First record of Cyphoderus innominatus Mills, 1938 (Collembola: Paronellidae) in Early Colonies of the Leaf-cutting Ant Atta sexdens

Authors

  • Tarcísio Marcos Macedo Mota Filho Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brasil http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2157-261X
  • Kátia Kaelly Andrade Sousa Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brasil
  • Roberto Silva Camargo Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brasil
  • João Victor Lemos Cavalcante Oliveira Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campus V, João Pessoa - PB, Brasil
  • Nadia Caldato Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brasil
  • Douglas Zeppelini Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campus V, João Pessoa - PB, Brasil
  • Luiz Carlos Forti Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v68i2.5922

Keywords:

Attini, Cyphoderus, Myrmecophily, Cyphoderinae

Abstract

Cyphoderus innominatus Mills, 1938 (Collembola: Paronellidae) was first observed in early colonies of Atta sexdens leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The colonies were collected on February 6, 2019, from a transition area between the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado, located in the municipality of Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. A total of four colonies collected had an average population density of 227 ± 212 C. innominatus individuals, and most of the latter were found in peripheral areas inside the fungus-garden-growing chamber of the colony. In addition, we observed a possible defensive behavior on the part of workers when C. innominatus individuals were present in the fungus garden chamber. Thus, this is the first record of C. innominatus living in association with early colonies of A. sexdens. 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Tarcísio Marcos Macedo Mota Filho, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brasil

                 

Kátia Kaelly Andrade Sousa, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brasil

                                  Departamento de Proteção Vegetal

Roberto Silva Camargo, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brasil

                                      Departamento de Proteção Vegetal

João Victor Lemos Cavalcante Oliveira, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campus V, João Pessoa - PB, Brasil

                                  

Nadia Caldato, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brasil

                                    
Departamento de Proteção Vegetal

Douglas Zeppelini, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campus V, João Pessoa - PB, Brasil

                        

Luiz Carlos Forti, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brasil

                      

References

Camargo SR, Forti LC. 2013. Queen lipid content and nest growth in the leaf cutting ant (Atta sexdens rubropilosa) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History. 47(1-2): 65-73. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.738836.

Castaño-Meneses G, Palacios-Vargas JG, Delabie JHC, Zeppelini D, Mariano CSF. 2017. Springtails (Collembola) associated with nests of fungus-growing ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini) in southern Bahia, Brazil. Florida Entomologist. 100(4): 740-742. doi: https://doi.org/10.1653/024.100.0421.

Dekoninck W, Lock K, Janssens F. 2007. Acceptance of two native myrmecophilous species, Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii (Isopoda: Oniscidea) and Cyphoderus albinus (Collembola: Cyphoderidae) by the introduced invasive garden ant Lasius neglectus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Belgium. European Journal of Entomology. 104(1): 159-161. doi: https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2007.023.

Delamare Deboutteville CL. Recherches sur les Collemboles termithophiles et myrmécophiles. 1948. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale. 85: 261-425.

Eidmann H. 1937. Die gäste und gastverhältnisse der blattschneiderameise Atta sexdens L. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere. 32(3): 391-462.

Forti LC, Camargo RS, Verza SS, Andrade APP, Fujihara RT, Lopes JF. 2007. Microdon tigrinus Curran, 1940 (Diptera, Syrphidae): Populational fluctuation and specificity to the nest of Acromyrmex coronatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology. 50(3): 909-919.

Fowler HG. 1981. Behaviour of two myrmecophiles of Paraguayan leaf-cutting ants. Revista Chilena de Entomologia. 11: 69-72.

Hölldobler B, Wilson EO. 1990. The Ants. Harvard University Press.

Hughes DP, Pierce NE, Boomsma JJ. 2008. Social insect symbionts: evolution in homeostatic fortresses. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 23(12): 672-677. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.011.

Jordana R, Arbea JI, Simón C, Luciáñez MJ. 1997. Collembola Poduromorpha. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid. 807 pp.

Kistner DH. 1982. The social insects bestiary. Social insects. In: Hermann HR, editor. Social Insects. Vol. 3. New York, Academic Press. p. 1-245.

Kweskin MP. 2004. Jigging in the fungus-growing ant Cyphomyrmex costatus: a response to collembolan garden invaders?. Insectes sociaux. 51(2): 158-162. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-003-0712-2.

Oliveira JVLC, Alves JLS, Zeppelini D. 2017. Two new Cyphoderus (Collembola: Paronellidae) of" tridenticulati" and" bidenticulati" groups from Brazilian Amazon. Zootaxa. 4350(1): 47-60. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.2.

Rocha FH, Lachaud JP, Pérez-Lachaud G. 2020. Myrmecophilous organisms associated with colonies of the ponerine ant Neoponera villosa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) nesting in Aechmea bracteata bromeliads: A biodiversity hotspot. Myrmecological News. 30: 73-92. doi: https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_030:073.

Sudd JH. 1982. Ants: foraging, nesting, brood behavior, and polyethism. In: Hermann HR (Ed.). Social Insects. Vol. 4. New York, Academic Press. p. 107-155.

Waller DA, Moser JC. 1990. Invertebrate enemies and nest associates of the leaf-cutting ant Atta texana (Buckley) (Formicidae, Attini). In: Meer RKV, Jaffe K, Cedeno A, editors. Applied Myrmecology – A world perspective. San Francisco, Westview Press. p. 255-273.

Weber NA. 1957. Fungus-growing ants and their fungi: Cyphomyrmex costatus. Ecology. 38(3): 480-494. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/1929893.

Weber NA. 1958. Evolution in fungus-growing ants. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Entomology. 2: 459-473.

Weber NA. 1972. Gardening Ants, the Attines. The American Philosophical Society, Philadelpha, Penn. 146 pp.

Zeppelini D, Oliveira JV. 2016. Chaetotaxy of Neotropical Cyphoderus caetetus sp. nov. with comments on the taxonomic position of Cyphoderinae within Paronellidae (Collembola, Entomobryoidea). Zootaxa. 4098(3): 560-570. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4098.3.8.

Downloads

Published

2021-05-20

How to Cite

Mota Filho, T. M. M., Sousa, K. K. A., Camargo, R. S., Oliveira, J. V. L. C., Caldato, N., Zeppelini, D., & Forti, L. C. (2021). First record of Cyphoderus innominatus Mills, 1938 (Collembola: Paronellidae) in Early Colonies of the Leaf-cutting Ant Atta sexdens. Sociobiology, 68(2), e5922. https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v68i2.5922

Issue

Vol. 68 No. 2 (2021)

Section

Short Note

License

Sociobiology is a diamond open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

 

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

 

    1. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

 

  1. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Most read articles by the same author(s)

1 2 > >>