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| العنوان: |
Predation of a scorpion (Scorpiones: Buthidae) by an assassin bug (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. |
| المؤلفون: |
LIRA, André Felipe de Araujo1 andref.lira@gmail.com, de ARAÚJO, Victor Luiz Nascimento2, de ALBUQUERQUE, Cleide Maria Ribeiro2 |
| المصدر: |
Turkish Journal of Zoology. 2016, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p294-296. 3p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*SCORPIONS, *BUTHIDAE, *HEMIPTERA, *ASSASSIN bugs |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
MATA Atlantica (Brazil) |
| مستخلص: |
Litter-dwelling arthropods comprise about three-fourths of the total animal biomass in tropical forests. These invertebrates are involved in many interspecific interactions, from mutualism to predation. We report herein the predation of a scorpion by an immature assassin bug (Harpactorini) during a nocturnal manual search for scorpions in a fragment of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The specimens were found 15 cm above the ground on a seedling, and the prey was two-fold larger than the predator. The assassin bug had its rostrum inserted into the pleura of a juvenile Tityus pusillus Pocock, 1893 scorpion, between the first and second segments of the mesosoma; when disturbed, the predator jumped to the leaf litter without releasing its prey. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of juvenile predator-prey interactions between a heteropteran and a scorpion in this biome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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