Assessment of the current state of biodiversity data for butterflies and skippers (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea) in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil

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Description

Lepidoptera is one of the four megadiverse insect orders, comprising butterflies and moths. In Brazil, the bulk of knowledge about the butterfly fauna is restricted to some areas in the southeast of the country, with large gaps of knowledge in other areas. The state of Mato Grosso is one of the largest states in Brazil, and holds three of the main Brazilian biomes: Amazon rain forest, Cerrado and Pantanal However, knowledge about Mato Grosso butterflies is fragmented and restricted to a few localities, and information is scattered in various sources. The aim of this study is to assemble the biodiversity information of the butterfly fauna of the state of Mato Grosso based on historical and recent literature data and collections carried out in the southwest of the state from 2007–2009. Records without precise locality data or taxonomic information were not included. Species identification was based on literature and comparison with specimens in collections; higher and species-level taxonomy were updated based on the Neotropical Checklist of Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea and recent phylogenetic and revisionary taxonomic works. In total, 901 species were recorded in 2,820 occurrence records. This represents 148 species of Hesperiidae, 29 Papilionidae, 28Pieridae, 77 Lycaenidae, 238 Riodinidae, and 381 Nymphalidae. Of these, 207 species records are from the type specimens of species described in the state. Based on the results and literature records for other Brazilian states and biomes, probably the figures for Mato Grosso are underestimated, particularly in the families Hesperiidae, Lycaenidae and Riodinidae, in that order. Future collecting efforts should be directed towards certain areas of the state, especially in less sampled areas and biomes, as the north of the state and Pantanal.

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Keywords

Biodiversity; Database; Amazon; Cerrado; Pantanal; Occurrence; Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Luziany Queiroz-Santos
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Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná
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Fernando Maia Silva Dias
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Rafael Dell'Erba
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Mirna Martins Casagrande
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Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke
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Geographic Coverage

This dataset collates species occurrences from the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Most regions are at low to medium elevations, with areas from 100 meters in the southwest and northern limits, reaching up to 1,118 meters above sea level, however, about two thirds of the state is below 600 meters in elevation.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-18.12, -61.6], North East [-7.38, -50.4]

Taxonomic Coverage

The taxonomic coverage of this dataset spans the diurnal butterflies, which includes superfamilies Hesperioidea (with one family, Hesperiidae) and Papilionoidea (with five families, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae and Riodinidae). The highest number of records in the study area are from Nymphalidae (381 species in 1,669 records), followed by Riodinidae (238 species in 605 records) and Hesperiidae (148 species in 177 records). The families with the least number of both species and records are Lycaenidae (77 species in 105 records), Pieridae (28 species in 151 records) and Papilionidae (29 species in 94 records).

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Family Papilionidae (Swallowtails), Pieridae (Sulphurs and Whites), Riodinidae (Metalmarks), Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies), Lycaenidae (Blues, Coppers and Hairstreaks), Hesperiidae (Skippers)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1895-01-01 / 2015-01-01

Project Data

Lepidoptera is one of the four megadiverse insect orders, comprising butterflies and moths. In Brazil, the bulk of knowledge about the butterfly fauna is restricted to some areas in the southeast of the country, with large gaps of knowledge in other areas. The state of Mato Grosso is one of the largest states in Brazil, and holds three of the main Brazilian biomes: Amazon rain forest, Cerrado and Pantanal However, knowledge about Mato Grosso butterflies is fragmented and restricted to a few localities, and information is scattered in various sources. The aim of this study is to assemble the biodiversity information of the butterfly fauna of the state of Mato Grosso based on historical and recent literature data and collections carried out in the southwest of the state from 2007–2009. Records without precise locality data or taxonomic information were not included. Species identification was based on literature and comparison with specimens in collections; higher and species-level taxonomy were updated based on the Neotropical Checklist of Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea and recent phylogenetic and revisionary taxonomic works. In total, 901 species were recorded in 2,820 occurrence records. This represents 148 species of Hesperiidae, 29 Papilionidae, 28Pieridae, 77 Lycaenidae, 238 Riodinidae, and 381 Nymphalidae. Of these, 207 species records are from the type specimens of species described in the state. Based on the results and literature records for other Brazilian states and biomes, probably the figures for Mato Grosso are underestimated, particularly in the families Hesperiidae, Lycaenidae and Riodinidae, in that order. Future collecting efforts should be directed towards certain areas of the state, especially in less sampled areas and biomes, as the north of the state and Pantanal.

Title Assessment of the current state of biodiversity data for butterflies and skippers (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea) in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil
Funding Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
Study Area Description Mato Grosso is located in the central-western part of Brazil, with an area of 903,378,292 km², making it the third largest state in Brazil. The state has three different climate zones: in lower elevations, there is a tropical monsoon climate, with rainy summers and dry winters and an average temperature of over 24°C; and also a tropical rainforest climate, with no distinct seasons, heavy rainfall, and average temperature of 23°C; and in higher elevations, there is a subtropical climate, with an average temperature of 17°C. Most regions are at low to medium elevations, with areas from about 100 meters in the southwest and northern areas, reaching up to 1,118 meters above sea level; nevertheless, about two thirds of the state is below 600 meters in elevation. Mato Grosso is drained by streams that flow north to the Amazonas drainage basin (e.g. Juruena, Teles Pires, and Xingu rivers), east to the Tocantins-Araguaia river basin (e.g. Araguaia river), and south to the Paraná river basin (e.g. Cuiabá river).
Design Description The list of diurnal butterflies occurring in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, was compiled based on faunistic studies, species descriptions and other taxonomic literature, and specimens collected by the first author in field expeditions carried out between November 2007 and January 2009 in the municipality of Pontes e Lacerda, southwestern Mato Grosso. The first records of butterflies from the state of Mato Grosso are the type localities of species described by Fruhstorfer (1895) and Godman & Salvin (1896); in the following years, several authors added records to the state. The Talbot and Collenette expedition was the first significant contribution to the knowledge of the butterfly fauna of Mato Grosso; two papers, both published in 1928, provide several records and descriptions of new taxa. The results of the Rondon expedition led by Miranda-Ribeiro (1931), records provided by Brown Jr. (1979, 1987), and data available in the illustrated guide by Garwood et al. (2009), stand out as important sources of occurrence records. A total of 2,820 individual occurrence records were included in the database; of the 901 species recorded, 207 are from type localities of descriptions of taxa and 102 from the three years of field work in the municipality of Pontes e Lacerda. Of these, 31 species were not recorded before in the literature to Mato Grosso. The highest number of records are from Nymphalidae (381 species in 1,669 records), followed by Riodinidae (238 species in 605 records) and Hesperiidae (148 species in 177 records). The families with the least number of both species and records are Lycaenidae (77 species in 105 records), Pieridae (28 species in 151 records) and Papilionidae (29 species in 94 records).

The personnel involved in the project:

Luziany Queiroz-Santos
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Fernando Maia Silva Dias
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Rafael Dell'Erba
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Mirna Martins Casagrande
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Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke
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Sampling Methods

The list of diurnal butterflies occurring in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, was compiled based on faunistic studies, species descriptions and other taxonomic literature (Fruhstorfer 1895; Godman & Salvin 1896, Godman & Salvin 1898, Godman 1900, Godman 1903, Druce 1904, Godman 1905, Druce 1907, Stichel 1909, Fruhstorfer 1910a, Fruhstorfer 1910b, Niepelt 1910, Stichel 1910, Weymer 1911, Fruhstorfer 1912, Röber 1913, Fruhstorfer 1915, Stichel 1915, Fruhstorfer 1916a, Fruhstorfer 1916b, Oberthür 1916, Stichel 1916a, Stichel 1916b, Seitz 1917, Reverdin 1919, Stichel 1919, Lathy 1921, Riley 1921, Röber 1921, Skinner 1921, Martin 1923, Stichel 1923, Joicey & Talbot 1924, Riley 1924, Stichel 1924, Joicey & Talbot 1925, Neustetter 1925, Röber 1925, Lathy 1926a, Lathy 1926b, Stichel 1926, Williams 1926, Williams 1927, Collenete & Talbot 1928a, Collenette & Talbot 1928b, D’Almeida 1928, Talbot 1928, Hall 1929, Riley 1929, Stichel 1929, Miranda-Ribeiro 1931, Lathy 1932, Le Moult 1932, Seitz 1932, Talbot 1932, D’Almeida 1935, Bell 1938, Williams & Bell 1939, D’Almeida 1941, Hayward 1942a, Hayward 1942b, Evans 1944, Goodson 1945, Dillon 1948, Evans 1951, D’Almeida 1952, Bryk 1953, Evans 1953, Evans 1955, D’Almeida 1958, Le Moult & Réal 1962-63, Weber 1963, Mielke 1967, Mielke 1968, Brown Jr et al. 1970, Brown Jr 1973, Mielke 1978, Casagrande & Mielke 1979, Bristow, 1981, 1982, 1991, De Jong 1983, Jenkins 1983, Brown Jr 1987, Steinhauser 1991, Blandin 1993, Johnson 1993, Burns 1994, Tyler et al. 1994, D’Abrera 1995, Mielke 1995, Hall & Willmott 1996, Johnson & Kruse 1997, Austin & Mielke 1997, Hall 1998, Callaghan 1999, Hall & Furtado 1999, Harvey & Hall 2002, Blandin 2007b, Garwood & Lehman 2009, Casagrande 2009, Dolibaina et al. 2013, Dorval et al. 2013, Kaminski et al. 2015). Only occurrences explicitly recorded in a locality within the limits of the state of Mato Grosso were acknowledged, therefore, approximately 470 species of Hesperiidae listed by Brown Jr (1987) were not recorded, as his list also contains data from neighboring states. Similarly, occurrences without precise taxonomic information (e.g. unidentified species, species noted with “cf.”, “aff.”, “?”, and uncertain identifications, when explicitly stated, etc.) were not included. Due to factual errors and successive changes in the political boundaries of the states of Brazil, some records of type specimens supposedly from “Mato Grosso” (Lamas 2004, Mielke 2005a,b,c,d,e,f) actually belong to the Brazilian states of Rondônia, Mato Grosso do Sul or Pará. The type localities of these species were corrected, based on the information provided in the original descriptions and assigned to the correct state. Additionally, data from specimens collected by LQS in field expedition carried out between November 2007 and January 2009 in the municipality of Pontes e Lacerda, Mato Grosso were included. Specimens were actively collected with standard entomological nets, mounted, labeled, identified, and deposited at the Coleção Zoobotânica “James A. Ratter”, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina (CZNX). Higher and species-level taxonomy of all records were checked and updated, based on Blandin (1988), McAlpine (1971), Jenkins (1985), Jenkins (1990), Bristow (1981, 1982, 1991), Holzinger & Holzinger (1994), Tyler et al. 1994, Hall (1998), Hall (2000), Willmott (2003), Lamas (2004), Bálint (2005), Hall (2005), Blandin (2007a), Hall (2007), Austin (2008), Penz (2008), Faynel et al. (2012), Dolibaina et al. (2013), Ortiz-Acevedo & Willmott (2013), Seraphim et al. (2013), Zacca et al. (2013), Dias et al. (2014) and Díaz et al. (2014). Collected specimens were identified through direct comparison with specimens deposited at the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná (DZUP) and with the aid of specialists (see additional information).

Study Extent Literature and specimens between November 2007 and January 2009 in the municipality of Pontes e Lacerda, southwestern Mato Grosso.

Method step description:

  1. Compilation of occurrence data from the literature, and data of the specimens collected between November 2007 and January 2009 in the municipality of Pontes e Lacerda, southwestern Mato Grosso.

Collection Data

Collection Name Coleção Zoobotânica “James A. Ratter”, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Collection Identifier CZNX
Collection Name Coleção Entomológica Padre Jesus Santiago Moure, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Collection Identifier DZUP
Specimen preservation methods Mounted

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The authors would like to thank Marcelo Duarte (MZUSP) and Geraldo Lamas (UNMSM) for providing access to essential literature, Marcelo Medaglia for help with maps and georeferencing, and Fábio Santos for suggestions about the manuscript and Keith M. Bayless for reviewing the English version of the manuscript. We also would like to thank the following researchers for help in the identification of specimens: Alfred Moser (Lycaenidae), Eduardo Carneiro (Hesperiidae), Diego Dolibaina (Riodinidae), Thamara Zacca (Satyrinae), Eduardo Barbosa for species of Hermeuptychia, and Lucy Mila Salik (Biblidinae). The authors would like to thank the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for the fellowships granted to the authors (LQS: 130624/2014-1, CNPq; FMSD: Edital 15/2014, CAPES/EMBRAPA; RD: CAPES; MMC: 308247/2013-2, CNPq; OHHM: 304639/2014-1, CNPq).