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Posible Depredación De Nido De Polistes Biglumis Por Mutilla Europaea 0 5 0 Posible depredación de nido de de nido de depredación Posible Especial entrevistas:2010 AñoMundial delaBiodiversidad BV news Noticias de biodiversidad y geodiversidad para el naturalista el para ygeodiversidad Noticias debiodiversidad Parque de Ocio de Fresnedillas delaOliva Parque deOcio de Fresnedillas El karstdeyesos deGobantes-Meliones Polistes biglumis Polistes por por Mutilla europaea Mutilla No. 2 enero 2010 ISSN 1989-7170 0 2 9 771989 717005 editorial SUMARIO BV news BV news, Boletín electrónico de difusión gratuita Nº 2. 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BiodiversidadVirtual y BV news no se hacen Ah, y hacedme un favor: sed felices. Odile Rodríguez de la Fuente responsables de las opiniones expresadas por los autores en los artículos publicados. Saludos — Ω notas breves 32 Fotografía de portada: José Manuel Sesma Eumenes sp. © Xavier Sanjuan | 2 | BV news reportaje Posible depredación de un nido de Polistes biglumis (Linnaeus 1758) por Mutilla europaea Linnaeus 1758 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae; Mutillidae) Leopoldo Castro y José Manuel Sesma Introducción (Ver BROTHERS, 2006; BROTHERS & FINNAMORE, 1993; por haber nacido en ella y tener por tanto Los Mutillidae son una familia de himenópteros O’NEILL, 2001) el olor del nido, mientras que eran atacados aculeados de distribución cosmopolita y con Los adultos se alimentan de forma diferente inmediatamente si experimentalmente se les alrededor de 8000 especies a nivel mundial según el sexo: los machos se limitan al néctar colocaba en otro nido de Polistes cercano, pero (BROTHERS, 2006; BROTHERS & FINNAMORE, 1993). Los de las flores, pero las hembras recurren a gran deja sin explicar los mencionados problemas adultos son en general muy pilosos y a menudo variedad de fuentes de alimento, habiéndose físicos que presentaría el desarrollo de un mutí- exhiben colores contrastados (en nuestra área comprobado el consumo de sustancias dulces lido en un panal de véspidos. geográfica normalmente tienen zonas negras, segregadas por plantas, del alimento vegetal Por otra parte, hay muy pocas publicacio- blancas y rojas). Los machos suelen tener alas, (néctar y polen) que encuentran en las celdas nes que mencionen visitas de mutílidos a mientras que las hembras son casi siempre de algunos huéspedes y de la hemolinfa de nidos de véspidos sociales, y en relación con ápteras y presentan un aspecto que recuerda insectos, en especial la de individuos adultos o la fauna europea nosotros sólo hemos locali- al de las hormigas. inmaduros de las especies parasitadas (en este zado cuatro. La primera (DE-STEFANI, 1882) habla Se sabe poco de la biología del grupo, y sólo último caso, muerden a la presa y succionan su de hembras de Ronisia brutia (Petagna, 1787) hay un volumen aceptable de datos de una hemolinfa, causando la muerte a la víctima). y Tropidotilla litoralis (Petagna, 1786) que se decena de especies. Todas tienen en común Se piensa que cuando predan sobre individuos introducían en las celdas de nidos de diversas hábitos solitarios y el modo de vida ectopa- de una especie que usan como huésped, y al Polistes –citadas como “P. Gallica, Linnaeus” y “P. rasitoide de las crías, que se alimentan de las igual que otros parasitoides, dejan indemnes a biglumis, Linnaeus”, que pueden corresponder, larvas y pupas de otros insectos. Únicamente se los individuos de las celdas donde ovipositan, respectivamente, a P. dominula (Christ, 1791) o conoce el huésped de algunos mutílidos (entre para no mermar la que será fuente de alimento P. gallicus (Linnaeus, 1756) y a P. nimpha (Christ, el 2 y el 3 por ciento de las especies descritas); de sus crías. Están registrados algunos casos 1791), P. associus (Kohl, 1898) o P. biglumis–; las por el momento, las especies parasitadas cono- en los que varias hembras adultas de mutíli- observaciones tuvieron lugar en Sicilia, al pare- cidas son predominantemente Hymenoptera dos han invadido colmenas de abejas domés- cer fueron relativamente abundantes y el autor Aculeata, pero también atacan a Diptera Cyclo- ticas para alimentarse de los adultos, matando señala que no llegó a averiguar el motivo de rrhapha, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera y Blattodea. grandes cantidades de ellos (hasta 200 en una la presencia de estos mutílidos en los nidos. (Ver BROTHERS, 2006; BROTHERS & FINNAMORE, 1993; invasión) y en cambio han dejado intactas las El segundo trabajo (BELJAVSKY, 1935, citado por IWATA, 1976; BROTHERS et al., 2000) abejas inmaduras (BROTHERS, 2006; CLAUSEN, 1940; BROTHERS et al., 2000) refleja la presencia de hem- Un rasgo común de las especies de Mutillidae HANSON & GAULD, 2006; IWATA, 1976; MICKEL, 1928; bras de Mutilla europaea en un nido de Polistes que han sido estudiadas hasta ahora es que O’NEILL, 2001). gallicus, pero tampoco da información sobre la necesitan que su huésped esté encerrado en No se conocen casos comprobados de para- actividad del mutílido. La tercera obra es la de una celda, capullo o cavidad similar que se sitismo de mutílidos sobre véspidos socia- BROTHERS et al. (2000), que no aporta más casos caracterice por tener a la vez paredes rígidas les (en realidad dicho parasitismo no parece y se limita a resumir la información disponible y un tamaño relativamente grande, suficiente teóricamente posible, dado que los nidos de sobre interacciones de mutílidos con véspidos para albergar la víctima, a menudo sus provisio- los véspidos sociales no ofrecen en principio sociales y a señalar que dentro del grupo sólo nes y además la larva del mutílido. Las hembras condiciones adecuadas para la parasitación por hay
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