How galling herbivores share a single super-host plant during their phenological cycle: the case of Mimosa gemmulata Barneby (Fabaceae)

• Published in: Tropical ecology Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 61 - 74
• Main Authors: Costa, Elaine C., Martini, Vitor C., Souza-Silva, Aline, Lemos-Filho, José P., Oliveira, Denis C., Isaias, Rosy M. S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi Springer India 01.03.2022; Scientific Publishers
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Conservation Biology/Ecology; Ecology; Ecosystems; Flushing; Galling; Herbivores; Host plants; Insects; Landscape Ecology; Leaves; Life cycles; Life Sciences; Lopesia; Microenvironments; Microhabitats; Mimosa gemmulata; Rainy season; Research Article; Seasonal variations; Stems; Water availability; Water potential; Gall abundance; Multivoltinism; Gall-induction overlapping; Plant-interaction; Phenological synchronism; Seasonality

The success of the galling insects sharing the same microhabitat depends both on the synchrony of their life cycles with the leaf flushing of the super-host plant and to the asynchrony among their life cycles. The asynchrony of the multivoltine life cycles of Lopesia spp. (Diptera—Cecidomyiidae) is...