The Orthoptera of Castro Verde Special Protection Area (Southern Portugal)

Silvia Pina

doi:10.15468/byd0kt

The Orthoptera of Castro Verde Special Protection Area (Southern Portugal)

Citation

Pina S (2017). The Orthoptera of Castro Verde Special Protection Area (Southern Portugal). CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources) Portugal. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/byd0kt accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-06-01.

Description

This dataset includes all the Orthoptera species recorded during a study performed in 2014 and 2015 mainly in Castro Verde Special Protection Area (SPA), southern Portugal, and is the first Orthoptera inventory conducted in the area. Orthopterans were visually recorded along transects placed in 61 sites, each composed of one forest plantation and one adjacent fallow field and. A total of 35 Orthoptera species was recorded, distributed among six of the 11 families known to occur in Portugal. Two species are recorded for the first time for Portugal: Dociostaurus hispanicus Bolivar, 1898 and Euryparyphes terrulentus (Serville, 1838). Furthermore, Platystolus martinezi (Bolívar, 1873), first recorded around 100 years ago in Portugal, is now recorded for the second time. Some of our records complement the current knowledge on species geographic distribution in southern Europe. Seven species expanded their known distribution to the south-westernmost location in Europe: Dociostaurus hispanicus, Euryparyphes terrulentus, Platycleis falx (Fabricius, 1775), Platycleis intermedia (Serville, 1838), Platystolus martinezi, Sphingonotus lluciapomaresi (Defaut, 2005) and Tylopsis lilifolia (Fabricius, 1793).

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Specimens were sampled in 61 sites mostly included in the Castro Verde SPA, southern Portugal. The sampled area encompasses the municipalities of Castro Verde, Aljustrel, Almodôvar, Beja, Mértola and Ourique. Sampling was performed in 32 sampling sites in 2014 and the remaining 29 sites in 2015, in three periods each year (2014: 15 April – 15 May, 15 May – 4 June, 13 June – 1 July; 2015: 16 April – 17 May, 18 May – 1 June, 15 June – 23 June).

Sampling

Each sampling site was composed of one forest plantation and one adjacent fallow field. The forest plantations consisted of one of the following types: pine, oak, eucalyptus and mixed pine-oak. Linear transects 50m long were placed in each of the forest plantation, adjacent fallow and the edge between both, and within each site we sampled 1 transect at the habitat edge, 3 transects in fallows and 1-3 transects in plantations, depending on the forest patch size.

Quality Control

Scientific nomenclature follows Cigliano et al. (2016).

Method steps

1 - Orthopterans were recorded along the 50 m transects, within 50 cm on either side of the observer and collected, by direct capture with net, a representative sample of adults that appeared to be morphologically distinct. To complement the species inventory, within each sampling site we further collected individuals recorded outside the standardised 50 m transects, which appeared to be morphologically distinct. 2 - All individuals collected were later identified to species level in the laboratory, based on: Llucià-Pomares (2002), Defaut (2005a). and Defaut and Aulin (2008) for Aiolopus spp.; Barat (2012) for Bradyporinae; Defaut (2004) and García et al. (2005) for Dociostaurus spp.; Ragge and Reynolds (1984) for Euchorthippus spp.; Llorente and Pinedo (1990) for Odontura spp.; Cordero et al. (2009) for Oecanthus spp.; Defaut (2006) for Oedipoda spp.; Clemente et al. (1990) for Omocestus spp.; Massa (2012) and Llorente and Presa (1997) for Pamphagidae; and Husemann et al. (2013) and Defaut (2005b) for Sphingonothus spp.

Additional info

The authors of the dataset thank to Paula Garcia Carrero and João Faria for help during fieldwork and to Francisco Barros, Eva Monteiro and David Llucià-Pomares for clarification of details regarding the orthopterans taxonomic identification.

Taxonomic Coverages

The dataset refers to all Orthoptera species collected during the EDGES project. All specimens were identified to the species level. A total of 35 species was recorded, represented by six of the 11 families known to occur in Portugal.

Animalia
rank: kingdom
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Insecta
rank: class
Orthoptera
rank: order
Acrididae
rank: family
Tettigoniidae
rank: family
Gryllidae
rank: family
Tetrigidae
rank: family
Pamphagidae
rank: family
Pyrgomorphidae
rank: family

Geographic Coverages

The geographical area is located in the Castro Verde SPA, southern Portugal, in a a farmland landscape. The climate is Mediterranean, with hot summers (averaging 24 ºC [16–32 ºC] in July), mild winters (9 ºC [5–14 ºC] in January) and >75% of annual rainfall (500–600 mm) concentrated in October–March. The area is the most representative steppe area in Portugal, with 85.345 hectares of which around 60.000 hectares are pseudo-steppe (EC 2016). The landscape is flat or gently undulating (100–300 m a.s.l.) and dominated by an agricultural mosaic of cereal, pastures and grazed fallow land (Ribeiro et al. 2016). Tree cover is characterized by plantations of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus sp.), oaks (Quercus rotundifolia and Q. suber) and umbrella pines (Pinus pinea). Pine and oak plantations often have a grassy understorey grazed by livestock.

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Contacts

Silvia Pina
originator
position: Researcher
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
email: akenaton_73@hotmail.com

Silvia Pina
metadata author
position: Researcher
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
email: akenaton_73@hotmail.com

Silvia Pina
curator
position: Researcher
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
PT
email: akenaton_73@hotmail.com

Sasha Vasconcelos
author
position: PhD student
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
PT
email: sasha.vasconcelos@cibio.up.pt
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9024-2315

Luís Reino
author
position: Post-doctoral researcher
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
PT
email: luis.reino@cibio.up.pt
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9768-1097

Joana Santana
author
position: PhD student
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
PT
email: joanafsantana@cibio.up.pt
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4100-8012

Pedro Beja
author
position: Senior Researcher
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
PT
email: pbeja@cibio.up.pt
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8164-0760

Juan S. Sánchez-Oliver
author
position: Post-doctoral researcher
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
PT
email: juanssoliver@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0976-7457

Inês Catry
author
position: Post-doctoral researcher
CEABN/InBIO, Centro de Ecologia Aplicada “Professor Baeta Neves”, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa
Tapada da Ajuda
Lisboa
1349-017 Lisboa
PT
email: inescatry@gmail.com
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6qfOrsQAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

Francisco Moreira
author
position: Senior Researcher
REN Biodiversity Chair, CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
PT
email: fmoreira@isa.ulisboa.pt
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4393-8018

Sónia Ferreira
author
position: Post-doctoral researcher
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
PT
email: hiporame@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6884-3966

Silvia Pina
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
Vairão
4485–601 Vairão
email: akenaton_73@hotmail.com