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Host plant toxins and unpalatability of Neacoryphus bicrucis (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)
Authors:DENSON K McLAIN  DONALD J SHURE
Institution:Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Abstract:Abstract. 1. Host plant choice of the seed bug, Neacoryphus bicrucis Say (Hemiritera, Lygaeidae), was evaluated in four different Georgia habitats. N. bicrucis utilized only species of Senecio as host plants at a granite outcrop and at old fields on the coastal plain, in the piedmont, and in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
2. In laboratory tests N. bicrucis is distasteful to the green anole lizard, Anolis carolinensis Voight. Only six of ninety field-collected bugs were eaten in palatability trials while eighty-four of the remaining ninety attacked bugs were rejected by lizards without apparent harm. However, the bugs were palatable to Fowler's toads, Bufo woodhousei fowleri Hinckley, which ate all thirty-six bugs offered to them.
3. N. bicrucis selectively sequesters pyrrolizidine alkaloids from Senecio spp. These may cause the insects' distastefulness to green anoles. In palatability trials, lizards ate all twenty insects reared on sunflower seeds, Helianthus annus, but rejected all twenty reared on Senecio smallii.
Keywords:Alkaloids  Anolis carolinesis  Bufo woodhousei fowleri  host specialization  insects  Neacoryphus bicrucis  old fields  palatability  plant-animal interactions  Senecio
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