A new ant-butterfly symbiosis in the forest canopy fills an evolutionary gap
Abstract Myrmecophilous butterflies can establish complex symbiotic relationships with ants.A caterpillar wandering among the brood of the aggressive ponerine ant Neoponera sein?lle taitettava ty?p?yt? villosa was found inside the core of a nest built in the myrmecophytic bromeliad Aechmea bracteata.This is the first caterpillar found living inside