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Species Richness and Abundance of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) in Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico; Relationships with Phenological Changes in the Tropical Dry Forest

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Abstract

Cerambycidae have an important ecological role in initiating the degradation process of dead wood, but few studies have evaluated Cerambycidae community attributes in relation to ecosystem phenology. We surveyed the cerambicid fauna of the tropical dry forest in Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico, and explored the relationship of Cerambycidae species richness and abundance with phenological changes in vegetation. We applied three collecting methods of light traps, direct collection, and Malaise traps to survey Cerambycidae throughout 2005. To determine seasonal variations, we collected samples in the dry season month of February in the rainy season of May–July and August–September, and in the transition months of October and November through. We collected and identified 145 species, 88 genera, 37 tribes, and four subfamilies. The subfamily with the highest number of species was Cerambycinae (100 species), and the tribe with the highest number of genera and species was Elaphidiini with 13 genera and 33 species. The ICE non-parametric estimator determined an overall expected richness of 373 species, while the overall Shannon Diversity Index was 4.1. Both species richness and abundance varied seasonally, with the highest values recorded in the rainy season and the lowest in the dry season. Overall species abundance was not significantly correlated to monthly rainfall or EVI neither, only for “direct collecting” the EVI vs Richness and EVI vs Shannon Diversity Index were significantly correlated. We propose that the seemingly contradictory relationships between seasonal richness patterns of Cerambycidae and the greening/senescence of vegetation (EVI) may be explained by the seasonal availability of dead organic matter, flowers, or leafy vegetation that may be synchronized with the behavior of different cerambycid species.

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We would like to acknowledge the reviewers’ opinions and suggestions which significantly improved our work. We also thank our colleague Dr. Katherine Renton for helping us to improve the writing. Finally, we thank the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) for providing funds used for the development of our work.

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  1. Estación de Biología Chamela, Instituto de Biología, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 21, 48980, San Patricio, Jalisco, Mexico

    F A Noguera, M A Ortega-Huerta & E Ramírez-García

  2. Depto de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D. F., Mexico

    S Zaragoza-Caballero & E González-Soriano

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Noguera, F.A., Ortega-Huerta, M.A., Zaragoza-Caballero, S. et al. Species Richness and Abundance of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) in Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico; Relationships with Phenological Changes in the Tropical Dry Forest. Neotrop Entomol 47, 457–469 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-017-0534-y

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Keywords

  • Cerambycid
  • richness
  • abundance
  • phenology
  • endemism