Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2022 Aug;52:100898. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2022.100898. Epub 2022 Mar 4.
At least 30 different groups in seventeen butterfly and moth families (Lepidoptera) include ant-associated caterpillars. The life histories of more than 900 ant-associated species have been documented from the butterfly families Lycaenidae and Riodinidae, with relationships ranging from parasitism to mutualism. Caterpillars that appear to secrete food rewards for ants are not necessarily mutualists, and a number of species are known to manipulate ants with deceptive chemical and vibratory signals. The functional variability of different exocrine glands deployed as 'ant organs' makes them prone to convergence, and it remains unclear whether ant association originated more than once in lycaenids and riodinids. The relative costs and benefits of caterpillar integration with ants is context dependent: both top-down and bottom-up effects influence the evolution of ant associations.
至少有 30 个不同的群体分布在 17 个蝴蝶和蛾类科（鳞翅目）中，包括与蚂蚁相关的毛毛虫。已经从蛱蝶科和凤蝶科记录了超过 900 种与蚂蚁相关的物种的生活史，这些关系的范围从寄生到共生。为蚂蚁分泌食物奖励的毛毛虫不一定是共生的，而且有许多物种被认为是通过欺骗性的化学和振动信号来操纵蚂蚁的。作为“蚂蚁器官”而部署的不同外分泌腺的功能变异性使它们容易趋同，并且仍然不清楚在蛱蝶科和凤蝶科中蚂蚁的关联是否不止一次起源。毛毛虫与蚂蚁整合的相对成本和收益取决于上下文：自上而下和自下而上的影响都影响着蚂蚁共生关系的进化。
