Dataset of the Baetidae (Ephemeroptera) and Elmidae (Coleoptera) families of the Yungas 2 of Argentina.

ALBANESI, SEBASTIAN ; CRISTOBAL, LUCIANA; MANZO, V.; NIETO PEÑALVER, CAROLINA

REVISTA DE LA SOCIEDAD ENTOMOLóGICA ARGENTINA

SOCIEDAD ENTOMOLÓGICA ARGENTINA

Lugar: Mendoza; Año: 2019

0373-5680

The Yungas or the Subtropical Mountain Forests represent one of the most biodiverse 14 ecoregions in Argentina. Its distribution over the Andean mountain ranges helps retain 15 water, generating the lotic ecosystems. The Institute of Neotropical Biodiversity (IBN) has 16 been working with the macroinvertebrates fauna of the Yungas for more than 25 years. Our 17 goal for this work is to make known and describe a dataset of the Baetidae and Elmidae 18 families. This data set contains 1183 records, 828 belong to the Baetidae family (15 genera 19 and 27 species) and 355 records to the Elmidae family (10 genera and 16 species). Ten out 20 of the 24 protected areas were sampled, no records were found for some of the Yungas 21 sectors, such as the northeast of the province of Salta and the east of the province of Jujuy. 22 This work is intended to expose information gaps and direct future research projects. The 23 data is freely available under the Creative Commons CC-BY license.