Inflorescences of the Bromeliad Vriesea friburgensis as Nest Sites and Food Resources for Ants and Other Arthropods in Brazil

Table 2

Nests of ants and other insects in 488 infructescences (161 occupied) of Vriesea  friburgensis in Joaquina (habitat type restinga-low) on Santa Catarina Island, southern Brazil. n: number of findings (total of 164 due to three cases with two nests in the same stem); % (occ.): percent fraction of the number of occupied stems; % (total): percent fraction of the number of examined infructescences.

Taxon	𝑛	% (occ.)	% (total)
Apidae
Ceratina (Rhyssoceratina) sp. (Xylocopinae)^a	1	0.6	0.2
Formicidae
Brachymyrmex	3	1.9	0.6
Pseudomyrmex	63	39.1	12.9
Pseudomyrmex  gracilis	57	35.4	11.7
Pseudomyrmex sp. PSW05	6	3.7	1.2
Camponotus	68	42.2	13.9
Myrmelachista	1	0.6	0.2
Solenopsis	24^b	14.9	4.1
Small yellow formicine or dolichoderine ants	1	0.6	0.2
Isoptera^c	3	1.9	0.6

aThree females reared from brood cells.
bOnce, five stems very close to each other were occupied by this species, so it was presumably the same colony, resulting in 20 independent findings.
cProbably Cortaritermes sp. according to another termite sample from the same location.