Dinoponera lucida emery 1901 (hymenoptera, formicidae, ponerinae) record in sandbank forest in southern espírito Santo, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Dinoponera lucida emery 1901 (hymenoptera, formicidae, ponerinae) record in sandbank forest in southern espírito Santo, Brazil
Received 27th January, 2021; Received in revised form 05th February, 2021; Accepted 11th March, 2021; Published online 13th April, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Aline Macarini Vaz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This work aims to evaluate and record the occurrence of D. lucida in a sandbank environment in the Atlantic Forest in the south of the State of Espírito Santo and to assist in the geographic update of the species occurrence. 40 pitfall traps without baits were used, consisting of plastic pots 15 cm high by 10 cm in diameter, buried in the soil so that they were with the edge at ground level, inside the pots 250 were added ml of 2% formalin solution for the conservation of captured individuals. A total of 286 individuals of Dinoponera lucida were collected in the environmental protection area (APA) Guanandy sandbank fragment. This record helps in the knowledge of the geographical limits of occurrence of the species. It should also be taken to account the incentive to scientific research for the best biological knowledge of this species, as well as the monitoring and location of the nests.
