• Login
    View Item 
    •   Shocker Open Access Repository Home
    • Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
    • Biological Sciences
    • BIO Faculty Scholarship
    • BIO Faculty Publications
    • View Item
    •   Shocker Open Access Repository Home
    • Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
    • Biological Sciences
    • BIO Faculty Scholarship
    • BIO Faculty Publications
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    First record of the Leaf Chafer Beetle Leucothyreus suturalis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) inhabiting termite nests, with notes on its life history

    Date
    2015-01
    Author
    Puker, Anderson
    Ferreira, Felipe N. F.
    Rosa, Cassiano S.
    Jameson, Mary Liz
    Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z.
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Citation
    Puker, Anderson; Ferreira, Felipe N. F.; Rosa, Cassiano S.; Jameson, Mary Liz; Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z. 2015. First record of the Leaf Chafer Beetle Leucothyreus suturalis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) inhabiting termite nests, with notes on its life history. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol. 108:no. 1:pp 3-10
    Abstract
    We provide the first record of the leaf chafer beetle Leucothyreus suturalis Castelnau (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) associated with nests of Cornitermes cumulans (Kollar) and Silvestritermes holmgreni (Snyder) (Termitidae: Syntermitinae), including notes on the life cycle of the guest. We found 13 third-instar larvae in eight nests of C. cumulans and eight third-instar larvae in a single nest of S. holmgreni located in pasturelands or in forest edges of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. In nests of both termite species, L. suturalis larvae were found imbedded in peripheral areas of nests. Larval development was similar regardless of the termite host nest. We supplement the knowledge of scarab-termite associations, report the first leaf chafer (Rutelinae) association with termite hosts, and provide life history comparisons of termitophile versus nontermitophile in the genus Leucothyreus MacLeay.
    Description
    Click on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free).
    URI
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/sau004
    http://hdl.handle.net/10057/11141
    Collections
    • BIO Faculty Publications
    • Mary Liz Jameson

    Browse

    All of Shocker Open Access RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsBy TypeThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsBy Type

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2023  DuraSpace
    DSpace Express is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV