Note on glands present in meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) bees legs

Cruz-Landim, Carminda da; Moraes, Renata Mendonça; Salles, Heliana Clara; Reginato, Rejane Daniele

doi:10.1590/s0101-81751998000100014

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“…Glands in the coxae of ant legs were first reported by Schoeters and Billen (1993) in Pachycondyla obscuricornis and some other species, although these coxal glands correspond to the class‐3 exocrine glands in the standard classification of Noirot and Quennedey (1974), in which functional units comprising a secretory cell and an accompanying duct cell occur. Similar class‐3 gland cells have also been reported in the coxae of some stingless bee species (Cruz‐Landim et al . 1998; Cruz‐Landim 2002), but otherwise we do not know of the description of coxal glands in social Hymenoptera.…”

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The basicoxal gland, a new exocrine structure in poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Billen

Ito

2006

Acta Zoologica

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 AbstractBillen, J. and Ito, F. 2006. The basicoxal gland, a new exocrine structure in poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). -Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 87 : 291-296The tegumental epithelium of the outer dorsolateral region in the proximal part of the coxae in the mid-and hindlegs of both workers and queens of the ants Odontomachus rixosus and O. simillimus is differentiated into a conspicuous and hitherto unknown exocrine gland. The glandular cells display a clear microvillar differentiation of their apical cell membrane, and are lined with the tegumental cuticle, which in this part contains crack-like channels perpendicular to its surface, that carry the glandular secretions to the outside. Apical microvilli support the transport of substances, and contain an extension of tubular smooth endoplasmic reticulum in their centre. The function of the gland may be that of providing lubricant substances to the articulation region of the generally heavily sclerotized ponerine ant species. The gland is also found in several other ponerine and amblyoponine species, but not in the ectatommine species studied. The foreleg coxae lack a basicoxal gland in all species examined, which may be explained by the more limited articulation between the thorax and the coxae in the forelegs compared to the mid-and hindlegs.

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The basicoxal gland, a new exocrine structure in poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Billen

Ito

2006

Acta Zoologica

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“…Meliponine odor marks have several glandular sources (Cruz-Landim et al, 1998) and may also consist of cues such as anal droplets. Using feeder choice experiments, Jarau et al (2002) and Hrncir et al (2004) have shown that tarsal gland extracts from M. seminigra are attractive to foragers.…”

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Recruitment communication in stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)

2004

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-The stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) have evolved sophisticated communication systems that allow foragers to recruit nestmates to good resources. Over the past 50 years, a growing body of research has shown that foragers can communicate three-dimensional resource location, uncovered several potential communication mechanisms, and demonstrated new information transfer mechanisms. Some of these mechanisms are unique to stingless bees and some may provide insight into how the ability to encode location information, a form of functionally referential communication, has evolved in the highly social bees. The goal of this review is to examine meliponine recruitment communication, focusing on evidence for contact-based, visual, olfactory, and acoustic communication and what these mechanisms can tell us about the evolution of recruitment communication in stingless bees. Meliponini / information transfer / referential communication / recruitment / multimodality

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“…These glands are most frequently present in the males and the oils would be probably further used as communicating signals by them. However, the occurrence of tendon glands inside bee legs might be more frequent than previously thought, since in queens of some species of Meliponini this kind of organ is present in the femur (Cruz-Landim et al, 1998). Jarau et al (2004b) reported that Melipona seminigra marks food sources with a pheromone from a tendon gland constituted by the epidermis of the claw retractor tendon.…”

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Morphological and functional aspects of volatile-producing glands in bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Cruz-Landim¹,

Abdalla²,

Gracioli‐Vitti³

2005

Insect Science

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In this paper we focus on the occurrence and morphological aspects of exocrine glands in several bee species. Morphology of head labial, mandibular, Dufour, and abdominal tegumentar glands was investigated under light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Most of such glands present cells with cytoplasm homogeneous and acidophilic, or contain small apparently empty vacuoles. The cytoplasm cells' ultrastructure showed a well developed smooth endoplasmic reticulum, many polymorphic mitochondria, rare Golgi, lipid droplets, myelin figures, and many basal and apical plasma membrane infoldings. All these results are discussed in the text.

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Note on glands present in meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) bees legs

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

The basicoxal gland, a new exocrine structure in poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

The basicoxal gland, a new exocrine structure in poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Recruitment communication in stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)

Morphological and functional aspects of volatile-producing glands in bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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