Insects associated with fruit bodies of the wood-decaying fungus Oak mazegill (Daedalea quercina) in mixed oak forests in southern Sweden

摘要

Insect-fungus interactions have received increasing research interest, yet we still lack detailed and systematically obtained information about insectassemblages from most fungal species. Many wood-decaying fungi (polypores) host species rich insect communities, comprising fungi vores and their parasitoids and predators (Komonen 2001, 2003). In this paper, we describe the insect species composition in the fruit bodies of the wood-decaying fungus Daedalea quercina (L.) Pers. (1801), a specialist species on oak in south Swedish woodlands.