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Great chemistry between us: The link between plant chemical defenses and butterfly evolution
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 13, Page 8595-8613, July 2021., 2021 Using correlation and phylogenetic statistics, we assessed the impact of host‐plant chemical defense traits on shaping Northwestern European butterfly assemblages at a macroevolutionary scale. Shared chemical defenses between plant families showed stronger correlation with overlap in butterfly assemblages than phylogenetic relatedness, providing ...
Corné F. H. van der Linden +2 more
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Rediscovery and reclassification of the dipteran taxon Nothomicrodon Wheeler, an exclusive endoparasitoid of gyne ant larvae [PDF]
, 2017 The myrmecophile larva of the dipteran taxon Nothomicrodon Wheeler is rediscovered, almost a century after its original description and unique report. The systematic position of this dipteran has remained enigmatic due to the absence of reared imagos to ...
Delabie, Jacques H. C. +5 more
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Specialized Myrmecophily at the Ecological Dawn of Modern Ants [PDF]
Current Biology, 2014 Myrmecophiles--species that depend on ant societies--include some of the most morphologically and behaviorally specialized animals known. Remarkable adaptive characters enable these creatures to bypass fortress-like security, integrate into colony life, and exploit abundant resources and protection inside ant nests.
Parker, Joseph, Grimaldi, David A.
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Ecography, Volume 44, Issue 5, Page 740-752, May 2021., 2021 Environmental stress from abiotic conditions imposes physiological limits on individuals within communities, and these stressful conditions can act as a filter on the species present in any given environment. Such abiotic stressors can reduce a community's diversity and make its composition more phylogenetically clustered. Using a decade of staphylinid
Sarah J. Dolson +8 more
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A dazzling number of beetles (Coleoptera) in a hibernating nest of red wood ants, Formica Rufa Linnaeus (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) [PDF]
, 2019 status ...
Claus, R., Parmentier, Thomas
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Insects, 2023 The parasitic relationship between Maculinea butterflies and Myrmica ants has been extensively studied but little information is available on the spatial occurrence of Maculinea larvae.
Magdalena Witek +3 more
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A revision of the genus Cholovocera Victor, 1838 (Coleoptera: Endomychidae)
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2023 We revise all the species of the genus Cholovocera Victor, 1838 (Coleoptera: Endomychidae), with descriptions, illustrations and complete synonymies, based on the examination of 1878 specimens of Cholovocera and a few beetles of other genera, collected ...
Juan A. Delgado, Ricardo L. Palma
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European Journal of Entomology, 2007 The initially phytophagous caterpillars of Maculinea alcon and M. rebeli complete their development in Myrmica ant colonies as social parasites. Recent genetic studies show no differences at the species level among various populations of each butterfly ...
Marcin SIELEZNIEW, Anna M. STANKIEWICZ
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Evidence for social parasitism of early insect societies by Cretaceous rove beetles [PDF]
, 2016 The evolution of eusociality in ants and termites propelled both insect groups to their modern ecological dominance. Yet, eusociality also fostered the evolution of social parasitism—an adverse symbiosis, in which the superorganismal colonies formed by ...
Maruyama, Munetoshi +2 more
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The long-awaited first instar larva of Paussus favieri (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussini)
European Journal of Entomology, 2011 Paussus favieri Fairmaire is one of only two species of the myrmecophilous carabid tribe Paussini known from Europe. Larvae are known from only 10 of the 580 paussine species.
Andrea DI GIULIO +3 more
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