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The diversity of feeding habits recorded for water boatmen (Heteroptera: Corixoidea) world-wide with implications for evaluating information on the diet of aquatic insects

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023272%3A_____%2F17%3A10133726" target="_blank" >RIV/00023272:_____/17:10133726 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.eje.cz/pdfs/eje/2017/01/20.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.eje.cz/pdfs/eje/2017/01/20.pdf</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2017.020" target="_blank" >10.14411/eje.2017.020</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The diversity of feeding habits recorded for water boatmen (Heteroptera: Corixoidea) world-wide with implications for evaluating information on the diet of aquatic insects

  • Original language description

    Food webs are of crucial importance for understanding any ecosystem. The accuracy of food web and ekosystém models rests on the reliability of the information on the feeding habits of the species involved. Water boatmen (Corixoidea) is the most diverse superfamily of water bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha), frequently the most abundant group of insects in a variety of freshwater habitats worldwide. In spite of their high biomass, the importance of water boatmen in aquatic ecosystems is frequently underestimated. The diet and feeding habits of Corixoidea are unclear as published data are frequently contradictory. We summarise information on the feeding habits of this taxon, which exemplify the diffi culties in evaluating published data on feeding habits in an invertebrate taxon. It is concluded that Corixoidea are, unlike other true bugs, capable of digesting solid food, but their feeding habits are still insuffi ciently known. The dominant feeding strategy in this taxon is zoophagy, but several species consume other foods, particularly algae and detritus. Only members of the subfamily Cymatiainae seem to be exclusively predators. In other subfamilies, the diet of different species and different sexes or populations of a single species may vary depending on the food available or is still unknown. We conclude, that a multi-method approach is needed to elucidate the feeding habits of aquatic insects and invertebrates in general.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10616 - Entomology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2017

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    European Journal of Entomology

  • ISSN

    1802-8829

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    114

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    březen

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    13

  • Pages from-to

    147-159

  • UT code for WoS article

    000419219900001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database