Esfingofauna (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) do Parque Nacional do Jaú e arredores, Amazonas, Brasil

Abstract

A fauna de esfingídeos (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) foi estudada no Parque Nacional do Jaú e arredores, Amazonas, Brasil, durante o período de julho de 1993 a junho de 1996. O método empregado para as coletas foi luz mista de mercúrio e luz negra UV montadas sobre um lençol branco em períodos de 12 horas consecutivas. Foram coletados 2362 espécimes de 25 gêneros e 79 espécies, com a predominância de espécies das tribos Dilophonotini (45 espécies), seguida por Sphingini (13 spp.), Macroglossini (8 spp.), Philampelini (7 spp.) e Ambulycini (6 spp.). Os dados são comparados a outras áreas da Amazônia brasileira: Município de Itacoatiara (AM), Ilha de Maracá e Pacaraima (RR). Apresenta-se uma lista das espécies de esfingídeos incluindo 16 registros novos para o Estado do Amazonas e igualmente para todas as localidades em que foram coletadas.

Mosquitoes of the Jaú National Park and their potential importance in Brazilian Amazonia

“…This overlap in the collections of Tabanidae (Henriques & Rafael, 1999) and Sphingidae (Motta & Andreazze, 2001) is indicated in the two last columns of Table 1. Likewise, the map published by Motta & Andreazze (2001) can be consulted in order to better visualize the location for the majority of the collecting sites.…”

“… *The last two columns of this Table indicate the localities and dates that are equivalent for collections of Tabanidae ( Henriques & Rafael, 1999) and Sphingidae (Motta & Andreazze, 2001) as explained in the text. …”

“…Researchers from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) have been concentrating efforts on the study of various groups of insects that are present in the park: Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Odonata (Fundação Vitória Amazônica, 2003). Consequently, a better knowledge of the communities of horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) (Henriques & Rafael, 1999; Henriques, 2004), of hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) (Motta & Andreazze, 2001) and of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (Vasconcelos et al ., 2004) found in the JNP already exists. An inventory of the Culicidae fauna of the JNP was conducted as a part of these efforts between 1993 and 1996.…”

Diversity patterns of hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in the canopy of an ombrophilous forest in Central Amazon, Brazil

“…For this reason, we encourage other studies to consider a similar sampling effort in order to maximize the representativeness of species diversity in hawkmoth surveys. Most of the recorded species belong to Macroglossinae, a subfamily that often has high species richness and abundance in both Amazonian (Motta et al 1991;Motta et al 1998;Motta and Andreazze 2001;Motta and Xavier Filho 2005) and non-Amazonian landscapes in Brazil (Laroca and Mielke 1975;Ferreira et al 1986;Laroca et al 1989;Marinoni et al 1999;Darrault and Schlindwein 2002;Gusmão and Creão-Duarte 2004;Duarte Jr. and Schlindwein 2005a;b;Duarte et al 2008, Vieira et al 2015. In particular, the tribe Dilophonotini, the most species-rich tribe in our survey, comprises about 58% of the hawkmoth species richness registered from the Amazon (Camargo 2016a).…”

First record of Xylophanes ploetzi (Möschler, 1876) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from Brazil

“…Camargo et al (2016) did not mention the occurrence of X. ploetzi in their work on the hawkmoths of the Brazilian Amazon, and neither did Kitching (2017) in his taxonomic inventory of the Sphingidae. The new data are important because this species has never been reported in the numerous surveys, usually with light traps in the state of Amazonas (e.g., Motta et al 1998, Motta and Andreazze 2001, Motta and Xavier Filho 2005, Motta 2009). …”