Produção Nacional
Diversity of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in the National Forest of Caxiuanã, Melgaço, Pará State, Brazil
2010; Volume: 1; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5123/s2176-62232010000400005
ISSN2176-6223
AutoresMaria Clara Alves Santarém, Ulisses Confalonieri, Maria Luiza Felippe-Bauer,
Tópico(s)Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
ResumoThe genus Culicoides is distributed worldwide and includes nearly 82 species recorded in the Brazilian Amazon.In spite of the sanitary and economic relevance of the genus, few studies have been addressed to its members in this region.This study provides a survey of Culicoides species in a research plot of the Brazilian Biodiversity Research Program (PPBio) in the Amazon region in Caxiuanã National Forest.Collections were carried out with CDC light traps at five terrestrial sampling points from February 9 to February 13 in 2007 on the ground and at the sub-canopy level.After identifying the collected species, the frequency of species in each stratus and the Simpson's diversity index were calculated.A total of 542 specimens were collected, belonging to six species:
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