Aphid-Tending Ants and Their Effects on Natural Enemies Used in the Biological Control

Canedo-Júnior, E. O.; Monteiro, Ana Cristina Andrade; Queiroz, Antônio César Medeiros de; Silva, Graziele Santiago

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-24733-1_42

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“…workers were employed to suppress citrus pests with a method that is still used nowadays in China (Huang and Yang, 1987;Offenberg, 2015). In contrast, ants may be detrimental to plants because of their mutualistic relationships with honeydew-producing pests in order to obtain carbohydrates (Way, 1963;Stadler and Dixon, 2005;Canedo-Júnior et al, 2019).…”

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Ants affect citrus pests and their natural enemies in contrasting ways

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“…It is unclear which of these microbes are primary or obligate from the host’s perspective, or secondary (facultative), functioning to enable their hosts to survive biotic or abiotic stresses or thrive in particular niches ( Oliver et al., 2012 ; White et al., 2013 ; Oliver et al., 2014 ; Guidolin et al., 2018 ; Santos-Garcia et al., 2018 ; Lemoine et al., 2020 ). Many membracids further depend on additional behavioral symbioses with ants, bees, and wasps ( Delabie, 2001 ; Godoy et al., 2006 ; Ibarra-Isassi and Oliveira, 2018 ; Klimes et al., 2018 ; Canedo-Júnior et al., 2019 ; dos Santos et al., 2019 ), which feed on the membracids’ secreted honeydew which, in turn, contains additional symbiotic microbes ( Leroy et al., 2011 ; Fischer et al., 2015 ; Calcagnile et al., 2019 ; Shamim et al., 2019 ). However, there are few molecular studies of membracid symbioses.…”

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Co-Occurrence of Viruses, Plant Pathogens, and Symbionts in an Underexplored Hemipteran Clade

Salazar

Pupo

Brown

2021

Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.

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Interactions between insect symbionts and plant pathogens are dynamic and complex, sometimes involving direct antagonism or synergy and sometimes involving ecological and evolutionary leaps, as insect symbionts transmit through plant tissues or plant pathogens transition to become insect symbionts. Hemipterans such as aphids, whiteflies, psyllids, leafhoppers, and planthoppers are well-studied plant pests that host diverse symbionts and vector plant pathogens. The related hemipteran treehoppers (family Membracidae) are less well-studied but offer a potentially new and diverse array of symbionts and plant pathogenic interactions through their distinct woody plant hosts and ecological interactions with diverse tending hymenopteran taxa. To explore membracid symbiont–pathogen diversity and co-occurrence, this study performed shotgun metagenomic sequencing on 20 samples (16 species) of treehopper, and characterized putative symbionts and pathogens using a combination of rapid blast database searches and phylogenetic analysis of assembled scaffolds and correlation analysis. Among the 8.7 billion base pairs of scaffolds assembled were matches to 9 potential plant pathogens, 12 potential primary and secondary insect endosymbionts, numerous bacteriophages, and other viruses, entomopathogens, and fungi. Notable discoveries include a divergent Brenneria plant pathogen-like organism, several bee-like Bombella and Asaia strains, novel strains of Arsenophonus-like and Sodalis-like symbionts, Ralstonia sp. and Ralstonia-type phages, Serratia sp., and APSE-type phages and bracoviruses. There were several short Phytoplasma and Spiroplasma matches, but there was no indication of plant viruses in these data. Clusters of positively correlated microbes such as yeast-like symbionts and Ralstonia, viruses and Serratia, and APSE phage with parasitoid-type bracoviruses suggest directions for future analyses. Together, results indicate membracids offer a rich palette for future study of symbiont–plant pathogen interactions.

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Pharsalus repandus Melichar, 1906 (Hemiptera, Ricaniidae): first record of ant-attendance in the family, ethological notes, and new records from Brazil

DOMAHOVSKI,

PALADINI

2024

Zootaxa

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Ant attendance or trophobiosis is widely distributed in Auchenorrhyncha and can be deﬁned as a disjunctive association, an interspeciﬁc relationship between two symbiotic organisms. Aggregation behavior with or without ant mutualism has been documented for nymphs and adults in a few families of Fulgoromorpha whereas ant-attendance is reported for all planthopper families except for Ricaniidae. Based on field observations of Pharsalus repandus Melichar, 1906, the present work aims to record the first mutualistic interaction of ant-attendance in a species of the family Ricaniidae, report its aggregation behavior, its host plant, and expand its known distribution to the states of Paraná and Minas Gerais. Two ants were attending the planthoppers at the same time, identified as Camponotus (Myrmotrhix) rufipes (Fabricius, 1775) and Camponotus (Myrmobrachys) crassus Mayr, 1862. We noted direct contact and observed the ants employing antennal palpation behavior to stimulate the planthoppers to deliver honeydew.

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Aphid-Tending Ants and Their Effects on Natural Enemies Used in the Biological Control

Cited by 3 publications

References 42 publications

Ants affect citrus pests and their natural enemies in contrasting ways

Ants affect citrus pests and their natural enemies in contrasting ways

Co-Occurrence of Viruses, Plant Pathogens, and Symbionts in an Underexplored Hemipteran Clade

Pharsalus repandus Melichar, 1906 (Hemiptera, Ricaniidae): first record of ant-attendance in the family, ethological notes, and new records from Brazil

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