Perfil da fauna de vespas parasitóides (Insecta: Hymenoptera) em reserva florestal na Amazônia, Amazonas, Brasil

Abstract

This work presents an outline of the fauna of himenopterous parasitoids in tropical forest of the Amazonian, Manaus, Amazon. The collected material was stored in the Collection of Invertebrate of the National Institute of Researches of the Amazonian. The samples were collected weekly in the reserves 1112, 1208 and 1301 of the Project of Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments, through traps Malaise. The Chrysidoidea was not counted in this study. The families Braconidae, Scelionidae, Ichneumonidae and Platygastridae were the most abundant. The reserves 1301 (100 ha) and 1208 (10 ha), areas no isolated, presented larger medium number of parasitoids. © 2007, Sociedad Venezolana de Entomología.