Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure

Springtails (Collembola) inhabit soils from the Arctic to the Antarctic and comprise an estimated ~32% of all terrestrial arthropods on Earth. Here, we present a global, spatially-explicit database on springtail communities that includes 249,912 occurrences from 44,999 samples and 2,990 sites. These data are mainly raw sample-level records at the species level collected predominantly from private archives of the authors that were quality-controlled and taxonomically-standardised. Despite covering all continents, most of the sample-level data come from the European continent (82.5% of all samples) and represent four habitats: woodlands (57.4%), grasslands (14.0%), agrosystems (13.7%) and scrublands (9.0%). We included sampling by soil layers, and across seasons and years, representing temporal and spatial within-site variation in springtail communities. We also provided data use and sharing guidelines and R code to facilitate the use of the database by other researchers. This data paper describes a static version of the database at the publication date, but the database will be further expanded to include underrepresented regions and linked with trait data.</p

A new highly dimorphic genus of Sminthuridae (Collembola: Symphypleona) from Brazil

Zeppelini, Douglas, Brito, Roniere A., Zampaulo, Robson, Lima, Estevam C.A. (2020): A new highly dimorphic genus of Sminthuridae (Collembola: Symphypleona) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4729 (1): 25-46, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4729.1.

Bat necrophagy by a whip-spider (Arachnida, Amblypygi, Phrynidae) in a cave in the eastern Brazilian Amazon

<div><p>ABSTRACT Amblypygids are among the main predators in the ferriferous caves in Carajás National Forest, state of Pará (Amazon region of Brazil). One of the most common amblypygid species in this region is Heterophrynus longicornis (Butler 1873), and its most frequent prey are crickets of the family Phalangopsidae, which are abundant in the caves of Pará. Because they are primarily predators, necrophagy by amblypygids is not frequent in nature, and there are only two literature records of necrophagy of bats by Amblypygi. On December 11th, 2013, we observed an individual H. longicornis eating a bat carcass in a Pará ferriferous cave. The amblypygid exhibited considerable interest in the bat’s carcass, and it did not interrupt its meal even when lamps or a camera’s flash were pointed in its direction. The availability of nutrients in the carcass must promote this opportunistic behavior in caves, especially considering the habitual scarcity of trophic resources in underground environments when compared to epigean environments.</p></div

FIG. 1. — A in Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae)

FIG. 1. — A, Map of Brazil with Pará state in grey; B, Pará state highlighting the region where the specimens were collected; C, occurrences points of Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit, n. sp. in a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with the iron ore formations in red; D, E; living specimens inside caves. Photos: D, E: courtesy of I. Cizauskas and L. M. Rabello, respectively.Published as part of M., Luiz F., Iniesta, Bouzan, Rodrigo S., R., Claudio A., Souza, Zampaulo, Robson A., Cizauskas, Igor & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2023, Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae), pp. 463-498 in Zoosystema 45 (16) on page 465, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a16, http://zenodo.org/record/834445

FIG. 6 in Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae)

FIG. 6. — SEM of Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit, n. sp.: A, midbody ring, anterior view (IBSP 10929); B, detail of tergal region with limbus, anterior view (IBSP 10929); C, D, tergal microsculpture, anterior view (IBSP 10929); E, ventral region of female detailing the vulvae (IBSP 10822); F, detail of the vulvae, ventral view (IBSP 10822). Scale bars: A, 500 µm; B, 100 µm; C, D, 10 µm; E, 400 µm; F, 200 µm. Abbreviations: see Material and methods.Published as part of M., Luiz F., Iniesta, Bouzan, Rodrigo S., R., Claudio A., Souza, Zampaulo, Robson A., Cizauskas, Igor & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2023, Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae), pp. 463-498 in Zoosystema 45 (16) on page 472, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a16, http://zenodo.org/record/834445

FIG. 2 in Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae)

FIG. 2. — Habitus of Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit, n. sp. (IBSP 6528): A, male in dorsal view; B, male in ventral view, with detail of anterior region; C, female in dorsal view; D, female in ventral view, with detail of anterior region; E, male in lateral view. Arrows in B and D indicating the gonopods and cyphopods, respectively. Scale bars: 2 mm.Published as part of M., Luiz F., Iniesta, Bouzan, Rodrigo S., R., Claudio A., Souza, Zampaulo, Robson A., Cizauskas, Igor & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2023, Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae), pp. 463-498 in Zoosystema 45 (16) on page 467, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a16, http://zenodo.org/record/834445

FIG. 3 in Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae)

FIG. 3. — SEM of Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit, n. sp., female: A, habitus, lateral view (IBSP 10822); B, midbody paraterga, lateral view (IBSP 10822); C, distal region of midbody paratergum, lateral view (IBSP 10929); D, detail of ozospore, lateral view (IBSP 10929), with an associate fungus detailed. Scale bars: A, 2 mm; B, 200 µm; C, 100 µm; D, 40 µm.Published as part of M., Luiz F., Iniesta, Bouzan, Rodrigo S., R., Claudio A., Souza, Zampaulo, Robson A., Cizauskas, Igor & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2023, Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae), pp. 463-498 in Zoosystema 45 (16) on page 469, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a16, http://zenodo.org/record/834445

FIG. 4 in Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae)

FIG. 4. — SEM of Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit, n. sp., female (IBSP 10929): A, last antennomeres, distal view; B, seventh antennomere, lateral view; C, detail of tufts on sixth antennomere, lateral view; D, detail of anterior tufts on fifth antennomere, lateral view. Scale bars: A, B, 50 µm; C, D, 40 µm. Abbreviations: see Material and methods.Published as part of M., Luiz F., Iniesta, Bouzan, Rodrigo S., R., Claudio A., Souza, Zampaulo, Robson A., Cizauskas, Igor & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2023, Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae), pp. 463-498 in Zoosystema 45 (16) on page 470, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a16, http://zenodo.org/record/834445

FIG. 9 in Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae)

FIG. 9. — SEM of Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit, n. sp., gonopods: A, gonopods in situ, ventral view (IBSP 12509); B, fringed process on telopodite (IBSP 12509); C, right gonopod, ectal view (IBSP 7318); D, detail of post-prefemoral process (IBSP 7318); E, distal region of right gonopod (IBSP 6674); F, left gonopod, ventral view (IBSP 7318). Scale bars: A, 200 µm; B, 20 µm; C, F, 100 µm; D, 40 µm; E, 50 µm. Abbreviations: see Material and methods.Published as part of M., Luiz F., Iniesta, Bouzan, Rodrigo S., R., Claudio A., Souza, Zampaulo, Robson A., Cizauskas, Igor & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2023, Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae), pp. 463-498 in Zoosystema 45 (16) on page 475, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a16, http://zenodo.org/record/834445