Artículos de revistas
Comprehensive inventory of true flies (Diptera) at a tropical site
Fecha
2018-12-01Registro en:
Communications Biology, v. 1, n. 1, 2018.
2399-3642
10.1038/s42003-018-0022-x
2-s2.0-85050034196
Autor
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Royal British Columbia Museum and the American Museum of Natural History
Clemson University
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Natural Resources Canada
Australian Museum
Macdonald Campus
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
University of New Hampshire
Wright State University
Distrito Industrial II
Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)
Mississippi State University
Western Kentucky University
Field Museum of Natural History
Independent Investigator
California State Collection of Arthropods
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
American Museum of Natural History
Riverside
University of Turku
Red Ambiente y Sustentabilidad
Station Linné
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Universidad de Panama
University of Bergen
University of Guelph
Smithsonian Institution
Natural History Museum of Denmark
University of Zurich
c/o National Museum of Natural History
Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Ghent University
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Forestry Sciences Laboratory
Bishop’s University
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
OPL-Entomology
University of Calgary
University of Helsinki
Washington State University
University of California
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)
Institución
Resumen
Estimations of tropical insect diversity generally suffer from lack of known groups or faunas against which extrapolations can be made, and have seriously underestimated the diversity of some taxa. Here we report the intensive inventory of a four-hectare tropical cloud forest in Costa Rica for one year, which yielded 4332 species of Diptera, providing the first verifiable basis for diversity of a major group of insects at a single site in the tropics. In total 73 families were present, all of which were studied to the species level, providing potentially complete coverage of all families of the order likely to be present at the site. Even so, extrapolations based on our data indicate that with further sampling, the actual total for the site could be closer to 8000 species. Efforts to completely sample a site, although resource-intensive and time-consuming, are needed to better ground estimations of world biodiversity based on limited sampling.