ambivore
English
Noun
ambivore (plural ambivores)
- (chiefly biology) An animal that feeds on a variety of foods of different kind.
- 1989 May, R.G. Bland, “Antennal sensilla of Acrididae (Orthoptera) in relation to subfamily and food preference”, in Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volume 82, number 3:
- In these latter categories, long basiconic sensilla numbers were similar and short basiconic sensilla were abundant in graminivores but few in ambivores.
- 2013, Naima Benkenana, Abboud Harrat, & Daniel Petit, “Analysis of the number of sensilla on the labrum and the diet of grasshoppers belonging to the family Pamphagidae (Orthoptera)”, in European Journal of Entomology, volume 110, number 2:
- The diet of Tmethis and Ocneridia contained a higher percentage of Poaceae than the other species and are considered to be ambivores.
- 2016, Sarah Mahloul, Abboud Harrat, & Daniel Petit, “Diversity of grasshoppers (Caelifera) recorded on the banks of a Ramsar listed temporary salt lake in Algeria”, in European Journal of Entomology, volume 113:
- Analysis of literature (see legend of Table 3) indicates that several species of grasshoppers have diverse diets (grasses and dicotyledonous plants), eg, C. barbarus, that is they are ambivores.
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