Ecological Observations on the Insects and Other Inhabitants of Woody Shelf Fungi (Basidiomycetes: Polyporaceae) in the Chicago Area1

Nematode predation by oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida)

“…Freeman (1952) reported that starved oribatids would feed on tapeworm eggs. Graves (1960) observed large black galumnid oribatids (no genus given) feeding on living, Fannia -like fly larvae. Rockett and Woodring (1966 a & b) observed numerous specimens of Pergalumna omniphagous preying on living plant-parasitic nematodes.…”

Review of the GenusThoracophorus(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae) in North America North of Mexico, with a Key to Species

“…Graves (1960) sampled organisms inhabiting a wide variety of woody shelf fungi and collected many T. costalis from Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.…”

List of beetles (Coleoptera) associated with the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus Fr., in the Onon-Balj National Park of Mongolia

“…Several ecological classifications exist for fungivorous beetles, and we classify them into three main categories which the beetles were associated with their fungal host (Scheerpeltz and Höfler, 1948;Benick, 1952;Graves, 1960;Höfler, 1960;Lawrence, 1973;Newton, 1984;Klimaszewski and Peck, 1987;Lawrence and Milner, 1996;Cline and Leschen, 2005;Krasutskii, 2007;Jung and Lee, 2011), as follows: 1) Mycetobionts (MB) which are obligatory fungal inhabitants, feeding and breeding on the fun- …”

“…In particular, woody and thick fungi of the order Aphyllophorales and Agaricales provide microhabitats in which many arthropod species spend their entire lives (Klimaszewski and Peck, 1987;Leschen, 1990;Jung and Kim, 2008;Jung and Lee, 2011). These fungi provide their inhabitants with food, shelter, and breeding places either directly or indirectly (Graves, 1960;Paviour-Smith, 1960;Klimaszewski and Peck, 1987;Wheeler, 1987;Cline and Leschen, 2005;Jung and Lee, 2011).…”