Cobimfo (Congo Basin Integrated monitoring for Carbon Mitigation and Biodiversity – a belspo financed programme)

• COBIMFO (Congo Basin Integrated monitoring for Carbon Mitigation and Biodiversity – a BELSPO financed programme)

• Relation between Carbon fixation and species diversity

• In other words:

• the relationship between the insect diversity to the various types of forest in the region of Yangambi:

• Young and secondary forest versus primary forest

Insects as indicators

• Insects as indicators

• xylophagous Termites (Isoptera)

• predators - herbivores: ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

• pollinators - bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae)

• fungivores - fungus gnaths (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)

• detritivores - dung flies (Diptera: Sepsidae)

• Herbivores: giant silk moths (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

• predators - Empidoid flies

• (Diptera: Hybotidae, Empididae, Dolichopodidae)

New Tachydromiinae (Diptera: Empidoidea, Hybotidae) from different types of forests near Yangambi

• New Tachydromiinae (Diptera: Empidoidea, Hybotidae) from different types of forests near Yangambi

• Patrick Grootaert & Igor Shamshev, 2014

• Belgian Journal of Entomology 18: 1-34.

• Tachydromiinae or ‘Fast running flies’ were collected in June 2012 in a gradient of forests types ranging from garden patches, bamboo, over young forest to mixed primary and monodominant (Gilbertiodendron) forest.

• Keys have been improved to contain all 44 species known from the region around Yangambi. Most species have been barcoded for COI.