Are there any specific records/reports of mammalian, amphibian or reptilian predation on Chrysomelidae?

Hi David,

There are numeorus examples of vertebrate predation on Chrysomelidae. I list you three examples of each group:

Amphibia

Stojanova, A. M., & Mollov, I. A. (2008). Diet and trophic niche overlap of the Moor frog (Rana arvalis Nilsson, 1842) and the Common frog (Rana temporaria L., 1758) from Poland. In Anniversary Scientific Conference of Ecology, Proceedings (pp. 181-190).

Mollov, Ivelin A. "Sex Based Differences in the Trophic Niche of Pelophylax ridibundus (Pallas, 1771)(Amphibia: Anura) from Bulgaria." Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 60.3 (2008): 277-284.

Bisa, Rika, et al. "Population density and food analysis of Bombina variegata and Rana graeca in mountainous riverine ecosystems of northern Pindos(Greece)." Journal of Biological Research. Scientific Annals of the School of Biology 8 (2007): 129-137.

Reptilia

M. Stannera & H. Mendelssohna

THE DIET OF VARANUS GRISEUS IN THE SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAIN OF ISRAEL (REPTILIA: SAURIA)

Israel Journal of Zoology

Volume 34, Issue 1-2, 1986

Aurora M. Castilla, Dirk Bauwens and Gustavo A. Llorente

Diet Composition of the Lizard Lacerta lepida in Central Spain

Journal of Herpetology

Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 30-36

Jeffery P. Demuth and Kurt A. Buhlmann

Diet of the Turtle Deirochelys reticularia on the Savannah River Site, South Carolina

Journal of Herpetology

Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 450-453

Aves

Barry E. Bendell, Donald K. McNicol

The diet of insectivorous ducklings and the acidification of small Ontario lakes

Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1995, 73(11): 2044-2051,

Thomas W. Sherry

Comparative Dietary Ecology of Sympatric, Insectivorous Neotropical Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Ecological Monographs , Vol. 54, No. 3 (Sep., 1984), pp. 313-338

Grzegorz Kopij

Diet of some insectivorous passerines in semi-arid regions of South Africa

Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology

Volume 76, Issue 1-2, 2005

Mammalia

James S. Findley and Hal Black

Morphological and Dietary Structuring of a Zambian Insectivorous Bat Community

Ecology , Vol. 64, No. 4 (Aug., 1983), pp. 625-630

Xiaolin Chen, Chris R. Dickman and Michael B. Thompson

Diet of the mulgara, Dasycercus cristicauda (Marsupialia : Dasyuridae), in the Simpson Desert, central Australia

Wildlife Research 25(3) 233 - 242

Published: 1998

Churchfield, S. and Rychlik, L. (2006), Diets and coexistence in Neomys and Sorex shrews in Białowieża forest, eastern Poland. Journal of Zoology, 269: 381–390.

Best wishes,

Antonio.

What is the status of Chaetocnema hortensis and C. mannerheimi (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini)?

Does anyone have access to keys/ID guides to Afrotropical Chrysomelidae?

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Please help in identification of this insect?

Purification of proteins from baculovirus-infected insect cells?

Extraction of DNA from insect samples conserved in silica gel?

How do I prepare and store insect samples for JH measurements?

Working with insect primary cells in cell medium and in saline solution?

How to extract a single stranded DNA from a double stranded DNA sample isolated from stem borer(rice affecting insect) ?

Helicoverpa armigera eggs are not hatching in lab condition, why?

Triggering feeding of beetles / how to make them hungry?