Survey of aculeate wasps in fragments of Cerrado and Caatinga.

• Grant number: 24/18271-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2025
• End date: June 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Barbosa Noll
• Grantee: Ana Carla de Souza Stivar
• 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 aculeate wasps in fragments of areas of Cerrado, the second largest biome in the country, and Caatinga, the only biome exclusively Brazilian. Active collection, Malaise traps and light traps will be used, and the material will subsequently be sorted and catalogued.