Banca de DEFESA: PEDRO EUGENIO SILVA DA COSTA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PEDRO EUGENIO SILVA DA COSTA
DATE: 23/02/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco - google meet
TITLE:

DIVERSITY OF EUGLOSSINE BEES (HYMEOPTERA – APINAE) IN A FRAGMENT OF ATLANTIC FOREST IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL

KEY WORDS:

Euglossini; Biodiversity; Fragmentation; Conservation

PAGES: 46
BIG AREA: Ciências Agrárias
AREA: Agronomia
SUBÁREA: Fitossanidade
SPECIALTY: Entomologia Agrícola
SUMMARY:

The bees from the tribe Euglossini are important agents of the neotropical ecosystems and occur
in all their phytophysiognomies with greater diversity associated to forested environment. Their
representatives are known as orchid bees due to their evolutionary relation with the botanical
family Orchidaceae. However, these bees are also exclusive pollinators of hundreds of
Neotropical plants. The Atlantic Forest represents the biome with the largest number of
inventories and ecological studies for the group, containing the second highest documented
species richness of the subtribe. The biome still lacks studies on the composition of the fauna and
the distribution of the taxon species in certain areas, such as northward of the São Francisco
River. For this reason, this work aims to expand the knowledge about the composition of the
Euglossini fauna in fragments of a Conservation Unity in the Metropolitan Region of Recife. To
achieve this objective, the bees were collected monthly using scented baits and active collection at
three different sites, distributed within the limits of the Conservation Unity, for a period of ten
months. In addition to knowing the composition of the fauna for the sampled region, the data
obtained expand the informations about the distribution of the taxon and its tolerance to different
degrees of fragmentation of landscape.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - DANIELE REGINA PARIZOTTO
Externa à Instituição - GISELE GARCIA AZEVEDO - UFMA
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO CÉSAR VIEIRA ZANELLA - UNILA