Oribatid mites and springtails from a coffee plantation in Sierra Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico Ácaros oribatídeos e colêmbolos de uma plantação de café em Sierra Sur, Oaxaca, México

• Published in: Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
• Main Authors: Aldo Bernal Rojas, Gabriela Castaño-Meneses, José G. Palacios-Vargas, Norma E. García-Calderón
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Embrapa Informação Tecnológica 2009
• Subjects: Coffea arabica; biodiversidade; floresta nublada de montanha; Collembola; serapilheira; microartrópodos; vegetação secundária; biodiversity; cloud mountain forest; litter; microarthropods; secondary vegetation; Agriculture (General); S1-972; Mite; Springtail
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-204X2009000800030; https://doaj.org/article/49a0f9963a20480ea33ade49998ffedc

The objective of this work was to compare the oribatid mite and springtail communities in three plots with different soil use - Coffee (CP), secondary vegetation or fallow fields (acahual, A) and a cloud mountain forest (CMF) - within a coffee plantation located in Santa Maria Huatulco, Oaxaca State, Mexico. In each plot 20 samples (10 of soil, 10 of litter) were taken and processed in Berlese funnels. The extracted fauna was preserved in 70% ethanol. A total of 3,031 oribatid mites belonging to 33 species, and 1,177 specimens of springtails belonging to 43 species, were collected. The number of species recorded was: 27 at CP (14 oribatids; 13 springtails), 44 at A (19 oribatids; 25 springtails) and 62 at CMF (32 for each group). A total of 26 oribatid and 27 springtail species was found in the soil, and 25 oribatid and 32 springtail species were found in the litter. The most abundant species were the oribatids Rostroztes foveolatus (Haplozetidae), Tectocepheus sp. (Tecocepheidae), Karenella sp. (Oppidae), Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) cf. fonseciai (Phthiracaridae), Epilohmannia pallida americana (Epilohmannidae), and the springtails Ceratophysella cf. gibbosa (Hypogastruridae), Mesaphorura sp. (Tullbergidae) and Proisotoma cf. minuta (Isotomidae). Fourteen families and 18 species of Oribatida species and 5 families and 34 species of Collembola were recorded for the first time for the State. O objetivo deste trabalho foi comparar as comunidades de ácaros oribatídeos e de colêmbolos em três parcelas com uso diferente do solo - plantação de café (CP), a vegetação secundária ou pousio (acahual, A) e a floresta nublada de montanha (CMF) - em uma plantação de café situada na municipalidade de Santa María Huatulco, estado de Oaxaca, México. Vinte amostras foram tomadas em cada lote (dez do solo, dez de serapilheira) e processadas em funis de Berlese. A fauna extraída foi preservada em álcool 70%. Um total de 3.031 ácaros oribatídeos pertencentes a 33 espécies e de 1.177 espécimes de colêmbolos de 43 espécies foram ...