Morphological caste differences in Agelaia vicina, the neotropical swarm-founding polistine wasp with the largest colony size among social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 207-223

  Sakagami, Shôichi F ^a   Zucchi, Ronaldo ^b   Yamane, Sôichi ^c   Noll, Fernando B ^b   Camargo, João M P ^b  

^a Universidade de São Paulo ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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