ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Trop. Dis.
Sec. Tropical Disease Epidemiology and Ecology
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fitd.2025.1589167
This article is part of the Research TopicInnovative Strategies for Identifying and Controlling Insect Vectors in Public HealthView all articles
Inventory and Faunistic Analysis of Calliphoridae and Mesembrinellidae at Três Picos
Provisionally accepted
Wellington Azevedo1
Mariana Nunes1Valmiria Albuquerque1Cláudia Lessa1
Jeronimo Augusto Alencar2*Valéria Aguiar1*- 1Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The aim was to inventory and analyze the Calliphoridae and Mesembrinellidae fauna at Três Picos State Park, Cachoeiras de Macacu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two traps were installed at each sampling point containing preserved beef liver bait. Samples were collected quarterly, between June 2021 and May 2023. A total of 5,476 dipterans were collected, of which five were Calliphoridae (77.1%), with Lucilia eximia (Wiedemann, 1819) (59,3%) and Hemilucilia segmentaria (Fabricius, 1805) (12,9%) being the most abundant species, and 11 were Mesembrinellidae (22.9%), with Mesembrinella bellardiana Aldrich, 1922 (16,3%) and Laneella nigripes Guimarães, 1977 (4,5%) being the most abundant species. Seven species occurred commonly and one rarely regarding their abundance (Krüger, 2006), and five were constant and seven accidentals in frequency (Dajoz, 1983). The Rényi’s diversity profile varied throughout the collection period, with higher richness and diversity in winter and lower in autumn. We highlight the occurrence of Mesembrinella currani, a species previously known to have a distribution restricted to the Amazon Forest.
Keywords: Asynanthopes, Biodiversity, Blowflies, neotropical, rainforest
Received: 07 Mar 2025; Accepted: 17 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Azevedo, Nunes, Albuquerque, Lessa, Alencar and Aguiar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jeronimo Augusto Alencar, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Valéria Aguiar, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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