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Provedor de dados: | 103
País: | Brazil
Título: | Eloria subapicalis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Lymantriinae): rare and specialist species on Erythroxylum (Erythroxylaceae) in the cerrado
Autores: | Diniz,Ivone R; Lepesqueur,Cintia; Milhomen,Michelle S; Bandeira,Fabiana C. S; Morais,Helena C.
Data: | 2011-02-01
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Abundance; Diet specificity; Folivorous caterpillar; Host plants; Moths.
Resumo: | Eloria subapicalis (Walker, 1855) is a rare species (61 individuals in four years of samplings) of Noctuidae (Lymantriinae) with a specific diet consisting of leaves of Erythroxylum P. Browne (Erytroxylaceae) species in Brasilia's cerrado. Generally, the rarity of a caterpillar species may have many explanations such as a generalist diet, being restricted to a host plant that is scarce in the area, or occurring in a limited geographical area. However, all the above explanations do not apply to E. subapicalis because it shows specificity of diet, uses a common host plant in the cerrado areas, and has a large geographical distribution.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702011000100009
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1984-46702011000100009
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Zoologia (Curitiba)  v.28 n.1 2011
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess