Monitoring Arthropods in Azorean Agroecosystems : the project AGRO-ECOSERVICES

We provided an inventory of all arthropods recorded in four Azorean agroecosystems (citrus orchards, low and high elevation maize fields and vineyards) from Terceira Island. A total of 50412 specimens were collected, belonging to four classes, 20 orders, 81 families and 200 identified species of arthropods. A total of 127 species are considered introduced (n = 22646) and 69 native non-endemic (n = 24117). Four endemic species were recorded with very few specimens (n = 14) and 3635 specimens belong to unidentified taxa recorded only at genus or family level. Five species are new records for Terceira Island, with Lagria hirta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) being also a new record for the Azores. This publication contributes to a better knowledge of the arthropods communities present in agro-ecosystems of Terceira Island and will serve as a baseline for future monitoring schemes targeting the long-term change in arthropod diversity and abundance.

Keywords

Active Aerial Searching (AAS) Citrus Dataset Invertebrates Island Diversity Macaronesia Maize Occurrence Orchards Pitfall Traps Vineyards

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6178

Citation

Borges, P.A.V., Nunes, R., Lamelas-López, L., Pereira, E., Costa, R., Monjardino, P., Lopes, D.H., Soares, A.O., Gil, A., Rigal, F., Ferrante, M. & Lövei, G.L. (2021). Monitoring Arthropods in Azorean Agroecosystems: the project AGRO-ECOSERVICES. “Biodiversity Data Journal”, 9: e77548. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e77548