Study of the fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in the Natural History Museum collection

• Grant number: 14/08447-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: July 01, 2014
• End date: August 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Dalton de Souza Amorim
• Grantee: Sarah Siqueira de Oliveira
• Supervisor: Erica Jane Avery McAlister
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Natural History Museum, London, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/51577-3 - Mycetophilidae (Diptera) with amphinotic distribution: taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography, BP.PD

Abstract

The family Mycetophilidae encompasses 233 genera and about 4.500 species known from all biogeographical regions. The Neotropical fauna of the family includes 1120 described species and is possibly the richest in the world, still with a huge hidden diversity. The family has been divided in the subfamilies Sciophilinae, Gnoristinae, Mycomyiinae, Leiinae, Manotinae, Allactoneurinae, Mycetophilinae. The subfamilies Sciophilinae, Gnoristinae, and Leiinae include taxa demonstrated to have austral distribution, i.e. disjunct between Australia, New Zealand, and temperate areas of South America-technically referred to as amphinotic taxa. Knowledge on the relationships between and within these genera, however, is still incipient. As well, these groups would be especially useful for a biogeographical understanding of the biological evolution of the southern end of the global-something still to be done. The Mycetophilidae collection at the Natural History Museum (NHM) is one of the largest in the world, with material from different biogeographical regions, types, non types, and a huge amount of unidentified material. Therefore, this project aims to sort and photograph the Mycetophilidae collection at the NHM, to study in detail the types of the species of genera known from the core geographical area of this study, especially the sciophilines, gnoristines, and leiines genera. (AU)

Scientific publications

(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)

OLIVEIRA, SARAH SIQUEIRA. On Afrotropical Mohelia Matile (Diptera, Mycetophilidae): new species and phylogenetic comments. Zootaxa, v. 3947, n. 2, p. 251-263, APR 15 2015. (14/08447-7, 12/51577-3)

AMORIM, DALTON DE SOUZA; BROWN, V, BRIAN; BOSCOLO, DANILO; ALE-ROCHA, ROSALY; MOISES ALVAREZ-GARCIA, DEIVYS; BALBI, MARIA ISABEL P. A.; BARBOSA, ALAN DE MARCO; CAPELLARI, RENATO SOARES; BARROS DE CARVALHO, CLAUDIO JOSE; COURI, MARCIA SOUTO; et al. ertical stratification of insect abundance and species richness in an Amazonian tropical fores. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 12, n. 1, FEB 2 2022. (17/16305-6, 12/51577-3, 14/08447-7)