Domatium

In botany, plant parts are called domatias (from Latin domus "house") , which are supposed to provide living space for animals, mostly insects.

Occasionally the name of a group of animals is prefixed as a more precise definition. Acarodomaties are often tufts of hair on the underside of leaves and are home to mites . Myrmekodomatien are often cavities that are inhabited by ants .

See also

• Ant plant

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Brigitte Fiala: Partnerships between plants and ants. Biology in our time 21, issue 5, 1991: pp. 241–247 full text as PDF
2. ^ AP Norton, G English-Loeb, D Gadoury, RC Seem: Mycophagous mites and foliar pathogens: Leaf domatia mediate tritrophic interactions in grapes. Ecology 2000, vol. 81, no2, pp. 490-499 ISSN 0012-9658 (PDF; 1.8 MB)