Consequências do canibalismo lagarta-ovo na ontogenia de Heliconius erato phyllis (Fabricius, 1775) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

Janaína De Nardin; Aldo Mellender de Araújo

doi:10.5007/2175-7925.2022.e84881

Authors

Janaína De Nardin IFRS https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9300-5024
Aldo Mellender de Araújo UFRGS https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4585-1688

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2022.e84881

Abstract

Newly hatched caterpillars from a clutch of Heliconius erato phyllis (Fabricius, 1775) eggs can be cannibals or non-cannibals. Further, they are able to recognize kin and preferentially cannibalize unrelated eggs. This study analyzed differences in the development and survival to maturity of cannibal and non-cannibal caterpillars of this butterfly, as estimates of the costs and benefits of cannibalistic and non-cannibalistic behavior. The variables analyzed were egg weight and volume, number of days from hatching to adulthood, growth rate, pupal weight, wing area, mortality of immatures, and survival of immatures under starvation. There were significant differences for egg volume and weight (cannibal > non-cannibal) and for duration of the first instar and pupa (cannibal < non-cannibal). Mortality among cannibals and non-cannibals was not different, but survival of cannibals under starvation was significantly greater. Siblings of cannibals and non-cannibals did not differ for the same variables. Non-cannibals have the benefit of leaving more siblings but suffer the cost of slightly slower development. A brief discussion of the costs and benefits of cannibalism and non-cannibalism in this study, as well as in the available literature, is included.

Author Biographies

Janaína De Nardin, IFRS

Graduada em Ciências Biológicas (bacharelado e licenciatura) pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Mestra pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular da UFRGS. Doutora em Ciências (Genética e Biologia Molecular) pela mesma universidade. Integrou o Laboratório de Genética Ecológica da UFRGS, onde pesquisou temas relacionados ao reconhecimento de parentesco, seleção de parentesco e canibalismo em Heliconius erato phyllis (Lepidoptera). Atualmente é professora EBTT de Biologia no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS) - Campus Alvorada.

Aldo Mellender de Araújo, UFRGS

Possui graduação em História Natural pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1967) e doutorado em Genética e Biologia Molecular pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1973). Realizou estágio pós-doutorado na University of Liverpool, Inglaterra (1975) e Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1978 - três meses). Estagiou também, por 1 mês, na Cornell Unversity (1996) para trabalhar com história da genética, particularmente em relação ao papel de Theodosius Dobzhansky na formação da comunidade de geneticistas evolutivos no Brasil. Atualmente é professor titular da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Tem experiência na área de Genética, com ênfase em Genética Ecológica, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: seleção sexual, seleção de parentesco, evolução biológica. Atua também na área de história e epistemologia das idéias sobre evolução biológica, particularmente com autores brasileiros ou que tiveram influência no Brasil.

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