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Specialized predation on plataspid heteropterans in a coccinellid beetle: adaptive behavior and responses of prey attended or not by ants
2002
Behavioral Ecology
Two plataspid hemipteran species proliferated on Bridelia micrantha (Euphorbiaceae). Colonies of Libyaspis sp., never attended by ants, developed on branches, while Caternaultiella rugosa lived at the base of the trunks, mostly in association with Camponotus brutus that attends them in carton shelters. Both plataspid species are prey of the coccinellid beetle Anisolemnia tetrasticta, whose larvae always detected them by contact. When attacked the Libyaspis nymphs cowered, so that the
doi:10.1093/beheco/13.2.154
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