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

65f32597-48a7-4877-ae13-e4256b51fb6b

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

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Vairão

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4485–601 Vairão

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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

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Vairão

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4485–601 Vairão

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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

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Vairão

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4485–601 Vairão

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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

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Vairão

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4485–601 Vairão

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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

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Vairão

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4485–601 Vairão

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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

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Vairão

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4485–601 Vairão

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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

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Vairão

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4485–601 Vairão

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PORTUGAL

Associated Party
Associated Party
Associated Party
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

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Vairão

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4485–601 Vairão

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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

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Vairão

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4485–601 Vairão

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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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Additional Metadata

Metadata

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp

2021-11-29T09:08:40Z

Citation

Pina S (2017). The Orthoptera of Castro Verde Special Protection Area (Southern Portugal). CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources) Portugal. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/byd0kt accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-11-29.

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Cigliano MM, Braun H, Eades DC, Otte D (2016) Orthoptera Species File. Version 5.0/5.0 (accessed 8 March 2017).

Clemente ME, García MD, Presa JJ (1990) Los Gomphocerinae de la Península Ibérica: II. Omocestus Bolivar, 1878 (Insecta: Orthoptera: Acrididae). Graellsia 46: 191-246.

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.

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Collection

InBIO Barcoding Initiative - Orthoptera

Collection

Orthoptera Observations on the EDGES (Ecologically Scaled Edge Responses) project

Speciment Preservation Method

ALCOHOL

 

Project

• Project

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

• 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.

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Description

Scientific nomenclature follows Cigliano et al. (2016).