Espinhaco Mountain Range, southeastern Brazil: natural Atlantic forest fragments inserted in open matrix of campos rupestres. North -19.1992 degrees; South -19.2531 degrees; East -43.5517 degrees; West -43.5089 degrees. Begin date 2014-02-16 End date 2015-08-22

We sampled herbivorous insects during two summers and two winters in 14 forest islands with different sizes and shapes in a natural mountainous fragment located in southern Brazil. In each sampling period we collected herbivorous insects using two Malaise traps (one soil Malaise trap and one canopy Malaise Window trap which remained in the field for seven days (9408 trap-hours for each type). Collected herbivorous insects were grouped into one of three guilds according to their feeding habits: fluid-feeding, leaf-chewing or xylophagous insects and all collected insects were stored in the entomological collection of the Laboratory of Insect Ecology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG).