Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Diversity of Necrophagous Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellidae, and Sarcophagidae) in Anthropogenic and Preserved Environments of Five Different Phytophysiognomies in Northeastern Brazil

  • Ecology, Behavior and Bionomics
  • Published:
Neotropical Entomology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The present study investigated the potential association between the richness and abundance of species of the dipteran families Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellidae, and Sarcophagidae in anthropogenic and preserved environments of five phytophysiognomies (Cerrado, Amazon forest, Palm forest, marshland, and mangrove) that occur throughout the state of Maranhão, in northeastern Brazil. We sampled 90 sites (45 preserved and 45 anthropogenic areas) where we collected 26,036 specimens: 15,023 calliphorids (11 species), 231 mesembrinellids (one species), and 10,772 sarcophagids (52 species). Four environmental factors, canopy openness, temperature, leaf litter depth, and vegetation height, contributed most to the separation of preserved and anthropogenic sites in all five phytophysiognomies. Leaf litter depth was positively associated with the species richness of the calliphorids and mesembrinellids (C+ M group), while tree/shrub density, vegetation height, and temperature were associated negatively with the richness of the sarcophagids. Tree/shrub density and vegetation height were also associated negatively with abundance in both C+M and sarcophagid species. Overall, then, the structural characteristics of the environment affected the species richness and abundance, and deforestation may favor certain synanthropic species, leading to a decrease in the richness and abundance of the species that are adapted to preserved environments.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Ab’saber AN (1977) Os domínios morfoclimáticos na América do Sul. Geomorfologia 52:1–21

    Google Scholar 

  • Aquino AM, Correia MEF, Alves MV (2008) Diversidade da Macrofauna Edáfica No Brasil. In: FMS M, Siqueira JO, Brussaard L (eds) Biodiversidade do solo em ecossistemas brasileiros, 1st edn, vol 1. Editora UFLA, Lavras, pp 143–170

    Google Scholar 

  • Artamonov SD (2012) Ecological characterization of Calliphoridae (Calliphoridae, Diptera: Insecta) of the Russian Far East. Contemp Probl Ecol 5:46–49

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barbosa TM, Carmo RFR, Silva LP, Sales RG, Vasconcelos SD (2017) Diversity of sarcosaprophagous calyptratae (Diptera) on sandy beaches exposed to increasing levels of urbanization in Brazil. Environ Entomol 46(3):460–469

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Baumgartner DL, Greenberg B (1984) The genus Chrysomya (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the New World. J Med Entomol 21:105–113

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Buenaventura E, Pape T (2013) Revision of the New World genus Peckia Robineau Desvoidy (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Zootaxa 3622(1):1–87

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Cabrini I, Grella MD, Andrade CF, Thyssen PJ (2013) Richness and composition of Calliphoridae in an Atlantic Forest fragment: implication for the use of dipteran species as bioindicators. Biodivers Conserv 22:2635–2643

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cain ML, Bowman WD, Hacker SD (2011) Ecologia. Artmed, Porto Alegre, 640 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Camara R, Santos GL, Pereira MG, Silva CF, Silva VFV, Silva RM (2018) Effects of natural Atlantic Forest regeneration on soil fauna, Brazil. FLORAM 25(1):e20160017

    Google Scholar 

  • Camara R, Silva VD, Correia MEF, Villela DM (2019) Impacto da remoção de serapilheira sobre a comunidade de artrópodes edáficos em plantios abandonados de Corymbia citriodora. Cienc Florest 29(1):14–26

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carmo RF, Vasconcelos SD (2016) Assemblage of necrophagous Diptera in Atlantic insular environments and response to different levels of human presence. Neotrop Entomol 45(5):471–481

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Carvalho CJB, Mello-Patiu CA (2008) Keys to the adults of the most common forensic species of Diptera in South America. Rev Bras Entomol 52:390–406

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carvalho CJB, Rafael JA, Couri MS, Silva VC (2012) Capítulo 40 – Diptera. In: Rafael JA, GAR M, CJB C, Casari SA, Constantino R (eds) Insetos do Brasil – Diversidade e Taxonomia. Holos Editora, Ribeirão Preto I + 810 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Case TJ, Gilpin ME (1974) Interference competition and niche theory. PNAS 71(8):3073–3077

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Connell JH (1978) Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs. Science 199(4335):1302–1310

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • D’Almeida JM (1984) Sinantropia de Sarcophagidae (Diptera) na Região Metropolitana do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Arquivos da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 7:101–110

    Google Scholar 

  • D’Almeida JM, Lopes HS (1983) Sinantropia de dípteros caliptratos (Calliphoridae) no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Arquivos da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro 6:39–48

    Google Scholar 

  • da Silva RJ, Diniz S, Vaz-de-Mello FZ (2010) Habitat heterogeneity, richness and structure of assemblages of dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in areas of Cerrado in the Chapada dos Parecis, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Neotrop Entomol 39(6):934–940

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Daoudi MM, Boussaa S, Boumezzough A (2019) Modeling spatial distribution of Sergentomyia minuta (Diptera: Psychodidae) and its potential implication in leishmaniasis transmission in Morocco. J Arthropod Borne Dis. https://doi.org/10.18502/jad.v14i1.2700

  • Dias ES, Neves DP, Lopes HS (1984) Estudos sobre a fauna de Sarcophagidae (Diptera) de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. I. Levantamento taxonômico e sinantrópico. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 79:83–91

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dufek MI, Oscherov EB, Damborsky MP, Mulieri PR (2019) Calliphoridae (Diptera) in human-transformed and wild habitats: diversity and seasonal fuctuations in the Humid Chaco Ecoregion of South America. J Med Entomol 56(3):725–736

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Dufek MI, Larrea DD, Damborsky MP, Mulieri PR (2020) The effect of anthropization on sarcophagidae (Diptera: Calyptratae) community structure: an assessment on different types of habitats in the humid Chaco Ecoregion of Argentina. J Med Entomol 57(5):1468–1479

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Erzinçlioglu Z (1996) Blowflies. In: Naturalist’s handbooks. The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd, Great Britain 71 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Esposito MC, Sousa JRP & FS Carvalho-Filho (2009) Diversidade de Calliphoridae (insecta, Diptera) em ambientes de matas e próximos de habitações da Estação Científica Ferreira Penna (ECFPn), Melgaço/PA, e da cidade de Portel/PA. In: Lisboa, PLB (Org.). Caxiuanã: Desafios para a Conservação de uma Floresta na Amazônia. Belém, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, I+672 p.

  • Esposito MC, Sousa JRP, Carvalho Filho FS (2010) Diversidade de Calliphoridae (Insecta: Diptera) na base de extração petrolífera da Bacia do Rio Urucu, na Amazônia brasileira. Acta Amaz 40:579–584

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Feitosa AC, Trovão JR (2006) Atlas Escolar do Maranhão: espaço geo-históricocultural. Grafset, João Pessoa 207 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Ferraz MV (1995) Larval and pupal periods of Peckia chrysostoma and Adiscochaeta ingens (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) reared under laboratory conditions. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 90:611–614

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ferraz ACP, Gadelha BQ, Aguiar-Coelho VM (2010a) Influência climática e antrópica na abundância e riqueza de Calliphoridae (Diptera) em fragmento florestal da Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, RJ. Neotrop Entomol 39:476–485

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ferraz ACP, Gadelha BQ, Aguiar-Coelho VM (2010b) Effects of forest fragmentation on dipterofauna (Calliphoridae) at the Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, Nova Iguaçu, RJ. Braz J Biol 70:55–63

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ferreira MJM (1978) Sinantropia de dípteros muscóides de Curitiba, Paraná. I. Calliphoridae. Rev Bras Biol 38:445–454

    Google Scholar 

  • Ferreira MJM, Barbola IF (1998) Sinantropia de califorídeos (Insecta: Diptera) de Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. Rev Bras Biol 58:203–209

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Forister ML, Pelton EM, Black SH (2019) Declines in insect abundance and diversity: we know enough to act now. Conserv Sci Pract 1. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.80

  • Furusawa GP, Cassino PCR (2006) Ocorrência e distribuição da Calliphoridae (Díptera, Oestroidea) em um fragmento de Mata Atlântica secundária no município de Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin, Médio Paraíba, RJ. Rev Biol Ciênc Terra 6:152–164

    Google Scholar 

  • Gadelha BQ, Ribeiro AC, Aguiar VM, Mello-Patiu CA (2015) Edge effects on the blowfy fauna (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of the Tijuca National Park. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Braz J Biol 75(4):999–1007

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Godsoe W, Jankowski J, Holt RD, Gravel D (2017) Integrating biogeography with contemporary niche theory. Trends Ecol Evol 32(7):488–499

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Góes-Filho L, Veloso HP, Japiassu AMS, Leite PF (1973) Vegetação. In: Brasil (ed) Projeto RADAM - Levantamento de Recursos Naturais, vol III. MME/DNPM, Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro, pp 71–72

    Google Scholar 

  • Gomes A, Koller WW, Barros ATM (2000) Sazonalidade da mosca-varejeira, Cochliomyia macellaria (Díptera:Calliphoridae) na região dos cerrados, Campo Grande, MS. Rev Bras Parasitol Vet 9:125–128

    Google Scholar 

  • Guerra WD, Oliveira PC, Pujol-Luz JR (2012) Gafanhotos (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) em áreas de cerrados e lavouras na Chapada dos Parecis, Estado de Mato Grosso, Brasil. Rev Bras Entomol 56:228–239

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Guimarães JH (1977) A systematic revision of the Mesembrinellidae, stat. nov. (Diptera, Cyclorrapha). Arq Zool 29:1–109

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Guimarães JH (2004) Redescrição dos machos de dez espécies Neotropicais de Ravinia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 62:45–66

    Google Scholar 

  • IBGE (1984) Atlas do Maranhão. Superintendência de Estudos Geográficos e Sócio-Econômicos. Gráfica do IBGE-Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Rio de Janeiro I + 104 p

    Google Scholar 

  • IBGE (2012) Manual técnico da vegetação brasileira: sistema ftogeográfco, inventário das formações forestais e campestres, técnicas e manejo de coleções botânicas, procedimentos para mapeamentos. Gráfica do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografa e Estatística, Rio de Janeiro, p 272

    Google Scholar 

  • Jackson DA (1993) Stopping rules in principal components analysis: a comparison of heuristical and statistical approaches. Ecology 74:2204–2214

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Juen L, Cunha EJ, Carvalho FG, Ferreira MC, Begot TO, Andrade AL, Shimano Y, Leão H, Pompeu PS, LFA M (2016) Effects of oil palm plantations on the habitat structure and biota of streams in Eastern Amazon. River Res Appl 32(10):2081–2094

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Koller WW, Barros ATM, Corrêa EC (2011) Abundance and seasonality of Cochliomyia macellaria (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Southern Pantanal, Brazil. Rev Bras Parasitol Vet 20:27–30

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kosmann C, Mello RP, Harterreiten-Souza ÉS, Pujol-Luz JR (2013) A list of current valid blow fly names (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the Americas South of Mexico with key to the Brazilian species. Entomo Brasilis 6:74–85

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kovalenko KE, Thomaz SM, Warfe DM (2012) Habitat complexity: approaches and future directions. Hydrobiologia 685(1):1–17

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Legendre P, Legendre LF (2012) Numerical ecology, 3rd edn. Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam

    Google Scholar 

  • Linhares AX (1981) Synanthropy of Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae (Diptera) in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil. Rev Bras Entomol 25:189–215

    Google Scholar 

  • Lopes HS (1939) Contribuição ao conhecimento do gênero Helicobia Coquillett (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Rev Entomol 10:497–517

    Google Scholar 

  • Lopes HS (1958) Considerações sobre as espécies de Peckia Desvoidy, 1830 e de gêneros afins. (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Anais Acad Bras Cienc 30:211–239

    Google Scholar 

  • Lopes HS (1989) On american Sarcophagidae (Diptera) with revision of Pekiamyia Dodge. Rev Bras Biol 49:837–845

    Google Scholar 

  • Lopes HS, Tibana R (1987) On Oxysarcodexia (Diptera, Sarcophagidae), with descriptions of five new species, key, list and geographic distribution of the species. Rev Bras Biol 47:329–347

    Google Scholar 

  • Madeira NG, Dias ES, Mascarenhas CS (1982) Contribuição ao conhecimento da fauna de Calliphoridae (Diptera) sinantrópicos de Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Rev Bras Entomol 26:137–140

    Google Scholar 

  • Manhães CMC, Gama-Rodrigues EF, Moço MKS, Gama-Rodrigues AC (2009) Biomassa de Fauna do Solo e da Serapilheira em Diferentes Coberturas Vegetais no Norte do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Rev Bras Agroecol 4:792–795

    Google Scholar 

  • Maranhão (2002) Atlas do Maranhão. GEPLAN-LABGE/UEMA, São Luis 44 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Mariluis JC, Schnack JA (1989) Ecology of the blow flies of an eusynanthropic habitat near Buenos Aires (Diptera, Calliphoridae). Eos 65:93–101

    Google Scholar 

  • Marinho CR, Barbosa LS, Azevedo ACG, Queiroz MMC, Valgode MA, Aguiar Coelho VM (2006) Diversidade de califorídeos (Diptera) na Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Braz J Biol 66:95–100

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Marinho MAT, Wolff M, Ramos-Pastrana Y, Azeredo-Espin AML, Amorim DDS (2017) The first phylogenetic study of Mesembrinellidae (Diptera: Oestroidea) based on molecular data: clades and congruence with morphological characters. Cladistics 33(2):134–152

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Marinho-Filho J, Machado RB, Henriques RPB (2010) Evolução do conhecimento e da conservação do Cerrado Brasileiro (2010). In: Diniz IR, Marinho-Filho J, Machado RB, Cavalcanti RB (eds) Cerrado: conhecimento científco quantitativo como subsídio para ações de conservação. Thesaurus, Brasília, pp 15–34

    Google Scholar 

  • Marshall SA (2012) Flies: The natural history and diversity of Diptera. Firefly Books, Richmont Hill, p 616

    Google Scholar 

  • Martinez MI, Montes de Oca E (1984) Observaciones sobre algunos factores microambientales y el ciclo biológico de das espécies de escarabajos rodadores (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Canthon). Folia Entomol Mex 91:47–59

    Google Scholar 

  • McKinney ML (2008) Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals. Urban Ecosystems 11(2):161–176

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mello RP (2003) Chave para identificação das formas adultas das espécies da família Calliphoridae (Díptera, Brachycera, Cyclorrhapha) encontradas no Brasil. Entomologia y vectores 10:255–268

    Google Scholar 

  • Mello RS, Queiroz MMC, Aguiar-Coelho VM (2007) Population fluctuations of calliphorid species (Diptera, Calliphoridae) in the Biological Reserve of Tinguá, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Iheringia 97:481–485

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mendes TP, Cabette HSR, Juen L (2015) Setting boundaries: Environmental and spatial effects on Odonata larvae distribution (Insecta). An Acad Bras Ciênc 87(1):239–248

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mercedes R, Cunha S (2008) Maranhão: Geografia. Editora FTD, São Paulo I +144 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Moço MKS, Gama-Rodrigues EF, Gama-Rodrigues AC, Correia MEF (2005) Cara-cterização da fauna edáfica em diferentes coberturas vegetais na região norte Fluminense. Rev Bras Ciênc Solo 29:555–564

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mulieri PR, Schnack JA, Mariluis JC, Torretta JP (2008) Flesh flies species (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from a grassland and a woodland in a Nature Reserve of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rev Biol Trop 56:1287–1294

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mulieri PR, Patitucci LD, Schnack JA, Mariluis JC (2011) Diversity and seasonal dynamics of an assemblage of sarcophagid Diptera in a gradient of urbanization. J Insect Sci 11:91–15. https://doi.org/10.1673/031.011.9101

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Muniz FH (2006) A vegetação de transição entre a Amazônia e o Nordeste: diversidade e estrutura. Série Agroecologia – UEMA 2:53–69

    Google Scholar 

  • Oksanen J, Blanchet F, Kindt R, Legendre P, Minchin P, O'Hara R (2016) Vegan: community ecology package. University of Oulu, Oulu

    Google Scholar 

  • Oliveira ML (2001) Stingless bee and orchid bees (Euglossini) in Terra Firme tropical forest and forest fragments, p 208-219. In: Bierregaard RO Jr, Gascon C, Lovejoy TE, Mesquita R (eds) Lessons from Amazonia – the ecology and conservation of a fragmented forest. Sheridan Books, Michigan 496 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Oliveira VC, D'almeida JM, Paes MJ, Sanavria A (2002) Population dynamics of calyptrate diptera (Muscidae and Sarcophagidae) at the Rio-Zoo Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Braz J Biol 62(2):191–196

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Osorio-Olvera L, Soberón J, Falconi M (2019) On population abundance and niche structure. Ecography 42(8):1415–1425

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pape T (1996) Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the World (Insecta: Diptera). Memoirs Entomol Int 558

  • Paraluppi ND (1996) Calliphoridae (Diptera) da Bacia do Alto Rio Urucu, Amazônia Central, Brasil. Rev Bras Zool 13:553–559

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pereira GHA, Pereira MG, Anjos LHC, de Amorim TA, Menezes CEG (2013) Decomposição da serrapilheira, diversidade e funcionalidade de invertebrados do solo em um fragmento de Floresta Atlântica. Bioscience 29(5):1317–1327

    Google Scholar 

  • Peres-Neto PR, Jackson DA, Somers KM (2003) Giving meaningful interpretation to ordination axes: assessing loading significance in principal component analysis. Ecology 84:2347–2363

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • R Core Team (2020) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. https://www.R-project.org/

    Google Scholar 

  • Rao CR (1973) Linear statistical inference and its applications. Wiley, New York, pp 263–270

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Rognes K (1997) The Calliphoridae (blowflies) (Diptera: Oestrioidea) are not a monophyletic group. Cladistics 13(1–2):27–66

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rubbo MJ, Kiesecker JM (2004) Leaf litter composition and community structure: translating regional species changes into local dynamics. Ecology 85:2519–2525

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sánchez-Bayo F, Wyckhuys KAG (2019) World decline of the entomofauna: a review of its drivers. Biol Conserv 232:8–27

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Santos MN, Teixeira MLF (2009) Espécies de Calliphoridae (Diptera) visitando flores de Antidesma bunius (Euphorbiaceae) no arboreto do Instituto de Pesquisas do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. Rev FZVA 16:86–94

    Google Scholar 

  • Sayer EJ, Sutcliffe LME, Ross RIC, Tanner EVJ (2010) Abundância e diversidade de artrópodes em um solo de floresta tropical de planície no Panamá: o papel do espaço de habitat versus concentração de nutrientes. Biotropica 42:194–200

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schmera D, Heino J, Podani J, Erős T, Dolédec S (2017) Functional diversity: a review of methodology and current knowledge in freshwater macroinvertebrate research. Hydrobiologia 787(1):27–44

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schwarzkopf L, Rylands AB (1989) Primate species richness in relation to habitat structure in Amazonian rainforest fragments. Biol Conserv 48:1–12

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shewell GE (1987a) Calliphoridae. In: Mcalpine JF (ed) Manual of nearctic diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, pp 1133–1145 II+657 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Shewell GE (1987b) Sarcophagidae. In: McAlpine (ed) Manual of neartic diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, pp 1159–1186 II+657 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Sousa JRP, Esposito MC, Carvalho-Filho FS (2010) A fauna de califorídeos (Díptera) das matas e clareiras com diferentes coberturas vegetais da Base de Extração Petrolífera, bacia do Rio Urucu, Coari, Amazonas. Rev Bras Entomol 54:270–276

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sousa JRP, Esposito MC, Carvalho-Filho FS (2011) Composition, abundance and richness of Sarcophagidae (Diptera: Oestroidea) in forests and forest gaps with different vegetation cover. Neotrop Entomol 40:20–27

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sousa JRP, Esposito MC, Carvalho-Filho FS, Juen L (2014) The potential uses of sarcosaprophagous flesh flies and blowfies for the evaluation of the regeneration and conservation of forest clearings: a case study in the Amazon forest. J Insect Sci 14:1–5

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sousa JRP, Carvalho-Filho FS, Juen L, Esposito MC (2016) Evaluating the effects of different vegetation types on necrophagous fly communities (Diptera: Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae): implications for conservation. PLoS ONE 11(10):e0164826. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164826

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sousa CM, Pape T, Thyssen PJ (2020) Oxysarcodexia Townsend, 1917 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)—a centennial conspectus. Zootaxa 4841:1–16

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Southwood TRE (1977) Habitat, the templet for ecological strategies? J Anim Ecol 337-365:336. https://doi.org/10.2307/3817

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Souza AD, Hernández MIM, Martins CF (2005) Riqueza, abundância e diversidade de Euglossina (Hymenoptera, Apidae) em três áreas da Reserva Biológica Guaribas, Paraíba, Brasil. Rev Bras Zool 22:320–325

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Souza-Silva M, Fontenelle JCR, Martins RP (2001) Por que moscas visitam flores? Ciênc Hoje 30:68–71

    Google Scholar 

  • Svenning JC (1999) Microhabitat specialization in a species-rich palm community in Amazonian Ecuador. J Ecol 87:55–65

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Svenning JC (2001) On the role of microenvironmental heterogeneity in the ecology and diversifcation of Neotropical rain-forest palms (Arecaceae). Bot Rev 67:1–53

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tews J, Brose U, Grimm V, Tielbörger K, Wichmann MC, Schwager M, Jeltsch F (2004) Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures. J Biogeogr 31:79–92

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tibana R (1976) Duas redescrições e uma descrição de espécie nova do gênero Helicobia (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Rev Bras Biol 36:723–729

    Google Scholar 

  • Tibana R (1981) Estudo sobre sete espécies de Helicobia Coquillett, 1895. (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Rev Bras Biol 41:625–634

    Google Scholar 

  • Tibana R, Xerez R (1985) Uma nova espécie de Retrocitomyia Lopes, 1982, (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Rev Bras Biol 45:485–488

    Google Scholar 

  • Vasconcelos SD, Cruz TM, Salgado RL, Thyssen PJ (2013) Dipterans associated with a decomposing animal carcass in a rainforest fragment in Brazil: Notes on the early arrival and colonization by necrophagous species. J Insect Sci 13:145 Available at: http://www.insectscience.org. Accessed 20 December 2013

  • Viana MV, Pinheiro LAFV (1998) Conservação da biodiversidade em fragmentos florestais. Série Técnica IPEF 12:25–42

    Google Scholar 

  • Whitworth TL, Yusseff-Vanegas S (2019) A revision of the genera and species of the Neotropical family Mesembrinellidae (Diptera: Oestroidea). Zootaxa. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4659.1.1

  • Wolff M, Kosmann C (2016) Families calliphoridae and mesembrinellidae. Zootaxa 4122(1):856875. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.72

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yepes-Gaurisas D, Sanchez-Rodriguez JD, Mello-Patiu CA, Wolff EM (2013) Synanthropy of Sarcophagidae (Diptera) In La Pintada, Antioquia-Colombia. Rev Biol Trop 61:1275–1287

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zurell D, Zimmermann NE, Gross H, Baltensweiler A, Sattler T, Wüest RO (2020) Testing species assemblage predictions from stacked and joint species distribution models. J Biogeogr 47(1):101–113

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Dr. Stephen Ferrari for English’s revising the text and for the review/suggestions from two anonymous reviewers. We also thank the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), through its Office for Graduate Studies (PROPESP), and the Pará State Research Foundation (Decree 01/2019 PROPESP/FADESP-UFPA) for their support.

Funding

This study was funded by the Maranhão State Research Foundation, which provided the first author with a doctoral stipend. LJ (304710/2019-9) and MCE (309572/2013-4) receive productivity grants from CNPq - the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. LJ also received a grant from CAPES for his internship at the University of Florida - PROCAD-AMAZONIA/CAPES (88881.474457/2020-01). We also thank CAPES/PNPD for the scholarship granted to TPM (88887.363080/2019-00).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Univ Estadual do Maranhão, São Luís, MA, Brazil

    José Roberto Pereira de Sousa & Thiago Pereira Mendes

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Agricultura e Ambiente, Univ Estadual do Maranhão, Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil

    José Roberto Pereira de Sousa & Thiago Pereira Mendes

  3. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Univ Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil

    Fernando da Silva Carvalho-Filho, Leandro Juen & Maria Cristina Esposito

  4. Depto de Zoologia,Coordenação de Zoologia - Entomologia, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belém, PA, Brazil

    Fernando da Silva Carvalho-Filho

  5. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Univ Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil

    Leandro Juen & Maria Cristina Esposito

  6. Dept of Biology, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Leandro Juen

Authors
  1. José Roberto Pereira de Sousa
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Thiago Pereira Mendes
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Fernando da Silva Carvalho-Filho
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Leandro Juen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Maria Cristina Esposito
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Contributions

All the authors participated in (a) the conception and design of the study, or the analysis and interpretation of the data; (b) the drafting of the article or its critical revision to ensure relevant intellectual content; and (c) the approval of the final version.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Thiago Pereira Mendes.

Ethics declarations

Ethical statement

Please be advised that the specimens analyzed in the present study were collected according to Brazilian law. The permits for collection and transportation of zoological specimens (necrophagous Diptera) were provided by the Chico Mendes Institute for the Conservation of Biodiversity (ICMBio)/Sisbio in accordance with federal law and regulations of the Brazilian Environmental Ministry - process number 1403–1 (for private properties) and 29342–1 (for the Gurupi Biological Reserve). At private properties, permission from the landowner or property manager was obtained prior to sampling. None of the studied species is protected by Brazilian law or is red-listed.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no competing interests.

Additional information

Edited by Simão Dias Vasconcelos

Publisher’s Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Supplementary Information

ESM 1

(DOCX 49 kb)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

de Sousa, J.R.P., Mendes, T.P., da Silva Carvalho-Filho, F. et al. Diversity of Necrophagous Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellidae, and Sarcophagidae) in Anthropogenic and Preserved Environments of Five Different Phytophysiognomies in Northeastern Brazil. Neotrop Entomol 50, 537–550 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-021-00868-0

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-021-00868-0

Keywords

Search

Navigation