Eating with the enemy? Mimic complex between a stingless bee and assassin bugs

Alvarez, Leopoldo Jesús; Zamudio, Fernando; Melo, María Cecilia

doi:10.11606/1807-0205/2019.59.27

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“…A different strategy are found among certain predatory assassin bugs (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Apiomerus Hahn, 1831, Notocyrtus Burmeister, 1835, Pahabengkakia Miller, 1941, a.o.) that resemble stingless bees (Kerr, 1951;Jackson, 1973;Johnson, 1983;Roubik, 1989;Gonzales-Bustamante, 1995;Silva & Gil-Santana, 2004;Wattanachaiyingcharoen & Jongjitvimol, 2007;Alvarez et al, 2019). This is possibly in order to approach and prey on flower visiting insects.…”

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New host record for the enigmatic Neotropical mantidfly genus Anchieta Navás, 1909 (Neuroptera, Mantispidae), a mimic of wasps and stingless bees

Rasmussen

Ardila-Camacho

2021

Pap. Avulsos Zool.

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Species of Symphrasinae (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) are ectoparasitoids of larvae and pupae of holometabolous insects, primarily of Hymenoptera in their larval stages. Herein we present the third case of an association between the mantidfly genus Anchieta Navás, 1909 with the order Hymenoptera. The hymenopteran species attacked by the as of yet undescribed species of Anchieta is Montezumia dimidiata Saussure, 1852 (Vespidae: Eumeninae), a predacious wasp that constructs mud nests. The association was observed in Peruvian Amazonia (near Tarapoto, San Martín), after rearing the mantidflies from a wasp nest. The biology and mimicry pattern with stingless bees of the reared Anchieta species is discussed.

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Section: Mimickingmentioning

confidence: 99%

New host record for the enigmatic Neotropical mantidfly genus Anchieta Navás, 1909 (Neuroptera, Mantispidae), a mimic of wasps and stingless bees

Rasmussen

Ardila-Camacho

2021

Pap. Avulsos Zool.

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Chenicoris dilatatus, a remarkable new genus and new species of assassin bug (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from southern China

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Wang²,

Hu³

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Eur. J. Entomol.

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Bombardiers and assassins: mimetic interactions between unequally defended insects

Sugiura

Hayashi²

2023

PeerJ

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In defensive mimicry, resemblance between unequally defended species can be parasitic; this phenomenon has been termed quasi-Batesian mimicry. Few studies have used real co-mimics and their predators to test whether the mimetic interactions were parasitic. Here, we investigated the mimetic interaction between two well-defended insect species, the bombardier beetle Pheropsophus occipitalis jessoensis (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and the assassin bug Sirthenea flavipes (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), using their potential predator, the pond frog Pelophylax nigromaculatus (Anura: Ranidae), which coexists with these insect species in the same habitat in Japan. We observed behavioural responses of this frog species (adults and juveniles) to adult Ph. occipitalis jessoensis and adult S. flavipes under laboratory conditions. Among the frogs, 100% and 75% rejected Ph. occipitalis jessoensis and S. flavipes, respectively, suggesting that, compared with the assassin bug S. flavipes, the bombardier beetle Ph. occipitalis jessoensis is more well-defended against frogs. An assassin bug or a bombardier beetle was provided to a frog that had encountered the other insect species. Frogs with a history of assassin bug encounter demonstrated a lower rate of attack toward bombardier beetles. Similarly, frogs with a history of bombardier beetle encounter demonstrated a lower rate of attack toward assassin bugs. Therefore, both the bombardier beetle Ph. occipitalis jessoensis and the assassin bug S. flavipes benefit from the mimetic interaction.

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Eating with the enemy? Mimic complex between a stingless bee and assassin bugs

Cited by 3 publications

References 39 publications

New host record for the enigmatic Neotropical mantidfly genus Anchieta Navás, 1909 (Neuroptera, Mantispidae), a mimic of wasps and stingless bees

New host record for the enigmatic Neotropical mantidfly genus Anchieta Navás, 1909 (Neuroptera, Mantispidae), a mimic of wasps and stingless bees

Chenicoris dilatatus, a remarkable new genus and new species of assassin bug (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from southern China

Bombardiers and assassins: mimetic interactions between unequally defended insects

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