Check List 11(5): e19371, doi: 10.15560/11.5.1772
Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of grassland areas in the Pampa biome, southern Brazil
Ana Paula dos Santos de Carvalho‡, Geisa Piovesan‡, Ana Beatriz Barros de Morais‡‡ Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
Corresponding author: Ana Paula dos Santos de Carvalho ( apsdecarvalho@gmail.com ) © 2017 Ana Paula dos Santos de Carvalho, Geisa Piovesan, Ana Beatriz Barros de Morais. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
dos Santos de Carvalho A, Piovesan G, Barros de Morais A (2015) Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of grassland areas in the Pampa biome, southern Brazil. Check List 11(5): 1772. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.5.1772 |  |
Abstract
The temperate and subtropical grassland ecosystems are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world due to habitat loss. This study aimed to make a list of butterfly species present in native grassland fields in the city of Santa Maria, southern Brazil. The sampling field effort was 225 h using entomological nets, from 2009 to 2011. In total, 117 species of butterflies were recorded, distributed in six families and 18 subfamilies. Nymphalidae was the richest family, with 56 species, while Lycaenidae was the least rich family, with six species. Twenty species constitute new records for Santa Maria; while six of those are new records for the Central Depression Region of Rio Grande do Sul. In the face of global and local threats, it is urgent to increase efforts to study the biology and ecology of the grassland communities in order to provide support to biological conservation.
Keywords
conservation; Nymphalidae; richness; species inventory