Local host ant specificity of Phengaris (Maculinea) teleius butterfly, an obligatory social parasite of Myrmica ants

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 557-564

  Witek, Magdalena ^a   Nowicki, Piotr ^a   Śliwińska, Ewa B ^a   Skórka, Piotr ^b   Settele, Josef ^c   Schönrogge, Karsten ^d   Woyciechowski, Michal ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Local host specificity; Maculinea; Myrmecophily; Myrmica; Phengaris; Social parasites

Indexed keywords

ANT; BUTTERFLY; HOST PLANT; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST USE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAPOPULATION; MORPHOMETRY; MYRMECOPHILY; SOCIAL PARASITISM;

POLAND;

FORMICIDAE; MACULINEA; MACULINEA RUBRA; MYRMICA; MYRMICA RUBRA; MYRMICA RUGINODIS; MYRMICA RUGULOSA; MYRMICA SCABRINODIS; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHENGARIS;

EID: 77956396291     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.01213.x     Document Type: Article

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