Biodiversidade de formigas (hymenoptera:formicidae) em uma área de caatinga no município de Cristino Castro, Piauí, Brasil

Abstract

Brazil is endowed with a rich biodiversity, which is subject to various forms of impacts, which consequently threaten this biodiversity. Thus, the Caatinga, which is a genuinely Brazilian biome, has been suffering over the years with anthropic actions, which has been affecting its fauna and flora, of which there is little information. Given this, this work aims to characterize the community of ants that occur in a Caatinga area in southern Piaui. Using pitfall traps and arboreal traps with bait and without. Two plots were selected, one to be managed and the other to control the ecological patterns. The results obtained were 2,528 specimens, 40 species distributed in eight subfamilies. With the most representative subfamilies Myrmicinae and Formicinae. Therefore, this work is extremely important because it contributed to the knowledge of the epigeic and arboreal myrmecofauna of the Caatinga biome in southern Piauí.