Muscidae

Zafalon-Silva, Ândrio, Kirst, Frederico Dutra & Krüger, Rodrigo Ferreira, 2018, Houseflies speaking for the conservation of natural areas: a broad sampling of Muscidae (Diptera) on coastal plains of the Pampa biome, Southern Brazil, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 62 (4), pp. 292-303 : 297

Muscidae of the Coastal Plain of Pampa Biome

We collected 6314 specimens, 98 species in 31 genera of Muscidae on the CPPB ( Table 3). The most abundant species were Sarcopromusca pruna (Shannon and Del Ponte) (n = 934), Neodexiopsis sp. 9 (n = 641), Bithoracochaeta calopus (Bigot) (n = 503), Stomopogon argentina (Snyder) (n = 388), Limnophora sp. 5 (356), Phaonia sp. 2 (n = 338), Neodexiopsis sp. 4 (n = 309), Phaonia nigriventris (Albuquerque) (n = 300), Limnophora sp. 4 (n = 298).

Among the 98 identified species of Muscidae , 41 did not fit descriptions of valid species, indicating that there may be many new species in the studied regions. Other data show that 34 taxa were unique to at least one location ( Table 3). The geographical distribution of 13 species of Muscidae was expanded, and they were registered for the first time in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, based on the distributional catalogue of South American muscids ( Löwenberg-Neto and Carvalho, 2013).

Regarding the number of species as a function of the samples (areas) in CPPB,the SAC exhibited an upward trend ( Fig. 2 ), although the Chao2 diversity estimator report was collected between 70% and 86% Muscidae of CPPB ( Table 4).

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Fig. 2. Sample coverage curves based on the number of individuals of Muscidae per region in the Coastal Plain (CPPB) of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The grey shaded area represents the confidence intervals. (a) region 1; (b) region 2; (c) region 3; (d) region 4; (e) region 5; (f) CPPB total.