Data from: Body size-dependent effects on the distribution patterns of phoretic mite species assemblages on Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier, 1790)
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Abstract
Phoretic mites attach to different body parts of the red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier, 1790), to disperse. However, the question of how the patterns of attachment sites are formed remains intriguing. Here, we examined RPW-associated phoretic mites in four districts in Northern Portugal (macrohabitat), and investigated the patterns of mite distribution on six body parts of RPW (microhabitat). At the macrohabitat level, we detected seven phoretic mite taxa using the RPW host in each of the four studied districts, all documented for the first time in association with this invasive exotic species in Portugal. However, their relative abundance (species evenness) varied between districts, as did species diversity. All examined weevils carried mites, and the prevalence of the different taxa did not differ between districts or sex of weevils. Measured by mean abundance and degree of aggregation, Centrouropoda sp. proved to be the dominant taxon, while Acarus sp. and Curculanoetus rhynchophorus were considered common subordinate taxa and Uroovobella sp., Mesostigmata, Nenteria extremica and Dendrolaelaps sp. sparse taxa. At the microhabitat level, all taxa were present on all body parts of the RPW; the highest abundance was in a region encompassing the inner surface of the elytra and the membranous hind wings (subelytral space). Analysis of niche overlap revealed that the distribution patterns of phoretic mite taxa on the RPW were not randomly structured. In the subelytral space, interspecific coexistence of mites increased as a function of body size difference with the dominant Centrouropoda sp. We found that in the subelytral space the large dominant species Centrouropoda sp. displaced the larger species Uroobovella sp. and the similarly sized species Nenteria extremica, but coexisted with smaller taxa.
README
This readme file was generated on [2023-07-03] by [CAMILO AYRA-PARDO]
GENERAL INFORMATION
Title of Dataset:
Data from: Body size-dependent effects on the distribution patterns of phoretic mite species assemblages on Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier, 1790)
Author/Principal Investigator Information
Name: CAMILO AYRA-PARDO
ORCID: 0000-0001-5579-677X
Institution: CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto
Address: Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixes, Avda. General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal
Email: cayrapardo@ciimar.up.pt
Author/Associate or Co-investigator Information
Name: Ins Matos
ORCID: 0000-0001-7024-2599
Institution: CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto
Address: Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixes, Avda. General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal
Email: inesmatos.fcup@gmail.com
Author/Associate or Co-investigator Information
Name: Luis Filipe Rangel
ORCID: 0000-0002-8503-7763
Institution: CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto
Address: Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixes, Avda. General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal
Email: luisfiliperangel@sapo.pt
Author/Associate or Co-investigator Information
Name: MARIA JOAO SANTOS
ORCID: 0000-0001-6655-491X
Institution: CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto
Address: Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixes, Avda. General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal
Email: mjsantos@fc.up.pt
Author/Alternate Contact Information
Name: MARIA JOAO SANTOS
ORCID: 0000-0001-6655-491X
Institution: CIIMAR - Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto
Address: FC4, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal
Email: mjsantos@fc.up.pt
Date of data collection: From 2021-07-01 to 2022-03-31
Geographic location of data collection:
Samples were from eight sites in the Northern Portugal districts of Viana do Castelo, Braga, Porto and Aveiro. The name and geographical localisation of these eight sites are as follows: Moledo do Minho (41.847698, -8.864375) in Viana do Castelo; Famalico (41.361287, -8.539348) in Braga; Marqus (41.161283, -8.604427), Porto Botanical Garden (41.153008, -8.642730) and Foz do Douro (41.147716, -8.670845) in Porto; Esmoriz (40.955908, -8.650886), Barra Beach (40.632630, -8.748307) and Santiago Campus - University of Aveiro (40.635053, -8.659500) in Aveiro.
Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data:
This work has received financial support from the Portuguese national funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology within the scope of PTDC/BIA-BMA/6363/2020, UIDB/04423/2020 442, UIDP/04423/2020, UIDP/50017/2020, UIDB/50017/2020, LA/P/0094/2020, by an FCT employment contract CEECIND/03501/2017 (to L.F.R.) and research fellowships PTDCASPPLA62282020-BI_LIC_2021_019 and 2022_083_BI_ASP-PLA (to I. M.). O.M.C.C.A. is funded by national funds (OE), through FCT, in the scope of the framework contract foreseen in the numbers 4, 5 and 6 of the article 23, of the Decree-Law 57/2016, of August 29, changed by Law 57/2017, of July 19.
SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: not available
Links to publications that cite or use the data:
- AUTHOREA (https://doi.org/10.22541/au.167583803.39950050/v1);
- bioRxiv (https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.06.527267);
- A manuscript written for the interpretation of the dataset was just accepted in Ecology and Evolution on 2023-06-29
Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:
Not available
Links/relationships to ancillary data sets:
Not available
Was data derived from another source? NO
If yes, list source(s):
Recommended citation for this dataset: Matos, Ins; Rangel, Luis Filipe; Santos, Maria Joo; Ayra-Pardo, Camilo (2023), Data from: Body size-dependent effects on the distribution patterns of phoretic mite species assemblages on Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier, 1790), Dryad, Dataset,
DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
File List: Raw Data_Distribution Patterns and Body Size in RPW Mites.xlsx
This Excel file contains a table with a dataset of 238 adult red palm weevils collected in the districts of Viana do Castelo, Braga, Porto and Aveiro in the region of Northern Portugal. It contains information on the sex, weight and length of the weevils, the date of collection and the abundance of seven different mite species (i.e. Centrouropoda sp., Nenteria extremica, Acarus sp., Dendrolaelaps sp., Mesostigmata, Uroobovella, and Curculanoetus rhynchophorus) on six body parts of the weevil, such as head-antenna, neck, legs, thorax, wings-elytra, and abdominal sterna.
Relationship between files, if important:
Not available
Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: not available
Are there multiple versions of the dataset? NO
If yes, name of file(s) that was updated:
Why was the file updated?
When was the file updated?
METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
Description of methods used for collection/generation of data:
The captured weevils were transported to the laboratory in plastic containers and fed with apple slices. The specimens were then stored in the refrigerator at 8 degrees Celcius until dissection. The cold-anaesthetised weevils were separated by sex and dissected individually under a stereomicroscope. Phoretic mites were counted on six body parts of the weevils, i.e. neck, head-antenna, thorax, legs, ventral surface (abdominal sterna), and subelytral space (membranous hind wings + inner elytra surface), then removed with a camel hair brush and preserved in 70% ethanol. For identification, selected specimens of each observed mite morphotype were mounted on microscopic slides in lactic acid (90% solution in water) (Helle & Sabelis, 1985) and examined with an Axiophot microscope (Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany) connected to a computer running Leica Application Suite X (LAS X) image processing software. Mites were identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level based on the original descriptions and illustrations in which these taxa were first described (McGraw & Farrier, 1969; Griffiths, 1970; Fain, 1974; Lindquist, 1975; Kinn, 1984; Wisniewski et al., 1992; Krantz & Walter, 2009; Porcelli et al., 2009; Farahani et al., 2016; Abo-Shnaf & Allam, 2019) and the length of their ventral idiosoma measured.
References
McGraw, J. R., & Farrier, M. H. (1969). Mites of the superfamily Parasitoidea (Acarina517 Mesostigmata) associated with Dendroctonus and Ips (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Technical Bulletin. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station (192).
Griffiths, D. A. (1970). A further systematic study of the genus Acarus L., 1758 (Acaridae, Acarina), with a key to species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natur History Zoology), 85 - 118.
Fain, A. (1974). Notes sur quelques hypopes d'Anoetidae. Bulletin et annales de la Socit royale belge d'entomologie, 110, 58 - 68.
Lindquist, E. E. (1975). Digamasellus Berlese, 1905, and Dendrolaelaps Halbert, 1915, with descriptions of new taxa of Digamasellidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata). The Canadian
508 Entomologist, 107(1), 1-43.
Kinn, D. N. (1984). Life cycle of Dendrolaelaps neodisetus (Mesostigmata: Digamasellidae), a nematophagous mite associated with pine bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Environmental Entomology, 13(4), 1141-1144. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/13.4.1141
Wisniewski, J., Hirschmann, W., & Hiramatsu, N. (1992). New species of Centrouropoda (Uroactiniinae, Uropodina) from Philippines, Brazil and Middle Africa. Acarologia, 33(4), 313- 320.
Krantz, G. W., & Walter, D. E. (2009). A Manual of Acarology (Third Edition ed.): Texas Tech University Press
Porcelli, F., Ragusa, E., DOnghia, A. M., Mizzi, S., & Mifsud, D. (2009). Occurrence of Centrouropoda almerodai and Uroobovella marginata (Acari: Uropodina) phoretic on the Red Palm Weevil in Malta. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta, 2, 61-66.
Farahani, V. R. F., Ahadiyat, A., Man, P., & Dehvari, M. A. (2016). Phoretic uropodine mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with the red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Iran. Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 48, 5853.
Abo-Shnaf, R. I., & Allam, S. F. (2019). A new species of Centrouropoda (Acari: Uropodidae: Uropodina), with a key to the world species of the genus. Zootaxa, 4706(4), zootaxa. 4706.4704. 4701-zootaxa. 4706.4704. 4701.
Methods for processing the data:
The submitted dataset contains all the information from the raw or collected data
Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
Microsoft Excel
Standards and calibration information, if appropriate:
Not available
Environmental/experimental conditions:
Not available
Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:
Not available
People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Ins Matos; Diogo Silva; Joo Oliveira; Cladia Gonalves; Rita Alves; Nuno Pereira; Francisco Catarino; Olga M. C. C. Ameixa; Jos Amrico Sousa; Luis Filipe Rangel; Maria Joo Santos; and Camilo Ayra-Pardo
DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [Raw Data_Distribution Patterns and Body Size in Red Palm Weevil Mites.xlsx]
Number of variables: 64
Number of cases/rows: 238 (each weevil)
Variable List:
Code - A unique identified code used to identify one specific individual
Item # - Number of the item in the list
Assemblage - District where the red palm weevil was collected among Viana do Castelo, Braga, Porto and Aveiro
red palm weevil's date of collection - Date of collection of the weevil
red palm weevil's sex (F/M) - Sex of the weevil between Female and Male
red palm weevil's weight (g) - weight of the weevil
red palm weevil's length (cm) - Lenght of the weevil in centimeters
All body (numbers for the whole weevil)
number of taxa - total number of mite species identified for each weevil (rows)
Centrouropoda sp. - total number of this particular species for each weevil (rows)
Nenteria extremica - total number of this particular species for each weevil (rows)
Acarus sp. - total number of this particular species for each weevil (rows)
Dendrolaelaps sp.- total number of this particular species for each weevil (rows)
Mesostigmata - total number of this particular species for each weevil (rows)
Uroobovella sp. - total number of this particular species for each weevil (rows)
Curculanoetus rhynchophorus - total number of this particular species for each weevil (rows)
Head + Antenna (numbers for this body part of the weevil)
number of taxa - total number of mite species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Centrouropoda sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Nenteria extremica - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Acarus sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Dendrolaelaps sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Mesostigmata - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Uroobovella sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Curculanoetus rhynchophorus - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Neck (numbers for this body part of the weevil)
number of taxa - total number of mite species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Centrouropoda sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Nenteria extremica - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Acarus sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Dendrolaelaps sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Mesostigmata - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Uroobovella sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Curculanoetus rhynchophorus - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Legs (numbers for this body part of the weevil)
number of taxa - total number of mite species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Centrouropoda sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Nenteria extremica - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Acarus sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Dendrolaelaps sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Mesostigmata - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Uroobovella sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Curculanoetus rhynchophorus - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Thorax (numbers for this body part of the weevil)
number of taxa - total number of mite species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Centrouropoda sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Nenteria extremica - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Acarus sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Dendrolaelaps sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Mesostigmata - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Uroobovella sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Curculanoetus rhynchophorus - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Wings and Elytra (numbers for this body part of the weevil)
number of taxa - total number of mite species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Centrouropoda sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Nenteria extremica - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Acarus sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Dendrolaelaps sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Mesostigmata - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Uroobovella sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Curculanoetus rhynchophorus - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Ventra surface or abdominal sterna (numbers for this body part of the weevil)
number of taxa - total number of mite species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Centrouropoda sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Nenteria extremica - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Acarus sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Dendrolaelaps sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Mesostigmata - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Uroobovella sp. - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Curculanoetus rhynchophorus - total number of this particular species in this body part identified for each weevil (rows)
Missing data codes:
n/a, Not available
Specialized formats or other abbreviations used:
Not available
Methods
Samples were from eight sites in the Northern Portugal districts of Viana do Castelo, Braga, Porto and Aveiro. The name and geographical localisation of these eight sites are as follows: Moledo do Minho (41.847698, -8.864375) in Viana do Castelo; Famalicão (41.361287, -8.539348) in Braga; Marquês (41.161283, -8.604427), Porto Botanical Garden (41.153008, -8.642730) and Foz do Douro (41.147716, -8.670845) in Porto; Esmoriz (40.955908, -8.650886), Barra Beach (40.632630, -8.748307) and Santiago Campus - University of Aveiro (40.635053, -8.659500) in Aveiro. The captured weevils were transported to the laboratory in plastic containers and fed with apple slices. The specimens were then stored in the refrigerator at 8 degrees Celcius until dissection. The cold-anaesthetised weevils were separated by sex and dissected individually under a stereomicroscope. Phoretic mites were counted on six body parts of the weevils, i.e. neck, head-antenna, thorax, legs, ventral surface (abdominal sterna), and subelytral space (membranous hind wings + inner elytra surface), then removed with a camel hair brush and preserved in 70% ethanol. For identification, selected specimens of each observed mite morphotype were mounted on microscopic slides in lactic acid (90% solution in water) (Helle & Sabelis, 1985) and examined with an Axiophot microscope (Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany) connected to a computer running Leica Application Suite X (LAS X) image processing software. Mites were identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level based on the original descriptions and illustrations in which these taxa were first described (McGraw & Farrier, 1969; Griffiths, 1970; Fain, 1974; Lindquist, 1975; Kinn, 1984; Wisniewski et al., 1992; Krantz & Walter, 2009; Porcelli et al., 2009; Farahani et al., 2016; Abo-Shnaf & Allam, 2019) and the length of their ventral idiosoma measured.
References
McGraw, J. R., & Farrier, M. H. (1969). Mites of the superfamily Parasitoidea (Acarina517 Mesostigmata) associated with Dendroctonus and Ips (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Technical Bulletin. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station (192).
Griffiths, D. A. (1970). A further systematic study of the genus Acarus L., 1758 (Acaridae, Acarina), with a key to species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natur History Zoology), 85 - 118.
Fain, A. (1974). Notes sur quelques hypopes d'Anoetidae. Bulletin et annales de la Société royale belge d'entomologie, 110, 58 - 68.
Lindquist, E. E. (1975). Digamasellus Berlese, 1905, and Dendrolaelaps Halbert, 1915, with descriptions of new taxa of Digamasellidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata). The Canadian
508 Entomologist, 107(1), 1-43.
Kinn, D. N. (1984). Life cycle of Dendrolaelaps neodisetus (Mesostigmata: Digamasellidae), a nematophagous mite associated with pine bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Environmental Entomology, 13(4), 1141-1144. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/13.4.1141
Wisniewski, J., Hirschmann, W., & Hiramatsu, N. (1992). New species of Centrouropoda (Uroactiniinae, Uropodina) from Philippines, Brazil and Middle Africa. Acarologia, 33(4), 313- 320.
Krantz, G. W., & Walter, D. E. (2009). A Manual of Acarology (Third Edition ed.): Texas Tech University Press
Porcelli, F., Ragusa, E., D’Onghia, A. M., Mizzi, S., & Mifsud, D. (2009). Occurrence of Centrouropoda almerodai and Uroobovella marginata (Acari: Uropodina) phoretic on the Red Palm Weevil in Malta. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta, 2, 61-66.
Farahani, V. R. F., Ahadiyat, A., Mašán, P., & Dehvari, M. A. (2016). Phoretic uropodine mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with the red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Iran. Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 48, 5853.
Abo-Shnaf, R. I., & Allam, S. F. (2019). A new species of Centrouropoda (Acari: Uropodidae: Uropodina), with a key to the world species of the genus. Zootaxa, 4706(4), zootaxa. 4706.4704. 4701-zootaxa. 4706.4704. 4701.