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A comparison of hispine beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) associated with three orders of monocot host plants in lowland Panama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2007

Christophe Meskens ,
Donald Windsor  and
Thierry Hance
Christophe Meskens*
Affiliation:
Unité d'Écologie et de Biogéographie, Biodiversity Research Centre, Université catholique de Louvain, 4-5, Place Croix du Sud, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium
Donald Windsor
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Panama
Thierry Hance
Affiliation:
Unité d'Écologie et de Biogéographie, Biodiversity Research Centre, Université catholique de Louvain, 4-5, Place Croix du Sud, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium
*
*E-mail: cmeskens@yahoo.fr; Hance@ecol.ucl.ac.be
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Abstract

The feeding traces in fossil ginger leaves and the conserved phylogenetic relationships seen today in certain clades of hispine beetles on their monocot hosts point towards a long and intimate plant–insect evolutionary relationship. Studies in the 1970s and 1980s documented the rich fauna of rolled-leaf hispine beetles and their association with the Neotropical monocot family Heliconiaceae in Central America. In this report, the taxonomic breadth of these early studies is expanded to include species in the families, Marantaceae, Poaceae, Arecaceae and Costaceae, all with species occurring sympatrically with the Heliconiaceae in lowland Panama. Additionally, the analysis is widened to include open-leaf scraping and internal leaf-mining clades of hispoid Cassidinae. The censuses add more than 5080 Cassidinae herbivore occurrence records on both open and unfurled new leaf rolls of 4600 individual plants. Cluster analysis reveals that while many Hispinae species tend to group with plant species in only one of the three monocot orders, 9 of 16 Hispinae species on Zingiberales hosts were recorded in substantial numbers on both the Heliconiaceae and the Marantaceae, indicating an underlying pattern of feeding flexibility at the host plant family level.

Keywords

CassidinaeArecalesPoalesZingiberaleshispine beetlesspecies assemblages
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Research Paper
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International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 27 , Issue 3-4 , December 2007 , pp. 159 - 171
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Copyright © ICIPE 2008

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