Sampling event

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

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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).

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,700 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
1700
Occurrence 
2083

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How to cite

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Sílvia Pina, Sasha Vasconcelos, Luís Reino, Joana Santana, Pedro Beja, Juan S. Sánchez-Oliver, Inês Catry, Francisco Moreira, Sónia Ferreira (2017): The Orthoptera of Castro Verde Special Protection Area (Southern Portugal). v1. CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources) Portugal. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=orthopt_castroverde&v=1.0

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources) Portugal. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 65f32597-48a7-4877-ae13-e4256b51fb6b.  CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources) Portugal publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Insecta; Orthoptera; Biodiversity; species inventory

Contacts

Silvia Pina
  • Metadata Provider
  • Curator
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Researcher
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
4485–601 Vairão Vairão
Sasha Vasconcelos
  • Author
PhD student
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
4485–601 Vairão Vairão
PT
Luís Reino
  • Author
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
4485–601 Vairão Vairão
PT
Joana Santana
  • Author
PhD student
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
4485–601 Vairão Vairão
PT
Pedro Beja
  • Author
Senior Researcher
CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas
4485–601 Vairão Vairão
PT
Juan S. Sánchez-Oliver
  • Author
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
4485–601 Vairão Vairão
PT
Inês Catry
  • Author
Post-doctoral researcher
CEABN/InBIO, Centro de Ecologia Aplicada “Professor Baeta Neves”, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa
Tapada da Ajuda
1349-017 Lisboa Lisboa
PT
Francisco Moreira
  • Author
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
4485–601 Vairão Vairão
PT
Sónia Ferreira
  • Author
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
4485–601 Vairão Vairão
PT

Geographic Coverage

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.

Bounding Coordinates South West [37.578, -8.341], North East [37.884, -7.805]

Taxonomic Coverage

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.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Orthoptera
Family Acrididae, Tettigoniidae, Gryllidae, Tetrigidae, Pamphagidae, Pyrgomorphidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2014-04-17 / 2015-07-17

Project Data

No Description available

Title Ecologically scaled edge responses: patterns, mechanisms and predictive modelling
Identifier PTDC/BIA-BIC/2203/2012
Funding Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under POPH - QREN - Typology 4.1 FEDER Funds through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors – COMPETE

The personnel involved in the project:

Luís Reino

Sampling Methods

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.

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).
Quality Control Scientific nomenclature follows Cigliano et al. (2016).

Method step description:

  1. 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.

Collection Data

Collection Name InBIO Barcoding Initiative - Orthoptera
Collection Name Orthoptera Observations on the EDGES (Ecologically Scaled Edge Responses) project
Specimen preservation methods Alcohol

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Barat J (2012) Revisión preliminar de los géneros de Ephippigerini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Bradyporinae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 50: 1-71. http://sea-entomologia.org/Publicaciones/PDF/BOLN_50/001071BSEA50BaratOrthopterabr.pdf
  2. Cigliano MM, Braun H, Eades DC, Otte D (2016) Orthoptera Species File. Version 5.0/5.0 (accessed 8 March 2017). http://Orthoptera.SpeciesFile.org
  3. Clemente ME, García MD, Presa JJ (1990) Los Gomphocerinae de la Península Ibérica: II. Omocestus Bolivar, 1878 (Insecta: Orthoptera: Acrididae). Graellsia 46: 191-246.
  4. Cordero PJ, Llorente V, Cordero P, Ortego J (2009) Recognizing taxonomic units in the field - The case of the crickets Oecanthus dulcisonans Gorochov 1993, and O. pellucens (Scopoli, 1763) (Orthoptera: Gryllidae): implications for their distribution and conservation in Southern Europe. Zootaxa 2284: 63-68. http://www.consevol.org/pdf/Cordero_2009_Zootaxa.pdf
  5. Defaut B (2004) A propos de la détermination des espèces et sous-espèces de Dociostaurus gr. Genei (Ocskay, 1832) (Caelifera, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae). Matériaux orthoptériques et entomocénotiques 9: 15-19. http://ascete.org/wp-content/uploads/MOE_09_DEFAUT_Dociostaurus.pdf
  6. Defaut B (2005a) Aiolopus puissanti, espèce nouvelle proche d’Aiolopus thalassinus (Fabricius) (Acrididae, Oedipodinae). Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques 10: 103-113. https://inpn.mnhn.fr/fichesEspece/Aiolopus_puissanti.pdf
  7. Defaut B (2005b) Pseudosphingonotus morini sp. n. et P. lluciapomaresi sp. n., deux especes nouveles en Espagne (Acrididae, Oedipodinae). Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques 10: 49-55. http://ascete.org/wp-content/uploads/MOE_10_DEFAUT_Pseudosphingonotus.pdf
  8. Defaut B (2006) Révision préliminaire des Oedipoda ouest-paléarctiques (Caelifera, Acrididae, Oedipodinae). Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques 11: 23-48.
  9. Defaut B, Aulin SJ (2008) Nouvelles données taxonomiques et chorologiques sur Aiolopus puissanti Defaut et A. thalassinus (F.) (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques 13: 5-23. http://acrinwafrica.mnhn.fr/SiteAcri/pdf_biblio/Defaut_et_Jaulin_2008.pdf
  10. EC (2016) Natura 2000 network. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/natura2000/index_en.htm
  11. García MD, Larrosa E, Clemente ME, Presa JJ (2005) Contribution to the knowledge of genus Dociostaurus Fieber, 1853 in the Iberian Peninsula, with special reference to its sound production (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Anales de Biología 27: 155-189. https://www.um.es/analesdebiologia/numeros/27/PDF/18-CONTRIBUTION.pdf
  12. Husemann M, Llucià-Pomares D, Hochkirch A (2013) A review of the Iberian Sphingonotini with description of two new species (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Oedipodinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168: 29-60. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12023
  13. Llorente V, Pinedo MC (1990) Los Tettigoniidae de la Península Ibérica, Islas Baleares y Norte de Africa: Género Odontura Rambur, 1838 (Orthoptera). Boletín de la Asociacion Española de Entomologia 14: 153-174. http://www.entomologica.es/cont/publis/boletines/463.pdf
  14. Llorente V, Presa JJ (1997) Los Pamphagidae de la Peninsula Iberica (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera). Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de Murcia, 248 pp.
  15. Llucià-Pomares D (2002) Revisión de los ortópteros (Insecta: Orthoptera) de Cataluña (España). Monografias Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 7. Zaragoza. 226 pp. http://sea-entomologia.org/PDF/MSEA7OrthopteraCatalu%C3%B1aResolucionModerada.pdf
  16. Massa B (2012) New species, records and synonymies of West Palaearctic Pamphaginae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Pamphagidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France 48: 371-396. doi: 10.1080/00379271.2012.10697786
  17. Ragge DR, Reynolds WJ (1984) The taxonomy of the western European grasshoppers of the genus Euchorthippus, with special reference to their songs (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Bulletin of The British Museum Natural History (Entomology) 49(2): 103-151. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2288163#page/119/mode/1up
  18. Ribeiro PF, Santos JL, Santana J, Reino L, Leitão PJ, Beja P, Moreira F (2016) Landscape makers and landscape takers: links between farming systems and landscape patterns along an intensification gradient. Landscape Ecology 31: 791-803. doi: 10.1007/s10980-015-0287-0

Additional Metadata

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.