Plecoptera (Insecta): recording the diversity and integrating morphological and molecular data

• Grant number: 21/05986-8
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2021
• End date: February 29, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Agreement: CNPq
• Principal Investigator: Pitágoras da Conceição Bispo
• Grantee: Pitágoras da Conceição Bispo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Plecoptera is an order of aquatic insects that occurs mainly in clean, fast and well-oxygenated streams. This order, together with Ephemeroptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera and Trichoptera were inserted by Linnaeus in 1758 in the Systema Naturae in Neuroptera, but in the 19th century they gained the status of order. Plecoptera has approximately 3700 species described in 16 families. Despite the efforts made in recent years in an attempt to better understand the diversity of this order, we still know little about: 1) the intraspecific morphological/molecular variability, since most species were described based on few individuals; 2) the nymphs, since most species were described based only on male adults; 3) the biology and actual geographic distribution of species; and 4) the phylogenetic relationship between species and supraspecific groups. In this context, expanding knowledge on these themes is a great challenge for researchers in Brazil and in other South American countries. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

FLORIANO, CARLA FERNANDA BURGUEZ; MOREIRA, FELIPE FERRAZ FIGUEIREDO; BISPO, PITAGORAS DA CONCEICAO. Revision of Potamobates Champion, 1898 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) and description of a new genus for P. thomasi Hungerford, 1937. PLoS One, v. 18, n. 3, p. 74-pg., 2023-03-08. (15/09491-2, 21/05986-8, 12/21196-8, 13/16367-0, 19/22833-0)

DEPRA, VANESSA; DE ALMEIDA, LUCAS HENRIQUE; BATISTA, JOANA DARC; BISPO, PITAGORAS DA CONCEICAO. Anacroneuria(Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Roncador Mountains, eastern of Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, v. N/A, p. 9-pg., 2023-07-26. (12/21196-8, 19/22833-0, 21/05986-8)

VILARINO, ALBANE; SALLES, FREDERICO F.; BISPO, PITAGORAS C.. Xiphocentronidae (Trichoptera: Psychomyioidea) from the Andean foothills: first species of Machairocentron and Xiphocentron described in the Peruvian Amazon. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TAXONOMY, v. 860, p. 19-pg., 2023-02-22. (19/22833-0, 21/05986-8)

MIGUEL, MARINA; DE ALMEIDA, LUCAS HENRIQUE; NOVAES, MARCOS CARNEIRO; BISPO, PITAGORAS DA CONCEICAO. Anacroneuria (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Central Brazil: new species, new geographic records, and taxonomic notes. Zootaxa, v. 5162, n. 5, p. 20-pg., 2022-07-11. (19/22833-0, 21/05986-8)

DE ALMEIDA, LUCAS HENRIQUE; TANIGUTI, PAULO NAOTO; LOPEZ, VINICIUS MARQUES; BISPO, PITAGORAS DA CONCEICAO. Taxonomic Contributions on Macrogynoplax Enderlein and Enderleina Jewett (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Brazil, Including a New Species Supported by Molecular and Morphological Data. Neotropical Entomology, v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2023-10-03. (19/22833-0, 21/05986-8, 22/15689-3)

ADOLFO RICARDO CALOR; RAFAEL PEREIRA; LARISSA LAIANE QUEIROZ; ALBANE VILARINO; CARLOS CORACY DULTRA DE AZEVEDO JUNIOR; AMANDA QUEIROZ; MANOEL JOAQUIM BURGOS-MIRANDA; AMANDA CAVALCANTE-SILVA; MARCOS VINÍCIUS OLIVEIRA-SILVA; GIANN LUCCA; et al. LEAq – Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática “Prof. Claudio Gilberto Froehlich” and the task of facing the biodiversity knowledge deficits on Caddisflies (Trichoptera), Bahia, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, v. 67, 2024-01-08. (19/22833-0, 21/05986-8)