Are Fabaceae the principal super-hosts of galls in Brazil?



Document title: Are Fabaceae the principal super-hosts of galls in Brazil?
Journal: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000436080
ISSN: 0001-3765
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Departamento de Educacao, Paulo Afonso, Bahia. Brasil
Year:
Volumen: 92
Number: 2
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract We surveyed 58 scientific articles published between 1987 and 2018 to evaluate the representative nature of the Fabaceae as hosts of insect galls in Brazil, and to gain a better understanding of the interactions between gall-inducing insects and plants and the evolutionary ecology of those insects and their plant hosts. A total of 438 gall morphotypes were reported as being generated by gall-inducing insects on 178 Fabaceae host species belonging to five subfamilies Caesalpinioideae (22 genera and 79 spp.), Cercidoideae (1 genus and 11 spp.), Detarioideae (6 genera and 17 spp.), Dialioideae (2 genera and 2 spp.), and Papilionoideae (26 genera and 69 spp.). The plant host genera demonstrating the greatest richness of gall-inducing insects were Inga, Bauhinia, and Copaifera; the super-host species were Copaifera langsdorffii, Bauhinia brevipes, and Copaifera sabulicola. Most of the galls were observed on leaves; they were mostly globoid, green, glabrous, isolated, and unilocular. The principal gall inducers belonged to Cecidomyiidae; the associated fauna was represented by Collembola, Coleoptera, Diptera, Formicidae, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Pseudoscorpionida, and Thysanoptera. Fabaceae are the principal super-hosts of galls and one of the most diverse families of angiosperms in Brazil, aggregating evidences for the hypotheses of floristic richness and taxon size
Disciplines: Biología
Keyword: Ecología,
Insectos,
Angiospermas,
Planta-insecto,
Agallas,
Leguminosae,
Cecidomyiidae,
Brasil
Keyword: Ecology,
Insects,
Angiosperms,
Cecidomyiidae,
Galls,
Insect-plant,
Leguminosae,
Brazil
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