Is host plant choice by a clytrine leaf beetle mediated through interactions with the ant Crematogaster lineolata?

Oecologia

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 434-438

  Stiefel, Vernon L ^a,b   Margolies, David C ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Host plant feeding preference; Insect plant interactions; Leaf beetle ant interactions; Phytophagous insects

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEETLE; FEEDING PREFERENCE; HOST SELECTION; INQUILINISM; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION;

KANSAS; USA;

ANOMOEA FLAVOKANSIENSIS; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CREMATOGASTER LINEOLATA; DESMANTHUS ILLINOENSIS; FORMICIDAE; GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0031851811     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050538     Document Type: Article

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