Egg-laying preferences of the xerophilous ecotype of Maculinea alcon (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in the Aggtelek National Park

European Journal of Entomology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 587-595

  Árnyas, Ervin ^a   Bereczki, Judit ^a   Tóth, Andrea ^a   Pecsenye, Katalin ^a   Varga, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aggtelek National Park; Clumps of Gentiana stems; Egg laying preference; Xerophilous ecotype of Maculinea alcon

Indexed keywords

ECOTYPE; HABITAT SELECTION; INSECT; OVIPOSITION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

GENTIANA; GENTIANA CRUCIATA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; MACULINEA; MACULINEA ALCON; MACULINEA REBELI;

EID: 33748304534     PISSN: 12105759     EISSN: 18028829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2006.079     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Als T.D., Nash D.R. & Boomsma J.J. 2002: Geographical variation in host-ant specificity of the parasitic butterfly Maculinea alcon in Denmark. Ecol. Entomol. 27: 403-414.
2. Als T.D., Vila R., Kandul N.P., Nash D.R., Yen S., Hsu Y., Mignault A.A., Boomsma J.J. & Pierce N.E. 2004: The evolution of alternative parasitic life histories in large blue butterflies. Nature 432: 386-390.
3. Árnyas E., Bereczki J., Tóth A. & Varga Z. 2005: Results of the mark-release-recapture studies of a Maculinea rebeli population in the Aggtelek karst (N Hungary) between 2002-2004. In Settele J., Kühn E. & Thomas J.A. (eds): Studies on the Ecology and Conservation of Butterflies in Europe. Vol. 2. Pensoft, Sofia, pp. 111-114.
4. Bálint Z. 1991: Conservation of Butterflies in Hungary. Oedippus 3: 5-36.
5. Bálint Z. 1993: The threatened Lycaenids of the Carpathian basin. In New T.S. (ed.): Conservation Biology of Lycaenidae. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. No. 8. IUCN, Gland, pp. 105-111.
6. Bálint Z. 1996: The Butterflies of the Carpathian Basin. Vol. 1. Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület, Budapest, 184 pp. [in Hungarian].
7. Bereczki J., Pecsenye K., Peregovits L. & Varga Z. 2005: Pattern of genetic differentiation in the Maculinea alcon species group (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) in Central Europe. J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. 43(3): 157-169.
8. Crawley M.J. 1993: GLIM for Ecologists. Blackwell, London, 379 pp.
9. Elmes G.W. & Thomas J.A. 1987: Die Biologie und Ökologie der Ameisen der Gattung Myrmica. In Geiger W. (ed.): Tagfalter und ihre Lebensräume: Arten, Gefährdung und Schutz. Schweizerischer Bund für Naturschutz, Basel, pp. 404-409.
10. Elmes G.W. & Thomas J.A. 1992: The complexity of species conservation in managed habitats: interaction between Maculinea butterflies and their host ants. Biodivers. Conserv. 1: 155-169.
11. Elmes G.W., Thomas J.A. & Wardlaw J.C. 1991a: Larvae of Maculinea rebeli, a large-blue butterfly, and their Myrmica host ants: wild adoption and behaviour in ant nests. J. Zool. (Lond.) 223: 447-460.
12. Elmes G.W., Thomas J.A. & Wardlaw J.C. 1991b: Larvae of Maculinea rebeli, a large-blue butterfly, and their Myrmica host ants: patterns of caterpillar growth and survival. J. Zool. (Lond.) 224: 79-92.
13. Elmes G.W., Thomas J.A., Hammarstedt O., Munguira M.L., Martin J. & van der Made J.G. 1994: Differences in host-ant specificity between Spanish, Dutch and Swedish populations of the endangered butterfly Maculinea alcon (Denis et Schiff.) (Lepidoptera). Memorab. Zool. 48: 55-98.
14. Elmes G.W., Thomas J.A., Wardlaw J.C., Hochberg M.E., Clarke R.T. & Simcox D.J. 1998: The ecology of Myrmica ants in relation to conservation of Maculinea butterflies. J. Insect Cons. 2: 69-78.
15. Fiedler K. 1991: Systematic, evolutionary and ecological implications of myrmecophily within the Lycaenidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Bonner Zool. Monogr. No. 31, 210 pp.
16. Fiedler K. 1998: Lycaenid-ant interactions of the Maculinea type: tracing their historical roots in a comparative framework. J. Insect Cons. 2: 2-15.
17. Francis B., Green M. & Payne C. 1994: GLIM 4. The Statistical System for Generalised Linear Interactive Modelling. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 531-561.
18. Fraser D.J. & Bernatchez L. 2001: Adaptive evolutionary conservation: towards a unified concept for defining conservation units. Mol. Ecol. 10: 2741-2752.
19. Hochberg M.E., Clarke R.T., Elmes G.W. & Thomas J.A. 1994: Population dynamic consequences of direct and indirect interactions involving a large blue butterfly and its plant and red ant hosts. J. Anim. Ecol. 63: 375-391.
20. Munguira M.L. & Martin J. 1997: Action Plan for the Maculinea Butterflies in Europe. Council of Europe, Strasbourg, pp. 1-96.
21. Nowicki P., Witek M., Skórka P. & Woyciechowski M. 2005: Oviposition patterns in the myrmecophilous butterfly Maculinea alcon Denis & Schiffermüller (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in relation to characteristics of foodplants and presence of ant hosts. Pol. J. Ecol. 53: 105-111.
22. Pech P., Fric Z., Konvička M. & Zrzavý J. 2004: Phylogeny of Maculinea blues (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) based on morphological and ecological characters: evolution of parasitic myrmecophily. Cladistics 20: 362-375.
23. Peregovits L., Dobos Z. & Kun A. 2001: A Maculinea alcon xerophila populációökológiája és természetvédelme. [Population ecology and conservation of Maculinea alcon xerophila.] In Borhidi A. & Dotta-Dukáts Z. (eds): Ökológia az ezredfordulón II. Esettanulmányok. [Millennium in Ecology II. Case studies.] MTA, pp. 27-55 [in Hungarian].
24. Pierce N.E., Braby M.F., Heath A., Lohmann D.J., Matthew J., Rand D.B. & Travassos M.A. 2002: The ecology and evolution of the ant association in the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Annu. Rev. Entomol. 47: 733-771.
25. Schlick-Steiner B.C., Steiner F.M., Höttinger H., Nikiforov A., Mistrik R., Schafellner C., Baier P. & Christian E. 2004: A butterfly's chemical key to various ant forts: Intersection-odour or aggregate-odour multi-host mimicry? Naturwissenschaften 91: 209-214.
26. Sielezniew M. & Stankiewicz A.M. 2004: Simultaneous exploitation of Myrmica vandeli and M. scabrinodis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) colonies by the endangered myrmecophilous butterfly Maculinea alcon (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Eur. J. Entomol. 101: 693-696.
27. Sipos J.V. & Varga Z. 1998: Phytocenology of semi-dry grasslands (Cirsio-Brachypodion pinnati) in the Aggtelek karst area. Kitaibelia 3: 347-348 [in Hungarian, English abstr.].
28. Steiner F.M., Sielezniew M., Schlick-Steiner B.C., Höttinger H., Stankiewicz A. & Górnicki A. 2003: Host specificity revisited: New data on Myrmica host ants of the Lycaenid butterfly Maculinea rebeli. J. Insect Cons. 7: 1-6.
29. Tartally A. & Csosz S. 2004: Data on the ant hosts of the Maculinea butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) of Hungary. Term. Véd. Közlem. 11: 309-317 [in Hungarian, English abstr.].
30. Thomas J.A. & Elmes G.W. 2001: Food-plant niche selection rather than the presence of ant nests explains oviposition patterns in the myrmecophilous butterfly genus Maculinea. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (B) 268: 471-477.
31. Thomas J.A., Elmes G.W., Wardlaw J.C. & Woyciechowski M. 1989: Host specificity among Maculinea butterflies in Myrmica ant nests. Oecologia 79: 452-457.
32. Thomas J.A., Elmes G.W. & Wardlaw J.C. 1993: Contest competition among Maculinea rebeli butterfly larvae in ant nests. Ecol. Entomol. 18: 73-76.
33. Van Dyck H., Oostermeijer J.G.B., Talloen W., Feenstra V., van der Hidde A. & Wynhoff I. 2000: Does the presence of ant nests matter for oviposition to a specialized myrmecophilous Maculinea butterfly? Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (B) 267: 861-866.
34. Van Swaay C.A.M. & Warren M.S. 1999: Red Data Book of European Butterflies (Rhopalocera). Nature and Environment, No. 99. Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg, 260 pp.
35. Varga-Sipos J. & Varga Z. 1997: Phytocenology of semi-dry grasslands in the Aggtelek karst area (N Hungary). In Tóth E. & Horváth R. (eds): Research in the Aggtelek National Park and Biosphere Reserve. Proceedings of the Conference. Vol. 2. ANP Directorate, Aggtelek, pp. 59-78.
36. Varga Z., Varga-Sipos J., Orci K.M. & Rácz I. 2000: Semi-dry swards on the Aggtelek karst: phytocenological conditions, Orthoptera and Lepidoptera assemblages. In Virágh K. & Kun A. (eds): Vegetáció és Dinamizmus. MTA ÖBKI, Vácrátót, pp. 195-238 [in Hungarian].
37. Wynhoff I. 1996: International Maculinea Workshop. Dutch Butterfly Conservation, Wageningen, 71 pp.
38. Wynhoff I. 1998: The recent distribution of the European Maculinea species. J. Insect Cons. 2: 15-27.