Novel trophobiotic interactions in lantern bugs (Insecta: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoridae)

@article{Naskrecki2007NovelTI,
  title={Novel trophobiotic interactions in lantern bugs (Insecta: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoridae)},
  author={Piotr Naskrecki and Kenji Nishida},
  journal={Journal of Natural History},
  year={2007},
  volume={41},
  pages={2397 - 2402}
}
Lantern bugs (Fulgoridae) are large (often >35 mm), phloem‐feeding insects, most diverse in humid tropical forests. They produce copious amounts of honeydew, which they forcefully eject far from their bodies, and, to date, no organisms have been known to be able to feed on it directly. Here we document a widespread occurrence of direct feeding on lantern bugs' honeydew by other organisms, including snails, to our knowledge the first case of gastropod–insect trophobiosis. 
View on Taylor & Francis
zenodo.org
15 Citations
Background Citations
7

15 Citations

Foliar Extrafloral Nectar of Humboldtia brunonis (Fabaceae), a Paleotropic Ant‐plant, is Richer than Phloem Sap and More Attractive than Honeydew

The ant-plant Humboldtia brunonis secretes extrafloral nectar (EFN) despite the lack of antiherbivore protection from most ants, suggesting that EFN could potentially distract ants from honeydew, since ants rarely tended Hemiptera on this plant.

A Novel Trophobiosis between Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and a Palm-Feeding Planthopper (Hemiptera: Cixiidae)

Phloem-feeding Hemiptera (i.e. Sternorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha and most Membracoidea) produce honeydew in amounts that often exceed the insect body mass several times per hour, but trophobiotic interactions with Hymenoptera are rare.

Feeding Behavior of Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) and Response on Feeding Stimulants of Some Plants

It was judged that sugar contents affected on choosing the host plants.

Unusual Behaviour — Unusual Morphology: Mutualistic Relationships between Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and Diaphorina enderleini (Hemiptera: Psylloidea), Associated with Vernonia amygdalina (Asteraceae)

The psyllid is involved in an unusual mutualistic interaction with the ants Pheidole megacephala and Crematogaster striatula, which deprives it of the protection common in various free-living psyllids.

Review of the effusus group of the Lanternfly genus Pyrops Spinola, 1839, with one new species and notes on trophobiosis (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)

One new species from eastern Borneo, Pyrops synavei sp.

Review of the Maluku Islands species of the lanternfly genus Birdantis Stål, 1863, with a new species and identification key (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)

The synonymy between Myrilla Distant, 1888 and Birdantis is formally reinstated and all species formerly placed in the subgenus Birdantis (Myrilla) are transferred to Birdantis sensu stricto.

The lanternfly genus Penthicodes : key to the species and review of the “ Ereosoma group” with two new species and one new subspecies (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)

The male genitalia of all treated species are illustrated and described and an illustrated identification key to all 12 species of the genus, including P. bimaculata, are proposed.

Development and testing of a standardized method to estimate honeydew production

It is found that the amount of honeydew may be an order of magnitude lower than that previously estimated (2.16 versus 21.6 grams of Honeydew per day) and discussed possible reasons for the difference.

Can Alternative Sugar Sources Buffer Pollinators From Nectar Shortages?

The results show that honeydew resources can impact floral visitation patterns and suggest that future pollinator studies should consider the full range of sugar resources present in the study environment.

Recuration of the Fulgoridae collection at the Manchester Museum

A project which recatalogued the Fulgoridae collection at Manchester Museum updated species information for several specimens as well as adding previously unknown information about the collector.

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 24 REFERENCES

Geckos are milking honeydew-producing planthoppers in Madagascar

In this paper, day gecko species of the genera Phelsuma and Lygodactylus as well as the nocturnal gecko Homopholis sakalava show a particular behaviour that induces planthoppers of the family Flatidae to excrete a drop of honeydew in the course of an interspecific key stimulus reaction.

Gastropod guests (Prosobranchia: Pupinidae, and Pulmonata: Subulinidae) associated with the ponerine ant Diacamma sculpturatum complex (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

In Northern Vietnam one pupinid and three subulinid species (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia and Pulmonata) were found from nests of a large-bodied ponerine ant belonging to the Diacamma sculpturatum…

Trophobiosis between a blattellid cockroach (Macrophyllodromia spp.) and fulgorids (Enchophora and Copidocephala spp.) in Costa Rica

These are the first observations of trophobiosis in a cockroach and the male genitalia of 2 species are given.

Mutualistic Association between a Tiny Amazonian Stingless Bee and a Wax-Producing Scale Insect1

Abstract The Amazonian stingless bee Schwarzula sp. houses and attends, in its nest, soft scale insects, Cryptostigma sp. (Coccidae), from which obtains sweet secretions (honeydew) for their feeding…

Are Honeydew/Sap-feeding Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Affected by Particulate Air-pollution?

  • D. Corke
  • Environmental Science
    Journal of Insect Conservation
  • 2004
Based on studies of the species loss and natural recolonisation of Epping Forest, it is suggested that those species feeding as adults on sugar-rich fluids direct from the surface of trees or leaves were affected by particulate air-pollution.

Trophobiosis Between Formicidae and Hemiptera (Sternorrhyncha and Auchenorrhyncha): an Overview

The main characteristics of 'Homoptera' and Formicidae which favor trophobiotic interactions, such as honeydew excretion by sap-sucking insects, ant attendance and physiological needs of both insects groups, are discussed.

Ant attendance in aphids: why different degrees of myrmecophily?

Aphids show a range of associations with ants from nonattendance to obligate myrmecophily, while Symydobius oblongus is an obligatemyrmecophile.

Feeding behaviour of the squirrel glider in remnant habitat in Brisbane

The diet of the squirrel glider was studied in a 45 ha forest remnant within an urban area close to Brisbane in south-east Queensland and observations confirm the importance of eucalypt nectar in the diet of this species.

Allopeas myrmekophilos (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), the first myrmecophilous mollusc living in colonies of the ponerine army ant Leptogenys distinguenda (Formicidae, Ponerinae)

Allopeas myrmekophilos is the first mollusc observed to be a true ant guest, thereby meeting the definition of myrmecophily.

Contributions to the life history of the Malaysian giant ant Camponotus gigas (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

4 polydomous colonies of the giant ant Camponotus gigas living on ca.