Foraging of Scaptotrigona aff. depilis (Hymenoptera, Apidae) in an Urbanized Area: Seasonality in Resource Availability and Visited Plants

Table 2

Plant species used by Scaptotrigona aff. depilis, based on analyses of the pollen load from workers of 4 colonies, between March 2010 and February 2011 in the University campus.

Family	Species	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Ago	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb
Acanthaceae	Hypoestes sanguinolenta (Van Houtte) Hook. f.					11.67
Amaranthaceae	Chamissoa altissima (Jacq.) Kunth			1.25	5.28	3.50			0.02		0.02
	sp.1				18.25	3.52	0.02	0.02
Anacardiaceae	Anacardium occidentale L.												0.17
	Myracrodruon urundeuva Allemão					20.92	32.52	8.34	1.80	20.37
	Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi	5.59		12.83	8.41	0.54		10.92		37.82	12.55	7.92	63.36
	sp.1					3.75
Arecaceae	Archontophoenix alexandrae (F. Muell.) H. Wendl. and Drude						2.27
	sp.1									0.02			0.16
	Syagrus romanzoffiana (Cham.) Glassman							3.73		2.93	0.05
Asteraceae	Bidens sulphurea (Cav.) Sch. Bip.											0.10
	Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray				0.02	0.02
	Sphagneticola trilobata (L.) Pruski			0.28
Bignoniaceae	Handroanthus roseo-albus (Ridl.) Mattos							24.05	0.05
Boraginaceae	Cordia trichotoma (Vell.) Arráb. ex Steud.				0.09						0.05
Cannabaceae	Celtis iguanaea (Jacq.) Sarg.									0.10	0.03	0.02
Caricaceae	Carica papaya L.							1.84					1.80
Chrysobalanaceae	Licania tomentosa (Benth.) Fritsch					0.04				0.07
Calophyllaceae	Calophyllum brasiliense Cambess.							4.81
Commelinaceae	Tradescantia pallida (Rose) D. R. Hunt					1.35	1.19	0.03
	Tradescantia zebrina Heynh.							0.05	0.09	0.42
Dilleniaceae	Doliocarpus dentatus (Aubl.) Standl.			2.00
Euphorbiaceae	Croton urucurana Baill.			1.81							1.30	0.10	0.73
	Joannesia princeps Vell.				4.95		4.06	0.05		10.72	0.03
	Ricinus communis L.	2.72	2.42	0.06	8.91						10.70		0.25
	sp.1				0.28
Fabaceae	Anadenanthera macrocarpa (Benth.) Brenan								2.56	2.77	0.05	1.13	2.86
	Cassia grandis L. f.								1.84	0.33
	Centrosema sp.					0.04
	Delonix regia (Bojer ex Hook.) Raf.									0.10	13.34	0.20	0.03
	Erythrina cristae-galli Krukoff		0.17
	Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Kunth ex Walp.							0.02
	Inga vera Willd							2.17
	Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit	0.61	2.03	13.61	5.17	0.77		0.02	0.91	0.47	14.52	0.33	0.02
	Machaerium aculeatum Raddi		1.39							3.92	1.45
	Mimosa sp.1	5.89	5.67					0.03		0.02	0.03	80.23	0.02
	Mimosa sp.2	20.78	19.14		5.11								27.22
	Poincianella pluviosa (DC.) L. P. Queiroz.							1.19	0.03	0.10		0.17
	Senna spectabilis (DC.) H. S. Irwin and Barneby		0.17
	sp.1		0.55
	Tipuana tipu (Benth.) Kuntze							0.83				1.98
Heliconiaceae	Heliconia psittacorum L. f.							0.11
Lamiaceae	Ocimum gratissimum L.	0.03
	Tectona grandis L. f.												0.03
Lythraceae	Lagerstroemia indica L.										0.38
	Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers.										0.63
Malvaceae	Basiloxylon brasiliensis (Allemão) K. Schum.						18.05
	Bombacopsis glabra (Pasq.) Robyns						0.02
	Ceiba speciosa (A. St.-Hil.) Ravenna	0.08
	Guazuma ulmifolia Lam.	1.30						0.02		0.03
	Heliocarpus americanus L.							1.97
	Luehea divaricata Mart.					0.02
	Pseudobombax grandiflorum (Cav.) A. Robyns									0.03
	Triumfetta rhomboidea Jacq.					19.42	0.52
Melastomataceae	sp.1		0.09
	Tibouchina granulosa (Desr.) Cogn.								0.50
Meliaceae	Cedrela odorata L.								0.19	0.03			0.06
Muntingiaceae	Muntingia calabura L.	0.31	0.22		1.61	0.06		4.52	0.75	0.48	0.41	0.65
Myrtaceae	Eucalyptus citriodora Hook.	40.64	35.47	61.75	2.72	17.23	3.41	8.00					3.09
	Eucalyptus grandis W. Mill ex Maiden					7.48	15.97
	Eucalyptus moluccana Roxb.	14.36	0.23		14.55	1.12			0.70	5.13	0.06	7.07	0.20
	Eugenia brasiliensis Lam.									3.77
	Eugenia involucrata DC.						1.78		0.13
	Eugenia pyriformis Cambess.							0.02	0.03
	Eugenia uniflora L.	2.20	11.05		4.50	4.56	0.03	4.33
	Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels				16.14	2.37		13.92	88.86	0.27
Oleaceae	Ligustrum lucidum W. T. Aiton			5.81	0.27						42.97	0.03
Phytolaccaceae	Gallesia integrifolia (Spreng.) Harms	5.27	21.33							8.23
Poaceae	Paspalum notatum Alain ex Flüggé	0.02	0.02	0.11	0.03			0.02
Polygalaceae	Antigonon leptopus Hook. and Arn.		0.02
Rubiaceae	Ixora chinensis Lam.				3.72						1.42
	sp.1										0.02
Rutaceae	Citrus latifolia (Tanaka ex Yu.Tanaka) Tanaka							0.41				0.07
	Citrus limonia Osbeck						0.02			0.05
Salicaceae	Casearia sylvestris Sw.						0.73
Sapindaceae	Paullinia elegans Cambess.	0.11	0.03
	Serjania lethalis A. St.-Hil.					0.67	19.44	4.25
Solanaceae	Acnistus arborescens (L.) Schltdl.									0.03
	Brunfelsia uniflora (Pohl) D. Don							4.27
Strelitziaceae	Ravenala madagascariensis Sonn.			0.50
Urticaceae	Cecropia pachystachya Trécul	0.09						0.02
Verbenaceae	Duranta erecta L.					0.90				0.10
Zingiberaceae	sp.1									0.22
Unidentified	Unidentified 1					0.06		0.08	1.55
	Unidentified 2									0.33
	Unidentified 3									1.17	0.02

*Data are presented as monthly percentages (%). Dominant pollen (>45%), supplementary pollen (15 to 44.99%), important isolated pollen (3 to 14.99%), and occasionally isolated pollen (<3). Mar: March, Apr: April, May: May,…Feb: February.