Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia, do Sul de Minas Gerais - IFSULDEMINAS, Campus Inconfidentes, Inconfidentes, MG, Brasil.
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Paraná - IFPR, Campus Umuarama, Umuarama, PR, Brasil.
Braz J Biol. 2023 Oct 30;83:e274971. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.274971. eCollection 2023.
Opiliones are arachnids that provide different services in terrestrial ecosystems, especially in tropical forests, which justifies inventory studies to better understand the occurrence and distribution of these arthropods in Brazil, since little is known about the harvestmen fauna in Conservation Units such as in the state of Paraná. In this context, the objective of the present study was to survey the harvestmen fauna at the Iguaçu National Park (PARNA) and in the Bela Vista Biological Refuge (BVBR), from September 2021 to May 2022, using a sampling effort of 40 hours in the BVBR, and 66 hours at the PARNA Iguaçu. Ten species/morphospecies were recorded, highlighting a new occurrence for Brazil, the species Opisthoplatus vegetus. The present study reduces the information gap about Opiliones in the state, which reaffirms the importance of Conservation Units for the protection of the biota in the state of Paraná.
盲蛛是在陆地生态系统中提供不同服务的蛛形纲动物，尤其是在热带森林中，这证明了进行库存研究是合理的，以便更好地了解这些节肢动物在巴西的出现和分布情况，因为人们对保护单位（如巴拉那州）中的盲蛛动物群了解甚少。在这种情况下，本研究的目的是调查伊瓜苏国家公园（PARNA）和贝拉维斯塔生物保护区（BVBR）中的盲蛛动物群，从 2021 年 9 月至 2022 年 5 月，在 BVBR 进行了 40 小时的采样，在 PARNA Iguaçu 进行了 66 小时的采样。记录了 10 种/形态种，其中包括一种新的巴西种，即 Opisthoplatus vegetus。本研究减少了有关该州盲蛛的信息差距，这再次证实了保护单位对保护巴拉那州生物多样性的重要性。
