Biota Neotrop. vol. 8, no. 1, Jan./Mar. 2008 ISSN 1806-129X ISSN 1806-129X vol. 8, no. 1, Jan./Mar. 2008 1, Jan./Mar. 8, no. vol. Summary Point of View The relevance of graduate teachings in the formation of human resources for biodiversity studies in Brazil: a case study in ornithology Sérgio Henrique Borges .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................21 vol. 8, no. 1, Jan./Mar. 2008 Articles Feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) on birds of Cerrado in Distrito Federal, Brazil Mieko Ferreira Kanegae; Michel Valim; Marcelo Andrade da Fonseca; Miguel Ângelo Marini; Nicolau Maués Serra Freire .............................................................................................31 Feeding habits of the ichthyofauna in a protected area in the state of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil Leandro Muller Gomiero; Francisco Manoel de Souza Braga ............................................................................................................................................................................................41 Development of Nasonia vitripennis (Walker, 1836) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in pupae of Cochliomyia macellaria (Fabricius, 1775) (Diptera: Calliphoridae), using different densities of parasitoid Leandro Silva Barbosa; Márcia Souto Couri; Valéria Magalhães Aguiar Coelho ...............................................................................................................................................................49 Drosophilids (Insecta, Diptera) of the Paranã Valley: eight new records for the Cerrado biome Renata Alves da Mata; Francisco Roque; Rosana Tidon ...................................................................................................................................................................................................55 Species richness and geographic distribution of the genera Chydorus and Pseudochydorus (Cladocera, Chydoridae) in São Paulo State Maria José Santos-Wisniewski; Odete Rocha; Adriana Maria Guntzel; Takako Matsumura-Tundisi..................................................................................................................................61 A new species of Telmatoscopus Eaton (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Brazil Freddy Bravo; Isys Souza...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................65 Oligochaeta (Annelida, Clitellata) of lotic environments at Parque Estadual Intervales (São Paulo, Brazil) Roberto da Gama Alves; Mercedes Rosa Marchese; Renato Tavares Martins .................................................................................................................................................................69 Preliminary study of fi sh fauna and aquatic habitats in the Lower Paraguá River, Santa Cruz, Bolivia Vladimir Fuentes Rojas; Damián Ignacio Rumiz ................................................................................................................................................................................................................73 Relationships among Sciaenidae fi sh (Teleostei: Perciformes) and Penaeoidea shrimp (Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata) biomass from the north coast of São Paulo State, Brazil Ursulla Pereira Souza; Rogério Caetano da Costa; Itamar Alves Martins; Adilson Fransozo ............................................................................................................................................83 Ichthyofaunistic composition of the Quilombo river, tributary of the Mogi-Guaçu river, upper Paraná river basin, southeastern Brazil Fernando Apone; Alexandre Kannebley de Oliveira; Julio Cesar Garavello .......................................................................................................................................................................93 Population biology of Cyphocarax modestus (Osteichthyes, Curimatidae) in the Ribeirão Claro stream, Rio Claro (SP) Alberto Luciano Carmassi; André Teixeira da Silva; Giulianna Rodrigues Rondineli; Francisco Manoel de Souza Braga ..............................................................................................109 Seasonal variation in richness and abundance of small mammals and in forest structure and arthropod availability in forest fragments, at Mato Grosso, Brazil Manoel dos Santos Filho; Dionei José da Silva; Tânia Margarete Sanaiotti .....................................................................................................................................................................115 Inventories Mammals of the campus of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Tiago Gomes dos Santos; Marcia Regina Spies; Katia Kopp; Rafael Trevisan; Sonia Zanini Cechin ..............................................................................................................................125 Lizard community (Squamata: Lacertilia) in forest and pasture areas at Espigão do Oeste, Rondônia, southwestern Amazon, Brazil Lílian Cristina Macedo; Paulo Sérgio Bernarde; Augusto Shinya Abe ............................................................................................................................................................................133 Nymphalidae, Papilionidae and Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of the Serra do Sudeste, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Ana Luiza Gomes Paz; Helena Piccoli Romanowski; Ana Beatriz Barros de Morais .......................................................................................................................................................141 Butterfl ies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea) from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria campus, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul Gabriel Dorneles Sackis; Ana Beatriz Barros de Morais ..................................................................................................................................................................................................151 Phytopilous cladocerans (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) of the Parque Nacional das Emas, State of Goiás Francisco Diogo Rocha Sousa; Lourdes Maria Abdu Elmoor-Loureiro ............................................................................................................................................................................159 Virtual Institute of Biodiversity The – Biota Neotropica, Biota/Fapesp Occurrence and characterization of insect galls at restinga áreas of Bertioga (São Paulo, Brazil) Valeria Cid Maia; Mara Angelina Galvão Magenta; Suzana Ehlin Martins .......................................................................................................................................................................167 Anurans at Rio das Pedras Reserve, Mangaratiba, RJ, Brazil Ana Maria Telles de Carvalho-e-Silva; Guilherme Ramos da Silva; Sergio Potsch de Carvalho-e-Silva .........................................................................................................................199 Short communications Validated cleaner: the cuculid bird Crotophaga ani picks ticks and pecks at sores of capybaras in southeastern Brazil Ivan Sazima .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................213 Occurrence of Diaemus youngi (Jentink 1893), Chiroptera, in the State of Rio de Janeiro Luciana de Moraes Costa; Débora Moraes de Oliveira; Agata Freitas Prata Dias e Fernandes; Carlos Eduardo Lustosa Esberard ..............................................................................217 First Record of Nyssomyia yuilli yuilli (Young & Porter) and Trichopygomyia longispina (Mangabeira) (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil Israel de Souza Pinto; Jeferson Gonçalves Pires; Claudiney Biral dos Santos; Thieres Marassati das Virgens; Gustavo Rocha Leite; Adelson Luis Ferreira; Aloísio Falqueto ...........221 Internal buccal morphology of the tadpoles of Leptodactylus labyrinthicus Spix, 1824 (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae) Núbia Miranda; Adelina Ferreira.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................225 The parakeet Brotogeris tirica feeds on and disperses the fruits of the palm Syagrus romanzoffi ana in Southeastern Brazil Ivan Sazima .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................231 Occurrence of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) (Insecta, Diptera, Culicidae) in bromeliads in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Karen dos Santos Gonçalves; Maria Conceição Messias ................................................................................................................................................................................................235