Diversity and Temporal Variation in the Orchid Bee Community (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of a Remnant of a Neotropical Seasonal Semi-deciduous Forest

Continuous Micro-Environments Associated Orchid Bees Benefit from an Atlantic Forest Remnant, Paraná State, Brazil

“…cordata and El. nigrita are indicators of disturbed forest in this study, as stressed by Ramalho et al (2009) and Aguiar and Ganglianone (2012), despite their tolerance to disturbed forest be evident (Santos & Sofia, 2002;Aguiar & Ganglianone, 2012;Nemésio, 2013;Giangarelli et al, 2015;Mateus et al, 2015;Ferronato et al, 2017;Medeiros et al, 2017). This leads us to the question: Do the different degrees of regeneration in continuous micro-environments not change the community of orchid bees or change to the point that negatively affect the community in the conserved sites of the primary forest?…”

Forest reserves and riparian corridors help maintain orchid bee (Hymenoptera: Euglossini) communities in oil palm plantations in Brazil

“…Contrary to our hypothesis, APPs did not show intermediate levels of richness and abundance of orchid bees, but had an approximately equally diverse assemblage to forest reserves. The Amazon basin contains an estimated 127 species of euglossine bees (Nemésio and Silveira 2007), and we sampled more than 20% of this species pool in a short time during the dry season when catch rates are about 38 species (Mateus et al 2015). Overall, the community we sampled was dominated by a few species, with El.…”

New and old records of Euglossa imperialis Cockerell, 1922 (Apidae, Apinae, Euglossini) for the Amazon rainforest, Cerrado, and Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil

“…However, with the addition of the new record for Bolivia (Abrahamczyk et al 2012) and new and old records presented here, it is possible that the species uses gallery forests from the Amazon to the Cerrado to reach the Atlantic forest domains (see Ab'Sáber 1971), as previously document for Eulaema cingulata (Fabricius, 1804) (Anjos- Silva 2006aSilva , 2006bSilva , 2007 and Euglossa cognata Moure, 1970(Anjos-Silva 2008. In this scenario, the male populations of E. imperialis possibly use the Pantanal wetland and the gallery forest as ecological corridors from the central Bolivian Amazon domain to reach the southeast and the Atlantic forest in Brazil (Rebêlo andGarófalo 1991, 1997;Rebêlo 2001;Ramirez et al 2010;Mateus et al 2015).…”

“…Euglossa imperialis presents a large range of geographic distribution and has been reported from southern México (Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Veracruz) to Honduras (McCravy et al 2016), Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (Janzen et al 1982;Ackerman 1983;Zimmerman and Madriñan 1988;Roubik 1993;Eltz et al 1999;Otero and Sandino 2003;Roubik 2004;Roubik and Hanson 2004;Moure et al 2012;Hinojosa-Díaz and Engel 2012b;Padrón et al 2018). It has also been catalogued from Brazil (Moure 1989;Becker et al 1991;Rebêlo and Garófalo 1991;Rebêlo 1993;Rebêlo and Moure 1995;Rebêlo and Silva 1999;Nemésio and Faria Junior 2004;Darrault et al 2005;Anjos-Silva 2006a, 2006b, 2011Faria Junior and Melo 2007;Oliveira et al 2010;Schorn de Souza 2014;Figueiredo et al 2015;Mateus et al 2015;Oliveira-Junior et al 2015;Antonini et al 2017;Tosta et al 2017;Cândido et al 2018;Henrique et al 2018;Coswosk et al 2018;Machado et al 2018).…”

“…In Brazil, this species has been catalogued from the Amazon rainforest (Moure 1989;Becker et al 1991;Rebêlo and Silva 1999;Anjos-Silva 2011;Antonini et al 2017;Cândido et al 2018), the Cerrado (Rebêlo andGarófalo 1991, 1997;Rebêlo 1993;Rebêlo and Moure 1995;Nemésio and Faria Junior 2004;Anjos-Silva 2006a, 2006b, 2011Oliveira et al 2010;Schorn de Souza 2014;Figueiredo et al 2015;Oliveira-Junior et al 2015;Tosta et al 2017;Henrique et al 2018), besides the marine alluvial fan in Maranhão , the Pernambuco center of endemism (Darrault et al 2005) and the Atlantic forest (Faria Junior and Melo 2007;Mateus et al 2015;Coswosk et al 2018;Machado et al 2018).…”