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Adult feeding habits of three Perloidea species (Plecoptera: Perlidae and Chloroperlidae)
Authors:Jacobo Rúa  José Manuel Tierno de Figueroa
Affiliation:1. Departamento de Ecología y Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spainjacrua@uvigo.es;3. Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Abstract:
The gut content composition of three species of the superfamily Perloidea, Marthamea selysii (Pictet, 1842), Dinocras cephalotes (Curtis, 1827), and Siphonoperla torrentium (Pictet, 1842), from northwestern Spain is analyzed and described. The quantity of food found in all adults of M. selysii and D. cephalotes was very low. Spores of fungi and pollen of angiosperms were the most abundant components in the diet of M. selysii. Pollen of angiosperms, followed by fungal spores, detritus, and animal matter were the most abundant components in the diet of both sexes of D. cephalotes. The adult diet of both sexes of S. torrentium consists mainly of pollen and agrees with data of the previous studies on this same species in other areas. Our results also show that the consumption of animal matter could be a way to get a nutritional complement and is more common than previously considered in adult stoneflies. The obtained data support the hypothesis that adult feeding is less important for large stoneflies (as M. selysii and D. cephalotes) than for other smaller Perloidea (as S. torrentium), but feeding habits in these large Plecoptera could not be as negligible as previously supposed.
Keywords:Plecoptera  Marthamea selysii  Dinocras cephalotes  Siphonoperla torrentium  feeding habits  imagoes  Spain
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