Seasonality of Fruit-Feeding Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in a Brazilian Semiarid Area

Table 3

Surveys of fruit-feeding butterflies in Central and South America.

Area	Main vegetation type	Sampling effort	Total species	Species/genera	Species in common		Reference
					absolute value	%
Catimbau National Park, Brazil	Tropical dry forest, Caatinga	6,000^*	15	1.15	—	—	This study
Amazon, Brazil	Amazon rainforest	20,106^*	90	2.05	10	66.7	[9]
Lago Guri, Venezuela	Tropical dry forest	410^*	41	1.17	9	60	[4]
Brasília, Brazil	Cerrado/gallery forest	2,352^*	46	1.77	8	53.3	[12]
João Pessoa, Brazil	Atlantic forest	N/A	50	1.92	8	53.3	[37]
Morro Grande, Brazil	Atlantic forest	36,000^*	70	1.94	6	40	[10]
La Selva Lodge, Ecuador	Floodplain forest	15,000^**	128	3.76	4	26.7	[5]
Las Cruces, Costa Rica	Mid elevation tropical forest	3,024^*	43	2.69	4	20	[3]
Finca La Selva, Costa Rica	Tropical rainforest	7,300^**	46	1.84	3	20	[41]

Sampling effort = approximate number of trap/hours. ^*understorey traps only, ^**understorey and canopy traps. N/A: not applicable (see Section 2.3).