Dung beetles collected using flight intercept traps in an Amazon rainforest fragment and adjacent agroecosystems
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Dung beetles collected using flight intercept traps in an Amazon rainforest fragment and adjacent agroecosystems Anderson Puker 1,2 & Kallene Kharla Gonçalves da Silva 2 & Deane Cabral dos Santos 2 & César Murilo de Albuquerque Correa 3 & Fernando Zagury Vaz-de-Mello 4 Received: 3 December 2019 / Accepted: 5 March 2020 # African Association of Insect Scientists 2020
Abstract Dung beetles present a high specificity degree to certain habitat types and they are widely used as bioindicators of environmental changes. Pitfall traps usually baited with human feces are the main method for collecting these insects. However, despite dung beetles being good flyers and actively move in the environment, collections with flight intercept traps have been little used in inventories of these insects in the wild. The fact that the intercept trap usually does not use any attractants, randomly capturing individuals can minimize sampling artifacts related with bait, light or other attractive methods. Here, we use flight intercept traps to analyze the dung beetle assemblages in different habitats in the Amazon rainforest. Dung beetles were sampled weekly from March 2017 to February 2018 in an Amazon forest fragment under anthropic pressure, cupuaçu orchard, and exotic pasture in Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil. A total of 1041 individuals belonging to 35 species of dung beetles were collected. The species accumulation curve showed no significant difference in the number of species among the three different habitats. The dung beetle species composition found in the forest fragment and cupuaçu orchard was similar, but the community of these two habitats was different from the exotic pasture. Our study provides a list of dung beetle species sampled using a method that is still little used in ecological studies using dung beetles as a study model. Finally, the flight intercept trap is a useful tool for dung beetle inventories in different habitats in the Amazon rainforest. Keywords Agropastoril systems . Bioindicators . Coprophagous beetles . Insect sampling . Scarabaeinae . Tropical forests
Introduction Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) are represented by more than 6500 species worldwide (e.g., Philips 2011; Tarasov and Génier 2015; Tarasov and Dimitrov 2016; Schoolmeesters 2020). In South America there are records
* Anderson Puker [email protected] 1
Present address: Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Mato Grosso, Guarantã do Norte, Mato Grosso 78520-000, Brazil
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Faculdades Integradas Aparício Carvalho (FIMCA), Porto Velho, Rondônia 76811-678, Brazil
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Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais 37200-000, Brazil
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Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso 78060-900, Brazil
of more than 1250 dung beetle species, of which about 730 species are reported in the various Brazilian landscapes (Vazde-Mello et al. 2011; Vaz-de-Mello 2019). The feeding behavior of th
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