ISSN 1809-127X (online edition) © 2010 Check List and Authors Chec List Open Access | Freely available at www.checklist.org.br Journal of species lists and distribution N Insecta, Hymenoptera, Apidae, Serra do Itajaí National PECIES S Park, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil OF ISTRIBUITIO David Richard da Luz 1*, Gustavo Valadares Barroso 2 and Sérgio Luiz Althoff 3 D ISTS L 1 Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Zoologia. Caixa Postal 19020. CEP 81531-980. Curitiba, PR, Brazil. 2 Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva. CEP 05508-090. São Paulo, SP, Brazil. RAPHIC G 3 Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Laboratório de Biologia Animal. Rua Antônio da Veiga, 140. CEP 89012- EO 900. Blumenau, SC, Brazil. G * Corresponding author. E-mail:
[email protected] N O Abstract: A study concerning the bee fauna of the Serra do Itajaí National Park, state of Santa Catarina, was carried out during ten months in the domain of the Atlantic Rainforest. Bees were collected monthly between OTES N October 2006 and December 2007, in two sampling localities, from 8:00 h to 16:00 h, totaling 151 h of sampling. on collectors. A total of 1,616 individuals were collected (1,240 females and 376 males), distributed in 89 Bees were captured with entomological nets in flowers, during flight, on the ground or while foraging for sweat with the greatest number of species were Augochloropsis Cockerell, 1897 (nine), Ceratina Latreille, 1802 (nine) species,and Dialictus 46 genera, Robertson, 16 tribes 1902 and (seven).