Page 1/19 Filling the gap: a new ant-butterｧy symbiosis in the forest canopy Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Franklin H. Rocha Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán Carmen Pozo El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Lucas A. Kaminski Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Noemy Seraphim Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo Jean-Paul Lachaud (  jean-paul.lachaud@univ-tlse3.fr ) Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS Research Article Keywords: multitrophic interactions, myrmecophily, Pseudonymphidia agave, Neoponera villosa, brood predator, social parasites, Aechmea bracteata DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-343521/v1 License:   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License