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Table 2.

Insects identified from silk-wrapped prey remains in the webs of Eustala oblonga in the ant-acacia Vachellia melanocerus and in the webs of Eustala illicita in the ant-acacia Vachellia collinsii in Panama during the 2014 wet season by taxonomic order, family, and ecological role as adults

Order/family	Ecological role^a	No. captured by E. oblonga	Percent of total no. captured	No. captured by E. illicita	Percent of total no. captured
Coleoptera
Buprestidae	H	–	–	4	8.00
Chrysomelidae	H	4	10.53	5	10.00
Curculionidae	H	1	2.63	–	–
Staphylinidae	P	–	–	2	4.00
Unknown	O	1	2.63	–	–
Diptera
Chironomidae	O	–	–	1	2.00
Lampyridae	P	–	–	1	2.00
Mycetophilidae	S	1	2.63	–	–
Unknown	O	1	2.63	5	10.00
Hemiptera
Cercopidae	H	2	5.26	–	–
Cicadellidae	H	1	2.63	1	2.00
Reduviidae	P	1	2.63	–	–
Unknown^b	H	1	2.63	–	–
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae	P	–	–	1	2.00
Chalcidae	P	1	2.63	-	-
Formicidae^c	P	10	26.32	2	4.00
Formicidae^d	M	9	23.68	25	50.00
Unknown bee	O	1	2.63	1	2.00
Unknown wasp	P	2	5.26	2	4.00
Lepidoptera
Unknown	O	1	2.63	–	–
Orthoptera
Gryllidae	H	1	2.63	–	–
Total		38	100.00	50	100.00

Order/family	Ecological role^a	No. captured by E. oblonga	Percent of total no. captured	No. captured by E. illicita	Percent of total no. captured
Coleoptera
Buprestidae	H	–	–	4	8.00
Chrysomelidae	H	4	10.53	5	10.00
Curculionidae	H	1	2.63	–	–
Staphylinidae	P	–	–	2	4.00
Unknown	O	1	2.63	–	–
Diptera
Chironomidae	O	–	–	1	2.00
Lampyridae	P	–	–	1	2.00
Mycetophilidae	S	1	2.63	–	–
Unknown	O	1	2.63	5	10.00
Hemiptera
Cercopidae	H	2	5.26	–	–
Cicadellidae	H	1	2.63	1	2.00
Reduviidae	P	1	2.63	–	–
Unknown^b	H	1	2.63	–	–
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae	P	–	–	1	2.00
Chalcidae	P	1	2.63	-	-
Formicidae^c	P	10	26.32	2	4.00
Formicidae^d	M	9	23.68	25	50.00
Unknown bee	O	1	2.63	1	2.00
Unknown wasp	P	2	5.26	2	4.00
Lepidoptera
Unknown	O	1	2.63	–	–
Orthoptera
Gryllidae	H	1	2.63	–	–
Total		38	100.00	50	100.00

–, Absent.

^aH, herbivore; M, mutualist; O, other/unknown; P, predator/parasitoid; S, scavenger.

^bSuborder Auchenorrhyncha.

^cAlates of several species of ants, but neither of the two species of acacia ant mutualists, Pseudomyrmex satanicus and P. spinicola.

^dAlates of acacia ant mutualists, P. satanicus and P. spinicola.

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