Anadenanthera colubrina (Fabaceae), Brenan, 1990

Corrêa, Carlos A., Migliore, Letizia J., Garbelini, Luan, Zanuncio, José C. & Ribeiro, Sérvio P., 2020, Species survey of the subfamily Cerambycinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in the Rio Doce State Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Zootaxa 4881 (2), pp. 323-336 : 324-325

Anadenanthera colubrina (Fabaceae) logs

Anadenanthera colubrina (Vell.) Brenan (Fabaceae) trees, apparently healthy, were cut (license SISBIO n° 10435- 1) in September 2013 (rainy season) in a secondary forest area of the Rio Doce State Park, to increase the light incidence in a forest nursery. Logs were cut to one meter long by about 20 cm in diameter, from the trunks of these trees and used in the experiment.

The logs were tied and fixed in the following forest strata: canopy (12 to 15 m above the ground, near the treetops), ecotone (1.5 m above the ground at the foliage above the lake), understory (1.5 m above the ground, attached to a tree trunk inside the forest below the canopy sample) and ground (on the soil litter). The logs placed on the ground were larger than the others, up to 40 cm in diameter.

The logs were exposed from late October to early February, during the 2013-2014 rainy season. Each log removed from the forest was individually stored in closed cardboard boxes. Monthly inspections were carried out from the log storage until February 2015. At each inspection, the logs were removed, washed and placed back inside the boxes and the emerged beetles collected. At the end of the experiment, the boxes were opened and the logs discarded.