2017
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-017-1612-0
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Cricket calling communities as an indicator of the invasive ant Wasmannia auropunctata in an insular biodiversity hotspot

Abstract: Invasive species are a major concern for the maintenance of ecosystem services and biodiversity but are difficult to mitigate. Upstream solutions to prevent their impact, including their detection, are needed. Wasmannia auropunctata, an invasive ant living in vagile supercolonies, is especially hard to track and is a major threat for tropical ecosystems and local animal communities. As part of such tropical communities, crickets are sensitive to ecological conditions, easy to collect, detectable and identifiab… Show more

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“…Crickets are highly diversified in the Neotropical Region [ 36 – 40 ], but they have been little used to test distributional hypotheses, due to the limited taxonomic knowledge, with many taxa still awaiting description, and the lack of phylogenetic analyses of well-supported monophyletic taxa [ 41 ]. In other hotspot areas, crickets are important model groups for studying modifications of insect communities through forest succession or the influence of invasive species [ 42 , 43 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Crickets are highly diversified in the Neotropical Region [ 36 – 40 ], but they have been little used to test distributional hypotheses, due to the limited taxonomic knowledge, with many taxa still awaiting description, and the lack of phylogenetic analyses of well-supported monophyletic taxa [ 41 ]. In other hotspot areas, crickets are important model groups for studying modifications of insect communities through forest succession or the influence of invasive species [ 42 , 43 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Phalangopsidae crickets are very diversified worldwide from a morphological point of view, which is in accordance with the high diversity of their habitats (Desutter-Grandcolas 1995, 2015Desutter-Grandcolas & Jaiswara 2012). Cavicolous -straminicolous species are characterized by long and thin legs wide apart from a small, rounded body, like Phalangopsis, Philippopsis, Aracopsis Desutter-Grandcolas, n. gen., but also Phaeophilacris Walker, 1871 and Phasmagryllus Desutter-Grandcolas, 2015 in Africa, Arachnomimus Saussure, 1897 or Opiliosina Desutter-Grandcolas, 2012 in Asia, among many other genera.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…Booms in populations of Anoplolepis gracilipes have been flagged as a contributing factor in the crashes (and possible extinction) of lizard populations on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean (Smith et al 2012). The threats posed by these ants are complex (Jourdan et al 2001(Jourdan et al , 2015Le Breton et al 2003;Gasc et al 2018), but likely include the physical displacement lizards from sheltering and foraging sites by the presence of large numbers of ants during boom periods, and indirectly from loss and changes in composition of the invertebrate fauna that constitute a major part of the diet of lizards. On Walpole, Wasmannia auropunctata appears to have only been present for 20-30 years (Jourdan and Mille 2006), but the 2013 survey showed there to be an ongoing spread of this ant across all the habitats on the island.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%