Predation of Fruit Fly Larvae Anastrepha (Diptera: Tephritidae) by Ants in Grove

Table 1

Number and total percentage of larvae removed by ants beneath the crowns of 60 trees of three species of fruit, in a grove of the Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, during an experiment offering groups of three larvae under each crown. Guava is Psidium guajava, jaboticaba Myrciaria jaboticaba, and mango Mangifera indica.

		Fruit trees
Subfamilies	Species or morphospecies	Guava (30 trees and 90 larvae)	Jaboticaba (11 and 33)	Mango (19 and 57)	Total (%)
Myrmicinae	Pheidole oxyops Forel, 1908	7	6	16	67.44
	Pheidole gertrude Forel, 1886	4	—	—	9.30
	Pheidole sp. 1	2	2	—	9.30
	Pheidole sp. 2	1	1	—	4.65
	Pheidole sp. 3	1	—	—	2.32
Dolichoderinae	Dorymyrmex sp. 1	—	—	1	2.32
Ponerinae	Odontomachus chelifer (Latreille, 1802)	1	—	—	2.32
Ectatomminae	Ectatomma brunneum Smith F., 1858	—	—	1	2.32
Total		16	9	18	100