Arthropods Kleptoparasitism

1 arthropods

1.1 bees , wasps
1.2 flies
1.3 dung beetles
1.4 true bugs
1.5 ants
1.6 spiders

arthropods

cuckoo bee genus nomada


bees , wasps

there many lineages of cuckoo bees, of lay eggs in nest cells of other bees within same family. bombus bohemicus, example, parasitises several other species of bombus, including bombus terrestris, bombus lucorum (white-tailed bumblebee), , bombus cryptarum.

the cuckoo wasps include family chrysididae. many species of chrisidid lay eggs in nests of potter , mud dauber wasps; other wasps parasitise related species, example polistes sulcifer, parasitises polistes dominula. these insects referred kleptoparasites; other terms used (not exact synonyms) inquiline , brood parasite.

flies


sarcophaga sp. feeding on captured prey (tipulidae) of spider (video, 1 m 44s)



miltogrammine fly (craticulina seriata) kleptoparasite of sand wasps, depositing larvae on food reserved larvae of wasp

some flies kleptoparasites, common in subfamily miltogramminae of family sarcophagidae. there kleptoparasites in families chloropidae , milichiidae. adult milichiids, example, visit spider webs scavenge on half-eaten stink bugs. others associated robber flies (asilidae), or crematogaster ants. flies in genus bengalia (calliphoridae) steal food , pupae transported ants , found beside foraging trails. musca albina (muscidae) reportedly shows kleptoparasitic behaviour, laying eggs in dung balls being interred 1 out of several co-occurring dung-rolling scarab species.

dung beetles

scarab dung beetles relocate vast amounts of vertebrate dung establish nests. few species not transport dung materials, merely use reserves made other species, either roller or tunneller . examples genus cleptocaccobius (small species parasiting balls of roller dung beetles), , genus pedaria (whose species nidificate in nests of large tunneller dung beetles in tropical africa).

true bugs

velia caprai (ardennes, belgium)

many semiaquatic bugs (heteroptera) known engage in kleptoparastism of prey. in 1 study, whenever bug velia caprai (water cricket) took prey heavier 7.9 g, other bugs of same species joined , ate parts of prey.

ants

spiders

argyrodes flavescens on web of argiope pulchella

kleptoparasitic spiders, steal or feed on prey captured other spiders, known occur in 5 families:

theridiidae (argyrodes species)
dictynidae (archaeodictyna ulova)
salticidae (species of portia , simaetha)
symphytognathidae (curimagua bayano)
mysmenidae (isela okuncana, kilifia inquilina, , mysmenopsis species).




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