Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências ISSN: 0001-3765
[email protected] Academia Brasileira de Ciências Brasil CARVALHO-FERNANDES, SHEILA P.; ASCENDINO, SHARLENE; MAIA, VALÉRIA C.; COURI, MÁRCIA S. Diversity of insect galls associated with coastal shrub vegetation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, vol. 88, núm. 3, septiembre, 2016, pp. 1407- 1418 Academia Brasileira de Ciências Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32746972020 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (2016) 88(3): 1407-1418 (Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences) Printed version ISSN 0001-3765 / Online version ISSN 1678-2690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201620150658 www.scielo.br/aabc Diversity of insect galls associated with coastal shrub vegetation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil SHEILA P. CARVALHO-FERNANDES, SHARLENE ASCENDINO, VALÉRIA C. MAIA and MÁRCIA S. COURI Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, CEP 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil Manuscript received on October 1, 2015; accepted for publication on March 18, 2016 ABSTRACT Surveys in the coastal sandy plains (restingas) of Rio de Janeiro have shown a great richness of galls. We investigated the galling insects in two preserved restingas areas of Rio de Janeiro state: Parque Estadual da Costa do Sol and Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Fazenda Caruara.