Diversity
In a 1991 study, a wide diversity of animals was found in pitchers of Nepenthes ampullaria:
Carrion feeders:
- Endonepenthia (Phoridae)
- Syrphidae
Filter feeders:
- Aedes albopictus, Culex coerulescens, Culex hewitti, Culex navalis, Tripteroides nepenthis, Tripteroides tenax, Uranotaenia moultoni (Culicidae)
Detritus feeders:
- several Anoetidae
- Dasyhelea, Forcipomyia (Ceratopogonidae)
- several Chironomidae
- Harpacticoida
- Sciaridae
Nipping predators (can swim in the fluid, mandibles move against one another in a horizontal plane):
- Aedes brevitibia, Toxorhynchites indicus (Culicidae)
- Corethrella calathicola (Chaoboridae)
Hooking predators (can only crawl, mandibles move parallel to one another in a vertical plane):
- Dolichopodidae
- Listodiplosis (Cecidomyiidae)
- Nepenthosyrphus (Syrphidae)
Terrestrial predators:
- Misumenops (Thomisidae)
- Xenoplatyura (Mycetophilidae)
Nepenthebiont Diptera:
- Aedes brevitibia
- several Chironomidae
- Corethrella calathicola
- Culex hewitti
- Culex coerulescens
- Culex navalis
- several Dasyhelea species (D. ampullariae, D. biseriata and others)
- Dolichopodidae
- Endonepenthia
- Nepenthosyrphus
- Toxorhynchites indicus
- Tripteroides nepenthis
- Tripteroides tenax
- Uranotaenia moultoni
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