Diversity of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritoidea) and Their Host Plants in a Conservation Unit from Midwestern Brazil

Almeida, Luciano Brasil Martins de; Coelho, João Batista; Uchôa-Fernandes, Manoel A.; Gisloti, Laura Jane

doi:10.1653/024.102.0333

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“…The data analyzed here were obtained mainly from papaya orchards, although probably with some influence from urban and Atlantic forest remnant areas. The maximum richness found here is coherent with fruit fly surveys in tropical areas, which generally do not find richness levels higher than those estimated in this study (Almeida et al, 2019;Marsaro Júnior et al, 2012). The abundance of flies also changed during the study period.…”

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Spatio-temporal distribution, diversity and monitoring of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in papaya orchards in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil

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“…The diversity of tephritids in fruits depend essentially on the association of each fly species with its host plants. Certainly, the attractiveness of different host plants may differently influence the presence of species in host plants, impacting the community structure of insects visiting the fruits (Almeida et al, 2019).…”

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Spatio-temporal distribution, diversity and monitoring of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in papaya orchards in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil

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“…Neosilba (Fig. 8B) is an American genus that comprises 40 described species; however, there are still many undescribed species (Galeano-Olaya & Canal, 2012; Martins de Almeida et al, 2019). Around 21 species occur in the Neotropical region (Uchoa, 2012), and 10 species in Mexico and Central America .…”

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Diversity of insects associated with the fruits of four tree species of Lauraceae from Los Tuxtlas region, Mexico: an annotated and illustrated taxonomic list

2022

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Besides recruitment and dispersal, fruits are key resources for the maintenance of insect communities. This study is focused on the insects inhabiting the fruits of 4 wild Lauraceae species. Although the trees of this family are important elements of tropical forests, their interaction with insects, especially in association with fruits, remains poorly studied in wild tree species. Our study aims to characterize the diversity of insects associated with fruits of Damburneya ambigens, Damburneya gentlei, Damburneya salicifolia, and Nectandra turbacensis, in the rainforest of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz. We present an illustrated taxonomic list of species, annotated with a comprehensive review of the insects’ natural history and their interactions with Lauraceae species. We reared 54 insect species from approximately 6,500 fruits, some of which represent potential new species and records for Mexico. Insect species diversity was high and differed between Lauraceae species. The reared insects comprise a wide variety of distributional ranges, feeding types, and habitats. This research provides novel information about the interactions among insects and fruits of Lauraceae and the complexity of their trophic networks in tropical rainforests. Furthermore, it evidences the importance of wild fruits as resources for insect communities.

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“…Due to its economic impact and its ability to be polyphagous, A . obliqua has been widely studied, and information about its distribution on the American continent (Santos et al, 2019), intraspecific genetic variation and population structure (Martins de Almeida et al, 2019; Passos et al, 2018; Ruiz‐Arce et al, 2019; Velasco‐Cuervo et al, 2019), ecological interactions (Campanini et al, 2017; Mesquita et al, 2018; da Vargas et al, 2019), reproductive behaviours associated with the host plant (Hernández et al, 2019), formation of interspecific hybrids (Díaz et al, 2018; Rull et al, 2018) and composition of associated microbiota (Gallo‐Franco & Toro‐Perea, 2020; Ventura et al, 2018) has been obtained; in addition, mechanisms to control this pest, such as using chemical attractants, the sterile insect technique (Gallardo‐Ortiz et al, 2018b, 2018a) or biological control (Cancino et al, 2019; Murillo et al, 2019), have also been studied. All these works were conducted to understand the biology of this species and address the problem it represents for commercial crops.…”

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First micro‐transcriptome of the third instar larvae of Anastrepha obliqua and its association with polyphagia

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2022

J Applied Entomology

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Phytophagous insects are organisms that use a part of a plant as a food resource.Within this group, we focused on the pest insect Anastrepha obliqua, a fly that feeds on fruits of plants of different species and causes economic losses on the American continent. The ability of the larvae of this species to feed on various fruits (polyphagia) has been studied from different perspectives but never at the level of microRNAs.These interfering RNAs can regulate gene expression in tissues and organs of an organism. The objective of this work was to obtain the first micro-transcriptome and to determine its expression levels and possible target mRNAs when the third instar larvae of the species A. obliqua feed on fruits of plants of three different species:Spondias purpurea, Mangifera indica and Averrhoa star fruit. A total of 116 microRNAs were identified in the study, of which 37 were completely new. Fifty-four microRNAs were expressed in all larvae, regardless of the fruit, while 44 were detected in larvae that fed on a specific fruit. Twenty-one microRNAs showed differential expression, and the annotation of the targets showed that these interfering RNAs have important genes that play roles in the development, feeding and detoxification of the larvae as possible targets. The construction of the first micro-transcriptome and the identification of possible targets for A. obliqua provide new information for understanding the mechanisms that control gene expression in this species of dipteran.

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Diversity of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritoidea) and Their Host Plants in a Conservation Unit from Midwestern Brazil

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Cited by 22 publications

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Spatio-temporal distribution, diversity and monitoring of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in papaya orchards in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil

Spatio-temporal distribution, diversity and monitoring of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in papaya orchards in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil

Diversity of insects associated with the fruits of four tree species of Lauraceae from Los Tuxtlas region, Mexico: an annotated and illustrated taxonomic list

First micro‐transcriptome of the third instar larvae of Anastrepha obliqua and its association with polyphagia

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