Aphis clerodendri Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae), attendant ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and associates on Clerodendrum (Verbenaceae) in Australia |
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| Authors: | Mary Carver ,Nico Blü thgen,Judy F Grimshaw, Glenn A Bellis |
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| Affiliation: | CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.;Lehrstuhl Tierökologie I, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany.;Northern Australian Quarantine Strategy, PO Box 1054, Mareeba, Qld 4880, Australia.;Northern Australian Quarantine Strategy, GPO Box 3000, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Aphis clerodendri Matsumura is newly recorded from Australia and is known from the Northern Territory, on islands in Torres Strait, and in rainforest in northern Queensland and New South Wales. It induces the formation of leaf pseudogalls on native species of Clerodendrum and is commonly attended by ants, which penetrate and may polydomously nest in the galls. Previously known only from eastern Asia, A. clerodendri can now be classified as native to Australia and Australasian in natural distribution. The species is also newly recorded from Papua New Guinea and Vietnam. |
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| Keywords: | aphid−ant mutualism Camponotus Coccinellidae Episyrphus (Asiobaccha) gall formation Iridomyrmex Notoncus Paratrechina Pheidole Scymnodes Syrphidae Technomyrmex |
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