Comprehensive Inventory Of True Flies (Diptera) At A Tropical Site

Authors

• Brian V. Brown, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
• Art Borkent, Royal British Columbia Museum
• Peter H. Adler, Clemson University
• Dalton de Souza Amorim, University of São Paulo
• Kevin Barber, Great Lakes Forestry Centre
• Daniel Bickel, Australian Museum
• Stephanie Boucher, McGill University, Macdonald Campus
• Scott E. Brooks, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
• John Burger, University of New Hampshire Durham
• Zelia L. Burington, Wright State University
• Renato S. Capellari, Campus Uberaba
• Daniel N.R. Costa, Universidade Federal do Paraná
• Jeffrey M. Cumming, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
• Greg Curler, Mississippi Entomological Museum
• Carl W. Dick, Western Kentucky University
• John H. Epler, Independent Investigator
• Eric Fisher, California State Collection of Arthropods
• Stephen D. Gaimari, California Department of Food and Agriculture
• Jon Gelhaus, Drexel University
• David A. Grimaldi, American Museum of Natural History
• John Hash, University of California, Riverside
• Martin Hauser, California Department of Food and Agriculture
• Heikki Hippa, University of Turku
• Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal, Red Ambiente y Sustentabilidad
• Mathias Jaschhof, Station Linné
• Elena P. Kameneva, I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Peter H. Kerr, California Department of Food and Agriculture
• Valery Korneyev, I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cheslavo A. Korytkowski, Universidad de Panama

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2018

Identifier/URL

40939915 (Pure); 30271908 (PubMed)

Abstract

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.

Comments

This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0

© 2018, The Author(s).

Repository Citation

Brown, B. V., Borkent, A., Adler, P. H., Amorim, D., Barber, K., Bickel, D., Boucher, S., Brooks, S. E., Burger, J., Burington, Z. L., Capellari, R. S., Costa, D. N., Cumming, J. M., Curler, G., Dick, C. W., Epler, J. H., Fisher, E., Gaimari, S. D., Gelhaus, J., Grimaldi, D. A., Hash, J., Hauser, M., Hippa, H., Ibáñez-Bernal, S., Jaschhof, M., Kameneva, E. P., Kerr, P. H., Korneyev, V., & Korytkowski, C. A. (2018). Comprehensive Inventory Of True Flies (Diptera) At A Tropical Site. Communications biology, 1 (1), 21.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/biology/961

DOI

10.1038/s42003-018-0022-x