Survey of aculeate wasps in fragments of the Atlantic Forest and Pampas.

• Grant number: 24/18297-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2025
• End date: December 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Barbosa Noll
• Grantee: Celine Kaori Kawahama
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 19/09215-6 - Countering the taxonomic impediment of aculeate wasps: micro- and macroregional visions of the neotropical fauna, AP.BTA.TEM

Abstract

This project aims to carry out an inventory of wasps accumulated in fragments of areas of Atlantic Forest and Pampa, highly diverse and threatened Brazilian biomes, using collection active, Malaise trap and light trap. The material will later be sorted and catalogued.