COMUNIDADE DE ABELHAS SOLITÁRIAS (Hymenoptera: Apidae) QUE NIDIFICAM EM NINHOS-ARMADILHA EM UMA ÁREA DE CERRADO NO PARQUE ESTADUAL DO MIRADOR, FORMOSA DA SERRA NEGRA, MARANHÃO

Abstract

Knowing the diversity of solitary bees through trap-nests have sought to compose a checklist of diversity, as well as the account of the behavior and biology of the species. Few studies have been done in the state of Maranhão, which is a privileged area, as it includes within its boundaries the two major biomes. Given these few reports, the purpose of this work was to study the community of solitary bees by the method of trap nests for two years, in an area of cerrado and gallery forest, in the Parque Estadual do Mirador. Also, describe the nesting biology of Centris (Hemisiella) dichrootricha and analyze the floristic composition of the food of her offspring. The study area is located in the Parque Estadual do Mirador, municipality of Formosa Serra Negra, Maranhão. The method used was the trap-nests in wood diameters 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 mm, these were grouped in sets of 6 nests, totaling 300 nests per area. A total of 101 nests belonging was founded 11 bee species, including eight species occurred in the Gallery Forest and six in the Cerrado, and the similarity was low among habitats (SJ = 0.27). Two species were dominant in the community, Centris dichrootricha in Gallery Forest and the Centris tarsata in Cerrado. The diversity and evenness of species were higher in gallery forest than in the cerrado. The peak of the nests was founded in November (2012 and 2013) and August (2013), there were nothing correlation between the precipitation (rCE = -0.061; pCE = 0.775 and rMG = 0.194; pMG = 0.365). After 24 months of collecting the species rarefaction curve did not reach the asymptote for both habitats. Centris dichrootricha observed nesting in 29 nests in sizes 8, 10, 12 and 14mm. The species used in most resources from the Cerrado, which consisted both in the sediment to compose the cells and the pollen material and floral oil. Pollen types Byrsonima the genus of the Malpighiaceae family were the most representative in the samples. In this study five species of Centris were collected for a single study, all represented in the gallery forest. Thus, the study reveals the importance of forests as a refuge for some species of solitary bees. The biology of C. dichrootricha showed a preference for nesting in cavities with different sizes and in shady places in the Gallery Forest , also Euglossa amazonica species which hitherto had not been recorded nesting in trap-nests, especially in areas of the field was observed Cerrado. Besides these two species, the present study contributes to the expansion of the geographical distribution and Centris bicornuta e Centris terminata, these species are little studied in Brazil.