New records of social wasps in the state of Paraíba, Brazil

Elisei, Thiago; Albuquerque, Fábio Aquino de; Andena, Sérgio Ricardo; Martins, Celso Feitosa

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“…The active publication period occurred along with that reported by Barbosa et al (2016) for Brazil, with 61.5 % of the papers occurring in the last 10 years, especially in 2011. Only in the last decade studies about social wasps been carried out in the other Northeastern states, increasing knowledge of social wasp fauna Rocha & Silveira, 2014;Elisei et al, 2015;Virgínio et al, 2016;Virgínio et al, 2018).…”

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Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) from Northeastern Brazil: State of the Art

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For many years, research about social wasps in the Northeast was neglected due to its climatic and vegetative characteristics, insufficient incentive for training researchers to study these animals and perpetuation of low diversity of these groups in arid environments proposed by Ducke. This study carried out a bibliographic survey of research about social wasps in a 40 years period from January/1979 to December/2019, to determine the overall reality of biodiversity and richness knowledge for social wasps species. One hundred and twenty-four (124) social wasp species have been registered in the Northeast Region, distributed among 20 genera. Epiponini stands out with 84 species, followed by Mischocyttarini (24) and Polistini (16). Sergipe is the only state with no studies and records of species thus far. Such results show the importance of continuing taxonomic studies of these insects to expand their geographic distribution and to determine areas for environmental preservation in the Northeastern biomes, i.e., the Caatinga sensu lato, Cerrado and Amazon rainforest and their transition zones, as they have been insufficiently studied and present high potential for new discoveries. We suggest Alagoas, Ceará, Pernambuco and, especially Sergipe as priority areas since there is a lacking data in these states. Finally, we recommend continuing research on species reports in states like Bahia, using the map created herein to choose future study areas.

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Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) from Northeastern Brazil: State of the Art

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“…The study recorded two new species of social wasps to Paraiba state: Polistes simillimus and Mischocyttarus cearensis, being also the first record of Mischocytarini tribe (Elisei et al, 2015). These two species had been reported to Caatinga, and found in other studies realized on Northeastern Brazil states Melo et al, 2015).…”

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Diversity and Structure of Social Wasps Community (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) in Neotropical Dry Forest

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Social wasps are potential predators of agricultural pest species. The objective of this study was to conduct a survey of the community of social wasps (Polistinae species) that inhabit the neotropical dry forest named Caatinga of Paraiba, Northeast of South America (Brazil), and to compare the richness and abundance of wasps located in areas of Caatinga with those inhabiting areas of organic intercropping farming. The present study sampled 10 Polistinae species distributed in six genera. Two new species were registered for the state. The comparison between the community of social wasps of the Caatinga showed that there was not statistical difference in the richness and abundance between the natural vegetation and organic intercropping. This means that agroecosystem attracted community of Polistinae, promoting the maintenance of social wasps in anthropic environment and possibly favoring biological control.

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New records of social wasps in the state of Paraíba, Brazil

Cited by 2 publications

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Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) from Northeastern Brazil: State of the Art

Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) from Northeastern Brazil: State of the Art

Diversity and Structure of Social Wasps Community (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) in Neotropical Dry Forest

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