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Kurihara K, Ito T, Sato Y, Uesugi T, Yamauchi S, Komatsu M, Saito S, Domae M, Nishino H. Management of Nuisance Macromoths in Expressways through Academic-Industrial Collaboration: Light Trap Designed on the Basis of Moths' Preferences for Light Attributes. Zoolog Sci 2022; 39. [DOI: 10.2108/zs210082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Keigo Kurihara
- Nexco-Engineering Hokkaido Co., Ltd., 3-20, 5-jyo 4 chome, Higashi Sapporo 003-0005, Japan
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- Nexco-Engineering Hokkaido Co., Ltd., 3-20, 5-jyo 4 chome, Higashi Sapporo 003-0005, Japan
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- Nexco-Engineering Hokkaido Co., Ltd., 3-20, 5-jyo 4 chome, Higashi Sapporo 003-0005, Japan
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- Technology Planning Section, Hokkaido Regional Head Office, East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd., 12-30, Oyachinishi 5-chome, Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo 004-0042, Japan
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- Nexco-Engineering Hokkaido Co., Ltd., 3-20, 5-jyo 4 chome, Higashi Sapporo 003-0005, Japan
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- Technology Planning Section, Hokkaido Regional Head Office, East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd., 12-30, Oyachinishi 5-chome, Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo 004-0042, Japan
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- Technology Planning Section, Hokkaido Regional Head Office, East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd., 12-30, Oyachinishi 5-chome, Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo 004-0042, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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Huang J, Miao X, Wang Q, Menzel F, Tang P, Yang D, Wu H, Vogler AP. Metabarcoding reveals massive species diversity of Diptera in a subtropical ecosystem. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8535. [PMID: 35127039 PMCID: PMC8796913 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Diptera is often considered to be the richest insect group due to its great species diversity and broad ecological versatility. However, data on dipteran diversity from subtropical ecosystems have hitherto been scarce, due to the lack of studies conducted at an appropriate large scale. We investigated the diversity and composition of Diptera communities on Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang, China, using DNA metabarcoding technology, and evaluated their dynamic responses to the effects of slope aspect, season, and altitudinal zone. A total of 5,092 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were discovered and tentatively assigned to 72 dipteran families, including 2 family records new for China and 30 family records new for the locality. Cecidomyiidae, Sciaridae, and Phoridae were the predominant families, representing 53.6% of total OTUs, while 52 families include >95% unidentified and presumed undescribed species. We found that the community structure of Diptera was significantly affected by aspect, seasonality (month) and elevation, with richer diversity harbored in north-facing than south-facing slopes, and seasonality a more profound driver of community structure and diversity than elevation. Overall, massive species diversity of Diptera communities was discovered in this subtropical ecosystem of east China. The huge diversity of potentially undescribed species only revealed by metabarcoding now requires more detailed taxonomic study, as a step toward an evolutionary integration that accumulates information on species' geographic ranges, ecological traits, functional roles, and species interactions, and thus places the local communities in the context of the growing knowledge base of global biodiversity and its response to environmental change.
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- Junhao Huang
- Department of Forestry ProtectionSchool of Forestry and BiotechnologyZhejiang A&F UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of Forestry ProtectionSchool of Forestry and BiotechnologyZhejiang A&F UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of Forestry ProtectionSchool of Forestry and BiotechnologyZhejiang A&F UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches InstitutMünchebergGermany
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Agricultural EntomologyInstitute of Insect SciencesZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- College of Plant ProtectionChina Agricultural UniversityBeijingChina
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- Department of Forestry ProtectionSchool of Forestry and BiotechnologyZhejiang A&F UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of Life SciencesNatural History MuseumLondonUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonAscotUK
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Anthropogenic disturbance may promote the invasion of forest landscape by an open-habitat specialist introduced dung beetle species in Brazil. Biologia (Bratisl) 2020. [DOI: 10.2478/s11756-020-00599-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ramírez-Hernández A, Escobar F, Montes de Oca E, Arellano L. Assessing Three Sampling Methods to Survey and Monitor Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Riparian Cloud Forests. ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY 2018; 47:1565-1572. [PMID: 30169560 DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvy132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Understanding how biodiversity is distributed across space and time is one of the main challenges of biological conservation. Moreover, the choice of an adequate sampling methodology is crucial since this must provide an efficient overview of species diversity. We assessed the effectiveness and complementarity of three sampling methods (hand collection [HC], pitfall trapping [PT], and light trapping [LT]) for collecting ground beetles, which are known as a robust ecological indicator sensitive to habitat modifications. Our results varied in the number of species and abundance thereof caught by each sampling method. Both HC and LT were the most efficient and showed the highest species complementarity. HC recorded the highest number of ground beetle individuals, whereas the largest number of species were recorded with LT, but most represented by few individuals. Furthermore, the results revealed that PT do not work efficiently to provide reliable inventories in the remnant riparian cloud forests, which are characterized to be a highly heterogeneous environment. Our results might provide guidelines to choose the most efficient standardized sampling protocol for future inventory and monitoring of ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) diversity as a tool for the conservation planning in this threatened ecosystem.
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- Alfredo Ramírez-Hernández
- CONACYT-IPICYT/Consorcio de Investigación, Innovación y Desarrollo para las Zonas Áridas, Camino a la Presa San José, San Luis Potosí, México
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Moore MR, Cave RD, Branham MA. Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini). Zookeys 2018; 745:101-378. [PMID: 29670449 PMCID: PMC5904534 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.745.23685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Cyclocephaline scarab beetles represent the second largest tribe of the subfamily Dynastinae, and the group includes the most speciose genus of dynastines, Cyclocephala. The period following publication of Sebő Endrődi's The Dynastinae of the World has seen a huge increase in research interest on cyclocephalines, and much of this research has not been synthesized. The objective of this catalog and bibliography is to compile an exhaustive list of taxa in Cyclocephalini. This paper provides an updated foundation for understanding the taxonomy and classification of 14 genera and over 500 species in the tribe. It discusses the history of cataloging dynastine species, clarifies issues surrounding the neotype designations in Endrődi's revision of Cyclocephalini, synthesizes all published distribution data for cyclocephaline species, and increases accessibility to the voluminous literature on the group by providing an easily searchable bibliography for each species. We propose the nomen novum Cyclocephala rogerpauli, new replacement name, for C. nigra Dechambre.
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- Matthew R. Moore
- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Building 1881 Natural Area Drive, Steinmetz Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Indian River Research and Education Center, 2199 South Rock Road, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Building 1881 Natural Area Drive, Steinmetz Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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Distribution breadth and species turnover of night-flying beetles and moths on different mainland and island mountains. Ecol Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s11284-017-1555-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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García-López A, Galante E, Micó E. Saproxylic Beetle Assemblage Selection as Determining Factor of Species Distributional Patterns: Implications for Conservation. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2016; 16:iew030. [PMID: 27252483 PMCID: PMC4887824 DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iew030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2015] [Accepted: 04/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The knowledge of the distributional patterns of saproxylic beetles is essential for conservation biology due to the relevance of this fauna in the maintenance of ecological processes and the endangerment of species. The complex community of saproxylic beetles is shaped by different assemblages that are composed of species linked by the microhabitats they use. We evaluate how different the species distribution patterns that are obtained can be, depending on the analyzed assemblage and to what extent these can affect conservation decisions. Beetles were sampled using hollow emergence and window traps in three protected areas of the Iberian Peninsula. Species richness, composition, and diversity turnover were analyzed for each sampling method and showed high variation depending on the analyzed assemblage. Beta diversity was clearly higher among forests for the assemblage captured using window traps. This method collects flying insects from different tree microhabitats and its captures are influenced by the forest structuring. Within forests, the assemblages captured by hollow emergence traps, which collect the fauna linked to tree hollows, showed the largest turnover of species, as they are influenced by the characteristics of each cavity. Moreover, the selection of the forest showing the highest species richness strongly depended on the studied assemblage. This study demonstrates that differences in the studied assemblages (group of species co-occurring in the same habitat) can also lead to significant differences in the identified patterns of species distribution and diversity turnover. This fact will be necessary to take into consideration when making decisions about conservation and management.
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- A García-López
- Laboratorio de Ecología de Ambientes Fragmentados, Universidad de Chile. Av. Santa Rosa 11735, La Pintana, Santiago, Chile Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad (CIBIO), Universidad de Alicante, Spain (; ; )
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- Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad (CIBIO), Universidad de Alicante, Spain (; ; )
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- Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad (CIBIO), Universidad de Alicante, Spain (; ; )
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Escarabajos fitófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) en un fragmento de bosque seco tropical del departamento del Atlántico, Colombia. REV MEX BIODIVERS 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rmb.2015.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Jocque M, Vanhove M, Creedy T, Burdekin O, Nuñez-Miño J, Casteels J. Jewel scarabs (Chrysina sp.) in Honduras: key species for cloud forest conservation monitoring? JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2013; 13:21. [PMID: 23901802 PMCID: PMC3738100 DOI: 10.1673/031.013.2101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2012] [Accepted: 07/23/2012] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Jewel scarabs, beetles in the genus Chrysina Kirby (Coleoptera: Rutelinae: Scarabaeidae), receive their name from the bright, often gold, green elytra that reflect light like a precious stone. Jewel scarabs are commonly observed at light traps in Mesoamerican cloud forests, and their association with mountain forests makes them potentially interesting candidates for cloud forest conservation monitoring. The absence of survey protocols and identification tools, and the little ecological information available are barriers. In the present study, collection of Chrysina species assembled during biodiversity surveys by Operation Wallacea in Cusuco National Park (CNP), Honduras, were studied. The aim of this overview is to provide an easy to use identification tool for in the field, hopefully stimulating data collection on these beetles. Based on the data associated with the collection localities, elevation distribution of the species in the park was analyzed. The limited data points available were complemented with potential distribution areas generated with distribution models based on climate and elevation data. This study is aimed at initializing the development of a survey protocol for Chrysina species that can be used in cloud forest conservation monitoring throughout Central America. A list of Chrysina species recorded from Honduras so far is provided. The six identified and one unidentified species recorded from CNP are easy to identify in the field based on color and straightforward morphological characteristics. Literature research revealed ten species currently recorded from Honduras. This low species richness in comparison with surrounding Central American countries indicates the poor knowledge of this genus in Honduras. Chrysina species richness in CNP increases with elevation, thereby making the genus one of a few groups of organisms where this correlation is observed, and rendering it a suitable invertebrate representative for cloud forest habitats in Central America.
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- M. Jocque
- BINCO vzw, Rijmenamsesteenweg 189, 3150 Haacht, Belgium
- Operation Wallacea, Hope House, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2 Yurii Gagarin Street, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- BINCO vzw, Rijmenamsesteenweg 189, 3150 Haacht, Belgium
- Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, Biology Department, KU Leuven, Ch. Deberiotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Operation Wallacea, Hope House, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
- Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OXI 3PW, United Kingdom
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- Operation Wallacea, Hope House, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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- Operation Wallacea, Hope House, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
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- BINCO vzw, Rijmenamsesteenweg 189, 3150 Haacht, Belgium
- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, Biology Department, KU Leuven, Ch. Deberiotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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García-López A, Micó E, Galante E. From lowlands to highlands: searching for elevational patterns of species richness and distribution of scarab beetles in Costa Rica. DIVERS DISTRIB 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00846.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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