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Arthropod-Plant Interactions : Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2008

Arthropod-Plant Interactions : Volume 1

Host plant use by the Heath fritillary butterfly, Melitaea athalia: plant habitat, species and chemistry

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Author	Reudler Talsma, Joanneke H. Torri, Kaisa uhuys, Saskya
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	We present a study of habitat use, oviposition plant choice, and food plant suitability for the checkerspot butterfly Melitaea athalia Rottemburg (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Åland, Finland. We found that in Åland, unlike in the mainland of Finland and many parts of its range, M. athalia flies mainly in open meadows. When offered an array of plants in a large (32 × 26 m) field cage, they predominately oviposited upon Veronica chamaedrys L., V. spicata L. and Plantago lanceolata L. (Plantaginaceae), which grow in open meadows. The relative abundance of the butterfly in Åland, and its habitat and host plant use there, may reflect local adaptation to land use practices and geology that maintain clusters of small open meadows with little successional change. At the scale of a plant patch, preferred species were used as frequently in mixed species patches as in mono-specific patches, and more oviposition occurred in open than in grassy patches. All of the host plants used by M. athalia are defended by iridoid glycosides (IGs). However, oviposition choice among species and among individual plants within species was largely independent of IG concentration. This contrast with the more discerning congener, M. cinxia, supports the idea that host discrimination decreases with increasing host range. Finally, although the adult butterflies chose specific plant species for oviposition, as larvae they performed well on twelve out of thirteen species of plants, including both known hosts and related novel plants that occur in Åland, indicating a much wider range of larval food plant species than adult oviposition species.
Starting Page	63
Ending Page	75
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18728855
Journal	Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Volume Number	2
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18728847
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-05-03
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Aucubin Catalpol Herbivory Host range Insect–plant interactions Iridoid glycosides Larval performance Nymphalidae Oviposition Preference–performance Plant Pathology Behavioural Sciences Ecology Plant Sciences Invertebrates Entomology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science Agronomy and Crop Science

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Host plant use by the Heath fritillary butterfly, Melitaea athalia: plant habitat, species and chemistry

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