Innate aversion to ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and ant mimics: Experimental findings from mantises (Mantodea)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-32

  Nelson, Ximena J ^a,e   Jackson, Robert R ^a   Li, Daiqin ^b   Barrion, Alberto T ^c   Edwards, G B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^d DIVISION OF PLANT INDUSTRY   (United States)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ants; Mantidae; Mantises; Mimicry; Myrmarachne; Predation; Salticidae; Spiders

Indexed keywords

ANT; INSECT; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY CAPTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MANTIDAE; MANTIS; MANTODEA; MYRMARACHNE; ORTHODERA; SALTICIDAE; STATILIA;

EID: 33646242278     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00598.x     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Bates HW 1862 Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley (Lepidoptera: Heliconidae) Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23 495 556
2. Benrekaa A Doumandji S 1997 Comparison of the diet of Mantis religiosa Linnaeus, 1758 and Sphodromantis viridis Forskal, 1775 in the suburbs of Algiers Entomologiste 53 253 256
3. Berenbaum MR Miliczky E 1984 Mantids and milkweed bugs: efficacy of aposematic coloration against invertebrate predators American Midland Naturalist 111 64 68
4. Blest AD 1957 The function of eyespot patterns in the Lepidoptera Behaviour 11 209 255
5. Blough DS Blough PM 1997 Form perception and attention in pigeons Animal Learning and Behavior 25 1 20
6. Blum MS 1981 Chemical Defenses of Arthropods Orlando, FL Academic Press
7. Bowdish TI Bultman TL 1993 Visual cues used by mantids in learning aversion to aposematically coloured prey American Midland Naturalist 129 215 222
8. Brodie ED 1993 Differential avoidance of coral snake banded patterns by free-ranging avian predators in Costa Rica Evolution 47 227 235
9. Brower JV 1958 Experimental studies of mimicry in some North American butterflies. Part I. The monarch, Danaus plexippus, and viceroy, Limenitis archippus archippus Evolution 12 32 47
10. Bruce MJ Herberstein ME Elgar MA 2001 Signalling conflict between prey and predator attraction Journal of Evolutionary Biology 155 786 794
11. Caldwell GS Rubinoff RW 1983 Avoidance of venomous sea snakes by naive herons and egrets Auk 100 195 198
12. Coddington JA Levi HW 1991 Systematics and evolution of spiders (Arnaeae) Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 22 565 592
13. Cushing PE 1997 Myrmecomorphy and myrmecophily in spiders: a review Florida Entomologist 80 165 193
14. Cuthill IC Bennett ATD 1993 Mimicry and the eye of the beholder Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 253 203 204
15. Cutler B 1991 Reduced predation on the antlike jumping spider Synagelis occidentalis (Araneae: Salticidae) Journal of Insect Behavior 4 401 407
16. Edmunds M 1974 Defence in Animals: A Survey of Anti-Predator Defences London Longman
17. Edmunds M 1978 On the association between Myrmarachne spp. (Salticidae) and ants Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4 149 160
18. Edmunds ME 1993 Does mimicry of ants reduce predation by wasps on salticid spiders? Memoires of the Queensland Museum 33 507 512
19. Edmunds ME 2000 Why are there good and poor mimics? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70 459 466
20. Eisner T 1970 Chemical defense against predation in arthropods In Sondheimer E Simeone JB eds Chemical Ecology New York, NY Academic Press 157 217
21. Elgar MA 1993 Inter-specific associations involving spiders: kleptoparasitism, mimicry and mutualism Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33 411 430
22. Gelperin A 1968 Feeding behaviour of the praying mantis: a learned modification Nature 219 399 400
23. Hölldobler B Wilson EO 1990 The Ants Berlin Springer
24. Howarth B Edmunds M Gilbert F 2004 Does the abundance of hoverfly mimics (Syrphidae) depend on the numbers of their hymenopteran models? Evolution 58 367 375
25. Jackson RR 1986 The biology of ant-like jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae): prey and predatory behaviour of Myrmarachne with particular attention to M. lupata from Queensland Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 88 179 190
26. Jackson RR Hallas SEA 1986 Comparative studies of Portia, araneophagic web-building jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae): predatory versatility, utilisation of silk, and intraspecific interactions of P. africana, P. albimana, P. fimbriata, P. labiata, and P. Schultzi New Zealand Journal of Zoology 13 423 489
27. Jackson RR Willey MB 1994 The comparative study of the predatory behaviour of Myrmarachne, ant-like jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 110 77 102
28. Joron M Mallet JLB 1998 Diversity in mimicry: paradox or paradigm? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13 461 466
29. Land MF Nilsson DE 2002 Animal Eyes Oxford Oxford University Press
30. Lindstrom L Alatalo RV Mappes J 1997 Imperfect Batesian mimicry - the effects of the frequency and the distastefulness of the model Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 264 149 153
31. Maldonado H Tablante A 1975 Mnemonic factors in a learning process of praying mantids Journal of Insect Physiology 21 1101 1110
32. Mappes J Alatalo RV 1997 Batesian mimicry and signal accuracy Evolution 51 2050 2053
33. McIver JD Stonedahl G 1993 Myrmecomorphy: morphological and behavioral mimicry of ants Annual Review of Entomology 38 351 379
34. Nelson XJ Jackson RR Pollard SD Edwards GB Barrion AT 2004 Predation by ants on jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Philippines New Zealand Journal of Zoology 31 45 56
35. Oliveira PS 1988 Ant-mimicry in some Brazilian salticid and clubionid spiders (Araneae: Salticidae, Clubionidae) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 33 1 15
36. Palmer SE 1999 Color, consciousness, and the isomorphism constraint Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 923 943
37. Platnick NI 2002 The World Spider Catalog Version 4.5..
38. Prete FR Hurd LE Branstrator D Johnson A 2002 Responses to computer-generated visual stimuli by the male praying mantis, Sphodromantis lineola (Burmeister) Animal Behaviour 63 503 510
39. Reitze M 1991 Comparative investigations into the feeding ecology of six Mantodea species Oecologia 86 568 574
40. Rilling S Mittelstaedt H Roeder KD 1959 Prey recognition in the preying mantis Behaviour 14 164 184
41. Ritland DB 1995 Comparative unpalatability of mimetic viceroy butterflies (Limenitis archippus) from 4 South-Eastern United-States populations Oecologia 103 327 336
42. Ritland DB 1998 Mimicry-related predation on two viceroy butterfly (Limenitis archippus) phenotypes American Midland Naturalist 140 1 20
43. Roper TJ Cook SE 1989 Responses of chicks to brightly coloured insect prey Behaviour 100 276 293
44. Rossel S 1991 Spatial vision in the praying mantis: is distance implicated in size detection? Journal of Comparative Physiology [A] 169 108
45. Rossel S 1996 Binocular vision in insects: how mantids solve the correspondence problem Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 93 13229 13232
46. Schiffman HR 1996 Sensation and Perception New York, NY John Wiley and Sons
47. Shettleworth SJ 1998 Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior New York, NY Oxford University Press
48. Smith SM 1975 Innate recognition of coral snake pattern by a possible avian predator Science 187 759 760
49. Sokal RR Rohlf FJ 1987 Introduction to Biostatsitics New York, NY Freeman
50. Turner JRG Kearney EP Exton LS 1984 Mimicry and the Monte-Carlo predator - the palatability spectrum and the origins of mimicry Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 23 247 268
51. Uesugi K 1996 The adaptive significance of batesian mimicry in the swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polytes (Insecta, Papilionidae): associative learning in a predator Ethology 102 762 775
52. Vane-Wright RI 1980 On the definition of mimicry Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 13 1 6
53. Wanless FR 1978 A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Etheopian region Bulletin of the Bristish Museum of Natural History 33 1 139
54. Wickler W 1968 Mimicry in Plants and Animals London Weidenfeld and Nicholson.