from both northern and southern Oman.","PeriodicalId":11746,"journal":{"name":"EntomoBrasilis","volume":"09 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86508876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EntomoBrasilisPub Date : 2022-10-17DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e999
Pedro Felipe Fróio Torres, Heloísa da Silva Baldinotti, Diogo Andrade da Costa, Ceres Maciel de Miranda, A. F. Cardoso
{"title":"Influence of pH, light, food concentration and temperature in Aedes aegypti Linnaeus (Diptera: Culicidae) larval development","authors":"Pedro Felipe Fróio Torres, Heloísa da Silva Baldinotti, Diogo Andrade da Costa, Ceres Maciel de Miranda, A. F. Cardoso","doi":"10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e999","url":null,"abstract":"Aedes aegypti Linnaeus mosquito is a vector of several viruses that cause diseases of medical and veterinary importance. Dengue, yellow fever, Zika and Chikungunya viruses are more important arboviruses transmit by mosquitoes. A. aegypti life cycle goes through 4 stages of development and the time for development from egg to adult mosquito depends on a series of biotic and abiotic factors such as temperature, food availability and population density, studied in different species of insects. In this work we studied the effects of different food concentrations, temperatures variation, pH gradient and luminosity on the development of A. aegypti larvae. The eggs were collected in the city of Tangará da Serra/MT and larvae in the L1 stage were used for the tests. The results showed that all the factors studied interfered in the larval development. The increase in food concentration and temperature accelerated the development of larvae to pupae. The acidic pH (pH = 4) proved to be unsuitable for the development of larvae (100% lethality), with the ideal pH for the development of larval stages being equal to pH = 6. Although in all light variations (dark, light and photoperiod 10L/ 14D) there was complete development of the larvae, the photoperiod test proved to be more adequate. This study helps to better understand the success, dispersion and adaptation of the A. aegypti mosquito in different regions under different environmental conditions.","PeriodicalId":11746,"journal":{"name":"EntomoBrasilis","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88145572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EntomoBrasilisPub Date : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1004
M. Q. Almeida, J. W. Morais
{"title":"A new species of Paratropis Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Paratropididae) from Guyana","authors":"M. Q. Almeida, J. W. Morais","doi":"10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1004","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of Paratropis is herein described and illustrated, namely: Paratropis minusculus n. sp. based on males, females and immatures from Potaro-Siparuni, Guyana. Male e female of P. minusculus differ from those of all other species of the genus by having six eyes and by spinneret apical segment domed. In addition, we presented the first record of paratropidid species from Guyana, contribute to the knowledge of local biodiversity.","PeriodicalId":11746,"journal":{"name":"EntomoBrasilis","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84992870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EntomoBrasilisPub Date : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1003
N. G. Cipola, D. Pádua, K. Schoeninger, B. G. Oliveira, S. S. Gadelha, J. A. C. Zequi
{"title":"Record of bees and wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera) during the dry season in a floodplain in the South Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil","authors":"N. G. Cipola, D. Pádua, K. Schoeninger, B. G. Oliveira, S. S. Gadelha, J. A. C. Zequi","doi":"10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1003","url":null,"abstract":"We reported the hymenopteran fauna (except Formicidae) in a floodable area in the South Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The study was conducted in a riparian forest of the Miranda river, located in the Passo do Lontra region, Corumbá. The collection occurred in the dry season of August 2016 using different capture methods. A total of 137 individuals distributed in 18 families, 43 genera, and 64 morphospecies (10 nominal) were collected. The families with the greatest richness were Diapriidae and Ichneumonidae with 11 morphospecies each (17% of the total), followed by Platygastridae and Braconidae with 10 and nine, respectively. Two species were newly recorded for Brazil: Gryonoides pulchellus Dodd, 1920 (Platygastridae) and Losada penai Fritz, 1873 (Crabronidae), plus 22 new records for Mato Grosso do Sul. This study increases about 5.2% of the wasp fauna recorded in Mato Grosso do Sul, as well as for the Pantanal.","PeriodicalId":11746,"journal":{"name":"EntomoBrasilis","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89470224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EntomoBrasilisPub Date : 2022-08-15DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e986
M. J. Martins-Silva
{"title":"[Expression of Concern] Checklist to of Aquatic Heteroptera genera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado Biome), with family and genera identification key","authors":"M. J. Martins-Silva","doi":"10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e986","url":null,"abstract":"Expression of Concern\u0000Process number: EB-PRMP-20220816-0001https://app.entomobrasilis.org/WithdrawalArticle","PeriodicalId":11746,"journal":{"name":"EntomoBrasilis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88817618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EntomoBrasilisPub Date : 2022-07-28DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e998
L. Torres, H. Benítez, J. Costa
{"title":"Longevity, fertility, and average eggs viability of parthenogenetic females of Cladomorphus phyllinus Gray (Phasmatodea - Phasmatidae)","authors":"L. Torres, H. Benítez, J. Costa","doi":"10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e998","url":null,"abstract":"The order Phasmatodea includes insects known as stick insects. In Brazil, few taxonomic, ecological or evolutionary studies have been published in recent years, the reason is related to the few number of researchers dedicated to this particular group. Cladomorphus phyllinus Gray is one of the largest Brazilian insects and perhaps one of the most studied species of Phasmatodea in the country. It is considered as a phytophagous, generalist, and feeds mainly on guava leaves (Psidium guajava), powder-puff (Calliandra sp.) or Angico (Piptania sp.). Females of this species reproduce in a sexual and asexual manner, by the production of diploid daughters from unfertilized eggs (thelytokous parthenogenesis). The absence of records on the reproductive capacity of virgin parthenogenetic females of C. phyllinus led us to record the longevity, fertility, and eggs viability of ten specimens. The results obtained were compared to those found in the scientific literature for mated females of the same species. The fertility and eggs viability were observed to be much lower for the parthenogenetic females when compared to the mated females; however, the longevity for virgin females was longer than that recorded in the literature for mated females.","PeriodicalId":11746,"journal":{"name":"EntomoBrasilis","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75355397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EntomoBrasilisPub Date : 2022-07-14DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e993
K. Cavalcante, Taires Peniche, José Rodrigues Júnior, Geandro dos Santos Gama, Flávia Montagner, A. Galardo
{"title":"Composition of Anopheles Meigen (Diptera: Culicidae) in a peri-urban area of the Eastern Amazon","authors":"K. Cavalcante, Taires Peniche, José Rodrigues Júnior, Geandro dos Santos Gama, Flávia Montagner, A. Galardo","doi":"10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e993","url":null,"abstract":"Malaria vector mosquitoes belong to the genus Anopheles Meigen. The Amazon has been changing due to economic activities such as mining, logging, agriculture, and urbanization, leading to changes in malaria transmission patterns in this region. Therefore, this study aimed to survey Anopheles species in a peri-urban area of Macapá, state of Amapá, Eastern Amazon, Brazil. Human landing catches (HLC) and Shannon light traps were used to collect Anopheles adults at three points. We screened breeding sites in all accessible water reservoirs within a 2 km radius of each collection point to collect immatures and found two species: Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albitarsis s.l. Lynch-Arribalzága (35.7%) and Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) braziliensis (Chagas) (64.3%). A total of 267 winged specimens of Anopheles were collected: A. (N.) braziliensis (62.9%), Anopheles (Anopheles) mattogrossensis Lutz & Neiva (11.6%), Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) triannulatus s.l. (Neiva & Pinto) (11.6%), A. (N.) albitarsis s.l. Lynch-Arribálzaga (6.7%), Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) darlingi Root (5.2%), Anopheles (Anopheles) peryassui Dyar & Knab (1.5%), and Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) nuneztovari Galbadón (0.4%). Considering that Macapá has autochthonous malaria cases, our findings can contribute to developing public health measures in this municipality, therefore helping to protect its habitants. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":11746,"journal":{"name":"EntomoBrasilis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79699417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EntomoBrasilisPub Date : 2022-06-24DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e995
S. C. C. Francisco, G. C. Jacques, L. C. P. Silveira
{"title":"Occurrence of Megaselia scalaris Loew (Diptera: Phoridae) in Mischocyttarus cassununga Von Ihering (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) nests","authors":"S. C. C. Francisco, G. C. Jacques, L. C. P. Silveira","doi":"10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e995","url":null,"abstract":"Social wasp nests create an environment rich in resources, such as food and shelter, which consequently attract predators, parasites, and parasitoids. Parasitoids attacks can be one of the main causes of mortality among social wasps in the early stages of development. Therefore, the aim of this work is to report the occurrence of parasitoids in Mischocyttarus cassununga Von Ihering (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) nests, in an area of Cerrado, at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Minas Gerais (IFMG) - Campus Bambuí, Brazil. There was an emergence of four parasitoids from two nests of M. cassununga, identified as Megaselia scalaris (Loew) (Diptera: Phoridae), the first record of this parasitoid in M. cassununga in a Cerrado area.","PeriodicalId":11746,"journal":{"name":"EntomoBrasilis","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81152221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EntomoBrasilisPub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e991
Eires Tosta Fernandes, C. J. Ávila, I. F. D. Silva
{"title":"Effects of different levels of artificial defoliation on the vegetative and reproductive stages of soybean","authors":"Eires Tosta Fernandes, C. J. Ávila, I. F. D. Silva","doi":"10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e991","url":null,"abstract":"Any factor that may limit the leaf area of the crop in soybean may compromise its development and, consequently, its productivity. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of different levels of artificial defoliation performed in the vegetative and reproductive stages of two soybean cultivars, FT Campo Mourão and Brasmax Potência. The treatments consisted in: 1) Without defoliation throughout the culture cycle; 2) 16.7% defoliation in the vegetative stage; 3) 33.3% on vegetative stage; 4) 16.7% on reproductive stage; 5) 33.3% on reproductive stage; 6) 16.7% throughout the soybean cycle; 7) 33.3% defoliation throughout the soybean cycle. Regardless of the level of defoliation performed on soybeans, it was found that the cultivar Brasmax Potência presented the higher values of plant height, number of pods/plant and green weight of the aerial part, when compared to cultivar FT Campo Mourão. However, the number of pods/plant, green weight of the areal part, grain yield and weight of the seeds were not influenced by the defoliation intensities applied to the soybean. Based on the results, the threshold level of 30% of defoliation in the vegetative stage or 15% in the reproductive stage of soybean is still considered valid for the control of defoliating caterpillars in soybean crop.","PeriodicalId":11746,"journal":{"name":"EntomoBrasilis","volume":"146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88645276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EntomoBrasilisPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e994
Maria Luiza Santana Coelho, T. P. Gouvêa, M. Clemente, Marcos Magalhães de Souza
{"title":"Effect of forest fragment size on Polistinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in a transitional area of Cerrado and Atlantic Forest in south central Minas Gerais state, Brazil","authors":"Maria Luiza Santana Coelho, T. P. Gouvêa, M. Clemente, Marcos Magalhães de Souza","doi":"10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e994","url":null,"abstract":"Ecosystem fragmentation negatively affects biological diversity and compromises different environmental services. This situation occurs in two important biomes in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado. There is little information on the effects of fragmentation on animal taxa, including social wasps. It was hypothesized that fragments that are small in size and subject to anthropogenic pressures have reduced social wasp richness and colony numbers. This study aimed to investigate the effect of forest fragmentation on Polistinae richness and colony number at Atlantic Forest and Cerrado sites in southern central Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil. The study was conducted in three fragments, Mata do Baú, Cachoeira da Lajinha, and Cachoeira do Padeiro, from October 2020 to March 2021, using active collection to record social wasp species and colony numbers. A total of 42 species and 80 colonies were recorded in the three fragments. Forest fragment size alone did not influence social wasp communities, but communities were significantly affected by a combination of factors, including fragment size, adjacent vegetation, and anthropogenic pressures. Species richness was higher in Mata do Baú and Cachoeira da Lajinha, which did not differ from each other, than in Cachoeira do Padeiro; however, all fragments had exclusive communities. Therefore, an increase in anthropogenic pressure in any of the three fragments may lead to losses in social wasp species.","PeriodicalId":11746,"journal":{"name":"EntomoBrasilis","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74492798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}