A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä
Extensive sampling reveals the phenology and habitat use of Afrotropical parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Rhyssinae)
Tekijät: Hopkins T, Roininen H, Sääksjärvi IE
Kustantaja: ROYAL SOC
Julkaisuvuosi: 2019
Journal: Royal Society Open Science
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
Lehden akronyymi: ROY SOC OPEN SCI
Artikkelin numero: ARTN 190913
Vuosikerta: 6
Numero: 8
Sivujen määrä: 13
ISSN: 2054-5703
eISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190913
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/42112350
Tropical invertebrates, such as the ichneumonids of tropical forests, are poorly known. Here, we report the first results of extensive sampling at Kibale National Park, Uganda, by providing some of the first tropical ecological data for the ichneumonid subfamily Rhyssinae. We sampled ichneumonids with 34 Malaise traps for a year in 10 sites, in habitats ranging from primary forest to farmland. We also gathered weather and vegetation data. The total sampling effort was 373 trap months and we caught 444 rhyssines in six species. We caught the most rhyssines in dry weather, and towards the end of the sampling year. The rhyssines showed a clear preference for decaying logs and for primary forest. We fitted a model which can be used to predict future catches at the site, and draw conclusions on when rhyssines emerge and on their adult lifespan. Sampling extensively gave us a wealth of ecological data on a poorly known parasitoid wasp subfamily. We recommend that future tropical sampling collect ecological data, and that existing data from previous large-scale surveys be used for ecological analyses.
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