Notes on the nest of the social wasp Pseudopolybia langi (Hym., Vespidae, Polistinae)

Felizardo, Sherlem Patricia de Seixas; Santos, Ian Patrick Vilhena dos; Silveira, Orlando Tobias

doi:10.1016/j.rbe.2018.02.002

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“…Colony architecture studies allow obtain Information about nest building and repair, social organization and ecological relations, as seen for Charterginus, Pseudopolybia, Polistes, Mischocyttarus and other genera (e.g. Jeanne 1975;riChards 1978;odonneL & Jeanne 1990;London & Jeanne 1998, 2000, 2003MontaGna et al 2010;FeLizardo et al 2018).…”

Section: Entomobrasilis 13: E929 (2020)mentioning

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Nest camouflage records on five social wasp species (Vespidae, Polistinae) from southeastern Brazil

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Social insects use different strategies to defend their colonies, including camouflage. In order to expand knowledge, regarding the strategy of camouflage in social wasps, information is presented on the camouflage pattern of the species: Parachartergus smithii (De Saussure), Parachartergus wagneri Du Buysson, Chartergellus communis Richards, Metapolybia cingulata (Fabricius) and Mischocyttarus anthracinus Richards.These species are uncommon in inventory studies in Brazil. Records occur in different Conservation Units, between 2011 and 2019, in the Minas Gerais State, Brazil Southeastern. Camouflage seems to be the main defense strategy for these species, due to the color and shape of their nests in line with the substrate, as well as their docile behavior. The exception is Metapolybia cingulata, which in addition to camouflage shows aggressive behavior in some situations, which suggests the use of different strategies in the colony defense.

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Section: Entomobrasilis 13: E929 (2020)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Nest camouflage records on five social wasp species (Vespidae, Polistinae) from southeastern Brazil

2020

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Biotremology of Social Wasps: The Next Step to Understand Wasps’ Social Life

Nieri

Cini

Stacconi

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Biotremology: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution

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Vibrational communication, the use of the surface-borne component of mechanical waves, is widespread in arthropods, but its role is almost unknown for the majority of species. The preponderance of other communication modalities has often masked the occurrence of vibrational communication, even when observations suggested that substrate-borne waves were involved in the communication of the species. Social wasps are a good example of this knowledge gap: their social life has been considered to be based on chemical communication since the early 1970s and other modalities have been overlooked. Only recently, some attention has been paid to visual signals and vibrational communication is still largely neglected in this group. However, it has been confirmed that vibrations mediate crucial aspects of social life in some species. This chapter aims to provide an overview of our current, often scarce, incomplete, and disorganized knowledge on the production and use of substrate-borne waves in social wasps. Their putative and demonstrated functions in wasps' societies are then discussed. We hope to demonstrate that biotremology, the study of vibrational communication, represents a necessary next step toward a more complete understanding of social life of wasps.

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Notes on the nest of the social wasp Pseudopolybia langi (Hym., Vespidae, Polistinae)

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

Nest camouflage records on five social wasp species (Vespidae, Polistinae) from southeastern Brazil

Nest camouflage records on five social wasp species (Vespidae, Polistinae) from southeastern Brazil

Biotremology of Social Wasps: The Next Step to Understand Wasps’ Social Life

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