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Introduction:
| Feeding on: | Families and or Subfamilies: | |
| ACARIPHAGOUS | mites. | |
| ALGOPHAGOUS | algae. | |
| ANTHOPHAGOUS | flowers. | |
| ARACHNEOPHAGOUS | spiders. | |
| BRYOPHAGOUS | moss. | |
| CERATOPHAGOUS | cornified tissues and hair animals. | |
| COCCIDOPHAGOUS | scale insects and parasitoids of scale insects. | |
| COPROMYCETOPHAGOUS | inhabiting feces and consuming mycetes growing inside or cultivating them for feeding. | |
| COPROPHAGOUS | excrements, feces. | Coprinae. Scarabinae. |
| CARPOPHAGOUS | fruits and seeds. | |
| DENDROPHAGOUS | trees. | |
| DETRITOPHAGOUS | ground remains of plants and animals. | |
| DUROPHAGOUS | molluscs. | Carabidae. |
| ENTOMONECROPHAGOUS | dead arthropods. | |
| ENTOMOPHAGOUS | other insects, insectivore. | |
| HAEMATOPHAGOUS | blood. | |
| HELICIPHAHOUS | snails. | Carabidae. |
| HERBIPHAGOUS | herbaceous plants. | |
| HELMINTHOPHAGOUS | worms. | |
| HEMATOPHAGOUS | blood. | |
| LICHENOPHAGOUS | lichens. | |
| MALACOPHAGOUS | molluscs. | |
| MIXOMYCETOPHAGOUS | myxomycetes fungus. | |
| MYCETOPHAGOUS | fungus. | |
| MYCOPHAGOUS | fungus. | |
| MYRMECOPHAGOUS | ants, termites. | |
| NECROPHAGOUS | dead animals and their remains. | |
| OOPHAGOUS | eggs. | |
| OPHIOPHAGOUS | snakes. | |
| PALYNOPHAGOUS | pollen. | |
| PHLOEOPHAGOUS | bark. | |
| PHYLLOPHAGOUS | leaves. | |
| PHYTOPHAGOUS | plants, herbivore. | |
| POLLINOPHAGOUS | pollen. | |
| POLYPHAGOUS | omnivore. | |
| RHIZOPHAGOUS | roots. | |
| SAPROMYCETOPHAGOUS | inhabiting decaying matter and consuming mycetes growing inside or cultivating them for feeding. | |
| SAPROPHAGOUS | decaying organic matter. | |
| SAPROXYLOPHAGOUS | dead wood | Lucanidae. Prioninae. |
| SARCONECROPHAGOUS | dead bodies of vertebrates. | |
| SCHISOPHAGOUS | ground remains of plants and animals. | |
| SPOROPHAGOUS | mycete spores. | |
| XYLOPHAGOUS | wood. | |
| ZOOMYCETOPHAGOUS | fungus found on other animals. | |
| ZOOPHAGOUS | animals. | |
Kleptoparasitism or cleptoparasitism (literally, parasitism by theft) is a form of feeding in which one animal takes prey or other food from another that has caught, collected, or otherwise prepared the food, including stored food. The term is also used to describe the stealing of nest material or other inanimate objects from one animal by another.
The kleptoparasite gains either by obtaining prey or other objects that it could not obtain itself, or by saving the time and effort required to obtain it. However, the kleptoparasite may run the risk of injury from the victim if the latter is able to defend its prey.
Kleptoparasitism may be intraspecific (the parasite is the same species as the victim) or interspecific (the parasite is a different species).
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