Is Acerentomon italicum Nosek, 1969 (Protura: Acerentomidae) a species complex?

Galli, Loris; Zinni, Matteo; Shrubovych, Julia; Colasanto, Elisa

doi:10.35929/rsz.0040

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“…In laboratory cultures, proturans survive on mycorrhizal fungi, but also dead mites and mushroom powder (Tipping, 2008). In forest soil, the abundance of ectomycorrhizal fungi and Protura have been shown to be positively correlated (Pass & Szucsich, 2011; Galli et al ., 2019). A recent study based on stable isotope and fatty acid analyses confirmed that Protura are one of the rare invertebrate groups to specialise on ectomycorrhizal fungi as food source (Bluhm et al ., 2019).…”

Section: Synopsis Of Feeding Habitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Protura, also known as coneheads, are small soil-dwelling microarthropods that occur worldwide in soils, mosses, litter, and under bark and rocks (Nosek, 1977;Pass & Szucsich, 2011;Galli et al, 2019). Proturans are considered microbivores in soil food webs (Galli et al, 2019) and may serve as prey for small predators, such as spiders, mites and pseudoscorpions (Orgiazzi et al, 2016). Proturans have stylet-like mandibles and maxillae, thus being well adapted to sucking.…”

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Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

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Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground biodiversity and, ultimately, human nutrition. Soil ecologists often operate with functional groups to infer the effects of individual taxa on ecosystem functions and services. Simultaneous assessment of the functional roles of multiple taxa is possible using food‐web reconstructions, but our knowledge of the feeding habits of many taxa is insufficient and often based on limited evidence. Over the last two decades, molecular, biochemical and isotopic tools have improved our understanding of the feeding habits of various soil organisms, yet this knowledge is still to be synthesised into a common functional framework. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of the feeding habits of consumers in soil, including protists, micro‐, meso‐ and macrofauna (invertebrates), and soil‐associated vertebrates. We have integrated existing functional group classifications with findings gained with novel methods and compiled an overarching classification across taxa focusing on key universal traits such as food resource preferences, body masses, microhabitat specialisation, protection and hunting mechanisms. Our summary highlights various strands of evidence that many functional groups commonly used in soil ecology and food‐web models are feeding on multiple types of food resources. In many cases, omnivory is observed down to the species level of taxonomic resolution, challenging realism of traditional soil food‐web models based on distinct resource‐based energy channels. Novel methods, such as stable isotope, fatty acid and DNA gut content analyses, have revealed previously hidden facets of trophic relationships of soil consumers, such as food assimilation, multichannel feeding across trophic levels, hidden trophic niche differentiation and the importance of alternative food/prey, as well as energy transfers across ecosystem compartments. Wider adoption of such tools and the development of open interoperable platforms that assemble morphological, ecological and trophic data as traits of soil taxa will enable the refinement and expansion of the multifunctional classification of consumers in soil. The compiled multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers will serve as a reference for ecologists working with biodiversity changes and biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships, making soil food‐web research more accessible and reproducible.

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Section: Synopsis Of Feeding Habitsmentioning

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Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

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“…Acerentomon affine Bagnall, 1912 NW, NE (Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Aldaba, 1985;Condé, 1944bCondé, , 1945Cunha, 1952;Cvijoivić, 1982;Galli, 2022;Nosek, 1973;Szeptycki, 2007 Acerentomon balcanicum Ionescu, 1933 NW, NE (Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece) Cvijoivić, 1970Cvijoivić, , 1972Cvijoivić, , 1974bCvijoivić, , 1982Dematteis, 1972;Galli, 2022;Galli et al, 2011Galli et al, , 2021aNosek, 1973Nosek, , 1978Szeptycki, 2007;Živadinović et al, 1967 Acerentomon Nosek, 1973;Szeptycki, 2007;Tuxen, 1964 Acerentomon italicum Nosek, 196 NW, NE (France, Italy, Slovenia) Galli, 2022;Galli et al, , 2021aGalli et al, , 2021bNosek, 1969aNosek, , 1973Szeptycki, 2007 Acerentomon maius Berlese, 1908 NW (Italy) Berlese, 1908b;Dematteis, 1972;Galli, 2022;Galli et al, 2011;Nosek, 1973;Szeptycki, 2007;Tuxen, 1964 Galli, 2023…”

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The diversity of Protura (Arthropoda, Hexapoda) in the Mediterranean area

Galli¹

2023

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The Mediterranean area is one of the biodiversity hotspots where some soil-borne taxa reach a high peak of diversity. Within this community, Protura is a poorly known taxon of euedaphic microarthropods. Based on the literature, 77 species belonging to 15 genera, arranged into four families and two orders have been recorded in the Mediterranean Basin. Records are concentrated in the northern part of this area (56 species are known in the North West and 28 in the North East), followed by Macaronesia (20 species) South-West (10) and . This diversity distribution follows the uneven research effort dealing with this taxon. Much work is still needed, especially in areas that have been completely or largely neglected by researchers to date, before it can be considered that a solid knowledge base has been laid on Protura diversity and distribution.

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“…Los Protura son hexápodos entognatos edáficos de pequeño tamaño (0,6-2,5 mm de longitud) (Palacios-Vargas y García-Gómez 2014; Galli et al 2019a), descritos por primera vez en 1907 por el entomólogo italiano Filippo Silvestri (Pass y Szucsich 2011). Poseen un cuerpo alargado, vermiforme y poco esclerosado (Melic 2015), con una cutícula no pigmentada, por lo que es común que posean una coloración blanquecina o amarillo pálido, a excepción de los Sinentomidae, los cuales son marrón-rojizos (Galli et al 2019a). La cabeza es pequeña, piriforme, con piezas bucales estiliformes y mandíbulas monocondílicas alargadas y puntiagudas, con una función succionadora; carecen de ojos, ocelos, tentorio y antenas, siendo esto último una singularidad dentro de los Hexapoda.…”

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Notas sobre los Protura (Arthropoda: Hexapoda) de Chile: síntesis basada en la literatura científica

Román-de-la-Fuente

2024

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Is Acerentomon italicum Nosek, 1969 (Protura: Acerentomidae) a species complex?

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Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

The diversity of Protura (Arthropoda, Hexapoda) in the Mediterranean area

Notas sobre los Protura (Arthropoda: Hexapoda) de Chile: síntesis basada en la literatura científica

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