Aguiar, A. M. Franquinho; Cravo, Délia; Andrade, Miguel M.(Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal, 2025)
Beetle diversity associated with planted pine forests is analysed based on a large number of specimens captured in a network of pheromone traps for the pine sawyer beetle, Monochamus galloprovincialis (Olivier). In total, ...
Greń, Czesław; Lubecki, Krzysztof; Aguiar, A. M. Franquinho(Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal, 2023)
This is the first report from the Madeira Archipelago of three coprophilous species from the subfamily Sphaeridinae: Cercyon obsoletus (Gyllenhal, 1808), Cryptopleurum minutum (Fabricius, 1775) and Sphaeridium scarabaeoides ...
Kratochwil, Anselm; Gouveia, Neide(Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal, 2023)
A photo documentation of a sleeping aggregation of Amegilla quadrifasciata (Villers, 1789) subspecies maderae (Sichel, 1867), endemic to the Madeira Archipelago, is presented. About 40 males rested together on withered ...
Kratochwil, Anselm; Schwabe, A; Smit, J.; Aguiar, A. M. Franquinho(Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal, 2022)
The aim of this study was to analyse the intra-island distribution pattern, the habitat preferences, and the flower-visiting behaviour of the wild bee species of Madeira Island. The total dataset from Madeira Island includes ...
Verloove, Filip; Silva, Juan J. Gonçalves(Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal, 2022)
As a result of recent fieldwork in the island of Madeira (Portugal), 32 non-native vascular plant taxa: Aptenia ×vascosilvae, Calystegia silvatica, Cardamine occulta, Casuarina cunninghamiana and C. glauca, Convolvulus ...
Lobo, Carlos; Gonçalves, Carla; Dias, Ruben(Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal, 2022)
Taxus baccata L. (yew) is native to the island of Madeira and wild plants have been shown to belong to a relict lineage, that only exists in Macaronesia. In Madeira, this species has been used as an ornamental plant since ...
Fernandes, Francisco Manuel; Vieira, Susana; Silva, Juan J. Gonçalves; Buord, Stéphane(Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal, 2022)
In vitro culture techniques, using spores, were used to propagate the critically endangered fern Polystichum drepanum, in order to reinforce its known natural populations. In 1998 and 2010, a total of 194 plants of P. ...
Silva, Juan J. Gonçalves; Ševčíková, Hana(Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal, 2022)
Porto Santo is a small volcanic island that belongs to the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira and is located in central East-Atlantic. The mycobiota of this island comprises 19 species of fungi. With the present work, a new ...
Pupo-Correia, Aida; Ferreira, Z.; Jardim, R.; Sequeira, M. Menezes de(2021)
Cuscuta campestris Yunck (Convolvulaceae) is reported for the first time as naturalised in the island of Madeira (Portugal). This plant was found parasitising the natives Foeniculum vulgare Mill. and Bituminaria bituminosa ...
The insect fauna of the Selvagens Islands (Madeira, Portugal), particularly in what concerns migrant species, is still imperfectly known. According to the literature, at least 166 species have been recorded (including 24 ...
Ramos, Diana; Candal, Sarah Ayuso; Gomes, Beatriz; Sousa, Mariana; Wirtz, Peter(Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal, 2021)
Burrows of Acrothoracica were found in a gastropod shell in the collection of Funchal Natural History Museum (MMF). No Acrothoracica have previously been recorded from Madeira. The species recorded belongs to the family ...
Correia-Fagundes, Catarina; Romano, Hugo; Zino, Francis J. A.; Biscoito, Manuel(Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal, 2021)
The present paper summarizes the checklist of the birds of the archipelagos of Madeira and Selvagens published in 2010 and its updates published in 2011 and 2013 with a revision of the bird records from 2014 until the 31st ...