Morphology and Biology of Acrodzpsas Zllzdgez (Waterhouse and Lyell), a Myrmecophagous Lycaenid (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae)

Samson, PR

doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1989.tb00874.x

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“…Sands (1980); Samson (1987) Hutchings & Recher (1982); Hutchings & Saenger (1987); Samson (1989Samson ( , 1993; Beale (1995Beale ( , 1997; Beale & Zalucki (1995) [E] [Papyrius nitidus] Waterhouse (1941a);D'Abrera (1971). Sands (1980); Samson (1987) Hutchings & Recher (1982); Hutchings & Saenger (1987); Samson (1989Samson ( , 1993; Beale (1995Beale ( , 1997; Beale & Zalucki (1995) [E] [Papyrius nitidus] Waterhouse (1941a);D'Abrera (1971).…”

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“…Crematogaster sp. Sands (1980); Samson (1987) Hutchings & Recher (1982); Hutchings & Saenger (1987); Samson (1989Samson ( , 1993; Beale (1995Beale ( , 1997; Beale & Zalucki (1995) [E] [Papyrius nitidus] Waterhouse (1941a); D'Abrera (1971). A. illidgei was later found to be distinct from the lycaenid subspecies referred to by Waterhouse (1941a) (see Kerr et al 1968) New (1987New ( , 1991; E&F (96.006) H N. capitatus Vaughan (1987Vaughan ( , 1988; Braby (1990); New (1993); Endersby (1996); van Praagh (1996) H N. ectatommoides Vaughan (1987Vaughan ( , 1988; Braby (1990); New (1993); van Praagh ( Barrett & Burns (1951, 1966; Common (1964); Macqueen (1965); McCubbin (1971) (1972,1981).…”

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Associations between lycaenid butterflies and ants in Australia

Eastwood¹,

Fraser

1999

Australian Journal of Ecology

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A comprehensive and critical review of all available literature on associations between Australian lycaenid butterflies and ants was undertaken to establish an accurate database of the partners involved. Collections and observations of lycaenids and ants were used to augment this review, resulting in a significant number of newly documented association (and non-association) records. Twenty published records considered to be erroneous or doubtful are noted, with justifications given for their deletion from the association database. In total, 265 different associations between lycaenids and ants, plus 65 non-attendance records are documented for Australia. Nearly 80% of the lycaenid species in Australia, for which the early stages are known, are recorded associating with ants and half of these are obligately ant-associated. Patterns of association are examined from the perspective of both lycaenids and ants, with a focus on ant systematics and ecology. Lycaenids are recorded with five ant subfamilies, including the first record of an association with the Pseudomyrmecinae. The Dolichoderinae, and to some extent the Formicinae, have a disproportionately high percentage of genera that associate with lycaenid butterflies. All ant species that tend lycaenids spend at least some portion of their time foraging on vegetation to collect plant and insect nectar. There is a robust relationship between the competitive status of ants within a community, and their frequency and degree of association with lycaenids. Obligate ant-association is accompanied by a high degree of specificity for ant partner, but two notable exceptions, Ogyris aenone and O. amaryllis are discussed. Facultative myrmecophiles tend to associate with a broad range of ants, although interactions with ecologically dominant ants are less frequent than might be expected based on the abundance of dominant ant species in Australian communities.

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Associations between lycaenid butterflies and ants in Australia

Eastwood¹,

Fraser

1999

Australian Journal of Ecology

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“…It has been observed that individual larvae integrated into ant cultures spend on average 18% of time actively secreting droplets and that attendant host ants drink secretions from the caterpillars for 53% time; unattended caterpillars glistened with accumulated droplets (Elmes et al, 1991). Furthermore, some other lycaenid social parasites have a large functional dorsal nectary organ (Samson, 1989;Nomura et al, 1992;Sanetra & Fiedler, 1996;Eastwood & King, 1998). Thus although Maculinea larvae undoubtedly inflict great damage on the cohort of ant larvae with which they compete or on which they prey (Elmes et al, 1991;Thomas & Wardlaw, 1992), we questioned whether they might also retain some vestige of the ancestral mutualism by recycling food (particularly sugars) to the worker ants, which might in turn enhance the fitness of the host workers when other sources of sugar were in short supply.…”

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Do Maculinea rebeli caterpillars provide vestigial mutualistic benefits to ants when living as social parasites inside Myrmica ant nests?

Wardlaw¹,

Thomas²,

Elmes³

2000

Entomologia Exp Applicata

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Caterpillars of the lycaenid butterfly Maculinea rebeli Hirschke (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) live for 11–23 months as social parasites in Myrmica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) red ant nests, a trait that is believed to have evolved from mutualistic myrmecophilous ancestry. Although Maculinea rebeli caterpillars harm Myrmica larvae, they simultaneously produce copious secretions which the adult worker ants imbibe, perhaps representing a vestige of the ancestral mutualism. We report the results of laboratory experiments designed to test alternative hypotheses: (i) Maculinea rebeli caterpillars provide a beneficial source of sugar in return for being tended by Myrmica workers; (ii) Maculinea rebeli harms its host by stressing the workers by competing for available sugar. Comparisons were made of Myrmica worker fitness after 90–450 days under all possible combinations of three experimental treatments: ±M. rebeli caterpillars, ± sucrose and ± ant brood. Caterpillars always reduced the survival of both ant workers and their larvae, even when sugar was not provided, suggesting that M. rebeli is wholly parasitic on all stages in its host colony. The results also confirmed the importance of sucrose in the diet of Myrmica, and showed that M. rebeli caterpillars which eat ant brood to supplement their normal trophallactic feeding by workers develop more quickly ‐ but have the same survival and pupal weights – as caterpillars that are fed solely by worker ants.

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“…Samson 1987Samson , 1989, although the presence of apparently trophallactic type behaviours, observed once by Samson (1989), and many times during our study, implies that the larva's diet is supplemented by ant regurgitations, reducing the pressure on ant brood supplies. Gooding (1971) suggested that the early larval instars of A .…”

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“…(laeviceps group), as recorded by Samson (1987Samson ( , 1989. These ants were ubiquitous throughout all areas surveyed.…”

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Status and Distribution of Acrodipsas illidgei (Waterhouse and Lyell) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) at Redland Bay, Southeastern Queensland, and a New Plant‐association Record

Beale

Zalucki

1995

Australian Journal of Entomology

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A study of the spatial distribution of the rare, myrmecophagous Illidge's ant-blue butterfly, Acrodipsas illidgei (Waterhouse and Lyell) was made in a mangrove habitat and adjacent landward areas at Redland Bay, southeastern Queensland, Australia. A smaller, similar study was made at Mary River Heads, east of Maryborough, Queensland. At Redland Bay a single dead, bored-out branch (stub) containing the host ant Crematogaster sp. (laeviceps F. Smith group) was taken from each of 100 grey mangrove trees, Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh. (Avicenniaceae). Live A . illidgei immatures were found in 2% of ant nests at Redland Bay, while a further 3% showed evidence of previous occupancy. Of seven trees at Mary River Heads, one contained A . illidgei larvae. The majority of stubs (80%. from four trees) from a landward tree, AHocasuarina glauca (Sieber ex Sprengel) (Casuarinaceae), occupied by the host ant contained immature stages of A . illidgei and another ant-attended lycaenid, Ogyris amaryllis Hewitson.

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Morphology and Biology of Acrodzpsas Zllzdgez (Waterhouse and Lyell), a Myrmecophagous Lycaenid (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae)

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Associations between lycaenid butterflies and ants in Australia

Associations between lycaenid butterflies and ants in Australia

Do Maculinea rebeli caterpillars provide vestigial mutualistic benefits to ants when living as social parasites inside Myrmica ant nests?

Status and Distribution of Acrodipsas illidgei (Waterhouse and Lyell) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) at Redland Bay, Southeastern Queensland, and a New Plant‐association Record

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