Resumen de Artrópodos presentes en nidos de cotorra Myiopsitta monachus monachus (Aves: Psittacidae)

Rosana Aramburú, Sebastián Calvo, Diego L. Carpintero Carpintero, Armando Conrado Cicchino

• Arthropods in Monk Parakeet nests (Aves: Psittacidae). The objective of this work is tocommunicate a list of artropodofauna which is in Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus monachus) nestsat several localities in Buenos Aires province. One nest and 43 beds of fresh green material that theMonk Parakeets deposited in the breeding chamber were collected. Arthropods were extracted, identifiedunder binocular microscope, and characterized by their diets. Species were found whitin class Arachnida(Acarina, Pseudoescorpionida and Araneae), mainly predators and hematophagous. Within class Insecta,were found blood-sucking species, predators, detritivores, phytophagous, nectarivorous, and xilophagous,among others. The orders most represented were Diptera (8 families) and Coleoptera (12 families). Therest of the species belonged to the orders Collembola, Psocoptera, Hymenoptera, Phthiraptera, Hemipteraand Lepidoptera.