Where Is My Food? Brazilian Flower Fly Steals Prey from Carnivorous Sundews in a Newly Discovered Plant-Animal Interaction
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Title: | Where Is My Food? Brazilian Flower Fly Steals Prey from Carnivorous Sundews in a Newly Discovered Plant-Animal Interaction |
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Authors: | Fleischmann, Andreas | Rivadavia, Fernando | Gonella, Paulo M. | Pérez-Bañón, Celeste | Mengual Sanchis, Ximo | Rojo, Santos |
Research Group/s: | Bionomía, Sistemática e Investigación Aplicada de Insectos Dípteros e Himenópteros |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales | Universidad de Alicante. Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad |
Keywords: | Flower fly | Toxomerus basalis | Carnivorous sundews | Drosera | Plant-animal interaction |
Knowledge Area: | Zoología |
Issue Date: | 4-May-2016 |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
Citation: | Fleischmann A, Rivadavia F, Gonella PM, Pérez-Bañón C, Mengual X, Rojo S (2016) Where Is My Food? Brazilian Flower Fly Steals Prey from Carnivorous Sundews in a Newly Discovered Plant-Animal Interaction. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0153900. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153900 |
Abstract: | A new interaction between insects and carnivorous plants is reported from Brazil. Larvae of the predatory flower fly Toxomerus basalis (Diptera: Syrphidae: Syrphinae) have been found scavenging on the sticky leaves of several carnivorous sundew species (Drosera, Droseraceae) in Minas Gerais and São Paulo states, SE Brazil. This syrphid apparently spends its whole larval stage feeding on prey trapped by Drosera leaves. The nature of this plant-animal relationship is discussed, as well as the Drosera species involved, and locations where T. basalis was observed. 180 years after the discovery of this flower fly species, its biology now has been revealed. This is (1) the first record of kleptoparasitism in the Syrphidae, (2) a new larval feeding mode for this family, and (3) the first report of a dipteran that shows a kleptoparasitic relationship with a carnivorous plant with adhesive flypaper traps. The first descriptions of the third instar larva and puparium of T. basalis based on Scanning Electron Microscope analysis are provided. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/54855 |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0153900 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2016 Fleischmann et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153900 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - BIONOMIA - Artículos Científicos / Scientific Papers |
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