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Phytophaga is a clade of beetles within the infraorder Cucujiformia consisting of the superfamilies Chrysomeloidea and Curculionoidea that are distinctive in the plant-feeding habit combined with the tarsi being pseudotetramerous or cryptopentamerous, where the fourth tarsal segment is typically greatly reduced or hidden by the third tarsal segment.
They are also called phytophagous insects. These insects may eat essential parts of the plant, such as the leaves or sap, or they may survive on the pollen and nectar produced by the plant. These insects will compete with other organisms for limited plant host in an environment where there is constant change in plant availability and quality. [20]
They are parasitoids of phytophagous insects, primarily flies. The 44 species in 15 genera are almost entirely absent from the New World. The biology of most species of Tetracampidae is little studied. Most of those whose hosts are known are associated with insects that mine in plants.
Calliphara nobilis (commonly known as the mangrove jewel bug, mangrove shield bug, or mangrove stink bug) is a species of jewel bug found in Asia. Like all species of jewel bugs, it is phytophagous, feeding on the leaves, fruit and seeds of its host plants. [2]
Specifically, Bush reasoned that phytophagous insects that both consume and reproduce on specific host plants provide opportunities for speciation without strict geographical isolation (as in allopatric speciation) because, as the insects adapt to feeding on a new host plant, they are also more likely to mate with other members of their species ...
They are almost exclusively phytophagous insects, forming galls in plant stems, leaves, or seeds. The some 90 species in 9 genera are primarily tropical and subtropical. The some 90 species in 9 genera are primarily tropical and subtropical.
Evolutionary ecology of the relationship between oviposition preference and performance of offspring in phytophagous insects, Entomologia experimentalis et applicata, Band 47, 1988, S. 3–14; Variation in interspecific interactions,. Annual review of ecology and systematics, Band 19, 1988, S. 65–87
Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive-ito) [2] is Spanish and Portuguese for little fly. [3] Mosquitoes have a slender segmented body, one pair of wings, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and specialized, highly elongated, piercing-sucking mouthparts.