2011
DOI: 10.1590/s1676-06032011000400003
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Abstract: Seventy six morphotypes of insect galls were found on 38 plant species and one subspecies distributed among 27 genera and 22 families in Platô Bacaba (Porto de Trombetas, Pará, Brazil). The majority of these galls (about 80%) occurred on leaves and 20% on stems. Burseraceae was the plant family with the greatest number of gall morphotypes (N = 23), followed by Fabaceae (N = 11) and Melastomataceae (N = 6). Protium Burm. f. (N = 17), Inga Miller (N = 8), and Tetragastris Gaertn (N = 6) were the plant genera, an… Show more

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“…The predominance of the globoid and fusiform galls is similar to the inventories in other Brazilian ecosystems, such as the restingas (Maia & Oliveira, 2010;Maia & Souza, 2013;Rodrigues, Maia, & Couri, 2014), the Cerrado strictu sensu, and the rupestrian fields (Maia & Fernandes, 2004;Carneiro et al, 2009;Malves & Frieiro-Costa, 2012), the Amazon forest (Maia, 2011), the rain forest (Santos, Almeida-Cortez, & Fernandes, 2011a;Santos, Almeida-Cortez, & Fernandes, 2012), and the caatinga (Santos, Almeida-Cortez, & Fernandes, 2011b), which demonstrates an adaptive convergence induced by the galling herbivores over the morphogenetic potential of distinct host plants. This first inventory on the vegetation of dunes indicates the neutral influence of this environment either on host species or generated morphotypes basis.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 77%
“…The predominance of the globoid and fusiform galls is similar to the inventories in other Brazilian ecosystems, such as the restingas (Maia & Oliveira, 2010;Maia & Souza, 2013;Rodrigues, Maia, & Couri, 2014), the Cerrado strictu sensu, and the rupestrian fields (Maia & Fernandes, 2004;Carneiro et al, 2009;Malves & Frieiro-Costa, 2012), the Amazon forest (Maia, 2011), the rain forest (Santos, Almeida-Cortez, & Fernandes, 2011a;Santos, Almeida-Cortez, & Fernandes, 2012), and the caatinga (Santos, Almeida-Cortez, & Fernandes, 2011b), which demonstrates an adaptive convergence induced by the galling herbivores over the morphogenetic potential of distinct host plants. This first inventory on the vegetation of dunes indicates the neutral influence of this environment either on host species or generated morphotypes basis.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 77%
“…This pattern has been observed in almost all Brazilian inventories, as well as in a majority of cases elsewhere in the world, probably because leaves represent an abundant and frequently renewable resource, with undifferentiated meristematic cells which are essential to gall growth (Maia 2011 Africa, where stem galls are the most frequent as indicated by Carneiro et al (2009) andVeldtman &McGeoch (2003), respectively. According to these authors, stems are safer than leaves as oviposition sites as they do not suffer mechanical injuries caused by winds or other herbivores.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…This is a surprising result as the frequency of parasitoids is higher than this value in all Brazilian inventories: 23% in Luiz Antô nio, SP (Saito & Urso-Guimarã es 2012); 31% in Guarapari, ES ; 35% in Tiradentes, MG (Maia & Fernandes, 2004); 48% in Bertioga, SP (Maia et al 2008); 60% in restingas of Rio de Janeiro (Maia & Azevedo 2009), 71% in Pirenó polis, GO (Araujo et al 2007), excepting by Porto de Trombetas, where the frequency of parasitoids is about 3% (Maia 2011). According to Fernandes & Price (1992), parasitism is higher in mesic habitats because of longer maturation and hardening of the gall; however, this was not observed in the present study.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 93%
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