Open AccessCONTRASTING RESOURCE UTILISATION IN TWO AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF DROSOPHILA FALLEN (DIPTERA) FEEDING ON THE BRACKEN FERN PTERIDIUM SCOPOLI
Author(s) -
Thomson J. A.,
Jackson M. J.,
Bock I. R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1982.tb01760.x
Subject(s) - bracken , fern , biology , frond , sympatric speciation , pteridium aquilinum , larva , botany , ecology
Larvae of Drosophila (Scaptodrosophila) megagenys Bock feed on the circinate tips of young fronds of bracken fern, and prevent normal unfurling. D. megagenys is widely sympatric in south‐eastern Australia with D. notha Bock, previously reported as boring in the rachis of bracken fronds.