High species richness of tachinid parasitoids (Diptera: Calyptratae) sampled with a Malaise trap in Baihua Mountain Reserve, Beijing, China

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelForskningfagfællebedømt

Dokumenter

  • Fulltext

    Forlagets udgivne version, 2,04 MB, PDF-dokument

  • Wenya Pei
  • Liping Yan
  • Pape, Thomas
  • Qike Wang
  • Chuntian Zhang
  • Nan Yang
  • Fuxin Du
  • Dong Zhang

Tachinidae are one of the most speciose families of Diptera and the largest group of non-hymenopteran parasitoids. Little is known about their diversity, distribution patterns, and seasonal variation in most ecosystems. This study reports on tachinid flies collected by a Malaise trap over 73 weeks in Baihua Mountain Reserve, northern China, and investigates the patterns of local species richness and its temporal distribution. The most species-rich season was summer, but the majority of specimens were recovered in spring. A total of 755 tachinid specimens were collected, consisting of 144 species in 85 genera, comprising 26.5% of the species and 49.7% of the genera recorded from northern China. A total species richness of 243 was estimated, indicating that only a portion of the community of tachinid flies was collected at this location and suggesting that the diversity of tachinids might be underestimated across Beijing and northern China. This work is a first step in assessing patterns of tachinid diversity in China using quantitative sampling and establishes a baseline for comprehending the temporal and spatial diversity of these ecologically significant parasitoids.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer22193
TidsskriftScientific Reports
Vol/bind11
Antal sider10
ISSN2045-2322
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
We are grateful to Yufan Chen and Ziyue Wan (Beijing Forestry University) for their assistance during the fieldwork and for helping with specimens sorting in the laboratory. We thank Kathryn McNamara for English language editing. This study was supported by the Beijing Forestry University Outstanding Young Talent Cultivation Project (No. 2019JQ03018) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31872964, 31572305 and 31970443).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).

ID: 286853151