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Checklist of Caddisflies (Insecta, Trichoptera) from Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil

Lista dos tricópteros (Insecta, Trichoptera) do estado do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

ABSTRACT

Trichoptera presents about 15,000 species described globally, of which 2,562 are recorded in the Neotropics and 642 in Brazil, distributed in 70 genera and 16 families. In Brazil, knowledge of the distribution and species richness of Trichoptera is incipient and heterogeneous, especially in some states such as Mato Grosso do Sul. In this work, we present an updated checklist of caddisflies for Mato Grosso do Sul state, representing nine families, 24 genera, and 16 species, four of them are new species records. Additionally, a new record of species for the Brazilian country is presented.

KEYWORDS
Aquatic insects; caddisfly; new records; distribution; Biota-MS Program

RESUMO

A ordem Trichoptera possui aproximadamente 15.000 espécies descritas no mundo, dentre as quais 2.562 possuem registro na Região Neotropical e 642 delas no Brasil, distribuídas em 70 gêneros e 16 famílias. No Brasil, o conhecimento de distribuição e riqueza de espécies de Trichoptera é incipiente e heterogêneo, principalmente em alguns estados, como o Mato Grosso do Sul. Nesse trabalho, apresentamos uma checklist atualizada dos tricópteros do estado do Mato Grosso do Sul, representando nove famílias, 24 gêneros e 16 espécies, destas quatro são novos registros para o estado. Adicionalmente, é apresentado um novo registro de espécie para o Brasil.

PALAVRAS-CHAVE
Distribuição; insetos aquáticos; novos registros; tricópteros; Programa Biota-MS

Caddisflies (Trichoptera) constitute the most diverse clade of exclusively aquatic insects, recording about 15,000 described species worldwide (Holzenthal et al., 2011Holzenthal, R. W.; Morse. J. C. & Kjer, K. M. 2011. Order Trichoptera Kirby, 1813. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Z.Q. Zhang. ed.). Zootaxa 3148:209-211.), of which 2,562 occur in the Neotropical region (Morse, 2011Morse, J. C. 2011. The Trichoptera World Checklist. Zoosymposia 5:372-380.) and 642 in Brazil, distributed in 70 genera and 16 families (Santos et al., 2015Santos, A. P. M.; Dumas, L. L.; Jardim, G. A. Silva, A. L. R & Nessimian, J. L.2014. Brazilian Caddisflies: Checklists and Bibliography. Avaiable at: <https://sites.google.com/site/braziliancaddisflies>. Access in 13 July 2014.
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).

Since the first checklist of Brazilian caddisflies, the numbers of species and distribution records have increased exponentially. Paprocki et al. (2004Paprocki, H.; Holzenthal, R. W.& Blahnik, R. J.2004. Checklist of the Trichoptera (Insecta) of Brazil I. Biota Neotropica4(1):1-22. ) reported only 378 species in 61 genera, and Santos et al. (2015Santos, A. P. M.; Dumas, L. L.; Jardim, G. A. Silva, A. L. R & Nessimian, J. L.2014. Brazilian Caddisflies: Checklists and Bibliography. Avaiable at: <https://sites.google.com/site/braziliancaddisflies>. Access in 13 July 2014.
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) elevated to 642 species and 70 genera. In last decades, some publications on distributional notes or regional checklists were also published (e.g., Blahnik et al., 2004Blahnik, R. J.; Paprocki, H. & Holzenthal, R. W. 2004. New distribution and species records of Trichoptera from Southern and Southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotropica 4:1-6.; Dumas et al., 2010Dumas, L. L.; Santos, A. P. M.; Jardim, G. A.; Ferreira Jr, N. & Nessimian, J. L. 2010. Insecta Trichoptera: New records from Brazil and other distributional notes. Check List6(1):7-9; Calor, 2011Calor, A. R. 2011. Checklist dos Trichoptera (Insecta) do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Biota Neotropica11(1a):1-12. ; Nogueira & Cabette, 2011Nogueira, D. S. & Cabette, H. S. R. 2011. Novos registros e notas sobre distribuição geográfica de Trichoptera Kirby, 1813 (Insecta) do Estado de Mato Grosso, Brasil. Biota Neotropica11(2):347-355.; Costa et al., 2014Costa, A. M.; Quinteiro, F. B. & Calor, A. R.2014. Trichoptera do Semiárido I: Annulipalpia. Cap. 17. In: Bravo, F. & Calor A. R. EDS Artrópodes do Semiárido: biodiversidade e conservação . Feira de Santana , Printmídia. 215-228.; Quinteiro et al., 2014Quinteiro, F. B.; Costa, A. M.& Calor, A. R.2014. Trichoptera do Semiárido II: Integripalpia. Cap. 18. In: Bravo, F. & Calor, A. R.eds. Artrópodes do Semiárido: biodiversidade e conservação. Feira de Santana, Printmídia, p. 229-244.) and around 100 new species were described from Brazil, but there are at least another 300 new species to be described, deposited in museums (Calor, 2011Calor, A. R. 2011. Checklist dos Trichoptera (Insecta) do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Biota Neotropica11(1a):1-12. ). Despite the increase of knowledge of Brazilian caddisflies, the records were especially concentrated in Southeastern and Northern regions (related to the location of traditional research groups on aquatic insects). Therefore, some species have “fragmented” distribution (probably due to some states with no survey yet) and others have punctual distribution (only known from holotype locality). In this way, although there is still a big number of undescribed species, the known species present geographical distributions poorly understood, with many record gaps leading to an unreal disjunct distribution. Thus, Linnean and Wallacean shortfalls (Lomolino, 2004Lomolino, M. V. 2004. Conservation biogeography. In: Lomolino, M. V.& Heaney, L. R. eds. Frontiers of Biogeography. New directions in the geography of nature. Massachusetts, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, p. 293-296.; Whittaker et al., 2005Whittaker, R. J.; Araújo, M. B.; Paul, J.; Ladle, R. J.; Watson, J. E. M. & Willis, K. J. 2005. Conservation biogeography: assessment and prospect. Diversity and Distributions 11:3-23.) were not overcome yet. Additionally, two other subjects draw attention: the cited increase of knowledge was based especially on adults, and the majority of taxa were described without a phylogenetic approach. As the knowledge of the caddisflies immature stages is around 2% only (Holzenthal, 2004Holzenthal, R. W. 2004. Rearing Trichoptera. Nectopsyche: Neotropical Trichoptera Newsletter, p. 6. Available at: <Available at: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/museum/links/Nectopsyche_2.pdf >. Accessed in 28 January 2013.
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) and these aquatic stages are very useful to monitoring programs of water quality, there is a new case of shortfall, named here as Müllerian shortfall, in reference to Fritz Müller, a dedicated naturalist who sought to understand more of the immature stages of caddisflies.

The purpose of this paper is to continue the formal documentation of Brazilian caddisflies based on material obtained from Mato Grosso do Sul State to minimize the shortfalls and consequently to collaborate with the database on biodiversity of state, as part of the goals of BIOTA-MS.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Study area. The state of Mato Grosso do Sul (17° to 24°S, 51° to 58°W) encompass about 4.2% of the Brazilian territory (Cáceres et al., 2008Cáceres, N. C.; Carmignotto, A. P.; Fischer, E. & Santos, C. F. 2008. Mammals from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Check List 4(3):321-335. ). The state is considered by some authors a transitional area due the presence of at least three major biomes: Cerrado in the center and northeastern regions, Atlantic Forest in the southern and eastern regions and Pantanal in the northwestern region (Cáceres et al., 2008Cáceres, N. C.; Carmignotto, A. P.; Fischer, E. & Santos, C. F. 2008. Mammals from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Check List 4(3):321-335. ). These biomes are composed by decidual and semidecidual forests. The climate is considered tropical in the state, but it tends to subtropical in the southern portion (Cáceres et al., 2008Cáceres, N. C.; Carmignotto, A. P.; Fischer, E. & Santos, C. F. 2008. Mammals from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Check List 4(3):321-335. ). The rainfall is about 1,250 to 1,500 mm during the months of October to March, being the remaining months the dry season (Cáceres et al., 2008Cáceres, N. C.; Carmignotto, A. P.; Fischer, E. & Santos, C. F. 2008. Mammals from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Check List 4(3):321-335. ). Moreover, it is a frontier land with Bolivia and Paraguay, which implies that part of the fauna may be shared among Mato Grosso do Sul and these countries.

Sampling. The checklist was based on the literature (Flint et al., 1999Flint, O. S. Jr; Holzenthal, R. W.& Harris, S. C. 1999. Catalog of the Neotropical Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera). Columbus, Ohio Biological Survey. 239p.; Paprocki et al., 2004Paprocki, H.; Holzenthal, R. W.& Blahnik, R. J.2004. Checklist of the Trichoptera (Insecta) of Brazil I. Biota Neotropica4(1):1-22. ; Santos et al., 2015Santos, A. P. M.; Dumas, L. L.; Jardim, G. A. Silva, A. L. R & Nessimian, J. L.2014. Brazilian Caddisflies: Checklists and Bibliography. Avaiable at: <https://sites.google.com/site/braziliancaddisflies>. Access in 13 July 2014.
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; Costa et al., 2014Costa, A. M.; Quinteiro, F. B. & Calor, A. R.2014. Trichoptera do Semiárido I: Annulipalpia. Cap. 17. In: Bravo, F. & Calor A. R. EDS Artrópodes do Semiárido: biodiversidade e conservação . Feira de Santana , Printmídia. 215-228.; Quinteiro et al., 2014Quinteiro, F. B.; Costa, A. M.& Calor, A. R.2014. Trichoptera do Semiárido II: Integripalpia. Cap. 18. In: Bravo, F. & Calor, A. R.eds. Artrópodes do Semiárido: biodiversidade e conservação. Feira de Santana, Printmídia, p. 229-244.); examined material from Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP), and Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Collection of Aquatic Insects (UFBA). The specimens were collected using entomological nets, and the light pan traps (Calor & Mariano, 2012Calor, A. R. & Mariano, R. 2012. UV Light Pan traps for Collecting Aquatic Insects. EntomoBrasilis 5(2):164-166.). Specimens were fixed and preserved in 80% ethanol. The species were identified by comparison with other identified specimens and primary literature. The collected material was deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, BA, Brazil. Additional genera records were based on the literature as cited in the Additional genera gecords section.

Acronyms for the Brazilian States are the following: Acre (AC), Alagoas (AL), Amazonas (AM), Amapá (AP), Bahia (BA), Ceará (CE), Goiás (GO), Espírito Santo (ES), Maranhão (MA), Mato Grosso (MT), Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), Minas Gerais (MG), Pará (PA), Paraíba (PB), Paraná (PR), Pernambuco (PE), Piauí (PI), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Rio Grande do Norte (RN), Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Rondônia (RO), Roraima (RR), Santa Catarina (SC) and São Paulo (SP), Sergipe (SE), Tocantins (TO).

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Sixteen species of caddisflies were recorded in Mato Grosso do Sul distributed in five families (Calamoceratidae, Hydropsychidae, Leptoceridae, Odontoceridae, and Polycentropodidae), and six genera (Cyrnellus, Leptonema, Marilia, Oecetis, Phylloicus, and Smicridea) (Tab. I). Four new records of species (Phylloicus angustior, P. lituratus, Leptonema viridianum, Smicridea mangaratiba), three new records of genera, and one new record to family (Calamoceratidae) are provided to state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Additionally, a new species record for Brazil is also presented.

Tab. I
Species record distribution of Trichoptera by state in Brazil. The state of Mato Grosso do Sul is in bold )[modified Paprocki et al. (2004) and Santos et al. (2014) )]. Updated numbers consider the total number of species presented by Santos et al. (2015), Costa et al. (2015), Quinteiro et al. (2014), Paprocki & Franca (2014), Quinteiro & Calor (2015), plus the new records. *Total number of Brazilian caddisflies species considering the data from Santos et al. (2015) plus five species (Atanatolica bonita Costa & Calor, 2014; Macrostemum bravoi Franca, Paprocki & Calor, 2013; Macrostemum nigrum Franca, Paprocki & Calor, 2013; Smicridea mangaratiba Almeida & Flint, 2002).

Checklist of Caddisflies from Mato Grosso do Sul State

CALAMOCERATIDAE

Phylloicus angustior Ulmer, 1905

Type locality: Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul. Material examined: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul: Bonito, Gruta Azul road, Rio Seco, 21°01’51”S, 56°37’25”W, 480 m, 24.vi.2009, light trap, Lecci, L., Schulz, G., Stefin, G., 2♂. Distribution: Argentina, Brazil (GO, MG, MS, PR, RS, SC), Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Phylloicus lituratus Banks, 1920

Type locality: Colombia, Mariquito. Material examined: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul: Bonito, Fazenda Pitangueiras, Córrego Pitangueiras, 20°52’03”S, 56°35’24”W, 463 m, 23.vi.2009, entomological net, Lecci, L., Schulz, G., Stefin, G., ♂; Rondônia: Campo Novo de Rondônia, Linha C9, Poço do Marimbondo, 10°35’26”S, 63°28’15.5”W, Malaise 39, 246 m, 23-25.v.2012, Urso-Guimarães & eq. Col. Distribution: Brazil (MS, RO), Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela.

Notes: This species had records in Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela (Prather, 2003Prather, A. L. 2003. Revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Phylloicus (Trichoptera: Calamoceratidae). Zootaxa 275:1-214.). It is the first record of this species for Brazil.

HYDROPSYCHDAE

Leptonema aspersum (Ulmer, 1907)

Type locality: Brazil, Santa Rita (in Neoleptonema). Distribution: Brazil (BA, MS), Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela.

Leptonema columbianum Ulmer, 1905

Type locality: Brazil, Santa Rita. Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (RO, AM, PA, BA, MG, SP, MS, GO, DF), Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela.

Leptonema viridianum Navás, 1916

Type locality: Brazil, Bahia. Material examined: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul: Costa Rica, Rio Sucuriú, 18°59’03”S, 53°10’10”W, 02.xi.2004, light trap, Froehlich, O., ♂, 2♀. Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (DF, ES, GO, MG, PA, RJ, MS), Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela.

Smicridea (Rhyacophylax) mangaratiba Almeida & Flint, 2002

Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Mangaratiba. Material examined: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul: Costa Rica, Rio Sucuriú, 18°59’03”S, 53°10’00”W, 02.xi.2004, light trap, Froehlich, O., 33♂, 21♀. Distribution. Brazil (RJ, MS).

LEPTOCERIDAE

Oecetis amazonica (Banks, 1924)

Type locality: Brazil, Manaus (in Oecetina). Material examined: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul: Serra da Bodoquena, Acampamento Adventista, 30.vii.2006, Froehlich, O., ♂, ♀. Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (AM, MS), Peru, Venezuela.

Oecetis angelae Henriques-Oliveira, Dumas & Nessimian, 2014

Type locality: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Ladário. Distribution: Brazil (MS).

Oecetis dominguezi Rueda-Martín, Gibon & Molina, 2011

Type locality: Bolivia, Beni, Lake Colorada. Distribution. Bolivia, Brazil (MS).

Oecetis excisa Ulmer, 1907

Type locality: Argentina, Chaco de Santa Fé, Las Garzas. Material examined: Brazil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Serra da Bodoquena, Acampamento Adventista, 30.vii.2006, Froehlich, O., 3♂, 2♀.

Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (BA, CE, GO, MS, PA, PE, SP), Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela.

Oecetis paranensis Flint, 1982

Type locality: Argentina, Chaco, Riacho Barranqueras, Puerto Vilelas. Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (BA, MG, MS, PE), Paraguay, Peru.

ODONTOCERIDAE

Marilia lateralis Flint, 1983

Type locality: Paraguay, Dpto. San Pedro, arroyo Tapiracuay, San Estanislao. Distribution. Brazil (MS), Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay.

POLYCENTROPODIDAE

Cyrnellus arotron Flint, 1971

Type locality: Brazil, Pará, Rio Tocantins. Distribution: Argentina, Brazil (AM, MS, PA), Uruguay.

Cyrnellus bifidus Flint, 1971

Type locality: Brazil, Amazonas, Paraná do Careiro, Divinópolis. Distribution. Argentina, Brazil (AM, MS).

Cyrnellus fraternus (Banks, 1905)

Type locality: United States, Maryland, Plummer’s Island (Cyrnus). Distribution: Argentina, Brazil (AM, BA, ES, MG, MS, MT, PA, PR, SC), Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Surinam, Uruguay, United States, and Venezuela.

Cyrnellus mammillatus Flint, 1971

Type locality: Brazil, Amazonas, Lago des Rio Luna am oberen Teil. Distribution: Argentina, Brazil (AM, MG, MS, PA, PR, RJ, SP), Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

Additional genera records. Some ecological studies recorded caddisflies from state of Mato do Grosso do Sul, but the taxonomic resolution is only until the generic level, as Souza-Franco et al. (2009Souza-Franco, G. M.; Andrian, L. F. & Franco, R. M. 2009. Comunidade de insetos aquáticos associados à Eichhornia azurea (Schwartz) Kunth em uma lagoa de várzea na planície de inundação do Alto Rio Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul, MS, Brasil. Biológico 71(1):83-91.) and Righi-Cavallaro et al. (2010Righi-Cavallaro, K. O.; Spies, M. R. & Siegloch, A. E. 2010. Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera assemblages in Miranda River basin, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil. Biota Neotropica10(2):253-260. ). Souza-Franco et al. (2009Souza-Franco, G. M.; Andrian, L. F. & Franco, R. M. 2009. Comunidade de insetos aquáticos associados à Eichhornia azurea (Schwartz) Kunth em uma lagoa de várzea na planície de inundação do Alto Rio Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul, MS, Brasil. Biológico 71(1):83-91.), in a study focusing on characterization of the aquatic insect community associated to Eichhornia azurea, presented three caddisfly genera, one genus of Hydropilidae (Oxyethira Eaton, 1873), one of Polycentropodidae (Polycentropus Curtis, 1835), and an undetermined genus of Hydropsychidae. Posteriorly, Righi-Cavallaro et al. (2010Righi-Cavallaro, K. O.; Spies, M. R. & Siegloch, A. E. 2010. Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera assemblages in Miranda River basin, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil. Biota Neotropica10(2):253-260. ) presented an inventory of immature EPT in Miranda River basin with 22 caddisfly genera in nine families: Phylloicus (Calamoceratidae), Austrotinodes Schmid, 1955 (Ecnomidae), Itauara Müller, 1888, Protoptila Banks, 1904, Mortoniella Ulmer, 1906 (Glossosomatidae), Helichopsyche Siebold, 1856 (Helicopsychidae), Blepharopus Kolenati, 1859, Leptonema, Macromema Pictet, 1836, Smicridea (Hydropsychidae), Abtrichia Mosely, 1939, Hydroptila Dalman, 1819, Neotrichia Morton, 1905, Oxyethira (Hydroptilidae), Nectopsyche Müller, 1879, Oecetis, Triplectides Kolenati, 1859, and undetermined genus (Leptoceridae), Chimarra Stephens, 1829 (Philopotamidae), Cernotina Ross, 1938, Cyrnellus, Polyplectropus Ulmer, 1905 (Polycentropodidae). So far, the known recorded caddisfly diversity for Mato Grosso do Sul is represented by 16 species in nine families and 24 genera, being five of then new species records, including a new record for the country. Considering the reduced collect effort of caddisflies in Mato Grosso do Sul State, the natural conditions, and the difference between the number of recorded species (16 from six genera) and the records of the genera (24), we can have a close estimate of the huge challenge to the next years.

Main research groups. Laboratório de Biologia Aquática, UNESP, campus Assis, headed by Dr. Pitágoras da Conceição Bispo; Laboratório de Citotaxonomia e Insetos Aquáticos, INPA, headed by Dr. Neusa Hamada and colaboration of Dr. Ana Maria de Oliveira Pes; Laboratório de Diversidade de Insetos Aquáticos, Centro Universitario Norte do Espirito Santo, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, headed by Dr. Frederico Falcão Salles; Laboratório de Diversidade de Insetos Aquáticos, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, headed by Dr. Luiz Carlos de Pinho; Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, headed by Dr. Adriano Sanches Melo; Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, headed by Dr. Claudio Gilberto Froehlich; Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática, Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, headed by Dr. Suzana Trivinho Strixino and Dr. Alaide Aparecida Fonseca Gessner; Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, headed by Dr. Adolfo Ricardo Calor; Laboratório de Entomologia, Instituto de Ciências Naturais e Tecnológicas, Universidade do Estado do Mato Grosso, headed by Dr. Helena Soares Ramos Cabette; Laboratório de Entomologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, headed by Dr. Jorge Luiz Nessimian; Laboratório de Invertebrados, Museu de História Natural, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, headed by Dr. Henrique Paprocki; Laboratório de Limnologia, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, headed by Dr. Leandro Gonçalves de Oliveira; Laboratório de Organismos Aquáticos, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, headed by Dr. Rodolfo Mariano.

Main collections in Brazil. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP); Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ); Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA); Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA); Collection Padre Jesus Santiago Moure, Universidade Federal do Paraná (DZUP); Entomological Collection Professor José Alfredo Pinheiro Dutra, Departamento de Zoologia from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (DZRJ). Outside the country, there are great collections and among them some are very representative and worth to mention like the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA (NMNH), University of Minnesota Insect Collection, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA (UMSP), and the Insect Collection of the British Museum of Natural History, London, England (BMNH).

Main knowledge gaps. Despite the increase of knowledge provided by the results presented herein, the knowledge on caddisflies in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul still remains scarce. There are just a few collection sites already sampled in the state. Moreover, the knowledge of ecology, physiology and a more accurate distribution of the species recorded in the state remain unknown. In this way, new collecting expeditions should be made in attempt to provide more information. It will refine our knowledge of the species distribution, relationships and biology, providing a better understand of the fauna in the state and, consequently, for the Brazilian fauna. It will be central for efficient conservation politics even in a national level.

An outlook for the next 10 years. The number of taxonomists working on caddisflies in Brazil has increased significantly (Calor, 2011Calor, A. R. 2011. Checklist dos Trichoptera (Insecta) do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Biota Neotropica11(1a):1-12. ). Our knowledge has been improved in the same proportion. One of the main factors these increase can be attributed to, is the spread of aquatic insects research groups in diverse Brazilian regions previously devoid of this specific research. The taxonomic knowledge on caddisflies must be increased exponentially in the next years in order to enable a more precise use of these data to solve other questions, such as the biomonitoring of aquatic ecosystems. This way, it is expected that, not only the taxonomic knowledge on Trichoptera will grow in the near future, but also other scientific fields associated to it.

Acknowledgements.

We are grateful to Fundação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento do Ensino, Ciências e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul (Fundect) and Superintendência de Ciências e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul (Sucitec/MS) for the invitation to participate in this special issue of Iheringia, Série Zoologia and financial support for publication. To Dr. Fabio de Oliveira Roque (UFMS, Biota-MS Program) to encourage this manuscript and donation of specimens, and Ms Lucas Lecci, Rafael Moretto, and Dalton Amorim (USP) for donation of specimens. This article was financially supported by CNPq fellowships (grants # 243238/2014, 503285/2009-9, 142211/2012-5).

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Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    2017

History

  • Received
    24 Nov 2016
  • Accepted
    06 Feb 2017
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