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

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).

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Identification

Alternate Identifier
10.15468/byd0kt
Alternate Identifier
http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=orthopt_castroverde
Publication Date
2017-07-12
Title
The Orthoptera of Castro Verde Special Protection Area (Southern Portugal)
Abstract
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).
Dataset Language
ENGLISH
 
Dataset Creator
  CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Silvia Pina (Researcher )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão ,
Metadata Provider
  CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Silvia Pina (Researcher )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão ,
Associated Party
CURATOR
  CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Silvia Pina (Researcher )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão , PORTUGAL
Associated Party
AUTHOR
  CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Sasha Vasconcelos (PhD student )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão , PORTUGAL
Associated Party
AUTHOR
  CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Luís Reino (Post-doctoral researcher )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão , PORTUGAL
Associated Party
AUTHOR
  CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Joana Santana (PhD student )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão , PORTUGAL
Associated Party
AUTHOR
  CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Pedro Beja (Senior Researcher )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão , PORTUGAL
Associated Party
AUTHOR
  CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Juan S. Sánchez-Oliver (Post-doctoral researcher )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão , PORTUGAL
Associated Party
AUTHOR
  CEABN/InBIO, Centro de Ecologia Aplicada “Professor Baeta Neves”, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa - Inês Catry (Post-doctoral researcher )
Tapada da Ajuda , Lisboa , 1349-017 Lisboa , PORTUGAL
Associated Party
AUTHOR
  REN Biodiversity Chair, CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Francisco Moreira (Senior Researcher )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão , PORTUGAL
Associated Party
AUTHOR
  CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Sónia Ferreira (Post-doctoral researcher )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão , PORTUGAL
Dataset Contact
  CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto - Silvia Pina (Researcher )
Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas , Vairão , 4485–601 Vairão ,
Keywords (GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml )
  • Samplingevent
Keywords (#NA )
  • Insecta
  • Orthoptera
  • Biodiversity
  • species inventory

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description
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 Box

West Bounding Coordinate
-8.341
East Bounding Coordinate
-7.805
North Bounding Coordinate
37.884
South Bounding Coordinate
37.578

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date

2014-04-17

End Date

2015-07-17

Taxonomic Coverage

General 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.

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name
Kingdom
Taxonomic Rank Value
Animalia

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name
Phylum
Taxonomic Rank Value
Arthropoda

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name
Class
Taxonomic Rank Value
Insecta

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name
Order
Taxonomic Rank Value
Orthoptera

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name
Family
Taxonomic Rank Value
Acrididae

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name
Family
Taxonomic Rank Value
Tettigoniidae

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name
Family
Taxonomic Rank Value
Gryllidae

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name
Family
Taxonomic Rank Value
Tetrigidae

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name
Family
Taxonomic Rank Value
Pamphagidae

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name
Family
Taxonomic Rank Value
Pyrgomorphidae

License Information

Intellectual Rights

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Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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Projects

Projects

• ProjectPTDC/BIA-BIC/2203/2012

Title
Ecologically scaled edge responses: patterns, mechanisms and predictive modelling

Personnel

Individual Name

Given Name
Luís
Surname
Reino
User ID
0000-0002-9768-1097
Role
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Abstract
Funding

Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under POPH - QREN - Typology 4.1

FEDER Funds through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors – COMPETE

 
 

Methods

Methods

• Method

Method Step

Description

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.

Sampling

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 Description
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.

qualityControl

Description
Scientific nomenclature follows Cigliano et al. (2016).
 
 

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