Hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of El Ventorrillo Biological Station, Madrid province, Spain: a perspective from a late twentieth century inventory
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Title: | Hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of El Ventorrillo Biological Station, Madrid province, Spain: a perspective from a late twentieth century inventory |
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Authors: | Lorenzo, Daniel | Ricarte, Antonio | Nedeljković, Zorica | Nieves-Aldrey, José Luis | Marcos-García, M. Ángeles |
Research Group/s: | Biodiversidad y Biotecnología aplicadas a la Biología de la Conservación |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales | Universidad de Alicante. Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad |
Keywords: | Eristalinae | Syrphinae | Species richness | Sistema Central | Sierra de Guadarrama | Puerto Navacerrada | Malaise trap |
Knowledge Area: | Zoología |
Issue Date: | 28-Oct-2020 |
Publisher: | Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Genève |
Citation: | Revue suisse de Zoologie. 2020, 127(2): 393-412. https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0029 |
Abstract: | Temporal comparisons of a site's biodiversity depend on the availability of at least two asynchronous data sets on a bioindicator group. The Sierra de Guadarrama, a mountain range in central Spain has a high biodiversity and representative sites such as El Ventorrillo Biological Station (Madrid province) play an important role in research and monitoring of the Sierra biodiversity. Although unevenly and randomly, hoverflies of the Sierra de Guadarrama have been surveyed for decades, but never at El Ventorrillo. This important group of pollinators, aphid predators and bioindicators was sampled with a Malaise trap at El Ventorrillo from June 1989 to June 1990. A total of 51 species were identified (20 spp. of Eristalinae and 31 spp. of Syrphinae), 22 of which were new to the Sierra de Guadarrama and 17 to the Madrid province. The genera Brachypalpus and Didea were also new to the Madrid province. The Sierra de Guadarrama now has 126 species recorded and the Madrid province 150. Within the Sierra de Guadarrama, El Ventorrillo becomes the second locality in number of hoverfly species recorded after El Escorial (64 spp.). In the Malaise trap catch, hoverflies with zoophagous larvae had a higher representation than those of other guilds, both in species richness and abundance. The results provided here for El Ventorrillo represent a baseline for future biodiversity studies at this site with a similar experimental design, for example, to detect changes in hoverfly diversities along time. |
Sponsor: | We thank Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Transferencia de Conocimiento, University of Alicante to fund Antonio Ricarte's position (UATAL05). This study belongs to the ‘Fauna Ibérica’ Project PGC2018-095851-A-C65A (‘Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades’, Spain). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/110061 |
ISSN: | 0035-418X |
DOI: | 10.35929/RSZ.0029 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2020 BioOne |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0029 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - BBaBC - Artículos de Revistas |
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