Diversity in Cycas (Cycadales: Cycadaceae) Species Offered as Larval Food Influences Fecundity of Chilades pandava (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Adults. (5th December 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Diversity in Cycas (Cycadales: Cycadaceae) Species Offered as Larval Food Influences Fecundity of Chilades pandava (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Adults. (5th December 2017)
- Main Title:
- Diversity in Cycas (Cycadales: Cycadaceae) Species Offered as Larval Food Influences Fecundity of Chilades pandava (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Adults
- Authors:
- Marler, Thomas E
Lindström, Anders J
Marler, Paris N - Abstract:
- Chilades pandava (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) larval food quality was studied to determine its influence on adult life history traits. A wild population from Cycas nongnoochiae (Cycadales: Cycadaceae) endemic habitat behaved similarly to the population collected from a garden setting. Cycas micronesica, Cycas revoluta, and Cycas seemannii leaves were used as high-quality food, whereas C nongnoochiae, Cycas taitungensis, and Cycas condaoensis leaves were used as low-quality food. The daily oviposition rate was not influenced by food quality, but longevity and lifetime fecundity of females were increased by high-quality larval food. These results indicate that in situ Cycas species impose a physiological constraint on the genetic capacity to produce offspring by C pandava . The removal of that constraint by high-quality novel Cycas species may be one reason this butterfly can increase in population rapidly after an invasion event and express greater herbivory of Cycas species within invaded regions.
- Is Part Of:
- International journal of insect science. Volume 9(2017)
- Journal:
- International journal of insect science
- Issue:
- Volume 9(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 9, Issue 2017 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 2017
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0009-2017-0000
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- Publication Date:
- 2017-12-05
- Subjects:
- Dietary constraints -- fitness -- Lepidoptera -- reproductive success
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- http://insights.sagepub.com/journal-international-journal-of-insect-science-j129 ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1179543317745863 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1179-5433
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