Diversity and seasonality of horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) in Amazon Forest fragments of Monte Negro, Rondônia, Western Amazon.

Autor: de Oliveira Zamarchi TB; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Leônidas E Maria Deane, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. tallitazamarchi@gmail.com., Henriques AL; Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil., Krolow TK; Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Biodiversidade, Ecologia E Conservação, Porto Nacional, Tocantins, Brazil., Krüger RF; Departamento de Microbiologia E Parasitologia, Laboratório de Ecologia de Parasitos E Vetores, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil., Rodrigues GD; Departamento de Microbiologia E Parasitologia, Laboratório de Ecologia de Parasitos E Vetores, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil., Guimarães AM; Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Biotecnologia, Pelotas, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil., Pessoa FAC; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Leônidas E Maria Deane, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil., Camargo LMA; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Leônidas E Maria Deane, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.; Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas 5, Universidade de São Paulo, Monte Negro, São Paulo, Rondônia, Brazil.; Instituto Nacional de Epidemiologia da Amazônia Ocidental, Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil.; Centro de Pesquisa Em Medicina Tropical, Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Parasitology research [Parasitol Res] 2024 Aug 02; Vol. 123 (8), pp. 288. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 02.
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-024-08292-0
Abstrakt: Tabanidae are considered a nuisance to humans, wild animals, and livestock due to their painful, annoying, and insistent biting. Tabanids transmit some pathogens and parasites biologically and mechanically. In humans, there are relatively few pathogens transmitted regularly. Still, tabanids serve as vectors of a number of disease agents of animals, including viruses, bacteria, protozoans, and nematodes. They are more abundant in tropical and humid regions, and their seasonal patterns are affected by habitat changes such as deforestation and fragmentation. Here, we analyze the tabanid fauna in Monte Negro, a central municipality of Rondônia, Brazil, comparing abundance, richness, and diversity in forest and pasture habitats. Traps were set for 5 days a month for 12 consecutive months. We also examined how abiotic factors (humidity, temperature, and rainfall) affected the abundance, diversity, and richness and the effectiveness of Malaise and Nzi traps as sample methods. The influence of climatic variables on the richness and abundance of the species was tested using generalized linear models, and we used non-parametric dimensional scaling (nMDS) for analysis of species composition and diversity in different traps and environments. We collect 1032 specimens of 25 species. The most abundant species were Tabanus antarcticus, Dichelacera tetradelta, Tabanus mucronatus, and Leucotabanus albovarius. Forest habitats had the highest number of tabanids, followed by pasture and the anthropized area, and there was no significant difference regarding the effectiveness of the Malaise and Nzi traps. The study provides new information on the distribution and ecology of tabanids in Brazil.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
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