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BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY
Volume 71, Issue 1, Pages 47-56Publisher
INT INST ECOLOGY
DOI: 10.1590/S1519-69842011000100008
Keywords
insect galls; species richness; Cecidomyiidae; insect herbivory; host plants
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- DCR-FACEPE/CNPq [DCR-0087-2.05/06, APQ-0008-2.05/07]
- CNPq [309633/20079]
- FAPEMIG [PRI-00121/10]
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We report on the richness of galling insects in the altitudinal wetland forests of Pernambuco State, Northeastern Brazil. We found 80 distinct types of insect galls on 49 species of host plants belonging to 28 families and 35 genera. Most of the galled plant species belong to Nyctaginaceae, Fabaceae, Meliaceae, Sapindaceae and Myrtaceae. The most common gall were spheroid and globoid; most galls were glabrous, predominantly green and with one chamber, and on the leaves. Most galls were induced by Cecidomyiidae (Diptera). The results of this study contribute to existing knowledge richness of galling insects and host-plant diversity in the altitudinal wetland forests of Northeastern Brazil.
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