First report of interspecific facultative social parasitism in the paper wasp genus Mischocyttarus Saussure (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Montagna, Thiago S.; Neves, Erika Fernandes; Antonialli-Júnior, William Fernando

doi:10.1590/s0085-56262012005000025

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“…Among Polistinae, obligate social parasitism is present in Polistes sulcifer, Polistes atrimandibularis, and Polistes semenowi (Carpenter 1997), whereas facultative social parasitism is present in the following pairs of species: the nests of Polistes fuscatus are usurped by Polistes apachus emergence period . The timing of the life cycle and nesting sites have to be matched between the intruder and host for social parasitism to take place (Cervo 2006, Montagna et al 2012. We believe that social parasitism between these two species is possible because their life cycles and nesting sites overlap in South Korea.…”

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First report of interspecific facultative social parasitism by Polistes sp. on Polistes djakonovi Kostylev (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in South Korea

Choi¹,

Kwon²

2015

J. Ecol. Environ.

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Social parasitism is occasionally found in some Polistes and Vespa species, such as Vespa dybowskii. We report a discovey of interspecific facultative social parasitism by Polistes sp. (possibly P. mandarinus) on Polistes djakonovi Kostylev in two rural areas of South Korea. P. djakonovi is very similar to Polistes sp. in its body color patterns except that the mark on the clypeus is different. In nest 1 (65 cells), we found 5 females of P. djakonovi and 4 females of Polistes sp. on 30 July 2014, whereas nest 2 (102 cells) contained 12 females and 16 males of P. djakonovi, and 3 females of Polistes sp. on 28 August 2013. Although we found the two nests in July and August, P. djakonovi seems to have been exploited by Polistes sp. at the end of the preemergence period (early to mid-June). The two nests found in this study had mainly white cocoon caps of P. djakonovi with several yellow ones of Polistes sp. In most cases of social parasitism, intruders have a larger size of the body or some body parts than the host in order to usurp the host; in contrast, this study showed that the hosts had lager bodies than the intruders.

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“…This social parasitism occurs at a rate of 0.3-7.6% in the field ). Elaborate intruder's tricks such as morphological, chemical, and behavioral similarities to the host account for the mechanism of social parasitism (Dapporto et al 2004, Cervo 2006, Cini et al 2011, Montagna et al 2012.…”

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confidence: 99%