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Assessing the quality of different ant species as partners of a myrmecophilous butterfly

Authors: Fraser, A. M.; Axen, A. H.; Pierce, N. E.
Year: 2001
Journal: Oecologia, Vol. 129, pp. 452-460
Publisher: UNKNOWN
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100744
Keywords: FORMICIDAE, HYMENOPTERA, LEPIDOPTERA, MUTUALISM, RMBL

Abstract

Assessment of the quality of different ant species as partners of the facultatively myrmecophilous lycaenid butterfly Glaucopsyche lygdamus found that F. obscuripes may act as a parasite of the general association between G. lyg damus and ants under certain conditions.

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