دورية أكاديمية
Long horns protect Hestina japonica butterfly larvae from their natural enemies
| العنوان: | Long horns protect Hestina japonica butterfly larvae from their natural enemies |
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| المؤلفون: | Kandori, I., Hiramatsu, M., Soda, M., Nakashima, S., Funami, S., Yokoi, T., Tsuchihara, K., Papaj, D.R. |
| المساهمون: | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona |
| المصدر: | Scientific reports |
| بيانات النشر: | Nature |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | The University of Arizona: UA Campus Repository |
| الوصف: | Animals sometimes have prominent projections on or near their heads serving diverse functions such as male combat, mate attraction, digging, capturing prey, sensing or defence against predators. Some butterfly larvae possess a pair of long frontal projections; however, the function of those projections is not well known. Hestina japonica butterfly larvae have a pair of long hard projections on their heads (i.e., horns). Here we hypothesized that they use these horns to protect themselves from natural enemies (i.e., predators and parasitoids). Field surveys revealed that the primary natural enemies of H. japonica larvae were Polistes wasps. Cage experiments revealed that larvae with horns intact and larvae with horns removed and fitted with horns of other individuals succeeded in defending themselves against attacks of Polistes wasps significantly more often than larvae with horns removed. We discuss that the horns counter the paper wasps' hunting strategy of first biting the larvae's 'necks' and note that horns evolved repeatedly only within the Nymphalidae in a phylogeny of the Lepidoptera. This is the first demonstration that arthropods use head projections for physical defence against predators. © 2022. The Author(s). ; Open access journal ; This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2045-2322 |
| العلاقة: | Kandori, I., Hiramatsu, M., Soda, M., Nakashima, S., Funami, S., Yokoi, T., Tsuchihara, K., & Papaj, D. R. (2022). Long horns protect Hestina japonica butterfly larvae from their natural enemies. Scientific Reports.; http://hdl.handle.net/10150/663672Test; Scientific reports |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-022-06770-y |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06770-yTest http://hdl.handle.net/10150/663672Test |
| حقوق: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.B2DD009 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20452322 |
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| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-022-06770-y |