Gatti, Felipe DonateliCarneiro, Marco Antônio Alves2020-05-212020-05-212019GATTI, F. D.; CARNEIRO, M. A. A. Estimation of the species richness of hyperdiverse beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in an area of Atlantic Forest, Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. Neotropical Biology and Conservation, v. 14, n. 4, p. 489–498, 2019. Disponível em: <https://neotropical.pensoft.net/article/49026/>. Acesso em: 10 mar. 2020.2236-3777 http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/12229Species are elementary units in community ecology studies. However, sample limitations obstruct the elaboration of accurate faunistic inventories, especially in biodiversity hotspots, such as tropical forests. In this way, the objective of this research was to describe the richness, using different nonparametric estimators of richness, in the family Cerambycidade, a group of hyperdiverse insects in the Atlantic Forest. Five hundred and eighty-one specimens belonging to 145 species and 3 subfamilies were collected. Among the species sampled, 46.2% were considered singletons, 13.8% doubletons, 48.95% unicates, 15.15% duplicates and 90.3% ecologically rare. The species accumulation curves did not stabilize, which was already expected considering that more species and individuals were sampled in the last months of collection. The estimated richness presented values much higher than the observed richness. This was a reflect of the high proportion of ecologically rare species present in the sample. This work showed that faunistic inventories of hyperdiverse groups, with only one year of collection and a single sampling methodology may underestimate the species richness of a region. Thus, larger time series associated with different collection methods are essential for a more accurate survey of biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest.en-USabertoChao 1Forest entomologyJacknife 2Neotropical ecozoneArtigo publicado em periodicoThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Fonte: o próprio artigo.https://doi.org/10.3897/neotropical.14.e49026