Gall-Inducing Insects and Their Associated Parasitoid Assemblages in the Forests of Panama

Medianero, Enrique; Barrios, Héctor; Nieves‐Aldrey, J. L.

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“…Moreover, we did not sample from the canopy, which has undoubtedly resulted in our underestimating the species richness of gall-inducers in the reserve. It has been shown that the species richness of gall-inducers is higher in the canopy than in the understory (Medianero, Valderrama, & Barrios, 2003;Ribeiro, Basset, & Kitching, 2014). Julião et al (2014) sampled the upper strata of 1 091 trees belonging to 491 species in two reserves in Amazonia and found galls on 90 % of the species.…”

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Plants and gall hosts of the Tirimbina Biological Reserve, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica: Combining field sampling with herbarium records

Ley-López

González²,

Hanson

2019

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There has been an increasing number of inventories of gall-inducing arthropods in the Neotropics. Nonetheless, very few inventories have been carried out in areas where the flora is well documented, and records of galls from herbaria and sites outside the study area have seldom been utilized. In this study we provide a checklist of the native vascular plants of a 345 ha forest reserve in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica and document which of these plants were found to harbor galls. The gall surveys were carried out between November 2013 and December 2016. We also cross-checked our plant list with the previous gall records from elsewhere in the country and searched for galls on herbarium specimens of dicots reported from the reserve. In total, we recorded 143 families and 1174 plant species, of which 401 were hosts of galls. Plant hosts of galls were found in the following non-mutually exclusive categories: 209 in our field sampling, 257 from previous records, and 158 in herbarium specimens. Of our field records of galls, 77 were new for the country, 77 were also found in the herbarium and 110 had been previously recorded in the country. Herbarium specimens and previous records are good indicators of potential gall hosts but around one quarter (40/158) of the gall records in the herbarium were ambiguous as to whether the tissue alteration was a gall or not. Plant family size was related to number of gall hosts, but most dicot families have similar proportions of gall host species. We concluded that more than a third of the native plants in the reserve are gall hosts, but this number increased to 44.93 % when only dicots were considered. Our results demonstrate the utility of providing complete plant inventories when conducting gall inventories, and of using herbarium specimens and previous galls studies to infer gall diversity in a specific area.

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Plants and gall hosts of the Tirimbina Biological Reserve, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica: Combining field sampling with herbarium records

Ley-López

González²,

Hanson

2019

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“…Las especies de plantas hospederas de insectos inductores de agallas en la América Latina están ampliamente distribuidas en las Angiospermas. Dentro de las familias de plantas hospederas, se destacan Fabaceae y Asteraceae como las familias que soportan más especies de agalladores (Araújo, 2011a;Maia et al, 2008;Araujo et al, 2014;Medianero et al, 2014). Además de estas, también presentan números representativos de insectos agalladores las familias Euphorbiaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Myrtaceae, Rubiaceae, Solanaceae y Melastomataceae (Mendonça et al, 2014).…”

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Insectos inductores de Agallas en América Latina: Ecología, Importancia y Nuevas Perspectivas / Gall-inducing insects in Latin America: Ecology, Importance and New perspectives insetos

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La inducción de agallas en plantas representa tanto modificaciones morfológicas como fisiológicas de órganos y tejidos vegetales causados por insectos endofagos. En el presente estudio, se realizó una revisión sobre los avances y desafíos para el estudio de este gremio de insectos, así como, la diversidad estimada de insectos agalladores y sus plantas hospederas en América Latina. Encontramos que la mayoría de estudios de insectos inductores de agallas durante el periodo 1950-2013 fueron realizados en Brasil y México, que en conjunto contribuyeron con cerca del 80% de la producción científica latino-americana. Para América Latina los insectos que inducen agallas pertenecen principalmente Diptera (500 spp.), Hemiptera (111 spp.), Hymenoptera (36 spp.), Coleoptera (20 spp.), Lepidoptera (19 spp.) y Thysanoptera (2 spp.). Fabaceae y Asteraceae son las principales familias hospederas de insectos que inducen agallas. Nosotros estimamos que deben existir cerca de 15,407 especies de insectos inductores de agallas en América Latina, siendo Brasil (5,540), México (4,286), Colombia (4,194) y Perú (3,090) que tendrían el mayor número esperado de especies agalladores.

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Gall-Inducing Insects and Their Associated Parasitoid Assemblages in the Forests of Panama

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Plants and gall hosts of the Tirimbina Biological Reserve, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica: Combining field sampling with herbarium records

Plants and gall hosts of the Tirimbina Biological Reserve, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica: Combining field sampling with herbarium records

Insectos inductores de Agallas en América Latina: Ecología, Importancia y Nuevas Perspectivas / Gall-inducing insects in Latin America: Ecology, Importance and New perspectives insetos

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