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First Record of the Inquiline Ant Leptothorax kutteri Buschinger, 1965 from Turkey 细胸蚁kutteri Buschinger的首个记录,1965年生于土耳其
IF 0.9 4区 农林科学
Sociobiology Pub Date : 2021-08-14 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v68i3.7224
K. Kıran, C. Karaman, J. Heinze
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引用次数: 1
Bees from an Island in the Delta of the Americas (Maranhão state, Brazil) and their Floristic Interactions 美洲三角洲一个岛屿上的蜜蜂(巴西马兰赫<e:1>州)及其植物区系的相互作用
IF 0.9 4区 农林科学
Sociobiology Pub Date : 2021-08-14 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v68i3.5783
Carlos Luis Neves, Harryson Corrêa Barros, Maira Rodrigues Diniz, Bruna Emanuele Freire Correia, Luciano André Chaves Ferreira, Albeane Guimarães Silva, E. Almeida, M. Rêgo
{"title":"Bees from an Island in the Delta of the Americas (Maranhão state, Brazil) and their Floristic Interactions","authors":"Carlos Luis Neves, Harryson Corrêa Barros, Maira Rodrigues Diniz, Bruna Emanuele Freire Correia, Luciano André Chaves Ferreira, Albeane Guimarães Silva, E. Almeida, M. Rêgo","doi":"10.13102/sociobiology.v68i3.5783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v68i3.5783","url":null,"abstract":"Surveys of the bee fauna on islands are scarce due to the difficult access to the study area. Thus, the current study intended to establish the species of bees present in an island of the Delta of the Americas, called Grande do Paulino, Tutóia, Maranhão. Together with the bees, the plants visited by these insects were recorded, in order to document the relationships between these organisms. Between July 2017 and June 2018, once a month, 1,095 individuals, distributed in 16 tribes, 30 genera, and 48 species, were collected with active (entomological net) and passive (bowl traps) sampling methods. Data from plants and their visiting bees are presented in an interaction network in the form of a bipartite graph, showing Xylocopa cearensis as the most collected bee species, and Chamaecrista ramosa as the most visited plant by bees. In addition to providing information about the bee fauna of the state of Maranhão and, consequently, from the Brazilian northeast, this study explores the apifauna of a place never before explored and, because it is an island, of difficult access, also providing information about the floristic interactions of these insects.","PeriodicalId":21971,"journal":{"name":"Sociobiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42590399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Determination of Nectar Resources through Body Surface Pollen Analysis: A Study with the Stingless Bee Tetragonula iridipennis Smith (Apidae: Meliponini) in West Bengal, India 用体表花粉分析测定花蜜资源——以印度西孟加拉邦无刺蜜蜂Tetragonula iridipennis Smith(蜂科:Meliponini)为例
IF 0.9 4区 农林科学
Sociobiology Pub Date : 2021-08-14 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v68i3.6173
Sourabh Bisui, U. Layek, P. Karmakar
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引用次数: 4
Do Odontomachus brunneus nestmates request for help and are taken care of when caught? 当被抓到的时候,它们的同伴会请求帮助和照顾吗?
IF 0.9 4区 农林科学
Sociobiology Pub Date : 2021-08-14 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v68i3.6022
Luiz Carlos Santos Junior, Emerson Douglas da Silva, W. Antonialli-Júnior
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引用次数: 1
Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of St. Vincent, West Indies 西印度群岛圣文森特的蚂蚁(膜翅目,蚁科)
IF 0.9 4区 农林科学
Sociobiology Pub Date : 2021-06-17 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v68i2.6725
J. K. Wetterer
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引用次数: 1
A Day in the Life of the Giant Ant Dinoponera lucida Emery, 1901 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): Records of Activities and Intraspecific Interactions 大蚁生命中的一天——亮斑蝶,1901年(膜翅目,蚁科):活动和种内相互作用的记录
IF 0.9 4区 农林科学
Sociobiology Pub Date : 2021-06-14 DOI: 10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.6166
Cássio Zocca, F. Curbani, Rodrigo B. Ferreira, Cecília Weichert, T. Sobrinho, A. C. Srbek‐Araujo
{"title":"A Day in the Life of the Giant Ant Dinoponera lucida Emery, 1901 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): Records of Activities and Intraspecific Interactions","authors":"Cássio Zocca, F. Curbani, Rodrigo B. Ferreira, Cecília Weichert, T. Sobrinho, A. C. Srbek‐Araujo","doi":"10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.6166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.6166","url":null,"abstract":"Ants present a wide variety of nesting sites, feeding habits, and trophic interactions, but the biology of most species remains unknown. Dinoponera lucida is a poneromorph ant forest-specialist and solitary forager, endemic to the Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Herein we describe foraging activities, guard and maintenance of the nests, orientation mode, and intraspecific interactions performed by D. lucida. We found three nests distant from each other at least 8.5 m, and the mean reached distance by a worker was 3.8 m. The workers showed colony fidelity and random forage in their territory. We observed two non-agonistic interactions between workers from the same nest, and two agonistic interactions between foraging workers from different nests. The low frequency of agonistic interactions suggests that workers from different nests are unlikely to forage in the same area. Our results expand the knowledge on ants’ natural history through data on foraging activities, guard and maintenance of the nests, orientation mode and intraspecific interactions.","PeriodicalId":21971,"journal":{"name":"Sociobiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46356841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Measuring the effect of long-term pitfall trapping on the prevalence of epigeal arthropods: A case study in the Pacific Coast of Colombia 测量长期陷阱诱捕对上肢节肢动物流行的影响:以哥伦比亚太平洋海岸为例
IF 0.9 4区 农林科学
Sociobiology Pub Date : 2021-06-11 DOI: 10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5928
J. Martínez, Rubilma Tarazona, B. Lohr, Consuelo Alexandra Narvaez
{"title":"Measuring the effect of long-term pitfall trapping on the prevalence of epigeal arthropods: A case study in the Pacific Coast of Colombia","authors":"J. Martínez, Rubilma Tarazona, B. Lohr, Consuelo Alexandra Narvaez","doi":"10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5928","url":null,"abstract":"Pitfall trapping is one of the most frequently used methods to assess ground-active arthropods’ diversity and density (Brown & Matthews, 2016; Greenslade 1964; Southwood, 1978). Its advantages and drawbacks have been the subject of discussion for a long time (Adis, 1979, Southwood & Henderson, 2016). Many attempts have been made to correct some of the most salient biases resulting from it (Greenslade, 1964; Hayes, 1970; Gist & Crossley, 1973; Luff, 1975). Sheikh et al. (2018) provide a detailed review on the use of pitfall trapping for ants worldwide. However, despite the many complaints about the method and the voluminous literature about the subject, the possibility that Abstract Pitfall trapping remains one of the most frequently used methods to assess ground-active arthropods’ diversity and density. Yet, one of its main drawbacks, the possibility that repeated collecting may affect the study objects’ population, has not been formally tested. We studied the effect of a yearlong epigeal pitfall trapping exercise with 22 fortnightly capture events in four differently disturbed areas at the Colombian Pacific coast. A transect of 100 m length with ten equidistant pitfall traps was established in each area, and the traps were operated twice a month for 24 hours. Using count data regression models, we find that trapping did not affect subsequent captures when we analyzed non-ant arthropods. For ants, regression estimates indicate that each subsequent trapping in highly-disturbed environments ended, on average, reducing all ants in between -3.8 and -4.1%, and Ectatomma ruidum between -4.7 and -5.1%. We recommend bio-ecological aspects of the species under study be considered when interpreting results. This is important for future studies that rely on this method to deliver consistent estimates of population sizes or study their dynamics through time. At the same time, it is also a call for scientists to revise more carefully how species’ peculiar traits may limit the reliability of traditional methods. Sociobiology An international journal on social insects","PeriodicalId":21971,"journal":{"name":"Sociobiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48105123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationship of higher termite Globitermes sulphureus (Haviland)(Blattodea:Termitidae) 高等白蚁gloitermes sulphureus (Haviland)的遗传多样性及系统发育关系(白蚁总目:白蚁科)
IF 0.9 4区 农林科学
Sociobiology Pub Date : 2021-06-11 DOI: 10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5911
N. A. Hussin, Abdul Majid
{"title":"Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationship of higher termite Globitermes sulphureus (Haviland)(Blattodea:Termitidae)","authors":"N. A. Hussin, Abdul Majid","doi":"10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5911","url":null,"abstract":"The subterranean termite Globitermes sulphureus is commonly found in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam (Ahmad, 1965; Bordereau et al., 1997; Kuswanto et al., 2015; Lee et al., 2007; Ngee & Lee, 2002). This termite belongs to higher group termites which possess only bacteria and archaea in their gut (Bujang et al., 2014). As a wood feeder termite, this species has been reported to infest premises’ wood structures (Ab Majid & Ahmad, 2009; Neoh et al., 2011). Moreover, it was also reported as the primary pest in agricultural sectors such as coconut and oil palm plantations (Lee et al., 2003). G. sulphureus is recognized as a pest of significant economic importance in Southeast Asia (Rust & Su, 2012). Abstract The subterranean higher termite Globitermes sulphureus (Blattodea: Termitidae) is a peridomestic forager and regarded as a significant pest in Southeast Asia. In this study, populations of G. sulphureus from the USM main campus area were investigated based on partial sequences of the mitochondrial COII gene. The genetic diversity was determined using DnaSP v5 software, while the phylogenetic relationship was defined using Neighbor-joining (NJ) and maximum likelihood (ML) methods using Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA 7) software. A total of 2 haplotypes were detected among 5 sample sequences distinguished through two variable sites. Also, both phylogenetic trees gave similar topology and supporting the results from haplotype diversity. Based on the haplotype diversity and molecular phylogeny, it is proposed that geographic isolation and lack of human activities have contributed to the neutral genetic diversity of G. sulphureus. Sociobiology An international journal on social insects","PeriodicalId":21971,"journal":{"name":"Sociobiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43926919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Caste-specific phenotypic plasticity of Asian weaver ants: Revealing the allometric and non-allometric component of female caste system of Oecophylla smaragdina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by using geometric morphometrics 亚洲织蚁的种姓特异性表型可塑性:应用几何形态计量学揭示小蚁蛛(膜翅目:蚁科)雌性种姓系统的异速和非异速成分
IF 0.9 4区 农林科学
Sociobiology Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5941
K. Mahima, P. P. Anand, S. Seena, K. Shameema, E. M. Manogem, Y. Vardhanan
{"title":"Caste-specific phenotypic plasticity of Asian weaver ants: Revealing the allometric and non-allometric component of female caste system of Oecophylla smaragdina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by using geometric morphometrics","authors":"K. Mahima, P. P. Anand, S. Seena, K. Shameema, E. M. Manogem, Y. Vardhanan","doi":"10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5941","url":null,"abstract":"In eusocial insects, particularly in ants, caste differentiation is extremely complicated when we rely on traditional taxonomy. In most species, the worker caste does not display any distinct morphological characters neither the caste’s central division according to their morphological size variations. We used a landmark-based geometric morphometric approach to quantify the morphological characteristics of female caste systems (queen, major and minor worker ant) of Oecophylla smaragdina. Our findings suggested that each caste has its unique shape and size. Especially in the worker caste, apart from the size variations, we can use the shape as a prominent tool for distinguishing between them. The O. smaragdina exhibits a triphasic allometry pattern. Studying the allometry and non-allometry components of each caste system revealed a highly complex size and shape relationship in the female caste systems. From the allometric and non-allometric analysis, we concluded that the major worker ants showed a closer relationship with the queen than the minor worker ant. This outcome demonstrated that Asian weaver ant exhibits complex shape variations related to size and is correlated to their functional modular characters. This research sheds new light on caste systems’ taxonomic uncertainties for eusocial hymenopteran groups, especially ants.","PeriodicalId":21971,"journal":{"name":"Sociobiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43836149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Temporal Memory in Foraging of the Stingless Bee Melipona subnitida (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) 无刺小蜂觅食的时间记忆(膜翅目:蜂科:小蜂科)
IF 0.9 4区 农林科学
Sociobiology Pub Date : 2021-05-31 DOI: 10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5863
Albeane Guimarães Silva, G. C. Carvalho, Ana Catarina De Miranda, F. Contrera, M. Rêgo
{"title":"Temporal Memory in Foraging of the Stingless Bee Melipona subnitida (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)","authors":"Albeane Guimarães Silva, G. C. Carvalho, Ana Catarina De Miranda, F. Contrera, M. Rêgo","doi":"10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13102/SOCIOBIOLOGY.V68I2.5863","url":null,"abstract":"Bees feed on nectar and pollen, however these resources are often available to floral visitors during restricted temporal windows. The presence of temporal memory is an advantage, as foragers can save energy by scheduling their flight activity to coincide with peaks of nectar secretion in the flowers or at times of higher sugar concentration in the nectar. Thus, the objectives of this study were (i) to investigate whether Melipona subnitida has temporal memory, and evaluate whether it becomes more accurate over the days, and (ii) to determine whether the behavior of anticipating the offered resource presents intra-individual consistency in the behavior of foragers. The visitation of the bees was high before and during the opening interval of the food resource, but rare after the closing, suggesting that M. subnitida has the ability to memorize the time of availability of the resource, increasing the accuracy over the days, with bees anticipating their visits in relation to the time they discovered the resource, and the opening time of the resource. There was individual consistency in the behavior of food-anticipatory activity, with the presence of bees that consistently anticipated in relation to the opening time of the resource (inspectors) and bees that consistently did not anticipate (reactivated forager) . By anticipating the search for a resource, foragers allow the group to exploit it effectively, as they exploit it in the first hours of its opening, and foragers that never anticipate avoid unnecessary risks of predation and energy expenditure.","PeriodicalId":21971,"journal":{"name":"Sociobiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48424355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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