Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ‐ aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) interactions in different habitats from Turkey with new mutualistic associations

Kök, Şahin; Aktaç, Mustafa; Kasap, İsmail

doi:10.1111/afe.12477

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“…In support of this, a study including the results on the interactions of ant-aphids and aphid-host plants in different habitats by Kök et al . (2022) revealed that the specialization of ants and aphids in the uncultivated areas was higher than in cultivated and urban areas.…”

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Do primary and secondary host plants affect aphid- parasitoid interactions in fruit orchards?

Kök

Tomanović

Karabacak

et al. 2022

Bull. Entomol. Res.

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The aim of this study was to investigate how the primary (PHP) and secondary host plants (SHP) in the fruit orchards affect the interactions of aphids and their parasitoids in northwest Turkey during spring and summer 2020 and 2021. In total, 67 tritrophic aphid–parasitoid-host plant interactions, including new association records for Europe and Turkey, were obtained from 16 parasitoid species from the subfamily Aphidiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) reared from 25 aphid species (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on 22 PHP and SHP in the fruit orchards. Also, we evaluated the effect of the PHP and SHP on the parasitoids, aphids and their interactions. We revealed that the species richness and the values of the biodiversity indices of the parasitoids and aphids were significantly higher on the SHP than the PHP. Similarly, the aphid–parasitoid interactions on the SHP showed greater diversity than the PHP. The results of this study clearly show that the interactions of parasitoids and aphids in the fruit orchards were more diverse on the SHP compared to the PHP.

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Do primary and secondary host plants affect aphid- parasitoid interactions in fruit orchards?

Kök

Tomanović

Karabacak

et al. 2022

Bull. Entomol. Res.

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“…In 2020, it is notable that the detection of the most common species (A. robiniae with 360 specimens) on the host plant R. pseudoacacia, was from only two sampling areas using systematic sampling. It is concluded that A. robiniae was among the highest detected species as a result of its host plant-specific nature (Görür et al, 2014(Görür et al, , 2020Oğuzoğlu & Avcı, 2019;Kök et al, 2020Kök et al, , 2022Kök & Özdemir, 2021;Patlar et al, 2021).…”

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New contributions to the Turkish aphid fauna and species composition (Hemiptera: Aphididomorpha) in Isparta forests

Oğuzoğlu

Avcı

Şenol³

2022

TED

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A study was conducted on the aphid fauna of Pinus nigra Arnold. subsp. pallasiana (Lamb.) Holmboe., Pinus brutia Ten., Cedrus libani A. Rich., Abies cilicica (Antoine & Kotschy) Carrière (Pinaceae), Juniperus spp. (Cupressaceae), Quercus spp. (Fagaceae) and Robinia pseudoacacia L. (Leguminosae) forests in Isparta Province between 2018 and 2020. Using systematic and random sampling, 9,252 specimens in 68 species from the families Aphididae and Phylloxeridae (14 species at genus level only) were identified between 2018 and 2020. It was determined that Appendiseta robiniae (Gillette, 1907) collected from R. pseudoacacia is a Nearctic species, which was identified as a new record for the aphid fauna of Türkiye. Fifty-five species were detected in 2019, and a further 51 in 2020 using systematic sampling. The species with the highest number of specimens in 2019 were Myzocallis boerneri Stroyan, 1957 (16.0%), Eulachnus rileyi (Williams, 1911) (12.3%) and Cinara cedri Mimeur, 1936 (10.4%). In 2020, the species with the highest number of specimens were E. rileyi (10.1%), A. robiniae (9.3%) and Cinara orientalis (Takahashi, 1924) (7.2%). The highest number of aphid species was collected from P. nigra in the three years (2018-2020). The second highest numbers were collected from Quercus coccifera L. in 2018 and 2020, and P. brutia in 2019.

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“…There are different selective pressures in urban habitats acting on ants and aphids, which may influence their mutualistic interaction. Recent studies reported an effect of urbanisation on the intensity (Kremer et al., 2018 ), diversity (Kök et al., 2022 ) and outcome (Rocha & Fellowes, 2020 ) of ant‐aphid mutualisms. The potential changes in ant and aphid traits and behaviour remain largely unknown, however.…”

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Behavioural changes in the city: The common black garden ant defends aphids more aggressively in urban environments

Gaber,

Ruland,

Jeschke

et al. 2024

Ecology and Evolution

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Urbanisation alters biodiversity patterns and threatens to disrupt mutualistic interactions. Aside from pollination, however, little is known about how mutualisms change in cities. Our study aimed to assess how urbanisation affects the protective mutualism between ants and aphids, investigating potential behavioural changes in mutualistic ants and their implications for aphids in urban environments. To do so, we studied the protective mutualism between the pink tansy aphid (Metopeurum fuscoviride) and the black garden ant (Lasius niger) along an urbanisation gradient in Berlin, Germany. In nine locations along this gradient, we measured aphid colony dynamics and proxies for parasitism, quantified the investment of ants in tending aphids and conducted behavioural assays to test the aggressiveness of ant responses to a simulated attack on the aphids. We found that aphid colonies flourished and were equally tended by ants across the urbanisation gradient, with a consistent positive density dependence between aphid and ant numbers. However, ants from more urbanised sites responded more aggressively to the simulated attack. Our findings suggest that this protective mutualism is not only maintained in the city, but that ants might even rely more on it and defend it more aggressively, as other food resources may become scarce and more unpredictable with urbanisation. We thereby provide unique insights into this type of mutualism in the city, further diversifying the growing body of work on mutualisms across urbanisation gradients.

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Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ‐ aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) interactions in different habitats from Turkey with new mutualistic associations

Cited by 4 publications

References 48 publications

Do primary and secondary host plants affect aphid- parasitoid interactions in fruit orchards?

Do primary and secondary host plants affect aphid- parasitoid interactions in fruit orchards?

New contributions to the Turkish aphid fauna and species composition (Hemiptera: Aphididomorpha) in Isparta forests

Behavioural changes in the city: The common black garden ant defends aphids more aggressively in urban environments

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