RELACIONES INTER-ESPECIFICAS ENTRE HORMIGAS, COREIDOS, MEMBRÁCIDOS Y PLANTAS: DESCRIPCIÓN DE UN EVENTO MULTITRÓFICO EN MACHAERIUM KEGELII MEISN. (FABACEAE)

Alfredo Lanuza Garay; Alonso Santos Murgas; Rodolfo Flores

Submitted July 21, 2021

Published 2021-07-20

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Vol. 31 No. 2 (2021): Scientia

INTER-SPECIFIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG ANTS, COREIDS, MEMBRACIDS, AND PLANTS: DESCRIPTION OF A MULTITROPHIC EVENT IN MACHAERIUM KEGELII MEISN. (FABACEAE)

Alfredo Lanuza Garay⁺⁻
Alonso Santos Murgas⁺⁻
Rodolfo Flores⁺⁻

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Lanuza Garay, A., Santos Murgas, A., & Flores, R. (2021). INTER-SPECIFIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG ANTS, COREIDS, MEMBRACIDS, AND PLANTS: DESCRIPTION OF A MULTITROPHIC EVENT IN MACHAERIUM KEGELII MEISN. (FABACEAE). Scientia, 31(2), 20–33. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/scientia/article/view/2285

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In nature, a series of relationships and interactions occur between species, including antagonistic (plant-herbivore, predator-prey) and mutualistic (defense, pollination) relationships. Multitrophic relationships involve three or more levels, while relationships with two trophic levels are those of plant-herbivore and predator-prey. An example of multitrophic relationship of three levels are plant- herbivore-predator/herbivore parasitoid. Through observations made on a sangrillo plant (Machaerium kegelii, Fabaceae: Papilionoideae), this study describes multitrophic events involving hunter ants (Ectatomma tuberculatum), membracids (Anchistrotus maculatus), and coreids (Peranthus notatus). We registered neutral interactions between M. kegelii and E. tuberculatum; antagonistic interactions between P. notatus, A. maculatus on M. kegelii, and facultative mutualisms between A. maculatus, and P. notatus with E. tuberculatum. The outcome of this network of multitrophic interactions shows positive effects for membracids, coreids, and ants, respectively, and negative to neutral ones for the plant.

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