English: English

• Autor(a) principal: Margatto, Cleiton
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Berno, Vinicius Ortega, Gonçalves, Rodrigo Barbosa, Faria Jr., Luiz Roberto Ribeiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/paz/article/view/150154
• topic: Annual cycles; Insect; Life-cycle; Neotropical; Seasonality

Seasonal fluctuations in the abundance of orchid bees have already been reported. The variations in population dynamics may be expected to occur in more predictable and pronounced manners in environments with a clear distinction between rainy and dry seasons, where climatic variables are regarded to be good predictors of populational patterns. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the seasonality of males of orchid bees in fragments of Seasonal Semideciduous Forest in southern Brazil. Data comprise bait samples from five one-year periods on four forest fragments. The seasonality of species abundance was tested with circular statistics. Results suggest two phenological patterns, one for Eufriesea violacea (Blanchard), Eulaema nigrita Lepeletier and Euglossa cordata (Linnaeus), whose abundances are concentrated in late spring and early-middle summer and another for Euglossa fimbriata Moure with a tendency to be collected in middle-late summer and early autumn. These patterns are discussed, as well the possible driven factors, (i) the species life cycle and nesting behavior, (ii) synchrony with resource, and (iii) climate. We can postulate an important impact of climate change in local euglossine assemblage due to the small populations and marked seasonality.