Claim · model-written summary
Chironomidae and Psychodidae accounted for 2% of cocoa-flower insect catches.
- Taxon
- cocoa
Theobroma cacaoe0 - Interactor
- ChironomidaeChironomidaee0other
- Second interactor
- PsychodidaePsychodidaee0other
- Outcome
- total catche0
- Value
- 2%e0
- Setting
- Bahia State, Brazile0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageTreatmentComparatorDirectionQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In field collections of Diptera associated with approximately 12 000 cocoa flowers in Bahia State, Brazil, 66% of the total catch consisted of Cecidomyiidae, 33% of Ceratopogonidae and 2% of Chironomidae and Psychodidae.”
Title
J. A. Winder Bulletin of Entomological Research 1977. doi:10.1017/s0007485300010890
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Cecidomyiidae constituted 66% of cocoa-flower insect catches in Bahia.
- Observation Ceratopogonidae constituted 33% of cocoa-flower insect catches in Bahia.
- Observation Multiple Forcipomyia taxa and other ceratopogonids were collected from cocoa flowers.
- Observation Some evidence suggested F. genualis or near species may pollinate cocoa.
- Observation Some evidence suggested Atrichopogon sp. may pollinate cocoa.
- Observation Some evidence suggested Dasyhelea sp. may pollinate cocoa.
- Observation Some evidence suggested some Cecidomyiidae may pollinate cocoa.
- Observation Most ceratopogonid species were reared from bromeliads and rotting jackfruit, banana stems and cocoa husks among nine substrates tested.