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Indiscriminate Feeding by a Predatory Stonefly (Plecoptera: Perlidae) in a Tropical Asian Stream

 

作者: David Dudgeon,  

 

期刊: Aquatic Insects  (Taylor Available online 2000)
卷期: Volume 22, issue 1  

页码: 39-47

 

ISSN:0165-0424

 

年代: 2000

 

DOI:10.1076/0165-0424(200001)22:1;1-Z;FT039

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

The diet of an undescribed species ofKamimuriawas investigated in Tai Po Kau Forest Stream, Hong Kong, by comparing larval gut contents with the array of available prey living on and among cobble substrates. Diets were dominated by chironomids and philopotamid caddisflies, with Baetidae, Heptageniidae, Hydropsychidae and Simuliidae comprising secondary dietary items. These six taxa made up 94% of the prey individuals eaten byKamimuria. Data analysis using a selectivity index revealed that these stoneflies fed indiscriminately, eating individual prey taxa in proportion to their availability in the environment. Large and smallKamimuriaexploited essentially the same prey. A comparison of the diet ofKamimuriawith the diets of four sympatric Odonata indicated that the degree of interspecific similarity was determined by the extent of overlap in microhabitat use. Diets ofEuphaea decorata(Zygoptera) larvae, which live under cobbles, were most similar toKamimuria. This is the first – albeit limited – study of the gut contents of a tropical Asian stonefly. The results suggest that these predators have the potential to limit benthic invertebrate abundance but, becauseKamimurialarvae feed unselectively, community structure may not be affected by their activities.

 

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