First observation on the predation of a non-arthropod species by a dung beetle species: The case of Canthon chalybaeus and the snail Bulimulus apodemetes
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Título: | First observation on the predation of a non-arthropod species by a dung beetle species: The case of Canthon chalybaeus and the snail Bulimulus apodemetes |
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Autor/es: | Martín, Claudia M. | Guanuco, Andrea del V. | Cortez, Vieyle | Verdú, José R. |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Biodiversidad y Biotecnología aplicadas a la Biología de la Conservación |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales | Universidad de Alicante. Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad |
Palabras clave: | Predation | Non-arthropod species | Dung beetle species | Canthon chalybaeus | Bulimulus apodemetes |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Zoología |
Fecha de publicación: | 13-oct-2021 |
Editor: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
Cita bibliográfica: | Martín CM, Guanuco AdV, Cortez V, Verdú JR (2021) First observation on the predation of a non-arthropod species by a dung beetle species: The case of Canthon chalybaeus and the snail Bulimulus apodemetes. PLoS ONE 16(10): e0258396. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258396 |
Resumen: | We described, for the first time, a case of predation of a non-arthropod species by a dung beetle species. Canthon chalybaeus Blanchard, 1843 kills healthy individuals of the terrestrial snail Bulimulus apodemetes (D’Orbigny, 1835) showing an evident pattern of physical aggressiveness in the attacks using the dentate clypeus and the anterior tibiae. The description of this predatory behaviour was complemented with the analysis of the chemical secretions of the pygidial glands of C. chalybaeus, highlighting those main chemical compounds that, due to their potential toxicity, could contribute to death of the snail. We observed a high frequency of predatory interactions reinforcing the idea that predation in dung beetles is not accidental and although it is opportunistic it involves a series of behavioural sophistications that suggest an evolutionary pattern within Deltochilini that should not only be better studied from a behavioural point of view but also phylogenetically. |
Patrocinador/es: | The study was funded by CONICET, through a post-doctoral scholarship of CMM. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/118768 |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0258396 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2021 Martín 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. |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258396 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - BBaBC - Artículos de Revistas |
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