Accidental consumption of Atta cephalotes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Artibeus lituratus  (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 15 Jan 2017Publisher:Sociedad Colombiana de MastozoologiaJournal:Mammalogy Notes, volume 4, pages 25-26 (eissn: 2382-3704,

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Authors: Sebastián Montoya‐Bustamante; Natalya Zapata‐Mesa;

doi: 10.47603/manovol4n1.25-26 , 10.5281/zenodo.14822003 , 10.60692/ha7cg-bdw58 , 10.5281/zenodo.14822004 , 10.60692/ncnva-8tn02

Accidental consumption of Atta cephalotes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

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During a 6-months research carried out in the Robles village (Jamundí municipality, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia) in 2014, bat feces were collected to determine the diet of fruit-eating bats. This study area included farms and tropical dry forest remnants, where A. lituratus was the most generalist species, with 10 different plant species recorded in its diet, including Ficus, Psidium, Mangifera, Cecropia, and Piper species (Montoya-Bustamante et al., 2016). Within two (out of 130) different fecal samples an individual of Atta cephalotes (both workers) were found associated to Psidium guajava seeds and pulp

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University of Valle
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Ecology and Behavior of Bats, Seed dispersal, Frugivore, Population, bats, bat, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology, Biological dispersal, Chiroptera, Bats, Animalia, ant, Chordata, Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Demography, Psidium, Mangifera, Ecology, Botany, Life Sciences, Biodiversity, Ficus, Notas - Historia natural, FOS: Sociology, Habitat, feces, QL1-991, FOS: Biological sciences, Mammalia, Animal Science and Zoology, Artibeus, Zoology, feeding, Effects of Heat Stress on Livestock Production, Species richness

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