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Rediscovery and Reclassification of the Dipteran Taxon Nothomicrodon
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN Rediscovery and reclassification of the dipteran taxon Nothomicrodon Wheeler, an exclusive Received: 07 November 2016 Accepted: 28 February 2017 endoparasitoid of gyne ant larvae Published: 31 March 2017 Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud1, Benoit J. B. Jahyny2,3, Gunilla Ståhls4, Graham Rotheray5, Jacques H. C. Delabie6 & Jean-Paul Lachaud1,7 The myrmecophile larva of the dipteran taxon Nothomicrodon Wheeler is rediscovered, almost a century after its original description and unique report. The systematic position of this dipteran has remained enigmatic due to the absence of reared imagos to confirm indentity. We also failed to rear imagos, but we scrutinized entire nests of the Brazilian arboreal dolichoderine ant Azteca chartifex which, combined with morphological and molecular studies, enabled us to establish beyond doubt that Nothomicrodon belongs to the Phoridae (Insecta: Diptera), not the Syrphidae where it was first placed, and that the species we studied is an endoparasitoid of the larvae of A. chartifex, exclusively attacking sexual female (gyne) larvae. Northomicrodon parasitism can exert high fitness costs to a host colony. Our discovery adds one more case to the growing number of phorid taxa known to parasitize ant larvae and suggests that many others remain to be discovered. Our findings and literature review confirm that the Phoridae is the only taxon known that parasitizes both adults and the immature stages of different castes of ants, thus threatening ants on all fronts. Ants are hosts to at least 17 orders of myrmecophilous arthropods (organisms dependent on ants), ranging from general scavengers to highly selective predators and parasitoids that attack either ants, their brood or other myr- mecophiles1–3. -
Universidade Federal Do Amazonas – Ufam
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO AMAZONAS – UFAM INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS EXATAS E TECNOLÓGIA - ICET PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA PARA RECURSOS AMAZÔNICOS - PPGCTRA. ESTUDO FÍSICO-QUÍMICO, QUÍMICO E MELISSOPALINOLÓGICO DE MÉIS SAZONAIS DAS ESPÉCIES (Melipona seminigra merrillae e Melipona interrupta Latreille) DE MELIPONICULTORES DA MESORREGIÃO AMAZÔNICA-AM MIKAIL QUEIROZ DA SILVA ITACOATIARA - AM 2018 MIKAIL QUEIROZ DA SILVA ESTUDO FÍSICO-QUÍMICO, QUÍMICO E MELISSOPALINOLÓGICO DE MÉIS SAZONAIS DAS ESPÉCIES (Melipona seminigra merrillae e Melipona interrupta Latreille) DE MELIPONICULTORES DA MESORREGIÃO AMAZÔNICA-AM Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia para Recursos Amazônicos da Universidade Federal do Amazonas, como parte do requisito para obtenção do título de Mestre em Ciência e Tenologia para Recursos Amazônicos, área de concentração Desenvolvimento Cientìfico e Tecnológico em Recursos Amazônicos. Orientador: Prof. Dr. Pierre André de Souza Co-orientador: Prof. Dr. Bruno Alexandre da Silva ITACOATIARA - AM 2018 LABORATÓRIOS PARCEIROS NESTE PROJETO Universidade Federal Oeste do Pará (UFOPA) Laboratórios de Botânica Taxonômica e Panilogia - Coordenadora Dra. Vanessa Holanda Righetti de Abreu Laboratório de Bioprospecção - Coordenadora Dra. Rosa Helena Veras Mourão Unidade de Farmacognosia - Coordenador Dr. Bruno Alexandre da Silva Universidade Estadual do Pará (UEPA) Campos Santarém – Profª. Dra. Leoneide Bouillet Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) Laboratório de Bionomia, Biogeografia e Sistemática de Insetos (BIOSIS) - Dra. Favizia Freitas de Oliveira. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) Departamento de Microscopia Eletrônica – Dr. Américo Cruz Júnior Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos – Profª Dra. Roseane Fett em especial ao Técnico Sr. Luciano V. Gonzaga AGRADECIMENTO A Deus, pelo dom da vida e por ter me dado forças, persistência e fé, sempre me abençoando e iluminando. -
Recruitment Behavior in Stingless Bees, Melipona Scutellaris and M
Recruitment behavior in stingless bees, Melipona scutellaris and M. quadrifasciata. I. Foraging at food sources differing in direction and distance Stefan Jarau, Michael Hrncir, Ronaldo Zucchi, Friedrich Barth To cite this version: Stefan Jarau, Michael Hrncir, Ronaldo Zucchi, Friedrich Barth. Recruitment behavior in stingless bees, Melipona scutellaris and M. quadrifasciata. I. Foraging at food sources differing in direction and distance. Apidologie, Springer Verlag, 2000, 31 (1), pp.81-91. 10.1051/apido:2000108. hal-00891699 HAL Id: hal-00891699 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00891699 Submitted on 1 Jan 2000 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Apidologie 31 (2000) 81–91 81 © INRA/DIB/AGIB/EDP Sciences Original article Recruitment behavior in stingless bees, Melipona scutellaris and M. quadrifasciata. I. Foraging at food sources differing in direction and distance Stefan JARAUa, Michael HRNCIRa, Ronaldo ZUCCHIb, Friedrich G. BARTHa* a Universität Wien, Biozentrum, Institut für Zoologie, Abteilung Physiologie – Neurobiologie, Althanstraβe 14, A-1090 Wien, Austria b Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia e Letras, Departamento de Biologia 14040-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil (Received 28 April 1999; revised 6 September 1999; accepted 22 September 1999) Abstract – The two stingless bee species Melipona scutellaris and M. -
Conservation of Asian Honey Bees Benjamin P
Conservation of Asian honey bees Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Piyamas Nanork To cite this version: Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Piyamas Nanork. Conservation of Asian honey bees. Apidologie, Springer Verlag, 2009, 40 (3), 10.1051/apido/2009021. hal-00892024 HAL Id: hal-00892024 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00892024 Submitted on 1 Jan 2009 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Apidologie 40 (2009) 296–312 Available online at: c INRA/DIB-AGIB/EDP Sciences, 2009 www.apidologie.org DOI: 10.1051/apido/2009021 Review article Conservation of Asian honey bees* Benjamin P. Oldroyd1, Piyamas Nanork2 1 Behaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Lab, School of Biological Sciences A12, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 2 Department of Biology, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand Received 26 June 2008 – Revised 14 October 2008 – Accepted 29 October 2008 Abstract – East Asia is home to at least 9 indigenous species of honey bee. These bees are extremely valu- able because they are key pollinators of about 1/3 of crop species, provide significant income to some of the world’s poorest people, and are prey items for some endemic vertebrates. -
Redalyc.Toxicity Evaluation of Two Insecticides on Tetragonisca
Agronomía Colombiana ISSN: 0120-9965 [email protected] Universidad Nacional de Colombia Colombia Quiroga-Murcia, Daniel Estiven; Zotti, Moisés João; Zenner de Polanía, Ingeborg; Pech- Pech, Esdras Elías Toxicity evaluation of two insecticides on Tetragonisca angustula and Scaptotrigona xanthotricha (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Agronomía Colombiana, vol. 35, núm. 3, septiembre-diciembre, 2017, pp. 340-349 Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá, Colombia Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=180357360009 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Toxicity evaluation of two insecticides on Tetragonisca angustula and Scaptotrigona xanthotricha (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Evaluación de la toxicidad de dos insecticidas sobre Tetragonisca angustula y Scaptotrigona xanthotricha (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Daniel Estiven Quiroga-Murcia1*, Moisés João Zotti2, Ingeborg Zenner de Polanía3, and Esdras Elías Pech-Pech4 ABSTRACT RESUMEN Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponini) have crucial Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meloponini) roles in the ecosystem, offering pollination service and contrib- hacen parte fundamental del ecosistema, ofreciendo el servi- uting to genetic diversity of species, and also providing honey cio de polinización y diversificación genética de las especies, and wax to humankind. Tetragonisca angustula and Scaptotri- además de proporcionar miel y cera para los seres humanos. gona xanthotricha are species that have been used since ancient Tetragonisca angustula y Scaptotrigona xanthotricha son es- times for beekeeping. Currently these and other species have pecies que han sido usadas en la meliponicultura por tiempos been exposed to agronomic practices, among which the use of ancestrales. -
Halictus Scabiosae in FVG.Pdf
Bollettino Soc. Naturalisti “Silvia Zenari”, Pordenone 36/2012 pp. 147-156 ISSN 1720-0245 Laura Fortunato1 - Pietro Zandigiacomo1 Fenologia e preferenze florali di Halictus scabiosae (Rossi) in Friuli Venezia Giulia Riassunto: Halictus scabiosae (Rossi) (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) è un insetto impollinatore Apoideo piuttosto comune in Friuli Venezia Giulia. In questa nota si descrive la fenologia della specie e si indicano le piante erbacee in fiore visitate da femmine e maschi. Nel quadriennio 1997-2000, periodici campionamenti sulla presenza e sull’attività pronuba di questa specie sono stati condotti, fra marzo e settembre, in due ambienti friulani: a) un agroecosistema misto in area planiziale a Udine (loc. S. Osvaldo) con molti fattori di disturbo, b) un’area collinare a Pagnacco (UD) (loc. Villa Rizzani) con prati, pascoli e siepi. Inoltre, ulteriori osservazioni sulle piante bottinate sono state condotte nel periodo 2006-2012 in prati polifiti a Pagnacco e Tavagnacco (UD). Individui di H. scabiosae sono stati osservati ininterrottamente per un lungo periodo fra marzo e settembre; ciò è in accordo con quanto riportato in letteratura ove la specie è indicata come bivoltina. I dati raccolti suggeriscono che la prima generazione, composta prevalentemente da femmine, si sviluppa nel periodo maggio-giugno, mentre la seconda, composta da femmine e maschi, fra luglio e settembre. Le osservazioni condotte nei periodi 1997-2000 e 2006-2012 hanno permesso di rilevare che le piante maggiormente visitate da H. scabiosae appartengono alla famiglia Compositae, seguono poi piante di altre famiglie, quali Dipsacaceae e Labiatae. In particolare, le piante più visitate dalle femmine sono state Helianthus annuus e Taraxacum officinale, mentre i maschi sono stati rilevati frequentemente su Centaurea nigrescens ed Helianthus tuberosus. -
Geographic Variation in the Japanese Islands of Apis Cerana Japonica and in A
Apidologie 38 (2007) 335–340 Available online at: c INRA/DIB-AGIB/ EDP Sciences, 2007 www.apidologie.org DOI: 10.1051/apido:2007018 Original article Geographic variation in the Japanese islands of Apis cerana japonica and in A. cerana populations bordering its geographic range* Jun-ichi Ta, Tadaharu Ya, Toshiyuki Tb, Shin’ichi Ac, Kun S. Wd, Sureerat De, Randall Hf,JunNa, Mitsuo M a a Honeybee Science Research Center, Research Institute, Tamagawa University, Machida, Tokyo, 194-8610, Japan b Laboratory of Entomology, Department of Agriculture, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tamagawa University, Machida, Tokyo, 194-8610, Japan c Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Department of Ecology and Systematics, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan d Institute of Korea Beekeeping Science College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University e Bee Biology Research Unit, Department of Biology, Chulalongkom University, Korea, Bangkok 10330, Thailand f Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa Received 31 January 2006 – Revised 15 February 2007 – Accepted 15 February 2007 Abstract – Genetic variation among Apis cerana japonica isolates from Japan and Apis cerana isolates from the neighboring areas of Russia, South Korea, and Taiwan was determined from DNA sequences of the mitochondrial DNA non-coding region (between tRNA leu and COII). Three haplotypes were identified among 470 colonies samples at 47 Japanese sites. All isolates from the main Japanese Islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu belonged to a single haplotype, a previously reported Japan 1 haplotype. Two new haplotypes were found on the far southern Japanese islands of Amami-Oshima and Tsushima (the Japan 3 and Japan 4 haplotypes, respectively). -
Ants Inhabiting Oak Cynipid Galls in Hungary
North-Western Journal of Zoology 2020, vol.16 (1) - Correspondence: Notes 95 Ants inhabiting oak Cynipid galls in Hungary Oaks are known to harbour extremely rich insect communi- ties, among them more than 100 species of gall wasps (Hy- menoptera: Cynipidae) in Europe (Csóka et al. 2005, Melika 2006). Some gall wasp species are able to induce large and structurally complex galls that can sometimes be abundant on oaks, providing attractive shelters for several arthropod taxa including ant species. Ants are among the most important players in many ecosystems and they are also considered to act as ecosystem engineers (Folgarait, 1998). They are also famous for having ecological or physical interactions with a great variety of other organisms, such as gall wasps. Ants are known to tend Figure 1. Inner structure of the asexual Andricus quercustozae gall in- aphid colonies on the developing galls and, as general pred- habited by ants. ators, they prey on arthropods approaching the protected aphid colonies. Some oak cynipid galls secrete honeydew on their surface. This sweet substrate attracts ants and, in re- turn, the ants protect the galls from predators and parasi- toids (Abe, 1988, 1992; Inouye & Agrawal 2004; Nicholls, 2017). Beyond this obvious ecological interaction between gall wasps and ants, this association continues after the gall wasp’s life cycle has ceased. Certain galls are known to serve as either temporary or permanent shelter for many ant species. Some galls (e.g. An- dricus hungaricus (Hartig), Andricus quercustozae (Bosc), Aphelonyx cerricola (Giraud)) are large enough even for re- productive ant colonies. The advantages of galls as nesting logs are multifaceted. -
Ecology, Behaviour and Control of Apis Cerana with a Focus on Relevance to the Australian Incursion
Insects 2013, 4, 558-592; doi:10.3390/insects4040558 OPEN ACCESS insects ISSN 2075-4450 www.mdpi.com/journal/insects/ Review Ecology, Behaviour and Control of Apis cerana with a Focus on Relevance to the Australian Incursion Anna H. Koetz Biosecurity Queensland, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, 21-23 Redden St., Portsmith, QLD 4870, Australia; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel.: +61-419-726-698; Fax: +61-7-4057-3690 Received: 27 June 2013; in revised form: 13 September 2013 / Accepted: 24 September 2013 / Published: 21 October 2013 Abstract: Apis cerana Fabricius is endemic to most of Asia, where it has been used for honey production and pollination services for thousands of years. Since the 1980s, A. cerana has been introduced to areas outside its natural range (namely New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Australia), which sparked fears that it may become a pest species that could compete with, and negatively affect, native Australian fauna and flora, as well as commercially kept A. mellifera and commercial crops. This literature review is a response to these concerns and reviews what is known about the ecology and behaviour of A. cerana. Differences between temperate and tropical strains of A. cerana are reviewed, as are A. cerana pollination, competition between A. cerana and A. mellifera, and the impact and control strategies of introduced A. cerana, with a particular focus on gaps of current knowledge. Keywords: Apis cerana; Apis mellifera; incursion; pest species; Australia; pollination; competition; distribution; control 1. Introduction Apis cerana Fabricius (also known as the Asian honeybee, Asiatic bee, Asian hive bee, Indian honeybee, Indian bee, Chinese bee, Mee bee, Eastern honeybee, and Fly Bee) is endemic to most of Asia where it has been used for honey production and pollination services for thousands of years. -
Larvae of the Green Lacewing Mallada Desjardinsi (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) Protect Themselves Against Aphid-Tending Ants by Carrying Dead Aphids on Their Backs
Appl Entomol Zool (2011) 46:407–413 DOI 10.1007/s13355-011-0053-y ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER Larvae of the green lacewing Mallada desjardinsi (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) protect themselves against aphid-tending ants by carrying dead aphids on their backs Masayuki Hayashi • Masashi Nomura Received: 6 March 2011 / Accepted: 11 May 2011 / Published online: 28 May 2011 Ó The Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology 2011 Abstract Larvae of the green lacewing Mallada desj- Introduction ardinsi Navas are known to place dead aphids on their backs. To clarify the protective role of the carried dead Many ants tend myrmecophilous homopterans such as aphids against ants and the advantages of carrying them for aphids and scale insects, and utilize the secreted honeydew lacewing larvae on ant-tended aphid colonies, we carried as a sugar resource; in return, the homopterans receive out some laboratory experiments. In experiments that beneficial services from the tending ants (Way 1963; Breton exposed lacewing larvae to ants, approximately 40% of the and Addicott 1992; Nielsen et al. 2010). These mutualistic larvae without dead aphids were killed by ants, whereas no interactions between ants and homopterans reduce the larvae carrying dead aphids were killed. The presence of survival and abundance of other arthropods, including the dead aphids did not affect the attack frequency of the non-honeydew-producing herbivores and other predators ants. When we introduced the lacewing larvae onto plants (Bristow 1984; Buckley 1987; Suzuki et al. 2004; Kaplan colonized by ant-tended aphids, larvae with dead aphids and Eubanks 2005), because the tending ants become more stayed for longer on the plants and preyed on more aphids aggressive and attack arthropods that they encounter on than larvae without dead aphids. -
Comparative Methods Offer Powerful Insights Into Social Evolution in Bees Sarah Kocher, Robert Paxton
Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees Sarah Kocher, Robert Paxton To cite this version: Sarah Kocher, Robert Paxton. Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees. Apidologie, Springer Verlag, 2014, 45 (3), pp.289-305. 10.1007/s13592-014-0268-3. hal- 01234748 HAL Id: hal-01234748 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01234748 Submitted on 27 Nov 2015 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Apidologie (2014) 45:289–305 Review article * INRA, DIB and Springer-Verlag France, 2014 DOI: 10.1007/s13592-014-0268-3 Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees 1 2 Sarah D. KOCHER , Robert J. PAXTON 1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 2Institute for Biology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany Received 9 September 2013 – Revised 8 December 2013 – Accepted 2 January 2014 Abstract – Bees are excellent models for studying the evolution of sociality. While most species are solitary, many form social groups. The most complex form of social behavior, eusociality, has arisen independently four times within the bees. -
Kiatoko N..Pdf
DISTRIBUTION, BEHAVIOURAL BIOLOGY, REARING AND POLLINATION EFFICIENCY OF FIVE STINGLESS BEE SPECIES (APIDAE: MELIPONINAE) IN KAKAMEGA FOREST, KENYA BY KIATOKO NKOBA Reg No. I84F/11631/08 A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Agricultural Entomology in the School of Pure and Applied Sciences of Kenyatta University AUGUST 2012 i DECLARATION This thesis is my original work and has not been presented for a degree in any other University or any other award. Kiatoko Nkoba Department of Zoological Science Signature:…………………… Date:……………… We confirm that the work reported in this thesis was carried out by the candidate under our supervision. We have read and approved this thesis for examination. Professor J. M. Mueke Department of Zoological Sciences Kenyatta University Signature:…………………… Date:……………… Professor K. Suresh Raina Commercial Insects Programme, icipe African Insect Science for Food and Health Signature:…………………… Date:……………… Dr. Elliud Muli Department of Biological Sciences South Eastern University College (A Constituent College of the University of Nairobi) Signature:…………………… Date:……………… ii DEDICATION This thesis is dedicated to The All Mighty God, My parents Prefessor Kiatoko Mangeye Honore and Madame Kialungila Mundengi Cecile, My lovely daughters Kiatoko Makuzayi Emile and Kiatoko Mangeye Pongelle and to my wife Luntonda Buyakala Nicole. Thank you for your love and support. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to Prof Jones Mueke for having accepted to be my University supervisor and for providing me high quality scientific assistance. The pleasure and a great honour are for me having you as my supervisor. You have always motivated me throughout the study period and will always remember the patience you had in reading my writing expressed in French.