Social Wasp Fauna (Hymenopera: Polistinae) from the caatinga and the atlantic forest of the state of Bahia, Brazil

Authors

  • Oziel Sanatana Neri Trindade
  • Lúcio Flávio Freire Lima Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas.
  • Gisele Garcia Azevedo
  • Juvenal Cordeiro Silva Junior

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2236-1480.2017v25n1.22787

Abstract

In this work, we carried out an inventory of social wasps (Hymenoptera, Polistinae) from remnants of Caatinga and Atlantic Forest from the central-south region of the state of Bahia. Nest sampling was carried out in the period from March 2010 to June 2011, using the method of active search. We obtained 90 nests and identified 22 species, three subspecies and one morphospecies of social wasp belonging to ten genera and eight subgenera. Five species were recorded for the first time in the state of Bahia, and the genus Polybia was the most frequent one, with seven identified species. The obtained results confirmed the diversity of the Atlantic Forest, and point to a rich fauna of social wasps in the Caatinga.

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Author Biography

Lúcio Flávio Freire Lima, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas.

Graduando em Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, pela Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Campus Jequié-Bahia.

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Published

2019-05-20

How to Cite

Sanatana Neri Trindade, O. ., Lima, L. F. F., Garcia Azevedo, G., & Cordeiro Silva Junior, J. (2019). Social Wasp Fauna (Hymenopera: Polistinae) from the caatinga and the atlantic forest of the state of Bahia, Brazil. Revista Nordestina De Biologia, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2236-1480.2017v25n1.22787

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Vol. 25 No. 1 (2017)

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