Divisão de trabalho em colônias da vespa social neotropical Polistes canadensis canadensis Linnaeus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Torres, Viviana de Oliveira; Antonialli-Júnior, William Fernando; Giannotti, Edilberto

doi:10.1590/s0085-56262009000400008

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“…Giannotti (1999) noted that in wasps of the species M. cerberus styx, both founders as queens, collected wood pulp more intensively than the workers. These data differ from those observed by Torres et al (2009) to P. canadensis canadensis, whose queens only collected prays and still in a much smaller proportion than the workers. On the contrary, Polistes versicolor O. in the foundation phase collected all the features except prey, having an equal proportion between queens and workers in wood pulp collection (Sinzato & Prezoto, 2000).…”

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“…; 27, in Polistes dominulus (C.) (Theraulaz et al, 1990), 28, in Polistes lanio lanio (F.) (Giannotti, 1992), 24 in Mischocyttarus cerberus styx (R.) (Giannotti, 1999), 28 in P. canadensis canadensis (L.) (Torres et al 2009), 30 in Mischocyttarus consimilis Z. (Torres et al, 2012) and 42 behavioral acts performed by Mischocyttarus parallelogrammus Z.…”

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Task division and Age Polyethism in colonies of Mischocyttarus latior social wasps (Fox) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae).

Cecílio¹,

Rocha²,

Giannotti³

2016

Sociobiology

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This paper aimed to study the division of labor between queen and workers, division of labor by age range and sequence of behavioral patterns exercised by females and males from Mischocyttarus latior (F.) colonies. Behaviors of 13 dominant females (queens), 68 subordinate (workers) from emergence until they are 77 days and 12 males in 37 colonies were quantified during 545 hours. There were 23 behavioral acts registered divided into five categories. Both dominant females as the workers showed a behavioral repertoire of 23 items, while males only 15. Dominants remain longer on the nest than subordinates and exercise exclusively the behavior of oviposition and rubbing gaster on the nest and share 21 behaviors with the workers. Males foraged nectar, preys and water, and exercise other behaviors, mostly related to social activity. All behaviors can be performed by any potentially worker at any age.

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Task division and Age Polyethism in colonies of Mischocyttarus latior social wasps (Fox) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae).

Cecílio¹,

Rocha²,

Giannotti³

2016

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“…The only difference between G1 and G2 is in the dominance characteristic for both subphases (Tables 3 and 5). In the genus Polistes, apart from behaviors that are typical of dominant wasps (initiating cells and oviposition), other frequent behaviours like dominance, inspecting cells and oophagy were also performed by the dominant females of the nests (Pardi, 1948;West-Eberhard, 1969;Richards, 1971;Gobbi, 1977;Torres et al, 2009).…”

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“…Thus, we considered in our study, that these females are typical foragers, and remain on the nest for less time. Regarding the behavioral repertoire of independentfounding wasps, the foraging activity is more significant for the subordinate females (Pardi, 1948;Jeanne, 1972;Giannotti, 1999;Torres et al, 2009).…”

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“…The reproductive division of labor derives from the polygynic association among foundresses, as well as between these females and the new workers in a same colony (haplometrosis) (Jeanne, 1991). As a rule, the dominant female (queen) remains most of the time performing intranidal tasks, whereas the subordinates are mainly responsible for the foraging activities (WestEberhard, 1969;Richards, 1971;Gobbi, 1977;Torres et al, 2009Torres et al, , 2012. Therefore, dominance interactions take place among all members of the colony, and affect how tasks are assigned within the colony (Pardi, 1948;Jeanne, 1972;Chandrashekara & Gadagkar, 1991;O'Donnell, 1998a, b).…”

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Division of labor in stable social hierarchy of the independent-founding wasp Mischocyttarus (Monocyttarus) cassununga, Von Ihering (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Murakami¹,

Desuó²,

Shima³

2013

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In colonies of independent-founding wasps, social organization is characterized by a division of labor wherein the most dominant female (the queen) spends more time on the nest comb during its development, while the subordinates (workers) perform most of the foraging. The present study aimed at describing how tasks are assigned among the members of colonies of Mischocyttarus cassununga (Von Ihering) during the post-emergence phase. For this, we daily tape recorded the behavioral repertoire of thirteen colonies in the field, later analyzing the results of each colonial subphase with Statistic analysis (Principal Component Analysis, Clustering Analysis and ANOVA - Tukey-Kramer t-test p<0.05). Our results showed that the assignment of tasks in M. cassununga generally reflects the dominance hierarchy. Despite of the behavioral flexibility of basal eusocial wasps, it was possible to identify different groups of subordinate females (workers) in the colony. The division of labor during the pre-male subphase was delineated with four defined groups whereas the post-male subphase with three groups. Pre-male: G1 - a dominant group of reproductive females, G2 - a group of higher hierarchically subordinate females (these can sometimes perform tasks very similar to the queens), G3 - a subordinate group of forager females, and G4 - a subordinate group of inactive and principally young wasps. Post-male: G1, G2 and G3 (similar groups during pre-male subphase, but without G4. We think these analyses suggest a novel view of the importance of the behavioral repertoire of higher hierarchically subordinate females in wasp nests, at least in the genus Mischocyttarus.

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Post-embryonic Development in Brazilian Social Wasps

Giannotti

Rocha

2020

Neotropical Social Wasps

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Divisão de trabalho em colônias da vespa social neotropical Polistes canadensis canadensis Linnaeus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Task division and Age Polyethism in colonies of Mischocyttarus latior social wasps (Fox) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae).

Task division and Age Polyethism in colonies of Mischocyttarus latior social wasps (Fox) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae).

Division of labor in stable social hierarchy of the independent-founding wasp Mischocyttarus (Monocyttarus) cassununga, Von Ihering (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Post-embryonic Development in Brazilian Social Wasps

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