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Journal of Hymenoptera Research SOCIETy, Journal o Hymenoptera Research Volume 3 August 1994 ISSN 1070-9428 CONTENTS 119 ANTROPOV, A. V. A review of the agile species group of Pison (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Trypoxylini) Kieffer from Brazil and Ecuador AZEVEDO, C. O. Descriptions of two new species and notes on the genus Bakeriella 145 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) ... 5 BELSHAW, R. and B. BOLTON. A survey of the leaf litter ant fauna in Gahana, West Africa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the BITONDI, M. M. G., Z. L. P. SIMOES, A. M. do NASCIMENTO and S. L. GARCIA. Variation haemolymph protein restoration of titre hormone composition of confined Apis mellifera and potential vitellogenin by juvenile analogue treatment 107 BOHART, R. M. A review of North American Belomicrus (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Crabroninae) 207 for nest habitats of some social in Mato Grosso State, DINIZ, I. R. and K. KITAYAMA. Colony densities and preferences wasps 133 Brazil (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) FIELD, S. A. and M. A. KELLER. Localization of the female sex pheromone gland in Cotesia rubecula Marshall (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) 151 Ichneumonidae: 157 GUPTA, V. K. A review of the world species of Orthomiscus Mason (Hymenoptera: Tryphoninae) B. in HERATY, ]. M., ]. WOOLLEY and D. C. DARLING. Phylogenetic implications of the mesofurca and mesopostnotum Hymenoptera 241 KERR, W. E and E. B. SOARES REZENDE. Genetic characters of African bees that have high adaptive value in the tropics . 1 17 KUGLER, C. Revision of the ant genus Rogeria with descriptions of the sting apparatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) L. of of the tribe Ashmead 175 NIEVES-ALDREY, J. Revision West-European genera Aylacini (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) a of OVRUSKI, S. M. Immature stages of Aganaspis pelleranoi (Brethes) (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Eucoilidae), parasitoid 233 Ceratitis capitata (Wied.) and Anastreplm spp. (Diptera: Tephritidae) POLASZEK, A. and K. V. KROMBEIN. The genera of Bethylinae (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) 91 L. nov. a larval of stem-borer QUICKE, D. J. Myosomatoides gen. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Neotropical parasitoid pests, 227 Diatraea (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) QUINTERO A., D. and R. A. CAMBRA T. Systematics of Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron): sex association, description of the male and a gynandromorph, and a new synonymy (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) 303 TANG, Y. and P. M. MARSH. A taxonomic study of the genus Ascogaster in China (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) . 279 Additions and corrections to Volume 2, Number 1, 1993 309 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF HYMENOPTERISTS Organized 1982; Incorporated 1991 OFFICERS FOR 1994 George C. Eikwort, President Donald L. J. Quicke, President-Elect Michael E. Schauff, Secretary Gary A. P. Gibson, Treasurer Paul M. Marsh, Editor Subject Editors John Huber, Arnold Menke, David Rosen, Mark Shaw, Robert Matthews All correspondence concerning Society business should be mailed to the appropriate officer at the following addresses: President, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; President- Elect, Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berks SL5 7PY, England; Secretary, c/o Department of Entomology, NHB 168, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560; Treasurer, Biological Resources Division, CLBRR, Agriculture Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6; Editor, P. O. Box 384, North Newton, Kansas 67117. Membership. Members shall be persons who have demonstrated interest in the science of entomology. Annual dues for members are $25.00 (U.S. currency) per year, payable to The International Society of Hymenopterists. Requests for membership should be sent to the Treasurer (address above). Journal. The journal is published once a year by the International Sociey of Hymenopterists, c/o Department of Entomology, NHB 168, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A. Members in good standing receive the Journal of Hymenoptera Research. Nonmember subscriptions are $50.00 (U.S. currency) per year. The Society does not exchange its publications for those of other societies Please see inside back cover of this issue for information regarding preparation of manuscripts. Statement of Ownership Title of Publication: Journal of Hymenoptera Research. Frequence of Issue: Once a year (currently). Location of Office of Publication, Business Office of Publisher and Owner: International Society of Hymenopterists, c/o Department of Entomology, NHB 168, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A. Editor: Paul M. Marsh, P. O. Box 384, North Newton, Kansas 67117. Managing Editor and Known Bondholders or other Security Holders: none This issue was mailed 15 October 1994 George Campbell Eickwort 1940-1994 We were saddened to hear of the untimely death of George Eickwort, President, International Society of Hymenopterists, on July 11, 1994. George died from injuries suffered in an automobile accident while vacationing in Jamaica. This issue of the Journal of Hymenoptera Research is dedicated to his memory and to honor his contributions to the study of Hymenoptera and to this Society. First Announcement Third International Hymenoptera Conference August 12-17, 1995 University of California Davis, California, USA Talks, poster presentations and symposia on all aspects of Hymenoptera, including: •Biological control •Behavior •Morphology •Genetics •Systematics Also, possiPle tours of the Bohart Museum, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco and the northern California wine country To be put on mailing list tor second announcement with registrationand call for papers, send name, address, phone, fax and/or e-mail numbers to: Dr. Lynn S. Kimsey Department of Entomology University of California Davis, California 95616 USA Phone: (916) 753-5373 FAX (916) 752-1 537 A few grants to cover travel costs may Pe availaPle to participants from countries with foreign currency or other financial proPlems. Mention your need when requesting the second accouncement. J. HYM. RES. Vol 3, 1994, pp. 1-4 Genetic Characters of African Bees That Have High Adaptive Value in the Tropics Warwick Estevam Kerr and Eduardo Badue Soares Rezende Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Departamento de Biociencias, 38400-902, Uberlandia, MG, Brazil Abstract- The Ac gene present in Africanized Apis mellifera populations is male limited and confers bronze color to the abdomen; females are non-affected. The gene ac confers yellow abdomen equally to Italian female and male bees. Afncan-mt- DNA is found in African and most Africanized populations, and European-mt-DNA occurs in European populations, and descendents. The original frequency in Camaqua in 1957 of ac was 0.939 and for Ac 0.061. In 1991, after about 68 generations, these frequencies changed to 0.038 toacand 0.962 to Ac, what gives an adaptive value to ac in the tropics of 0.952 (considering 1.00 to Ac). The same mav happen tothemt-DNAs, what mav cause the mates European-mt-DNA queens X Afncan-mt-DNA males to be less fit than the Afncan-mt-DNA queens X European-mt-DNA males. INTRODUCTION The Ac gene has been observed by Brazilian bee biologists since 1957. In 1969 the information There is a constant search in tropical research published that it is male sex limited: it confers for characters that give to the bearer species a bronze color to the abdomen, especially to the higher adaptive value when compared to Euro- tergites, while workers are yellow (Kerr 1969). It pean ones. This happened with corn, wheat, cab- was present in 100% of the 145 queens collected in bage, apples, cattle, goats, etc. Many morphologi- Africa and brought to Brazil in 1956. There was cal, behavioral and physiological characters are some information (Prof.V. Portugal Araujo, p.c.) being studied in European and African bees, and that yellow males were occasionally present in in their hybrids under different ecological condi- Angolan populations. However, they were never tions. Among them, two of the African characters seen by W. E. Kerr in his 1956 trip to Africa. It is an are particularly interesting because within a few allele of b(=black) (Woyke and Kerr 1989), segre- generations they became predominant in a tropi- gates lAc: lac in different genetic background, cal environment, but not in a temperate one. These and is not linked to five components of agressive characters are the gene Ac and the African-mt- behavior (Stort 1978). DNA (that acts as a single gene). The population of this area is being well studied as far as their MATERIAL AND METHODS enzymes are concerned and show that the Africanized honeybee is an admixture of Apis Between 19 July 1990 and 17 September 1991, mellifera mellifera (19.5%), Apis mellifera ligustica 14 swarms of Africanized bees (Apis mellifera Linne) (3.8%) and Apis mellifera scutellata (76.7%) (Lobo et entered emptv stingless bee hive boxes located in al. 1989; Del Lama et al. 1990). the Apiary of the Universidade Federal de The African-mt-DNA has been studied by Uberlandia, MG, Brazil. Hive boxes varied in size, Hall and Muralidharan (1989), Sheppard et al. from 15 to 45 litres in volume, located 420 km from (1991), Sheppard et al. (1991), Soares (1992) and Camaqua, the point of introduction of African others. It shows indications of high adaptive value bees, in 1957. All swarms contained many males. in the tropics and low in southern South America A sample of males was taken from each swarm (that has European-like climate), where it is domi- and the numbers expressing the Ac and ac alleles nated by European mt-DNA. were determined. Journal of Hymenoptera Research Males from an additional 17 colonies of (Kerr and Bueno 1970). Africanized bees were sampled from commercial In 1956, there were 400 Italian hives located in honeybee hives that were occupied by Africanized the same Eucalyptus forest into which 26 swarms swarms. Frequencies of the ac and Ac genes were of Africanbees escaped. All Italian colonies had ac calculated and compared with estimates of the and all African colonies had Ac genes. Therefore, frequencies of the same alleles in Camaqua in assuming equal contributions of all escaped colo- 1957. nies to the breeding population, a frequency of 0.939 for the gene ac and 0.061 for Ac in 1957 was RESULTS obtained for that original population.
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