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First record of herbivory on Lycopodiaceae (Lycopodiales) by a dipteran (Pallopteridae) leaf/stem-miner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Makoto Kato
Makoto Kato*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan 606-8501
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1 E-mail: [email protected].
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Evidence for herbivory on early vascular plants in the Paleozoic has recently been accumulated from trace fossils and coprolites (Edwards et al. 1995; Labandeira 1998), although it is not well understood which arthropods were true herbivores during the Paleozoic. The great diversity of extant herbivorous insects was thought to have originated in the Cretaceous, when the adaptive radiation of angiosperms occurred; thus, it would be intriguing to find ancient plant–herbivore interactions on extant primeval vascular plants. In this paper, I report a unique dipteran fly associated with a species of the class Lycopsida as the first record of non-lepidopteran herbivory on the extant plant order Lycopodiales.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 134 , Issue 5 , October 2002 , pp. 699 - 701
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 2002

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