Appendix A (TABLE A1). A list of the macroinvertebrate taxa occurring in the tank-bromeliad Aechmea mertensii associated with ant-gardens inhabited by the ants Camponotus femoratus and Pachycondyla goeldii.
Ant-gardens† |
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Phylum |
Class |
Order |
Family |
Sub-family |
Tribe |
Species |
C. femoratus |
P. goeldii |
Arthropoda |
Insecta |
Diptera |
Culicidae |
Culicinae |
Culicini |
Culex sp.1 |
+ |
+ |
Culex sp.2 |
+ |
+ |
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Toxorhynchitini |
Toxorhynchites sp.1 |
+ |
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Toxorhynchites sp.3 |
+ |
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Toxorhynchites purpureus |
+ |
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Toxorhynchites trichopygus |
+ |
+ |
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Sabethini |
Wyeomyia aphobema |
+ |
+ |
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Wyeomyia splendida |
+ |
+ |
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Wyeomyia sp.1 |
+ |
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Wyeomyia forattinii |
+ |
+ |
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Corethrellidae |
Corethrella sp. |
+ |
+ |
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Ceratopogonidae |
Ceratopogoninae |
+ |
+ |
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Forcipomyinae |
Forcipomyinae sp.1 |
+ |
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Forcipomyinae sp.2 |
+ |
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Chironomidae |
Chironomini |
+ |
+ |
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Orthocladiinae |
+ |
+ |
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Tanypodinae |
+ |
+ |
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Cecidomyidae |
Cecidomyiidae sp.1 |
+ |
+ |
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Psychodidae |
Telmascopus sp. |
+ |
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Limoniidae |
Limoniinae |
+ |
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Tabanidae |
+ |
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Coleoptera |
Scirtidae |
Scirtinae |
Scirtes sp. |
+ |
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Helodidae |
Cyphon sp. |
+ |
+ |
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Odonata |
Coenagrionidae |
Coenagrionidae sp.1 |
+ |
+ |
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Acari |
Hydracarina‡ |
+ |
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Annelida |
Oligochaeta |
Naididae |
Aulophorus superterrenus |
+ |
+ |
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Pristina osborni |
+ |
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Aelosomatidae |
Aelosoma sp. |
+ |
Notes: Bold characters indicate the level of taxonomic resolution for this study. Culicidae and Chironomidae were found both as larvae and pupae, all other insects were only found as larvae.
† "+" = present.
‡ Sub-order.