scholarly journals Checklist of host plants of insect galls in the state of Goiás in the Midwest Region of Brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. e6835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Araújo ◽  
Eder Porfírio Júnior ◽  
Bárbara Ribeiro ◽  
Taiza Silva ◽  
Elienai Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Host Plants ◽  
The State ◽  
Insect Galls ◽  
Midwest Region

scholarly journals Diversity of insect galls from Mato Grosso State, Brazil: Cerrado

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Virginia Urso-Guimarães ◽  
Ingrid Koch ◽  
Ana Carolina Devides Castello
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Brazilian Cerrado ◽  
Plant Interactions ◽  
Insect Galls ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Host Plant Species ◽  
Insect Gall ◽  
Midwest Region

Abstract: The Midwest region of Brazil possesses large areas dominated by the Cerrado that is poorly known concerning insect gall and their interactions. In this study, we inventory the gall morphology, host plants, and the gall makers from Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso State, in areas of natural vegetation from Cerrado, for the first time. Samplings occurred in two expeditions, July 2012 and January 2013. We characterized 295 morphotypes of insect galls in 140 host plant species, with 89 gall makers; the richest family in host plants was Fabaceae (16.7%), and the species was Protium heptaphyllum (Aubl.) Marchand (Burseraceae, 3.7%). Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Guimarães is the richest Brazilian cerrado area in gall morphotypes (295) and the second in average morphotypes/host plant species (2.1). Additionally, six genera and 38 species are new records as host plants; two of them, Bernardia similis Pax and K.Hoffm and Ormosia macrophylla Benth., are new occurrences for Mato Grosso State, and other two, Vochysia petraea Warm. and Talisia subalbens (Mart.) Radlk. are listed in the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN. This inventory data represents a testimony of insect-plant interactions in a Brazilian Cerrado area that was consumed by an unprecedented fire in the dry season of 2020.

scholarly journals Host plants of insect-induced galls in areas of cerrado in the state of Goiás, Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Santos de Araújo ◽  
Isadora Portes Abraham Silva ◽  
Benedito Baptista dos Santos ◽  
Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein
Keyword(s):  
Host Plants ◽  
The State

scholarly journals Phenological relationships between two insect galls and their host plants: Aspidosperma australe and A. spruceanum (Apocynaceae)

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 727-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscila Tolentino Campos ◽  
Maria Cecília Dias Costa ◽  
Rosy Mary dos Santos Isaias ◽  
Ana Sílvia Franco Pinheiro Moreira ◽  
Denis Coelho de Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Good Strategy ◽  
Insect Galls ◽  
Leaf Production ◽  
Maximum Percentage ◽  
Phenological Synchrony ◽  
One Year ◽  
Gall Induction

Although gall diversity in the Neotropical region is immense, comparative studies on the phenology of host plants and their galls are scarce. Gall systems generally require high levels of phenological synchrony between the associated organisms. The relationships between the phenology of two leaf galls induced by an unidentified Cecidomyiidae in Aspidosperma spruceanum Benth. ex Müell. Arg. and by Pseudophacopteron sp. in A. australe Müell. Arg. were investigated. The investigation was performed on ten individuals per species in 15-day intervals taking into consideration the percentage of galled leaves. In a one-year study, three distinct phenophases for the leaf galls and four phenophases for host plants were observed. The maximum percentage of leaf galls (80%) on A. australe occurred just after the peak of leaf sprouting. In A. spruceanum, the percentage of leaf galls was always over 50%, which can be related to continuous leaf production and gall induction in this species. In both species, developing galls were observed over the entire year, indicating multivoltinism. The ability to induce galls at young and mature sites seems to be a good strategy for galling species survivorship.

scholarly journals Characterization of insect galls from a vegetation area in Altinópolis, São Paulo State, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. e20195904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Das Neves Ribeiro ◽  
Maria Isabel Protti de Andrade Balbi ◽  
Maria Virginia Urso-Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Insect Galls ◽  
Host Plant Species ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
São Paulo State

Herein, we studied the occurrence of insect galls from natural vegetation around the Itambé Cave, Altinópolis, SP, Brazil. A sampling effort of 7.5 hours resulted in 41 gall morphotypes on 21 host plant species from 14 families. The richest families of host plants in morphotypes were Fabaceae (N = 11), Euphorbiaceae (N = 7), and Malpighiaceae (N = 5). Copaifera langsdorffii Desf. (N = 8), Croton floribundus Spreng. (N = 7), Diplopterys pubipetala (A. Juss.) W.R. Anderson & C.C. Davis (N = 5), and Bauhinia holophylla (Bong.) Steud. (N = 4) were the super host plant species. Among the gall makers obtained, cecidomyiids were reared in 81% of cases and Hemiptera (Diaspididae), Hymenoptera (Eurytomidae), Coleoptera (Apion sp./Apionidae), and Lepidoptera in 4.5% of cases, each. The parasitoids belong to the Chalcidoidea superfamily (Hymenoptera). One new species of Camptoneuromyiia (Cecidomyiidae) was found in Smilax oblongifolia Pohl ex Griseb. (Smilacaceae) as inquiline and a new species of Lestodiplosis in Diplopterys pubipetala (Malpighiaceae) was a predator. We also present the first register of Bauhinia holophylla as host plants of Cecidomyiidae, and we expand the occurrence of Rochadiplosis tibouchinae Tavares and Couridiplosis vena to São Paulo State. The results of this paper are a continuation of the description of gall morphotypes from the vegetation in Northeastern São Paulo State, and they also increase knowledge about the diversity of host plant and gall-maker associations in the Neotropical region.

scholarly journals Insect galls on Myrtaceae: richness and distribution in brazilian restingas

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valéria Cid Maia
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Single Species ◽  
The State ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Associated Fauna ◽  
Insect Galls ◽  
Insect Gall ◽  
First Time ◽  
Internal Chamber

Abstract: Inventories in Brazilian restingas have been indicating that Myrtaceae are the plant family with the greatest richness of insect galls. A compilation of published data plus new records was elaborated with the aim of stablishing the number of gall morphotypes on this family in this physiognomy of the Atlantic Forest, producing a list of galled species, pointing out the predominant gall features, evaluating the taxonomical knowledge of the gallers, listing the associated fauna, and based on host plant endemisms and monophagy proposing the endemism of some galling species. Myrtaceae harbor 111 morphotypes of insect gall (about 75% induced by Cecidomyiidae, Diptera) on 25 host plant species, 15 endemic. Eugenia L. highlights as the plant genus with the highest number of galled species and gall richness. Leaves are the most galled organ. There is a predominance of globoid and fusiform shapes, green color, glabrous surface and a single internal chamber. The taxonomical data on gallers is deficient as many records have been presented at supraspecific levels. The associated fauna is rich and includes parasitoids, inquilines and predators. Twelve species of Cecidomyiidae, a single species of Curculionidae (Coleoptera) and one species of Eriococcidae (Hemiptera) have been associated exclusively with endemic hosts and then are proposed in the present study as endemic too. The geographical distribution of many galls and respective gallers are restricted to the State of Rio de Janeiro, where most inventories have been carried out. For the first time, Eugeniamyia dispar, previously known from a rural area of Rio Grande do Sul and restinga areas of São Paulo, is recorded in the State of Rio de Janeiro.

Insect galls and their host plants in gallery forest in Bahia State, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 989-998
Author(s):  
Carla Adriana Gomes da Silva Santana ◽  
Elaine Cotrim Costa ◽  
Sheila Patrícia Carvalho-Fernandes ◽  
Juliana Santos-Silva
Keyword(s):  
Host Plants ◽  
Gallery Forest ◽  
Insect Galls

scholarly journals First record of a theropod (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of the Bauru Group, southern Goiás State, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Roberto Candeiro ◽  
Sthepen Brusatte ◽  
Raoni Ribeiro Guedes Costa ◽  
Michael Ulian ◽  
Bruno Ferreira Martins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Oxide ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
The South ◽  
Paraná Basin ◽  
Midwest Region ◽  
Parana Basin ◽  
Bauru Group

The objective of this article is to describe the first record of a theropod carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group, Paraná Basin) in the south of the state of Goiás in the Midwest region of Brazil. The methodology of this work was based on a bibliographic survey about the characteristics of teeth of theropods and the geology of the region, in addition to the description and morphological comparisons. This specimen was found in a geodiversity site called Serra da Portaria, in the Paraúna State Park, municipality of Paraúna, where residuals from the Adamantina Formation is exposed. The specimen, a fragmentary tooth covered with iron oxide, but with a partially preserved crown, was assigned as a percentage to an undetermined theropod for having a labiolingually compressed crown and cross section. In addition to the Bauru Group in the state of Goiás, only remnants of sauropod herbivorous dinosaurs are known for the Adamantina and Marília formations, the tooth described here is the first osteological record of a theropod from the south of Goiás.

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