Caladium bicolor (Araceae) and Cyclocephala celata (Coleoptera, Dynastinae): A well-established pollination system in the northern atlantic rainforest of Pernambuco, Brazil

Plant Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 529-534

  Maia, A C D ^a   Schlindwein, C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Araceae; Beetle pollination; Cyclocephalini; Neotropics; Thermogenesis

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FLOWER VISITING; FLOWERING; PLANT; POLLINATION; RAINFOREST; RIVER BASIN;

AMAZON BASIN; ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; PERNAMBUCO; SOUTH AMERICA; SURINAME;

ARACEAE; CALADIUM BICOLOR; COLEOPTERA; CYCLOCEPHALA; DYNASTINAE;

EID: 33746540031     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-924045     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Ara, H., Partha, P., and Hassan, M. D. A. (2004) Caladium bicolor (Aiton) Ventenat (Araceae) - a new angiospermic record for Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Botany 33, 75-77.
2. Arnett, R. H. (1963) The Beetles of the United States (A Manual for Identification). Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, p. 1112.
3. Barabé, D., Gibernau, M., and Forest, F. (2002) Zonal thermogenetic dynamics of two species of Philodendron from two different subgenera (Araceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 139, 79-86.
4. Barth, F. G. (1991) Insects and Flowers: The Biology of a Partnership. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, p. 408.
5. Beath, D. N. (1999) Dynastine scarab beetle pollination in Dieffenbachia longispatha (Araceae) on Barro Colorado Island (Panama) compared with La Selva biological station (Costa Rica). Aroideana 22, 63-71.
6. Bernhardt, P. (2000) Convergent evolution and adaptive radiation of beetle-pollinated angiosperms. Plant Systematics and Evolution 222, 293-320.
7. Cobb, P. P. (1998) Controlling White Grubs on Lawns and Turf. US, Alabama: Cooperative Extension System.
8. Croat, T. B. (1988) Ecology and life forms of Araceae. Aroideana 11, 4-56.
9. Croat, T. B. (1997) A revision of Philodendron subgenus Philodendron (Araceae) for Mexico and Central America. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 84, 311-704.
10. Crowson, R. A. (1975) The Natural Classification of the Families of Coleoptera, 2nd edition. Middlesex: E. W. Classey LTD., p. 248.
11. Endress, P. K. (1996) Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of Tropical Flowers, 1st paperback edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 511.
12. Endrödi, S. (1985) The Dynastinae of the World. Budapest, Hungary: Dr. W. Junk Publishers, p. 800.
13. Ervik, F. and Knudsen, J. T. (2003) Water lilies and scarabs: faithful partners for 100 million years? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 80, 539-543.
14. García-Robledo, C., Kattan, G., Murcia, C., and Quintero-Marín, P. (2004) Beetle pollination and fruit predation of Xanthosoma daguense (Araceae) in an Andean cloud forest in Colombia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20, 459-469.
15. Gibernau, M. and Barabé, D. (2000) Thermogenesis in three Philodendron species (Araceae) of French Guiana. Canadian Journal of Botany 78, 685-689.
16. Gibernau, M. and Barabé, D. (2002) Pollination ecology of Philodendron squamiferum (Araceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 80, 1-5.
17. Gibernau, M., Barabé, D., Cerdan, P., and Dejean, A. (1999) Beetle pollination of Philodendron solimoesense (Araceae) in French Guiana. International Journal of Plant Science 160, 1135-1143.
18. Gibernau, M., Barabé, D., and Labat, D. (2000) Flowering and pollination of Philodendron melinonii (Araceae) in French Guiana. Plant Biology 2, 330-333.
19. Gibernau, M., Barabé, D., Labat, D., Cerdan, P., and Dejean, A. (2003) Reproductive biology of Montrichardia arborescens (Araceae) in French Guiana. Journal of Tropical Ecology 19, 103-107.
20. Gonçalves, E. G. (2004) Araceae from central Brazil: comments on their diversity and biogeography. Annals of The Missouri Botanical Garden 91, 457-463.
21. Gonçalves, E. G. and Salviani, E. R. (2002) New species and changing concepts of Philodendron subgenus Meconostigma (Araceae). Aroideana 25, 2-16.
22. Gottsberger, G. (1990) Flowers and beetles in the South American tropics. Botanica Acta 103, 360-365.
23. Gottsberger, G. (1999) Pollination and evolution in neotropical Annonaceae. Plant Species Biology 14, 143-152.
24. Gottsberger, G. and Amaral, A. (1984) Pollination strategies in Brazilian Philodendron species. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 97, 391-410.
25. Gottsberger, G. and Silberbauer-Gottsberger, I. (1991) Olfactory and visual attraction of Erioscelis emarginata (Cyclocephalini, Dynastinae) to the inflorescences of Philodendron selloum (Araceae). Biotropica 23, 23-28.
26. Hudson, W. and Sparks, B. (2002) White Grub Pests on Turfgrass. US: The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Cooperative Extension Service.
27. Krell, F. T., Hirthe, G., Seine R., and Porembski, S. (2003) Rhinoceros beetles pollinate water lilies in Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae; Magnoliidae: Nymphaeaceae). Ecotropica 9, 103-106.
28. Lawrence, F. A., Hasting, A. M., Dallwitz, M. J., Paine, T. A., and Zurcher, E. J. (1999) Beetles of the world. A key and information system for families and subfamilies. Version 1.0 for MS-Windows. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.
29. Madison, M. (1981) Notes on Caladium (Araceae) and its allies. Selbyana 5, 342-377.
30. Marinoni, R. C., Ganho, N. G., Monné, M. L., and Mermudes, J. R. M. (2001 ) Hábitos Alimentares em Coleoptera (Insecta). Ribeirão Preto: Holos, Editora Ltda, p. 33.
31. Mayo, S. J., Bogner, J., and Boyce, P. C. (1997) The genera of Araceae. Kew: The Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, p. 370.
32. Pellmyr, O. (1985) Cyclocephala: visitor and probable pollinator of Caladium bicolor (Araceae). Acta Amazonica 15, 269-272.
33. Potter, M. F. and Potter, D. A. (1999) Controlling White Grubs in Turfgrass. US, Kentucky: Cooperative Extension Service.
34. Ranta, P., Blom, T., Niemela, J., Joensuu, E., and Siitonen, M. (1998) The fragmented atlantic rain forest of Brazil: size, shape and distribution of forest fragments. Biodiversity Conservation 7, 385-403.
35. Schatz, G. E. (1990) Some aspects of pollination biology in Central American forests. In Reproductive Ecology of Tropical Forest Plants (Bawa, K. S. and Hadley, M., eds.), Paris: Parthenon, pp. 69-84.
36. Seymour, R. S. (1999) Pattern of respiration by intact inflorescence of the thermogenic arum lily Philodendron selloum. Journal of Experimental Botany 50, 845-852.
37. Seymour, R. S., White, C. R., and Gibernau, M. (2003) Heat reward for insect pollinators. Nature 426, 243-244.
38. Silberbauer-Gottsberger, I., Gottsberger, G., and Webber, A. C. (2003) Morphological and functional flower characteristics of New and Old World Annonaceae with respect to their mode of pollination. Taxon 52, 701-718.
39. Wiersema, J. H. (1988) Reproductive biology of Nymphaea (Nymphaeaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75, 795-804.
40. Williamson, R. C. and Pellitteri, P. J. (2004) Turfgrass Disorder: White Grubs. US, University of Wisconsin: Cooperative Extension Publications.
41. Young, H. J. (1986) Beetle pollination of Dieffenbachia longispatha (Araceae). American Journal of Botany 73, 931-944.
42. Young, H. J. (1988) Differential importance of beetle species pollinating Dieffenbachia longispatha (Araceae). Ecology 69, 832-844.