[PDF] Top 20 Biodiversity of Insects in the Amazon: survey of social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in Amazon rainforest areas in Amazonas state, Brazil

... Regarding the methods used for samples, there are different methods to sample social wasps; however, few studies have attempted to propose a standardization of these methods or to establish ... See full document

... Social wasps perform important and priceless ecosystemic ...predators of other insects, they are important in the maintenance of food chains and in biological ... See full document

... Aquatic Insects from the Caatinga: checklists and diversity assessments of Ubajara (Ceará State) and Sete Cidades (Piauí State) National Parks, Northeastern ...Brazil. ... See full document

... Diversity of social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) in three fragments of semideciduous seasonal forest in the northwest of São Paulo ... See full document

... Social wasps are potential predators of agricultural pest species. The objective of this study was to conduct a survey of the community of social ... See full document

... ABSTRACT. Social wasps of two Cerrado localities in the northeast of Maranhão state, Brazil (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, ...presented of a survey ... See full document

... numbers of small flowers are massed together in less specialized, but more or less compact inflorescences, thus achieving a much more conspicuous display than would scattered single flowers (Proctor et ... See full document

... Roraima state in Brazil is part of Northern Amazon, an area harboring high biodiversity and high degree of ...diversity of social wasps occurring ... See full document

... conducted in the Amazon rainforest, wasp’s diversity is generally higher than other biomes, but in Ducke Reserve, exceeds these indices, with 103 ...species. In Amazonas ... See full document

... to the known diversity of social wasps in the eastern Amazon, of which only scarce information was available until ...From the 19 species recorded for ... See full document

... is the cultivation of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) in the northeast region of the Pará State, in eastern Brazilian ...However, the impacts of this ... See full document

... indentations of the female clypeus very deep; female fore femur with posterior surface strongly flattened, with a sharp edge ventrally sometimes “lamellate”; propodeum with anterior medial surface oblique, ... See full document

... genus of Epiponini with nine species described, which extends from Costa Rica to southeastern Brazil (West-Eberhard et ...found in Brazil: ...to the Amazon Forest (Richards, ... See full document

... cies in the Amazon ...on the herbaceous stratum in general are rare, resulting in significant gaps in our knowledge about the abundance, diversity, and distri- ... See full document

... high in the studied environment, being greater than that found in orchards (Santos 1996; Silva et ...silvipasture areas (Auad et al., 2010), even with the last two showing higher plant ... See full document

... to the Sapindaceae family. According to IBGE (2013), the planted area in Brazil is ...and the Amazonas state is one of the largest ...products of ... See full document

... was the least used resource, approximately ...between the 30-minute evaluations (Table 1). Return with nectar was the only resource with statistically significant difference between the ... See full document

... Vector control activities were ordered to be instituted around the international airport, hospitals and other selected areas, along with the applica- tion of insecticide at ultr[r] ... See full document

... Species in these families have different tolerances to envi- ronmental conditions, being affected by the proximity to human populations (synanthropy) and disturbances in primary vegetation coverage, ... See full document

... by the field agents working at the Centro de Conservação e Manejo de Répteis e Anfíbios do Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis (RAN/IBAMA), who marked the nests ... See full document