Claim · model-written summary
I murinus tended coccids in 50% of specimens.
- Taxon
- Lecanopteris
Lecanopterise0t0
Verbatim
e0“I murinus tended them in 50% of specimens”
t0“Lecanopteris”
Title
Ant specificity and behaviour in mutualisms with epiphytes: the case of Lecanopteris (Polypodiaceae)
HONOR GAY; RAYMOND HENSEN Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 1992. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1992.tb00670.x
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Seven Lecanopteris species are regularly inhabited by ants of five species.
- Observation Fern and ant survival does not require their association, although fern plants without ants are rare in nature.
- Observation The recorded ant diversity in Lecanopteris is 31 species, 20 recorded once.
- Observation All five regular ant occupants kept larvae in the domatium in 82% of specimens.
- Observation Major ant occupants deposited debris apart from brood in 90% of specimens.
- Observation Iridomyrmex murinus did not build carton around rhizomes.
- Observation Other major ant inhabitants constructed runways in 79% of Lecanopteris specimens.
- Observation Crematogaster treubi occurred with homopterans in 39% of specimens.
- Observation C. bomeensis occurred with homopterans in 27% of specimens.
- Observation I cordatus occurred with homopterans in 16% of specimens.
- Observation Ant species specificity is high within a population, habitat or geographical area, while other ants occupy plants outside regular inhabitants’ ranges.
- Observation Other ant epiphyte genera show similar geographic diversity of ant inhabitants.