Oligophagy refers to the eating of only a few specific foods, and to monophagy when restricted to a single food source.[1] The term is usually associated with insect dietary behaviour.[2] Organisms may exhibit narrow or specific oligophagy where the diet is restricted to a very few foods or broad oligophagy where the organism feeds on a wide variety of specific foods but none other.[3]
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Polyphagy, on the contrary, refers to eating a broad spectrum of foods. In the insect world it refers usually to insects that feed on plants belonging to different families.
Huffaker, Carl B. & Gutierrez, A. P. (1999). Ecological Entomology. 2nd Edition (illustrated). John Wiley and Sons. ISBN0-471-24483-X, ISBN978-0-471-24483-7. Limited preview on Google Books. Accessed 9 January 2010.
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