Author: Vinicius Ferreira
Keywords: Neotropics, Larvae, Pupae, South America, Coleoptera, Beetles, Neotropics, Larvae, Pupae, South America, Coleoptera, Beetles

Coleoptera Immatures from Brazil

Vinicius Ferreira^1, Vinicius Ferreira^2

1 Montana State University, Bozeman, United States; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Vinicius Ferreira (vinicius.sfb@gmail.com), Vinicius Ferreira (vinicius.sfb@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Ferreira V & Costa C (2016): Coleoptera Immatures from Brazil. v1. Sistema de Informação sobre a Biodiversidade Brasileira - SiBBr. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/sibbr/resource?r=coleoptera_immature_of_brazil&amp;v=1.0

Abstract

A database of the described immature beetles from Brazil is presented based on published literature. Species of about 90 Coleoptera families from different Brazilian regions were found and taxonomical and ecological information about these species are given. The main purpose of this database is to ensure accessibility to data associated with described immature Coleoptera from Brazil, which will certainly be useful for future biological, ecological, conservational and biogeographical studies.

Keywords: Neotropics, Larvae, Pupae, South America, Coleoptera, Beetles, Neotropics, Larvae, Pupae, South America, Coleoptera, Beetles

Project details

Project title: DATABASE OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA IMMATURE (INSECTA) FROM BRAZIL
Funding: CNPq process 202559/2015-7 for Vinicius S. Ferreira and CNPq process xxxxxxxx for Cleide Costa.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: TAXONOMIC COVERAGE
About 125 Coleoptera families occurs in Brazil (Bouchard et al (2011) and from these there are known in the literature about 370 immature species from 90 beetle families. This database concerns the immature Coleoptera that were described from Brazil. Most described immature beetles were identified to species or only at genus level. 
The identifications of the specimens were made by the authors of each publication and thus the authors of this paper have no responsibility on any misidentification. 

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

The sampling area of this work is delimited by the current administrative boundaries of the Brazilian territory and from the literature, many species are from the Atlantic Forest and “Cerrado” vegetation in Central Brazil; part of the Amazon Forest and the “Restingas” areas in the South Coast of “São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul”. 

HABITAT COVERAGE

From the literature consulted the specimens were collected in a large number of habitats, which are summarized below. 
In wooden floors inside residences; under decaying wood of a lot of different kinds of trees; in pasture fields; under decaying wood; inside holes in the grass; inside galleries of dead trunks and bounds; in litter; in streams of water close on rocks; in aquatic rocky walls; in temporary pounds and lagoons; in streams of water; in subterranean nest of Geotrigona sp. (Apidae, Meliponinae); in dead bodies of rats, chicken and hedgehog; in subcortical galleries of the trunk, that were still hard; in epigeum nests Isoptera of Anoplotermes, Microcerotermes sp, Nasutitermes and Cornitermes sp.; in excrements of bird, equins, bovines and suines; in hard trunks of Lauracea, probably of Nectranda or Ocotea; in bromeliads with vegetal detritus; in the axil of leaves; in sugar cane plantation; at night walking in arenous railroad; in Casuarina sp.; inside Mantidae ootheca; in dried cut bamboos; in dead fallen trunks of Caryocar brasiliense (popular name of Pequi) and Angico (Mimosoideae); in Casuarina sp. larvae of Nosodendrom angelum (Nosodendridae); in rotten male cones of Araucaria angustifolia fallen in the ground; in fungi found in fallen rotten trunks; in Sechium edule (Cucurbitaceae) leaves; preying on Homoptera, Psylidae; in Poliporaceae; on the beach; inside coconuts of oil palm (macaw-fat); in leaves of guanxuma, Sida rhombifolia L., (Malvaceae); in leaves of embaúba (Cecropia sp.); on leaves of Ipomoea acuminata (Convulvulaceae); in fruits of Machaerium scleroxylon Tul. (Leguminosae); in orange trees (Citrus spp.) and orange tree borer; borers of lianas; borers of sugar cane.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/sibbr/resource?r=coleoptera_immature_of_brazil

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera.
Taxonomic ranks
Order: Coleoptera
Common names: Beetles

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The immature data of the Brazilian region, as a whole, have been obtained from the available literature, which include a book by Costa et al (1988), and several other papers published by this same author and collaborators, after 1988. 

Coordinates: 34°11'24''S and 5°54'36''N Latitude; 75°12'36''W and 33°30'36''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1914 - April 12, 2016

Curatorial unit: Between null and null ()

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Coleoptera Immatures from Brazil
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/sibbr/archive.do?r=coleoptera_immature_of_brazil
Publication date of data: 2016-04-12
Language: English
Licences of use: This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode">Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License</a>.

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-04-12
Hierarchy level: Dataset