{"id":515136,"date":"2024-07-17T11:21:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=515136"},"modified":"2024-07-17T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:26:43","slug":"darwin-wasps-in-the-mountains-of-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/darwin-wasps-in-the-mountains-of-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin wasps in the mountains of Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carlos Perez Couto\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons <\/span>Serra dos \u00d3rg\u00e3os National Park, Rio de JaneiroCarlos Perez Couto\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Darwin wasps are named after English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809\u20131882), who wrote to a botanist friend expressing his indignation at the idea that the \u201cbenevolent and omnipotent God\u201d in which he still believed could have created parasitic insects whose larvae fed on the bodies of living caterpillars. It was previously thought that they could only live in mild climates. However, researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) who captured 1,560 wasps at altitudes of 110 to 2,169 meters (m) in an area of the Serra dos \u00d3rg\u00e3os National Park, Rio de Janeiro, identified 24 species of the subfamily Pimplinae that have not yet been described. In the mountains of Rio, species diversity was greater at lower altitudes, declining as altitude increased. In 2020, biologists from the Federal University of S\u00e3o Carlos (UFSCar) found 91 species of Pimplinae in the Serra do Japi Biological Reserve in Jundia\u00ed, in the interior of S\u00e3o Paulo State. In 2017, an expedition to the Peruvian Amazon discovered another 105. It is estimated that around 60,000 species are part of the Ichneumonidae family, of which 24,000 have been described (Insects<\/em>, November 2023; Brazilian Journal of Biology<\/em>, April 2020; Insect Conservation and Diversity<\/em>, December 2017).<\/p>\n

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FLINTE, V. et al<\/em>. Insects<\/strong>. 2023 <\/span>Female wasps collected in Serra dos \u00d3rg\u00e3os: from left to right, Pimpla caerulea, <\/em>Neotheronia sp<\/em>., and Dolichomitus megalourus<\/em>FLINTE, V. et al<\/em>. Insects<\/strong>. 2023 <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darwin wasps found in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[206],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-515136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525695,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515136\/revisions\/525695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515136"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=515136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}