Dominance hierarchies and aggressive behavior among queens of the inquiline ant Vollenhovia nipponica

Satoh, Atsumi; Ohkawara, Kyohsuke

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“…Given the vast array of different communication signals used throughout the animal kingdom, identifying which key traits are associated with dominance within and across species remains difficult. Many studies looking at these factors have focused on intraspecific dominance hierarchies, serving to highlight a handful of signaling traits that emerge repeatedly across taxa (Allee & Dickinson, 1954; Cheney, 1977; Francis et al., 2018; Satoh & Ohkawara, 2008).…”

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Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild

Fernandez‐Duque,

Miller,

Fernandez‐Duque

et al. 2023

Ethology

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Competition over resources often leads to intra‐ and interspecific interactions, which can be detrimental to the individuals involved. Thus, natural selection should favor communication systems that reliably convey information regarding the relative competitive abilities of an individual, reducing the need for physically damaging confrontation. Body size, sex, age, relatedness, and ornamentation are important factors determining dominance across diverse taxa in intraspecific interactions. These traits, when perceptible, may serve as signals across species in guilds that have frequent interspecific interactions. Hummingbirds provide a tractable system to study such community dynamics due to their high frequency of interactions, variable ornamentation, diverse body sizes, fast metabolism, and large overlap in resource utilization. Even in this system, potential interactions between morphology and coloration are rarely accounted for together when analyzing dominance between species. We take a novel approach to understanding interspecific dominance by assessing behavior, morphology, and coloration across different types of behavioral interactions. Across 11 tropical montane hummingbird species, we find that dominance is predicted by wing size and some metrics of plumage coloration. However, the biological significance of these factors varies between the different dominance behaviors performed. These results inform our understanding of interspecific signaling and its role in the evolution of intraguild communication and resource competition.

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Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild

Fernandez‐Duque,

Miller,

Fernandez‐Duque

et al. 2023

Ethology

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“…The genus is known to include workerless socially parasitic species and is peculiar for queen polymorphism, clonal reproduction, and caste differentiation mechanisms (Ohkawara et al 2006;Ohkawara & Satoh 2015). These ants are an interesting model system to trace the evolution of caste determination (Ohkawara et al 2006;Satoh & Ohkawara 2008). Unlike most ant species, queens and males are produced clonally, while sterile workers arise sexually (Kobayashi et al 2011).…”

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Overview of the ant genus Vollenhovia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in India and Sri Lanka, with an illustrated key and the description of a new species

Akbar,

Bharti,

Schifani

et al. 2023

EJT

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The ant genus Vollenhovia Mayr, 1865 (Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini) mostly occurs in the Australasian and Oriental regions. We revised its diversity in India and Sri Lanka based on qualitative and quantitative morphology, recognizing eleven taxa, including a new species which is described herewith: V. escherichi Forel, 1911, V. gastropunctata Bharti & Kumar, 2013, V. karimalaensis Dhadwal et al., 2023, V. keralensis Kripakaran & Sadasivan, 2022, V. mawrapensis Dhadwal et al., 2023, V. oblonga laevithorax Emery, 1889, V. penetrans (Smith, 1857), V. pfeifferi Bharti et al., 2023, V. taylori Rilta et al., 2023, V. terayamai Rilta et al., 2023, and V. yasmeenae sp. nov. The subspecies status of V. oblonga laevithorax and its relationship with V. penetrans, whose type series does not contain workers, still requires to be assessed in the context of a broader revision including the whole Oriental region. The known distribution of the genus in the Indian subcontinent appears to be fragmentary, still requiring extensive sampling efforts. Four species are from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot in the southern Indian state of Kerala, one is endemic to the biogeographically related Sri Lanka, three are known from Eastern India near the border with Bangladesh, two are reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and one is restricted to the Himachal Pradesh in northern India. A comprehensive key of the known Vollenhovia species from India and Sri Lanka is provided.

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“…Studying the wing morphology of social parasites is important for inferring the species mating and dispersal behavior. Both mating and dispersal behavior can be highly modified in social parasites, and many inquiline species are known to mate with their siblings inside the host nest instead of performing a mating flight, contributing to an inbred population structure and to a restricted biogeographic distribution of the species (Alpert and Akre 1973;Buschinger 1989;Bourke and Franks 1991;Aron et al 1999;Buschinger and Linksvayer 2004;Trontti et al 2005;Satoh and Ohkawara 2008;Rabeling and Bacci 2010;Heinze et al 2015). Queens of N. deceptrix have reduced wings in comparison to the host and behavioral tests revealed the queens' inability to fly (Messer et al 2016).…”

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Two new species of socially parasitic Nylanderia ants from the southeastern United States

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2020

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In ants, social parasitism is an umbrella term describing a variety of life-history strategies, where a parasitic species depends entirely on a free-living species, for part of or its entire life-cycle, for either colony founding, survival, and/or reproduction. The highly specialized inquiline social parasites are fully dependent on their hosts for their entire lifecycles. Most inquiline species are tolerant of the host queen in the parasitized colony, forgo producing a worker caste, and invest solely in the production of sexual offspring. In general, inquilines are rare, and their geographic distribution is limited, making it difficult to study them. Inquiline populations appear to be small, cryptic, and they are perhaps ephemeral. Thus, information about their natural history is often fragmentary or non-existent but is necessary for understanding the socially parasitic life history syndrome in more detail. Here, we describe two new species of inquiline social parasites, Nylanderia deyrupisp. nov. and Nylanderia parasiticasp. nov., from the southeastern United States, parasitizing Nylanderia wojciki and Nylanderia faisonensis, respectively. The formicine genus Nylanderia is large and globally distributed, but until the recent description of Nylanderia deceptrix, social parasites were unknown from this genus. In addition to describing the new social parasite species, we summarize the fragmentary information known about their biology, present a key to both the queens and the males of the Nylanderia social parasites, and discuss the morphology of the social parasites in the context of the inquiline syndrome.

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Dominance hierarchies and aggressive behavior among queens of the inquiline ant Vollenhovia nipponica

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild

Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild

Overview of the ant genus Vollenhovia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in India and Sri Lanka, with an illustrated key and the description of a new species

Two new species of socially parasitic Nylanderia ants from the southeastern United States

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