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Polyphaga is the largest and most diverse suborder of beetles. It comprises 144 families in 16 superfamilies, and displays an enormous variety of specialization and adaptation, with over 350,000 described species, or approximately 90% of the beetle species discovered thus far. Key characteristics of Polyphaga are that the hind coxa (base of the ...
Circular dendrogram of feeding behaviours. A mosquito drinking blood ( hematophagy) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste) A rosy boa eating a mouse whole. A red kangaroo eating grass. The robberfly is an insectivore, shown here having grabbed a leaf beetle. An American robin eating a worm.
Oligophagy refers to the eating of only a few specific foods, and to monophagy when restricted to a single food source. [1] The term is usually associated with insect dietary behaviour. [2] Organisms may exhibit narrow or specific oligophagy where the diet is restricted to a very few foods or broad oligophagy where the organism feeds on a wide ...
Caterpillar of Papilio machaon. A monarch butterfly ( Danaus plexippus) caterpillar feeding on an unopened seed pod of swamp milkweed. Caterpillars ( / ˈkætərpɪlər / KAT-ər-pil-ər) are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths ). As with most common names, the application of ...
An insect uses its digestive system to extract nutrients and other substances from the food it consumes. [3]Most of this food is ingested in the form of macromolecules and other complex substances (such as proteins, polysaccharides, fats, and nucleic acids) which must be broken down by catabolic reactions into smaller molecules (i.e. amino acids, simple sugars, etc.) before being used by cells ...
Ceroplastes ceriferus is a polyphagous insect, meaning that it feeds on a wide variety of different plants. It has been recorded as utilising plants in 108 genera in 60 different families as hosts . These include such cultivated crops as apple , pear , plum , citrus , mango , tamarind , fig , pomegranate , avocado , tea , coffee , squash and ...
Euwallacea fornicatus, also known as tea shot-hole borer, or polyphagous shot-hole borer ( PSHB) is a species complex consisting of multiple cryptic species of ambrosia beetles known as an invasive species in California, Israel, South Africa, and Australia. The species has also been unintentionally introduced into exotic greenhouses in several ...
Spodoptera litura, otherwise known as the tobacco cutworm or cotton leafworm, is a nocturnal moth in the family Noctuidae. S. litura is a serious polyphagous pest in Asia, Oceania, and the Indian subcontinent that was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. [ 1 ] Its common names reference two of the most frequent host plants of ...