Bamboo flowers visited by insects: do insects play a role in the pollination of bamboo flowers?

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• 作者：Eduardo Ruiz-Sanchez ; Luis C. Peredo…
• 关键词：Ancestral character estimation ; Bamboos pollination ; Bees ; Fly ; Guadua ; Meliponini
• 刊名：Plant Systematics and Evolution
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：303
• 期：1
• 页码：51-59
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Plant Sciences; Plant Ecology; Plant Anatomy/Development; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography;
• 出版者：Springer Vienna
• ISSN：2199-6881
• 卷排序：303

文摘

Relatively little is known about pollination and other aspects of the reproductive biology of bamboos, but wind pollination is assumed to be the rule, at least in woody bamboos. Documenting the reproductive biology of woody bamboos is a complex task due to the long periods of time between flowering cycles, which range from 3 to 120 years. Insects visiting Guadua paniculata and G. inermis flowers were collected in the field. Scanning electron micrographs were taken of the visiting insects. Four species of bees, three from tribe Meliponini (Geotrigona acapulconis, Plebeia frontalis and Trigona fulviventris) and one from tribe Apini (Apis mellifera), along with a syrphid fly (Toxomerus teligera) were found visiting bamboo flowers. Some species of Hemiptera were also found feeding on the flowers, such as Neortholomus jamaicensis (Lygaeidae), or preying on the flower visitors (Apiomerus pictipes (Reduviidae)). Insects visiting bamboo inflorescences may facilitate the release of pollen grains into the air, promoting outcrossing and genetic flow among the individuals of the flowering bamboo populations.