Body Size Selection in Acanthoscelides alboscutellatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). I. Entrapment within the Fruit of Ludwigia alternifolia (Onagraceae)
نویسندگان
چکیده
Body Size Selection in Acanthoscelides alboscutellatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). I. Entrapment within the Fruit of Ludwigia alternifolia (Onagraceae) Author(s): James R. Ott and Margarita Lampo Source: Oecologia, Vol. 87, No. 4 (1991), pp. 522-527 Published by: Springer in cooperation with International Association for Ecology Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4219729 . Accessed: 16/05/2013 16:46
منابع مشابه
A new species of Acanthoscelides Schilsky (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) from Mexico with some biological notes.
A new species of Acanthoscelides collected in Chiapas, Mexico is described and figured. Rhynchosia precatoria is cited as a new host plant record for A. dani sp.n and A. flavescens Fahraeus. The braconid Heterospilus prosopidis Viereck was found as parasitoid of both species of bruchids.
متن کاملInsect Herbivores Associated With Ludwigia Species, Oligospermum Section, in Their Argentine Distribution
The South American water primroses, Ludwigia grandiflora (Michx.) Greuter & Burdet, L. grandiflora subsp. hexapetala (Hook. & Arn.) G.L. Nesom & Kartesz, Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H. Raven, and L. p. subsp. montevidensis (Spreng.) P.H. Raven (Onagraceae, Section Oligospermum), have become invasive in several watersheds of the United States and Europe. Surveys were carried out in center-east ...
متن کاملComplete Plastome Sequence of Ludwigia octovalvis (Onagraceae), a Globally Distributed Wetland Plant
Here, we present the first plastome of Ludwigia octovalvis (Onagraceae, Myrtales) as well as the first plastome in the subfamily Ludwigioideae. This genome is notable for its contracted inverted repeat regions and an expanded small single-copy region compared to other species in the orders Myrtales and Geraniales.
متن کاملA preliminary investigation of pre-dispersal seed predation by Acanthoscelides schrankiae Horn (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) in Mimosa bimucronata (DC.) Kuntze trees.
This is the first record of Acanthoscelides schrankiae Horn. feeding in seeds of Mimosa bimucronata (DC.) Kuntze. We investigated the pattern of oviposition and seed exploitation by A. schrankiae, and the distribution of mature fruits and seed predation in the inflorescences. We also compared the percentage of predated seeds, the total dry weight of fruits and non-predated seeds, the percentage...
متن کاملPaternal Investment in the Seed Beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae): Variation Among Populations
Ejaculate size in seed beetles (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) is subject to both sexual and fecundity selection. We examined interpopulation variation and inheritance of ejaculate size in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (F.). There was signiÞcant variation among three populations in both body mass and the proportion of a maleÕs body mass that was transferred to females during mating. The seed...
متن کامل