New records of Sarcophagidae (Insecta: Diptera) collected in Cerrado fragments in the municipality of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil

Abstract

Collections carried out for a period of 10 weeks from October to December 2013 in two fragments of Cerrado (experimental farm of Embrapa Gado de Corte and Private Reserve of Natural Heritage belong to the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (RPPN-UFMS)) located in the municipality of Campo Grande, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Midwestern Brazil, with traps baited with decomposing beef liver, and collections conducted for a period of 15 days in January 2014 in the RPPN-UFMS, using Shannon traps baited with dog corpses, resulted in 32 flesh fly species of eight genera, with the first record of the genus Blaesoxipha and 15 new species records to Mato Grosso do Sul.

Scavengers flesh flies (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) from two phytophysiognomies in the state of Maranhão, Northeastern of Brazil

“…The males sampled belong to nine genera and 27 species, three of which (Oxysarcodexia angrensis (Lopes, 1933), Peckia (Peckia) enderleini (Engel, 1931), and Retrocitomyia andina (Lopes, 1985)) are new records for the Northeast Region, and one (Titanogrypa (Cuculomyia) albuquerquei (Lopes, 1976)) is a new record for the state of Maranhão (Table 2). Peckia (P.) enderleini has been found primarily in the southern South America (Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil (states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, and São Paulo)) (Buenaventura & Pape 2013, Toma et al 2020. Therefore, this is the most northern-located record for this species in the continent.…”

“…These were also the most abundant genera, with 801 (91.64%) Peckia and 46 (5.26%) Oxysarcodexia specimens (Table 2). Likewise, they were the most diverse genera in studies conducted in other Cerrado areas in the state of Maranhão (Sousa et al, 2015(Sousa et al, , 2016, the Central-West (Mello-Patiu et al 2017, Toma et al 2020, and Southeast regions of Brazil (Rosa et al 2011, as well as for other biomes, such as the Amazon Rainforest (Sousa et al 2011) and the Atlantic Forest (Leandro & D'Almeida 2005, Barbosa et al 2014, Lopes et al 2018. Peckia and Oxysarcodexia are two of South America's most speciesrich genera (Buenaventura & Pape 2013, Souza et al 2020, and many of its species have scavenger larvae (Pape & Dahlem 2010).…”

“…Therefore, this is the most northern-located record for this species in the continent. This species was also one of the most abundant among the scavenger sarcophagids sampled with traps containing bovine liver in a Cerrado area of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul (Toma et al 2020), indicating a preference for this habitat type. However, we only found one specimen in the current study, which could be attributed to the type of bait used or to environmental conditions, as the Cerrado areas of Maranhão are drier than those in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.…”

“…Many studies on the Sarcophagidae fauna of the Cerrado have been conducted in various regions of Brazil, particularly in the Central-West and Southeast areas (Rosa et al 2011, Paseto et al 2019, Toma et al 2020. Sousa et al (2016) carried out a comprehensive research on the scavenger Sarcophagidae fauna in several types of phytophysiognomy, including the Cerrado in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão.…”

Saprophytic flies in impacted areas of the Belo Monte Dam, Pará, Brazil (Diptera: Mesembrinellidae, Neriidae, Ropalomeridae, and Sarcophagidae): community composition, abundance, and species richness

“…However, in seven species were obtained, indicating that animal carcasses and decomposing fruit are attractive for this genus. Helicobia aurescens (Townsend, 1927) is a new record for the Brazilian Amazon, since in Brazil it was recorded for Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo (Pape 1996, Barros et al 2008, Mello-Patiu et al 2014, Barbosa 2019, Toma et al 2020).…”