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Cuterebra Austeni</Emphasis&G P1: JLS Journal of Insect Behavior [joib] pp1253-joir-487714 May 28, 2004 7:15 Style file version Feb 08, 2000 Journal of Insect Behavior, Vol. 17, No. 3, May 2004 (C 2004) Long-Term Stability in the Mating System of the Bot Fly Cuterebra austeni (Cuterebridae) John Alcock1,3 and Darrell J. Kemp2 Accepted July 16, 2003; revised January 12, 2004 The bot fly Cuterebra austeni exhibits year-to-year consistency in its landmark-based hilltopping mating system. Flies were found on some of the same localized ridgetop perching areas that were known to be mate encounter sites 22 years previously. In both 1980 and 2002, males were drawn preferen- tially to locally elevated, largely vegetation-free sites. In addition, a substantial proportion of individuals exhibited site fidelity in both years, as demonstrated by their willingness to return to the site where marked after being captured and handled. In both years of observation, a smaller proportion returned the second day after marking and only 10–20% of marked males were seen on the third day. Thus males apparently have only a very limited window of oppor- tunity to secure a given perching territory. In both years, a number of males (“residents”) succeeded in monopolizing a perching area over a substantial part of the brief morning flight period. One unexplained difference across the decades: residents appeared on a lower proportion of days of observation in 2002 than in 1980. KEY WORDS: bot fly; Cuterebra; Cuterebridae; mating system. INTRODUCTION The bot fly Cuterebra austeni is a lekking insect whose males perch on and defend flat, gravel patches on hilltops and ridgelines in the Sonoran Desert (see Alcock and Schaefer, 1983, Figs. 1, 2; Baird, 1987). Sites that are higher 1Division of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-4501. 2Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden. 3To whom correspondence should be addressed. Fax: 480 965 2519. e-mail: [email protected]. 273 0892-7553/04/0500-0273/0 C 2004 Plenum Publishing Corporation P1: JLS Journal of Insect Behavior [joib] pp1253-joir-487714 May 28, 2004 7:15 Style file version Feb 08, 2000 274 Alcock and Kemp on ascending ridges are more attractive to territorial residents and nonterri- torial visitors than are open patches lower in altitude. Perched males wait on the ground at these places over an approximately 2-h period in the morning. They fly up to chase conspecific females and males as they arrive. Females may be captured and mated after the pair land. Rival males sometimes elicit rapid flights back and forth over the perching area, after which the newcomer often departs and the resident male returns to land. The result is that often only a single male occupies a site that may be as much as 18 m2 (Alcock and Schaefer, 1983), although at other times several males may perch within a few meters of one another, interacting at intervals without any one male displacing all the others. However, even resident defenders rarely exclude all other males from their landmark territory for more than a day; rapid turnover in territorial ownership is the rule. These generalizations are based largely on observations made during two spring flight seasons (1980 and 1981), with attention focused largely on a single hilltop along an ascending ridge in the Usery Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona (Alcock and Schaefer, 1983). In the spring of 2002, we returned to the Usery Mountains to study the physiological parameters that affect territorial success in C. austeni. This work was conducted on a different ridge located higher in the mountains, approximately a kilometer from the 1980–1981 study site. In the course of this study and another in the fall of 2002, we collected additional data on the site fidelity and selection of perching territories by males of C. austeni. These data permit us to evaluate the robustness of earlier conclusions on the mating system of this species. MATERIALS AND METHODS We visited the study site, the highest ridge in the Usery Mountains, on 23 days between 31 March and 5 May 2002 and again on 20 days between 17 September and 20 November 2002. We selected a 175-m-long segment of the undulating ridgeline as the sample transect and measured the altitude of points 10 paces (ca. 7.5 m) apart along the transect using a handheld digital altimeter (Sportline Model EB 833). The entire transect was censused irregularly during spring 2002, with most effort focused on capturing and marking every male fly that arrived at two locations along the ridge, peaks 1 and 2 (at roughly pace 140 and pace 340; see Fig. 1). These high points along the ridge seemed to be favored by the flies in some other years. During censuses, we tried to capture every unmarked fly in an insect net shortly after its arrival. We then placed marks on the dorsum of the fly’s thorax, creating a distinctive combination of dots of Bic Wite-Out Correction Fluid or Liquitex acrylic paints. We released individually marked males near the P1: JLS Journal of Insect Behavior [joib] pp1253-joir-487714 May 28, 2004 7:15 Style file version Feb 08, 2000 Long-Term Mating System Stability 275 Fig. 1. An altitudinal cross section of the study transect on Usery Mountain with the number of census records totaled for each 30- pace segment of the transect. Bot flies appeared most regularly at the peaks along the ridgeline. point of capture and noted the identity of any released flies that returned after first flying away. Marked males that perched at a given spot for at least 30 min were considered site-faithful residents. During the fall study period, we modified the procedure slightly by censusing the entire transect five times per morning (at 15-min intervals). During each census we recorded the location of every bot fly and again tried to net, mark, and release any new arrivals. The data collected enable us to determine the proportion of marked flies returning to the study area on the day they were marked and on subse- quent days. These measures were then compared with similar data gathered on 25 days scattered between 14 April and 20 May 1980. In addition, the census results identify the sites that the male bot flies considered most at- tractive, permitting us to test the proposition that higher altitude landmarks are indeed more popular with the flies than those lower in altitude. RESULTS Site Fidelity of Male C. austeni in Different Flight Seasons TableI presents mark-resighting data for bot flies marked in 2002 during two flight seasons, spring and fall, for comparison with similar data collected from a nearby location in 1980. The differences in same-day site fidelity of the three populations of males marked in the spring and fall of 2002 are not statistically significant ( 2 = 1.54, df = 2, P > 0.40). Therefore, the data from all three 2002 populations were combined for comparison with the P1: JLS Journal of Insect Behavior [joib] pp1253-joir-487714 May 28, 2004 7:15 Style file version Feb 08, 2000 276 Alcock and Kemp Table I. Mark–Resighting Data for Populations of Male C. austeni That Were Observed at Two Locations (Sites A and B) Over Three Flight Seasons Separated by 22 Years No. of flies returning to the site where they were marked Site Marked flies on the same day 1980, lower site (spring) 89 49 (55%) 2002, upper site (spring) Peak 1 83 23 (28%) Peak 2 100 34 (31%) 2002, upper site (fall) 84 22 (26%) No. marked on day 1 of No. seen again on day 2 2 consecutive days of observation 1980, lower site (spring) 34 20 (59%) 2002, upper site (spring) 100 21 (21%) 2002, upper site (fall) 61 24 (39%) No. marked on day 1 with No. seen again on day 3 observations made 2 days later 1980, lower site (spring) 42 8 (19%) 2002, upper site (spring) 89 8 (9%) 2002, upper site (fall) 52 6 (12%) spring 1980 figure. Flies were far less likely to return on the day of marking in 2002 than in 1980 ( 2 = 18.8, df = 1, P < 0.001). Not only were marked males less likely to return on the day of marking in 2002, but also they were less likely to appear again the day after they were marked (multiple-day site fidelity) than flies had been in 1980. This conclusion is based on data from males that were marked on the first of 2 consecutive days of observations in the different years. For these subsamples, the proportions of males known to return to the transect study site for 1980, spring 2002, and fall 2002 are statistically different ( 2 = 17.8, df = 2, P < 0.001). However, the differences in the proportion of males from the three populations that were known to have returned 2daysafter marking are not significant ( 2 = 2.75, df = 2, P > 0.05) based on data collected from just those males that were marked 2 days prior to a return survey of the study transects. Another way to compare male site fidelity across seasons is to exam- ine the proportion of census days in which one male was a clear territorial resident at the most popular sites. (Note that no more than one male was identified as a resident at any given site on any given day.) In 1980, the study centered on a single territory on peak X. This site attracted a resident male (one that occupied the site for at least 30 min) on 23 (92%) of the 25 days that peak X was visited by an observer.
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