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    Hindawi Publishing Corporation Psyche Volume 2012, Article ID 594302, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/594302 Research Article Distribution and Diversity of the Cryptic Ant Genus Oxyepoecus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in Paraguay with Descriptions of Two New Species T. Delsinne,1 W. Mackay, 2 A. Wild,3 Y. Roisin,4 and M. Leponce1 1 Biological Evaluation Section, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 29 street Vautier, 1000 Brussels, Belgium 2 Laboratory for Environmental Biology, The University of Texas, El Paso, TX 79968, USA 3 Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA 4 Department of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Avenue Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels, Belgium Correspondence should be addressed to T. Delsinne, [email protected] Received 2 April 2011; Accepted 19 April 2011 Academic Editor: Fernando Fernandez´ Copyright © 2012 T. Delsinne et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We discuss the diversity and distribution of the ant genus Oxyepoecus in Paraguay. Oxyepoecus inquilinus is recorded for the first time, and new distribution data are given for O. rastratus and O. vezenyii. Published data for O. bruchi, O. rastratus, O. reticulatus, and O. vezenyii are summarized. Two new species are described (O. bidentatus n. sp. and O. striatus n. sp.), and a key to the workers of the seven Paraguayan Oxyepoecus species is provided. At Teniente Enciso National Park, four species cooccur. This locality appears as a promising site for studies documenting the biology of this poorly known ant genus, and because of the IUCN “vulnerable“ Red List classification of O.
  • Actes Des Colloques Insectes Sociaux

    Actes Des Colloques Insectes Sociaux

    U 2 I 0 E 0 I 2 S ACTES DES COLLOQUES INSECTES SOCIAUX Edité par l'Union Internationale pour l’Etude des Insectes Sociaux - Section française (sous la direction de François-Xavier DECHAUME MONCHARMONT et Minh-Hà PHAM-DELEGUE) VOL. 15 (2002) – COMPTE RENDU DU COLLOQUE ANNUEL 50e anniversaire - Versailles - 16-18 septembre 2002 ACTES DES COLLOQUES INSECTES SOCIAUX Edité par l'Union Internationale pour l’Etude des Insectes Sociaux - Section française (sous la direction de François-Xavier DECHAUME MONCHARMONT et Minh-Hà PHAM-DELEGUE) VOL. 15 (2002) – COMPTE RENDU DU COLLOQUE ANNUEL 50e anniversaire - Versailles - 16-18 septembre 2002 ISSN n° 0265-0076 ISBN n° 2-905272-14-7 Composé au Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Comparée des Invertébrés (INRA, Bures-sur-Yvette) Publié on-line sur le site des Insectes Sociaux : : http://www.univ-tours.fr/desco/UIEIS/UIEIS.htm Comité Scientifique : Martin GIURFA Université Toulouse Alain LENOIR Université Tours Christian PEETERS CNRS Paris 6 Minh-Hà PHAM-DELEGUE INRA Bures Comité d'Organisation : Evelyne GENECQUE F.X. DECHAUME MONCHARMONT Et toute l’équipe du LNCI (INRA Bures) Nous remercions sincèrement l’INRA et l’établissement THOMAS qui ont soutenu financièrement cette manifestation. Crédits Photographiques Couverture : 1. Abeille : Serge CARRE (INRA) 2. Fourmis : Photothèque CNRS 3. Termite : Alain ROBERT (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon) UIEIS Versailles Page 1 Programme UNION INTERNATIONALE POUR L’ETUDE DES INSECTES SOCIAUX UIEIS Section Française - 50ème Anniversaire Versailles 16-18 Septembre 2002 PROGRAMME Lundi 16 septembre 9 h ACCUEIL DES PARTICIPANTS - CAFE 10 h Présentation du Centre INRA de Versailles – Président du Centre Session Plasticité et Socialité- Modérateur Martin Giurfa 10 h 15 - Conférence Watching the bee brain when it learns – Randolf Menzel (Université Libre de Berlin) 11 h 15 Calcium responses to queen pheromones, social pheromones and plant odours in the antennal lobe of the honey bee drone Apis mellifera L.
  • Diversity of Bacteria in Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Canopy and Understory of Selected Trees at Mount Makiling Forest Reserve, Laguna, Philippines

    Diversity of Bacteria in Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Canopy and Understory of Selected Trees at Mount Makiling Forest Reserve, Laguna, Philippines

    Philippine Journal of Science 150 (3): 753-763, June 2021 ISSN 0031 - 7683 Date Received: 30 Sep 2020 Diversity of Bacteria in Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Canopy and Understory of Selected Trees at Mount Makiling Forest Reserve, Laguna, Philippines Michael P. Gatpatan1, Mia Beatriz C. Amoranto1, Alfredo Jose C. Ballesteros3, Noel G. Sabino1, Jocelyn T. Zarate2, Ma. Anita M. Bautista3, and Lucille C. Villegas1* 1Microbiology Division, Institute of Biological Sciences 2National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH) University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna 4031 Philippines 3National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (NIMBB) University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 1101 Philippines The Mount Makiling Forest Reserve (MMFR) is a biodiversity hotspot and listed as one of the 170 conservation priority areas established by the Philippine government. Its flora and fauna diversity has been reported, but knowledge gap has been identified concerning the bacterial communities associated with the flora and fauna. This study focused on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), which are dominant in forest canopy and play essential roles in the ecosystem functionality. A metagenomic sequencing approach based on amplified V3–V4 regions of the 16S rRNA was employed to investigate the bacterial communities associated with five arboreal ant species collected from MMFR. The collected ants were identified as Dolichoderus thoracicus, Myrmicaria sp., Colobopsis leonardi, Polyrhachis mindanaensis, and Polyrhachis semiinermis. The sequence analyses revealed that Proteobacteria, Spirochaetes, Firmicutes, Bacteroides, and Actinobacteria were the most abundant phyla. Individual analysis of the bacterial genera associated with the five ant species showed that unclassified members of Rhizobiaceae, Orbaceae, and Burkholderiaceae were dominant in D.