Skip to main content

Table 1 Proportion of individuals in brood chamber for the tested myrmecophiles

From: Do well-integrated species of an inquiline community have a lower brood predation tendency? A test using red wood ant myrmecophiles

Species

Taxon

Myrmecophily

Host specifity

N

Proportion in brood chamber

95 % CI

P corr

Brood chamber

Clytra quadripunctata

Coleoptera (Chrysomelidae)

obligate

specialist

44

0.45

0.30–0.61

<0.001

attraction

Thiasophila angulata

Coleoptera (Staphilinidae)

obligate

specialist

91

0.37

0.27–0.48

<0.001

attraction

Monotoma conicicollis

Coleoptera (Monotomidae)

obligate

strict specialist

55

0.33

0.21–0.47

0.011

attraction

Notothecta flavipes

Coleoptera (Staphilinidae)

obligate

specialist

43

0.28

0.15–0.44

0.133

random

Lyprocorrhe anceps

Coleoptera (Staphilinidae)

obligate

specialist

54

0.28

0.16–0.42

0.102

random

Platyarthrus hoffmannseggi

Isopoda (Platyarthridae)

obligate

generalist

68

0.25

0.15–0.37

0.138

random

Monotoma angusticollis

Coleoptera (Monotomidae)

obligate

strict specialist

47

0.23

0.12–0.38

0.357

random

Thyreosthenius biovatus

Araneae (Linyphiidae)

obligate

specialist

54

0.22

0.12–0.36

0.357

random

Dinarda maerkelii

Coleoptera (Staphilinidae)

obligate

specialist

44

0.16

0.07–0.30

1.000

random

Cyphoderus albinus

Collembola (Cyphoderidae)

obligate

generalist

70

0.13

0.06–0.23

0.553

random

Leptacinus formicetorum

Coleoptera (Staphilinidae)

obligate

specialist

52

0.12

0.04–0.23

0.516

random

Myrmetes paykulli

Coleoptera (Histeridae)

obligate

specialist

44

0.11

0.04–0.25

0.514

random

Amidobia talpa

Coleoptera (Staphilinidae)

obligate

specialist

106

0.11

0.06–0.19

0.260

random

Stenus aterrimus

Coleoptera (Staphilinidae)

obligate

strict specialist

50

0.10

0.03–0.22

0.357

random

Porcellio scaber

Isopoda (Porcellionidae)

facultative

facultative

59

0.03

0.00–0.12

0.011

repulsion

Dendrophilus pygmaeus

Coleoptera (Histeridae)

obligate

specialist

26

0.00

0.00–0.13

0.043

repulsion

Quedius brevis

Coleoptera (Staphilinidae)

obligate

moderate

35

0.00

0.00–0.10

0.011

repulsion

Mastigusa arietina

Araneae (Dictynidae)

obligate

moderate

15

NA

   
  1. Attraction to or repulsion from the brood chamber was tested with an exact binomial two-sided test (deviation from a random distribution of 1/6 was tested). Reported P-values (P corr ) were adjusted for multiple testing by the Benjamini-Hochberg method (false discovery rate). N = number of individuals tested, for D. pygmaeus three individuals were re-used in different replicates. For M. arietina, all individuals were killed during the experiment and therefore no testing was done. 95 % CI: 95 % confidence. Host specifity based on supplementary Table in [23] (strict specialist: only records with RWAs, specialist: some records with non RWAs, but RWAs are the main host, moderate: records with RWAs, but distribution in non-RWAs probably important as well, generalist: myrmecophiles have no preference for a particular ant species, but are always found in presence of ants). Graphical representation of brood chamber association is given in Fig. 2
Back to article page

BMC Ecology and Evolution

ISSN: 2730-7182

Contact us