Family composition of Muscoidea communities in adjacent areas of secondary tropical forest and pasture field in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Caldas, Astrid; Almeida, Josimar Ribeiro de; A'Almeida, José Mario

doi:10.1590/S0101-81751999000300027

Abstract

The Muscoidea community of two adjacent areas was sampled. For eight months one area was of secondary tropical forest and the other was an open field used for cattle grazing. The main purpose of the study was to investigate if there would be any differences in abundance, family diversity, community composition and bait attractiveness. Results suggest that the change in the environment resulted in a reduction of overall abundance, but not a reduced diversity in terms of families. None of the families was led to a marked decrease or increase, as might be expected in a disturbed environment. The changes observed in the community composition were not significant for the distribution and abundance rank of the families within that community. The environmental change also seemed to affect the way the flies responded to the baits.

Muscoidea community; abundance; bait attractiveness; deforestation; diversity

Family composition of Muscoidea communities in adjacent areas of secondary tropical forest and pasture field in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Astrid Caldas^I; Josimar Ribeiro de Almeida^II; José Mario A'Almeida^III

^IDepartment of Entomology, University of Maryland. College Park, MD 20742-4454, USA

^IIDepartamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Caixa Postal 68020, 21941-590 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

^IIILaboratório de Entomologia Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Caixa Postal 68020, 21941-590 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

ABSTRACT

The Muscoidea community of two adjacent areas was sampled. For eight months one area was of secondary tropical forest and the other was an open field used for cattle grazing. The main purpose of the study was to investigate if there would be any differences in abundance, family diversity, community composition and bait attractiveness. Results suggest that the change in the environment resulted in a reduction of overall abundance, but not a reduced diversity in terms of families. None of the families was led to a marked decrease or increase, as might be expected in a disturbed environment. The changes observed in the community composition were not significant for the distribution and abundance rank of the families within that community. The environmental change also seemed to affect the way the flies responded to the baits.

Key words: Muscoidea community, abundance, bait attractiveness, deforestation, diversity

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The authors thank Claudio J.B. Carvalho, Margarete Valverde, and Robert K. Robbins for critically reading the manuscript, and several undergraduate students for help during data collection. This work was supported by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Recebido em 06.III.1998; aceito em 27.VIII.1999.

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15 June 2009
Date of issue
1999

History

Accepted
27 Aug 1999
Received
06 Mar 1998

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[1] ALMEIDA, J.R.; C.J.B. DE CARVALHO & S.R. MALKOWSKY. 1985. Dípteros sinantrópicos de Curitiba e arredores (Paraná, Brasil). II. Fanniidae e Anthomyidae. An. Soc. Ent. Bras. 14: 277-288.

[2] BAUMGARTNER, D.L. & B. GREENBERG. 1985. Distribution and medical ecology of the blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of Peru. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 78: 565-587.

[3] CARVALHO, C.J.B. DE; J.R. ALMEIDA & C.B. JESUS. 1984. Dípteros sinantrópicos de Curitiba e arredores (Paraná, Brasil). I. Muscidae. Revta bras. Ent. 28: 551-560.

[4] D'ALMEIDA, J.M. 1992. Calyptrate Diptera (Muscidae and Anthomyidae) of the State of Rio de Janeiro - I. Synanthropy. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 87: 381-386.

[5] LOMONACO, C. & J.R. ALMEIDA. 1995a. Estrutura comunitária de dípteros muscóideos da restinga de Jacarepaguá, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Revta bras. Ent. 39: 891-896.

[6] ______ . 1995b. Sazonalidade e uso de recursos para alimentação e oviposição de dípteros muscóideos na Restinga de Jacarepaguá, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Revta bras. Ent. 39: 883-890.

[7] MAGURRAN, A.E. 1988. Ecological diversity and its measurement Princeton, Princeton University Press, 179p.

[8] Paraluppi, N.D. & E.G. Castellon. 1994. Calliphoridae (Diptera) em Manaus: I. levantamento taxonômico e sazonalidade. Revta bras. Ent. 38: 661-668.

[9] PIANKA, E.R. 1978. Evolutionary Ecology New York, Harper & Row, 3rd ed., 416p.

[10] POLVONÝ, D. & V. ZNOJIL. 1989. Synanthropic trends in Urban and extraurban taxocenoses of Sarcophaginae (Diptera) in three Central European cities. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 84 (suppl. 4): 441-447.

[11] SOUZA, A.M.; F.P. TEIXEIRA; I.R. RIBEIRO; L.M. PENA; M.D. OLIVEIRA & C. LOMONACO. 1990. Dípteros muscóideos associados a excrementos de criadouros em ambientes rurais, Uberlândia - MG. Revta Cent. Ciênc. Biom. Univ. Fed. Uberl. 6: 9-14.