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O20387 Polidori, C., Santoro, D. and Blüthgen, N. 2013. Does Prey Oikos o20387 Polidori, C., Santoro, D. and Blüthgen, N. 2013 . Does prey mobility affect niche width and individual specialization in hunting wasps? A network-based analysis. – Oikos 122 385: –394. Appendix A1 Table A1. Details on prey taxa hunted by wasps of the studied populations/periods, together with biological information and consequent assignment to the ‘weak mobility’ or to the ‘high mobility’ category. References for prey biology are also reported. If prey genera do not appear is because the sample was just separated in morphospecies within each prey family. Wasp species/population Prey taxa Prey biology Mobility References assignment Bembix merceti I Diptera in the families Bombyliidae, All members of Brachycera, which, in High Yeates and Wiegmann Calliphoridae, Stratiomyidae, contrast to Nematocera (lower Diptera) (eds) 2005 Syrphidae, Tabanidae are fast-flying insects; adults feeding on flowers (Tabanidae are vertebrate blood- suckers) and larviposit in carrion or in insect hosts nests Bembix merceti II Diptera in the families Bombyliidae, as above High Yeates and Wiegmann Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae, (eds) 2005 Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae, Tachinidae Bembix sinuata Diptera in the families Tachinidae, as above High Yeates and Wiegmann Sarcophagidae, Bombyliidae, (eds) 2005 Calliphoridae, Syrphidae, Therevidae Bembix zonata Diptera in the families Bombyliidae, as above High Yeates and Wiegmann Asylidae, Sarcophagidae, Syrphidae, (eds) 2005 Tachinidae, Therevidae Cerceris arenaria Coleoptera in the family Curculionidae All phytophagous beetles spending much Low Hoffman 1950, 1954 (Otiorhynchus, Sitona, Donus, Hypera) of the adult life feeding on plants (from herbs to trees); many species with fused elytrae and not capable of flying Cerceris californica Coleoptera in the family Buprestidae All phytophagous beetles; larvae bore Low Bellamy and (Acmaeodera, Chrysobothris, Agrilus, through roots, stems and leaves of Nelson 2002 Anthaxia) trees or grasses; adults feed on flowers and sometimes act as pollinators, except for some species of Chrysobothris and Agrilus which feed on fungi Cerceris rubida Coleoptera in the families All phytophagous beetles spending much Low Hoffman 1950, 1954, Chrysomelidae (Chaetocnema, of the adult life feeding on plants (from Crowson 1981, Jolivet Cryptocephalus, Oulema), Curculionidae herbs to trees); many Curculionidae with 1997, Bellamy and (Gymnetron, Protapion, Smicronyx, fused elytrae; Chrysomelidae do not Nelson 2002 Catapion), Phalacridae (Olibrus, have fast flight, but certain species have Stilbus), Bruchidae (Bruchus), fast escape responses (hopping Scolytidae escape or "play dead"); Scolytidae living inside or on tree-trunks; Buprestidae feed on flowers as adults Chalibion fuscipenne Araneida in the families Araneidae Spiders living on vegetation, typically on Low Rainer 1996 (Pararaneus, Gasterachantha, Araneus, the 2-dimensinal or 3-dimensional silk Argiope, Neoscona, Cyrtophora), webs they build; predators of other Tetragnathidae (Leucauge), Nephilidae arthropods (Nephila), Pholcidae (Pholcus) Isodontia mexicana Orthoptera in the families Tettigonidae Crickets mostly feeding on organic Low Gangwere, (Conocephalus, Scudderia), Gryllidae materials such as decaying plant material Muralirangan and (Oecanthus, Neoxabia) and fungi. They spent much of the adult Muralirangan (eds) life on soil looking for food or 1997 oviposition sites. Often nymphal stages, with reduced wings and thus flight capacity, are hunted by wasps Oxybelus lamellatus Diptera in the families Calliphoridae All members of Brachycera, which, in High Yeates and Wiegmann (Pollenia, Calliphora, Protocalliphora, contrat to Nematocera (lower Diptera) (eds) 2005 Stomorrhina), Sarcophagidae are fast-flying insects; adults feeding on (Sarcophaga), Muscidae (Neomyia, flowers and larviposit in carrion or in Musca , Helina, Phaonia, Mydaea, insect hosts nests Drymeia), Fannidae (Fannia), Anthomyiidae (Delia), Tachinidae (Lydella, Eriothrix), Lauxaniidae (Minettia) Pemphredon lethifer I Hemiptera in the family Aphididae Small and often green aphids living and Low Blackman and Eastop (Aphis, Capitophorus) feeding on plants (acting often as pests); 2000 some forms alate and some wingless, both moving slowly and not being able to jump or hop Pemphredon lethifer II Hemiptera in the family Aphididae see above Low Blackman and Eastop (Aphis, Macrosiphum, Capitophorus and 2000 Dysaphis) Philanthus sanbornii I Hymenoptera in the families Halictidae Fast-flying bees and wasps in the High Michener 2000 (Dialictus, Augochlora, Augochlorella, Apoidea; nectar feeders as adults; pollen Halictus, Lasioglossum, Agapostemon), collecting insects (bees), prey hunting Andrenidae (Andrena), Megachilidae insects (wasps); some Halictidae and (Megachile), Anthophoridae Apidae eusocial; most digging nests in (Melissodes), Apidae (Apis); wasps in the soil and some building aerial nests the family Crabronidae (Ectemnius, Aphilanthops, Lestica) Philanthus sanbornii II Hymenoptera in the families Halictidae as above High Michener 2000 (Dialictus, Augochlora, Augochlorella, Halictus, Agapostemon), Andrenidae (Andrena), Megachilidae (Megachile), Anthophoridae (Melissodes), Apidae (Apis); wasps in the family Crabronidae (Ectemnius, Aphilanthops, Lestica) Rhopalum clavipes Psocoptera in the families Peripsocidae Active, fast running and flying insects High Mockford 1993 (Peripsocus) Elipsocidae (Elipsocus), with stocky bodies. The genera here Philotarsidae (Philotarsus), considered include winged species Caeciliusidae (Caecilius), Ectopsocidae which live mainly on trees as bark- (Ectopsocus), Mesopsocidae frequenters; they feed on algae, lichens, (Mesopsocus), Psocidae (Amphigerontia) fungi and fragments of plants Sceliphron spirifex Araneida in the families Araneidae Spiders living on vegetation. Araneidae, Low Rainer 1996 (Pararaneus, Gasterachantha, Araneus, Pholcidae and Theridiidae build silk Neoscona), Theridiidae (Argyrodes), webs; Gnaphosidae spend the day in a Pholcidae (Pholcus), Hersiliidae silken retreat; Cubionidae build silken (Hersilium) Gnaphosidae, Oxyopidae, sacs on plants or under rocks; Hersiliidae Cubionidae living camouflaged on the trunks of trees; all predators of other arthropods Stizus continuus I Grasshoppers feeding and spending most Low Gangwere, of time on the host bush and grass Muralirangan and Orthoptera in the families Acrididae plants; crickets are scavengers feeding Muralirangan (eds) (Calliptamus, Tropidopola, Anacridium, on organic materials spending much of 1997 Acrotylus, Pezotettix, Sphingonotus), the adult life on soil. 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