Pollen feeding in the larva of Toxomerus pulchellus (Diptera, Syrphidae)

Dumbardon-Martial, Eddy

doi:10.3406/bsef.2016.2778

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“…Moreover, all the known phytophagous and pollen‐feeding larvae within Syrphinae are found in this clade (Mengual et al, 2008a, 2012, 2021). It seems that among the two large American radiations within the Sphaerophoria and Ocyptamus lineages, some species had a secondary transition to phytophagy in their larval feeding mode, and this happened at least three times independently in different genera (Dumbardon‐Martial, 2016; Nishida et al, 2002; Reemer & Rotheray, 2009; Weng & Rotheray, 2009; Zuijen & Nishida, 2011).…”

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“…The other two subfamilies, Pipizinae and Syrphinae, have primarily predaceous larvae feeding mostly on soft‐bodied Hemiptera like aphids, scale insects, psyllids and white flies, but also on other arthropods such as thrips and larvae of other insects (Rojo & Marcos‐García, 1997; Rojo et al, 2003 and references therein; Downes et al, 2017). Some New World species of the Syrphinae have secondarily phytophagous larvae that feed on pollen, mine leaves, or bore plant stems (Dumbardon‐Martial, 2016; Mengual et al, 2008a; Nishida et al, 2002; Reemer & Rotheray, 2009; Weng & Rotheray, 2009; Zuijen & Nishida, 2011).…”

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Systematics and evolution of predatory flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on exon‐capture sequencing

Mengual

Mayer

Burt

et al. 2022

Systematic Entomology

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Flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) are one of the most species‐rich dipteran families and provide important ecosystem services such as pollination, biological control of pests, recycling of organic matter and redistributions of essential nutrients. Flower fly adults generally feed on pollen and nectar, but their larval feeding habits are strikingly diverse. In the present study, high‐throughput sequencing was used to capture and enrich phylogenetically and evolutionary informative exonic regions. With the help of the baitfisher software, we developed a new bait kit (SYRPHIDAE1.0) to target 1945 CDS regions belonging to 1312 orthologous genes. This new bait kit was successfully used to exon capture the targeted loci in 121 flower fly species across the different subfamilies of Syrphidae. We analysed different amino acid and nucleotide data sets (1302 loci and 154 loci) with maximum likelihood and multispecies coalescent models. Our analyses yielded highly supported similar topologies, although the degree of the SRH (global stationarity, reversibility and homogeneity) conditions varied greatly between amino acid and nucleotide data sets. The sisterhood of subfamilies Pipizinae and Syrphinae is supported in all our analyses, confirming a common origin of taxa feeding on soft‐bodied arthropods. Based on our results, we define Syrphini stat.rev. to include the genera Toxomerus and Paragus. Our divergence estimate analyses with beast inferred the origin of the Syrphidae in the Lower Cretaceous (125.5–98.5 Ma) and the diversification of predatory flower flies around the K–Pg boundary (70.61–54.4 Ma), coinciding with the rise and diversification of their prey.

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Systematics and evolution of predatory flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on exon‐capture sequencing

Mengual

Mayer

Burt

et al. 2022

Systematic Entomology

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“…While changes to its taxonomy and inferred evolutionary relationships have been recently accomplished (Metz & Thompson 2001;Thompson & Thompson 2006;Mengual et al 2008Mengual et al , 2012Borges & Couri 2009;Mengual 2011;Thompson 2016), the life history and larval biology of few species have been documented. In common with most tropical Syrphinae species, the larval stages of most Toxomerus species are unstudied, but the species with described larval life histories are either pollen-feeders (Reemer & Rotheray 2009;Nunes-Silva et al 2010;Jordaens et al 2015;Dumbardon-Martial 2016) or predaceous on a wide-range of soft-bodied arthropods including aphids, caterpillars, beetle larvae, planthoppers, gall midges, thrips, mealybugs, whiteflies, mites, or insect eggs (Sampson et al 2002;Rojo et al 2003;Hopper et al 2011;Fok et al 2014;Sturza et al 2014;Torres et al 2014;Campos et al 2017;Jirón-Pablo et al 2018;Soares et al 2020).…”

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Attracted to feed, not to be fed upon – on the biology of Toxomerus basalis (Walker, 1836), the kleptoparasitic ‘sundew flower fly’ (Diptera: Syrphidae)

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The complete life history of the kleptoparasitic ‘sundew flower fly’, Toxomerus basalis, is presented and illustrated. Adults of this species are photographed alive for the first time, including video recordings of larval and adult behaviour. Adult flies of both sexes visit Drosera (sundews) and show territorial behaviour around the plants, avoiding the dangerous sticky traps and demonstrating recognition of their larval host plant. Females lay eggs directly on non-sticky parts of the Drosera host plants, such as on the lower surface of the leaves and flower stalks, but apparently also on other plants growing in close proximity with the sundews.

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“…The larvae of saprophagous hoverflies are the decomposers of ecosystems, feeding on decaying animals and plants, animal feces, and other organic material (Hodson, 1932;Ricarte et al, 2011;Mielczarek et al, 2016;Campoy et al, 2020a). Some of the larvae of phytophagous hoverflies are pests and feed on the roots, stems, and leaves of plants (Creager and Spruijt, 1935;Ricarte et al, 2008Ricarte et al, , 2017Nunes-Silva et al, 2010;Dumbardon-Martial, 2016).…”

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Morphological characteristics and biological cycle of the hoverfly Eristalinus arvorum (Fabricius, 1787) (Diptera, Syrphidae)

Cao

Zeng

Ren

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The hoverfly Eristalinus arvorum (Fabricius, 1787) (Diptera: Syrphidae), which belongs to the tribe Eristalini, is well known as a pollinating agent for crops and flowering plants in agricultural and natural ecosystems. Large quantity, wide distribution and their ecological function of the hoverfly E. arvorum make them an appropriate candidate for use as pollinators and environmental indicator species. However, little information has been known on the morphology and the biological cycle of the hoverfly. In this study, feeding experiments under artificial climate chamber and morphological qualitative and quantitative observations were carried out to study the morphology and the biological cycle of the hoverfly E. arvorum. The morphology of eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults of E. arvorum were described in detail for the first time. A complete generation of E. arvorum lasts about 30.12 ± 0.14 days, and there is no significant difference in body length between males (10.27 ± 0.29 mm) and females (11.16 ± 0.45 mm). The most noteworthy morphological features of E. arvorum are the stripes on the compound eyes, the mesonotum, and the abdomen of adults, the chorionic structure consisting of fusiform units on the egg's surface, and the anterior spiracles and pupal spiracles of the pupae. Thus, the detailed description based on morphology and life history will provide the basis for the identification, biodiversity conservation and artificial breeding of the hoverfly E. arvorum.

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Pollen feeding in the larva of Toxomerus pulchellus (Diptera, Syrphidae)

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Systematics and evolution of predatory flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on exon‐capture sequencing

Systematics and evolution of predatory flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on exon‐capture sequencing

Attracted to feed, not to be fed upon – on the biology of Toxomerus basalis (Walker, 1836), the kleptoparasitic ‘sundew flower fly’ (Diptera: Syrphidae)

Morphological characteristics and biological cycle of the hoverfly Eristalinus arvorum (Fabricius, 1787) (Diptera, Syrphidae)

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