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Provedor de dados: | Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
País: | Brazil
Título: | Elbella luteizona (Mabille, 1877) (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae: Pyrginae) in Brazilian Cerrado: larval morphology, diet, and shelter architecture
Autores: | Lepesqueur,Cintia; Neis,Marina; Silva,Neuza A.P.; Pereira,Thayane; Rodrigues,Hanna Pâmela A.; Trindade,Tácito; Diniz,Ivone R.
Data: | 2017-12-01
Ano: | 2017
Palavras-chave: | Caterpillar; Host plants; Population dynamics; Skippers; Univoltine.
Resumo: | Abstract This study examined temporal variation in the abundance of immature stages of Elbella luteizona (Hesperiidae) and describes the morphology and behavior of the larvae on their host plants, Byrsonima coccolobifolia and Myrsine guianensis. Five hundred sixty-eight 10 m diameter plots were searched for caterpillars in the Brazilian Cerrado over a period of one year. We inspected 5968 host plants, and found 31 eggs and 262 larvae on 244 plants. Similar numbers of immatures were found in both species of host plants. The abundance of immature stages varied monthly and was significantly higher in the dry season on both host plants, which may be due to the low density of natural enemies during that time. E. luteizona is univoltine, and larvae present relatively little morphological variation. However, during development, substantial changes occur in the architecture of leaf shelters that caterpillars construct. In addition, E. luteizona larvae develop very slowly, taking more than 300 days to complete metamorphosis.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262017000400282
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
Relação: | 10.1016/j.rbe.2017.08.004
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Entomologia  v.61 n.4 2017
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess