Evolutionary Perspectives on Myrmecophily in Ladybirds [PDF]
Psyche: Journal of Entomology, 2012 Myrmecophiles are species that usually have developed specialized traits to cope with the aggressiveness of ants enabling them to live in their vicinity.
Amélie Vantaux +2 more
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Reduced entomopathogen abundance in Myrmica ant nests—testing a possible immunological benefit of myrmecophily using Galleria mellonella as a model [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Social insects such as ants have evolved collective rather than individual immune defence strategies against diseases and parasites at the level of their societies (colonies), known as social immunity.
Sämi Schär +3 more
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Declassifying Myrmecophily in the Coleoptera to Promote the Study of Ant-Beetle Symbioses [PDF]
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2013 The symbiotic associations between beetles and ants have been observed in at least 35 beetle families. Among myrmecophiles, beetles exhibit the most diverse behavioral and morphological adaptations to a life with ants.
Glené Mynhardt
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Rhythmic Signaling of Ants and Butterflies With Varying Degrees of Myrmecophily [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciABSTRACT Myrmecophilous organisms have evolved in several arthropod lineages, developing specialized traits to communicate with ants. In butterflies, these include morphological, visual, chemical, behavioral, and acoustic adaptations.
De Gregorio C +4 more
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Myrmecophily is not a risk factor for long‐term occupancy trends of central European Lycaenidae butterflies Myrmekophilie ist kein risikofaktor für langfristige vorkommenstrends mitteleuropäischer Lycaenidae [PDF]
Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 18, Issue 1, Page 107-115, January 2025.As specialist species are generally decreasing under the pressures of anthropogenic global change, we assessed whether myrmecophily affected 40‐year occupancy trends of gossamer‐winged butterflies (Lycaenidae) in a European region. Obligate myrmecophile butterflies showed slightly, but insignificantly, more increasing trends compared with ant ...
Eva Katharina Engelhardt +4 more
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Nest architectures of myrmecophilous stingless bees, Trigona cfr. cilipes and Paratrigona sp., from Peruvian Amazon [PDF]
Fragmenta entomologica, 2022 Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) are corbiculate and eusocial bees, including over 500 species distributed in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. They establish perennial colonies using a large variety of nesting sites, as well as
Marilena Marconi +4 more
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Myrmecophily in beetles (Coleoptera): evolutionary patterns and biological mechanisms [PDF]
, 2016 Socially parasitic myrmecophily has evolved numerous times in arthropods, but myrmecophilous lineages are non-randomly distributed across phylogeny. Evolution of this way of life is heavily biased towards the Coleoptera, within this order towards rove ...
Parker, Joseph
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Myrmecophily in Keroplatidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea)
, 1996 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Aiello, Annette, Jolivet, Pierre H.
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Myrmecophily in lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
, 1987 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Henning, S F
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Basal subtribes of the Nymphidiini (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae): phylogeny and myrmecophily
Cladistics, 2002 AbstractThree cladistic analyses, based predominantly on adult morphology, are presented for myrmecophilous riodinid butterflies in the tribe Nymphidiini. The first is a species‐level analysis of all 22 species recognized here in Aricoris (=Audre auctt.) using 27 characters.
Jason P.W. Hall, Donald J. Harvey
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