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Hello everyone

One reason why I, as an entomologist, find the genus Amorphophallus and other arum rods so interesting is their entomophily - pollination by insects. Now we all know that this does not mean the classic flower visitors such as wild bees or hoverflies. When I recently wanted to start researching and compiling literature on the pollination ecology of the genus Amorphophallus, I was very pleased to find out that someone else had already done this. In a recent review paper, Cyrille Claudel has published the information available so far on "The many elusive pollinators in the genus Amorphophallus". Not only safely pollinating, but also presumably pollinating and only "visitors" of the flowers are listed - separated by Amorphophallus species.

To put my second sentence directly into perspective and hopefully to stir up the tension on the publication: Among the safe pollinators of e.g. Amorphophallus commutatus are wild bees from the genus Trigona. The genus Trigona includes the only wild bee species worldwide that have abandoned pollen and nectar as food and have become obligate scavengers.

Here is the link to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...21-09865-x#Sec2

With entomological greetings
Jennifer